“Now that October cranks up, it’s a lot of travel and writing in the hunting season, for sure.” –Eddie Nickens, outdoors journalist and author by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Travis Long Eddie Nickens is an outdoorsman, award-winning author, journalist, on-camera host, and…
by Jesma Reynolds photograph by Juli Leonard It’s an early evening in late summer, and Andy Schmidt is walking the grounds of her rural home in Cumberland County. Lilly the horse, inherited from the previous homeowner, saunters over to a fence…
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…
by Liza Roberts photographs by Justin Cooke On a hot, cicada-loud summer day at Tony Avent’s place, a black cat slips through the canes of a massive muscadine vine, one of 23,000 plant varieties that fill these 28 Raleigh acres. Home to…
by Liza Roberts Two years ago, when Raleighite and aspiring actor Ella Jones was 8, she got an email that fulfilled a dream: She’d been cast in a Hollywood movie starring Kate Beckinsale. That movie, The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller,…
“People are my passion. I don’t try to help people be in style as much as try to help them find their own style.” –Emma Carter, hairstylist and owner of Beam Beauty Salon by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Christer Berg Emma…
“For the month of September, I will … be experimenting, making garments.” –Quinan Dalton, N.C. State College of Design senior and fashion designer by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Christer Berg “I’ve been designing things since before I can remember,” says Quinan Dalton. The…
“It’s amazing how well you get to know these people. We play every week, and that adds up over three-and-a-half years.” –Missy Van Lokeren, host of a weekly mah jongg group by Jessie Ammons photograph by Christer Berg By the middle of…
Trailblazing shoe designer by Tina Haver Currin photographs by Travis Long Last year at SPARKcon, downtown Raleigh’s annual festival of innovation and creativity, Aly and Beth Khalifa, local designers and entrepreneurs, had to apply to participate. The couple had that…
The Triangle’s fashion bloggers by Mimi Montgomery In The Age of the Smartphone, where social media and viral hits reign supreme, blogging has evolved from a solo, diary-like activity into a lucrative field that allows tech-savvy entrepreneurs to create their own…
Braima Moiwai and the djembe by Thomasi McDonald photographs by Peter Hoffman Sierra Leone, West Africa, Dodo village, 1965: It is a land of cascading rolling hills. To get there, travel eastward from the Atlantic Ocean, journey through virgin forests dotted…
A passion pursued by Liza Roberts photographs by Nick Pironio When Phyllis York Brookshire rides her American Saddlebred into the ring at the North Carolina State Championship Charity Horse Show this month, she’ll take him through the five gaits that make…
by Hampton Williams Hofer photographs by Christer Berg It’s late on a Friday afternoon at N.C. State University’s James B. Hunt Jr. Library, which doesn’t look much like a library at all. Instead of red bricks and right angles, it’s all…
by Liza Roberts photograph by Jillian Clark Six years ago, Eric Mitchko moved to Raleigh to lead the newly formed North Carolina Opera, the result of a merger of the Opera Company of North Carolina and Capital Opera Raleigh. Today, N.C….