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State High School Basketball Championships

by Patty Griffin | February 23 2010

The North Carolina High School Basketball Championships return to the Dean Smith Center on the UNC Campus on March 13. The Smith Center will host the 1-A and 3-A classifications. Games are tentatively scheduled for Noon, 2:30 pm, 5pm and 7:30pm. The order at this point is 1-A women, 1-A men, 3-A women and then 3-A men.

The following hotels are offering special rates for the championships: Courtyard by Marriott, Days Inn, The Franklin Hotel, Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn Chapel Hill, Residence Inn by Marriott, Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel, The Siena Hotel.

It’s not too early to make your travel plans.

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PlayMaker’s Repertory Performs Oscar Wilde Play

by Patty Griffin | February 15 2010

The most enduringly popular of Wilde’s plays, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” is hailed as one of the funniest comedies in the English language. Wicked wit and dead-on social satire are wrapped in a Victorian confection of dual identities, matters matrimonial and the provenance of a particularly pertinent handbag.

In the words of the playwright himself, “a trivial comedy for serious people.” The New York Times called it “endlessly funny comedy … swift, sardonic repartee (that) ripples through the ages.”

PlayMakers’ production includes a casting treat, featuring company member Ray Dooley as the terrifying, imperious and altogether wonderful Lady Bracknell, a role usually played by great Dames, such as legendary British actresses Edith Evans and Judi Dench.

All performances will be in the Paul Green Theatre in UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Show times will be 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 13, and 2 p.m. Sundays. For a complete schedule, more information and to purchase tickets, call (919) 962-PLAY (7529) or visit http://www.playmakersrep.org. Tickets are $10 to $40.

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The British Are Coming to Hillsborough

by Patty Griffin | January 22 2010

Information provided by the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough

Continental and British armies occupied Hillsborough during the Revolutionary War. Commanding figures like Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene, and Lord General Cornwallis headquartered in the town’s inns and taverns. Cornwallis’ ill-spent week in Hillsborough in February of 1781 eventually culminated in his surrender at Yorktown eight months later.

On Saturday, February 20, from 10am-4pm, the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough will hold its Tenth Annual Revolutionary War Living History Day. Continental, British and militia reenactors will demonstrate camp life during the Revolutionary War and commemorate General Cornwallis’ encampment in Hillsborough on the grounds of the Alexander Dickson House (ca 1790), 150 E. King St., Hillsborough, NC. Events include marching drills, musket-firing demonstrations and open-flame cooking.

The Alliance’s Revolutionary War Guided Tours will also be held that day, beginning and 11:00am and 2:00pm. The 60-minute tour showcases Hillsborough’s revolutionary and colonial era sites, while retelling stories of the events that took place in and around the town. Tours cost $5 per person.

For additional information please call the Alliance office at 919-732-7741 or visit their website at http://www.historichillsborough.org.

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Carolina Basketball Celebration of a Century

by Patty Griffin | January 21 2010

This one-of-a-kind event is the centerpiece of Carolina’s 100 years of basketball celebration, which began with the Professional Alumni game on Sept. 4, 2009. Celebration of a Century is much more than just an old-timers game. The night will include decade-by-decade basketball matchups of your Tar Heel basketball favorites, giveaways, historical video features, Roy Williams and the 2010 Tar Heels, and a host of Carolina legends. The guiding principle for the night is simple: give fans a one-night-only opportunity to celebrate the UNC basketball centennial, and allow everyone to relive the crowning moments of Carolina Basketball. Over the course of the evening, there will be interview sessions with former players (hundreds of lettermen will be in town for the weekend’s festivities) and reenactments of some of the most famous shots in Tar Heel history. The grand finale will be a recognition and a tribute to Coach Dean Smith.

The event is sold out but if you plan to attend, parking is available in various lots near the Smith Center or you may take the Chapel Hill Transit Tar Heel Express shuttles which are $5 roundtrip and $3 one-way. The shuttles will run 90 minutes before the event from the Friday Center on Hwy 54, Southern Village (15-501), Jones Ferry Lot and the Carolina Coffee Shop downtown. Shuttles will not run from the University Mall Lot. General Public Parking on campus will be available on a first-come-first serve basis beginning 5:30 p.m. in the Cardinal Deck, Jackson Deck, Craige Deck, Bowles Lot, Rams Head Deck and Manning Lot. The cost for parking will be $10 for regular sized vehicles and $40 for buses.

Visit http://www.tarheelblue.com for more information. For accommodations, click on the Where to Stay button above.

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UNC Men and Women’s Basketball in High Gear

by Patty Griffin | December 29 2009

The North Carolina Men and Women’s Basketball teams are gearing up for ACC play, but there are still a few games, prior to the conference season. Tickets are still available for the men’s Albany game at the Dean Smith Center at 7 pm on December 30. Visit http://www.tarheelblue.com

The ACC men’s games in the Smith Center are sold out, but you can still be in Chapel Hill and check out the games at one of our numerous sports bars or restaurants around town. The remaining schedule is as follows. If you have tickets and need accommdations, click on our where to stay link above.
Virginia Tech – Sunday, January 10 at 7:45 pm
Anoop Desai, UNC graduate, diehard Carolina basketball fan, former member of the Clef Hangers and one of the finalists in the popular 2009 edition of American Idol, will sing the national anthem before the 7:45 home basketball game against Virginia Tech.
Georgia Tech – Saturday, January 16 at 2 pm
Wake Forest – Wednesday, January 20 at 7 pm
Virginia – Sunday, January 31 at 7:45 pm
Duke – Wednesday, February 10 at 9 pm
NC State – Saturday, February 13 at 4 pm
Florida State – Wednesday, February 24 at 7 pm
Miami – Tuesday, March 2 at 8 pm

The UNC Women’s team is back in their home at the newly renovated Carmichael Auditorium. Tickets are available for all the games. Ring in the New Year as the women play East Tennessee State on December 31 at 2 pm and Winston-Salem State on January 2 at 2 pm. Tickets are $10 with the exception of NC State and Duke at $12.

The remaining home games are as follows:
Georgia Tech – January 6 at 7 pm
Maryland – January 17 at 5:30 pm
Clemson – January 22 at 8:30 pm
Florida State – February 1 at 7 pm
Boston College – February 11 at 7 pm
NC State – February 21 at 2 pm
Duke – Febraury 28 at 3 pm
NC Central – March 14 at 3:30 pm

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