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…
Category: People
Q&A with Autumn Cobeland
by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Keith Isaacs This month, when runners cross the finish lines of the many races being held during the City of Oaks marathon event, they’ll be leaving with more than medals and views of Raleigh. Local artist Autumn…
Rachel Woods
“It’s really great that in this urban setting, this 164-acre park is here for people to escape the urban life and have a little time in nature.” –Rachel Woods, North Carolina Museum of Art Curator of Horticulture and Sustainability by Mimi…
Game Plan:
“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…
The alchemist: Andy Schmidt of Rise and Ramble
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…
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…
In the garden with Tony Avent
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…
Q&A with Ella Jones
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,…
Emma Carter of Beam Beauty Salon
“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…
Quinan Dalton
“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…
Mah jongg
“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…
Aly Khalifa
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…
Style bosses
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…
Gather in peace
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…