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Spotlight: The National Teapot Show
TIP ME OVER AND POUR ME OUT The National Teapot Show returns to Creedmoor by Jessie Ammons photograph by Jason Dowdle Teapots have really resonated throughout the artist community,” says Jennifer Dolan, manager of Cedar Creek Gallery in Creedmoor. The…
Raleigh Now Spotlight: Raleigh Flyers
THROW DOWN Professional ultimate disc teams prepare for playoffs by Jessie Ammons photograph courtesy of Raleigh Flyers Add professional ultimate disc competition to the area’s long list of excellent spectator sports: The Raleigh Flyers are No. 1 in the region…
Brewery Bhavana
BREWERY BHAVANA Homegrown abundance by Liza Roberts photographs by Keith Isaacs A first-time visitor to the new Brewery Bhavana on Moore Square might think they’ve entered an unusually atmospheric independent bookstore. Skylit shelves offer titles by local and world-renowned authors…
Raleigh Now Spotlight: Gregg Museum
N.C. STATE OF THE ART Gregg Museum opens August 26 by Liza Roberts photograph courtesy Gregg Museum When Roger Manley cuts the ribbon on the new Gregg Museum of Art and Design at N.C. State Aug. 26, the museum’s director…
Thomas Sayre’s Hidden House in Downtown
At home with Thomas Sayre by Jesma Reynolds photographs by Keith Isaacs On any given First Friday in Raleigh’s downtown Warehouse District, hundreds of art lovers stroll the corridor of West Martin Street that connects CAM to a string of…
Our Town: Spotlight: Lakeview Daylily Farm
IN FULL BLOOM Lakeview Daylily Farm by Jessie Ammons photographs by Geoff Wood Noel Weston knows plants. As the first-ever horticulturalist for the City of Raleigh, he spent three decades managing park blooms, roadside annuals, and the trees and grasses…
Givers: Send a Kid to Camp
I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE Send a Kid to Camp by Hampton Williams Hofer photograph by Missy McLamb Not long ago, Mo Johnson used to drive through the heart of Southeast Raleigh in the summertime and see children outside throwing…
Walter Profile: The Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral
BUILT TO LAST Raleigh’s new Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral by Mimi Montgomery all renderings by O’Brien & Keane Architecture If you’ve driven on Western Boulevard toward downtown recently, you’ve likely noticed a colossal new copper dome emerging through the…
Graduation Wisdom
GRADUATION WISDOM Two talks urge curiosity, kindness, and understanding Graduation season can be contagious: The kickoff to summer break! Schedules loosen, days lengthen, spontaneity rules. Even the workaday grind is brightened by early dawns, late dusks, sunlight galore. Graduation can…
Portsmouth Island
TRAVELS WITH CC Taking the fam to Portsmouth Island story and photographs by CC Parker Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, 9:59 a.m.: I sit at my desk, eyes fixed on the Recreation.gov website, waiting for the moment the National Park Service…
Triangle Now Spotlight: The Seldom Scene
SCENE AND HEARD The Seldom Scene by Katherine Poole photo by LeonardsPhotography.net Arguably the most influential bluegrass band of all time, Seldom Scene, plays Aug. 31 at the Back Porch Music on the Lawn series at the American Tobacco Campus…
Gigs: Vista Wood Bison Ranch
WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM Hillsborough’s Vista Wood bison ranch by Jessie Ammons photographs by Lissa Gotwals A stone buffalo statue greets visitors at the entrance to Vista Wood Ranch, which sits at a bucolic turn a few miles off…
WINnovation 2017: Donna Preiss
Donna Preiss Founder and CEO, The Preiss Company Donna Preiss is the founder and chief executive officer of Raleigh-based The Preiss Company, one of the nation’s top 10 providers of student housing, and the largest woman-owned owner and operator of…