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Technology Makes It’s Way Into The Classroom

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:35:29 +0000

First there were calculators and computers, then came the internet. Now some students are getting the opportunity to use Skype in their classrooms. Here the author if Instructify tells you how to implement this in your lesson plans.

Review: Wicked Casts A Spell On DPAC

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:54:52 +0000

Broadway musical Wicked is now at the Durham Performing Arts Center for it’s month-long run.

Raleigh Amphitheatre Gets More Bookings

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:54:39 +0000

Even though construction on the Raleigh Amphitheatre has yet to be completed, more and more acts are being booked to perform.

What’s In A Name?

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:44:08 +0000

Many people have heard North Carolina and sometimes South Carolina referred to as “cackalacky”…but where did that name come from?

Raleigh Staple The Rockford Closes Its Doors

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:50:22 +0000

Dear Friends, Thank you for the 15 years plus of good times and great memories. Sad to announce that Rockford is now closed permanently. Many thanks to the wonderful crew of talented and beautiful individuals whom I had the pleasure to work with. All will be missed. Love, Rockford

Goodnight, Raleigh Showcases Hidden Victorian Houses Of Hillsborough Street

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:05:22 +0000

Although the Oakwood neighborhood has the largest collection of Victorian-era houses in Raleigh, Hillsborough Street was once a bastion of homes built in the same period. Sadly, only a few remain today.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade Anyone?

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:17:06 +0000

I love St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. My mom says I have enough Irish in me to justify wearing a “Kiss Me I’m Irish” button, but even if I didn’t have a small claim to the heritage, I’d be downing green beer somewhere.

Heard The Gravy Boys? You Should

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:28:23 +0000

Carrying on the Piedmont tradition of Americana music, The Gravy Boys‘ rootsy tunes resonate long after hearing them. And with the band’s sophomore effort, 2009’s Dust Bowl Lover, The Gravy Boys have come into their own blending elements of “depression-era folk … high-lonesome duos … honky-tonk country and modern rootsy alt-country.”

New LiLa Music Video Showcases Durham

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:40:50 +0000

I'm not enough of a music fan to know where Durham-based "hip-rock" band LiLa will end up ranking in the world of music, but a BCR reader sent along this, their new video, which does a nice job featuring haunts around Trinity Park and downtown Durham. And it certainly left me, well, slackjawed enough to want to share it here.

Work Begins At Contemporary Art Museum In Raleigh

contact@30threads.com (Thread Spinners Ginny and Wayne) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:27:16 +0000

The sweeping angular roofline is a bold and beautiful nod to the future resting on the side of a historic building. It will give shade to an outdoor space where a surface parking lot now exists.