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Every Sunday from 11 am - 1 pm, come One of Carrboro’s hottest events! Favorite Join us every Thursday from 6:30 - 8:30 out and enjoy our tasty breakfast buff et local bands create an intimate musical pm as we showcase live, local music at and some of the best in local jazz music. show from 6:00 - 8:00 pm in the heart of our Hillsborough store outside or in the the crowd. Lilac Lounge. May 30th - Club Boheme May 27th - Judy Woodall June 6th - The Donnybrook Lads June 3rd - The Tim Smith Band June 3rd - Tim Stambaugh June 13th - Equinox June 10th - The Mystery Hillbillies June 10th - Brian & Mary Lewis June 20th - Dana & Susan Robinson June 17th - Great Big Gone June 17th - Shacktown June 27th - Diff erent Drum June 24th - The Guilty Pleasures And, stop by this week for Last Friday: weaverstreetmarket.coop May 28th - Last Friday with Jon Shain

2 carrborocitizen.com/mill + june 2010 MILL Each year, around this time, I try to Lightening up venture out a little more and often have Overheard on Weaver Street as a mother recommended that our readers who are and two children were exiting a shop, not already doing so hit the trails as well. post-haircut: To be honest, considering what’s hap- Mom: Doesn’t your head feel cooler now? pening in the Gulf of , this year’s recommendation comes with a heavy Child (in an appropriately sheepish man- heart. It’s hard to advance a joie de vivre ner): I guess so. argument when such a vast catastrophe Having recently been relieved of several is unfolding. We may or may not see the pounds of tress, I can attest to the instant direct effect of man’s latest insult to coolness described by the aforementioned nature. But we here are not immune to mother. We’ve had a cool spell or two the same kinds of miscalculations and recently, but that’s likely to be over soon. risk-taking, and the vital ecosystems we Just like the moment when we edge out all cherish are similarly threatened. of summer and into fall, this time of year There is some solace awaiting us amid is optimal for outdoor activity. The light the marshes, along the creeksides or on is around until well into the evening and a quiet walk up the mountain. But along the air is neither particularly damp nor with that solace is a reminder that pass- thick with every insect that buzzes, bites ing such places on to future generations or both. This is an annual interval rich remains one of the most solemn tasks of in the promise of summer and the great our time. outdoors.

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phone 919 967 8505 ART notes S with an additional viewing the next day from Beehive Art noon to 5 p.m. Challenge If you’ve been making it out to the Over the past few years, the folks at farmers’ markets more these days, you may The Beehive Salon have proven them- want to stop by Panzanella while their show selves to be pretty good at using art to celebrating local farms and food is still up. The celebrate hairstyles and vice versa. show, Local Farms/Local Art, runs through As a result, we’ve seen pretty impres- June 14 and includes oil, acrylic, watercolor sive artistic visions of mullets, mow- and pastel painting and photography by 22 hawks and, natch, beehives. This season’s North Carolina artists. Beehive art challenge takes on the Afro. In her note announcing the challenge, Frankly beeing owner Diane Koistinen writes: “Whether Frank, the newly opened gallery on East it’s coiled locks standing strong, sexy, Ron Liberti Franklin Street, is going to become a bee- and bold, or a free-flowing fro bounc- hive of its own during the month of June, ing up and down to the grooves at the with several bee-themed events and works. roller rink … the Afro has it all – Texture, Shows and p.m. Visit twjohnsonart.com for details. Among the happenings: Shape, and Style.” Also in Hillsborough that Friday will be the • June 3 – Legendary local beekeeper Inspired? To take up the challenge, Openings reception for Jordan Taylor’s unique series of Jack Tapp will speak on the art of beekeep- create a work of art celebrating the ’fro Those of you convinced there is a connec- jars made from clay dug out of the artist’s ing and offer a taste of local honey; using any medium, style or size and tote tion between the Piedmont and la Piemonte backyard. Visit hillsboroughartscouncil.org/45. • June 4 – Poet Jeffery Beam will read your work down to The Beehive by 7 p.m. may wish to stop by Skylight Gallery in Hills- html for details. bee poetry and folklore; on June 26. borough and take in the oil paintings by T.W. Brian Plaster’s Hi Gallery, a temporary • June 17 – Artists Peg Bachenheimer The top seven works will go on Johnson. Johnson offers up 12 landscapes space in his Carrboro home at 113 High St., and Lew Graham will talk about wax en- display through July. Best in show wins inspired by the countryside of Orange County will host a two-day show of works by poster caustic painting; and a $100 gift certificate; second place, and his travels in Italy. artist Ron Liberti. “Life, Liberti, and the Pursuit • June 24 – Artist Luna Lee Pay will a $75 gift certificate; and third, a $50 An artists’ reception will be held at Sky- of Happiness” features an art mix of Liberti’s discuss her bee-inspired paintings. gift certificate. light, 102 W. King St., this Friday from 6 to 10 silk screens and prints. The show opens this Visit frankisart.com for details. Friday at 6 p.m. with music by DJ Fi Fi Hi-Fi,

