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Published: July 23, 2009
Greetings again, Smittyheads!
A lot is going on. Good stuff to report and I like it. The start of the Sunday evening “Movies on the GreenSpot” has really taken off. The past two Sundays they have averaged 175+ patrons. Not bad for a simple idea to get folks downtown on a off night. Many thanks to you all on the Best of Winston-Salem Awards. You BLEW UP the web page the results are posted. It had the largest one day page views of any web page on SmittysNotes.com in history.
Coming up is the National Black Theater Festival August 3-8, 2009. A few thousand people from around the country will be in town for the plays and social gatherings. Below is a taste of what will happen that week.
Now to the business at hand...
News from Around the Scene
Bubble-bration” Part II @ Corpening Plaza - Friday, July 24, 2009
Returning again is an unusual event that received a little traction last year. On Friday, July 24, 2009 there will be a “Bubble-bration” happening at Corpening Plaza starting at 12:30 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. hosted by Wildfire, a local ad agency. Here’s the deal. Take a break from your day, head down and blow bubbles with others in the community. You know. The soapy stuff in the bottle with the plastic rings. No joke.
The purpose is to bring out the inner child in us and have some good old fashion fun by blowing bubbles for those who enjoy the past time. It was successful last year creating a little social capital building in Winston-Salem on lazy Friday afternoon. The only rules are you have to bring your own bubbles bottles (Time to head to Party City to stock up) and you must want to have fun. That’s it! I have found out recently there are a lot of closet bubbles fans out there. Time to come out kids and adults. Corpening Plaza is located at First and Liberty Street below the BB&T Financial Center.
Krankie’s Farmer’s Healthy Shopping Market Tour - Tuesday, July 28.
Use your lunch break on Tuesday, July 28 th 12 Noon - 1:00 p.m. to learn how to select locally-grown, wholesome foods even on a tight budget.
Join experts from Forsyth Medical Center as they lead you on a tour of Krankie’s Farmer’s Market where you will learn what terms like “organic”, “sustainable”, “grass fed” and “free range” mean and when they are important; how to pick local produce and keep it fresh longer and how to shop “in season” all while saving money. Cost: $10 Krankie’s is located at 211 East Third Street, Winston-Salem. For more information about this and other nutritional classes, or to register, call 718-7000.
Camel City Carriage Company coming downtown
A horse drawn carriage ride through downtown Winston Salem. . . Just the thought may conjure up romantic or nostalgic visions of simpler times. Toni Phillips with Leonard Ryden Burr Real Estate is starting a new horse drawn carriage business in downtown Winston-Salem It’s called Camel City Carriage Company and will be a great new vehicle for transportation in the city - Downtown and the Arts District Circuit.
Plans are to have carriages out Thursday-Saturday evenings. They also are looking to keep the cost at an affordable rate to make the service attractive to everyone. Toni notes that the horses are great and will steal everyone’s hearts. Plans are to commence service in early September. For more information visit http://www.camelcitycarriage.com or call 624-6946
Tonic - A Tapas Bar now open.
Tonic - A Tapas Bar just opened this week downtown located at 410 Fourth Street in space formerly occupied by Speakeasy Jazz Club. The proprietors are Terry and Freddy Lee who own the popular fine dining restaurants Bernardin’s and Bleu.
The 1,750 sq. ft. space has been renovated with the addition of comfortable sofas and chairs for lounging and brighter color scheme. This helped create an open air feel to the bar by exposing the space to natural lighting provided by the floor to ceiling windows. In doing so, this will allow patrons to feel a part of the activity along Fourth Street.
Tonic will be serving a variety of tapas items that can be a first stop while having dinner out or make meal while there. Pretty sure whatever they create will be tasty given the dining experience of their other restaurants. Tonic has all ABC permits. The block at Fourth and Marshall Street will be bustling with this new addition. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 4:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. For more information call 293-7900
Foothills Beer School - Saturday, August 1, 2009 Open to the public!
Since Foothills Brewing opened in 2005, Beer School has been the most popular part of their employee training, in which all servers and bartenders learn how their beers are made and get some hands-on experience learning about beer styles. They only require employees to attend once, but we’ve found that many of the staff are very dedicated students, and sign up to take the class again and again!
So by popular demand they have opened Beer School to the public. The session will be Saturday, August 1 at 2:30 pm (Lasts 2-3 hours) Space is limited. So you need to RSVP ASAP if you plan to attend. The experience can be rather intoxicating, so be sure to arrange safe transportation after the event, and of course, all Beer School students must be 21 or older! Cost: $10 per person includes a detailed class on the brewing process, a brewery tour, and samples of all the beers currently offer at Foothills Brewing. To attend sign up by contacting sarah@foothillsbrewing.com with your name, phone number, and the number of people you’re bringing.
