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A MonthLy MusIc, Arts And literAture publicAtIon MILLof the cArrboro cItIzen voL. 3 + no. 9 + june 2010 Downtown Carrboro’s own optimistiC restaurant, wine bar & wine shop sip into on our cool award-winning patio TAPAS TUESDAYS! at A Southern Season Chef Adam Cobb offers a plate of his authentic Spanish tapas Hours 201 S. Estes Dr. with a glass of fine Spanish wine. Come and share the fun! M-Th 7-9 University Mall open monday-saturday, serving Dinner 5-10pm; Lunch monday-Friday 11:30am-2:30pm; wine shop opens at 11 am F-Sa 7-10 Chapel Hill 106 south Greensboro street, Carrboro, north Carolina 27510 • 919.967.9784 • www.glasshalfull.net Su 10-6 919.929.9466 Weaver Street Market music Carrboro Hillsborough on the lawn On the lawn 101 E. Weaver St., Carrboro 228 S. Churton St., Hillsborough Sunday Jazz & More Brunch Thursday Night After Hours Thursday Night Open Mic 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 Mexico, 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. Robert Dickson, p u bli sheR Liz holm, a R t dir eC t o R [email protected] [email protected] Kirk Ross, edi t o R Marty Cassady, a D dir eC t o R [email protected] [email protected] taylor sisk, C o n t ribu t o R s susan Dickson, M a n ag In g edi t o R Vicky Dickson, ashley Melzer [email protected] MILL illustration by phil blank Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from a poem written by Carrboro poet laure- ate Jay Bryan for the Community Art Project. Bryan read the poem at Town Hall at this month’s 2ndFriday Artwalk. a song of CarrboRo where do we start? a day when TV’s, laptops, I-Pods, I- Who will say phones to the stranger, “How can I help you?” are silenced An ancient woman welcomes me, so our hands can carve County clay she tells stories never told into holes for daffodils to rest that linger on her tongue, through winter snows she tells of a husband whose wife just and in February burst their grave. died, Do you know how beautiful you are, you how she was lowered through their local sons and daughters, home’s tin roof your pure and hidden selves? Southwestern in the rain, Biding, faithful, wondrous. how she gave him courage to love seasonal - local - fresh again. I kneel Sing to Carrboro, to taste the ground, Cuisine no one silent, no one not ever heard (your salty tears) or more important than the other, I love the heat of love and everyone with hands to be held in your hearts in the nights of wind and storm and the scent of common history. and folding mine into yours, we’ll take I sing the song of Carrboro, them into your heart, the mourning dove and in the unknown homes Bolin Creek Blunden Studio we will flood you with emotion. coffee and bikes O the sidewalk brick architects for a “Sit on the Stoop Day”, the ancient lady and box turtle check out our new website a “Streets Are for the People Day”, the secluded haven blunden-studio.com a paid holiday to plant, our clapboard souls. 919 967 8505 MILL june 2010 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 3 Blunden Studio Architects We specialze in green design Check out our new website www.blunden-studio.com 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.