Mary J. Blige & Jay-Z Coming to Greensboro
Saturday, April 5 is when and are coming to the Greensboro Coliseum. The tickets go on sale to the public on Saturday at 10am, however the presale is currently going on and ends Friday at 10pm. and enter the password "music".
Kanye West, Rihanna Coming to Walnut Creek
On Friday, May 9th Kanye West will hit the stage. Opening will be Rihanna, N*E*R*D, and Lupe Fiasco.
Rusted Root Coming To Lincoln Theatre
Rusted Root will make its return to Raleigh at the on March 25. Tickets are $22 and available through the Lincoln’s website.
Pink Floyd Experience Coming To Memorial Auditorium
Promising a "full-on sensual attack", the is coming to Memorial Auditorium in the Progress Energy complex on February 19 and 20, 2009.
This Canadian tribute band to Pink Floyd excites intimate audiences with a huge combination of music, sound, lights, and video. They will actually be playing in Charlotte Wednesday and Thursday night this week.
Connect the Triangle Golf Tournament Coming in April
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are still growing rapidly. For most it is an online experience, only, but some area members are taking the experience offline with a golf outing.
Last year’s inaugural event had 40 attendees, but this year’s promises more. Organizer Eric Bostrom said,”What makes this event so unique is that we have taken an online space and completely opened it up and made it real, tangible and attainable by allowing you to actually meet and talk with the person you are connected to online. Once face-to-face contact is made, you have an opportunity to forge real connections that can turn into genuine business leads, job leads and even friendships.”
Players are invited to participate in a 90-minute workshop called “Master Your Competitive Edge” prior to the tournament. The workshop aims to provide the tools needed to play in the zone, make good decisions, and sustain peak performance on the golf course. The Creative Golf workshop will help identify key individual strengths and build the consistency to transform one’s game.
The tournament will take place on April 8th at Crooked Creek Golf Club (Fuquay-Varina). There will be a shotgun start 1 PM with dinner and drinks to follow. Tickets are $65 with $20 from each ticket going to Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle. Email connectthetriangle@gmail.com for more information.
NCSU and UNC 2008 Football Schedules for Your PDA
NCSU and UNC fans who like electronic calendars rejoice! I’ve uploaded the 2008 football schedules for State and Carolina in .CSV format.
Outlook/Palm Users:
- Create a new folder in your in Outlook calendar (Fball08, for example). Use the File | Import and Export… to import from “another program or file”, then “Comma Separated File (Windows)”. This will set up the Heels’ schedule in your new sub-calendar where you can make whatever changes you want.
- When you are happy with the way the subcalendar looks, change the calendar view to “Events” (instead of 7-day or 31-Day or whatever view you’re using). “Select All” from the list, and drag them over to your main “Calendar” (The Treo and other Palm Handhelds only sync to the main calendar – time for Palm to get with the program on that one!). If you want to keep your sub calendar intact, use Ctrl-drag instead of plain drag. That will create a copy of each event to the main Calendar and keep the Fball08 calendar in place. Sync your handheld to copy the events to the handheld.
iCal Users:
- Use to import the .CSV version of the schedule.
Download ncsufootball08.csv
Download uncfootball08.csv
(right click on the link above and “Save As…”)
Note: Use at your own risk. I do not accept responsibility for any consequences resulting from errors in the schedule.
Blindness Ball One Week Away
Prevent Blindness NC’s “” is just a week away! On February 16 at the , the popular “Blindness Ball” will feature a silent auction, music by Fantasy, and food samplings from several local restaurants. The even is sponsored by Prevent Blindness NC, a nonprofit health agency which promotes sight programs such as screening, publications, safety, and education. Tickets are $35 per person before Tuesday, and $45 at the door. Contact committee member carson.satterfield@gmail.com or call (919) 559-9699 for tickets.
Reeder and Angrave Picked for Last Comic Standing
It turns out that Charlie Goodnight’s was selected as four locations for surprise auditions for NBC’s . It turns out that nobody knew Bill Bellamy was in the crowd for Tuesday night’s show of 11 local comics. After seeing the comedians Bellamy surprised everyone by selecting and for the upcoming season of the show.
of Last Comic Standing, Jon Reep, went to N.C. State and is a regular at Goodnights. The show’s sixth season will begin airing early in the summer.
