5:33pm, Tuesday, Oct. 31st, 2006, Halloween in downtown Chapel Hill means helicopters.
As I stepped out of my building at the corner of Church and Franklin streets, the first portent of tonight’s Chapel Hill-o-ween was the thrumming beat of helicopter blades. Two of the beast hovered high above downtown’s Franklin in a vain [...]

Wonder if this Carrboro event will end up in Chapel Hill Magazine?

Stringband goodness from the
Carolina Chocolate Drops

This weekend’s Carrboro Music Festival should be great especially if the weather holds.

The 9th Annual Carrboro Music Festival is September 24, 2006. Our day long, free festival will feature numerous musical styles at 21 indoor and outdoor venues [...]

If you’re heading up to Hillsborough to join the throng cheering on our Continentals, why don’t you check out the new Hillsborough Gallery of Arts pre-opening review.

There are 14 diverse artists showing paintings, jewelry, stained glass, ceramic sculpture, wooden artifacts, etc.
One of the painters does quite interesting work.

Sure, I’m nearly 225 years behind the times cursing David Fanning’s troop’s drunken pillage of nearby Hillsborough, North Carolina but it is the thought that counts…

In the early morning hours of September 12, 1781, Loyalist David Fanning led 600 Tory militiamen on a daring raid of Hillsborough where Governor Thomas Burke had taken refuge. Taken [...]

Now that the initial uproar over Carr Mill Mall’s management’s rather strained decision to implement new restrictions on public access to Weaver Street Market Lawn [MAP] has quieted down a bit, I thought I’d put together a quick recap covering the last couple weeks of letters, posts and comments.

The Wiki Roots wiki has a timeline [...]

Here’s some great documentary snaps of the August 26th Weaver St. Market civil dance disobedience taken by my steady-handed, sharp-eyed 9 year-old son Elijah.
There’s more pictures over on Flickr under the wsmdancein tag.
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