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Kings Barcade, the Raleigh indie-music landmark that was set to reopen tonight after a 3-year hiatus, appears to have been postponed - but likely only until tomorrow night. According to local news blog New Raleigh and the MySpace page for Slim's, the show planned for tonight at Kings featuring The Spring Collection, The Royal Nites, and The Tomahawks has been moved to Slims. No reason or additional information was given at this time. The new Kings website still lists a show for tomorrow night with Winston-Salem based rockers Bandway, and the latest on the band's MySpace page seems...

To paraphrase a certain well-known fictitious character, beer is often regarded as the cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems. In light of the many virtues of this tasty mixture of barley and hops, a group of area bars and restaurants decided Raleigh needed a celebration of the brew, culminating in the First Annual Raleigh Beer Week. Beer Week, which runs from August 30th to September 3rd, will feature nightly events at the sponsor bars, not to mention samples of some ultra-rare brews at each of the locations. Landmark Tavern will feature a special selection of Allagash...

If you have an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and love Raleigh's Busy Bee Cafe, you'll definitely want to check out the all-new Busy Bee Cafe app, available now from iTunes. The app includes updates in three categories: Menus, Events, and Articles. You can view a daily calendar of happenings at the Bee, including new brews on tap and beer dinners, along with the ever-changing beer list and articles from the Busy Bee website. Busy Bee, recently featured as one of Raleigh's 7 Most Facebook-Friendly Bars and one of Draft Magazine's 150 Best Beer Bars in America, has quickly become...

Are you waiting with baited breath for the return of Kings Barcade? If you're like the rest of Raleigh's indie-music-loving scene, the answer is likely a resounding yes. If that's the case, then your wait is nearly over: Kings Music Hall will celebrate its grand reopening on August 27th, according to the all-new KingsBarcade.com. The opening night, just two weeks before the Hopscotch Music Festival, has been dubbed "The Royal Reopening" and will feature hometown boys The Spring Collection, supported by The Royal Nites and The Tomahawks. Tickets for the show don't...

If you heard about Lazyday Raleigh's 3rd Annual Bar Crawl this Friday and you want to get in on the action, you'll want to show up at The Union at the Depot tonight for their pre-crawl party. Attendees of tonight's event can reserve their spot on the bar crawl, receive the official Crawl T-shirt, and win some free gear courtesy of Lazyday.  The event runs from 9pm to 11pm and will feature cornhole and a beer pong table, as well as a number of drink specials. As is customary for Lazyday events, Miller High Life is on special for $2, a selected shot is $4, and it's only ...

As football season draws closer by the day, more and more fantasy football leagues are holding their drafts. As a result, more bars are trying to woo the leagues to bring their drafts - and money - to their establishments.  Following the lead set by The Brickhouse, Raleigh's Crabtree Tavern (5300 Homewood Banks Drive, behind Crabtree Valley Mall) has begun offering up a sweet deal for fantasy football leagues who hold drafts at the Tavern. Crabtree Tavern's Facebook page announced on Wednesday that leagues who hold their draft there between August 17th and September 7th will...

With the end of summer rapidly approaching, a magical time of the year is upon us. It's the time when fantasy football aficionados start to pore over draft sheets, listen intently to sports radio all day at work, and wait with baited breath for Brett Favre's decision yet again: it's fantasy football draft season! For anyone who's never participated, fantasy football is a great excuse to watch football games with a group of your closest friends, discuss at length such topics as the merits of Sidney Rice or the effect of schedule strength on the Chargers' defensive line,...

In an age when even your grandmother is on Facebook, many local restaurants, bars, and clubs have decided to get in on the action as well. While you're likely to find a Facebook fan page for most of the bars in the Triangle, a select few are very active and make your "Like" worth the trouble. Here's a short list of the bars you should be watching on Facebook: 1. DIVEbar, 3 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh - DIVEbar's Facebook page is updated on a daily basis, letting fans know the night's drink specials, music lineups, even who's slinging drinks behind the counter. Seeing...

On Friday, the Facebook pages for Mura, Sono, and The Oxford all touted the upcoming openings of two new ventures by their parent company Eschelon Hospitality. The posts included links to the websites for the new places, called Trim and The Ivy. According to the Triangle Tattler, these clubs will take the place of The Pourch and Bassment, which closed its doors for good this weekend. Located at 407 Glenwood Ave., the two-level building will house The Ivy upstairs and Trim downstairs. Websites for both clubs, which simply include the logo of each venue, the address, and the words "...

If you spent any time in the Glenwood South area this weekend, you may have noticed this banner posted on the front railing of the familiar building at 407 Glenwood Ave. next to Helios Cafe. The banner invited patrons to bid the Pourch a final farewell and touted the coming of a new bar called The Ivy. The Ivy, a new venture from Mura and Sono parent company Eschelon Hospitality, will be opening in the space soon, accompanied by a new downstairs neighbor known as Trim. The downstairs bar, the Bassment, has been closed for a few weeks for renovations, but the Pourch had remained open for...