So much to post or re-post, with continuing technical problems and duplication, and will it work? More posts to come, hopefully.
Other events are listed at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-update-for-week-8-of-2026-history-of.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/some-astronomical-events-march-april.html , and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/revising-durhams-udoldclup-planning.html
Lego animation from Iran:
explosivemediaa on Twitter
youtu.be/dFClZE-2AJ4?si=jqNPFFNKHThjjIhH
Telegram channel – t.me/akhbarenfejari ?
On RT ...
And in The New Yorker?
went2thebridge.substack.com/p/us-losing-war-for-hearts-and-minds
viviensansour.com/Palestine-Heirloom-Fedco Botanical Interests?
went2thebridge.substack.com/p/sourcing-seeds-while-boycotting-israel
ADC's new IHRA Legislative Tracker: legislation.adc.org/
"In 450 BCE, While Greece Was Inventing Reason, the Zapotec Had Calendars, China Had Confucius, and Europe Had Nothing | BOOK REVIEW" – threesonorans.substack.com/p/in-450-bce-while-greece-was-inventing
julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/are-you-normal
Tokyo writer Julian Macfarlane was threatened with the loss of his home: julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/thanks-from-the-cat-crew
Steve Woolford of the Fayetteville, NC Quaker House (an acquaintance) was on on NPR December 13th regarding soldiers allegedly seeking legal advice? Early on December 27th Jefferson Morley was on on the BBC on regarding the assassination of JFK.
On the BBC's Outlook program around late December (?) – the 1939 Soviet cookbook Tasty and Healthy Recipes, with basic to exceedingly extravagant recipes.
On Soviet toys' rising popularity? – www.rt.com/russia/630011-grandmas-toys-are-cool-again/
The Soviet cartoon Gena the Crocodile (do Russians have a thing about crocodilians??), featuring furry, big eared Cheburashka, Gena, and Old Lady Shapoklyak first aired December 31, 1969. It is based on a book by Eduard Uspensky ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Uspensk ) and the animation was made by Soyuzmultfilm ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuzmultfilm ). Sequels in 1971, 1974, and 1983. Shown in Sweden, etc. There is a 2009-2010 Japanese version, Cheburashka Arere? and the 2010 Cheburashka. Post-Soviet Russian films came out June 5, 2014, and January 1, 2023. Eaten in the 1990 satire Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood (!). – www.rt.com/pop-culture/631093-cute-ears-that-captured-world/ , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheburashka Russia Beyond? In the ANN anime encyclopedia (on www.animenewsnetwork.com/ or see above).
www.rt.com/india/636550-russia-to-release-bollywood-style-film/
woodsmokeblog.wordpress.com/category/albania/
By Ilir Hoxha – www.oneparty.co.uk/compass/compass/com13604.html
In Venezuela, a member of the CIPOML –
"Interview With Comrade Kirill Yermalovich of the Russian Marxist Content Outlet 'Tribun'" on A Red In Appalachia –
? – portside.org/2026-02-21/how-organize-safely-age-surveillance
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/it-cannot-read-the-human-heart
A one or two hour program on habitats near Wilmington, NC was on on PBS NC April 9-10th.
The Devil's Tramping Ground NC Weekend episode was re-run around late March.
? – indyweek.com/news/culture/art/dave-cook/
? – indyweek.com/news/culture/books/the-yoga-almanac/
9thstreetjournal.org/2025/03/05/an-ode-to-the-bull-city-reddit/
indyweek.com/news/one-mans-trash-is-another-gulls-treasure/
indyweek.com/newsletter/trapped-at-the-mall-during-chapel-hills-flash-flood/
indyweek.com/news/apex-data-center-application-withdrawn-by-developer/
soundrivers.org/momentum-growing-for-data-center-resistance/
www.wunc.org/education/2026-02-24/faculty-under-attack-public-syllabus-policy
www.wunc.org/education/2026-03-02/unc-chapel-hill-nix-secret-recording-policy-faculty
In Farmington, Maine (from Lisa Savage):
In Portland, Oregon (from David Rovics):
Tax Day Actions, 2026: No War on Iran! – April 15th; there will be a protest in Fayetteville, NC at the Post Office on North Franklin at 10:30am: unac.notowar.net/tax-day-actions-2026-no-war-on-iran/
From 7 Directions of Service:
A pro-Cuba tour is coming to NC soon??
From the HRA:
"APEX NEIGHBORS: Public Hearing 4/14 @6pm - Speak out for a moratorium on data centers
The Apex Town Council, in Wake County, NC, will hold a public hearing to consider a 12-month moratorium on data centers on Tuesday, April 14 at 6:00 pm. There are three ways to participate: in person, online, or by writing in advance of the meeting. Please consider participating to show our community support, opposition to the big tech industry and concerns for widespread impacts of data centers/crypto mining on our region.
During the one year they will consider amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) including impacts on water consumption, energy demand, backup power generation, noise, land use compatibility, and transportation infrastructure.
Public Hearing Location: Apex Town Hall
Council Chamber, 2nd floor
73 Hunter Street, Apex, North Carolina
You may attend the meeting in person or view the meeting through the Town’s YouTube livestream HERE. If you are unable to attend, you may provide a written statement by email to public.hearing[att]apexnc[period]org, or submit it to the Office of the Town Clerk (73 Hunter Street or USPS mail - P.O. Box 250, Apex, NC 27502), at least two business days prior to the Town Council vote. You must provide your name and address for the record. The written statements will be delivered to the Town Council members prior to their vote. Please include the Public Hearing name in the subject line."
And:
"Must read: Daily Tarheel EMC PFAS Hearing Article |
North Carolina is already a global hotspot for "forever chemicals," yet the EMC’s new proposal asks us to trust the very industries polluting our water to police themselves. Without enforceable limits or penalties, this plan is an empty promise that allows toxic PFAS to continue flowing into the Cape Fear and Haw Rivers, threatening the drinking water of every family downstream. The time to demand real protection is now, before the comment period closes on June 15. Read this: Daily Tarheel Article" And:
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Arash Aziz on the BBC ('the' Arash Aziz? but he was the guest on the 'right'?) and a German historian (Katia Hoya?) on March 28th? Paul Hindley on US-Iran negotiations just not coming together. What negotiations? Yemen (Ansarallah) has joined the War? Imagine if Gibraltar (or even the Bosphorus) were closed to the warmongers. Retired general Wesley Clark believes that the aggressors ("we") have air superiority in Iran?? The War is going great, said the former Democratic Party presidential candidate, famous for publicizing the list of countries the US planned to attack, which has come to pass, Iran last. The IRGC allegedly runs Iran (and even more so now) – so, does the CIA run US foreign policy? Pro-war Nina Ansari. Estonia is proud to have been part of the US occupation of Iraq, their deputy foreign minister said (and Zelensky's western Ukraine aspires to do the same soon and has already joined the Middle East war). FR Germany talking like WWIII has already begun, though Russia will (apparently) give them until 2029 to prepare, they say. The anniversary of BBC broadcasts of British propaganda in Russian in 1946. The British agents had to relocate to Riga, Latvia from Moscow recently.
www.rt.com/news/635442-stubb-finland-iran-ukraine/
WUNC's 50th anniversary was April 3rd? Regarding NPR in general – is it 25 years or 50 years of serving the US "national security" "deep state?"
NPR on Iran suddenly 'discovering' and 'realizing' (Ordonnez) Hormuz is nearby in spring 2026 (!!). April 11th – Being generally anti-war is "neo-isolationism," they decry only Trump's threats, "the Vietnamese occupation" of Cambodia and mines being removed using rodents. Who will remove the weapons left buried across several countries by Israel? Deanna Temple Rastin is even 'at' WUNC now... An anti-Iran academic; she wrote Black Wave. Pro-Robeson, anti-Stalin, Bidenist Democratic Party propaganda as usual on the 'new' This American Life, April 11th. Doubt they will play Robeson singing the Chinese or Soviet anthems.
The BBC especially, but also NPR, speak like Iran is the aggressor! Flipped!
The UK reneges on the Chagos Islands deal for the US?