300 E. Main St What’s happening at th e artsC e nte r June • July 2010 Carrboro ConCerts Gypsy Jazz Night featuring One Leg Up 919.929.2787 Friday, June 25 • 8:30 pm Triangle Jazz Orchestra Night - FREE!! $ $ Children Wednesday, June 2 • 7:45 - 9:30 pm 14… 12 ArtsClub members 5:40 Summer Music Series: Jonathan Byrd North Carolina School of & FamilY Traditional Music Night Thursday, June 3 • 5:40 - 7:30 pm • Free! Chapel Hill Tire Company presents The ArtsCenter and East 54 offer the best in local Saturday, June 26 • 8:00 pm Come hear some of the school’s brightest talent. $12 SuperFun Show: The Frog Prince and regional music, at East 54, every other Thursday. presented by Rags To Riches Planned Parenthood Benefit featuring An Evening With Kevin Welch Saturday, June 26 • 11:00 am Lost in the Trees Sunday, June 27 • 7:00 pm This classic tale will get the lively retelling and comic Thursday, June 3 • 8:15 pm Part of The ArtsCenter’s 7th annual American delivery Rags and Riches is known for. Suggested $ $ Music by Lost in the Trees and the delectable Roots Series. 16… 14 ArtsClub members for Pre-K – 3rd grade. $7 (children 2 and under free) gourmet cuisine of The Food Fairy. $25…$15 students 5:40 Summer Music Series: (at East 54) Laurence Juber • Two-time grammy winner Katharine Whalen’s Lucky Friday, June 4 • 8:30 pm Thursday, July 1 • 5:40 - 7:30 pm • Free! Also former lead guitarist with Paul McCartney and 5:40 Summer Music Series: (at East 54) theatre Wings $20…$18 ArtsClub members Hammer No More The Fingers Transactors Improv: Thursday, July 15 • 5:40 - 7:30 pm • Free! Hot Fun in the Summertime Always Inspiring ~ for 35 Years Blue Rodeo with Cuff the Duke Monday, June 7 • 8:00 pm Saturday, June 5 • 8:00 pm 5:40 Summer Music Series: (at East 54) $ $ $ $17…$15 ArtsClub members Birds and Arrows 14… 12 ArtsClub members… 7 Students For more information Cyril Lance’s North Carolina Roots Thursday, July 29 • 5:40 - 7:30 pm • Free! 9th Annual 10 By 10 Festival or to order tickets call Music Reverie Arkestra July 8 - 11, 15 - 18, 22 - 25 • • 919.929.2787, ext 201 or Friday, June 11 8:30 pm • Thursdays-Saturdays 8:00 pm $ $ Friday, June 4 6:00 - 9:00 pm go to ArtsCenterLive.org 14… 12 ArtsClub members Sundays • 3:00 pm Edmar & Pavelid Castaneda Playwright Gala • Saturday, July 10 Sunday, June 13 • 7:00 pm and follow us on $ $ 15… 13 ArtsClub members exhibits Youth Performing 5:40 Summer Music Series: (at East 54) east end gallerY YpaC Arts Conservatory YouTube.com/ ArtsCenterLive Guillo Carias Trio and special guests Singers & Guitar Slingers: Live Concert Summer Youth Conservatory Thursday, June 17 • 5:40 - 7:30 pm • Free! Photography by Alex Forsyth Drood (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), The Handsome Family Tuesday, June 1 - Wednesday, June 30 the Charles Dickens musical Saturday, June 19 • 9:00 pm a decade of live music photography from Triangle Thursday, July 22 - Saturday July 25 “Dark, elemental, mischievous…” – MOJO $14 and Triad venues, including The ArtsCenter. 7:00 pm • Sunday 2:00 pm $ $ Center gallerY 15 Adults… 13 PRC Subscribers and ArtsClub African-American Traditions II $ featuring The Mighty Gospel Toby Luria Members… 10 Students Inspirations and Donna Washington Tuesday, June 1 - Wednesday, June 30 Missoula Children’s Theatre Production: For more information visit Sunday, June 20 • 5:00 pm Multi-media paintings incorporating oil pigments, Alice in Wonderland Ticket $5 each or a family/friends pack of four for $15. pastels, graphite, molding paste and paper. Saturday, July 31 • 3:00 pm and 5:30 pm

