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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:43:25 -0700
Great editorial from the Carrboro Citizen that sums up my frustration with low voter turn out in local elections. This ...My Local Energy Journey 2
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:02:41 -0700
Part Two I had a lot of specific requirements for my choice of diesel vehicle. I’m sure most people will too. Affordable As ...1981 Mercedes 240D
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:05:44 -0700
...My Local Energy Journey
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:52:06 -0700
Intro I want to change not just the quantity of energy I consume but the kind. Both where it comes from ...Location, Location, Location
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:12:05 -0700
When I was doing my original business market research for CCC I discovered that place is very important. This is ...Subscape Annex plays Theremin
Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:45:37 -0700
...Coworking in North Carolina
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:56:45 -0700
One of the biggest reasons this blog has been dormant recently is my work on Carrboro Creative Coworking. You can ...Bad Ikea Experience
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:56:11 -0700
The delivery was really awful. Ikea promised that our furniture would be delivered up to the second floor. When the ...Fixed
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:01:50 -0700
Last night and today I fixed the blog. Some funky stuff was going on. So if it looks a bit ...RIP Lux Interior
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:05:06 -0800
“When I die don’t you bury me at all/ Just nail my bones upon the wall/ Beneath these bones let ...Google-ize
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:45:07 -0700
Tomorrow is the big day. Hundreds and hundreds of folks are expected for Google Day at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park ...Jumping Hatred
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:54:48 -0700
Having just read The Help by Kathryn Stockett, I got to thinking about prejudice and how hatred manifests itself by ...A Birthday, A Rant, and Some Leprechauns
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:41:00 -0700
Let me start with a housekeeping item.Fact: I haven't been blogging as much, lately.Sorry team, but daily blogging has really ...Eileen Thornton's Trojan Project
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:00:00 -0700
Eileen Thornton has been writing short stories and articles for magazines since 2001. Two of her stories have appeared in ...Weekend Theater – Reconciliation
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:38:01 -0700
Farber Foundry Theater’s MoLoRa A sampling of Triangle theater performances for the weekend of March 17-21, 2010, and beyond FEATURED SHOW: MoLoRa – A ...Luck
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:25:00 -0700
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I am posting an excerpt from Just North Of Luck. I hope you enjoy ...Wake Commissioners vote 4-3 to restore abortion coverage to employee insurance
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:40:52 -0700
With Democrat Harold Webb joining in by phone to break the deadlock, the Wake Commissioners today voted 4-3 to restore ...Google Goggles
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:56:15 -0700
New search technology from Google to run on Android-powered mobile devices. I heard in a SXSW panel yesterday that we ...SXSW Evan Williams Keynote Live Blog
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:54:06 -0700
1:53 CDT Hi folks, I’m here in the Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 1. Twitter CEO Evan Williams will take ...Down the home stretch
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:58:00 -0700
We are nearing the end, my friends!2.5 weeks til closing... can you believe it?We're at the point where we've been ...January Specials!
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There is a terrific special for January–an adorable ‘bundle’ of supplies that saves you money. As an added bonus, hostesses ...Cruise with me!!!
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:47:19 -0800
I am so excited to be teaching rubber stamping with scrapbooking on the Ultimate Scrapbooking Cruise 2009. What an honor ...Tart & Tangy Class…
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:23:39 -0700
WOW! Stampers….I have been so busy teaching classes and doing parties during the busiest time of the SU! year! Sell-A-Bration! ...National Card Making Day Cruise with me to MEXICO!!!!
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:42:02 -0700
I am so excited this event sold out, not once, not twice but four times. We had to add more ...What’s been going on…
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:38:09 -0700
Hello everyone… It has been a while since I’ve had a chance to update my blog. I know I have neglected ...What’s cookin’….
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:04:54 -0700
Who doesn’t love SMORES! One of my most favorite things to do is to cook……So naturally when these projects were ...Let’s Stamp…
Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:15:08 -0700
Join me this Saturday, September 13th @ 11am for a fun CD Folder Class @ the Eagleview Community Center on ...Michael Jackson’s memorial celebration in Raleigh loses thousands of dollars
The Michael Jackson memorial celebration at Raleigh’s Convention Center drew between 200 and 450 people, depending on which media outlet you quote. But with a $5 admission, the organizer was not even close to recouping the $24k he spent to host the memorial downtown.
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“He paid $24,495,” said Roger Krupa, director of the convention center. Krupa brandished a photocopy of the check from the Martin Luther King Celebration Committee, which Lightner co-founded in 1982. “Oh, and 25 cents.”
As the Raleigh high school hip-hop duo Certified Ladies danced on a stage raised at one end of the 100,000-square-foot Exhibit Halls A and B, Lightner frowned at those numbers. “I’m $18,000 in the hole,” he said, offering what seems to be a conservative estimate, considering the facility fee and the rental of four large projection screens spread throughout the hall were offset only by the sale of a few hundred tickets at $5 each.
2 Responses to “Michael Jackson’s memorial celebration in Raleigh loses thousands of dollars”
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Phil Buckley
July 8th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
ugh, who patted him on tha back and said, “yeah, you should spend $24K, I think that’s a great idea.”
Note to self: Always run ideas past someone skeptical.
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Ginny Skalski
July 8th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Wow, Phil, you just made me lol. I love your suggestion of running ideas past someone skeptical. On the contrary, I think a lot of us intentionally don’t do that because we don’t want someone to criticize our plans.
I was at the memorial, and it was definitely a neat event to have happening simultaneously in Raleigh. That said, I don’t understand why a smaller venue couldn’t have been used. Say Vintage 21 or Lincoln Theater, or even Moore Square. Definitely would have saved some money.