The "great aim of dismantling the Islamic Republic," to return to Israel-Iran 'friendship,' said James Reynolds with Israelis on BBC Conversations April 11th. The BBC and UK government's real feelings, though the BBC Persian Service doesn't hide it.
There was a large anti-war and anti-NATO march through Ankara, Turkey Saturday, April 4th at 18.30.
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/looks-like-the-rescue-mission-in , Simplicius, etc. doubted the story.
War for US pistachio profits:
the307.substack.com/p/whats-behind-usisraeli-strikes-on
the307.substack.com/p/israel-is-spraying-cancer-causing
fair.org/home/us-media-mostly-care-for-iranians-when-they-can-be-used-to-justify-bombing/
www.kitklarenberg.com/p/how-mi6-laid-iran-wars-foundations
www.kitklarenberg.com/p/lithuanias-false-flag-counter-revolution
eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/stochastic-terrorism-in-russia
? – www.rt.com/russia/629500-boy-stabbed-to-death-in-russian-school-attack/
fair.org/home/its-taken-for-granted-that-cuban-sovereignty-doesnt-matter/
fair.org/home/what-do-americans-think-and-by-americans-we-mean-right-wing-texans/
April 11th – Dr. Nina K. at the New School really thinks that Trump is good for Russia, and would have been good for the USSR too??
An Orthodox Easter truce in the war in Eastern Europe.
On the Media re-runs an interesting episode on (and condemning) shortwave radio. How 'fringe' Epoch Times or Alex Jones became 'important' and 'professional' media (can communists do likewise??).
WUNC and NPR try to ignore and downplay the anti-war movement, so it was strange to hear WUNC speak (April 11th) of 'another' protest in Raleigh; they briefly interviewed Manzoor Cheema of Muslims for Social Justice (NPR painted opposition to Biden's "Gaza War" as only involving Muslim and Arab-Americans).
Stand Up For Science was March 7th, 12-2pm, at UNC's Bell Tower Amphitheater, by the Genome Sciences Building (which "Science?").
The IUCN declared emperor penguins endangered?
The US plan to seize the Moon for Musk, Bezos, war, etc.: www.rt.com/news/635961-there-is-second-space-race/
nss.org/were-going-back-to-the-moon-so-why-does-it-feel-like-its-going-unnoticed/
"The Moon landing ritual and the myth of modernity" by Laughlyn?
nss.org/book-review-beyond-earth-the-soviet-drive-into-space/
docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf
www.rt.com/news/636070-east-asia-entering-missile-age/
www.rt.com/news/635323-from-condor-dreams-to-imported-rockets/
www.manitowoc.org/2189/About-Sputnik
fair.org/home/covering-for-international-abusers-media-reverse-victim-and-offender-in-iran/
jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-bbc-pushes-the-case-for-an-illegal
www.thomasfazi.com/p/the-european-censorship-industrial
the307.substack.com/p/the-us-sanctions-cuban-journalist
the307.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-smears-commentators
fair.org/home/editorial-boards-cheer-trump-doctrine-in-venezuela/
fair.org/home/action-alert-why-didnt-nyt-wapo-report-what-they-knew-about-venezuelan-invasion/
fair.org/home/social-media-working-to-protect-ice-clampdown-in-minneapolis/
fair.org/home/us-media-keen-on-iranian-unrest-less-so-on-us-and-israels-role-in-it/
fair.org/home/wapo-so-worried-about-deficit-it-wants-to-increase-pentagon-budget-by-half/
fair.org/home/after-trump-declared-gaza-war-over-media-lost-interest/
fair.org/home/at-nyt-pretending-you-dont-know-makes-you-a-real-reporter/
fair.org/home/looking-to-blame-anyone-but-israel-for-youths-anti-israel-turn/
arunnews.substack.com/p/no-kings-is-a-front-for-the-democratic/
www.rt.com/news/637189-jerusalem-christian-schools-west-bank/
Israel is telling majority Christian villages in Lebanon to turn Shiite refugees away: the307.substack.com/p/israel-is-repeating-the-gaza-playbook
A repeat of what Israel (Sharon?) did to the US Marines in Lebanon in the 80's (see Fifty Years of Israel by Donald Neff, 1998, chapter 23; the US government became far more pro-Israel under Bill Clinton, Dennis B Ross, etc.?)? – www.rt.com/news/637166-idf-flag-un-peacekeepers-lebanon/
www.rt.com/news/636448-residential-building-razed-us-israeli-airstrikes-tehran/
www.rt.com/news/636460-iran-war-live-updates/
www.rt.com/news/633870-lone-anti-war-voice-in-knesset/
palestinewillbefree.substack.com/p/the-humiliation-of-arab-zionists-gulf-us-israel-iran
indi.ca/the-greatest-depression-is-coming-and-i-feel-fine/
electronicintifada.net/content/british-museum-cannot-erase-palestine/51242
indi.ca/the-ramadan-war-comes-home-to-sri-lanka/
www.rt.com/news/636469-toronto-building-blast-fire/
www.rt.com/africa/632405-saif-al-islam-gaddafi-killed/
www.rt.com/africa/635598-libya-after-nato-2011-intervention/
www.rt.com/africa/635509-libya-15-years-after-nato-intervention/
www.rt.com/africa/635413-former-belgian-diplomat-faces-trial-lumumba-assassination/
www.rt.com/news/637186-rahm-emanuel-democrats-lost/
landmarksmag.substack.com/p/trumps-america-first-neoconservatism
? – socraticgadfly.substack.com/p/shock-me-seven-colorado-river-basin
RT on Morocco versus Senegal – www.rt.com/africa/635414-senegal-stripped-africa-cup-title/
A Chinese "anti-communist" – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koo_Sze-yiu
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls
On Jurgen Habermas (June 18, 1929 in Düsseldorf, Weimar Germany – March 14, 2026 in Starnberg, Bavaria in FR Germany): newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/normcore?pc=1750 and newleftreview.org/issues/i151/articles/jurgen-habermas-a-philosophico-political-profileOn%20J%C3%BCrgen%20Habermas , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Habermas
Robert Platt (October 2, 1949 – March 26, 2026) – cpcml.ca/cpcmlarticle2603272249/
The first annual Salamander Day was March 28th: worldsalamanderday.org/ See also: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2007/04/ncs-new-state-amphibian-is.html
Palestinian Land Day went by and the Nakba and Naksa days are coming up.
threesonorans.substack.com/p/cesar-chavez-marches-are-being-canceled
Founded March 31, 1970 – cpcml.ca/TML2026/T56012.HTM#1 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Canada_(Marxist–Leninist)
Someone bombed a Constructions Navales et Industrielles de la Mediterranee plant in La Seyne-Sur-Mer, France April 6, 1979; the company was building nuclear reactor components for Iraq – Fifty Years of Israel by Donald Neff, 1998, pages 123-124.
April 9, 1948: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre
April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003 (Explosive Media remembers): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
And local media day?
Cosmonautics Day, the International Day of Human Space Flight, and a proposed lucid dreaming day (see a late 2025 Fortean Times issue) are on April 12th; the beginning of the US Civil War is dated to April 12, 1861 (and it mostly ended in April 1865, not all in Virginia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmonautics_Day , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Human_Space_Flight , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
The Battle of Mactan under (?) Lapulapu was April 27, 1521 in the Philippines: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapulapu
According to the National Day Calendar website:
March 23rd was National Tamale Day, Chia Day, Puppy Day, Near Miss Day, etc.
March 25th was Manatee Appreciation Day, Tolkien Reading Day, etc.
March 31st was National Weed Appreciation Day, Respect Your Cat Day, etc.
April 10th was Farm Animals Day, Siblings Day, etc.
April 11th is Eight-Track Tape Day, US National Submarine Day, etc.
The morning of April 6th I missed the large but waning Moon cover up pi Scorpii/Fang, but I saw them in conjunction afterward. A spring drought again, but deep? Fewer cardinal, dove, etc. calls and more chickadees, owls, a warbler (?), etc. Eastern swallowtail butterflies came out a while ago. Herds of deer seen in April, even eating the Asian azalea flowers. More to add.
