Cy Rawls update: The benefits continue
The pace is picking up on the Cy Rawls benefit-show front. The most tantalizing one happens Aug. 29 at Cat's Cradle -- Superchunk's first local show since the May 2 Obama campaign rally, plus Rosebuds...
View ArticleLocal-music housekeeping
Friday's paper had an introduction to the local music scene, spotlighting seven shows that will give newcomers a feel for the breadth and depth of local music. And we have a change in the location of...
View ArticleUp and running: CyTunes
Sadly, local super-fan Cy Rawls is no longer with us after passing away from a brain tumor in October. But bands are paying tribute to his memory (and, not coincidentally, raising money to cover...
View ArticleTarheelia in all its forms: The North Carolina music mural at Pepper's Pizza
For the past few years, Birds of Avalon drummer Scott Nurkin has been working on a very cool art project on a wall of Pepper's Pizza in Chapel Hill -- the North Carolina Musicians Mural, which includes...
View ArticleLocal music races the cure for Oliver Gant
Oliver Gant isn't even in kindergarten yet, but he sure does have friends in high places. Young Oliver has been battling sacrococcygeal teratoma for the past year, so the local music and arts...
View ArticlePepper's Pizza: What will become of the North Carolina Musicians Mural?
Word came down Monday about the demise of Pepper's Pizza, which abruptly shut down at the close of business that night. Pepper's was one of the most venerable food institutions of Chapel Hill's...
View ArticleGarland -- your new late-night munchies destination
Here's some welcome news for club-crawling gourmands who spend a lot of after-dark hours prowling downtown Raleigh's nightclub district. Opening this week is Garland, the long-awaited street-level...
View ArticleThe North Carolina Musicians Mural finds two homes -- one temporary, one...
Ever since Pepper's Pizza closed down in March, the North Carolina Musicians Mural -- consisting of portraits of Nina Simone, Randy Travis and other Tar Heel music icons -- has been out of public view....
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