Tom Green Coming to Goodnights
On March 18 and 19, Tom Green is returning to Goodnights Comedy Club. Tickets are available online.
Kevin Pollack Returning to Goodnights
On the weekend of March 10th, Kevin Pollack is returning to Goodnights Comedy Club. Tickets are available online.
Lavell Crawford Coming to Goodnights
On the weekend of February 3rd, Lavell Crawford is returning to Goodnights Comedy Club. Tickets are available online.
Bob Goldthwait Coming to Goodnights
On the weekend of February 17th, Bobcat Goldthwait is returning to Goodnights Comedy Club. Tickets are available online.
Jerry Seinfeld Coming to DPAC
Jerry Seinfeld is returning to the Triangle. This time he’ll be performing at the DPAC on Saturday, February 12. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (10/29) at 10am.
SPARKcon Begins Today
This fifth annual SPARKcon event begins tomorrow and ends Sunday. SPARKcon the Triangle’s showcase of creativity, talent, and ideas. This year the event showcases events in (a whopping) 16 main categories, including:
- for KIDS!
- artSPARK
- musicSPARK
- bazaarSPARK
- filmSPARK
- circusSPARK
- tastySPARK
- cyberSPARK
- ideaSPARK
- fashionSPARK
- poetrySPARK
- graffitiSPARK
- danceSPARK
- designSPARK
- theatreSPARK
- fireSTARTERS
The festival has an iPhone app and has excellent event summary pages that are connected to Google Calendar events. However neither of these quite fit my needs, so I created a master event list for the entire weekend. I’ve found it’s easier to just subscribe to the master event list and run off of it and a companion map of the area included than to hassle with the walled gardens of an app.
You can follow all 150+ events by subscribing to gogoraleigh’s SPARKcon calendar at Google Calendar. (Those subscribed to the gogoraleigh Hopscotch calendar are automatically subscribed – just check your calendar for all of the events.) See an event you like? Add it to your own calendar. Unsure about an event? Open up the calendar’s event, and see its link to SPARKcon’s event page, see a map to the venue, or see the overall SPARKcon map (which I highly recommend keeping in your mobile device’s photo gallery. You can even enable an alert for each act if you want.
While people flock to the event and enjoy many of the offerings, the Friday night fashion show is the big event of the weekend. The hour-long show begins at 8pm and features fashion from local designers. Be sure to check out the impressive and always-fresh offerings by Mollybeads at the show!
While SPARKcon has a very good website, to me it is easier to just follow the links to the elements pertinent to mobile devices:
- Complete Event Calendar (gogoraleigh)
- SPARKcon Area map
- Events by day
- Events by location
- Events by SPARK themes
- @sparkconner on Twitter
- ideaSPARK on “The State of Things”
- Bob Geary’s article in The Independent Weekly
- Craig Jarvis’ article in The News & Observer
- The Raleigh Downtowner’s SPARKcon spread (not for mobile)
Google Calendar | XML | ICAL | |
SPARKcon Calendar |
Let’s go Do It!!
Brian Regan Coming to DPAC
Jeff Dunham Returning to RBC Center
On Thursday, October 7, Jeff Dunham will make his way back to the RBC Center. Ticket go on sale to the public at 10am tomorrow morning (10/13).
Carol Burnett Tickets Now On Sale
Tickets are now on sale for "Laughter and Reflection With Carol Burnett: A Conversation with Carol where the Audience Asks the Questions." The Q&A takes place at the DPAC on Saturday, April 2. The "Conversation with Carol" is a real treat for people in the Triangle, as the DPAC is only one of three venues nationally hosting a "Conversation" event with Carol during the 2011 season.
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