ECU Football Schedule for Sync and Downlaod
ECU Football fans who like electronic calendars rejoice! I’ve uploaded the 2010 ECU Football schedule in .ICS, and Google Calendar formats. This way you can easily port the schedule over to your Android phone, iPhone, Blackberry, Google Calendar, Outlook, and more!
Without a doubt, the gogoraleigh ECU Football Calendar is the best on the web. The game locations are included, so devices that can automatically associate the location field with a map will offer these locations as hyperlinks. This is perfect if you are going to the game in an away city! With the synced versions of the calendar, gametime changes and television information are automatically updated as the information becomes available.
If you already subscribe to last year’s ECU Football schedule feed, you don’t need to make any changes. The new events now appear in the feed. For those just getting started with this highly efficient method of scheduling, consult the calendars at the gogoraleigh Calendars’ page:
Notes
Calendars are apt to change, so check back occasionally for updates. Use at your own risk. I do not accept responsibility for any consequences resulting from errors in the schedule.
Classic Car Show Coming to Downtown
During the weekend of August 20, Raleigh will be revving with excitement as the Carolina Classics at the Capital (
www.classicsatthecapital.com
) brings the Southeast’s largest indoor car show to the
Raleigh Convention Center
. This family-friendly event will feature special show cars and auto parts vendors in the air-conditioned Convention Center, displays of custom and classic automobiles on historic Fayetteville Street, a KidsZone with inflatable attractions, and prizes awarded by
Southern Classic Cars NC Inc
.
Many of the Southeast’s premier classic cars be featured at the Carolina Classics at the Capital, including a 1940 Cadillac LaSalle, a 1961 Chevy Impala Bubbletop and a 1969 Camaro RS/SS, just to name a few.
Top vendors already committed to the show include Danchuk Manufacturing, Pypes Performance Exhaust, Northern Tool and Equipment, Hamlett’s Chevy Parts, Detailer’s Dream, Page’s Custom, Ausley’s Chevelle Parts and Quality Air Tools.
With no charge for viewing the classic cars that will be parked on the closed-off Fayetteville Street, plus just $10 for admission to the Convention Center, this first-of-its-kind event is expected to attract thousands of attendees. Tickets can be purchased on site at the Raleigh Convention Center.
The festivities will culminate with an awards ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 22 at 1 p.m. on the Fayetteville Street Stage, with awards for Top 50, Sweet 16 and the Sir Walter Raleigh Cup.
“We’ve gotten great cooperation from the City of Raleigh, the Convention Center and automobile enthusiasts to make sure that everyone will have a good time,†said Greg Cox, one of the event’s organizers. “We hope this family-friendly event will become an annual tradition on the auto show circuit.â€
Raleigh Wide Open Announces Music Acts
The fifth edition of
Raleigh Wide Open
is just two weeks away, and it looks like the committee has put together a fun-filled afternoon of entertainment. Hopefully the weather will cooperate this year.
As before the even takes place on Fayetteville Street, from the Capitol to the Marriott. The street and all cross streets will be closed in order to facilitate four main music stages (Cherry Bounce, World, Raleigh Rocks, Free Spirit), as well as a beer tent and other entertainment venues and booths. Additionally the space in front of the convention center will be used as well as the new downtown Raleigh amphitheater.
My experience has been that the best place to park for the event is in the municipal parking deck at Morgan and McDowell. A short walk puts you right in the heart of the action. Other options are the parking garages lining Wilmington Street, but be sure to swing several blocks wide of the Fayetteville Street axis in order to avoid stagnant traffic and pedestrians.
The Raleigh Wide Open crew has once again put together a very nice flyer (.pdf) which includes a map of the RWO territory as well as a schedule of the day’s events. Gogoraleigh adds to that experience, however, by publishing this calendar to Google Calendar. Simply subscribe to the Raleigh Wide Open Calendar or just add events that interest you to your personal Google Calendar by clicking on the calendar link, selecting “Agenda†in the upper right, then selecting the desired events.
We recently went to Taste of Chicago and Milwaukee’s Summerfest, both events with rolling musical events at different stages throughout the days. Each even had its own iPhone app, and it made the event much more fun to select events beforehand and let the app plan the day for us. While this isn’t a dedicated app, it still affords you the chance to add events to your calendar and turn on notifications to remind you of them as they approach!
