Charman Driver joins the circus
by Charman Driver photographs by Scott Sharpe I like to get high. I expect my clients to do it and I’d like to suggest you do it, too. Of course I’m talking about that natural high one gets through exercise….
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Just one plant: Sabal minor
by Tony Avent illustration by Ippy Patterson Certain plants, like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, never get the respect they deserve. A classic example is our native scrub palm, Sabal minor, also known as the dwarf or bush palmetto. Perhaps its ubiquitous…
Charman Driver goes boxing
by Charman Driver I’ve always been impressed with the lean and agile bodies of competitive boxers and mixed martial artists – think Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee in their prime. Their super-toned physiques seemed to move with such ease and…
Greg Hatem: community citizen
by Scott Huler photographs by Jimmy Williams Greg Hatem believes in ghosts. He doesn’t mean “Honey! Did you just feel that?” ghosts – though as it turns out he believes in those, too, having seen one in the old…
Pointe shoes not required
by Charman Driver photograph by Scott Sharpe If every cloud has a silver lining, then it’s fair to say that former Carolina Ballet dancer Margot Martin has gone a step further, striking gold with her innovative form of exercise known…
Local craft beers
by Charles Upchurch Quoth the T-shirt: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Nice thought, even if Ben Franklin didn’t actually say it. Neither can we be certain that Thomas Jefferson actually said, “Beer,…
Shaun Richards
by Liza Roberts photographs by Juli Leonard On a treeless, dead-end street of storage units, warehouses, and tinted-window flex space, the studio of acclaimed Raleigh artist Shaun Richards sits anonymously. High-concept, large-scale contemporary art like Richards’ – art that is…
A Champion’s Raleigh Roots – Webb Simpson
Hard work, talent and focus have led Broughton High School graduate Webb Simpson on his path as a champion golfer. by Liza Roberts | photographs by Juli Leonard The balloons are the only hint. Tied to a mailbox and drooping toward…
Reverie + Revelry: Mardi Gras Cocktails to Try at Home
A historic look at classic New Orleans cocktails and how to make them at home, thanks to local pros.
Freeze frame: Aristarchus Jenkins
text and photograph by John Rosenthal Last summer, on a hot August afternoon, I drove around the grounds of Dorothea Dix Hospital and came upon the old asylum cemetery. Most of the grave markers – hundreds of them – were…
Mandolin’s Sean and Lizzy Fowler count their blessings
by Felicia Gressette photographs by Lissa Gottwals The sun is slipping away on this crisp autumn afternoon, and a shadow begins to fall over the deck where a square table is beautifully set for six. Candles glow in oversize hurricane…
Reflections: recipe for a marriage
by Mary E. Miller Since Julia Child would have been 100 this year, America’s been dishing over our great goofy chef. She inspired so many that everybody seems to have and wants to tell her own Julia story. My mind’s…
Carolina Ballet at 15: constantly creating
by Liza Roberts photographs by Jimmy Williams When Carolina Ballet artistic director Robert Weiss found a seat in Raleigh’s intimate Fletcher Opera Theater one recent afternoon, he and the rest of the audience settled in for an event that has…
Human rocket Chris Hoina
by Charles Upchurch photographs by Lissa Gotwals Chris Hoina is ready to go ballistic. He has trained for this. To be explosive. To fly. He wears only a skin-tight speed suit, spiked shoes, and an alpine racing helmet that will…