A MONTHLY MUSIC, ARTS AND LITERATURE PUBLICATION MILLOF THE CARRBORO CITIZEN VOL. 3 + NO. 2 + NOVEMBER 2009 Citizenthe carrboro th 15annual xplore beautiful Orange County 2009 Eon this self-guided tour and ex- perience the excitement of viewing OPEN and purchasing artwork from more than 70 Guild artists, working in a STUDIO wide array of media. SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS 10am–5pm 12pm–5pm Tour NOVEMBER Friday, Oct. 30, 5–7 p.m. Opening at the ArtsCenter 7–8 & 14–15 Reception 300 G E.Main St., Carrboro www.orangecountyartistsguild.com 140 GREAT STOPS TO GET YOUR CITIZEN! PICK USCarolina Fitness UP!UPS Store Borders Books Courtyard Marriott Carrboro Weaver Street Market Looking Glass Café Wingman Harris Teeter / University Mall Amanté Pizza – Falconbridge Harris Teeter Carrboro Business Coop White Cross Area University Mall / Kerr Drugs entrance Southern Village The ArtsCenter Orange County Social Club Harry’s Market Phydeaux La Vita Dolce Amanté Gourmet Pizza Speakeasy – outside box Fiesta Grill Owen’s 501 Diner Park & Ride bus stop Milltown Weaver Street Realty White Cross BP Bruegger’s Bagels/Eastgate Market Square Carrburritos Carrboro Family Vision White Cross Shell Chapel Hill Public Library Century Center Food Lion/Ram’s Plaza Fearrington Area Q–Shack Express Lane McIntyre’s Books Great Clips Chamber Of Commerce Piedmont Health Services Galloway Ridge Cybrary Chapel Hill North Midway Barber Shop Downtown Fearrington Inn VisArt Video Capelli’s Hunan Chinese Restaurant Elmo’s Diner Caribou Coffee/downtown Chapel Hill Senior Center Chatham Crossing Spotted Dog Visitors Center Southern Human Services Torrero’s Nice Price Books Jiffy Lube Carol Woods Chatham Crossing Carrboro Town Hall Job Development Center Bagels on the Hill Medical Center Carrboro Town Commons Sandwhich/The Courtyard Eubanks Rd. Park & Ride Lowe’s Foods Cliff’s Meat Market West Franklin town racks That Coffee Place Internationalist Books Hillsborough PTA Thriftshop Cup a Joe Weaver Street Market Franklin Hotel Calvander Food Mart Margaret’s Cantina Andy’s Ham’s Restaurant Carrboro Mini Mart Aquatic Center Maple View Farms Time Out Southern Rail Chapel Hill Mini Mart Visitors Center East Franklin town racks Open Eye Cafe South Orange County Senior Center Courthouse Alley town racks Carrboro Branch Library N.C. Botanical Garden Orange County Public Library North Columbia St. town racks UNC The Beehive Covenant House Cup a Joe / outside box Campus Auto Logic 15-501 South Park & Ride Daniel Boone Shopping Center UNC Student Union Reservoir Governor’s Village Area Sportsplex Bullshead Bookshop Johnny’s Bean & Barrel/ Governor’s Village Durham Tech/student lounge Davis Library / UNC Carolina Cleaners Laundromat Carolina Meadows/Café UNC Family Medicine (Willow Creek) UNC Family Medicine Tarantini Crescent Green Assisted Living Carolina Inn Pittsboro Jones Ferry Rd Park & Ride East Meadowmont Area Pittsboro General Store Chapel Hill Post Office/Estes Drive UNC Wellness Center Suntrust Bank (outside) Carrboro Plaza Brixx Pizza Chatham Marketplace Carrboro Plaza Park & Ride Caribou Coffee/ Franklin at Estes Cafe Carolina Pittsboro Public Library North American Video Café Driade The Cedars Carolina Brewery Tar Heel Tobacco Siena Hotel York Simpson Underwood Pittsboro Family Medicine Curves Whole Foods Village Plaza Friday Center Park & Ride 2 carrborocitizen.com/mill + NOVEMBER 2009 MILL COOL & COLORFUL IT’S AlivE! We lurch into the month via All Hallow’s eems appropriate to use a Eve, and by the end of it we’re deep into seasonal exclamation bor- feasting season and plunging headlong rowed from Dr. Frankenstein to toward the end of a semester, plan- express the general delight and ning for travel and/or company and the surprise that the Varsity The- frenzy of approaching holidays. Satre is being reanimated and could open Before you surrender your calendar to by late November. (See Page 3 of this the inevitable that all entails, we invite week’s Citizen for more details on the you to take a little time to wonder at turnaround for this much-missed venue.) a new home for Cat’s Cradle and an upfit ED CAMP the changes around you. In this week’s The quickening of the new Varsity to The ArtsCenter. Toss in projects along PHOTO BY AVA BARLOW the stretch between them, like 140 West y the end of this month, paper, for instance, Flora columnist Ken mirrors the subtle yet definite signs of Franklin and a rebuilt and redesigned it’ll all be different — so Moore points out a particularly nice life in the downtown economy. Several University Square, and you have the very different. There won’t specimen to visit during the change of new spots have opened up, filling some makings of a new day for the heart of be an election and all the seasons. On Page 5, we also offer a few rather obvious and long-running GAPs both towns. wind that’s come with it. choice rides and walks in which to take in storefronts. BThe colors on the branches