Category: Arts & Culture

Jason Craighead at CAM

Jason Craighead has hit his limit. For the time being, anyway. “In a poetic manner, I feel where I am in life as a human, as a man, as an artist—I’m at a particular threshold in how life changes and…

Carolina Shuckers

by Addie Ladner photographs by Bert VanderVeen “It’s like a cooking show in here,” says sculptor and blacksmith Mike Waller. He’s meticulously inserting and removing a small slab of carbon steel in and out of a 2,200-degree forge in his…

Public Art

photography by Gus Samarco

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…

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…

CampRooster

“It takes a lot of time to find and manage a camp schedule,” says Raleigh parent Nathan Pienkowski. A few years ago, Pienkowski and his wife found themselves frustrated when they couldn’t find the right camp for their two daughters….

NCMA Concert Series

“We’re expanding the range of arts experiences people can have on the NCMA campus,” says the museum’s director of performing arts and film, George Holt. He’s been curating the summer concert series, for example, for over 20 years. This year,…

Pop-Pupalooza

by Jessie Ammons Rumbley

Capturing the beauty of swimming through abstract photography

words and photographs by Barbara Tyroler Water is the source of life. That may be its primeval allure. We’ve likely all experienced the fear of water, too. It can engulf us, drag us down to the terrifying deep beneath a…

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