The Circus is Here
The is in town for a 5-day stay at the (thru Monday). The Red Tour group of the circus group is here which features Bello the Clown, Tyron McFarlan, Brian and Tina Miser’s double cannon shot, Taba and his Tigers, and the Aguilar brothers.
are generally , and are available through Ticketmaster outlets.
Duke/UNC Round 1
Tonight is essentially the first of three tests to see who gets the NCAA Raleigh seed in March. The Heels enter the game without their first and second string point guards, so it is up to Quentin Thomas to lead the Heels. To add to UNC’s misery, Duke has been playing better than Carolina lately. Of course, we will see a barrage of Hansbrough (pronounced HANS-bro – just two syllables) right baby hooks with a foul to the left shoulder (it’s his go-to move).
The key to the game is Thomas’ ability to handle Duke’s perimeter overplay. Carolina needs to extend their offense far from the paint, and exploit Duke’s overplay by going back-door and setting picks. Duke, on the other hand, needs to pressure Thomas and beat Carolina with their running game.
So, it is the matchup of all of college basketball, but why does the media insist on insulting us with this "Tobacco Road" thing? While the region has a history of major tobacco production, it is a totally outdated concept, and equates the area with the abject poverty portrayed in Erskine Caldwell’s novel. It’s time to dump this moniker for something more accurately portraying the area’s education and healthiness (there are 15 states with than North Carolina).
Cary Woman in Pre-Super Bowl Ad
The ad for the Ronald McDonald House shown before the Super Bowl featured a Cary woman who used to be a patient. Nice angle, covering one of the former patients. . Click the picture to view the ad.
WQDR Wins Radio Ratings
The 4th quarter book is out and WQDR (94.7 – country) finished first with a 7.4 rating. It was followed closely by WQOK (97.5 – Urban Contemporary) with a 7.1 and WRAL (101.5 – Adult Contemporary) with a 6.9. For the year of 2007, WQDR closely edged WQOK for first.
Surprising were the ratings for talk. WNNL (Contemporary Inspirational) finished 6th with a 5.4 while sports talk rivals WCMC (99.9) and WRBZ (850AM) finished with paltry 0.8 and 0.9 scores. 0.9 and 0.8 scores (17th and 16th overall).
Most interesting (and disturbing) is the year that 101.5 had. Their first quarter ratings were a poor 3.5 and slowly progressed to 5.1 for the third quarter. It wasn’t until they pulled their stunt of overwhelming Christmas music for over a month that they popped into the top 5. The message loud and clear here to WRAL is to play Christmas music as early as possible. Their strong 4th quarter rating of 6.9 is what it took to beat AM conservative talk radio staple WPTF for the year.
Umstead Hotel, Restaurant, and Spa Earn 4-Star Mobil Status
Cary’s () has been awarded 4-star status by the . The hotel joins other North Carolina hotels receiving 4-star status such as Asheville’s and , Charlotte’s , and Pinehurst’s . The was the state’s only 5-star designee.
restaurant (in The Umstead) (official link) also received a 4-star designation. It joins other North Carolina restaurants such as the in Chapel Hill, Charlotte’s , and Pittsboro’s . 162 restaruants received the award nationally. No restaurants in the state were among the 17 national 5-star award winners.
According to Mobil:
It seems like an oxymoron—gourmet dining in a suburban hotel, but Herons at the Umstead Hotel is an exception. Tucked inside a large hotel in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh/Durham, Herons puts a Southern spin on American cuisine in a fashionable setting complete with a 2500-bottle wine cellar. The food is seriously good, but far from serious, and there’s even a spa menu designed for those participating in the hotel’s spa program. Of course, decadence is also available, beginning with the restaurant’s homemade cinnamon bun French toast with brown sugar streusel at breakfast and ending with the luscious brownie sundae baked Alaska.
The prestigious 4-star award is the latest for the upscale hotel developed by SAS’ Jim Goodnight. The hotel won 5-Diamond honors by AAA recently.
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