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0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art highlights a current trend in contemporary art: exploring the intersection of time and art by artists who employ innovative and experimental techniques.
Rialto's "Greater Tuna" Tickets Go On Sale July 8th! by Cathy Hoelzeman-Bond For the first time, the Rialto Players are doing a summer production! If you follow what's been going on at the Community Arts Center, then you know we've been raising funds toward matching a $15K donation with special events and activities, like Coe […]
Doors Open: 5:00 BOOTHBY 6:30 - 6:50 GUSTER 6:55 - 7:40 BEN FOLDS FIVE 8:00 - 9:00 Barenaked Ladies 9:20 - 10:30 PM Barenaked Ladies team with Ben Folds Five and Guster for the 2013 "Last Summer On Earth Tour” on July 28 at the Raleigh Amphitheater. Tickets. Every online ticket includes Barenaked Ladies new […]
PovicNation Presents: For The Love Of Music Festival, A Celebration Of New Wave Soulful Music! at the Pour House
Ornamentea's enameling camp is four days of learning, creating and making.
Join us for an evening of page-ripping fun! You'll learn about book selection, preparation and treatments and leave with pages of ideas and techniques to incorporate into your own altered books.
Johnny Folsom Four & the Canady Thomas Band (Country) – Part of the Wild Card Wednesday Series
Midtown Beach Music Series - August 1st The Craig Woolard Band
Archnemesis Tickets: $10/$12 Doors - 8:00pm Showtime - 9:00pm
The Wine Feed's August First Friday tasting event will feature Spanish selections from the outstanding portfolio of PROOF Wine & Spirits. The Wine Feed will be pouring six delicious wines from throughout Spain that reflect the country's diversity, value, and quality. There will be works from local artists on display, and many neighboring artists in […]
Free First Friday show with Archbishops of Blount St! For fans of: Pietasters, The Specials and English Beat. Archbishops of Blount Street play ska music unlike anyone from Roanoke Rapids to Wilmington, from Greenville to Greensboro. There are ten guys in the band! We have five gentlemen who play fiery horns, five who sing like […]
We're delighted to host the Bull Spec third annual summer speculative fiction event, led by editor Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, on Saturday, August 3, at 7 p.m.
Borrowing their name from Ben Folds’, “Rockin The Suburbs”, these male-middle-class-and-white musicians manage to seriously rock without ever taking themselves too seriously. The members of Rockin’ The Suburbs came together in 2012 with a common appreciation for the not-so mainstream. Tired of being all alone in their white boy pain, they drew upon a broad […]
The authors of two new Savor the South cookbooks join us on Sunday, August 4, at 3 p.m.: Miriam Rubin with Tomatoes and Kelly Alexander with Peaches.
Anne Marie Pace presents Vampirina Ballerina Hosts a Sleepover on Monday, August 5, at 10 a.m. at a special Storytime.
She wears many hats: activist, attorney, writer, and award-winning author. With honesty, candor, and humor, Melody Moezzi now shares Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life with us on Wednesday, August 7, at 7:30 p.m. She chronicles her experiences as a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman with both clinical and cultural bipolarity.
Midtown Beach Music Series - August 8th Liquid Pleasure
Balaban and Makuck: Double Event at Quail Ridge Books
Movies By Moonlight: SECRETARIAT at Booth Amphitheatre
Formed in 2005 as a collaborative project between roommates, Jack the Radio is the brainchild of seasoned songwriters George Hage and A.C. Hill. In 2009, taking aim at a groove-heavy, southern-tinged gap in the Raleigh music scene, Hage strapped on his electric guitar, Hill, his weathered acoustic, and they set out to broaden their sound. […]
Logan hosts this FREE ART SHOW featuring all kinds of local art including 2D, 3D, performing, musical and more.
He's back - both author Howard Owen and protagonist Willie Mays Black. Publishers Weekly wanted a sequel to Oregon Hill, and now both action and Willie are back in The Philadelphia Quarry. Find out what's new with this crime-investigating reporter on Sunday, August 11, at 3 p.m.
Downtown Raleigh Food Truck Rodeo over 40 Food Trucks on Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, NC
"The All Stars Tour 2013" featuring: EVERY TIME I DIE Chelsea Grin Veil of Maya Terror Stray From Path Capture The Crown IWRESTLEDABAREONCE For All Those Sleeping Structures Ice Nine Kills Dayshell 2PM Doors 2:45PM Show DAY OF: $25.00 ADVANCED: $22.50 Purchase Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/s/38032306
Join us on Thursdays from 6-9pm in the Commons at North Hills for our annual Beach Music Series! From April 18th - August 15th, enjoy free concerts on the Commons with the best beach music bands around! Presented by Rex Healthcare, WRAL.com, and Mix 101.5 Brought to you in part by Allister North Hills Apartments
Taylor Mathis gets us in the mood on Thursday, August 15, at 7:30 p.m. with The Southern Tailgating Cookbook: A Game-Day Guide for Lovers of Food, Football, and the South.
