“We are an organization of doers.” –Joyce Moses, president, Raleigh Garden Club by Jessie Ammons photograph by Travis Long Raleigh Garden Club members take their mission seriously. You can find them planting wildflowers along roads and public greenways, volunteering at…
Lotta Sjoelin Bringing beauty and dignity to kids in crisis by Liza Roberts photographs by Missy McLamb When a child arrives at Wrenn House, the Triangle’s only homeless, runaway, and crisis intervention shelter for kids ages 10 – 17, it…
Patron Saint of Oysters St. Roch Fine Oysters + Bar debuts by Dean McCord photographs by Keith Isaacs St. Roch Fine Oysters + Bar, which opened on Wilmington Street in April, isn’t a typical New Orleans Creole or Cajun…
Top Notch Level 7 Rooftop Bar by Jessie Ammons photographs by Keith Isaacs Exit the elevator at the top floor of North Hills’ new AC Hotel Raleigh and you’ll enter a sleek lounge that feels a world away. Level 7…
BACK TO THE FUTURE A Hollywood film director recalls his movie-loving Raleigh roots by Peyton Reed As a young boy, I would stare at the bronze plaque cemented in the sidewalk at North Hills. At the top,…
Creative Cultivator N.C. Theatre’s new CEO by Jessie Ammons photograph by Elizabeth Galecke Elizabeth Doran is not from around here, and she thinks that’s a good thing. “There’s value in remembering what the outside world is saying about your community,”…
Say a Little Prayer by Jessie Ammons Photos courtesy of Vansana Nolintha The hopes and dreams of Raleighites who would like the Dalai Lama to visit our capital city made their way to Dharamsala, India last month via Mayor Nancy MacFarlane….
by Allison Atkinson photographs by Brantley Atkinson Nancy Hight has been dressing a bronze chicken statue at the foot of her Raleigh driveway every morning for more than 10 years. She can’t tell you the date it all began, but she…
A CAROLINA SUMMER by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Greg Montgomery “We really are spoiled,” one of my North Carolina friends says. “The ancient curves of the Blue Ridge to the west, the blue-green rise and fall of the Atlantic to the…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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….