The Weekend Has Landed - February 5th

*Friday*

ArtSLAM @ LabourLove Gallery - The slam consists of three, 20 minute rounds. The audience contributes ideas, and one is randomly pulled from a hat. The artists create their best interpretation of the suggestion, and the artwork is auctioned off at the end of the night. This time they will be including an Iron Chef like “secret ingredient” for one round. 7pm/FREE.

Gil Scott-Heron @ Carolina Theatre - Poet, musician, spoken-word sage, Gil Scott-Heron was a man ahead of his time, who will make you open your eyes to the world around you. 8pm/$22.

Live Music @ Broad Street Cafe - RJ Adams at 8pm, Soulless Dogs at 10pm.

Peter Serkin @ Reynolds Industries Theater - This renowned pianist will be performing selections from Brahms, Debussy, György Kurtág, Charles Wuorinen, Bach, and Chopin. 8pm/$30.

Mama Juggs: Three Generations Healing Fractured Body Images @ Common Ground Theatre - A Princess Dragon Productions presentation. Written and performed by ‘rie Shontel, Mama Juggs is a powerful monologue in four parts about female body awareness. 8pm/$25. Tickets can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets, and here is the trailer:


Live Music @ Duke Coffeehouse - Toro y Moi, Dogbite. 9pm/$5.

Cyril Lance @ Papa Mojo's - Cyril Lance combines deep song writing and roots grooves with engaging and spontaneous improvisation that makes him at home in both the blues circuit and the jam band scene. 9:30pm/$8.

Organos CD Release @ The Pinhook - Ye Old Shoppe w/ members of Wild Wild Geese at 10pm, Birds and Arrows at 11pm, Organos at midnight.

*Saturday*

Solar Solutions for your Home @ Holton Career and Resource Center - Learn about hot water and solar heating options. Interactive workshop with local experts and agencies. 10:30am.

Princess Katie and Racer Steve @ The DPAC - Rock & roll for kids. Shows at 11:30am and 3:30pm. $10.

Orion String Quartet with Peter Serkin @ Reynolds Industries Theater - The program will include selections from Bach, Leon Kirchner, Beethoven, and Brahms. 8pm/$30.

FatMouth Improv @ Common Ground Theatre - Short and longform improv based on audience suggestions. 8pm/$8.

Live Music @ Broad Street Cafe - Davis Coen at 8pm, Old Avenue at 10pm.

Live Music @ Duke Coffeehouse - Caltrop, Death Came Down the Mountain, Hog. 9pm/$5.

Bobby Hinton @ Papa Mojo's - A regional icon, this legendary bluesman has delighted audiences around the globe for years, playing both original and standards with heart and finesse. 9:30pm/$8.

Live Music @ The Pinhook - BaroN at 10pm, The Back Pockets at 11pm, My Magesty in Oxygen at midnight.

*Sunday*

Family Day @ Nasher Museum - Celebrate exhibitions and explore faces in art with hands-on activities, a gallery hunt and more! Paul Miller of Flow Circus will perform a juggling and magic show in the Mary D.B.T. Semans Great Hall at 1pm and 2:30pm. Before, between and after the shows, Paul will perform roving close-up magic. Hands-on activities include silhouette self portraits, creative clay heads and a neon face mural. Activities are designed for kids ages 3-12 and their accompanying adults. All ages are welcome.12pm-4pm/FREE.

Claire Ramsey (storyteller) @ Broad Street Cafe - Claire Ramsey is Wake Forest, NC's premier storyteller and current president of the NC Storytelling Guild. Stories With Claire specializes in costumed characters and entertaining, educational stories for all ages. 4:30pm/FREE.

Caricature Exhibit Opens @ Nasher

Admission to the Nasher Museum of Art is free every Thursday, 5-9pm, and today will mark the opening of the new Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature exhibit. Also currently running is the Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids exhibit, which provides some insight into Warhol's creative process, and includes some paintings of the Nasher family themselves.

Tonight will also afford the opportunity to meet Chris Lamb, professor of communications, College of Charleston, and author of Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States. A reception will follow, and they will have a cash bar.

Visitors will also have the chance to react to the show on a webcam at the Free Speech Booth outside the gallery. Nasher will then publish the videos on their YouTube channel.

Thursday, February 4
10 AM Exhibition opens to the public,
"Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature"
5:30 PM Cash bar
6 PM Talk with Chris Lamb

IMAGE: Kevin KAL Kallaugher, "Florida," 2000. Pen, brush and india ink, 16 x 20 inches, Appeared in "The Economist," July 17, 2004.