Here is the RWO schedule:
11:00 am –
Parade down Fayetteville Street
From Morgan through the City Plaza with marching bands, floats, and local celebrities!
Noon –
Festival Opens
Food and art vendors, street performers, 4 stages throughout Fayetteville Street
RebBull Motocross Mayhem with Geoff Aaron
Fayetteville Street between Hargett and Morgan St. Performance times are 2:45; 5:00; 7:15
(add according to time)
King BMX Stunt Show
Salisbury Street in front of RCC. Performance times are 1:30; 3:30; 5:00
Cherry Bounce Wrestling
Hargett and Fayetteville St. Performance times are 5:15 and 7:30
Fire Circus
Flames and high flyers set City Plaza ablaze. Performance times are 8pm and 10pm
Eating Contests
*Free Spirit Stage. Krispy Kreme Donuts at 3:00; Lumpy’s Ice Cream at 5:00
Cherry Bounce Stage
- Jews & Catholics 12:30-1:15pm
- Cherry Bounce SPECIAL Guest 1:45-2:30
- North Elementary 3:00-3:45
- Lake Inferior 4:15 – 5:00pm
- I Was Totally Destroying It 6:00-7:00
- Bomba Estereo 8:15-9:15
- Javelin 9:45 – 10:45pm
World Stage
- Crucial Fiya (reggae) 12:15 -1:45pm
- Shana Tucker Trio (soul) 2:15 – 3:30pm
- Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos (blues / americana) 4:00pm – 5:00pm
- The Barn Burners (country) 5:30 – 7:00pm
- Old Habits (bluegrass) 7:30 – 8:45pm
- Rubberband (funk / hip hop covers) 9:15 – 10:45pm
Raleigh Rocks Stage
- Adam Pitts and the Pseudo Cowboys 12:30 – 1:15pm
- Will McBride Group 1:45 – 2:30pm
- Big Mama E & the Cool 3:00 – 3:45pm
- Wax Planet 4:15 – 5:00pm
- Sleep Control 5:30 – 6:15pm
- Airiel Down 6:45 – 7:30pm
- Design 8:00 – 9:00pm
- Nigthshift 9:30 – 10:30pm
Free Spirit Stage
- Kappa Xi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi (stepping) 12:15 to 12:30
- D.LIV(E) (spoken word/hip-hop) 12:45 to 1:05
- Schizophrenic Octopus (breakdancing) 1:30 to 2:00
- Sabrosa (spoken word/hip-hop) 2:15 to 2:35
- Krispy Kreme Donuts (Eating Contest) 3:00 to 3:30
- Spotlight Creative Studios (Bollywood Dance) 3:45 to 4:00
- Dasan Ahanu (spoken word) 4:15 to 4:45
- Lumpy’s Ice Cream (eating contest) 5:00 to 5:30
Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater
Barenaked Ladies 9:15 – 10:45pm (ticketed event through www.LiveNation.com and also avalable at the Amphitheater box ofice.)
10:45pm – Fireworks
Note: I will repost this on Friday, July 30, as a reminder.
Triangle Modernist Houses Plans Fallingwater Trip
Going to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater has been the number one travel request from Triangle Modernist Houses fans for many months. So, they’ve put together a truly memorable, affordable weekend trip the weekend of September 18 featuring
Fallingwater
,
Kentuck Knob
, and the
Irving and Betty Abrams house
(by Robert Venturi) in Pittsburgh.
The trip will feature Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, one of the best-known and loved houses in the world, as few get to see it; a full guided tour with photography privileges, finished off with a sunset wine and cheese reception. How cool is that?
Tickets are still available and include flight, hotel, admissions, and transportation (including wifi on the tour bus). Details and signup is here .
Time to Help Mo
One of our favorite restaurants in Raleigh is
Mo’s Diner
. Back when the restaurant opened, Hamid and Holly were urban pioneers. They invested their livelihood into a little house at Moore Square, and it turned out to be one of the best restaurants in the Triangle.
