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(01/24/08 5:00am)
Eddie Lovejoy Farrington, 30, of Raleigh, was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated and "possession of copious amounts of marijuana," according to Chapel Hill police reports.
Farrington was arrested at 2:53 a.m. Wednesday on Country Club Road. He was found with 79.2 grams of marijuana, digital scales, Food Lion sandwich baggies and a soft cooler in his possession, after he was seen driving without his headlights on, according to reports.
(01/24/08 5:00am)
Caltrop's brand of rock music is thick, heavy and powerful. It's loud and dynamic. The band even gets its name from a brutal weapon. But don't call it metal.
The Chapel Hill foursome is more likely to cite the blues or indie-rock bands as influences.
Diversions Editor Bryan Reed caught up with the band to talk about music as a lifestyle, and how the band found its sound.
Caltrop plays The Cave on Saturday with equally dynamic old friends, Fin Fang Foom.
(01/24/08 5:00am)
Biirdie
Catherine Avenue
pop/rock
3.5 stars
Combining refrains more massive than the Los Angeles hills with hooks as sunny as a Southern California summer, Biirdie is a band that exudes California.
The band's debut LP, Catherine Avenue, is essentially an ode to the Golden State, inserting innumerable geographic references in the lyrics.
But the more interesting references come in the instrumentation.
(01/24/08 5:00am)
Album From the Vaults
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz: The 1980 LP solidified Ozzy's status as heavy metal's figurehead but, more importantly, served as a stunning swan song for guitar god Randy Rhoads (1956-1982).
Movie Rental Pick:
"10 Things I Hate About You": Julia Stiles is OK as the film's "shrew," but the real star here is Heath Ledger (1979-2008) at his heart-throbbing-est (save, of course, for "A Knight's Tale").
Something Random:
Chess: Play the game of kings as a loving tribute to Bobby Fischer (1943-2008).
Events:
(01/24/08 5:00am)
Democrat Jim Neal, a Chapel Hill businessman and UNC class of '78, is preparing to run against Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole. Neal will be in Gardner Hall at 8 p.m. to talk to students.
Q: What made you decide to run for the Senate once Brad Miller dropped his bid?
A: I'm not happy. I'm dissatisfied with the job that is not getting done in Washington. Our democracy isn't getting results - we're not moving the agenda forward in Washington.
The political world, from whatever realm it is, is a club. And as long as we leave our democracy in the hands of people who are part of the club, the rest of us who own that democracy are going to be short-changed.
Q: Depending on the policies of the next president, how radical would your attempts be to end the war in Iraq?
A: I think that the Congress should use the opportunity to deny the president the money to wage his war, in order to get him to come to the negotiating table.
I'm not going to put our troops into harm's way; my God, we sent them over there in Humvees with coating that thin (indicating an inch between his fingers). When they come back, we treat them like used cars.
Supporting our troops is not a question of defense appropriations bills. Would I give defense authorization spending as a tool to block the president's war and to put responsibility in his court? You're damn straight.
Q: As a businessman by trade, how did you become a proponent for the government's investment in economic and social programs?
A: My grandparents, not to sound too Edwards-esque, and my mother were born in a mill village. . My business sensibilities might be more Wall Street or more fiscally conservative, but my values are mainstream.
I've also stood in an unemployment line. I doubt there are many people running for the U.S. Senate who have stood in an unemployment line. But you know when you've been there, you understand more what it's like for people who are in that position.
Q: What kind of plans do you have to jump-start the economy in North Carolina?
A: If there's an opportunity to develop a cottage industry, it's a better economic investment for our state than giving tax benefits or incentives to a large company to come in and provide maybe 300 jobs.
Q: What do you offer the student voter in terms of higher education policy?
A: Education is a public good. . We need to invest in it. . How about subsidizing education? If we're gonna give you money, come back and put it to work in Americorps or the Peace Corps. Instead of sending you to Iraq with a gun in your hand, let's send you to Iraq with books in your hands.
Q: Although your sexual orientation is not the crux of your candidacy, do you plan to champion gay rights in the Senate?
A: I would be a champion any day of the week for civil rights and human rights for absolutely anybody in this country, including the LGBT community.
Anyone who wouldn't vote for me because of my sexual orientation in all likelihood wouldn't vote for me anyway, and you know, they'll get the chance to meet a real-live, walking, talking gay person who's not threatening, has a big heart, a smart mind and wants to go to work for them.
