MOVE IT American Dance Festival by Jessie Ammons Durham will be moving and shaking this month when the American Dance Festival returns June 3 – July 29. The festival’s 84th season marks its 40th anniversary in Durham, and to celebrate,…
A CENTURY OF SERVICE Raleigh’s Red Cross chapter celebrates its centennial by Jessie Ammons In the spring of 1917, as World War I raged overseas, a group of 28 Raleigh women sought to make a difference at home. They…
Y’ALL AT DIX PARK by Jessie Ammons I’ve always loved the idea of grass under my feet when I listen to music. It’s something that goes along with a really cool vibe, created by trees and grass and shade. ……
THE SWEETER THE JUICE Blackberry Festival by Jessie Ammons You can celebrate summer this month at Well Fed Community Garden’s first-ever blackberry festival June 24. The one-and-a-half-acre plot in west Raleigh, managed by Irregardless Cafe, has been growing organic seasonal…
BETTING ON FILMMAKING Raleigh’s Burke Koonce savors success of first film by Liza Roberts When the documentary Betting on Zero hits Netflix next month, Raleigh’s Burke Koonce, an executive producer of the film, will be celebrating. With its 100-million-plus subscribers, Netflix…
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…
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,…
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….
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….