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 –…
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…
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…
by Iza Wojciechowska
photographs by Juli Leonard
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…
by Liza Roberts
“I’m looking forward to shifting from planning to doing in the new year.”
“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…
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…
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…
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 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…
GROWING UP Marbles Kids Museum plans its next decade by Jessie Ammons photograph courtesy Marbles Kids Museum Marbles Kids Museum celebrated its tenth anniversary this fall by planning for its next decade, purchasing a 16,000-square-foot building next door on Hargett…
ART HERE, TOO by Liza Roberts photograph courtesy North Hills The next time you park your car in the deck at North Hills near Target or J.C. Penney, take a moment to look around and be inspired, because that parking…