Pink House Forever

The Pink House was like an underground United Nations. Chapel Hill's aspiring artists, musicians, poets, DJ's, activists, actors, writers, nudists, flutists, knuckleheads, and couch-surfers, all living together in (relative) harmony, united by their common bohemianism. Life inside the Pink House often consisted of weird shit happening at all hours, every day, it rarely stopped. And there's something about that place that won't allow the vibe to ever fully dissipate. / PinkHouseForever.org

Pink House. 130 North Street. Back In The Day.

Fellow residents from the 1991-94 years were Clint Curtis, Shyam Patel, Raj Krishnasami, Lydia Craft, Jess Deltac, Kyle York Spencer, Caroline Rivers Hall, Mel Lanham, Michelle Sinnott, Jay Murray, N'Gai Wright, Scott Bullock (who crashed on the couch for a year before finally moving in), Bryan Ellerson, Karen Hurka, Sally Stryker, Ryan Mathias, Charlie Speight, Chris Palmatier, Trent McDevitt, and Steve William.

Besides holdovers and returnees Jay, Scott, Mel (& Laverne!), Chris, and N'Gai, residents during 1995-97 included Ian Williams, Greg Humphreys, Allen Sellars (who, like Jay, lived at both the Pink House and 401 Pritchard), Zak Bisacky, James Dasher, Linden Elstran, Jiffer Bourguignon, Grant Tennille (who first made the scene as a fixture in N'Gai's room circa summer '93), Zia Zareem, Ben Folds, Tom Holden, and Chris "Chip" Chapman.

- Erik Ose

Saturday, September 28, 1996

Supposedly last weekend but this is just a rumor...

ch-scene listserv, 9-28-96

· To: ch-scene@listserv.oit.unc.edu
· Subject: Re: Does anyone seriously use this group? Any Ben Folds fans out there?
· From: venus_in_pisces@vnet.ibm.com (Chris Calloway)
· Date: 28 Sep 1996 00:11:35 GMT

In <52gn79$8ao@newsgate.duke.edu>,
danie016@mc.duke.edu (danie016) writes:

>>I'll say. Seems like a coupla years back every weekend was "Pink House party Friday, Mallette Street house party Saturday" and Dada Veda or Reverb-A-Ray or somebody would be playing in the basement. Or is this still going on and I don't know the right people anymore?<<

pink house supposedly last weekend but this is just a rumor, i dunno. i don't get invited to these things, or even told about 'em until later, so apparently i never knew the right people. sheesh, we know more about house parties going on in blacksburg that we do about 'em here.