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Triangle Now Spotlight: Bull City Rumble
Kick-start Labor Day weekend at Bull City Rumble, a world-renowned vintage motorcycle and scooter festival in Durham. The two-day multi-venue event draws thousands of enthusiasts from all over the world for music, tech sessions, general merriment, and, the highlight, a…
Triangle Now Spotlight: Be Loud! Sophie
You can groove for good Aug. 24 and 25, when the Be Loud! Sophie Foundation hosts its annual Be Loud! weekend of music at Cat’s Cradle. The fourth annual fundraiser features local bands like Matthew Sweet and Sex Police at…
Brave Enough Author Kati Gardner
“Growing up, I read all of the books about kids with cancer and everybody died. It was frustrating … because I lived. And I knew a lot of kids who lived.” Kati Gardner was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare and…
HOPE Inside Center for Financial Education
There’s more hope: the second Raleigh HOPE Inside center is now open in North Raleigh on New Hope Road. The center provides complimentary financial education to young people and low-income families. A branch of national organization Operation HOPE, visitors to…
DECO gift shop expands downtown
If you’re in search of local goods, cheeky gifts, greeting cards, or homewares, downtown shop DECO Raleigh is chock-full of them. The six-year-old storefront moves into an expanded space on Salisbury Street in late July, just two doors down and…
Raleigh’s Design Charrette
by J. Michael Welton
photographs by Smith Hardy
Bedazzled
Moore Square downtown is in the midst of a two-year renovation, forcing the city park to close and be blocked off to the public. Nearby businesses partnered to spruce it up in the meantime: fabric murals, pool noodles, and sparkly…
JuiceVibes
by Catherine Currin photography by Laura Petrides Wall It’s hard to top a refreshing beverage on a humid North Carolina day. Sneak in a few of your veggies, to boot, by trying a locally made produce-packed smoothie. There are many…
Givers: So Good Pupusas
Feeding a need with pupusas
WINi
photographs by Madeline Gray Walter readers of all ages spent the afternoon at The Umstead Hotel & Spa May 6 for WINi, the sister event of Walter’s annual WINnovation. WINi celebrated girl power with five female speakers, local leaders who…
American Aquarium
by Katherine Poole
Casey Gallas
“I don’t necessarily know what everyone does or even their names, but I recognize them, and that makes you feel part of a community.”
—Casey Gallas, barista, lucettegrace
Triangle Now Spotlight: The Monti
by Catherine Currin