"The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolf II, 1576-1612" by Henry Carrington Bolton: archive.org/details/folliesofscience00boltrich/folliesofscience00boltrich/page/86/mode/2up
www.sidestone.com/bookviewer/9789464263855
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika_(cow)
DTH
kollibri.substack.com/p/places-that-are-bombed-are-real-places
kollibri.substack.com/p/spring-wildflowers-in-new-mexico
naturalsciences.org/calendar/news/nanotyrannus-confirmed/
The Louisiana azalea guide – www.explorelouisiana.com/articles/see-louisianas-native-azaleas-all-spring-long
ncbg.unc.edu/2026/03/26/whos-your-daddy-fothergilla-in-forests-and-yards/
ncbg.unc.edu/2026/01/28/pteridomania-new-subspecies-of-american-climbing-fern-described/
ncbg.unc.edu/2026/01/21/resurrecting-canbys-dropwort/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_equinox
? – aridoamerica.substack.com/p/azteca-the-beautiful-the-uncanny
"Seeing Red" exhibit at the NCMA – ncartmuseum.org/exhibition/seeing-red/
Chieko Murasugi Exhibition: SHAPING CHANCE opened Friday, April 10th 6-8pm at the GreenHill Center For NC Art (200 North Davie Street, Greensboro, NC 27401); lasts to June 27th.
Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer” will be at the High Museum of Art (1280 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta, Georgia 30309) April 10th-August 2nd, for the 50th anniversary of Playscapes in Atlanta.
"The Whimsical Naturalist: NC Flora and Fauna – Watercolors by Katie Crawford" exhibit at the NCBG ends April 26th.
The new Coker Arbor is being built.
Surplus Sid's (a venerable military surplus store in downtown Carrboro bordering Chapel Hill) closed before Halloween 2025?
www.wunc.org/economy/2026-02-11/chatham-park-asteria-explainer
In Durham – 9thstreetjournal.org/2026/03/06/at-contaminated-parks-shuttered-playgrounds-falling-fences-and-frustration/
More to come; was in winter 2026: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_for_Peace and www.wral.com/news/local/monks-walk-for-peace-wake-franklin-counties-jan-2026/
Went by: alumni.unc.edu/events/dinner-with-the-director-asian-american-center/
From the spring 2026 issue of american archaeology:
Colonial Williamsburg: The First 100 Years – www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/discover/historic-area/art-museums-of-colonial-williamsburg/exhibitions/the-first-100-years
From April 11th – Shipwrecks: Living Museums – iumaa.iu.edu/exhibits/upcoming-exhibitions
In Charlotte, NC – mintmuseum.org/permanent_exhibition/art-of-the-ancient-americas
Ended April 5th – Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation –dia.org/events/exhibitions/contemporary-anishinaabe-art-continuation
Fantastic Flintknapping – unr.edu/anthropology/research-and-facilities/museum-of-people-place-and-time
Katsintithu – Kachina Dolls – musnaz.org/on-view/upcoming-exhibitions
The Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference 2026 was March 11-15th in Gettysburg.
The 79th Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference was March 25-28th in Bellingham, Washington.
The Caddo Conference and Louisiana Archaeological Society Meeting was March 27-28th in Natchitoches.
The Central Arizona Heritage and History Symposium was March 27-28th in Camp Verde, Arizona.
The 2026 Natchez Powwow was March 28-29th at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians historic site in Natchez, Mississippi – natchezpowwow.com
See also: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-update-for-week-8-of-2026-history-of.html and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/some-astronomy-archaeology-art-and.html
The 100th Annual Real Places 2026 Conference: Preserving Historic Texas was April 8-10th in Austin, Texas: thcfriends.org/real-places-conference
(The Texas Revolution Rendezvous will be April 17-18th in San Antonio.)
The 61st Annual Spring Symposium on Archaeology will be April 18th in Crownsville, Maryland: marylandarchaeology.org/springsymposium.html
The Last Dance: 43rd Gathering of Nations Powwows and Route 66 centennial will be April 24-25th in Albuquerque: gatheringofnations.com
The 91st Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting will be April 29th-May 3rd in San Francisco: saa.org/AnnualMeeting
From powwows.com:
Cherokee of Georgia Annual Spring Pow Wow 2026
April 02 - April 04
110 Cherokee Way, St. George, GA - 31562
Yellowhorse Pow Wow Celebration 2026
April 04 - April 05
4950 Swinyar Drive, Collegedale, TN – 37363
28th Anual A.I.L.Y.C. Spring Pow Wow 2026
April 04 - April 04
108 W 5th St, Broken Bow, OK – 74728
Roanoke Island Native American Heritage Festival and Pow Wow 2026
April 11 - April 12
829 Wingina Ave, Manteo , NC – 27954
NAIYA (Native American Indigenous Youth Alliance) Exhibition Pow Wow 2026
April 11 - April 11
1211 E Oltorf St, Austin, TX – 78704
Haliwa-Saponi Blooming of the Dogwood 61st Annual Pow Wow 2026
April 17 - April 19
130 Haliwa Saponi Trail, Hollister, NC – 27844
2026 Duke University Pow Wow
April 18 - April 18
107 Union Drive, Durham, NC – 27710
49th Annual Edisto Natchez-Kusso Pow Wow 2026
April 24 - April 25
984 US-78, Ridgeville, SC - 29472
Annual Youth Pow Wow 2026 (Eden, NC)
April 25 - April 25
134 N. Pierce St., Eden, NC – 27288
ECSUIT Annual Pow Wow 2026
May 02 - May 02
138 Hagood Mill Road, Pickens, SC – 29671
Virginia Tech 9th Annual Spring Pow Wow 2026
May 02 - May 02
705 W. Campus Drive, Blacksburg, VA – 24061
McDonald Farm's Culture Fest 2026
May 02 - May 03
16705 Coulterville Road, Sale Creek, TN - 37373
Rising Sun Pow Wow 2026
May 16 - May 16
310 Edwin Drive, Virginia Beach, VI - 23462
VIAN NASA Club Pow Wow 2026
May 23 - May 23
301 West Hunter, Vian, OK – 74962
1st Annual Memorial Day Intertribal Dance (El Paso, TX) 2026
May 23 - May 23
5301 Salem Dr, El Paso, TX – 79924
The Nowruz holiday began on the Northern Hemisphere spring equinox, March 20th: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/some-astronomical-events-march-april.html As did Eid al-Fitr this year? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Fitr and www.rt.com/russia/635624-eid-festival-moscow-mosque/ and "Newroz 2026: Mobilize the working class against imperialist war and for workers’ power in the Middle East!" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/22/hynm-m22.html Creek Week in Orange County began March 21st and Durham Creek Week ended on World Water Day, Sunday, March 22nd. Other local creek weeks also began in late March (?), and powwows, Asian cherry blossom festivals in the US South (the International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia was March 20-29th; the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC was March 20th to April 12th in 2026: nationalcherryblossomfestival.org ; see also: www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2026/03/05/cherry-blossom-peak-bloom-date-2026-march-29-april-1 ? The forecast in Japan, March 17th-April 25th: www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02648/ At Duke Gardens: www.instagram.com/p/DVtuCy6jgno/ A white weeping cherry nearby was already done or all but done. A native black cherry was just leafing out but Eastern tent caterpillars had already emerged and woven two silken nests again this year.), etc. Farmworker Awareness Week 2026 was March 25th-31st? – saf-unite.org/national-farmworker-awareness-week/ The wars aren't a major issue for No Kings? – www.nokings.org/news/over-3000-no-kings-events-planned-for-march-28-more-events-added-daily
Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary Event, with hosts Amy Goodman, Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh and guests Angela Davis, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Mosab Abu Toha, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Hurray for the Riff Raff, Bruce Springsteen, and others, was Monday, March 23 at 7pm EDT in-person at Riverside Church in New York City and livestreamed (and recorded?) at: democracynow.org/30 Democracy Now! is broadcast on WNCU (7-8pm Monday-Thursday) and WCOM (?) in the Triangle.
