Urban sketchers
To learn more about the urban drawing group, see The Usual.
Category: Arts & Culture
Cool hand Luke
by Liza Roberts photograph by Nick Pironio When Raleigh artist Luke Buchanan met developer James A. Goodnight, Buchanan was pouring drinks behind the bar at Poole’s Downtown Diner, where he works many evenings. The two developed a rapport, and Goodnight became…
Builder, potter: Bobby Kadis
photographs by Geoff Wood Thirty-five years ago, commercial real estate developer Bobby Kadis was strolling through an arts fair in Goldsboro with his wife Claudia when he saw a man throwing a pot on a wheel. Kadis was mesmerized. The next…
Linda Nunnallee: Helping people help themselves
by Todd Cohen Linda Nunnallee believes that building relationships is indispensable to serving people. The executive director of StepUp Raleigh, a nonprofit that helps adults and children build stable lives through jobs and life skills training, she says it’s a…
How to live
by Maureen Sherbondy Forget rules. Make your way to the finish line. The snake is the end and the beginning. Sing while you work. Work is play. Eat all the apples. Toss cores into the stars. Remember to climb jungle gyms…
Tanya Jisa: Cultivating second chances
by Todd Cohen Tanya Jisa found her mission in 2006, when she read in a newspaper article that roughly one in 100 Americans was behind bars. A trained social worker, Jisa had worked at a juvenile detention center, an abortion clinic,…
Gabe Bratton: Artistry and old lace
by Samantha Thompson Hatem photographs by Tim Lytvinenko Gabrielle “Gabe” Bratton loves a good story almost as much as she loves making jewelry. Bring her your grandmom’s old lace wedding dress or yellowing veil, and Bratton wants to hear everything…
The poetry box
When celebrated poets Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar moved from Oregon to Raleigh in 2008, they brought a love of verse they wanted to share. Laux, a professor of poetry in N.C. State’s creative writing program, had just the…
Hot tracks for cool days
Is there a better cure for the cooped-up winter blahs than great music? Walter asked four local DJs for their top picks. Carson Blackley Recent N.C. State graduate Carson Blackley is a radio host and producer for Raleigh’s new country…
Hometown heroes: The World Series champs next door
by Cam Higgins “Should I use the autograph I’ve been practicing, or just sign my normal name?” Few 13-year-olds get the chance to ask their coach that question, but then again, Dante Defranco and his fellow players on the West…
A farewell to Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
When celebrated poet and Raleigh native Gibbons Ruark heard that Seamus Heaney, his cherished friend of more than 30 years, had died on Aug. 30, he was bereft. Heaney, the Irish Nobel Laureate, had been a hero, kindred spirit, and touchstone…
A house, a dog and love
by P. Gaye Tapp A towering magnolia tree sheltered me from the rush of traffic on Glenwood Avenue for 10 years. There were moments when I thought a car might careen onto the sidewalk, crash into the stucco wall, invade…
Delta rising
by Samantha Thompson Hatem Most of Raleigh might have missed it, but Delta Rae, the edgy alt-pop band, has quietly set up home here over the past year, and its six members are now on their way to becoming some…
Betting on bluegrass
by Samantha Thompson Hatem The International Bluegrass Music Association and its members arrive in late September for the group’s annual conference, when they’ll turn downtown Raleigh into a bluegrass mecca with more than 150 bands, a street festival, and big-name…