by Tony Avent I’ve grown many bulbs in my gardening life, but rarely has any plant enchanted me like the miniature Nothoscordum sellowianum. My love affair started in 1995 as I perused one of the obscure botanical journals (which qualify…
photograph by Travis Long “I’ve benefited from the generosity of people who have donated food to organizations like the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s BackPack Buddies. For me, it’s a matter of paying it forward in a very genuine way.” – Jessica…
text and photographs by Juli Leonard Not long ago, Raleigh was a bit of a bakery desert. That began to change a few years ago, and today, there are five new bakeries in the heart of Raleigh alone. With this sweet…
by Cat Warren Solo is a cadaver dog who recently retired. For eight years, he and I occasionally worked with local law enforcement by helping to search for the missing and those presumed dead. A handsome red-and-black shepherd with a…
by Shannon Ward If there is a path, it is covered in snow. I walk, stiff-cold, for over an hour, looking with my father for our ancestors’ graves. It is my nineteenth birthday, and I haven’t yet taught myself to…
by Jessie Ammons photographs by Jillian Clark As Leza Driscoll approached 23 weeks pregnant with twins, she was beginning to hit that exhausted phase most mothers can recall. One hot afternoon, she fainted, and before she knew it she was in a…
by CC Parker At the height of summer, North Carolina humidity drives many of us indoors. But eventually, it’s inevitable: Cabin fever strikes. When it does, one sure way to beat the summer blues is to take a trip –…
by Cokie Roberts One little-known moment in Raleigh history might be my favorite. It was New Year’s 1803, when John Marshall arrived in the newly established state capital only to discover he had set off to ride the court circuit…
by Dana Wynne Lindquist In 1989, while I was working for a domestic violence agency, I stepped inside my great-great grandparents’ historic home for the first time. The Victorian Italianate Merrimon-Wynne house was serving then as the office of the…
by Kaitlyn Goalen photographs by Jillian Clark Confession: I don’t drink a whole lot of beer. I frame this as an admission of guilt, because my low consumption feels unsupportive to the current liquid zeitgeist of our city. Raleigh is covered…
Reimagining RTP by J. Peder Zane photographs by Jill Knight When you reach The Frontier, the first thing you see is the people. They’re forming long lines, chatting and palm-reading their phones, waiting to purchase Korean barbecue, Italian pizzas, gourmet wraps, and…
photograph by Travis Long “Most people aren’t aware that you can build your own airplane. It’s a very intensive project; it’s a lot of time and it’s a lot of detailed work. It’s kind of like flying.” – Tal Holloway, pilot,…
by Emma Powell It only took two months for 50 Raleighites to knit 150 sweaters to adorn the trees of Glenwood South. Striped, zig-zagged, and made from every shade of the rainbow, the sweaters brought color and whimsy to passers-by….
It’s become a Chapel Hill tradition. Every Friday throughout the summer, a band – often a local one – plays on the The Carolina Inn’s front lawn while residents and students spread out on blankets and sip cold sodas and mint…