Thursday's Update

Boring downtown news, good events, good fun.

In downtown news:
New rules for parking decks in downtown
Raleigh’s soo prettty...
Capital City Grocery will sharpen your knives, scissors, and other sharp things…

In Raleigh news:
Art to Wear Fashion Show is tonight – if you’ve never been, I highly recommend it!
Voter registration is up – have you registered??
More mascots for Raleigh

In local-ish news:
The state may give car insurance companies control of rates
Yahoo and Google make friendly
Germany finally has a speed limit


In irrelevant news:
Ashlee Simpson is engaged
MySpace will do TV now too...
New pictures of Elvis were found

Events:
The Mint will be having live Jazz on Friday night
Tonight at Jax (7 oclock) there is a fundraiser for NCSU Relay for Life (thanks Lisa)
Also on tonight, win stuff at Lucky B’s
Free wine tasting at Sono on Friday
Saturday, Capital City Grocery is having a wine sampling
Gov’t Mule is playing outside of Lincoln on Sunday
Spamalot opens next Tuesday

A few ‘Save the Dates’:
April 21 the Dept. of City Planning is hosting a ‘non-traditional planning charrette’ at Tir Na Nog
May 10 is a ways off – but Old Time is selling super cheap BBQ that day

Fun Stuff:
So, its no ‘Stuff White People Like’ but it isssss ‘Stuff Nobody Likes’
It’s not in English – but it’s 3D art made of fruit
Now you don’t have to have self restraint

Today’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse:
Venezuelans would rather their kids see Baywatch…

Happy Thursday all!