-Compiled by Rebecca Putterman
Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
(01/24/08 5:00am)
Committees of the Board of Trustees came together Wednesday to hear reports, presentations and give their comments on campus projects.
Audit and finance
The audit and finance committee heard a summary of the University's annual financial report and a presentation on the status of the University's capital improvement plan.
University Controller Dennis Press presented the committee members with an abbreviated overview of UNC's annual report, comparing the University to several of its peers.
(01/24/08 5:00am)
Construction problem leaves
Carroll Hall without power
A construction accident Wednesday morning left Carroll Hall without power for several hours.
About 9 a.m., one of the subcontractors working on the Hanes Hall construction project hit an electrical transformer with a construction vehicle, said Sid Stone, director of construction management.
UNC electrical personnel responded to the scene and had power restored by 2 p.m.
Some classes were cancelled or moved to other locations at the individual instructor's discretion.
(01/23/08 5:00am)
?An employee at the Cedar Village Family Fare convenience store at 618 Weaver Dairy Road stole and cashed in $300 worth of lottery tickets, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
The incident of larceny by employee was reported at 4:20 p.m. Monday at the convenience store, reports state.
?An incident of breaking and entering a residence with force was reported at 6:40 p.m. Monday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Carolina North concept plans that the Board of Trustees approved in September are subject to change. Two studies evaluting the fiscal and transit impact will conclude this semester. And once the plans finally go before the Chapel Hill Town Council in about a year, the vision for the project could take on a new shape. For now, though, town and University leaders are framing their conversations around this design.
Interactive: Carolina North
Developing relationship
Research campus meant to increase corporate funds
Carolina North: A broad plan for change
(01/22/08 5:00am)
Police responded to an incident of assault with a deadly weapon at 173 E. Franklin St. at 2:27 a.m. Sunday, according to Chapel Hill Police reports.
A Wilmington man was struck with a pocket knife on his chin, reports state.
Reports state that Austin Hunter Thomas, a 21-year-old Concord resident, was found armed with a knife and was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and inflicting injury, a misdemeanor charge.
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An incident of disturbance was reported at 9:29 a.m. Monday at 157 E. Franklin St., according to Chapel Hill police reports.
A terminated employee was reported for yelling at the manager, reports state.
Larceny was reported at 1 p.m. Monday at 604 Churchill Drive, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
Ladders valued at $220 were stolen from a yard, reports state. The ladders were recovered.
An unknown suspect broke into a vehicle parked at 413 W. Cameron Ave., according to Chapel Hill police reports.
(01/17/08 5:00am)
Sometime between 5 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday someone went into an assisted living facility on Lanark Road, took car keys from the front desk and then used them to steal a car from the parking lot, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
The white 2000 Daewoo was valued at $3,000, reports state.
At about 1 p.m. Monday, an unidentified person walked into the yards of two different houses on Churchill Drive and stole two ladders, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
The ladders, which had a total value of $220, were later recovered, according to reports.
(01/17/08 5:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Future Islands is a dance rock band that combines influences as wide ranging as its members' current homes.
It is a band in between locations, making time between Greenville and Asheville as well as Baltimore.
The band cut their teeth on the Greenville scene, playing under the name Art Lord and the Self Portraits.
Diversions Assistant Editor Jamie Williams, who was a Greenvile high school student during the height of the Art Lord era, talked to Future Islands' vocalist Sam Herring about the band's Greenville past, Baltimore future and the state of dance music.
Diversions: How long have you guys been playing as Future Islands? I know when I was in high school you were still Art Lord.
Sam Herring: We played our first Future Islands show in February 2006. So it's just shy of three years.
It's three of us from Art Lord, and we added a drummer and became Future Islands. There was a six month break between each band.
So, you're from Greenville?
Dive: Yeah, I am. I went to high school at Rose and my family still lives there.
SH: Crazy stuff.
Dive: I saw that you have a date in Greenville right before you come to Chapel Hill.
How often are you playing there these days?
SH: Umm, yeah. We're playing The Corner, which used to be the Red Rooster, and before that it was some horrible bar.
Greenville is pretty messed up right now. There aren't really any good music venues.
Outside of the underground scene, it's pretty bad.
Dive: I saw a show at the Spazzatorium over my fall break, and I know that some bands from here are playing there.
