Fun Week Ahead for Raleigh
There is plenty to do in Raleigh this week. Let’s start with sports, where the pervasive question is: Can anyone in West Raleigh win . Tonight Sidney Lowe’s Wolfpack will take a stab at it. The preseason pick for the ACC cellar begins the season tonight against Georgia State. The 2010 season will be an experiment of the “addition by subtraction” paradigm, as the Pack lost much of their scoring as well as the bad attitude left in the cupboard when Lowe came on board.
Both UNC and NCSU football will host ACC foes with possible bowl bids on the line. NCSU hosts Clemson in the “Textile Bowl” at Noon Saturday and UNC hosts the long-bombing Miami Hurricanes at 3:30 Saturday.
And then there were those Hurricanes of Carolina. Winless in their last 13 games , the squad hangs their hopes on none other than Friday the 13th to break the darkest stretch in the franchise’s history. The Canes will also host the Minnesota Wild in a rare matinee game on Sunday at the RBC Center.
Sunday is also the day for the Old Reliable Run, and the weather looks nearly perfect for the event. Late in the afternoon, UNC basketball finishes out the weekend hosting Valpo at the Smith Center.
Friday night will be a busy one on the music front. In Durham Steve Miller will be playing at the DPAC while The Cult will be rocking our heads off at the Lincoln Theatre. Also that night, the Travelin’ McCourys will be at Fletcher Opera Theater. On Saturday Dan Auerbach is at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro. In the theater the Beatles show Rain starts its week-long run at Memorial Auditorium.
If none of that floats your boat in this wet weather, then perhaps a swing through North Hills on Saturday’s glorious morning will do it for you. That’s when the year’s final Midtown Farmers Market will be going on.
For more on these and other events, consult the Gogoraleigh DoIt Calendar . There is a lot to do, so let’s go DO IT!
Harlem Globetrotters Coming to RBC Center
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On Friday, March 5, the Harlem Globetrotters will once again display their magic at the RBC Center.
Art Museum Sets Opening Date
The North Carolina Museum of Art has officially set the date for the opening of its new, 127,000 square foot
package of butter sticks
museum. As expected April 24 is the big date for its opening. The current building is being renovated to house special exhibitions, an expanded box office, and facilities for NCMA’s family and public programs.
Tim McGraw Coming to TWC Pavilion
What are you doing on August 14? What? You don’t have the next 282 days’ schedules fresh in your mind? Tim McGraw knows what he’ll be doing. He’ll be at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek.
WRDU Moving to Conservative Talk
Today TBJ is reporting that WPTF has “lost the contract” to carry the Rush Limbaugh program beyond December 31. Because Curtis Media also owns 101.1 FM and 850 AM, the show will not be going to either of those stations, given the “lost” language. Speculation is that ClearChannel is getting ready to convert one of its FM stations, like 93.9 or 106.1 to talk radio, most likely conservative talk. Clearchannel did recently launch www.rushradio945.com for its new format coming (January 1) on a Greensboro station, so it makes it interesting that Curtis Media has bought the URL www.rushradio1061.com , most likely in a blocking move since ClearChannel, not Curtis owns 106.1.
NOTE: 11/3/2009 – this move was, indeed announced late Monday afternoon . WRDU will carry Glenn Beck at 9am, Rush Limbaugh at Noon, and Sean Hannity at 3pm.
(Please feel free to comment, but spare us pro/anti-Rush rhetoric . The point of the post is the impact on local radio.)
LEGO Mini Build Coming Tuesday
Well, it seems that
one
store in Crabtree hasn’t forgotten about Thanksgiving! LEGO will be holding their Monthly Mini Build on Tuesday at 5pm. This month’s project is a Thanksgiving turkey. This looks like about a 20-piece project that the kids will love assembling.
Sports Radio Shakeup Begins Monday
Triangle sports radio enters a new era tomorrow. Capital Broadcasting will run sports radio on two signals, 99.9FM The Fan and 620AM The Buzz, mixing local and syndicated shows. To corral all of the coverage, a new website for the stations has launched, ESPNTriangle.com . Here are the two stations’ typical weekday schedules:
|
99.9 The Fan |
|
| 6am – 10am | Mike & Mike |
| 10am – Noon | The Herd with Colin Cowherd |
| Noon – 3pm | David Glenn |
| 3pm – 7pm | Mark & Mike – The Insiders |
|
620 The Buzz |
|
| 6am – 9am | Adam Gold & Joe Ovies |
| 9am – Noon | Dan Patrick |
| Noon – 2pm | Jim Rome |
| 2pm – 4pm | The Scott Van Pelt Show |
| 4pm – 7pm | Primetime with the Packman |
Frightmare Chills Downtown
One of the big haunted house operations this year is
The Frightmare
. It is located in Raleigh Bonded Warehouse on Capital Blvd, and features a 13,000 square foot maze in Chromodepth 3-D. The house reopens tonight and runs through Sunday. See
Goodnight Raleigh’s photos
for more info.
Doo Wop Show Coming to Memorial
On Valentine’s Day, Broadway Series South welcomes a doo wop show to Memorial Auditorium. Artists scheduled to perform are Herb Reed’s Platters, The Tams, Harold Winley’s Glovers, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, and Johnny Thunder. Tickets are on sale and range from $25 to $55.
Solid Week Lies Ahead in Raleigh
Of course, Saturday night is Halloween, but after a head-spinning month, we finally get a week here in Raleigh that is only moderately busy. Let’s start with sports. The not-so-scary Carolina Hurricanes, currently on pace to a 57-point season, face the St. Louis Blues in the RBC Center Wednesday night. They will also host San Jose on Sunday. There is no college Div-I football in the area this weekend.
Daylight Savings Time ends late on Saturday night. That extra hour of sleep will come in handy for those wanting to run in the City of Oaks Marathon on Sunday morning.
There is some music going around. On Wednesday, Roger Daltrey plays the DPAC. On Friday evening, Zydecopius plays Seaboard Station while later that night, one of the greatest guitar players to come out of the southeast, Rick Miller, takes the stage when Southern Culture on the Skids plays the Berkeley Cafe.
In the Fletcher Theater, the Picasso Ballet continues its run while South Pacific opens on Tuesday night at Memorial Auditorium. Charlie Goodnights hosts Broken Lizard Live this weekend.
Wednesday marks the last Moore Square Farmers Market of the year, so enjoy it while you can. If you can’t, don’t worry, because Trader Joe’s opens on Friday.
Well, that’s about it. Enjoy the week because there aren’t too many overwhelming choices to make; just that much easier to get out there and DO IT!
Squirrel Nut Zippers Playing Lincoln Theatre
Raleigh’s
Lincoln Theatre
marks the spot for the
Squirrel Nut Zippers’
triumphant return to Raleigh. They are touring in support of the release of their new album yesterday,
Lost At Sea
. The show is on Friday, December 18 (the same night the Connells are playing at the Pour House).
Lincoln Theatre Converting To Club, Serving Liquor
Today the Lincoln Theatre announced that, by popular request, they will be serving liquor in the near future. In order to satisfy ALE liquor laws, they must become a private club. They are extending free memberships to their email list readers. For more information, visit the Lincoln Theatre website .
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