Meating Our Needs
A year and a half ago Cary was the next recipient of a site for The Meat House, a butcher shop chain out of the Northeast. The store features and excellent butcher counter, sliced Boar’s Head meats, a small, but high quality grocery area, and prepared foods and sauces from local sources.
While the meat counter is excellent and the store offers some of those more difficult to find meats, that isn’t the subject of this review. At hand is the excellent selection of convenience meats.
At any time The Meat House has around 25 marinated/prepared meat selections; all of which are excellent. Our favorite is the Burgundy-marinated Beef Tips. The sweet, wine marinate tends to form a sweet crust on the grill, and the final product is phenomenal. Also excellent are the Meat House Marinated Beef Tips.
Beef items aren’t the only offering, though. The Meat House Marinated chicken breasts, Cilantro-Lime marinated turkey tips, and the Sun-dried tomato marinated chicken breasts are all excellent. One of my favorite poultry offerings has not been available lately, however: OuttaThePark-marinated chicken wings.
Often we will get meats (around 0.4 lbs/person), a rice or risotto kit, and salad items on a weeknight, and throw together a quick, easy meal. The total cost ends up being around $5 per person.
This Summer a new Meat House will open in Chapel Hill, in the former Applebee’s location across from the Hotel Siena. This probably won’t pose a big threat to Cliff’s Meat Market in Carrboro, but stands to but seriously into the Fresh Market and Harris Teeter businesses in East Chapel Hill. Whole Foods is only a block away, however that store is somewhat of a religious icon to many vegetarians in Chapel Hill, and the presence of The Meat House will not faze them.
The newest Meat House, however, is at Raleigh’s Quail Corners. Just like the Cary location, the Raleigh location has been an instant success. Thankfully we have an alternative to Whole Foods, Harris Teeter, and The Fresh Market; and just in time for Spring.
New Doo An Unfortunate Choice
Recently WRAL was on Twitter pimping the new hairdo for one of their top anchors, Debra Morgan. I am a fan of Debra Morgan, however with that said, what in the world did she do to her hairdresser to deserve THIS? Morgan has always sported a
blonde bob
and other variations (
1
,
2
) but now it seems that things have gotten out of control. The color is maxed out and the shape isn’t flattering at all.
Was this a move to try to get her from cutesy/perky realm to FoxNews Hot? If so, that isn’t what Debra Morgan is about. She’s too good for this.
Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald Coming to Cary
They came from somewhere back in our long-ago, and they are coming to Cary. On Friday, July 15, Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald will play Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre.
Public tickets
go on sale tomorrow morning at 10, so the presale going on right now is probably screwing you. Thanks, Ticketmaster!
American Idol Live Coming to RBC Center
You’ve spent two nights a week watching them this year, and on Wednesday, July 27, Raleigh will get a chance to welcome the
American Idols
, including Garner’s own, Scotty McCreery. The Top 11 contestants will perform a variety of solos and combo songs in what will certainly be a sold-out arena show. The lineup includes: Casey Abrams, Haley Reinhart, Jacob Lusk, James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Naima Adedapo, Paul McDonald, Pia Toscano, Scotty McCreery, Stefano Langone, and Thia Megia. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, May 13 at 10am. This event will sell out, and it will behoove readers to seek a presale event during the week.
Death Cab for Cary
On Monday, August 8,
Death Cab for Cutie
will be returning to the area. This time the concert is at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. The band will be supporting their new CD, “Codes and Keys”, which hits stores on May 31.
Frightened Rabbit
opens.
Horner Foundation Continues of Honors for Roads Less Taken
1987 Sanderson graduate Paul Horner was killed nine years ago while paddling the Oyacachi River in Ecuador. From American Whitewater Magazine:
In all regards Paul was a tough act to follow, and leaves behind a soulful legacy of discernment. He despised television and fast food, never listened to commercial radio, and was generally suspicious of the corporate world, but was never self-righteous or prudish. He basically loved to challenge himself, and found every aspect of life worth examining. Descending rivers with close friends became a spiritual calling and a pursuit that he found to be true. His death is not to be compared with those of the inexperienced or the foolish, nor was it the result of a dreadful miscalculation brought on by a driving ego. Paul was simply pursuing his dream and it delivered him to this place, a beautiful jungle river in rural South America and the company of friends. A hero’s death.