Celebrate Wisteria & HOPE: A Mulitmedia show performing at the National Black Theater
As part of the National Black Theatre Festival, the Pulitzer Center is hosting a reception for a production they supported called Celebrate Wisteria & HOPE - A multimedia performance with poetry by Kwame Dawes, music by Kevin Simmonds. HOPE — exploring the human face of HIV-AIDS. Wisteria — African-American women recalling life under Jim Crow Segregation.
This event will take place for Two nights only: August 6th and 7th at 8 pm. Hanes Auditorium. Salem Fine Arts Center. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Tickets for the performance only: $25. Reserve your tickets http://www.nbtf.org/2009—schedule.html. Join the Pulitzer Center and Wisteria & HOPE host committee for a private reception before each performance. Meet the artists and learn about the Pulitzer Center, the innovative non-profit journalism organization dedicated to engaging the broadest possible public in critical global issues.
A one hour radio show on WFDD on the Wisteria and HOPE project will air on Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
First Annual “A Taste of the Blues” event Thursday, August 6 th @ the Millennium Center
Tickets are now on sale for an exciting new event that brings together the very best of local music, cuisine, wine and beer - not to mention a presentation by the National Black Theatre Festival of the Tony Award Winning play “It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues” - together for “A Taste of the Blues.” This special event will kick off at downtown Winston Salem’s Millennium Center, located at 101 W Fifth Street, on Thursday, August 6 th from 5:30 until 7:30pm during the National Black Theatre Festival. This two-hour event is followed directly by the National Black Theatre Festival’s “It Ain’t Nothing But the Blues,” a Tony Award-winning play taking place at 8:00 pm that evening in Reynolds Auditorium at 301 N Hawthorne Road.
A sampling of some of the city’s best Southern cuisine will be provided by 6 th & Vine, Dewey’s Bakery, Finnigan’s Wake, Foothills Brewing, Mozelle’s and NOMA. A selection of local wines and beers will be poured by winemakers from Biltmore Winery, Cellar 4201 Vineyard, Childress Vineyards, McRitchie Winery and Foothills Brewing.
Live Entertainment will feature blues and jazz artists Tad Walters, Charles Burns, Keith Byrd and friends. The event will also include a silent auction featuring an array of spa packages, restaurant dinners, gift baskets, a private wine tasting for eight by Camel City Cafe a hand-painted desk by Sam McMIllan, and much more.
Tickets including both events are $75 per person and are currently on sale at Dewey’s Bakery in Thruway Shopping Center ( 262 S Stratford Road), as well as Foothills Brewing ( 638 W Fourth Street). Tickets will also be sold at the door on the evening of the event. A $50 ticket is available at the door for the Millennium Center event for those who cannot attend the play. Proceeds from “A Taste of the Blues” will benefit The North Carolina Black Repertory Company and Authoring Action, formerly the Winston-Salem Youth Arts Institute, a non-profit organization founded to develop young authors as impact communications specialists, develop their writing through exposure to professional mentors, training, performance and empowerment. For more information about Authoring Action or to get involved, please visit http://www.authoringaction.org
Cinema Under the Stars Returns to Reynolda House Museum of American Art
This summer, Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host its fourth annual Cinema Under the Stars evening film series, cosponsored by the School of Filmmaking of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. This year’s series celebrates “Musicals and Mayhem” with films ranging from 1939’s classic for children of all ages “The Wizard of Oz” to the terrifying 1978 version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” to 2001’s romantic tragedy, “Moulin Rouge!”
Films from different eras will be screened at 9 p.m. each Friday night in August and the first Friday in September. Weather permitting, the movies will be shown outside on the lawn. In case of rain, films will be shown in the museum’s Babcock auditorium. Beer and wine will be available for purchase, and film goers are encouraged to come early and picnic on the lawn. The gates open at 8 p.m. Admission is $5 for the general public, $3 for members and students.
Cinema Under the Stars Schedule: Friday, August 7 - Victor Fleming’s “The Wizard of Oz”; Friday, August 14 - DOUBLE FEATURE Richard Lester’s “A Hard Day’s Night” 9 p.m. and Philip Kaufman’s “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” 11 p.m.; Friday, August 21 - Robert Wise’s “The Sound of Music”; Friday, August 28 -Baz Lurhmann’s “Moulin Rouge!”; Friday, September 4 - Randall Kleiser’s “Grease”
For more information call 758-5150 or visit the Reynolda House Cultural Calendar
Reynolda Farm Market now open
Now open is Reynolda Farm Market located at 1206 Reynolda Rd at the former Pink Mink boutique and the popular Krankie’s Airstream coffee drive thru. Their soft opening this past weekend was success and sellout.
They sold out of a lot of produce before they closed . No wonder. They feature a host of locally grown fresh produce; some will be organic or sustainable. Eggs, meats and products from Homeland Dairy, The Goat Lady Cheese, Ollie’s Bakery, fudges, “old school” hard candy and much more. The Reynolda Farm Market hours will be Monday-Saturday 7:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Telephone: 777-3421
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