PSA - Duke Performances Honoring Tickets from Saturday Night

Duke Performances is offering to exchange tickets from Saturday night's performance for upcoming shows due to the "winter event." Details:

Given such extreme weather conditions, we would like to honor tickets held by those of you that chose not to come out on Saturday. We are offering to exchange your tickets for either the LINES Ballet or Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for tickets to any of the following upcoming performances:

- Peter Serkin, piano -- February 5
- Miguel Zenon Esta Plena Septet -- February 11
- Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition -- February 12
- Ravi Coltrane Quartet -- February 13
- Dean & Britta - 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests" -- February 18
- Nora Chipaumire featuring Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited -- February 26 & 27
- Rafal Blechacz, piano -- March 5
- Farber Foundry - Molora Based on the Oresteia Trilogy -- March 20 & 21
- Kronos Quartet -- April 10
- Rosanne Cash + Mark O'Connor -- April 15
- Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Julian Rachlin, violin -- April 16

To claim your tickets, send an email with your name and the concert you'd like to attend and the number of tickets (the exchange is one ticket for one ticket) to tickets@duke.edu. Ticket exchange requests honored via email only.

The Weekend Has Landed - January 29th

Given the impending winter event, there may be a few cancellations or reschedules. Most notably, Wine Authorities' Pork and Pinot event has been moved out to February 6th. Updates as we receive them, will be posted to our twitter feed.

*Friday*

Save Our Arts Benefit Concert @ Trotter Building - This is an all-star line-up of local bands, including Hammer No More The Fingers, The Beast, Megafaun, Midtown Dickens, and Tea and Tempests. There will be a silent auction, and Triangle Brewing Company will be pouring their tasty brews. Best of all, proceeds go to the Central Park School for Children. 6pm/$10 suggested donation.

Live Music @ Broad Street Cafe - Mandolin Orange at 8pm, The Hummers at 10pm.

Transactors Improv Presents: City of Medicine @ Common Ground - The latest episode of their "completely improvised serial medical drama." 8pm/$12.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet, featuring Jason Moran's Bandwagon @ Reynolds Industries Theater - The first piece is King’s brawny, sinuous overhaul of Ballets Russes’ icon of dance modernism, Scheherazade — here in its American premiere. The second has Moran’s trio playing live, lighting up a score the pianist wrote for King’s troupe. Friday and Saturday at 8pm.

Live Music @ Duke Coffeehouse - Max Indian, Ryan Gustafson, Light Pines. 9pm/FREE.

Live Music @ The Pinhook - Fin Fang Foom at midnight, Free Electric State at 11pm, Gray Young at 10pm, deVries at 9pm.

Matt Walsh @ Papa Mojo's - Matt Walsh is hailed by Blues legends like Bob Margolin and Paul Oscher for his talent, original Blues and raw, intense performances. 9:30pm/$8.

*Saturday*

Live Music @ Broad Street Cafe - Mister Felix at 8pm, The Will McBride Group at 10pm.

Minor American Reading Series Listening Party @ THE SPACE - Featuring fiction author Brian Evenson, journalist/poet Brian Howe, and poet Jonathan Locke Hart, with music by Secret Boyfriend. 8pm/FREE.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Angela Hewitt & Christopher Taylor @ Page Auditorium - Conducted by the musicians themselves, the 20-piece Orpheus is an experiment in radical democracy that is also among the finest orchestras on earth, turning out collaborative art that joins visceral energy with keen interpretive balance. 8pm/$25.

FATE presents an evening of short plays by local playwrights @ Common Ground - Get familiar with some of the Triangle’s most loved and prolific writers, and their works. The pieces will be staged by several directors, and read by some of your favorite local actors. 8pm/$5.

Willie Painter Band @ Papa Mojo's - Playing a mix of blues with a nod towards swinging jazz and an eclectic selection of rock tunes, the Willie Painter Band consists of four veterans of the Triangle music scene that are known for consistently delivering inspiring and electrifying performances. 9:30pm/$8.

Live Music @ The Pinhook - Duncan of Hammer No More The Fingers at 1am, Veelee at midnight, Gary B and the Notions at 11pm, Imperial China at 10pm.

*Sunday*

Have a Heart Valentine Wine Tasting @ Rigsbee Hall - Independent Animal Rescue invites animal and wine lovers to enjoy phenomenal wines, fantastic food, and funky music while perusing and bidding on truly unique silent auction items. This year's tasting event will explore notable artisan wines of the south of France including wines from the Rhone, Provence, Languedoc, the Southwest, and Roussillon. Additional wines from around the globe will be available by the glass. 100% of Have a Heart profits will aid in the rescue and care of homeless, abandoned, and abused animals. Tax-deductible tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. 3pm-7pm.