The BBC reported that four ambulances in northwest London owned or run by one or more Jewish organizations have been burned. And: the307.substack.com/p/the-official-narrative-around-the ; thegrayzone.substack.com/p/whos-behind-the-mysterious-iran-backed ;related satire about Laura Loomer: www.normalisland.co.uk/p/possible-leader-of-harakat-ashab/ ; On the 24th David Green spoke like a lot of terrorism has been going on due to the War.
Suddenly there was a large amount of reporting about the retaliatory damage Iran inflicted on Israel – but only damage in Dimona. They didn't care much about the Iranian girls' school someone, probably the US, bombed. Even the BBC admitted on the 21st that Israel has nuclear weapons.
NPR and the BBC focused on Iran's restrictions on information and damage done by the criminal aggressors, and tarred the "regime" for mostly blocking them from entering the country (with very conspiratorial dramatic readings of messages from alleged 'ordinary' to openly Machadoist Iranians in Iran broadcast on the BBC every day for weeks), rarely or never mentioning that Israel and the Gulf Arab countries are also restricting information. "Loose lips sink ships?" Iran let Lise Doucette in recently.
The BBC broadcast 1940's type war criminal if not genocidal talk by a Likud diaspora minister and an allegedly 'ordinary' Israeli in Dimona March 22nd.
An outraged Saudi writer (Salman?) was interviewed about the War around the 26th (he was hot under the collar about Iran, only) and an outraged Israeli veteran around the 27th (he was interviewed about Israel allegedly blowing up inhabited apartment buildings, along with empty Basiji offices, with 2,000-pound bombs in Iran and he blamed Iran for bombing targets in Israeli cities). The BBC makes sure to say that Iranians etc. allegedly can't speak freely, but Saudi Arabia kills and dismembers writers who offend the royal rulers. BBC staff are again reporting from Iran (unlike NPR, which pretended that the US government had won from the beginning)??
If Russia attacks western Ukraine's electricity supply it is barbaric, they say, but not a word when the US does it to Iran, Cuba, etc. "Communist"-run Cuba is just having some problems, the BBC said in March. I heard maybe some negative comments about Trump's threat to Iran in the mainstream media by April, though they are strangely willing to admit that the US is strangling Cuba. They rarely mentioned the US role in Venezuela's problems (they have stopped talking about the Venezuelan economy, but they still promote the "opposition" and condemn the country). Bombing media is mostly fine with them in 2026 too.
Will Grant talked like Cuba shouldn't arrest rioters and arsonists.
Two sailboats carrying aid from Mexico to Cuba were reported to be missing on March 26-27th.
If the Pentagon says it, it must be true (so why didn't NPR just agree to that no leaks Pentagon press corps contract in 2025?). Greg Myri in March – Apache helicopters and A-10 jets can allegedly venture over Iran at will. Not a word on the expensive US aircraft lost before the alleged rescue? Little mention of shortages. Was Myri just giving background information or was he trying to make Joe Kent look bad? If only more high level US officials were willing to follow the principles they claim to believe and openly protest the wars.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/joe-kent-isnt-the-hero-you-are
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kent
It isn't a 'political' magazine, but even the March issue of Fortean Times (from the UK) smears Maduro, Rodriguez, and Bolivarian Venezuela, though it also gives the name of a Venezuelan ghost applied to Machado (La Sayona – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayona ).
S and T magazine isn't 'political' either, but joined the US-western Ukraine war effort, as did the Durham City Council, but not a word on what the US, other NATO countries, and Israel have done.
The BBC decried the French "hard," "far" left, left of the old CP (?). And now rightist but Ukraine War-skeptic Hungary.
On The Sprit of Socialism (a new book): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/sheila-fitzpatrick/apocalypse-forgotten and www.amazon.com/dp/1501781510/
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n17/sheila-fitzpatrick/diary
? – isitpropaganda.substack.com/p/origins-of-soviet-paranormal-intelligence Part One; See also – Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, introduction by Ivan T Sanderson (1970-1971).
www.rt.com/russia/636524-most-russians-believe-supernatural/
www.rt.com/russia/631881-ukraine-turns-to-magic/
CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina's son Michael Gloss and Ivan Kokovin, members of Russia's 331st Guards Airborne Regiment, were killed fighting in Chasov Yar in the Donbass April 4, 2024; a memorial was recently built in Donetsk: www.rt.com/russia/629309-russia-commemoration-american-voluneer/
Earlier, School No. 115 in the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) was renamed for Michael Gloss: www.rt.com/russia/624377-donetsk-school-american-soldier/
www.rt.com/news/629210-loudest-russophobes-eu-policy/
www.rt.com/russia/629475-eus-post-soviet-playbooks-georgia/
www.rt.com/news/629549-eu-bulgaria-eurozone-collapse/
www.rt.com/news/630023-gaza-war-christmas-celebration/
www.rt.com/news/629932-rt-christmas-europe-putin/
www.rt.com/russia/629988-zelensky-christmas-threat-putin/
www.rt.com/russia/630004-kremlin-responds-zelensky-address/
www.rt.com/russia/630682-putin-christmas-message-church/
www.rt.com/russia/630683-putin-russian-soldiers-mission-god/
diario-octubre.com/2025/12/25/el-espiritu-de-la-navidad/
? – www.rt.com/news/629520-zelensky-ukraine-election-conditions/
www.rt.com/russia/629991-ukraine-poll-zelensky-corruption-mindich/
www.rt.com/news/629704-czech-ministry-ukrainian-flag/
www.rt.com/news/629325-russia-best-ally-us-carlson/
www.rt.com/news/629894-eu-rob-taxpayers-steal-russian/
A DPRK strategic submarine – diario-octubre.com/2025/12/26/lider-de-corea-del-norte-supervisa-construccion-de-submarino-estrategico/
From the ELN – diario-octubre.com/2025/12/22/mensaje-del-eln-al-pueblo-colombiano/
On Marco Rubio – diario-octubre.com/2025/12/23/quien-es-marco-rubio/
On Marco Rubio – portside.org/2025-12-29/narco-terrorist-elite
diario-octubre.com/2025/12/20/la-hiperexplotacion-burguesa-contra-la-poblacion-reclusa/
? – portside.org/2026-01-15/its-dangerous-overestimate-lefts-strength
? – portside.org/2026-01-25/constitution-dead-dead-dead
WWII Germany – portside.org/2026-01-25/strange-story-famed-anti-fascist-lament-first-they-came
? – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/25/flje-j25.htm
On Quentin Tarantino ? – portside.org/2025-12-30/real-reason-were-all-annoyed-quentin-tarantino
From Palestine Will Be Free – Hamas on the War: palestinewillbefree.substack.com/p/our-narrative-hamas-october-7-manifesto-motivations
versus –
Anti-Hamas Amira Hass in HAARETZ – portside.org/2025-12-29/hamas-proud-its-achievements-hasnt-convinced-gazans-who-pay-price
? – roburie.substack.com/p/chaos-at-home-nonstop-killing-abroad
aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-world-at-eleven
? – aurelien2022.substack.com/p/learning-from-the-defeat
diario-octubre.com/2025/12/15/la-gran-corrupcion-de-la-otan-edicion-2025/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%27ad_Sa%27ad
www.rt.com/news/629442-sydney-attack-hero-bystander/
On Trump and war on Venezuela: meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/war-at-9pm-and-other-news
www.rt.com/news/629421-us-syria-isis-attack/
diario-octubre.com/2025/12/13/enviado-del-kremlin-desenmascara-al-jefe-de-la-otan-quiere-la-guerra/
In Honduras – diario-octubre.com/2025/12/10/xiomara-castro-anuncio-ofensiva-diplomatica-internacional-ante-golpe-electoral-en-honduras/
In Nepal – diario-octubre.com/2025/12/13/recuerdan-la-revuelta-de-la-generacion-z-en-nepal-filtran-que-estuvo-financiada-por-ee-uu/
October 25th to November 1st in 2025: samidoun.net/2025/10/support-elias-rodriguez-and-casey-goonan-call-t H o-action-oct-25th-nov-1st/ Casey Goonan was apparently found guilty of burning a UC Berkeley police (?) vehicle and was given a nearly 20 year prison sentence (they are being held in Mendota, California. There was allegedly an "Operation Campus Flood" at UC Berkeley.