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before he’s back at the helm gunning Molting by the engine and lining up the boat for the light the next float in the line.” Around here there’s a good of the moon pipeline for fresh soft shells, so keep Although water temps have been your eyes peeled for some on the presents above 60 degrees for some time, we menu. If you’re up for preparing are just now experiencing the first full them yourself, you can usually find moon in May, a traditional reminder live crabs at Tom Robinson’s going that it’s soft-shell crab season. from $3.99 to $5.99 each. The peeler run has been going on A safety note for the novice: since late April, and up and down the Keep in mind that you’ve got to fry eastern seaboard there are reports of them hot and they’ve got a lot of pretty good catches. moisture. That’s good news, because the past decade has seen a steady de- Fancy a pint? cline in catches of blue crab, which With four locations and six other is arguably the state’s most impor- spots selling their uniquely flavored tant seafood export. cool treats, Locopops is certainly on The Eater the grow. once got the The latest opportunity news from to observe The paletas star Big Man, Ed- Summer Bick- die Willis of nell is that you Harkers Island, can now get work a line of crab pots in the Core loco flavors in pints. Debut flavors are Sound. Hailing from a long line of Mexican Chocolate and Mojito. crabbers, he went about his work The Eater will be keeping a close with a grace and economy of mo- watch on this developing story as tion that you seldom see anymore. the summer months wear on. As I wrote at the time: “Eddie Willis adjusts his course a bit then steps back to get his hook. Tapas Anyone? Glasshalfull has a new execu- He snags the float in the water, loops Friday, June 18 6-10 pm and tive chef. Adam Cobb has a pretty the line around the pot puller – a impressive resume, including an motorized pulley rig – and cuts it on. apprenticeship with chefs Santi Saturday, June 19 9am-6pm The line comes in, the dark mesh crab Santamaria, Paco Roncero, Pepe pot surfaces and is drawn toward the Rodriguez-Rey and Ferran Adria. th boat. Willis pulls it up on The 28 Annual Hillsborough To celebrate Cobbs’ fondness for and opens the trap. A half-dozen the Spanish traditions, Glasshalfull Hog Day returns to its traditional crabs scatter out into the black tubs is starting up Tapas Tuesday – a on the deck. He sets the latch, grabs downtown location – selection of Cobb’s tapas and a glass a mullet from a bucket and rebaits of Spanish red or white for $15. River Park off East Margaret Lane. the pot. It’s barely over the side ADMISSION IS FREE!  Crafters, games & contests  Live music all day Saturday  Fun for the whole family  Great food of course, featuring the 1st annual Hog Day Invitational BBQ cook-off www.hogdays.com

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5/28 CD with Tomahawks and 6/02 thank you, friend: DJ Steph Russ. 9:30pm Of Montreal Alex Chilton Tribute The Moaners Cat’s Cradle Cat’s Cradle The Cave Psycho pop with flair.N oot John Howie Jr., Mitch Big four-band night D’Noot opens. 9pm, $22 Easter, Greg & Ann Hum- with John Howie Jr. and phreys, Tom Maxwell and Rosewood Bluff, Puritan 6/03 Lynn Blakey are among the Rodeo and New Town Horton Heat many musicians playing Drunks as well. 10pm and CRACKER this tribute to Chilton. Cat’s Cradle 5/30 art opening The Rev. rocks the Cradle. Skylight Gallery I was totally Legendary Shack Shak- Landscape oil paint- destroying ers open. 8:30pm, $20 ings by T.W. Johnson. LOCAL 506 Another fineU 2 tribute 6/04 5/29 by IWTDI. 9pm, $5 Woods Charter Benefit Bike Springfest 5/31 McDougle Schools Cat’s Cradle Rides start out at Keith Henderson Bands include Robert Sledge 7:30 and 9:30am. Southern Village & The Flashlight Assembly, Elvis returns some- The Harvey Dalton Arnold Visit bikespringfest.com time around 6:30pm, Blues Band and Great Luego Release Party thankyouverymuch. Big Gone. 8pm, $10 thank you, friend: tribute to alex chilton 5/28 cat’s cradle Nightlight Luego celebrates its new

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6/05 6/11 Hot Fun in the Carolina’s Funniest arthur minnis road by t.w. johnson 5/28 skylight gallery Summertime DSI The ArtsCenter Finalists Tom Keller and Join the Transac- Kenneth McLaurin compete tors for a look at all for the title of Carolina’s things summer. 8pm funniest comic. 8pm, $10

D-Town Brass 6/12 LOCAL 506 Big band sound from Dirty Dozen Durham. Bustello and Erie Brass Band Choir open. 10pm, $7 Cat’s Cradle All the brass you can bike springfest 5/29 mcDougle Schools handle. 9pm, $15 6/06 6/15 Mandolin Orange 6/25 7/01 Drink Up Buttercup 6/12 The Pains of Being Bynum General Store Dar Williams Lucky LOCAL 506 Take in some melo- Dexter and the Pure at Heart Cat’s Cradle East 54 Psychedelic fun. Cat’s Cradle dies tailor-made for the Sara Watkins of Nickel SNZ’s Katharine New Romans front porch.7-9pm Till/Twain: Voices in LOCAL 506 NYC-based . Creek opens. 8pm, $25 Whalen rocks out with the American Story Countdown Quartet With Surfer Blood and her new band. 6/19 6/25 The ArtsCenter opens. 10pm, $7 Hooray for Earth A double-featured re- 7pm doors, 8pm show, The Handsome The New imagining of historical 6/13 $12 adv/$14 day of Family Pornographers figures with films of Mike The ArtsCenter Memorial Hall Edmar & Pavelid 6/18 The family is out tour- Wiley’s one-man show Castaneda The Dodos and The Dutchess on Emmett Till and Paul ing their latest release, and the Duke open. The ArtsCenter Thao & Mirah “Honey Moon.” 9pm, $12