The restaurant is still great as ever, but unfortunately Hamid is having health troubles and needs our help. Holly and Mo are not the types of people who want a ton of attention, but if someone’s biggest regret were that too many people loved them, they’d be the richest person in history. Like it or not, y’all 😉 , here is the letter the restaurant’s staff sent to fans yesterday, and information about the ways we can all help (in addition to eating at the restaurant, of course).
Dear friends,
On behalf of Hamid and Holly, we, Vanessa, Kenneth, Jim, Chris, Stan, Cecilia, and Maria, the staff at Mo’s Diner, want to extend our great appreciation for your patronage over the last thirteen years. We are writing this letter to inform you of some very sad news. Hamid has been diagnosed with Stage IV Lung Cancer. It has spread to his spine, and most other bones in his body. He has not worked at the restaurant in some time, and he has been going to medical appointments daily to deal with his situation. Holly has been cooking, managing the restaurant, and accompanying Hamid to all of his appointments. In addition, Holly has been working a second job which provides health insurance. To make matters more difficult, the health insurance for Hamid’s illness has capped, and all of the medical bills are now being paid out of pocket.
We are launching a series of benefits for Hamid to assist in paying his mounting medical bills. We humbly ask that you join us in this endeavor through donations, attendance at the events, and any other means of assistance which you deem appropriate. With the help of Capital Bank, we have set up an account, Friends For Hamid, to manage any funds received for this cause. If you can not attend an event and want to donate, you can send a contribution to Mo’s Diner c/o Friends for Hamid.
We have set up several sites to inform you about the upcoming events:
If you wish to send a comment to Hamid, inquire about the events, donate, or offer your thoughts about other things we can do for this cause, please send us an e-mail.
With some convincing, Holly allowed us to use this e-mail database to send you this message. We felt that sending it through the database of the patrons of Mo’s, it would reach the most people familiar with Mo’s and Hamid and Holly. Again, thank you for dining at Mo’s for all of these years. We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming events.
With our kindest regards and appreciation,
Vanessa Smith
Kenneth Strothers
Jim Knott
Chris Adams
Stan Krepps
Cecilia Flores
Maria Lopez
Below, are the events we have planned to date. Other events will be announced later.
-
Thursday, July 22 @ 9:00 pm
Table for a Friend featuring DJ Robert Mooney
$10.00 donation at the door
Five Star Restaurant
511 W. Hargett St.
Come join us for appetizers, great music and maybe a little dancing.
-
Sunday August 1 @ 6:30 pm
Wine Dinner
$100.00 donation
Poole’s Diner
426 S. McDowell St.
creative, simple offerings carefully executed by Ashley Christensen
-
Sunday August 15th
Mo’s Better Benefit
Pour House Music Hall
224 S Blount St
Rock Show by Raleigh’s Local Musicians
-
Sunday August 29th
Guest Chefs Benefit Dinner
$150.00
Mo’s Diner
306 E. Hargett St.
Ashley Christensen, William D’Auvray, Bret Jennings, Matt Kelly & Walter Royal
-
Sunday September 26th
Art & Music Reception
Flander’s Art Gallery
Art, Hor d’oeuvres & Live Acoustical Music
302 S. West St
-
Oct (to be announced)
Silent Auction
18 Seaboard, Suite 100
Appetizer buffet, silent auction & live music
Charlatans UK Coming to Cat’s Cradle
On Wednesday, September 8, the
Charlatans UK
will play the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro.
Tickets go onsale
tomorrow (7/16).
MGMT Coming to Memorial Auditorium
On Wednesday, November 3,
MGMT
will come to Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am.
Cary, Chapel Hill Make Small Town List
Money Magazine has released its best small towns list, and two triangle towns are in the Top 40. Chapel Hill comes in at 40, and Cary ranks #23.
The results are interesting. Living in Chapel Hill is a distinct experience. All residents definitely feel the center of the town, the Franklin Street/Carr Mill axis. However Cary feels more like a series of subdivisions and strip shopping centers. Cary certainly feels different than Chapel Hill and North Raleigh, but does Cary really have a distinct vibe, or is it just a coincidental collection of new developments in Triangle, USA?