Also note: www.unacpeace.org/political-prisoners.html , etc. the Denver ABC
"The Situation at Columbia XXXV" – www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15365
In Japan – throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/chukakuha-joan-of-arc-female-activist/
husseini.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-time-based-analysis
www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/more-and-more-young-people-disengaged-from-work-and-social-contact
dissidentvoice.org/2021/06/a-nation-of-thespians/
Professor William Manson ('the' William Manson?): dissidentvoice.org/author/williammanson/ and on CounterPunch at...
The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age by Alex Wellerstein – December 9, 2025 (hardcover) ? – www.amazon.com/dp/0063379430
doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-battlefield-is-everywhere
doomsdaymachines.net/p/i-have-sought-to-slaughter-as-few
doomsdaymachines.net/p/civil-defense-and-preppers
doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-retreaters
doomsdaymachines.net/p/irradiating-the-planet
doomsdaymachines.net/p/will-the-survivors-envy-the-dead
doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-meme-ification-of-the-demon-core
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-public-opinion-says-about-the-use-of-nuclear-weapons/
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-1950s-game-that-glorified-the-dangers-of-the-atomic-age/
diario-octubre.com/2025/11/23/xxviii-festival-internacional-de-cine-icaro-en-marcha-de-guatemala/
The "Why should I trust you" dialogues with RFK Jr supporters?
The US-British news program The World's 30th anniversary was January 1st?
Emu – www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/09/03/loose-emu-Rocky-Mount-North-Carolina/5421756922716/
terribuckner.substack.com/p/why-does-carrboro-have-a-chapel-hill address?
From the NCBG, the regional Japanese Consulate, Triangle on the Cheap, the Haw River Assembly, etc.
"The Whimsical Naturalist: NC Flora and Fauna – Watercolors by Katie Crawford" – at the NCBG January 10th-April 27th: ncbg.unc.edu/visit/exhibits/deberry-gallery/
Wikipedia Day 2026, January 15th events online 11am-12pm EST and 12-12:30, in-person at the Chapel Hill Public Library 5-7:30pm: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikipedia_25_Virtual_Celebration and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Wikipedia_Day_2026
From 7 Directions of Service –
- THURS Jan 15 – VS GOLIATH: APPALACHIA Virtual Screening – register
- SAT Jan 17 – The Great Trading Path Trail Ride – register
- MON Jan 26 – Policy Workshop: Understanding & Moving Beyond “Dillon’s Rule” in the NC General Assembly – register
From the Forest History Society in Durham: January 20th 1-2pm – "'We Can Do Better': Paul Johnson and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service" with Curt Meine – foresthistory.org/events/
The Friends of the Goldston Library Winter Book Sale was Tuesday, January 20th, 1-6pm: www.chathamlibraries.org
January 21st at 7pm EST: wildones.org/conversation-with-robin-wall-kimmerer-esther-bonney/
Health Care for All NC's Annual Meeting, "From Obstacle to Opportunity: Reforming U.S. Healthcare in the Trump Era," was Saturday, January 24th at 10am EST at the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF) at 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham, NC 27707 and online: givebutter.com/obstacletoopportunity?gbtid=ebea518c-d750-421a-aca2-89fe7b64d85e or us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L6genQeiQfqZJRgSokskYw#/registration
"Drawing and Understanding Conifer Trees in Micron Pen" with Stacy-Ann Searle, Landscape Artist was January 29th 10am-5pm: ncbg.unc.edu/event/drawing-and-understanding-conifer-trees-in-micron-pen/
The Art of Manga exhibition was September 27, 2025 to February 1, 2026 in San Francisco, California : www.famsf.org/exhibitions/art-of-manga
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York – April 27, 1992 in Redwood City, California): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill
Kami-Con 17 was February 6-8th at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama: www.kamicon.net/
The 2026 Winter Olympics (Olimpiadi invernali del 2026, often called Milano Cortina 2026) the XXV Winter Olympic Games was February 6th-22nd in Lombardy and Northeast Italy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Winter_Olympics
The NCBG's Darwin Day Lecture 2026 featured Paul Brinkman, Environmental Humanities Research Lab Head and Curator of Special Collections at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences on "'Damned beastly devilment:' Charles Darwin's dalliance with vertebrate fossils during the voyage of the Beagle;" moderated by Bryan Stuart: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-d8c4190931ca4e48b34770d7d58e9dcf
Ichibancon 16 was February 13-15th at the Embassy Suites Hotel Concord in Concord, NC: ichibancon.com/
Katsucon 2026 was February 13-15th at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, near Washington, DC: www.katsucon.org/
Anthropologist Marcel Griaule (May 16, 1898 in Aisy-sur-Armançon, France – February 23, 1956 in Paris): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Griaule
Invasive Species Awareness Week 2026 was February 23rd-27th – naisma.org/programs/nisaw/
The 2026 Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage in Great Smoky Mountains National Park was...
"Suminagashi: Paper Marbling Workshop" was March 1st 12-2pm at Peel Gallery (708 West Rosemary Street, Carrboro, NC 27510).
The 2026 Organic Growers School Spring Conference was March 6-8th: www.organicgrowersschool.org/spring-conference
Banzaicon 2026 was March 6-8th in Columbia, SC: banzaicon.com/
The Moundville Lithic Arts Festival (it had been called the Knap-In) in Alabama was March 6-7th in 2026 : moundville.museums.ua.edu/2026/01/05/moundville-lithic-arts-festival/
Matsuri – Japanese Festival was March 8th 2-4pm at the North Huntsville Library (3011 Sparkman Drive NW, Huntsville, Alabama 35810).
"Ikebana Flower Arranging & Sake Tasting" was March 11th 6:30-8:3pm at the DCP Gathering House (327 South Academy Street, Cary, NC 27511).
"CAM After Dark: Honoring Hiroshi Sueyoshi" was March 12th 6-7:30pm at the CAMERON ART MUSEUM – Reception Hall & Brown Wing (3201 South 17th Street, Wilmington, NC 28412).
Animate! Raleigh 2026 was to be January 9-11th at the Raleigh Convention Center, but was rescheduled to March 13-15th due to an equipment (?) fire on the roof of the RCC a few weeks ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animate!_Raleigh GalaxyCon Raleigh is in late July 23rd-26th – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GalaxyCon
Macon, Georgia's International Cherry Blossom Festival was March 20-29th in 2026: visitmacon.org/ (?)
"Fashion Show & Luncheon – 'Japanese Tradition Meets American Style'" was March 20th 10am – 1pm at the Prestonwood Country Club (300 Prestonwood Parkway) in Cary, North Carolina.
The 2026 Irmo Cherry Blossom Festival was March 21st 10am-5pm at Irmo City Park (7330 Carlisle Street, Irmo, South Carolina 29063): www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1351027997051564&set=a.561254859362219 (?).
The HRA's 36th Annual Haw River Clean-Up-A-Thon was Saturday, March 21st.
The 2026 Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival was March 21st-22nd 10am-5pm at the Georgia International Horse Park (1996 Centennial Olympic Parkway, Conyers, Geor gia 30013): www.georgiahorsepark.com/p/calendar-of-events/conyers-cherry-blossom-festival
The Birmingham Botanical Gardens' 19th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival – Birmingham was March 21st 10am-4pm (at 2612 Lane Park Road, Birmingham, Alabama 35223).
Triad Anime Con 2026 was March 27-29th in Winston-Salem, NC: triadanimecon.com/
The 40th Annual Sakura Festival in Tuscaloosa was March 28th 11am-2pm 2:00 PM at the Snow Hinton Park Pavilion (Hinton Park Drive, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35404): japanalabama.com/event-65835693/
The 2026 Chatham County Ag-Fest was March 28th, 10-3pm (?): growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/2025/12/2026-ag-fest/
The 2026 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival was March 28-29th, 10am-5pm, at the Horticulture Center in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park: japanphilly.org/programs/festivals/cbf-2026/
Charlotte, NC's Japanese Spring Festival (春祭り）was March 28th 3-6pm at St. Mark's Lutheran Church (1001 Queens Road, Charlotte, NC 28207): www.eventbrite.com/e/japanese-spring-festival-tickets-1983420405826?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
The 2026 Brookhaven Cherry Blossom Festival was March 28–29th at Blackburn Park (3493 Ashford Dunwoody Road Brookhaven, Georgia 30319: www.brookhavenga.gov/159/Cherry-Blossom-Festival
March 27th (?) the US Senate unanimously declared April 2026 National Native Plant Month (S.Res. 665).