Henry Vogel (storyteller) @ Broad Street Cafe - He has performed as a regional teller at the Wake County, Vance County and Oxford Storytelling Festivals. He has also performed at local schools, the Storytelling Bookstore and at Halloween festivals held by the city of Burlington and Harris Lake County Park. 4:30pm/FREE.

The Weekend Has Landed - January 22nd

SPENDY Productions presents the Strange Beauty Film Festival @ Manbites Dog Theatre - A new festival showcasing adventurous and striking short films from around the world, including fiction, documentaries, experimental, and wholly unclassifiable works. Presented in three program blocks over two days.

Hoof 'n' Horn Presents: REEFER MADNESS @ Sheafer Lab Theater - In a high school classroom, The Lecturer tells the assembly of anxious parents about the evils of marijuana. Jimmy Harper is a fine upstanding youth, blessed with the love of the fair Mary Lane. However, across town, the weed-pusher Jack, his moll Mae, and his cronies, Sally and Ralph, are living in the depths of depravity, and they are waiting to lure young Jimmy into their clutches. A single encounter with "The Demon Weed" is all it will take to send Jimmy to incredible "heights".

*Friday*

An Evening With Vince Gill @ The DPAC - Nineteen-time Grammy winning country musician Vince Gill. 8pm.

Live Music @ Broad Street Cafe - Jon Shain Trio w/ The Grandsons and special guests The Gravy Boys. 8pm/$10.

Anton Kuerti @ Reynolds Industries Theater - Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 81a, “Les Adieux”; Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”; 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli in C Major, Op. 120. 8pm/$30.

Beer and Comedy @ Carolina Theatre - Help raise money for the Carolina Theatre, taste beautifully-matched chocolate and beer pairings and enjoy a performance by Steven Wright, one of America's favorite comedians.

Tad Walters @ Papa Mojo's - Tad is a bluesman who has honed his skills as a guitarist, bassist, harp player and vocalist. Backed by TA James (bass) and Kelly Pace (drums). 9:30pm/$8.

Live Music @ The Pinhook - Honcho at 10pm, How I Became the Bomb at 11pm, The Huguenots at midnight.

*Saturday*

The Solstace Project @ The Hat Lounge - Live jazz from 2-4pm, and a raffle for a free fedora.

LabourLove Art Party @ Golden Belt - An adult art class for beginners! Kelly Dew will show you some of her tricks for mixed media painting in a relaxed atmosphere with a glass of wine to break the ice. Great appetizers and a cash bar will be available from Triangle Catering. 6pm/$20.

Benefit for Girls Rock! NC @ Duke Coffeehouse - Scientific Superstar at 8pm, Princess and the Criminals at 9pm, Heart of Glass at 10pm. $5 suggested donation.

Live Music @ BCHQ - My Majesty in Oxygen, Tunnels Under the Citadel, Elfowl and Last Years Men. 8pm/$5 suggested donation.

Karaoke for Cy @ Bull McCabe's - $5 per song, which gets donated through Cy Rawls Has A Posse to the Tisch Brain Cancer Center. 8pm.

Luciana Souza with Cyro Baptista & Romero Lubambo @ Reynolds Industries Theater - Returning to Duke after an entrancing 2008 show, Souza’s piercing, crystalline vocals are backed by Baptista, who’s cut percussion for David Byrne and Yo-Yo Ma, and Lubambo, who by now needs no introduction. 8pm/$24.

The Four Bitchin’ Babes present Hormonal Imbalance™ @ Carolina Theatre - Performing original songs and stories, the Babes offer both poignant views and unbridled comedic commentary on the joys and dilemmas of everyday life. Enjoy an entertaining evening with these outrageously funny and multi-talented musician galpals as they examine and celebrate the lives of ordinary men and women in our quest for balance. 8pm/$28.

Mel Melton & Wicked Mojos @ Papa Mojo's - Mel Melton is one classic blues harmonica musician who is known for his rare & impeccable Zydeco & Cajun song writing. 9:30pm/$10.

Live Music @ Broad Street Cafe - Mysti Mayhem at 8pm, Bleumatics at 10pm.

Ta Ta to the Tatas Benefit for Colin Mauger @ The Pinhook - Up and Down Escalator at 10:30pm, Beloved Binge at 11:30pm, River City Ransom at 12:30pm.

*Sunday*

Dine Out For Haiti - Indulge in your favorite food with good conscience! This Sunday (or Monday), several area restaurants are donating 10% of their proceeds to the relief efforts in Haiti, either through the remarkable organization Partners in Health or the inspirational, locally-run Family Health Ministries. Eat out, enjoy, and contribute to a worthy cause!