Hopscotch Announces Lineup
The Hopscotch Music Festival is slated for the second weekend in September, and it looks like
a fantastic collection of 120 indie acts that will be playing throughout downtown that weekend
. I can’t put it any better than their press announcement:
Hopscotch Music Festival Announces Schedule for September 9-11, 2010
“A promising new festival … bound to embody its name†— The New York Times
The Independent Weekly ’s Hopscotch Music Festival, taking place in downtown Raleigh, NC on September 9 – 11, announces its inaugural schedule. Please visit the website for schedule and ticket info: http://hopscotchmusicfest.com/schedule/?info/schedule/
With 120 bands in 10 venues over three days, Hopscotch’s schedule reflects the festival’s goal of highlighting the Triangle music scene by pairing diverse, well-known national and international artists with a multitude of excellent local bands. Raleigh psychedelic lords, Birds of Avalon , will join the visiting Akron/Family and Sleepy Sun on Thursday, Sept. 9, for instance, while renegade alt-country bands Lucero and American Aquarium play at Lincoln Theatre. Local hardcore heroes Double Negative will join Toronto’s Fucked Up at Berkeley Cafe on Friday, Sept. 10, supported by the menacing Harvey Milk and one of Raleigh’s best young bands, Whatever Brains . Meanwhile, Raekwon will be headlining a special show with Grammy-winning Durham producer 9th Wonder at the Lincoln Theatre.
On Saturday, Sept. 11, locals Megafaun host a seamless night of improvisation and song at Kings with songwriter Marissa Nadler, free jazz masters Jeb Bishop and Ned Rothenberg and electronic standard-bearers Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis . That same night, bands as diverse as Tortoise, Bear in Heaven, Dungen, Woods, Dex Romweber, Pontiak, Washed Out, Kylesa and Weedeater will fill eight other clubs in downtown Raleigh.
The festival will be headlined by two nights in Raleigh City Plaza, downtown’s crown jewel, which opened last fall. Indie rock giants Panda Bear and Broken Social Scene will headline Friday, Sept. 10, with support from Triangle favorites The Rosebuds . Hip-hop’s most legendary group, Public Enemy , will headline with a rare full-band set on Saturday, Sept. 11. Los Angeles trio No Age and Raleigh’s The Love Language will open. Advance single tickets are still available to purchase at http://hopscotchmusicfest.com/
The response to Hopscotch since its initial announcement has been overwhelming. The festival has already drawn mention from The New York Times , The News & Observer , Brooklyn Vegan, Pitchfork Media, Earfarm, Consequence of Sound, Tiny Mix Tapes and a host of others. VIP passes sold out for the festival in less than two weeks, and most of the festival’s $85 all-show wristbands are gone.
Complete Lineup
9th Wonder, Active Child, Actual Proof, Akron/Family, All Tiny Creatures, American Aquarium, Americans in France, Aminal, Aquarelle, Atlas Sound, The Away Team, Balmorhea, Bear in Heaven, Bellafea, Best Coast, Big Remo, Birds of Avalon, Black Congo NC, Bowerbirds, DJ George Brazil, Bright Young Things, Broken Social Scene, Brutal Knights, Richard Buckner, Burning Star Core, Cannabis Corpse, Caitlin Cary’s Small Ponds with Tres Chicas, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Cults, Greg Davis, Deakin, Dex Romweber Duo, Double Dagger, Double Negative, Dungen, The Dynamite Brothers, EAR PWR, ExMonkeys, First Rate People, Floating Action, Followed by Static, Ben Frost, Fucked Up, Future Islands, Golden Boys, The Golden Filter, Goner, Gray Young, Ryan Gustafson, Hammer No More the Fingers, Harlem, Harvey Milk, Horseback, John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff, In the Year of the Pig, I Was Totally Destroying It, Javelin, Jeb Bishop Trio, Juan Huevos, Kaze, K-Hill, Kill the Noise, The Kingsbury Manx, Kooley High, Kylesa, The Light Pines, Locrian, Lonnie Walker, The Love Language, Lucero, Luego, Max Indian, Erin McKeown, Megafaun, DJ Merlin, Midtown Dickens, The Moaners, The Monologue Bombs, Motor Skills, Mountains, Jon Mueller, Marissa Nadler, No Age, NOMO, Ocean, Old Bricks, Panda Bear, Pattern Is Movement, Pictureplane, Plague, Pontiak, Public Enemy, Raekwon, Rapsody, The Remix Project, The Rosebuds, Ned Rothenberg, DJ Sami Automatic, Schooner, Sightings, Sleepy Sun, spcl gst, Spider Bags, Thien, Tigercity, Tortoise, Treasure Fingers, Tyler Woods, US Christmas, Sharon Van Etten, Veelee, Vincent Black Shadow, War on Drugs, Washed Out, Weedeater, Wet Mango, Whatever Brains, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Woods, Yip-Yip.
