Raleigh’s Most Beautiful Foliage
The most gorgeous trees I’ve seen this fall are in the North Hills parking lot, near Wachovia. While they aren’t big trees, they are 100% non-green. The reds in the one on the left are intense. Also pretty is the Eastbound side of I-440, travelling from Wade Avenue toward Glenwood.
Have a tip on beautiful foliage in the area? Let us know!
REI Hosts Basic Bike Maintenance Class
On Tuesday (10/27), REI at North Hills will be sponsoring another free Bike Maintenance class. The 7pm session is aimed at teaching parts, basic adjustment, and care of your bicycle.
And That…Was The Game
On a beautiful night in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels played their first-ever Thursday night game. Everything, including the traffic, went perfectly until 10:35, when all hell broke loose. After a delay of game penalty on their own 3-yard line, Florida State was able to burn Tar Heel cornerback Charles Brown for a 98-yard touchdown connection. At that point, FSU hit their stride and played like they deserved to win the game.
For some reason, with FSU backed up on its own 2, I felt the need to try videoing a play in the game.
WWE Smackdown Coming to RBC Center
On December 27, the WWE brings its Smackdown & ECW Live to the RBC Center. Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning.
Which Wich Now Open
National chain
Which Wich
is now open on Lake Boone Trail. It is the 50-sandwich chain’s first North Carolina store. It is the first restaurant to open in the Lake Boone Marketplace center, which is/was to be the new home of JK’s Steakhouse.
City Plaza Dedication Coming Tomorrow
At Noon on Friday city officials will be on hand to dedicate the new City Plaza. The plaza will not be open to traffic until Sunday morning, as it is the centerpiece for RWO4. The Collectors Gallery, Krispy Kreme and Shishkabob will all open this weekend, while the fourth pavilion, the home for Jimmy Johns will not be open until December.
Dillon Fence Playing Pour House
Another Dillon Fence reunion is coming up! On Friday, November 27 the fence will be playing the Pour House in downtown Raleigh.
Follow the Raleigh Wide Open 4 Calendar
Raleigh Wide Open 4 is coming this weekend, and that means a slew of events taking place on Saturday. In order to easier follow what is going on, feel free to follow my new Raleigh Wide Open Google Calendar . It contains all of the scheduled events for the festival!
Also be sure to click here in order to find the official schedule and map of where everything on Fayetteville St. will be. It works especially well for iPhones.
Bakatsias To Open Cary Restaurant
The next chapter in the Giorgios Hospitality Group story comes by way of Triangle Business Journal today . The story reports that George Bakatsias is going to convert the restaurant at Preston Corners that formerly housed Chuck ‘em and Jaspers into a Mediterranean cafe. The restaurant will be named Giorgio, and will open next month.
Big, Busy Week Ahead
I busy week, indeed. Let’s start with sports. The long-awaited, first-ever Thursday night football game for Chapel Hill begins at 8pm tomorrow night. Florida State and Erin Andrews (not necessarily in order of importance) are in town for a game that will be featured in ESPN. Plan accordingly, as traffic in Raleigh and RTP should be horrendous.
The other reason for traffic problems is the N.C. State Fair which ends on Sunday night. Today the Wake County Public Schools have an early release day, so there should be many students invading the fairgrounds. Tomorrow is can day, where entry is free for those with 4 cans of food for the needy. The remaining music acts are Julianne Hough, Anoop Desai, Jeremy Camp and Tenth Avenue North, Blake Shelton, and Eric Church.
The State Fair isn’t the only other draw for tens of thousands of people. Raleigh Wide Open begins Friday, and celebrates the grand opening of Raleigh’s new City Plaza. Delbert McClinton headlines the main stage of music, however more interesting, perhaps, is the Cherry Bounce stage, which is the culmination of a week-long local music series downtown. The series aims to get exposure for a mostly unheard of list of bands. Be sure to stop by the WTVD studios on Saturday afternoon for your chance to get on Wheel of Fortune.
The big stand along music event occurring this week is Queensryche at the Lincoln Theatre, tonight. However in the Greensboro Coliseum, rock gods AC/DC will play Sunday night. INto industrial? KMFDM is at the Cradle Monday night.
There is plenty of theater for the people this week, too. The Picasso Ballet performance by the Carolina Ballet continues at the Fletcher Opera Theater while NC Theater’s West Side Story production runs at Memorial Auditorium. Tonight David Copperfield will be at the DPAC, while the Carolina Crown II (wrestling theater) will take place at the RBC Center on Saturday night. NCSU alumnus, John Reep, the “Hemi guy” plays at Charlie Goodnights this weekend.
If all of that excitement isn’t enough, be sure to swing by the Raleigh Convention Center for the Junior League’s Shopping SPREE!, a seriously awesome event when shopping for things women like.
For more info on these events, check out the gogoraleigh Do-It Calendar . That’s a heck of a week! I can’t wait to get out there and DO IT!
Plan Thursday Evening Carefully
Friends, just a heads up about the complete mayhem that is about to take place on Thursday evening. Not only will the the N.C. State Fair Canned Food Day be going on, but the Florida State Seminoles will be visiting for Chapel Hill’s first-ever Thursday night game. ESPN is covering the game and was nice enough to move the airtime back to 8:00pm. That should allow fans a better chance of at least being in the Chapel Hill city limits by gametime.
My suggestion is to avoid Interstate 40 at all costs. If you have been to mid-week game in the Smith Center against an ACC foe, you know that traffic is horrible west of the Durham Freeway. This will be three times worse. Instead of 40, take U.S. 64 to Fearrington Road ( map it ), head north on Fearrington until it reaches 15-501, and turn right. Follow the traffic down the winding Columbia Street which leads to the Hospital area.
Another option is to take 64 to 751, then turn left on Stagecoach Road. This can lead to either the Friday Center or Fearrington, depending on your route.
For certain, though, whatever route you choose, make sure you leave home or work about 1.5-2 hours before you normally do. Those who leave work before 5 will certainly have an advantage over those who swing by home on the way home from work.
The UNC Athletic Department has really dropped the ball on this one. They should have arranged for area cities to run otherwise dark municipal busses into the area to help alleviate the problem. Afterall, large-capacity transit is the answer to all traffic problems, right?
This situation could potentially be far worse than the U2 concert because once again, Highway Patrol and area media have not clued in thus far. However as is usually the case, gogoraleigh readers have an advantage, and will continue to be baffled by people making dumb moves and crying on the highway about it!
TWC Offers NBA League Pass Preview
It is basketball time, again, and to celebrate, Time Warner Cable is offering a free NBA League Pass preview from now until November 3. Tune in to channels 710-720 for the preview (only 711-715 will be active until the 27th).
War of the Worlds Coming to WKNC
On Halloween night the Martians are invading again, and this time their heat rays are aimed at the Triangle. NC State’s student-run radio station, WKNC 88.1, will be broadcasting a live, local adaptation of the Mercury Theater’s production of H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds . The live performance airs on Saturday October 31’st from 7-8pm, and will be set in the present, including Raleigh area locations.
The production is being performed by the Two Cabbage Players, a new radio theater troupe formed by Damian Maddalena, a doctoral student at NCSU’s School of Natural Resources and host of WKNC’s Mystery Roach. The troupe features graduate and undergraduate students from NCSU and members of the Raleigh community. Brian Donohoe of the band Starmount will be bringing the Martians and their dreadful machines to life by engineering sound effects. Additionally, Skip Elsheimer (The AV Geek) lends his voice to the program.
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