Newell’s one-man show A father-and-son Colom- LOCAL 506 on Mark Twain. $5, 7pm Gypsy Jazz Night S bian harp duo brought Tangles of guitar with beat The ArtsCenter

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MILL june 2010 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 7 MILL CALENDAR S LITERARY Carrboro Branch Library Ongoing Events — Storytime, Saturdays at 10:30am; introductory adult computer classes, Saturdays at 10am, call the library at 969-3006 to register. Chapel Hill Public Library Ongoing Events — Story Time, for ages 3-6; Junior Book Club, for readers grades 1-3; Time for Toddlers, for stories, songs and activities; Baby Time, for children between 6 and 18 months; Teen Book Club, for teens in grades 6 and up; Bookworms Club, for grades 3-6; each month children in this program read and discuss different novels from a list of titles nominated for the N.C. Children’s Book Award. Dates and times vary. Bilingual Story Time: May 27. 4-4:30pm Story/Craft Program— Grades K-5. May 9, 3-3:45pm. 968-2778 to sign up Books Sandwiched — Bring a lunch and discuss Mark Twain Now featuring Paul Newell. John Berendt’s City of Falling Angels. Discussion Photo by John Paul Middlesworth. will be led by Kathy Thompson. May 5. 11:30am. 968-2780 Patricia Phillips Marshall and Jo Ramsay Lei- Summer Reading Performer Series — Recom- menstoll — to read from Thomas Day: Master theater mended for ages 3 and up. Pre-register. Grey Craftsman and Free Man of Color. June 19, 11am The ArtsCenter Seal Puppets - Bathtub Pirate. Monday, June 14. Vivian Jacobson — to read from Sharing Hot Fun in the Summertime — Transactors 11-11:45am or 2-2:45pm Chagall: A Memoir. June 25, 2pm Improv Company gets a summer groove Monday Night Book Group — Depletion and Tim Downs — to read from Wonders Never on. Bring your ideas of summer and see Abundance: Life on the New Home Front by Aaron Cease. June 26, 11am Transactors bring them spontaneously Astyk. 7-9pm. NC Poetry Society Poetry Series —features to life. Saturday, June 5, 8pm, $14, $12 members, $7 students Pajama Story Time — June 30, 7-7:30pm readings by Bruce Lader, David Treadway Man- ning, and Debra Kaufman. . June 27, 2pm Till/Twain: Voices in the American Story Cybrary — A double-featured re-imagining of his- Community Book Forum — Join UNC FLYLEAF books torical figures.Empty Wheel is an award- Distinguished Professor Barbara Fredrickson, Preschool Storytime — Every Thursday morn- winning film by Rob Underhill featuring Ph.D. as she leads discussion of her book Pos- ing at 10:30am. Mike Wiley and inspired by Wiley’s original sitivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to SacrificialP oets Open Mic —Every first and one-man show on Emmett Till. Mark Twain Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, third Wednesday, 6-8pm. is an original one-man show written and Overcome Negativity, and Thrive. June 4. 6:30- Your Story Writer’s Group — Meets every performed by Paul Newell. Sunday, June 6, 7:30pm. fourth Saturday, 10am-noon 7pm, $5 suggested donation Carrboreaders Book Club — to disuss The Age Kids Summer Reading Program Kickoff Party Children’s SuperFun Show: The Frog of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discov- — Suggested ages 8-14. June 19, 6-8pm Prince featuring Rags To Riches — Follow by Richard ered the Beauty and Terror of Science, Author Events — Aaron Lubeck discusses his Princess Penelope and her adventures. Holmes. June 17, 7pm book Green Restorations. June 1, 7-8pm Suggested for Pre-K to third grade. June 26, 11am, $7, children under 2 free McIntyre’s Craig Johnson — to read from Junkyard Dogs. Leah Steward to read from Husband and Wife. June 4, 7-8pm Deep Dish June 4, 2pm Workshop with Alice Osborn — Sharing Your Words To Music: Singer/Songwriters Up Craig Johson to read from Junkyard Dogs. June Life Story: A meoir Class with Alice Osborn. June Close — songwriters Jeffrey Dean Foster, 5, 11AM 5, 10am-12noon Lynn Blakey and Kenny Roby perform Molly Weston’s Unarmed by Dangerous Tour T. Colin Dodd — to discuss his essay: What I songs and discuss music, inspiration and — with Rosemary Harris, Donna Andrews, Elaine Would Tell Her: 28 Devoted Dads on Bringing Up, the artistic process. Hosted by Doug Viets, and Meredith Cole. June 5, 2pm Holding Onto and Letting Go of Their Daughter. Edmunds. June 4, 8-10pm Richard Russo — to read from That Old Cape June 17, 7-8pm DSI Magic. June 6. 1pm Pat Marshall and Jo Leimenstoll — discuss Carolina’s Funniest — Thirty-two comics Susan Kelly — to read from By Accident. June from Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free have stepped up and now it’s down to 12, 11am. Man of Color. June 18, 7-8pm two. Two laugh in, one laughs out $800 Heather Wallace — to read from America: Michael Malone — to discuss his books and richer. Finalists Kenneth McLaurin and Tom Jordan Lake. June 12, 2pm writing. June 24, 7-8pm Keller square off. June 11, 8pm, $10 Joseph Bathanti — to read from Restoring Maryann McFadden — to read from So Happy For DSI’s complete schedule, visit dsicom- Sacred Art. June 13, 2pm Together. June 26, 7pm edytheater.com Sam McLeod — to read from Big Appetite: My Internationalist Books Send your submissions to South-Fried Search for the Meaning of Life. June Discussion — Think Outside the Bomb Nation. 18, 2pm June 6, 3-6pm calendar@ carrborocitizen.com

