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OCTOBER 2012 volume 11: issue 10
S O M E T H I N G F O R E V E R Y O N E
Going Greenon the Green
TERRAVITA, page 4
By Bill Baucom
If boundless energy and enthusiasm could be bottled and sold, its name might be Colleen Minton. This N.C. na-tive and mother of two has followed a somewhat circuitous route to where she now stands as founder and promoter-in-chief of TerraVITA, a local sustainable food and beverage organization that will be hosting its third Grand Tasting on the Green on Saturday, November 3.
The event takes place on the green at Southern Village from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will feature some of North Carolina’s fi nest chefs. The common thread: their commitment and dedication to using locally grown ingredients in their recipes – thus, sustain-able food.
The Grand Tasting is the fi nale of three days of fun, excit-ing and educational
By Laurie Janzen
You’ve taken the 32 neces-sary AP classes and completed 10,000 volunteer hours in order to apply to the 49 top schools in the country, including all of the Ivy Leagues (and no, Duke doesn’t count as an Ivy) in order to complete the success track you’ve laid out for yourself. You’ve taken a million notes and spent countless hours memoriz-ing every detail of the Napole-onic Wars in order to ace that history test. But maybe you’ve forgotten one thing: how to have fun. So for you hard-working high school students, here are some fun ways to cut loose and relax!
Check out a concert at the Cat’s Cradle. Tickets are relatively cheap and tend to fall between $10 - $40. It provides a modern venue where you can head-bang to your heart’s delight. Mipso, a local band of UNC students, will be performing
FUN, page 2Vivian Howard, chef and proprietor of Chef & The
Farmer in Kinston, NC
How to Have Fun in High
School Without Getting Arrested
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their bluegrass music on November 3 for only $10. Passion Pit will be at the Cradle Oct. 18 and tickets will only be $24 in advance or $26 on the night of the show. Temper Trap will be coming on Oct. 16 for $20.
If just the memory of the North Carolina summer heat has you sweating, what’s better than a room full of free ice you’re allowed to slide around on? Try ice-skating at the Triangle Sportsplex for only $9! Sure, you may wind up with a few bruises, but once you’re flying around on the ice, there’s nothing better. This kind of activity can be a great thing for a big, fun group of friends or it can be a romantic date night with that cute girl from chemis-try you’ve been trying to get.
The Mardi Gras Bowling Center on Farrington Road has great specials for cheap, fun bowling. For example, Tuesday nights have $2 games and $2 shoe rentals from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. But if you can’t make it out on a school night, Friday and Saturday nights feature a live DJ, black lights, and a laser light show for only $17 per person (including shoe rental) from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. or $8 per person, per game (not including shoe rental).
If you’re a fan of UNC football or football in general, a great way to pass the afternoon is cheering on the
team at Kenan Stadium. Tickets can be purchased for as little as $35. The only requirements for attending a game are a Carolina blue t-shirt and the acceptance of a sore throat for the next few days.
If nature is calling you in a more literal sense, rent a campsite at Jordan Lake for between $13 and $25 a day depending on how deep into the woods you’re willing to hike and whether you want to have run-ning water or not. Splitting this cost among a group of friends brings it down to a few dollars apiece and can lead to a whole night of campfires, scary stories, and best of all, s’mores! However, make sure that a night spent here is one that is only filled with good clean fun because park rangers are constantly on patrol in the area.
In Carrboro, Glazed Expectations only charges $8 plus the cost of the piece of pottery you would like to
paint for as much time as you need to design a new kitchen set or just a fun new mug for your morning cof-fee. If you’re feeling artsy and need to dip your hands in some paint, this is the place to do it.
Take a day trip to Frankie’s Fun Park in Raleigh. You can play laser tag or enjoy mini golf, bumper boats, a fun house and much more. You pay for each game you play or activ-ity you participate in, but they’re all priced under $8.
Spend a day with your friends hunt-ing for that vintage look you’ve been trying to achieve or maybe just some new knick-knacks to have for the long-awaited day when you’re deco-rating your very own college dorm room. Look out for signs for garage sales around town and hunt through those or hit up the PTA thrift shops in Chapel Hill. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
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If you’re just looking for a fun way to entertain yourselves at home, try a poker night. You can jazz it up by requiring James Bond attire or make it a casual affair with friends. All you need is a deck of cards and a good poker face.
To make dinner more interesting, organize a progressive dinner with your friends. This can be done in two ways. The fi rst is to go to an area with lots of restaurants, such as Franklin Street, and do appetiz-ers, dinner, and dessert at different
restaurants all along the street. The second option requires capability in the kitchen. If you or any of your friends can do that, then the progres-sive dinner can also be done by each person making a course of the meal at home and moving the group from house to house with each course. This is best done when everyone lives relatively close to each other.
Another fun, food-related thing to do is fi nd a place to eat with a view on Franklin Street and rate people’s attempts at parallel parking. A prime
spot for this is the upstairs of McAli-ster’s on a Sunday morning. You and your friends can enjoy people’s slow, jerky attempts and no one has to know you yourself probably can’t pull it off either.
And don’t forget, you can always check out what’s going on at your school. There will always be plays, dances, and fundraising events pro-vided by your teachers and friends, so don’t forget to participate in those.
There’s always stuff going on, so instead of sitting around wondering what to do, get a group of friends to-gether and check out one of the cool events the area has to offer.
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