April is Astronomy Month and Earth Month; the spring Astronomy Day is April 25th and there is a fall Astronomy Day (?): is.gd/ ... and astronomyday.astroleague.org
April 1st-30th: ncsciencefestival.org Including a Statewide Star Party and the Statewide Star Party on the ATT again this year (see: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/some-astronomical-events-march-april.html ). And in Person County.
The 2026 Middle Tennessee Anime Convention was April 3rd-5th at the Sheraton Music City Hotel Embassy Suites Nashville Airport in Nashville, Tennessee: mtac.net/
There was a Busk and Bloom: A Spring Buskers Day Celebration at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh April 4th.
An NC State University Earth Fair was April 8th.
"Camilo, the Argentine Commander of the FARC," on Facundo Molares, was Wednesday, April 8th, at 7pm, at the Zirika! Bookstore: diario-octubre.com/2026/03/29/presentacion-del-libro-sobre-vida-del-comandante-argentino-en-las-farc/
The 2026 US National Cherry Blossom Festival is March 20th-April 12th Washington, DC: nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
The 2026 NC Azalea Festival is April 8-12th in Wilmington: ncazaleafestival.org and www.wilmingtonandbeaches.com/blog/post/exploring-the-nc-azalea-festival-in-wilmington/
The Sakura Matsuri Japanese Street Festival will be April 11-12th along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC: SakuraMatsuri.org
"Japanese Paper Lampshade Craft" will be April 11th, 10:30am-12:00pm at the JASG Office (1900 Century Place NE, Suite 112, Atlanta, Georgia 30345).
The Raleigh Geek & Grub Market: Anime Edition is April 11th.
Earth to Raleigh! Your Mother’s Calling — An Earth Day Festival is April 11th.
The City of Raleigh Museum’s Family Fun Day: Squirrels! is April 11th.
MagiCon is April 10-11th.
Weird Weekend North 2026 will be April 11-12th at the Rixton with Glazebrook Community Hall in Rixton, Warrington, UK near Manchester and Liverpool, in Northern England: www.weirdweekendnorth.com/
The HRA's 5th Annual Haw River Island Ramble & 6K is April 11th, 8:30am-12pm.
The Tarheel Antiques Festival is April 10-11th.
The Durham Craft Market’s 20th Anniversary Celebration will be April 11th.
The 2026 Beyond the Book Children’s Book & Art Festival will be April 11th.
There will be a free food and clothing giveaway at The Ark Church in Durham April 11th.
There will be a Revolutionary War Living History Day in Hillsborough, NC April 11th.
There will be a free Family Fun Day at the Museum of Durham History downtown April 11th, starting at 10am.
Cary’s 8th Annual Pimento Cheese Festival is April 11th.
The Bone Suckin’ Sauce Peak City Pig Fest is April 10-11th in Apex, NC.
There will be a UNC Science Expo April 11th.
The NCBG's Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture will be April 12th at 5:30pm – "Native Swagger: Turning Heads with Native Plants," by Andrea DeLong-Amaya, a Horticulture Educator at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center : reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-50280706b8134f3b955f372b3e4b5ca1
Studio Maypop’s 2nd Annual Planter Sale and Community Plant Swap will be April 11-12th.
The Black Farmers’ Market opens April 12th (in Raleigh now, but not every time?).
There will be a Spring Food Truck Rodeo at the Durham Central Park April 12th.
There will be a Plants & Pops: Plant Swap at Locopops April 12th.
International Dark Sky Week is April 13-20th: idsw.darksky.org
The 2026 Full Frame Film Documentary Festival will be April 16-19th (?) in Durham.
The International Multi Chamber Networking Mixer will be April 16th 5:30-8pm at Hotel Indigo Vinings (2857 Paces Ferry Road SE, Atlanta, Georgia 30339).
The 2026 Symposium on ASIA-USA Partnership Opportunities (SAUPO) will be April 17th 9am- 5pm at the KSU Center (3333 Busbee Drive, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144).
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market's Kids Seedling Day will be April 18th.
There will be an Open House and Native Plant Sale at Simple Gifts Community Garden April 18th.
"Beginner Bonsai with Danny Coffey in Raleigh" will be April 18th 10am-12:00pm at Fifth Season Gardening (1930-A Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27608).
Every Day is Earth Day — Party at The Scrap Exchange and Lakewood will be April 18th in Durham.
There will be a Spring Festival and Plant Sale at the Briggs Avenue Community Garden in Durham April 18th.
The Atlanta Haiku Festival will be April 18th 10am-2pm at the Atlanta Botanical Garden (1345 Piedmont Avenue NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309).
Swarm's Inaugural Swarm World Fest will be April 18th at 2pm at Gas South Arena (6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097).
Cat’s Cradle Study Hall Music Fest
The 2026 Durham Earth Day Festival will be April 19th.
"Learn to Kokedama" April 19th, 5-6pm, at the Urban Pothos Houseplant Shop (1101 East Whitaker Mill Road Suite #122, Raleigh, NC 27604).
Durham's Library Fest 2026 will be April 20-25th.
Earth Day is April 22nd.
Raleigh Earth Day is at Dix Park April 24th?
There will be a Garden Party at Collected Treasures in Garner, NC April 25th.
Boxyard RTP's Bazaar at the Yard — vintage market will be April 25th.
The Chapel Hill Garden Tour will be April 25-26th in 2026, 10am-4pm: www.chapelhillgardentour.org
There will be a Won Buddhism Temple Open House in Chapel Hill April 25th.
At Durham's Bennett Place around April 26 (for 1865)?
PSL is calling for a general strike on International Workers' Day, May 1st, and there will be an event in downtown Durham then?
There will be an in-person Friends of the Durham Library book sale May 1st-2nd; there was a pop-up DVD sale at the Main Library March 14th: fodlnc.org/events/ There will be a book sale at the CHPL April 10-12th.
The Spring Parkwood Flea Market, in southern Durham, will be the morning of May 2nd.
The NCBG's Spring Native Plant Sale will be May 2nd.
The 2026 Haw River Festival and Saturdays in Saxapahaw Kickoff will be May 2nd, 4-8pm.
There will be a Little Pagan Faire at the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Durham May 2nd.
立夏 – Rikka, etc. May 5th-21st in 2026 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lixia
Carrboro Bluegrass?
May 15-17th – www.sumtersc.gov/tourism/things-do/festivals-events/iris-festival
The 26th annual UFO Festival at the McMenamins Hotel Oregon in McMinnville (310 Northeast Evans Street, McMinnville, Oregon, 97128) will be May 15-16th in 2026: ufofest.com
October 28th it was announced that Japan's Wonder Festival (WonFes ; ワンダーフェスティバル or ワンフェス ), a major anime/game/sci-fi/mecha figure convention held every February and August in Chiba, Japan's Makuhari Messe convention center (near Tokyo), is collaborating with Atlanta, Georgia's MomoCon ("Peach Con"); Wonder Festival US will exhibit in up to a 7th of the Con's 700,000 square feet dealer/art hall May 21-24, 2026. Wonder Festival is run by Kaiyodo Co., Ltd (海洋堂, Kaiyōdō) – momocon.com , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Festival , wonfes.jp/ , wonfes.us , www.wondershowcase.com , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiyodo , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MomoCon
Raleigh's Animazement convention will also be May 21st-24th, at the Raleigh Convention Center: www.animazement.com/
Tsubasacon 2025 was October 12-15th in Charleston, West Virginia: tsubasacon.org/
Oni Con 2025 was October 12-15th at the Galveston Island Convention Center in Galveston, Texas: oni-con.net/
Anime USA 2025 was also that weekend, in Arlington, Virginia, bordering Washington, DC: www.animeusa.org/
Anime NebrasKon 2025 was October 17-19th at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa: animenebraskon.com/
Kumoricon 2025 (from 曇り, "cloudy"), was Halloween weekend at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon: www.kumoricon.org/
The 20th Youmacon, held at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, was also Halloween weekend: youmacon.com/
SNAFU Con 2025 (Sierra Nevada Anime Fans Unite), held at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada, was also that weekend: snafucon.com/
NekoCon 2025 (from "cat") was that weekend at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, in the Hampton Roads area on the coast in southeastern Virginia (I forgot that NekoCon is near here). This year's theme was "Cy-Purr-Punk" – www.nekocon.com/
A-kon in Irving, Texas might be held again in (May or June?) 2026 or 2027: a-kon.com
There will be a Climate Solutions Fair at The Plant in Pittsboro, NC Saturday, May 30th, time TBA.