8 carrborocitizen.com/mill + june 2010 MILL Touring Charleston with a master guide By Vicky Dickson “Charleston Authors” in attendance are the Associated Press. When the AP job dashed, he vows that he will never allow turned out to involve too much rewrit- himself “to play a role in any similar ing of other people’s stories, Rubin event, in Charleston or otherwise. The decided to go to grad school, where he whole thing had been vanity.” discovered he liked teaching. Charleston author Rubin duly notes The joy he found in helping writ- the irony of that vow. ers make their work more authentic was to shape much of the rest of Growing up, Louis Rubin aspired Rubin’s career, leading him to teach to be not an author but a newspaper re- creative writing at Hollins College and porter like his uncles, and began writing Louis Rubin UNC and to co-found, with Shannon at 9 or 10 and editing at 12 or 13. One Ravenel, Algonquin Books, formerly of the stories in his book is based on in Carrboro and now in Chapel Hill. hough he left the city of his actors missing, as he’s “outlasted” all the time he spent as a young city editor (Rubin notes that he reluctantly must birth at age 18 and never moved of the people he once knew there, but in Staunton, Virginia, where he worked now refuse all requests to read manu- back, Louis Rubin says his “imag- he continues to go back almost every nights, knew almost no one and strug- scripts, as that leaves him no time ination knows its way around year. And when he returns this June, gled to accept the end of a romance. for his own work.) His influence on Charleston in a way it doesn’t for an appearance at the Charleston When the story’s protagonist spends his the Southern literary scene – through knowT anyplace else.” His latest book, Library Society Literary Festival, it’ll be Saturday night off at the town railroad the more than 50 books he’s writ- Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston, almost as though he’s stepping into station, another important theme of ten and edited, his leadership of the provides evidence of that familiarity, in the pages of his own book. Rubin’s life, his love of trains, comes a collection of nine stories that paint an Fellowship for Southern Writers and In the story “Do You Know Your through loud and clear. evocative picture of the Southern city in the Society for the Study of South- Charleston?” Rubin tells of his high the 1930s and ’40s. The stories, drawing The young Rubin moved on to ern Literature and his mentoring of school experience of being “exposed on both memory and imagination, also Richmond, where he worked under edi- countless writers – is immense and to authors in full battle array at a form a compelling portrait of a young tor James Kilpatrick at the Richmond lasting. Local readers are very lucky to literary reception.” When the 16 year man’s coming-of-age. News Leader and also had a job with have such a treasure in our midst. old’s hopes of having a meaning- These days, Charleston is, for Rubin, ful conversation with one of the something like a stage set with its LIT n o t e s S There’ll be several opportunities latest novel, That Old Cape Magic, to spend time with Louis Rubin in on June 6 at 1 p.m. the upcoming months. Alongside Those who attended Flyleaf Clyde Edgerton, he’ll appear at Books’ fabulous grand opening will Durham’s Somerhill Gallery on June be excited to learn that the novel 12 at 1 p.m. for an event featur- Nic Brown read from, Doubles, is ing art and music from the two now out. Brown returns to Flyleaf friends. Rubin’s visiting Quail Ridge on July 6 at 7 p.m. for another Books in Raleigh on June 27 at Independent Booksellers. reading. Can’t wait to find out 3 p.m. for a reading of Uptown/ more about Slow Smith and his old Downtown in Old Charleston fol- Flyleaf June Event Highlights: tennis coach, Manny. lowed by a Q&A. Then on July 29, Tues 6/1, 7pm: Aaron Lubeck on restoring old homes using green building techniques: he’ll be at Flyleaf Books at 7 p.m. If you’ve got favorite books in Green Restorations for a conversation with Harpers need of some TLC, come to the Sat 6/5, 10am: Alice Osborn Memoir Workshop ($20) Register: http://bit.ly/c6yett magazine contributing editor Dun- Orange County Main Library in 4pm: Four mystery authors discuss their craft: Rosemary Harris, Donna Andrews, can Murrell on writing, reading and Hillsborough on June 5 at 10 a.m. Elaine Viets & Meredith Cole editing. Don’t miss the opportunity Carrboro master bookbinder Susan 7pm: Belle Boggs reads from award-winning story collection Mattaponi Queen to engage with this prodigiously Soleil will be there to talk about talented man of letters. her work and take book-restoration Fri 6/18, 7pm: Patricia Marshall & Jo Leimenstoll, orders. Since 20 percent of the Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color Local fans of Richard Russo will order proceeds will be donated to be delighted to hear of the Pulitzer Sat 6/19, 6pm: Kids Summer Reading Program Kickoff Party the Friends of the Orange County Prize-winning novelist’s upcoming Library, you’ll be helping local Thur 6/24, 7pm: An evening with Michael Malone, the writer discusses his work reading at McIntyre’s Fine Books. readers as well as restoring your The author of Empire Falls and Many more events at flyleafbooks.com own library. Bridge of Sighs will read from his 752 MLK Jr Blvd (Historic Airport Rd) Chapel Hill Next to Foster’s Market & Flying Burrito 919.942.7373 * flyleafbooks.com

