No Kidding!
Raleigh, NC Chapter

Thirsty 3^rd Thursday Happy Hour
Thursday, July 17th, 6:30pm

Join other childfree adults on the Third Thursday of this month at Tyler's Taproom. Located in the American Tobacco Historic District, next to the Durham Bull’s Athletic Park, Tyler’s offers 60 of the finest craft and specialty import beers on tap. You'll also find plenty of free parking and great conversation. So, pull up a chair and say "Hi". Any ?

I’m Not There - NCMA Outdoor Film
Friday, July 25th, 9:00pm

Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black & white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. I’m Not There is an unconventional journey into the life and times of Bob Dylan. Six actors portray Dylan as a series of shifting personae — from the public to the private to the fantastical — weaving together a rich and colorful portrait of this ever-elusive American icon. Want to join me for this unusual biographical movie described as “A preposterous idea that works brilliantly?” Tix must be purchased in person or by calling the Museum Box Office (919)715-5923.

July book club
Saturday, July 26th, 11:00am

Hello! I will be hosting the July book club on Saturday, July 26, at 11am. Directions will follow to those who . If the weather's good, we can go to the apartment pool. It has a nice waterfall and is a very relaxing place. The book will be "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion, winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage — and a life, in good times and bad — that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later — the night before New Year's Eve — the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness...about marriage and children and memory...about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." Hope to see you on the 26th!