Thoughtful Things
Ideal Space at N.C. Museum of Art
Category: Arts & Culture
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…
Dix Park Conservancy
by Liza Roberts
Scalawag Magazine
“I’m looking forward to shifting from planning to doing in the new year.”
Peter Lamb and the Wolves
“Peter is such a dynamic player. So kinetic, always in motion like a boxer, weaving and punching.” –Dave Tilley, music producer, about band Peter Lamb & the Wolves by David Menconi photographs by Geoff Wood It’s fitting that Peter Lamb and…
Givers: Camden Street Learning Garden
Growing Out of the Concrete Camden Street Learning Garden nourishes neighbors by Katherine Poole photograph courtesy Camden Street Learning Garden Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? If the answer to this question…
Raleigh Now Spotlight: Vintage Fan Fair
Retro-Fitted Glamping out at the Vintage Fan Fair by Katherine Poole photograph courtesy Vintage Fan Fair Everything Old is New Again is the song everyone will be singing at the N.C. State Fairgrounds November 10 – 11. The Fairgrounds’ first…
Raleigh Now Spotlight: Share the Pie
A Piece of the Pie A sweet way to support the community by Katherine Poole photograph courtesy of Share the Pie This month, Step Up Ministry and Alliance Medical Ministry want to put a pie in your face. With a…
Arts Access: The Nasher Museum
ARTS ACCESS The Nasher caters to visitors with memory loss by Jessie Ammons J Caldwell for Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness month, a cause the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University serves…