Location
Hopscotch Music Festival is located entirely in downtown Raleigh, meaning all 10 venues are encompassed within a mere 8 block area. The participating venues include: The Berkeley Cafe, Deep South the Bar, Five Star, The Hive at Busy Bee, Kings, Lincoln Theatre, The Pour House, Raleigh City Plaza, Slim’s and Tir Na Nog.
Tickets
Admission for Hopscotch Music Festival is designed to suit a wide range of fans. Individual tickets for the shows in Raleigh City Plaza—on Friday, Sept. 10, featuring Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene and The Rosebuds; on Saturday, Sept. 11, featuring Public Enemy, No Age and The Love Language—cost $30 each. For $45, fans can buy a wristband that allows entry into all nine festival clubs for all three days. A limited number of $85 wristbands gain fans admission to both City Plaza shows and all clubs, saving $20 off of face value. VIP tickets are sold out.
In cooperation with cosponsor etix.com , Hopscotch Music Festival is offering wristbands and tickets to all fans with reduced service charges. To purchase tickets and wristbands, visit www.hopscotchmusicfest.com or www.etix.com .
About the Independent Weekly
Steve Schewel and David Birkhead, both longtime Durham, N.C., residents, dreamt of founding an alternative newspaper in the South during the early ’80s. In 1982, they hired the first editor and did just that, publishing the first issue in April 1983. In the 27 years since that debut, the Independent —or the Indy , as it’s often called — has helped change the state’s press coverage and political culture by influencing the mainstream media, pressuring political leaders and moving its readers to positive action.
The Independent has also served as a consistent and strident cultural critic in North Carolina for decades, regularly winning awards for its arts and music writing, not to mention its long legacy of award-winning news coverage.
Greg Lowenhagen has worked at The Independent Weekly since 2009; Grayson Currin has served as the paper’s Music Editor since 2006.
On The Web
Demetri Martin Coming to Memorial Auditorium
On September 11, deep-thinking funnyman Demetri Martin will play one show only at 8pm in Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium.
Tickets
go on sale Friday (7/9) at 10am.
WRAL Releases Widget
WRAL announced today
the release of a Yahoo! TV Widget. The small data application allows viewers to follow a WRAL data stream while watching a Yahoo! TV Widget-capable TV. The widget can be added by selecting it from the Widget Gallery.
Charlotte Light Rail is Today’s the Antiplanner Focus
One blog that discusses transit is the Antiplanner, where very few heavy rail projects pass the test. Today’s focus for the blog is Charlotte’s light rail service . The Antiplanner states that the Lynx system turned out to cost twice as much as projected, subsidizes 97% of the rider’s operating costs, and gave generous tax incentives for developers to simply shift development that was slated to happen regardless.
The article does not address how buses keyed into traffic signals along South Boulevard could have accomplished the same transit function during almost all periods during the year. Nor does it address the real estate value inflation for land convenient to Lynx line stops, making affordable living out of reach for many who could have benefited from a half-billion dollar taxpayer investment.
The article raises some good points. However Lynx has exceeded anticipated ridership numbers. The only question there is: were the numbers cooked to insure the investment’s “successâ€. More of a concern, though, is that the current Blue Line is only Phase I of a master plan that cannot be built with the system’s own funding. What’s next? Probably more sales pitches by government and transit officials to get taxpayers to expand a system which doesn’t even remotely come close to paying for itself…all in the name of “sustainable developmentâ€.
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