will mostly in the leaves. And while many remain worried about These changes will not come about be on the ground, the warms days less And, as always, we peppered the issue the liveliness of downtown (we have one without controversy and conflict. As the frequent and basketball season, which with hundreds of shows and events to friend who refers to the south side of old joke “How many Chapel Hillians does this year promises to be a curious one, add a little light and life to the rapidly the 100 block of East Franklin Street as it take to change a light bulb?” goes, officially commenced. lengthening evening hours. “Death Row”), the addition of new retail there indeed will be many waxing poetic and restaurants and evidence that major about how great the old light bulb was. projects are moving forward seems to And as the creature that the university, Robert Dickson,UB P li SHER Marty Cassady, indicate that we are on the other side local governments and entrepreneurs [email protected] A D D IR ECTO R have cobbled together comes to life, we [email protected] of the downturn that put so many plans Kirk Ross, I ED TO R and dreams on hold. expect some villagers will be fearful and [email protected] C ONT ri BUTO R S a few to reach for their pitchforks and Taylor Sisk, Ava Barlow, In a few years, we could see a much dif- Liz Holm, A R T dir ECTO R torches. But if done right, expect a good Vicky Dickson, Beth Mechum ferent picture in downtown Chapel Hill [email protected] many more to return and join in reifying and Phil Blank and Carrboro — from a new, expanded a dear old friend. MILL Kidzu atop the Wallace Parking Deck to * MILL NOVEMBER 2009 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 3 TOURING THE ARTS IN ORANGE COUNTY The Orange County Artists Guild will Featured this year will be a variety of hold its 15th annual open studio tour on mediums, including painting, photography, Nov. 7-8 and again on Nov 14-15, from 10 prints, ceramics, along with metal sculp- a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Saturdays and noon ture, jewelry, wood and glass. Some artists to 5 p.m. on the Sundays. There also will be make their own paper, weave cloth and an opening reception with exhibitions this work with appliqués and other fabric crafts, Friday at the ArtsCenter from 5 to 7 p.m. while others carve from stone and wood. This event offers an opportunity to get One of the more popular aspects of the to know some of our own local artists and Open Studio Tour is the opportunity to to see not only their art, but their methods. see the context in which the artist works. Browsers and buyers both are welcome. Just as a home may reflect the personality Visitors will be able to inquire about com- of those who live in it, the studios reflect missions for larger pieces, serials, portraits the temperaments and personalities of the and installations. In many cases, artists artists. For many, it makes the art come to allow prospective buyers to take a work life. For others, the tour offers a source of home for a few days on approval. inspiration. And the craftsmen themselves The Orange County Open Studio Tour enjoy the chance to talk to people and dem- was begun in 1995, when Monnda Welch, onstrate the means by which they create. a fine-jewelry maker, wanted to introduce Visit openstudiotour.com to see the SUE TREUMAN the community to the faces behind the OCAG Gallery pages with more works by county’s artists. Since then, the Open Stu- a particular artist. For a list of all partici- dio Tour has been funded by artist member pating 2009 artists, visit ibiblio.org/ocag/ fees and donations from the community. events.php — S.E. Pohlig MARCY LANSMAN CATHY KIFFNEY 4 carrborocitizen.com/mill + NOVEMBER 2009 MILL crooks MILL 8.26.09 9/1/09 12:10 PM Page 1 HUES ALL AROUND Crook’s Corner Casual Southern Dining Serving Dinner & Sunday Brunch “Country Cookin’ Gone Cool ... Then: bait shop and juke joint. Now: crazed folk-art animals on the roof, post-graduates in the kitchen. Waiters deconstruct the War Between the States as they serve your jalapeno-cheese hush puppies and oyster-and-filet mignon scalawags. Get in line for Crook’s signature dish: Shrimp and Grits with bacon, scallions, and mushrooms.” —Travel & Leisure “Sacred ground for Southern foodies ... Part neighborhood diner, part upscale restaurant, Crook’s Corner is a nightly celebration” —The New York Times “The Best Place to Eat in Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, and possibly on Earth” Blunden Studio —Delta Sky Magazine Open for dinner Tues-Sun at 5:30 pm designing beautiful green Sun Brunch 10:30 am-2:00 pm homes and alterations since 1975 Reservations accepted, Walk-ins welcome 610 West Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC blundenstudio.com www.crookscorner.com • 919-929-7643 PHOTO BY AVA BARLOW Early November is the traditional coming up you may want to add to time for peak fall color season in the your calendar: Piedmont.