Band Together Presents: The Summer Sampler featuring: Rollin In The Hay and The Morning After! at Lincoln Theatre.
Slightly Stoopid and Atmosphere will play Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh on Friday August 16.
Movies By Moonlight: LES MISERABLES at Booth Amphitheatre
Movies By Moonlight: PITCH PERFECT at Booth Amphitheatre
Family-friendly car show featuring hundreds of classic and show cars in and around the air-conditioned Raleigh Convention Center
Whitey Morgan and the 78's are a Honky Tonk band from Flint, Michigan. They haven't re-invented the wheel, they just picked it up and started it rolling all over again. In Flint, the factories are closed, jobs are scarce and the people are bitter. Whitey sings songs these people can relate to. In much the […]
Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions includes paintings, photographs, sculptures, and mixed-media works acquired by the Museum in the last 10 years.
Nancy Olson loved Marly Youmans' A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage - "Destined to be an American classic." Now Marly Youmans returns on Wednesday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. with the paperback edition. She'll also be reading selections from two new books of poetry!
Rock Show Mug Night! Tickets only $5 at the door! The Black Cadillacs are a 6-piece rock and roll band, featuring 2 guitar players, bass, drums, keyboards and organ, and a stand-alone frontman. The Black Cadillacs have a diverse array of influences from classic bands like The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Pink Floyd to […]
Beres Hammond and Band! There isn’t an aspect of romantic relationships that Beres Hammond hasn’t transformed into a classic (reggae) song; whether written from the perspective of a keen observer or willing and sometimes unwilling protagonist, each is delivered with Beres’ signature smoky, soulful grit. Beres can’t stand leaving his woman so early in the […]
Wilton Barnhardt Debuts Lookaway, Lookaway at Quail Ridge Books
Gwyneth Anne Thayer - 'Going to the Dogs' at Quail Ridge Books
Join the Wolfpack on Hillsborough Street on Saturday, August 24, for Packapalooza, an all-day block party and street festival capping off Wolfpack Welcome Week to the start of the academic year.
Noon: Join us as we tap the official beer of Raleigh Beer Week 2013, a Belgian Pale Ale with Cherries aged in Apple Brandy Barrels! This beer will be tapped at all venues participating in Raleigh Beer Week starting right at Noon! 3:00 p.m. - Join us at the Flying Saucer for a North Carolina […]
Come Out to North Ridge Country Club on August 25th, 2013 to the celebrity studded 20th Annual Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic!
5:00 p.m. - Bottle Revolution will be holding a North Carolina tap takeover featuring a keg of Wicked Weed Freak Double IPA from the guys in Asheville! 7:00 p.m. - Join us at Tir Na Nog for the "Welcome to NC, New Belgium" Lips of Faith tap takeover! Every tap in house will feature a […]
5:00 p.m. - Capital Club 16 will be holding a Food & Beer pairing featuring Foothills & Schneider! Please join us as we pour Sexual Chocolate and Maibock from Foothills as well as a cask of Schneider Weiss with Nelson Sauvin hops & Schneider Summer Weiss! This is sure to be a great time and […]
5:00 p.m. - Tir Na Nog will be holding an Outlawed Cask Party with Lonerider Brewing featuring 5 different casks of infused beers, beer cocktails & a tapping of Cowboy in Black! 7:00 p.m. - Landmark Tavern will be tapping a cask of Natty Greene's Freedom IPA and brewmaster Thomas Vincent will be on hand […]
5:00 p.m. - Join us at Bottle Revolution as we host an Anderson Valley Brewing Company Takeover featuring bourbon barrel & sour offerings! 7:00 p.m. - Join us at the Busy Bee Cafe as we host a Barrel Aged Blowout! All 12 lines of the Bee will be filled with Rare & Barrel Aged beers […]
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors are Drew Holcomb (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Ellie Holcomb (vocals, guitars), Nathan Dugger (guitar, keys), and Rich Brinsfield (bass). Since releasing his first solo album, 2005’s Washed In Blue, Drew has established himself as a formidable indie act, selling more than 85,000 records, playing more than 1,500 live dates, selling out […]
5:00 p.m. - Brewmaster's will be hosting a Foothills Beer, Bacon & Cask event! We will be tapping 5 different Foothills drafts featuring a cask conditioned Chocoa nib Porter featuring Videri Chocolate and bacon & beer pairings! 7:00 p.m. - Tasty Beverage Company will be hosting another Rare Keg tap takeover! Chombers!!! 9:00 p.m. - […]
5:00 p.m. - Landmark Tavern will be hosting a Bell's Two Hearted Cask Night! 7:00 p.m. - Tyler's Cask-goo-knee-tuss!!! Tyler's Taproom at Seaboard Station will be hosting a cask event featuring casks from Lagunitas! Look out for rare drafts like Rumblin, Stumblin & Mumblin with Ethan Boylan from the Brewery. Tyler's Bottle Shop will also […]