Ocrafolk 2026, on NC's Ocracoke Island, will be in about June?
The 2026 Black Shuck Festival will be Friday, July 31st-Sunday, August 2nd 2026 in the UK – "Bungay is on the Norfolk/Suffolk border on the River Waveney, 15 miles south of Norwich, 15 miles west of Lowestoft, 18 miles east of Diss and 38 miles north of Ipswich." – blackshuckfestival.com/
Legendary Weekend in the UK – www.folklore-society.com/event/lying-in-legend-and-tradition-call-for-papers/
duckduckgo.com/?q=legendary+weekend+carlisle
Otakon 2026 will be in Washington, DC in early August? – www.otakon.com
Dragon Con 2026 will be September 3rd-7th in Atlanta, Georgia: www.dragoncon.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_and_manga_conventions
In Raleigh: naturalsciences.org/calendar/event/adult-nights-anime/
Strange Days Festival of Forteana 2026 will be September 4-6th in the UK: www.strangedaysfestival.co.uk/
2026 Eno River event
The Moundville Native American Festival in Alabama will be October 1st-3rd in 2026: calendar.ua.edu/department/moundville_archaeological_park and festival.museums.ua.edu
February 7-8th: naturalsciences.org/calendar/astronomy-days/
Durham Creek Week will be March 13th-21st in 2027.
RTP history February 5th: modh.org
February 18th: alumni.unc.edu/events/dinner-with-the-director-asian-american-center/
February 24-26th: xerces.org/events/best-practices-for-pollinators-summit
Siler City History Club ~ March 5th: chathamhistory.org/event-6536272
chathamhistory.org/NC-History-Between-the-Lines-Book-Club
"POSTPONED: The Regulator Movement and the Revolution in the North Carolina Backcountry" – chathamhistory.org/event-6455477
DS Link?
From 7 Directions of Service:
- SAT FEB 7 – Volunteer Land Day at YESA Farm – sign up form coming soon!
- SAT FEB 21 – Charlotte Rights of Nature Information Session – register
- SUN FEB 22 – Charlotte Tabling at Patagonia
- *** SAVE THE DATE*** SUN MAR 8 – Communities Over Corporate Profits Part 2: How We Win – Durham Central Park
- WED MAR 18 – Rights of Nature for Faith Communities Workshop – register
- *** SAVE THE DATE*** SAT APR 11-12 – Southeastern Indigenous Environmental Conference 2026
"Rights of the Longperson Water System passes in Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council" – ecojurisprudence.org/initiatives/eastern-band-of-cherokee-usa-tribal-resolution-rights-of-the-longperson-watersytem/
The Lumbee of Robeson County, NC were recentin gained Federal recognition. The anniversary of a battle between Lumbee and the Klan in Robeson County was earlier in the year.
Around January 10th WRAL reported that an ancient mound in WNC, surrounded by mountains, and strip malls (?), and owned by a town, was just returned to the Eastern Cherokee.
PBS NC's CenterPiece newsletter ended with December 2025? TV reception was down again December 28th or 27th, but then it got much better? I thought that my local newsletter ended with the December 2025 issue, but one came in January, etc.
Fuquay-Varina Cape Fear to Neuse river inter-basin water transfer request I heard about on WRAL and WUNC (too late for one or more public hearings, but one or more were coming up, maybe on December 15th in 2025).
WUNC on Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam running to the left of Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (WUNC admits that they do have a concept of "political left??")?
Stokes County, in WNC, approved an unpopular data center project before January 13th.
Paraquat and other pesticides, used on golf courses, etc. and Parkinson's disease? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat ; And maneb, ziram, benomyl, some organophosphate pesticides, such as diazinon and chlorpyrifos), rotenone, glyphosate (!), permethrin, and trifluralin (and the degreasing agent trichloroethylene) – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease#Environmental and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
Roundup herbicide and cancer? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_(herbicide)
Rob Urie on the use of herbicides as crop desiccants – roburie.substack.com/p/back-to-the-future and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation
RT January 17th – www.rt.com/news/631083-us-supreme-court-bayer-lawsuit-roundup/
An emu – www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/09/03/loose-emu-Rocky-Mount-North-Carolina/5421756922716/
terribuckner.substack.com/p/why-does-carrboro-have-a-chapel-hill Address?
"The Whimsical Naturalist: NC Flora and Fauna – Watercolors by Katie Crawford" – at the NCBG January 10th-April 27th: ncbg.unc.edu/visit/exhibits/deberry-gallery/
Wikipedia Day 2026, January 15th events online 11am-12pm EST and 12-12:30, in-person at the Chapel Hill Public Library 5-7:30pm: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikipedia_25_Virtual_Celebration and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NC/Wikipedia_Day_2026
From 7 Directions of Service –
- THURS Jan 15 – VS GOLIATH: APPALACHIA Virtual Screening – register
- SAT Jan 17 – The Great Trading Path Trail Ride – register
- MON Jan 26 – Policy Workshop: Understanding & Moving Beyond “Dillon’s Rule” in the NC General Assembly – register
From the Forest History Society in Durham: January 20th 1-2pm – "'We Can Do Better': Paul Johnson and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service" with Curt Meine – foresthistory.org/events/
The Friends of the Goldston Library Winter Book Sale was Tuesday, January 20th, 1-6pm: www.chathamlibraries.org
January 21st at 7pm EST: wildones.org/conversation-with-robin-wall-kimmerer-esther-bonney/
Health Care for All NC's Annual Meeting, "From Obstacle to Opportunity: Reforming U.S. Healthcare in the Trump Era," was held Saturday, January 24th at 10am EST at the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF) at 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham, NC 27707 and online: givebutter.com/obstacletoopportunity?gbtid=ebea518c-d750-421a-aca2-89fe7b64d85e or us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L6genQeiQfqZJRgSokskYw#/registration
"Drawing and Understanding Conifer Trees in Micron Pen" with Stacy-Ann Searle, Landscape Artist was January 29th 10am-5pm: ncbg.unc.edu/event/drawing-and-understanding-conifer-trees-in-micron-pen/
The Art of Manga exhibition was September 27, 2025 to February 1, 2026 in San Francisco, California : www.famsf.org/exhibitions/art-of-manga
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York – April 27, 1992 in Redwood City, California): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill
Kami-Con 17 was February 6-8th at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama: www.kamicon.net/
The 2026 Winter Olympics (Olimpiadi invernali del 2026, often called Milano Cortina 2026) the XXV Winter Olympic Games was February 6th-22nd in Lombardy and Northeast Italy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Winter_Olympics
Ichibancon 16 was February 13-15th at the Embassy Suites Hotel Concord in Concord, NC: ichibancon.com/
Katsucon 2026 was February 13-15th at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, near Washington, DC: www.katsucon.org/
Anthropologist Marcel Griaule (May 16, 1898 in Aisy-sur-Armançon, France – February 23, 1956 in Paris): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Griaule
Invasive Species Awareness Week 2026 was February 23rd-27th – naisma.org/programs/nisaw/
The 2026 Organic Growers School Spring Conference was March 6-8th: www.organicgrowersschool.org/spring-conference
Banzaicon 2026 was March 6-8th in Columbia, SC: banzaicon.com/
The Moundville Lithic Arts Festival (it had been called the Knap-In) in Alabama was March 6-7th in 2026 : moundville.museums.ua.edu/2026/01/05/moundville-lithic-arts-festival/
Animate! Raleigh 2026 was to be January 9-11th at the Raleigh Convention Center, but was rescheduled to March 13-15th due to an equipment (?) fire on the roof of the RCC a few weeks ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animate!_Raleigh GalaxyCon Raleigh is in late July 23rd-26th – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GalaxyCon
The NCMA's 2026 Art in Bloom was March 18th-22nd in Raleigh: ncartmuseum.org/artinbloom/
A small wind turbines workshop was held around March 28th?
