c. Art Howard2006
Scenes from Saturday night (click on the image to see bigger versions).

Photo: ArtHowardc.2006
Thanks, Art Howard! It’s Fayetteville Street on Sunday morning — bumper-to-bumper gawkers on our new & much-improved main street.
Unfortunately, that Port City Java in the foreground’s not open (click on the image to see bigger versions). Nor is much of anything else on F’ville St. open on Sunday — yet.

Since we’re on a collective contact high with the fab Fayetteville Street opening plus our easy mastery of ice hockey, maybe SparkCon will turn out to be just another celebration of how cool, funky & creative we all are in Raleigh/the Triangle.
But I don’t think so. While we’re riding the wave in Raleigh is exactly […]

(The photo above was taken by City Councilor Russ Stephenson. And Raleighing.com points to more photos posted to Flickr.)
Was Fayetteville Street always such a wind tunnel? The gods smiled on it tonight, sending the rain north and south, while blowing a steady 15-20 mph breeze from the south to cool the crowds. How many came? […]

… which is, as always, good for the whole weekend.
(Update: But if you think a presidential poll is Friday fun, you have gotta read BlueNC today on Edwards & Kissell (and “Southern Dem”), and watch the video of “our Johnny” and “the communist” — and being real. End)
The Diageo/Hotline Poll, just out, has Republican […]

If — like me — you’ve had trouble following the twists and turns of the Democrats’ promised “lobbying & ethics reform” in the General Assembly, here’s a summing-up from Democracy NC’s Bob Hall. He is THE expert on money-in-politics in North Carolina. He gives it a C+ grade. (And lists as the biggest […]

This just in from pro-Palestinian activists, forwarded by NC Peace Action –
Protesters against Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon hope to take advantage of the big crowd headed into downtown Raleigh tomorrow night. I’ll paste in their email below as fyi. The rhetoric of it rubs me the wrong way, to the point that I nearly tossed […]

How many people will be there Saturday night when Fayetteville Street is reopened in downtown Raleigh? Here’s two educated guesses I heard downtown tonight. Greg Hatem, the prolific downtown developer, said 20,000. Dan Douglas, director of the city’s Urban Design Center, said 30,000. Or more. It could be huge.

Since this blog is about the “zen” of Raleigh, why don’t I just pass along this note from our friend Steve Noble, of Called2Action fame, without any ado or comment at this time (in other words, you go first on this one, and I’ll come off the bench …):
Friends,
For the first time in 10 years, […]

Update: July 27 — One thing that’s not up with the YWCA is a conspiracy to sell it to the New Schools Project. I’ll leave alone what I wrote yesterday about that rumored “backstory”– it’s down there the fold — as a caution to myself and others that there’s a difference between reasonable speculation and […]