MILL june 2010 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 9 MUSIC cal e n dar S The ArtsCenter General Store Café Most of All (6/18) Ryan Gustafson, Old Triangle Jazz Orchestra Night (6/2) Jonathan Marie Vanderbeck Quartet (5/27) David Dyer Bricks, Twelve Thousand Armies (6/19) Joe Byrd (6/3) Laurence Juber (6/4) Blue Rodeo and The Crooked Smile Band (5/28) CityFolk Firstman, Josh Hoge, Marianne Keith (6/22) (6/7) Singers and Guitar Singers (6/11) Cyril (5/29) Bernie Petteway (6/3) Caleb Caudle The Fold, Gossip Grows On Trees, Jonas Sees Lance’s North Carolina Roots Music Reverie and the Bayonets (6/4) Birds and Arrows In Color, The Future Is Me (6/23) Red Collar, Arkestra (6/11) Edmar and Pavelid Castaneda (6/5) ChamberSoul (6/10) Irish Wolfhounds The Baker Family (6/24) Jill Andrews (6/25) (6/13) Guillo Carias Trio (6/17) The Handsome (6/11) The String Machine (6/12) Tony Galiani Lizzy Ross (6/26) Black Skies, Caltrop, Hog Family (6/19) The Mighty Gospel Inspirations Band (6/17) The Drowning Lovers (6/18) (6/27) Athlete (6/30) and Donna Washington (6/20) Gypsy Jazz Tommy Edwards and Friends (6/19) Hokums Night with One leg Up (6/25) Little Windows Heroes (6/23) Marie Vanderbeck Quartet Nightlight (6/26) Kevin Welch (6/27) (6/24) Woody Pines (6/25) Pocket Creek Fractal Farm, Haunted Ghost, Kellie Ann (6/26) Grubbs, Godhead (5/27) Ahleuchatistas, blue bayou club Savage Knights (5/28) Luego, Tomahawks Steve Jack (5/27) Too Much Fun (5/28) city tap (5/29) Butterflies, Organos (6/3) Birds of Spoonful of Soul (5/29) Kenney Neal (6/4) The Swang Brothers (5/27) Chris Titchner, Avalon, Carnivores, Selmanaires (6/8) Apple- Bad Dog Blues Band (6/5) Rosie Ledet and Good Rocking Sam (5/28) Gasoline Stove sauce (6/10) Beloved Binge, Big Tree (6/11) H the Zydeco Playboys (6/11) Chalwa (6/12) (5/29), Killer Filler (6/6) Transportation, North Elementary (6/12) 15-501 (6/17) Da Muthas (6/18) Blues World Grouper (6/17) Tomahawks, Roadside Graves, 7/27 thu Cat’s Cradle Presents THE RESCUES / GARRISON STARR Local 506 Calico Haunts (6/25) Pros and Cons, Honored 5/28 Fri SAM QUINN (of the everybodyfields) / JOSH MOORE Order (6/19) 5/29 sat GIL MANTERA’S PARTY DREAM / SUNBEARS The Rescues, Garrison Starr (5/27) Sam Guests (6/26) 5/30 sun I WAS TOTALLY DESTROYING U2 Cafe Driade Quinn (5/28) Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, 6/1 tue FREE ENERGY / JUKEBOX THE GHOST / MINIATURE TIGERS Sunbears, DJ Charlie Burnett (5/29) I Was 6/2 wed DRINK UP BUTTERCUP / WORKDAY-SCHOOLNIGHT Dean Tuck, Bob Siegel (5/28) Jill King (5/29) Open Eye Café 6/3 thu AMERICAN AQUARIUM / BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS Patty Blee (6/2) Saludos Compay (6/4) Eric Totally Destroying U2 (5/30) Free Energy, Jill King (5/28) Finifugals (6/5) Saludos 6/4 Fri Cat’s Cradle Presents WAKEY WAKEY / HARPER BLYNN Jukebox The Ghost, Miniature Tigers (6/1) Compay (6/11) Jazz Band and One Sun (6/12) 6/5 sat D-TOWN BRASS / BUSTELLO / ERIE CHOIR Thomas, Helen Wolfson (6/5) Finifugals (6/9) 6/6 sun AUSTIN LUCAS / DAMION SUOMI & THE MINOR PROPHETS The Sweater Set (6/11) Loose Mood (6/12) Drink Up Buttercup (6/2) American Aquari- Raymond Ward (6/19) Jay Brown (6/25) 6/7 mon THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Paulie Pesh (6/16) Rosaleigh Stringfellow um, Bright Young Things (6/3) Wakey Wakey, 6/8 tue Cat’s Cradle Presents NATIVE / THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS BRONZED CHORUS (6/18) Wylie Hunter (6/23) New River Rising Harper Blynn (6/4) D-Town Brass, Bustello, southern village 6/9 wed FRIENDO / YOURSELF & THE AIR / THE GROVES (6/25) Off The Road Band (6/26) Shannon Erie Choir (6/5) Austin Lucas, Damion Suomi B.O.D. (5/30) Keith Henderson (5/31) The 6/10 thu SONGS OF WATER Gravy Boys (6/6) The Incomparable Tres Chi- 6/11 Fri Cat’s Cradle Presents AMY COOK OConnor (6/30) and The Minor, Prophets (6/6) The Devil 6/12 sat & THE NEW ROMANS / COUNTDOWN QUARTET Makes Three (6/7) Native, This Town Needs cas (6/17) North Carolina Symphony (6/25) 6/13 sun THIS WILL DESTROY YOU / CHIAROSCURO The Magnolia Klezmer Band (6/27) 6/14 mon SCREAMING FEMALES / PINK FLAG / LAST YEAR’S