SH: It's a pretty great space.
But we haven't played a downtown show in Greenville in a long time.
We're hoping that kids will come out. We're older, so we aren't in the scene and aren't making the scene in Greenville. We're hoping the young kids will check it out.
Dive: I remember Art Lord having a pretty big following.
SH: When we were first in Greenville we were playing Peasants, and that went well for us.
Dive: That's a dance club now, though.
SH: Yeah, it's a ridiculous club. Pretty much the music wasn't happening outside of house parties.
Then Peasants turned into a dance club, and since then it's just been house parties and DIY spaces.
Even though we aren't a Greenville band, we'll always be a Greenville band, you know?
Dive: As a dance band, how do you feel about the uptick in the popularity of dance music?
SH: We're down, because that's kind of our style. I don't know, man. It's about making people move, which creates community and makes people happy. We want to make people happy.
Dive: So you consider yourselves to be a dance band?
SH: We don't want to be considered just a dance band that doesn't say anything. It's very important to me that we say something. I'm not very much of a writer who tries to bring a message, but I do try to focus on emotion because that's important to me.
Dive: I think the disconnect I find with a lot of more House-style dance music is that I find it to be sort of emotionless.
SH: I totally agree. What's going on in the Baltimore scene is the future to me. What's happening is the noise musicians want to make pop songs. In that the pop isn't just happy, it adds layers and layers, and it has dirty sounds and scraping sounds, and it all comes together.
I get the feeling that Baltimore is this collection of noise pop. Dan (Deacon) calls it "future shock." We call it "first wave."
Dive: So you think you fit in that movement?
SH: We're happy dance music is taking off, but it worries you because all movements go up and then crash again. When we were in Art Lord we were playing dance music and people were weird about it. I think if Art Lord were around now it would totally blow people's minds.
It's the same way with Future Islands. We're doing well for ourselves, but Art Lord had the same kind of feeling as a lot of stuff that has gotten really popular. And we were scared then, like, did we miss it? Did it already pass? Is it gonna come again?
Maybe we should have waited a bit longer. We're into songs that aren't about writing songs that are strictly dance songs.
Dive: So, you're living in Baltimore now?
SH: My girlfriend and I have lived in Asheville for the past year, and I came up here for the tour and after tour I'm going to stay in Baltimore and find a job.
I have a place in Asheville to go and people to stay with in Baltimore, but the plan after the tour is to be here.
I've never lived in a big city, so it should be a big step.
Dive: It's definitely a big step from Greenville.
SH: It is weird that you can't get any sweet tea. That's made me a little sad.
Dive: So, aside from the move to Baltimore, what's next for Future Islands?
SH: We have a new album coming out in a couple months on Valiant Death, and we're really excited.
It'll be the first material released between Art Lord and Future Islands.
We're going to continue to tour and work hard to try an build up an audience.
Contact the Diversions Editor at dive@unc.edu.
(01/17/08 5:00am)
Album From the Vaults:
Sebadoh - III: After his departure from Dinosaur Jr, Lou Barlow spilled all his frustration into what became a lo-fi masterpiece, a blueprint for '90s indie rock and an essential inclusion in the record collections of anyone who is or has been a shy adolescent.
Movie Rental Pick:
"Suspiria:" Dario Argento's 1977 horror masterpiece centers on strange happenings at a ballet academy. But beyond plot, the film haunts viewers with nightmarish colors and disorienting framing.
Something Random:
(01/17/08 5:00am)
Cloverfield
3 stars
In the near future, our chic New York City apartment parties will be rudely interrupted by Godzilla's bad-tempered nephew.
Or something like that.
In "Cloverfield," director Matt Reeves places an entire movie in front of the lens of a personal camcorder, taking the perspective of several terrified New Yorkers.
This style was considered the third rail of filmmaking after "The Blair Witch Project" claimed the title of "most universally hated film of 1999."
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An unknown suspect stole a 9 mm handgun from an unlocked vehicle, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
The gun, valued at $450, was reported stolen at 8:34 a.m. Monday, according to reports.
Nicholas Jevone James, 29, was arrested at 6:14 a.m. Tuesday on misdemeanor charges of assault on a female, trespassing and interfering in an emergency situation, according to Chapel Hill police reports.
James was confined at the Orange County Jail without bond, reports state. He was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.