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1 The News and Observer, about is stuff like that, so it just makes sense." Tickets should go on sale next week. Greensboro band the Graphic and Chapel Hill's the Pressure Boys both have booked time with producer Don Dixon for the upcoming weeks. Dixon was back home in Chatham County for a few weeks following his summer mini-tour of Europe, but he returned to Norway last week to produce an album by a band called Little Eden. GO ON PALACE Specializing in: Hunan, Szechuan, Mandarin And Cantonese 19 Lunch Buffet $5.95 All You Can Eat $3.00 Children 2 Egg Sweet Rolls Sour Soup Chicken Beef Fried Rice Broccoli Fried Twice Chicken Cooked Pork Wings Eight Delicious Shrimp Sun. -Thurs.

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The Accelerators, led by singer and songwriter Gerald Duncan, started out in Greenville, S.C., in the early 1980s with the name Moon Pie. The band moved to Raleigh and changed its name in 1983, in time to be included in the first North Carolina music compilation from Durham-based Dolphin Records, "Mondo Montage." They also recorded an album, "Leave My Heart," with producer Don Dixon that got good reviews through 1984. Making Waves Records of London chose the "Leave My Heart" single for its 1985 North Carolina compilation called "Greetings from Comboland." Since 1984, the band has concentrated on playing shows, writing new material and looking for a record deal. Rod Dash, Raleigh guitaristsongwriter-singer and producer, has signed a publishing deal with Making Waves Ltd. of London.

Barry Martin, head of the British company, will represent Dash as an artist and songwriter across the Atlantic. Robert Kirkland of Raleigh has two new arrivals to celebrate his two-week-old son, Nicholas, and his first solo album, "Kick the Future," out on Mega Records in Scandinavia. Nicholas was born Museum grant for restorations The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received an Institute of Museum Services grant, to be matched by Ackland funds, to restore six paintings. The works will be taken from the Ackland collection to the conservation laboratory of the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh, where they will be examined and treated by Janet Hessling, assistant conservator, under the direction of David Goist, chief conservator.

Goist and the Ackland staff surveyed the museum's painting collection from 1981 to 1985 under a National Endowment for the Arts to determine which works needed treatment. The works to be treated include an Italian gold ground triptych from the early 1400s, two northern Renaissance panels, and oil sketches on canvas and panel. The Ackland was one of 250 museums to receive the conservation project grant. More than 600 institutions applied for the awards. The institute, an independent agency with the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities, was established by Congress to assist museums in their educational role and to help them modernize their methods and facilities.

Timbuk3, a husband-and-wife duo from Austin, Texas Sept. 15 to Kirkland and his wife, Angeles-based Death Records Debi. Kirkland, a guitarist, singer (part of Metal Blade Records), and songwriter and veteran of the fuifilling CoC's obligation to that late Triangle band Arrogance, re- record company. Earlier in the corded the songs over a couple of week, Corrosion of Conformity years at Charlotte's Reflection opened for Los Angeles punkers Studios. the Circle Jerks in two shows at The Brewery.

The band also is orRaleigh hardcore band Corro- ganizing an Oct. 19 performance sion of Conformity is recording a at The Brewery with Eugene four-song mini-album at Videofon- Chadbourne and other acts to benics in Raleigh this week with pro- efit the Coalition for Alternatives ducer Dick Hodgin. Drummer to Shearon Harris. Mullin said Reed Mullin says the EP, "Tech- CoC decided to put the CASH bennocracy," will be released by Los efit together because "all we sing ESQUIRE DATING CLUB An Intelligent Alternative 755-5512 N. MYRTLE BEACH Take advantage of best season at off-season rates.

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