By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

Davidson Lands Conservancy’s Run for Green and Green Day Festival will be Saturday morning in downtown Davidson. Are you running? Meanwhile, have you seen Davidson Community Players’ production of “The Guys” yet? Anne Nelson’s play about healing after 9/11 in New York City concludes its run this weekend at Armour Street Theatre.

Feeling more like catching some good local music? Davidson’s Summit Coffee will hold its Songwriters Showcase Thursday night, while the Mooresville law firm of Homesley and Wingo will host the Blues and Burritos benefit Saturday evening. Also Saturday, Davidson Local plays a benefit for DavidsonNews.net and CorneliusNews.net at Summit. And the Davidson Symphony and Jazz Ensemble will perform in the final installment of the Davidson Concerts on the Green Sunday. Read the full story

By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

Public meetings, fund-raisers and author visits at Davidson College are on the calendar in the area this week. On Saturday, the Davidson Lands Conservancy hosts the Green Day festival and its annual the Run for Green half-marathon, 10K and 5K runs. Know Your Farms has its annual farm tour this weekend. The Lake Norman Beer Festival is Saturday at Galway Hooker in Cornelius, and Mooresville’s HealthReach Community Clinic raises money Saturday at the Blues & Burritos benefit.

Neil White, author of the memoir “In the Sanctuary of Outcasts,” will give a reading Tuesday morning at Davidson College, while MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman lectures Tuesday night at the college on “Does the Internet Change the Way We Connect?” The Lake Norman Marine Commission and Cornelius Planning Board both meet Monday, the Davidson Town Board meets Tuesday night, and the Lake Norman Transportation Commission convenes Wednesday night in Mooresville. Read the full story

Marla Brown (Joan) and Lou Dalessandro (Nick) star in Davidson Community Players' production of Anne Nelson's "The Guys." (Davidson Community Players photo)

By DAVID BORAKS
DavidsonNews.net

In the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, America has recovered uneasily by tightening security, hunting down those responsible and debating the threat of radical Islam. We’ve fought costly wars, debated good versus evil, and struggled with the global issues raised in the attacks. On the 10th anniversary of the national tragedy that defined a generation, Davidson Community Players’ production of “The Guys” is a painful reminder that the attacks also took a personal and local toll, in the nearly 3,000 lives lost. Read the full story

By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

The weekend’s nearly here, folks – time to start thinking about recharging the ol’ batteries.

On Thursday, there’s something for the fashion-minded — Fashion’s Night Out at the Metropolitan in Charlotte — and for those who tend more towards the outdoors — a lecture by fishing guide and author Capt. Gus Gustafson on “The Sights and Sounds of Lake Norman.”

Also Thursday,  Davidson Community Players‘ production of “The Guys” — Anne Nelson’s story about healing after 9/11 in N.Y.C. — opens at the Armour Street Theater. On Friday, “Yogi Bear” will be showing on an inflatable screen in Read the full story

Davidson Community Players next week presents Anne Nelson’s “The Guys,” a poignant piece about devastation in the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The play, starring regional actors Marla Brown and Lou Dalessandro, opens Sept. 8 and runs through Sept. 17, in remembrance of the events ten years ago. Read the full story

The Warehouse Performing Arts Center this month presents “Stigmata,” a one-woman performance written by local playwright, Don Cook, featuring his wife, actress Divina Cook.

The play centers on Carmen Ruiz, a rich and powerful New York City business woman who, when the curtain rises, awakes to find herself in a cell-like room with no idea how she got there. Her only contact with the outside world is a hand, and together she and the hand embark on a journey through her past, discovering some startling truths about her life. Read the full story