Category: Arts & Culture

Walter’s 2017

A tip of the hat to some of Walter’s standout stories from 2017 …

Spin a Yarn

by Catherine Currin

En Pointe

City Ballet’s Nutcracker turns 25 by Katherine Poole For an aspiring young ballet dancer, performing in The Nutcracker might be a dream as vivid as the one Drosselmeyer conjures up for Clara. For the past 25 years, Raleigh’s City Ballet…

Holiday Glow

Historic Oakwood candlelight holiday tour returns by Jessie Ammons There’s no place like home for the holidays, and you can enjoy a few historic ones at the annual Historic Oakwood Candlelight Tour this month. The self-guided tour Dec. 9 –…

Draw In

FRANK Gallery’s latest exhibit mixes media and perceptions by Katherine Poole The pages of an artist’s sketchbook are where ideas for other works take shape. Sketches are studies for paintings, blueprints for sculptures. At least, that is the perception, one…

Centennial Views

N.C. State’s new on-campus hotel is for all of Raleigh by Jessie Ammons There’s a new hotel in town, this one on N.C. State’s Centennial Campus. The StateView Hotel opened this fall, a sleek, modern venue meant for both university-related…

Gretchen Quinn

by Iza Wojciechowska
photographs by Juli Leonard

Have a Blue Christmas

A twangy holiday pick by Katherine Poole There will be a down-home holiday hootenanny in Raleigh Dec. 14 – 16. A Bluegrass Christmas music festival returns to the Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown, bringing a weekend of nearly nonstop live music. Organized…

Scalawag Magazine

“I’m looking forward to shifting from planning to doing in the new year.”

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