Walter Now Podcast: March 2016
This month, we go behind the scenes of our March issue and sit down with Sarah Powers of the Visual Art Exchange. Tune in to listen to the latest Walter Now podcast.
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Spotlight: New chapter
by Jessie Ammons It’s not goodbye, it’s see you later. In fact, it’s see you very soon for Quail Ridge Books. Raleigh’s beloved independent bookstore will close its doors at the Ridgewood Shopping Center this month to move about five…
Spotlight: Art, not veggies
by Jessie Ammons You’ve heard of Community Supported Agriculture programs, the popular way to buy local, seasonal produce directly from local farmers. Now you can jump-start your personal art collection by joining Raleigh’s first Community Supported Art program, organized by…
Spotlight: March forth
by Jessie Ammons Put a spring in your step at Eno River State Park. To commemorate the centennial of North Carolina State Parks – the subject of a yearlong celebration throughout 2016 – the Durham outpost will offer hikes led…
Spotlight: Seeing is believing
by Jessie Ammons The N.C. Cultural Resources building, nestled between the General Assembly and Governor’s Mansion, houses thousands of rotating shelves filled with carefully organized archives – everything from government records to a citizen’s saved letters from World War II….
Spotlight: A global affair
by Mimi Montgomery The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University continues its 10th anniversary celebration through 2016. Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection, a commemorative exhibit, is on display until July 10, and well worth a visit. A gathering…
Spotlight: Curated by Chet Miller in Durham
by Jesma Reynolds Jennings Brody likes to keep shop. The owner of the successful café/market/gift store Parker & Otis in Durham has recently opened another venue, Chet Miller, just down the road. Named for her grandfather, a “scrappy” candy salesman…
Frameworks
by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Travis Long Tucked into a row of shops off Dixie Trail, Frameworks is a family-owned gallery and frame design shop that’s been in business for 40 years. Owners Charles and Carolyn Younger started it as…
Triangle Table Tennis
by Jessie Ammons photograph by Travis Long For many, 6 p.m. on Friday cues happy hour, dinner reservations, or some other version of unwinding and disengaging. For a dedicated group at Triangle Table Tennis, though, it’s intense. It’s game time. “Practice,…
Fred Crisp
by Jessie Ammons photograph by Travis Long Fred Crisp knows life lessons can be learned through sports. That’s one reason he became a coach for his church’s co-ed recreational basketball league almost a decade ago. “Our whole emphasis is on…
Dr. Philip Griffin
by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Travis Long Dr. Philip Griffin has always had a good ear: The longtime musician plays the guitar, bass guitar, and drums – and as a true child of the ’90s, his musical tastes lean toward rock…
Hawks and Doves: Jessica Ullom dreams big
by Jesma Reynolds photographs by Juli Leonard Turning a hobby into a career can be an unlikely dream. But by tapping into her vast trove of flea market finds – old feed sacks and Americana textiles – Jessica Ullom has…
Paul Friedrich finds his audience
by Samantha Thompson Hatem photographs by Tim Lytvinenko Paul Friedrich has found his audience. After nearly three decades creating cartoon characters beloved by Raleighites, the city’s best-known pop artist and cartoonist is on the cusp of taking his off-beat sense…
Assembly required
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Catherine Nguyen Most people know the horror of the words “some assembly required”: the miniscule parts and pieces, the half-translated instructions, the ridiculous illustrations that somehow lead you to put the entire thing together backwards….