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A Capella * Apparently it's Homecoming this weekend, and it seems the only ones really making a big deal about it are female a capella groups. Lady Blue and Out of the Blue are hosting special reunion concerts, both on East Campus. The shows will commemorate 10 years of campus crooning for Lady Blue and 20 years for Out of the Blue. Group alumni will be turning it out in both inter-generational collabos. Lady Blue: Saturday, 9:00pm. Nelson Music Room, East Campus. $5.00. Out of the Blue: Saturday, 7:30pm. Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus. $3.00.
World Beer Festival * Drown your sorrows in Durham's annual froth-fest, featuring micro-brews from area beer-havens like Top of the Hill and Carolina Brewery. A souvenir mug is your ticket to a full day of BAL-blowing inebriation. Leave your 40s at home. Saturday, 12pm-4pm, 6pm-10pm. Historic Durham Athletic Park. 500 W. Corporation St., Durham. $18 advance, $23 at gates.
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Freewater Presentations
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. 7 & 9:30pm. Free to students with ID, $4 to employees, $5 to all others.
All the Pretty Horses, Friday
Heroic Trio, Tuesday
The Apartment, Thursday
Quad Flix
Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. 7 and 9:30pm Saturday, 8pm Sunday. $4 for students and Duke employees with ID, and $5 for the general public. Evolution
Gypsy Caravan: A Celebration or Roma Music & Dance * This musical journey traces the "Roma roots" of Gyspy migration from Asia to Western Europe with four different acts, including India's Maharaja and Macedonia's Esma Redzepova. 8pm Saturday. Page Auditorium, West Campus. $17-$26.
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Cat's Cradle * 300 E. Main St., Carrboro. (919) 967-9053.
Junior Brown w/ Old Crow Medicine Show, Friday * Athenaeum w/ Push Stars, Saturday * Samiam w/ River City High, Quasi w/ Magic Magicians & Ted Leo, Sunday * Pat McGee Band, Tuesday * ZOSO (The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Tribute), Wednesday * Jump, Little Children (see story, p. 6) w/ Howie Daye, Thursday
Go! Studios * 100 F Brewer Lane, Chapel Hill. (919) 969-1400. Stranger Spirits w/ Lula's Birthmark, Friday * Nikki Meets the Hibachi, Saturday * Drums and Tuba w/Utah, Tuesday * Frank Gratkowski w/ The Micro-East Collective, Wednesday
Carman * Deemed "the biggest Christian pep rally this side of heaven," Carman's concert promises to be the pop-rock Bible blast of 2001. 7:30pm, Saturday. Greensboro Coliseum Complex. 1923 W. Lee St., Greensboro. $19.50-$29.50. For info: www.ticketmaster.com or call (336) 852-1100.
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