Capital City Grocery Closes

Against the small hope that many had for this downtown Raleigh grocery store, as reported by WRAL, signage was posted on the door today stating that today will be its last day open... permanently.

Reason for closing has yet to be identified, but I'm sure with the economic issues that didn't help too much. The fact that many of their shelves are empty also didn't help for business, especially considering a full-fledged grocery store, Harris Teeter, is less than two miles up the street.

As WRAL also reported, downtown Raleigh has acquired two more grocery stores since 2007, of which I haven't seen, however they did state one more is set to open next summer.

I personally would enjoy to see a true downtown grocery store location, right near Fayetteville St.

Raleigh Christmas Parade

Just a friendly reminder to everyone that the 64th annual Raleigh Christmas Parade is happening in downtown Raleigh tomorrow starting at around 10:00 AM. Festivities begin at 9:30 AM, so make sure you bring your gloves and overcoats as to stay warm during the cold day's activities!

To find out more info about the parade, you can go to WRAL for more info.

First Snow of the Season!

If you live in the Triangle (and even further out around), then you may have noticed some on-again off-again snow flurries blowing through the breezy North Carolinian air. For me, the first time I saw the snow today was earlier this morning while I was at work. Many of us got so excited to see the first snow fall of the season that we all bolted out the door and onto the sidewalks of Cameron Village to enjoy the short novelty.

The brief snow didn't accumulate to much in the Triangle with no reports of it actually sticking to the roads (or hardly even to front lawn from what I've seen).

I don't know about any one else, but I surely hope this is setting us up for quite a white Christmas! One can only hope...

NCScoop - Burning Coal Theatre Presents Hysteria

Burning Coal Theatre in downtown Raleigh will be premiering the play "Hysteria" this Thursday evening (November 6th) at 7:30 PM in their fairly new theatre Meymandi Theatre at the Murphy School Auditorium.

Hysteria is a dramatic farce fictionalizing a meeting between Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud with a few other characters mixed in between. The play is full of great comedic scenes mixed together with some tense dramatic pieces and brought all together by some phenomenal acting talents and direction.

If you want to get tickets to one of the play dates, you can find all of those dates listed here. Don't forget to also check out Burning Coal Theatre's Website for any other information you may want to know.

Raleigh Obama March

After President-elect Barack Obama gave his Victory Speech, hundreds of Obama supporters marched and cheered on the streets of downtown Raleigh. The march started somewhere up in north downtown Raleigh, presumably from a massive watch party, and marched its whole way down Wilmington St. and what seemed to be ending at Shaw University.

The march appeared to be impromptu and was being maintained by local law officials keeping a close proximity of the fairly long march.