are you moving to the area?
October is the Durham World Beer Festival (the same festival that is next weekend in Raleigh, it alternates). It's a hoot! Tickets sell out just as fast for it as for the Raleigh one, so buy quickly when they go on sale about a month before the event.
and if you need any help on what is where or finding things, my wife and I have lived in the area since 2000 and lived or worked in Raleigh, Cary, Morrisville, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham, and Graham.