MILLA MONTHLY MUSIC, ARTS, LITERATURE AND FOOD PUBLICATION OF THE CARRBORO CITIZEN VOL. 4 + NO. 12 + SEPTEMBER 2011 INSIDE: t JAWSFEST t faLL BEER SELECTIONS t GARDEN SPIDERS t MATT AND SHEILA NEAL’s chicken soup t NEON INDIAN ZYDECO•AFRICAN•CAJUN•OLD-TIME•ROOTSROCK • REGGAE•BLUEGRASS•COUNTRY•BLUES•LATIN OCTOBER 6-9 2011 www.ShakoriHillsGrassroots.org 1439 Henderson Tanyard Road Silk Hope, NC • (919)542-8142 Featuring Béla Fleck & The Flecktones • Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings • Donna the Buffalo Brett Dennen • Sidi Touré • The Duhks • Nawal • Preston Frank • Locos Por Juana Emmit-Nershi Band • Thousands of One • The Flying Clouds • Green Grass Cloggers Rosie Ledet • Eilen Jewell • Toubab Krewe • Bearfoot • Paperhand Puppet Intervention The Old Ceremony • Leyla McCalla • Driftwood • Hobex • The Grady Girls • Dub Addis Turtle Duhks • Noot d’Noot • The Kickin Grass Band • Dehlia Low • John Stickley Trio Diali Cissokho & Kairaba! • Saludos Compay • Des Ark • Hammer No More the Fingers The Blackberry Bushes Stringband • Lake Street Dive • Billy Eli • Lila • Big Fat Gap Penny Prophets • Brand New Life • John Howie & Rosewood Bluff • Laurelyn Dossett Dirty Bourbon River Show • Lakota John & Friends • Peter Lamb & The Wolves The Tender Fruit • Mipso Trio • Sandbox • Kimberly McCrae • D-Sass • Alex Weiss James Olin Oden • Cane Creek Cloggers • J.P. Harris & The Tough Choices • & more... Tickets 1-DAY PASSES: 4-DAY PASSES: Thursday $25 $90 in advance Friday $35 $100 at the gate Saturday $45 $50 youth 13-15 Sunday $25 FREE 12 & under 2 carrborocitizen.com/mill + SEPTEMBER 2011 MILL TIME TO THroW ON arT NOTES THE BLUES In the galleries There’s something energizing about Septem- surely become cooler, there’s something reas- At FRANK this month, the Dining ber. With the school year fully underway and our suring about throwing on that pair of jeans that with FRANK exhibit opens, celebrating town filled back to capacity, the community is all made their way to the back of the closet, all but the dining experience while elevating it abuzz with activity. forgotten over the past three months. to an art form and featuring tableware, Local theaters and music venues have re- So grab that pair of blues, and celebrate the furniture and paintings that relate turned from summer hiatuses with fall schedules season. We’ve included a number of ways to to and explore dining. An opening chock-full of can’t-miss acts. Bars and restau- enjoy fall in the following pages, and hope you’ll reception will be held Sept. 9 from 6-9 rants are once again filled with patrons, students partake in a pumpkin ale and a bowl of chicken p.m., and the September and October and otherwise. People are everywhere. soup accordingly. Thursday Salons will feature cook- And summer is pretty much over. Come – Susan Dickson book author Diane Daniel and food Monday, it’s no longer sartorially acceptable to writer Sheri Castle, as well as direc- wear your summer whites, despite the fact that tor Ray Greenfield, who will discuss we’re sure to have plenty more hot days around how the dining experience has been here before the chill sets in. But as the mornings explored in Hollywood films. Over in Saxapahaw, the works of “I absolutely love myself” by Morag Charlton Anna Kurtz and TW Johnson are on Robert Dickson Publisher Kirk Ross display this month, with an opening [email protected] Contributing editoR reception Sept. 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. Kurtz’s work includes one-of-a-kind [email protected] Susan Dickson editoR jewelry piese using ironwood, turquoise and silver, while Johnson, a local [email protected] Marty Cassady ad directoR painter, recreates sunsets. [email protected] Also in Saxapahaw, the SaxArt River Walk Juried Fine Arts Festival will Duncan Hoge art directoR be held Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will feature the works of vari- [email protected] Contributors Vicky Dickson, Ashley ous artists exhibited along the riverfront. Taylor Sisk Melzer, Mary Parker Sonis, At The ArtsCenter, the Center Gallery will feature paintings by Kristin Contributing editoR Margot Lester, Evan Crouch Smith, while the East End Gallery will display illustrated books by Eric [email protected] Knisley. An opening reception for both exhibits will be held Sept. 9 from 6 MILL to 9 p.m. Up in Hillsborough, Eno Gallery will display “Regardless of what you think… ,” a solo exhibition of Morag Charlton’s new paintings. The exhibit ROSS’S ALMANAC will include her large-scale oil on linen portraits, five to six times life-size. Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene, I’ll see you in my dreams — Leadbelly Irene reminded us that even though the nights are cooling down a bit, the energy of the summer is still around, much of it stored up in the ocean and children who have run wild for the past few months. We say goodbye to the season officially on Sept. 23 at 5:04 a.m. That’s the signal for about everything living in the northern hemisphere to do whatever it does for fall. Over the course of the month, the average low temperature falls 10 degrees and we lose more than a full hour of daylight. Sept. 1 – Sunrise: 6:47 a.m.; Sunset: 7:44 p.m. Sept. 30 – Sunrise: 7:10 a.m.; Sunset: 7:01 p.m. Moon Phases First Quarter – Sept. 4; Full Moon – Sept. 12 Last Quarter – Sept. 20; New Moon — Sept. 27 The Full Moon in September is known as the Harvest Moon, Corn Moon and Barley Moon. Planets & Stars: Saturn and Jupiter hang out with the moon and Spica over the course of the month; the Harvest Moon, which as the songs notes tends to shine bright, is on the night of the 12th. September is Baby Safety Month, National Chicken Month, Piano Month, Women of Achievement Month, National Sewing Month and Better Breakfast Month. The fourth week of the month is National Dog Week and National Roller Skating Week, but not National Roller-Skating Dog Week. That’s later on in the year. Significant Dates • Sept. 5 is Labor Day • National Read a Book Day is Sept. 6 • Sept. 11 is National Grandparents Day and World Trade Center Remembrance Day • Sept. 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day – Arrrrr • Sept. 21 is the International Day of Peace • Sept. 23 is the Autumnal Equinox and Native American Day • Sept. 24 is National Punctuation Day! • The Chinese Moon Festival is on Sept. 28 and Rosh Hashanah starts at sundown • There are UNC home football games on Sept. 3, 10 and 17 rossalmanac.com/journal MILL SEPTEMBER 2011 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 3 SPOTLIGHT: JAWSFEst IV Longtime Station bartender Danny Miller is a big-time Jaws buff, an avocation he likes to share with friends, and has so for the past three years. Sunday, Sept. 4, The Station will be host to the fourth annual JAWSfest, featuring local music through the after- noon and early evening, followed by screenings of Jaws 1, 2 and 3. The Swang Brothers get things swangin’ at 3, fol- lowed by Phatlynx, The Bad Checks and Blood Red River. Cinema com- mences at 9. You’ll also be treated to Narragan- sett Beer (Capt. Quint’s beverage of choice) specials, along with $5 bellinis, Bloody Marys, mimosas and screwdriv- ers. There’s no cover. Dive on in. www.townofchapelhill.org/festifall (There’ll also be T-shirts on sale, featuring Miller’s own custom artwork and printing – same as you see on all those JAWSfest posters.) ALL Weaver Street Market Be Well. Brand Supplements 25% Carrboro Southern Village OFF 101 East Weaver Street 716 Market Street 919.929.0010 919.929.2009 Hillsborough 228 S. Churton Street 919.245.5050 All Month weaverstreetmarket.coop 4 carrborocitizen.com/mill + SEPTEMBER 2011 MILL FAUNA BY MARY PARKER SONIS The back-to-school spider e all know and prey to the web, it may also attract pre- recognize this dacious insects that recognize the cues spider. This is as a food source. The evening hunters such as the barn spider (Charlotte was the spider that is a barn spider) do not add these pat- properly known terns. Was Argiope aurantia, and better The Argiope is a fastidious house- known as the garden spider or keeper. Every evening, the female “writing spider.” Every year, these garden spider eats the center section of her web, and then re-spins a fresh gloriously colored, large black- center. Generally, you will find these and-yellow orb weavers appear webs in a conspicuous but wind- just when it is time for the children protected location, such as between to return to school. I remember two shrubs or near a doorway. Only seeing them in the shrubs around the female builds this type of web; the McDougle Elementary each year much smaller male Argiope will often build a simple web, adjacent to the as I brought my children on the first web of the female. It is thought that day of school. I would often linger the male is not particularly interested in around the playground on that first hunting or eating, as his main purpose day, just to see which spider was is to locate and mate with a receptive female. However, he will often include the largest specimen. Photo by Mary Parker Sonis The web of the Argiope is beauti- a long dangling escape line from his fully structured and quite symmetrical. web to the main web, just in case his tive layer of brown silk. The egg case is her web. She will firmly grasp the web It is notable for the pattern of “z”s that paramour becomes hungry during the circular with a narrow neck at the top, center and give the entire web a grand run in a vertical line down the center mating process.