MEN Cat’s Cradle Guns, Bronzed Chorus (6/8) Friendo, Yourself 6/15 tue DISAPPEARS / WOVEN BONES / WILD WILD GEESE Zane Lamprey, Steve McKenna, Marc Ryan and The Air, The Groves (6/9) Songs of Water 6/16 wed TORI SPARKS / SKYLAR GUDASZ AND THE UGLY GIRLS wallace parking deck (5/27) Tom Maxwell, Stu Mclamb and Missy (6/10) Amy Cook (6/11) Dexter Romweber 6/17 thu DEAD MEADOW Southern Culture on the Skids, The Moaners 6/18 Fri Cat’s Cradle Presents THAO & MIRAH With THE MOST OF ALL Thangs, Mitch Easter and the Able Hands, and The New Romans, Coundown Quartet THESE (6/24) 6/19 sat RYAN GUSTAFSON / TWELVE THOUSAND ARMIES / OLD BRICKS Jeff Hart, The Stars Explode, Jeff Carroll, (6/12) This Will Destroy You, Chiaroscuro 6/20 sun DEATH ON TWO WHEELS / FEEDING THE FIRE / MUMU TUTU Holden Richards (5/28) Converge, Gaza, Lewd (6/13) Screaming Females, Pink Flag, Last 6/21 mon The Sessions Tour: featuring Danny Malone, Aimee Bobruk, Weaver street market Denitia Odigie, and CJ Vinson Acts, Black Breath (5/29) She Wants Revenge, Year’s men (6/14) Disappears, Woven Bones, Club Boheme (5/30) The Donnybrook Lads 6/22 tue JOE FIRSTMAN / JOSH HOGE / MARIANNE KEITH The Light Pines (5/30) Of Montreal, Noot Wild Wild Geese (6/15) Tori Sparks (6/16) 6/23 wed THE FOLD / GOSSIP GROWS ON TREES / JONAS SEES IN COLOR (6/6) Equinox (6/13) Dana and Susan Robin- THE FUTURE IS ME D’Noot (6/2) Reverend Horton Heat, Cracker, Dead Meadow (6/17) Thao and mirah, The son (6/20) Different Drum (6/27) 6/24 thu RED COLLAR / THE BAKER FAMILY / WOOD EAR Legendary Shack Shakers (6/3) Woods Char- 6/25 Fri JILL ANDREWS / GAMBLING THE MUSE 6/26 sat LIZZY ROSS / BIG AL ter School Benefit with Robert Sledge and 6/27 sun BLACK SKIES / CALTROP / HOG the Flashlight Assembly, The Harvey Dalton 6/28 mon ATHLETE / LUEGO SPOTLIGHT 7/1 thu WE LANDED ON THE MOON Arnold Blues Band, Great Big Gone (6/4) Di- 7/2 Fri LIGHTNING BOLT / CLANG QUARTET / IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG ane Birch, AM (6/7) Langhorne Slim, Harper 7/3 sat JEREMY JAY / BELOVED BINGE 7/9 Fri DAVID KARSTEN DANIELS CD Release Show with Simon (6/9) Abbey Road LIVE! (6/11) Dirty FIGHT THE BIG BULL / BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS Dozen Brass Band (6/12) The Pains of Being 7/12 mon CAGE / HATE YOUR GUTS 7/13 tue TWIN TIGERS Pure at Heart, Surfer Blood, Hooray for Earth 7/15 thu TOM MAXWELL (6/15) Benefit forE astern NC Chapter of MS 7/16 Fri FUTURE ISLANDS / EAR PWR / FAT CAMP / NUCLEAR POWER PANTS 7/22 thu JOE PUG Socity with Whiskey Smugglers, Last of the 7/25 sat BATS & MICE / CINEMECHANICA Great Sideshow Freaks (6/17) Iris DeMent 7/27 tue CHAIRLIFT / MOTOR SKILLS 7/28 wed TWEAKBIRD / CALTROP / DEATH CAME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN (6/18) LI9F0E ON THE ROAD TOUR with Safe 7/29 thu ARIEL PINK / MAGIC KIDS Francis, Free Moral Agents, B. Dolan (6/21) 506 W. Franklin St. • Chapel Hill Deas Vail, O’Brother (6/23) Dar Williams, Sara 942-5506 • www.local506.com Watkins (6/25) MC Chris, MC Lars ft. YT- TRKfest2010 Cracker, Math The Band (6/26) Thrice, Kevin Look, just because this event takes place in Chatham County just off Devine, Bad Veins, The Dig (6/29) Lorax Lane and includes a make-your-own tie-dye booth, kids yoga and a support Bliss Tent doesn’t mean it’s some kind of thing. (Not that we mind The Cave . Some of our best friends . . .) John Harrison, Chip Smoak, Mason Kutch- TRKfest is short for Trekky Fest. Now in its fourth year, the two-day locaL man (5/27) See No Weevil, The Alcazar festival at Piedmont Biofuels is a great place to soak up some of Trekky Hotel (5/28) Cole Park, Day Sleeper, Quilty Records best bands along with an assortment of guests acts. This year’s (5/30) Salt to Bitters, Jesse Jordon (6/3) lineup includes Megafaun, Lost in the Trees, Hammer No More the Penny Prophets (6/4) Left on Franklin, Holly Fingers and many more. The fun starts Saturday, June 26 at 2 p.m. and Golightly and The Brokeoffs, The Moaners, Sunday, June 27 at noon. $10 suggested donation. Gingham is optional. BIZ Pinche Gringo (6/5) Like Bells (6/6) 10 carrborocitizen.com/mill + june 2010 MILL GIMME FIV E S

