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Susan Newberry, Executive Director of PineCone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, and co-worker, Sarah Beth Woodruff, promote and present traditional musicians. PineCone, headquartered in Raleigh, brings touring acts to the Triangle and showcases local and regional musicians. Van Vleck discusses the origin and goals of the organization.
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2.The State Capitol - Architecture As History by Lea, Diane Metro Magazine Vol. 1 Issue 10, Dec 2000
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The State Capitol of North Carolina is one of the nation's great historic structures. Lea discusses the history of its construction and expansion through the years and the work in the 1990s of Capitol Historian Raymond Beck and historical paint expert George Fore that restored the interior's original 1840s paint scheme.
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Southern Culture on the Skids (SCOTS) is a Chapel Hill- based rock band. Although critics have attached various labels to the band's sound, the group has developed over the last fifteen years a style that labels cannot adequately portray. One point that most agree on is the SCOTS is one of the greatest bar bands in the history of bars and bands.
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In 1995, the city of Raleigh asked the architectural firm of Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee to evaluate the possibility of adding two halls to the existing Memorial Auditorium. Lea describes the challenges the firm met and dealt with over the ensuing five years to bring the new BTI Center for the Performing Arts to completion in 2001.
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A.J. Fletcher spent a large part of his life promoting opera and the arts throughout the state's hinterlands. A lawyer by profession, he helped organize the Grassroots Opera in the 1940s and later moved to Raleigh to establish the Capitol Broadcasting Company. Fletcher died in 1979. He is honored for his contributions to the arts with the construction of a state-of-the art theater, the A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater at Raleigh's BTI Center for the Performing Arts.
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Marc Basnight has represented Senate District 1 in the North Carolina General Assembly since 1984. In the 2000 session he begins his fifth term as Senator Pro Tem, which is a record. Metro profiles this senator, who some say is more powerful then the newly elected governor.
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Smith describes how Meymandi Concert Hall, the new home of the North Carolina Symphony in the BTI Center for the Performing Arts, was built and engineered to give each of the 1,700 concert-goers the highest quality of sound possible. For example, at the back of the hall, walls are angled to better reflect sound.
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For the first time in its 68-year history, the North Carolina Symphony will have its own performance hall. On February 21, 2001, the symphony will play a grand-opening concert in the new 1,700-seat Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh. Prior to this, the symphony played in Memorial Auditorium, a venue shared by a variety of performing groups.
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Hope Plantation, in Windsor in Bertie County, was built in the early 1800s by David Stone, who was governor of North Carolina, 1808-1810. It is the state's finest example of Palladian-style architecture. Lea describes the building's history and how it was rescued and restored. Restoration on Hope began in 1965.
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Born and raised in North Carolina, Jean Anderson returned to Chapel Hill four years ago after living in New York and other world cities. She returned as a celebrated cookbook author and internationally respected food and travel journalist. The recipient of many awards, Anderson was inducted into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame in 1999 in recognition of her major contribution to the literature of food.
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The life and work of Rev. Gary Davis, a major figure in the history of the Piedmont Blues in North Carolina, is profiled.
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The historic town of Warrenton, in Warren County, is undergoing a renaissance with its own 19th century homes. Through the efforts of Preservation North Carolina and private citizens, historic preservation has become a force in the community, as many of the huge Antebellum homes are coming back into use, some as museums, some as private homes.
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The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum and the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum, both under construction, will reflect, when completed in 2003, the heritage of coastal Carolina. Both are located on Harkers Island. Core Sound will celebrate the art of decoying, and the Graveyard Museum will contain maritime history represented by the shipwrecks.
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Two years ago Cary-based SAS Institute, Inc., the world's largest privately held software maker, was considering going public and reaping the rewards. In this METRO magazine interview, Jim Goodnight, who founded the company in 1976, discusses the last two years, going public, and why he decided to keep his company private.
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East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine \"has pioneered and developed some of the most cutting-edge technology in the medical community,\" including robotic heart surgery and telemedicine. Stains discusses researchers and their work at the Brody School of Medicine.
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