Think of a Broom
by Ruth Moose This simplest of tools perhaps began as twigs twined to a stick by someone in a far away cave in a long lost time who said, “Look, This saves my back, farthers my reach.” I’ve…
Category: Arts & Culture
Lakes Alive: A Raleigh native discovers there’s no place like home
by CC Parker illustration by Lane Singletary Summer again. As a mother of young children, for me, summer means three months of vacation spreading out before us: time to kill, and time to fill. A few years ago, I would…
Slow, sweet and spicy: Summer books to savor
by P. Gaye Tapp How I do love a good book, especially at this time of year. With the change in the weather comes a change in my reading habits. Summer reading should be lighter, brighter: not necessarily a “beach…
Slow jeans, fast business: Sarah and Victor Lytvinenko are putting Raleigh – and denim – on the fashion map
by Dean King photographs by Missy McLamb Victor and Sarah Lytvinenko, creators of Raleigh Denim, international fashion world upstarts, oh, and husband and wife, are in sync. They work together. They play together. They jet together – New York, L.A.,…
AN HONEST OFFERING: An intrepid brother-sister duo launches Raleigh’s first Laotian restaurant, with a lot of help from their friends
by Liza Roberts photographs by Lissa Gotwals At their hot new restaurant in downtown Raleigh, brother-sister duo Vansana and Vanvisa Nolintha are doing something revolutionary. With one of the few true Laotian restaurants in the United States, these two twenty-somethings are introducing Raleighites…
No airs, only fish: Milburnie Fishing Club turns 100
by Charles Upchurch photographs by Nick Pironio If you conjured up an image of Raleigh’s oldest social club – where for 100 years the seasons have carried with them a ritual flow of barbecues, oyster roasts, family celebrations, debutante…
Art as Heritage
by Liza Roberts photographs by Mark Petko For Monica and Dalip Awasthi, art is the glue. It helped cement their relationship early on, and it links the two of them – and their three young children – to the Indian…
Redesigning Raleigh: Limitless possibilities
by J. Michael Welton photographs by Travis Dove In the 1950s, Raleigh’s visionary design community redefined the way we saw our city architecturally. Today, local designers are at it again, turning their attention not just to buildings, but to consumer…
Hummingbird heaven: Spigelia Marilandica (Indian Pink)
by Tony Avent illustration by Ippy Patterson Spigelia marilandica is another of those great plants native to the Southeast that few people have grown or even heard about. In the wild, I usually see Spigelia growing on deeply wooded slopes,…
Coming full circle With Clay Aiken
When Raleigh-born American Idol star Clay Aiken, 34, takes the stage this month to star in North Carolina Theatre’s The Drowsy Chaperone, he will be coming home in more ways than one. “My first audition ever was at North Carolina…
Sole Brothers: Santana Creative
by Mary E. Miller photographs by Geoff Wood It takes a considerable stride to go from a career implem- enting World Bank-funded health and education projects in Peru to launching an artisanal leather repair business in Raleigh. But in Robert…
Concert for a Cause: Band Together
by Samantha Thompson Hatem It all started in 2001 when Raleigh entrepreneur Danny Rosin and four enterprising young friends – Phil Gruber, Shellie Gruber, Tom Lyon, and Skip Mangum – were feeling helpless in the aftermath of 9/11 and wanted…
Trapeze
by Victoria Reynolds I got so used to letting you go that now I prefer the moment the empty bar dips to the lowest point in its arc then begins its flight upward to where I stand on my platform,…
Design Books: That stand the test of time
by P. Gaye Tapp As someone who has loved books since I was a child checking out biographies from the school library, I’ve come to realize there is no cure for such an addiction. I was born this way. In…