Ashley Melzer writes the Gimme Five! column for The Carrboro Citizen’s MILL blog (carrborocitizen.com/mill/tag/gimme-five), in which she asks local bands five probing questions. Below is a selection of favorites from the column to date.

Pierce Freelon of The Beast The Citizen: If your band were a fairytale, what would it be? PF: Anansi the Spider. Like Hip-Hop, spiders are feared and often misunderstood, especially by people who aren’t familiar with them and don’t appreciate their function in a healthy ecosystem, or music scene. But Anansi is that dude – he’s a skilled wordsmith/trickster, a griot and progressive intellectual. And he’s from Ghana – which is the North Carolina of West Africa.

Heather McEntire of Mount Moriah TC: Who/what are a few inspirations or influences that might really surprise people? HM: I grew up near the same town that learned how to play piano as a kid in – Tryon, North Carolina – and I’ve visited her tiny, bare- bones shack of a childhood home many times. It’s humbling, so powerful. I’m influenced and inspired by conviction, curiosity, devotion, faith and conflict. Some secrets: disco, Carole King, Randy Travis.

Duncan Webster of Hammer No More the Fingers TC: Describe the writing process for “Fall Down, Play Dead” DW: That’s one of the oldest songs we have. It started off as a riff that we played in a prior band called Dead by Dawn back in high school. All our songs were based on the Evil Dead trilogy. Pretty rad stuff. That was one of the riffs that stayed with us. We just kept tinkering with the chord progression until it morphed into what it is now. The lyrics are about a story I heard on NPR one day. Andrew Martin and Emily Frantz of Mandolin Orange Carrboro’s Carrboro’s TC: When was the moment you realized there was something to this musical partnership that needed to be shared? Best Best AM: From the very start, it seemed to just make sense. Emily and I fulfill very different roles that fit so easily together – at first it felt more like the musical partnership was sharing itself with us. Chapel Chapel EF: Immediately. The first week we knew each other, we played nonstop. We bailed on all our commitments – class, work – day after day. We just Hill Hill couldn’t tear ourselves away. Bar! Bar! Josh Kimrough of Butterflies TC: Describe the first time you ever wrote a song. Open Mon. - Sun. Open Mon. - Sun. JK: I was a little guy with a mini Casio keyboard and a supportive Dad. 2:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. 2:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. Having written songs for his jazz-fusion band in the ’70s, my dad was a choice source for advice when I was inspired to write my first song. To get 4 5 2 1 / 2 W. F r ank l in St. 4 5 2 1 / 2 W. F r ank l in St. me started, he told me that a chorus is usually a general mantra or saying. I used the exact example he gave me and based the verses off of that. The Chapel Hill Chapel Hill keyboard was set to banjo mode, which sounded nothing like a banjo. My 919-968-9308 919-968-9308 dad has taught me lots of songwriting tricks over the years. caverntavern.com caverntavern.com

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fr 6/18 th 7/22 thao and mirah john hiatt fr 7/16 local 506 on sale friday 5/27 edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros mo 6/7 diane birch

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