May’s cover art
photographs by Christer Berg It takes an artist’s eye to find beauty in the everyday: Denise Hughes did just that with her family’s recycling bin. “First, I noticed how easy it is, even as a family of four, to fill…
Monthly Archives: May 2017
The GlasStation: glassblowing arrives at ECU
Things are heating up in Farmville, N.C. There, East Carolina University has helped transform a gas station into a glass blowing studio that’s open to the public. “It’s totally amazing,” says Dean of the ECU College of Fine Arts and…
Smile, you’re on critter camera
Imagine if you could stay up all night in your backyard wearing night goggles: What would you see? Deer? Opossums? Fox? You can find out, and contribute to wildlife conservation at the same time, by participating in a “camera trap”…
Reel it in: Topsail Island’s spring surf and pier fishing challenge
Anglers of all stripes are invited to vie for the Pier Cup at Topsail Island’s annual Spring Surf and Pier Fishing Challenge May 5 – 7. Surf and pier fishing tournaments are common along the coast in springtime, many presented…
Par for the course: Pinehurst hosts guests, chefs, and makers
If you’d like to visit the charming golf mecca that is Pinehurst – but aren’t much of a golfer – here’s a new reason to go. The historic Pinehurst Resort, known for its beauty and its storied PGA and U.S….
An hour east, you’ll find a feast
“You really don’t come here just to eat,” says Kimberly Kulers, who runs farm-to-table restaurant SoCo in Wilson with her husband Jeremy Law. “When people come for dinner, a lot of the time they’ll come and grab a glass of…
Tummy time: bellyaks
Step aside, stand-up paddleboard: There’s a new watersport in town. Bellyaking is “kayaking meets swimming meets surfing,” says founder Adam Masters, who invented the watercraft outside of Asheville about a decade ago. As its name suggests, a bellyak is quite…
Bird by bird
“All gardening is hopeful. It’s even more hopeful to plant a bush that, come fall, will be loaded with berries that help birds along their epic migration journeys. It’s hopeful to plant a native honeysuckle vine that will have flowers ready…
Breath of fresh air: NCMA’s public art initiative
“We want to connect art and nature and people,” says Marjorie Hodges, director of external relations at the N.C. Museum of Art, and a key player in the museum’s Art in the Environment Fund. To accomplish this simple but profound…
Band Together: Concert for a cause
When pop-rock-classical musician and North Carolina native Ben Folds takes the stage at Red Hat Amphitheater May 6, he’ll headline “a celebration of everything that’s great about Raleigh,” says Matt Strickland. Strickland is the executive director of Band Together, the…
Diana Bloomfield: A Daughter, A Muse
A Daughter, A Muse text and photographs by Diana Bloomfield Most of my work focuses on the intersection of the past and my memory of that past. Memories, fugitive and ever-shifting, are always subject to interpretation, while photographs are tangible. The…
Story of a House: Revival Living: Tarboro
This Greek Revival home in Tarboro NC is timeless & vibrant with its silk curtains, lacquered walls + a light-filled kitchen with custom cabinetry & brass hardware.
Topsail Island Skating Rink
text and photographs by Julie Williams Dixon Go around. Again and again. That’s what you do at a skating rink. At the Topsail Beach Skating Rink, locals and vacationers have been circling the wooden floor on sticky summer nights since…
The Triangle Troglodytes
“There’s usually more than one way to get through something.” –Ken Walsh, Triangle Troglodytes vice-chair by Jessie Ammons photograph by Travis Long When can we go underground again? asks the Triangle Troglodytes tagline. The answer? “About every other month or…