Sanderson students the mid 80’s knew and liked Paul, though he really came out of his shell at UNC. Just before beginning college, I got to know Paul through family friends. Before long it seemed that everywhere I turned, a friend of mine knew him. He had a funny dichotomy of a quiet manner, yet very talkative when the right button got pushed.
Paul’s family and friends have started the Paul Horner Foundation . It aims to further the spirit of Paul by identifying and nurturing a Wake County public school student each year who wishes to engage in an unusual endeavor which might not necessarily be encouraged by his peers or the society around him. The Foundation believes it important to support young people who pursue uncommon goals in a spirit of kindness and individuality. The Foundation will fund a full scholarship to allow this young person, via a summer experience, to pursue an uncommon dream and thereby inspire those around him.
The application deadline for this year’s experience is April 30.
Cree Flashlight is Today’s Woot!
Today’s Woot! deal
is a Cree LED flashlight for just $5. Cree, the world leader in LED lighting technology, is based in RTP.
John Butler, Gomez Coming to Lincoln
On Wednesday, July 20, the
John Butler Trio
will be playing at the
Lincoln Theatre
.
Gomez
opens.
Here Comes Hopscotch
Last year’s inaugural
Hopscotch Music Festival
was a booming success, showcasing some of the nation’s best up-and-coming indie artists during a three-day stretch across downtown Raleigh. The excitement continued to grow during the Winter as Hopscotch organizers planned their sophomore event (September 8, 9, 10). Last night the official lineup was announced , and it appears the gang is picking up right where they left off last year.
The Flaming Lips and Guided By Voices will carry headlining shows, however other great bands such as Drive-By-Truckers, Superchunk, The Dodos, Japandroids, J Mascis, John Vanderclice, Bandway, and many, many, many more!
Some fantastic ticket packages are now available (all show pass tiers will sell out, so don’t delay).
- VIP – 3-day pass includes admission to all club shows, both headlining nights at City Plaza, exclusive VIP entrance to the shows, and admission to the VIP opening night reception. $155
- All-Show – 3-day pass includes admission to all club and headlining shows. $105
- All-Club – 3-day pass includes admission to all club shows. $65
- City Plaza Friday – includes admission only to the City Plaza Friday show (Guided By Voices, Drive-By Truckers, The Dodos). $32
- City Plaza Saturday – includes admission only to the City Plaza Saturday show (The Flaming Lips, Superchunk, The Light Pines). $34
There will be smartphone apps for the event, and gogoraleigh will, as always, create a special Google Calendar for the events including set times, locations, links to maps of the location, and links to the artists websites.
Here is the full lineup of bands:
Gogo’s TWC Channel Guide Shows You Where the Damned Channel Is
How many times has someone said something like: “Watch this show. It’s on Bravo.” or “the game is on CBS College.” Where the hell are those channels? You flip through a hundred pages of guide data and still can’t find the damned show!
Sweet relief is here now with the alphabetical Time Warner Cable channel guide from gogoraleigh. Print the PDF as a 2-sided document, fold it in half, and you have a neat little half-page alphabetical listing of the more than 350 networks included in Time Warner’s service. Remember that SD channels are those under 1000 and HD channels are 1000 and above.
Rockstar Energy Festival Coming to TWC
The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival is coming to Walnut Creek on Wednesday, August 3. The Raleigh date features these great acts.
JAGERMEISTER STAGE
:
Jager Band – 1:45
Red Fang – 2:35
Kingdom of Sorrow – 3:35
Unearth – 4:35
Trivium – 5:40
EXTREME STAGE
:
Straight Line Stitch – 2:05
All Shall Perish – 3:05
Suicide Silence – 4:05
Machinehead – 5:05
ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAIN STAGE:
In Flames – 6:25
Megadeth – 7:15
Godsmack – 8:30
Disturbed – 9:55
Tickets are on sale now. No word yet about family discounts for this show.
KE$HA Coming to The Walt
On Tuesday, August 9,
KE$HA
will bring the “Get $leazy Tour” to the downtown Raleigh amphitheater. The
Citi presale
is currently running.
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