Poker Face Girls
by Katherine Poole
photography by Eamon Queeney
Category: Community
Locally made: Peppertrain Jewelry
Kaitlin Ryan’s polymer clay creations make for spunky statement jewelry
The Circus is in Town
Raleigh’s Imagine Circus
Nick Neptune
by Catherine Currin
photographs by Eamon Queeney
Barbara Brown
Since 1983, Barbara Brown has been “loving on the babies,” as she says, in the early childhood program at Edenton Street United Methodist Church. That is 35 years of holding fussy babies, rocking them to sleep, feeding them everything from…
Brave Enough Author Kati Gardner
“Growing up, I read all of the books about kids with cancer and everybody died. It was frustrating … because I lived. And I knew a lot of kids who lived.” Kati Gardner was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare and…
HOPE Inside Center for Financial Education
There’s more hope: the second Raleigh HOPE Inside center is now open in North Raleigh on New Hope Road. The center provides complimentary financial education to young people and low-income families. A branch of national organization Operation HOPE, visitors to…
Raleigh’s Design Charrette
by J. Michael Welton
photographs by Smith Hardy
Casey Gallas
“I don’t necessarily know what everyone does or even their names, but I recognize them, and that makes you feel part of a community.”
—Casey Gallas, barista, lucettegrace
Raleighites: Guitar Makers
by Samantha Gratton
photographs by Ben McKeown
Destination WALTER: Ariana DeBose
Ariana DeBose is on a roll: the 27-year-old Raleigh native made her Broadway debut at 21, originating a role in Bring It On: The Musical; she’s competed on So You Think You Can Dance; and she was an original member…
Capturing the beauty of swimming through abstract photography
words and photographs by Barbara Tyroler Water is the source of life. That may be its primeval allure. We’ve likely all experienced the fear of water, too. It can engulf us, drag us down to the terrifying deep beneath a…
WALTER profile: Blount Williams
Community building Blount Williams’ tenacious thoughtfulness, in business and beyond by Will Lingo photographs by Geoff Wood Ostensibly Blount Williams sells office furniture. In reality he is a builder. Take his family’s company, for instance. Alfred Williams and Company…
Y12SR
“This program shines a light on how the 12 steps of recovery and yoga principles align.” —Phyllis Kritz, N.C. Yoga of 12 Step Recovery leader There’s a group of Raleighites that are taking to their yoga mats for support and…