The 2026 US National Cherry Blossom Festival is March 20th-April 12th in Washington, DC: nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
The Sakura Matsuri Japanese Street Festival April 11-12th in Washington, DC.
Triad Anime Con 2026 was March 27-29th in Winston-Salem, NC: triadanimecon.com/
April is Astronomy Month and Earth Month; the spring Astronomy Day is April 25th and there is another Astronomy Day in October (?):
April 1st-30th: ncsciencefestival.org Including a Statewide Star Party and an event at the ATT again this year
The next Middle Tennessee Anime Convention was April 3rd-5th at the Sheraton Music City Hotel Embassy Suites Nashville Airport in Nashville, Tennessee: mtac.net/
"Hybrid Lunchbox Talk - Plants in Pockets: A world tour of plants on subtropical coins with Austin Mast, Director, Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium and Institute for Digital Information & Sciences" at Florida State University was Thursday, April 9th 12-1pm: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-990fdfed448644cfa47e0a941a407d47
"'Chlorophyll in His Veins'
Bobby J. Ward
Book Launch for the revised and updated edition of the J. C. Raulston biography"
was April 9th 6:30-8pm at NCSU's JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh: jcra.ncsu.edu/events/details.php?ID=4130
The 2026 Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) is April 9-12th in Suffern, New York: NEAFexpo.com
Weird Weekend North 2026 will be April 11-12th at the Rixton with Glazebrook Community Hall in Rixton, Warrington, UK near Manchester and Liverpool, in Northern England: www.weirdweekendnorth.com/
The 2026 Raleigh Earth Day Festival is April 11th. Cary's Arbor Day Festival was in March?
Victoria Ferguson of the Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia and "one of the founding elders" of Virginia Tech’s Indigenous Community Garden will speak at "American Indian Cultural Garden: SEED Stories with Victoria Ferguson" (she has done 25 years of research regarding "the Yesáh (Eastern Siouan) populations through the early European colonization period") Tuesday, April 14, 6:30-7:30 pm at the UNC American Indian Center (205 Wilson Street) in Chapel Hill; CLE credit is available; RSVP at: heellife.unc.edu/event/12299818
"Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: If Not Us, Who? Rebuilding Botanical Capacity for the Southeast with Joey Shaw, Distinguished Service and UC Foundation Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga" will be April 16th 12-1pm: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-5b1e51e6ffa0417abde12ab8dfd8b569
NC KoreaFest?
National Park Week 2026 starts April 18th.
"Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Bridging the Knowledge-to-Practice Gap: Hemiparasitic Plants in Grassland Restoration with Jordan Argrett, University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology PhD Candidate" will be April 23rd 12-1pm: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-f081f25856f3416db8dd24a55cb523d1
Fayetteville, NC's 44th Annual Dogwood Festival will be April 24-26th: www.thedogwoodfestival.com and www.facebook.com/thedogwoodfest/
April 25-26th in 2026, 10am-4pm: www.chapelhillgardentour.org
The 2026 Raulston Blooms! and Plant Sale – A Garden Festival for All Ages, including the JCRA Spring Plant Sale, a used gardening book sale, their 24th Annual Birdhouse Competition, and a food truck rodeo, including NC State Howling Cow ice cream, will be Saturday, April 25th 10am–4 pm in Raleigh: jcra.ncsu.edu/events/details.php?ID=4164
"Spring Wildflower Walk at Penny's Bend with Ed Harrison, Naturalist" will be Thursday, April 30th along the Eno River in eastern Durham: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-129d5de22ca04d05bd639017c91eb051
"Guided Kayaking Tour with the Great Coharie River Initiative with Coharie River Tours" and Ryan Emanuel, author of On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, will be Thursday, April 30th along the naturally tea-colored Great Coharie River in the Sampson County area, homeland of the Coharie people: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-55a07cc4ed67481fa67e8a417fdbae68
There will be an in-person Friends of the Durham Library book sale May 1st-2nd; there was a pop-up DVD sale at the Main Library March 14th: fodlnc.org/events/ There will be a book sale at the CHPL in mid-April.
"Firefly Field Night with Richard Joyce, conservation biologist with the Xerces Society" will be May 12th at the NCBG (so early in the firefly season!): reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-2ad9e589cba34fd98ae18e06b62686ad
Sumter, SC's Iris Festival 2026
The 26th annual UFO Festival at the McMenamins Hotel Oregon in McMinnville (310 Northeast Evans Street, McMinnville, Oregon, 97128) will be May 15-16th in 2026: ufofest.com
"Blue Wild Indigo Hike at Penny's Bend with Ed Harrison, Naturalist" will be May 16th near the Eno River in eastern Durham: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-367626e833c24066856ddc267e737847
October 28th it was announced that Japan's Wonder Festival (WonFes ; ワンダーフェスティバル or ワンフェス ), a major anime/game/sci-fi/mecha figure convention held every February and August in Chiba, Japan's Makuhari Messe convention center (near Tokyo), is collaborating with Atlanta, Georgia's MomoCon ("Peach Con"); Wonder Festival US will exhibit in up to a 7th of the Con's 700,000 square feet dealer/art hall May 21-24, 2026. Wonder Festival is run by Kaiyodo Co., Ltd (海洋堂, Kaiyōdō) – momocon.com , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Festival , wonfes.jp/ , wonfes.us , www.wondershowcase.com , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiyodo , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MomoCon
Raleigh's Animazement convention will also be May 21st-24th, at the Raleigh Convention Center: www.animazement.com/
Tsubasacon 2025 was October 12-15th in Charleston, West Virginia: tsubasacon.org/
Oni Con 2025 was October 12-15th at the Galveston Island Convention Center in Galveston, Texas: oni-con.net/
Anime USA 2025 was also that weekend, in Arlington, Virginia, bordering Washington, DC: www.animeusa.org/
Anime NebrasKon 2025 was October 17-19th at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa: animenebraskon.com/
Kumoricon 2025 (from 曇り, "cloudy"), was Halloween weekend at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon: www.kumoricon.org/
The 20th Youmacon, held at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, was also Halloween weekend: youmacon.com/
SNAFU Con 2025 (Sierra Nevada Anime Fans Unite), held at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada, was also that weekend: snafucon.com/
NekoCon 2025 (from "cat") was that weekend at the Hampton Roads Convention Center in Hampton, in the Hampton Roads area on the coast in southeastern Virginia (I forgot that NekoCon is near here). The theme in 2025 was "Cy-Purr-Punk" – www.nekocon.com/
A-kon in Irving, Texas might be held again in (May or June?) 2026 or 2027: a-kon.com
The 2026 Black Shuck Festival will be Friday, July 31st-Sunday, August 2nd 2026 in the UK – "Bungay is on the Norfolk/Suffolk border on the River Waveney, 15 miles south of Norwich, 15 miles west of Lowestoft, 18 miles east of Diss and 38 miles north of Ipswich." – blackshuckfestival.com/
Legendary Weekend in the UK – www.folklore-society.com/event/lying-in-legend-and-tradition-call-for-papers/
duckduckgo.com/?q=legendary+weekend+carlisle
Otakon 2026 will be in Washington, DC in early August? – www.otakon.com
Dragon Con 2026 will be September 3rd-7th in Atlanta, Georgia: www.dragoncon.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_and_manga_conventions
In Raleigh: naturalsciences.org/calendar/event/adult-nights-anime/
The Moundville Native American Festival in Alabama will be October 1st-3rd in 2026: calendar.ua.edu/department/moundville_archaeological_park and festival.museums.ua.edu
February 7-8th: naturalsciences.org/calendar/astronomy-days/
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