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The Roanoke Rapids Theatre will open for a special Christmas show on Thursday, December 18. Tickets for The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards will go on sale Friday, December 5. The show is being produced by L & M Hospitality, LLC, the Chicago based company that plans to take over operations and production for the 1500-seat Roanoke Rapids Theatre (Formerly The Randy Parton Theatre), on I-95 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in 2009. (more…)

Each year when the holidays roll around you probably take dozens of photos and shoot tons of video. Then what? They get tucked away, only to be pulled out for the occasional recminiscing.

Well, here’s your chance to change that. Your family’s holiday photos and video clips could appear on NBC17.

Here’s the deal. NBC17 is putting together a 23-minute holiday television show that will feature photos and videos from Triangle residents. But in order for her to create the show, she needs stuff to fill it with – that’s where you come in.

Do you have any photos or video clips from your family’s holiday celebrations that you’d love to appear on air? NBC17’s Page Crawford is piecing together all sorts of content. So if you’ve got an old video clip of your child doing a funny dance because she got a Tickle Me Elmo doll, send it Page’s way. She’ll even take photos of your kids crying when they met Santa for the first time or videos of your over-the-top yard decorations.

If you’d like to have some of your memories possibly appear on TV, you can submit them to http://www.holidays.mync.com. Please only submit stuff if you live in the Triangle though. Page is trying to fill the show with lots of local stuff.

By SCOTT HOLLIFIELD
Media General News Service

I was where I did not want to be: standing in a big discount store late on a Sunday afternoon smack dab in the middle of shopping season waiting on customer assistance that would never come.

It started with a promise that was, at the very least, of debatable origin.

“Daddy, can we get a Christmas tree this weekend?”

“Can’t talk. Game’s on. 10 seconds.”

“Please?” (more…)

Interpreters dressed in late 19th century clothing will gather children inside the Duke family’s 19th century farmhouse parlor to sing carols and pop corn over a roaring fire. In the old-fashioned farmhouse kitchen, kids will be transported back 140 years, to a time when gingerbread was baked inside a cast-iron stove instead of coming out of a cellophane package. (more…)

Cary Ballet Conservatory’s Ballet Company and their 3D Project jazz company will be performing excerpts from their festive annual holiday performace, Visions of Sugarplums, a modified version of the Nutcracker at Pottery Barn Kids at the Streets of Southpoint Mall in Durham on Sunday, December 7th at 6:30 PM. The dancers range in age from 6 -17 years old. The performance is open to the public and is free for all to attend. (more…)

Looking for something to do in the Town of Selma this holiday season?  Look no further.  Selma’s Annual American Music Jubilee Christmas show is already underway.  Click here for my details.

Remember how people in North Carolina’s piedmont celebrated the holidays 140 years ago at the Duke Homestead State Historic Site Friday, Dec. 5, and Friday, Dec. 12. From 7-9 p.m. each evening, the old Duke family homestead will literally glow during the free “Christmas by Candlelight” program, which evokes a typical Christmas in the 1870s. Both nights, visitors can tour the Duke family’s 19th-century farmhouse by candlelight, gather in the parlor to sing carols, enjoy apple cider and sugar cookies, and sample popcorn cooked the old-fashioned way over a roaring bonfire. (more…)

Unto you a play is born! - Don’t miss Cape Fear Regional Theatre’s production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever between Friday, December 12 - Sunday, December 21, 2008.

This is the story of how the awful Herdman’s learn the true meaning of Christmas. It will delight children and adults alike. (more…)

The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill will hold its first day of Christmas Wednesday, Dec. 3 in their annual holiday celebration.

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Cary’s Annual Tinsel Town at Koka Booth Amphitheatre is closed this year as the venue undergoes construction.

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