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The Biscuit Burners bring a taste of bluegrass to Durham
The Biscuit Burners are hard core. Not their music -- that's more bluegrass. What's hard core is their effort to keep performing. On Monday, band members were under the weather but will still perform Saturday at the Soul Cafe in Durham. They had just performed at the Kennedy Center and were resting up in D.C. When band member Mary Lucey was pregnant, she kept on playing even through the night she was due.

Indigo Girl Amy Ray going solo in Carrboro
There are two musical sides to Amy Ray. There's the Indigo Girl, the half of the acoustic female duo the Indigo Girls, going on 20 years now. Then there's the rocker side of Ray, the plugged-in side, the solo side. That's the side that's coming to Cat's Cradle in Carrboro to perform Wednesday night. She's been there several times before and said it's one of her favorite venues in the world.


Greenberg column

The wonderful eye of Nellie Ashford Rawls
Stark images through a layer of tobacco dust
'Expressions' features the best in their medium
Real, but intangible, statements at Branch
Art Guild holds 54th Annual Juried Art Show
Barron column

Mountain biking helps Durham youth stay focused
Bowling column

The wonders of the human body
Diaz column

Healing from shin splints takes time
Mauer column

Fudging the calorie counting
Ray column

'That Nace Show' awards gala catered to TV nostalgia
Van Vleck column

Contagious Blues Band injects Southern Rock into the mix





40 years of music and Hillman is still on the road
The Byrds. Desert Rose Band. Flying Burrito Brothers. Manassas. Chris Hillman -- a songwriter who plays guitar and mandolin -- has more than 40 years of music behind him on a musical road he's still traveling. He performs with fellow Desert Rose alum Herb Pedersen Thursday at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro.

Parizäde hosts vegetarian feast
The Triangle Vegetarian Society will hold its annual Thanksgiving feast and raffle at Cafe Parizäde in Durham on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, from noon through 5 p.m.

FOOD BRIEFS

Books: One of the last great Renaissance men
"The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson" Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd

Books roundup: Whittling history down to 12 chapters
Maybe you already are interested in history. If (like me) you are among that group, then you will find "The Mental Floss History of the World" (subtitled "An Irreverent Romp through Civilization's Best Bits") a refreshing take on what you learned in world and modern history, but likely have forgotten.

New center rolls out red carpet
DURHAM -- Visitors walking in the American Tobacco District early Wednesday could see construction work on the Blackwell Street side of the Durham Performing Arts Center. Workers are still preparing the ground for the Jim Goodmon Plaza, which will be a green space when the new arts center opens Nov. 30.

TRI LIVE BRIEFS
Rubino on 'Bookwatch'
Benefit concert on Monday
'Taking a Stand' at Hayti center
Composers to present works
Smaller-scale music at Duke
Pianist to give concert, class

New parent bag more than just freebies
It costs an average of $9,000 to $11,000 to feed, house and clothe a new baby during the first year. With the economy faltering and families struggling, freebies might not pull us out of financial crisis, but they can boost morale. After all, who doesn't like a free gift?

Comedian Robin Williams sets DPAC visit
DURHAM -- Comedian Robin Williams will appear at the new Durham Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. March 13, the DPAC announced late Monday.

Yes, those are handprints on that cheese ball
"I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence" By Amy Sedaris

Bluegrass Experience together again with a side of 'cue
Bluegrass guitarist Tommy Edwards and Southern studies scholar John Shelton Reed will get together today for a mix of two regional traditions -- bluegrass music and North Carolina barbecue.

Legendary jazz innovator Ornette Coleman coming to UNC
Composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who will perform Thursday at Memorial Hall at UNC, is one of those creators who helped transform jazz in the post-World War II era into American high art. Now an elder statesman of the music (and Pulitzer Prize recipient for his 2006 recording "Sound Grammar"), Coleman has always tried to step to the music he hears, to paraphrase Thoreau, another American who tried to go outside of previously established ways and rules. Coleman's approach to harmony, melody and improvisation sparked controversy and discussion among critics and musicians -- at least around the early 1960s when his first recordings became public.

BOOKS BRIEFS
Flora to discuss Hemingway
Cantwell to read essays
'Carol' writer at Main Library

Plensa sculpture to be unveiled at DPAC opening Dec. 1
DURHAM -- The public can see the inaugural lighting of Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's installation titled "Bridge to the Sky" as part of the open house ceremonies for the new Durham Performing Arts Center. The free public ceremony and ribbon-cutting are Dec. 1.





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