Race City Festival back for 28th time
The 28th Race City Festival will be held Friday night and Saturday, May 18-19, at Main and Broad streets in downtown Mooresville. The event is a family friendly outdoor festival and admission is free. Included is live entertainment, 180-plus vendor booths, festival style food, children’s area, arts, crafts, antiques andbusiness and racing displays. This year, there will also be a beer garden. Downtown eateries and merchants will also be open in conjunction with the festival, offering sidewalk sales and specials.
Norman Events May 12, 2012
Designers show their best ReStyle
A recent event to benefit Our Towns Habitat for Humanity held the dual purpose of demonstrating how merchandise found inside the Mooresville Habitat for Humanity ReStore can be repurposed for use in contemporary interior design, and to raise money for the ReStore.
Choplin’s the kind of book you’ll want to read again
We’ve heard our entire lives that it’s ill-advised to judge a book by its cover. These days, with the advent of Nook and other electronic media providers, the Divas guess that old saying is even more accurate. Choplin’s in Cornelius is located in an older strip shopping center that could lead the uniformed to believe it’s the sort of place to go for a soup/salad combo, a sandwich or the blue plate special.
Norman Events May 11. 2012
Rural Hill becomes Warrior ‘battlefield’
As soon as this Saturday’s North Carolina Brewers and Music Festival ends at Historic Rural Hill, crews will descend on the normally bucolic western Huntersville history and nature preserve and begin building a frenetic 5K running and obstacle course in preparation for the second running there of the Warrior Dash.
Norman Events May 4, 2012
Lake Norman cancer survivors ‘Cured’ by Design
Lake Norman residents Carol Fleming and Julie Hill of Huntersville and Hilde Harkins of Davidson, were among the 30 Charlotte region cancer survivors to take the runway in the American Cancer Society’s inaugural Cure By Design event held recently at the Bank of America Center’s Urban Garden, adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton Charlotte hotel.
DCP Events
Shakespeare, Simon top DCP’s summer schedule
Connie Company puts on The Tempest, adult actors sought for Rumor; Paddington in final weekend.
Davidson Community Players’ Connie Company is seeking energetic and imaginative youth ages 12-18 for its annual Shakespeare Unplugged Workshop Production and for a new, two-week, summer musical theatre camp. Auditions for both programs will be held on Friday, April 27, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to noon. Auditions will be at DCP’s Armour Street Theatre, 307 Armour St., in Davidson.
Norman Events April 27, 2012
Mission Fun Days at Independence Hill
Independence Hill Baptist Church will host its 23rd annual Hearts for Missions Fun Days Friday and Saturday, May 4-5.
Sax/Jazz Combo event rescheduled
The Davidson College Saxophone Quartet & Jazz Combo Concert originally scheduled for today (Thursday, April 26) has been postponed in order to avoid conflict with a newly scheduled performance by Third Eye Blind at 7 p.m.
Norman Events April 20, 2012
PCF grants help four programs
The Peninsula Community Foundation (PCF), a Cornelius-based, not-for-profit serving the residents of north Mecklenburg County, recently announced that it has awarded grants totaling more than $18,000 to four local charities.
