If you can make it here…
Raleighites on Broadway by Merrill Rose If you can make it here, can you make it on Broadway? For many young people whose dreams of a life in theatre are shaped by their time in Raleigh, the answer is a resounding…
Category: Arts & Culture
Serious follies
Architectural jewels across the Triangle by J. Michael Welton It happens every day at the 160-acre park on the campus of the North Carolina Museum of Art: Three minimalist structures deliver joy and wonder to hundreds of joggers, bikers, and meanderers…
The write stuff
by Adam W. Jones The temptation was just too great. Fallon Creek ran for a good quarter mile along our walk to and from Myrtle Underwood Elementary, and the gurgling water called to us daily. It turned a 15-minute walk home…
Hoop dreams: Carr McLamb and Henry Neese
by Settle Monroe photographs by Robert Willett Around these parts, basketball is serious business. As November arrives, a charged wave of excitement runs through our state that lasts through March Madness. Tides shift as alliances are formed and enemy lines are drawn….
A rock ‘n’ roll revival
by Billy Warden Not even the makers of Viagra have pitched the restorative powers of their product as insistently as proponents of rock ’n’ roll. From Bruce Springsteen to Joey Ramone to Pink, billions of decibels have gone into claiming for…
Walter Now Podcast: October 2016
Tune into our October Walter Now podcast – we go behind the scenes of our home and garden issue, and editor Liza Roberts sits down for an interview with artist Thomas Sayre.
Spotlight: ‘Scare them little ones’
by Tina Haver Currin Jesse and Sue Jones are well-known in Oakwood. Especially in October. On the neighborhood listserv, residents are required to sign their messages with their full name and home address. But instead of a house number or street, the…
Spotlight: Splash of color
by Jessie Ammons The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education is usually brimming with activity: The nonprofit works to educate children and their families about healthy choices, from nutrition to bullying prevention, with interactive activities and memorable programs. It’s the…
Spotlight: Retrospective
Melissa Brown show opens Lee Hansley’s new gallery by Nora Shepard Before Raleigh native Melissa Brown died in 2001 at the age of 30 from complications of breast cancer, she had become an accomplished artist with a national following. This month…
Spotlight: Home video day
by Kevin Flinn Screening home movies for a room full of strangers might sound counterintuitive. After all, home movies are made to be shown at home. But since 2003, the folks behind Home Movie Day – celebrated worldwide on Oct. 15…
Spotlight: Power to the pig
by Jessie Ammons Eastern-style, Western-style; bar-b-que, barbeque, BBQ. Whatever type you like, and whatever you call it, barbecue is a big deal around here. You can go whole hog on understanding it at the inaugural N.C. Barbecue Revival Oct. 28 –…
Spotlight: Thomas Sayre, White Gold
by Liza Roberts On October 7, acclaimed artist Thomas Sayre will transform CAM Raleigh into a multi-layered, multi-media exploration of cotton: the people, land, industry, beauty, violence, and history behind the lucrative, complicated crop. The museum expects record attendance for the…
Stick artist Patrick Dougherty
by Liza Roberts photographs by Juli Leonard It is fitting that famed stickwork artist Patrick Dougherty lives in a dwelling as magical as the colossal environmental art he creates out of swirling branches and twigs. Deep in the Orange County woods, down…
Givers: Lins Barwick
Finding strength when he needs it most in the act of giving by Settle Monroe photograph by Jillian Clark In 2015, on a rural farm just outside the African fishing port of Cape Coast, Ghana, a farmer heard a loud ruckus…