5 Things to Entertain You This Weekend

Blue Jean Ball Chair-ity Auction, October 1

www.childadvocacycenter.com

Pull out your denim and mark your calendar for the 5^th annual Blue Jean Ball & Chair-ity Auction, scheduled for Saturday, October 1st at 7:00 PM at Highland Country Club in Fayetteville. The Blue Jean Ball is a fun multi-generational evening for parents and grandparents to enjoy with their children. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Child Advocacy Center’s child abuse prevention and outreach efforts.   Over the past four years, the Blue Jean Ball has raised more than $117,000 in net proceeds for the Child Advocacy Center. Last year’s event drew more than 400 guests. Michele Macumber is chair of the volunteer committee planning this year’s event.   Again this year, the youth will have their party with food, DJ, and dancing in the ballroom. At the same time, the adults will enjoy the silent auction and hors d’oeuvres in the lounge and on the terrace. The silent auction will include a variety of chairs and other items hand painted by local artists and celebrities.

Tickets are $50 for adults and $30 for children and can be purchased online or by calling the center at 910-486-9700

WFSS Jazz on Fire Concert, October 1

Fundraiser concert for WFSS Radio Station at Fayetteville State University. Contact: Joe Ross - GM, WFSS or Kimberly Durden
910-672-2029

Scottish Games, October 1

This is just the kind of event you would expect to find in the county that has one of the largest concentrations of Highland Scots in North America. It’s the premier celebration of Scottish and Celtic cultures in the Upper Cape Fear and Pee Dee regions.

If you’ve never experienced a Highland Games, you owe it to yourself to join us. Watch our lads compete in traditional events, such as tossing the caber (a massive tapered pine pole) or the Scottish hammer throw, (the hammer is actually a heavy metal “stone” attached to a shaft). Ever heard of the sheaf toss? Throwing a 20-pound bale of straw straight up using a pitchfork!

Of course, what would the games be without the piping and drumming, dancing, and Tartan glory associated with this unique culture.

Location
13040 X-Way Road, Laurinburg
(held at the John Blue House)
Directions
Go south on Main Street.
Turn right onto W. Church.
Go one mile and turn left onto 15/401/501 South.
Proceed .6 miles and turn right onto W. Boulevard.
JBH is one mile down the road on left.
Contact 910-277-5236 for more questions or see their web site.

Cape Fear Regional Theater -- Boeing, Boeing

Friday September 23, 2011 - Sunday October 9, 2011  at the Cape Fear Regional Theater, 1209 Hay Street, see website for times.

Bernard’s love life is a perfect balancing act: when one of his stewardess girlfriends touches down, the next one is already in the air. What could possibly go wrong?

Boeing-Boeing was written by French playwright Marc Camoletti, and made its English-language debut in London’s West End in 1962. It was also adapted into a 1965 film starring Tony Curtis, but contemporary audiences will probably know it best from a recent Broadway revival. “You see, the appeal of ‘Boeing Boeing’ is the very opposite of what you might expect. It’s not smutty at all. It’s deliciously, deliriously innocent. I haven’t felt so much like a child, while watching a sex comedy, since I was, well, a very young child, taken by his mother to the Billy Wilder movie ‘Some Like It Hot.’” - The New York Times (Farce)

The Rocky Horror Show

Gilbert Theater presents: "Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show" 

On a dark and stormy night, Brad Majors and his innocent fiancée Janet Weiss find themselves in a mysterious castle- and their bizarre adventures begin in this rock musical spoof of old horror movies and a celebration of love, lust, manipulation, creation, satisfaction and biological advancement!

**Outside props are NOT allowed. We will have prop bags available for you at the theater.**

• Thursday, September 29, 2011 8PM
• Friday, September 30, 2011 8PM
• Saturday, October 1, 2011 8PM
• Sunday, October 2, 2011 6PM
• Thursday, October 6, 2011  8PM
• Friday, October 7, 2011 MIDNIGHT SHOW!
• Saturday, October 8, 2011 8PM
• Sunday, October 9, 2011  6PM

And of course, walk-ups are always welcome to come to a performance, but we can’t guarantee seat availability.

Please be aware you can also access this information on our website via the “Purchase Tickets” tab on our homepage. The theater is physically located at 116 Green Street, Fayetteville, NC 28301. We’re located in the same building as the Fascinate-U Children’s Museum. Our entrance is on the Bow Street side of the building.

Parking: On weekends and during the week after 5 you can park in any of the spaces around the theater, with the exception being the clearly marked handicap and fire spaces.