The movie "Bandslam" opens in theaters today, and I am afraid it's not so great. Click through for the review -- and also some back verbiage on why that's disappointing, due to the director's body of work.

Calling all aspiring pit masters! The North Carolina Barbecue Society will be hosting the first BBQ Boot Camp for Teens & Adults on May 22-24 at the YMCA Camp in Hanes-Stokes County, NC. From Friday night through Sunday morning campers will participate in hands-on BBQ cooking classes with four of the country’s top pit masters. For more information go to http://www.ncbbqsociety.com/ and click on the Upcoming Classes link or call 336 765-NCBS (6227).

Tuesday evening at 7 p.m., Slickrock Expeditions owner and chief guide Burt Korengay will share tales from 25 years on the trail — both canoe and hiking — at the Great Outdoor Provision Co. in Cameron Village.
In advance of his visit, GOGF is celebrating Three Days of Burt. Today:
How does a guy get the idea to make a living by taking other people out
into the woods.

One of the things I like about this job is finding out about things I think you might like to know about. It's part of what drives me to get out and explore places I might not otherwise go on my own. Faced with riding the same trail for the fifth time in as many days or checking out a new trail I just heard about, the job compels me to explore the unknown. I do it for you.

OK, that's a little thick. But I do like to tell you about something you might not know about. What I don't like — what drives me nuts — is when I try and tell you about something cool and don't get it right. In today's Life, etc., section, for instance, I wrote about summer camps that keep kids on the go. The kind that let kids spend the summer the way kids were made to spend the summer — contracting poison ivy, getting glommed on to by ticks and otherwise enjoying the great outdoors. Further, I wrote that you could learn more about such camps this weekend at the  Carolina Parent Camp & Education Fair. Trouble is, I gave the wrong day. The fair is Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m. at Saint Mary's School, 900 Hillsborough St. in Raleigh.

(In my mea culpa to the camp organizers, I mentioned that years ago someone in the newspaper chain I was with at the time had made a similar mistake. That person's editor hated getting things wrong, hated deceiving readers. For the benefit of those readers who may not have seen the correction the following day, he made the offending reporter go to the place he erroneously listed in his article at the erroneously listed time wearing a sandwich board bearing the correct information.)

Anyway, to repeat, the Carolina Parent Camp & Education Fair is Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Saint Mary's School, 900 Hillsborough St. in Raleigh.

Long-awaited service should kick in in April.