The Raleigh Dart League
“I used to pitch back in the day. I thought it’d be easier to throw a dart 7 feet or so than to throw a ball 65 feet. I’ve been proved wrong.” -Jim White, Wells Fargo mortgage underwriter and member…
Category: People
Raleigh Police Department Mounted Unit
“Working with a horse is not only therapeutic for us, but it gives us an opportunity to meet people. It’s like an icebreaker for people in the community. They don’t see us, they see the horse.” – Officer M.R. Sherian,…
No small beer
Raleigh taprooms and community by Dean McCord photographs by Nick Pironio Yes, we need beer. What was once an afterthought in the U.S. – craft beer – has become a phenomenon. In the early ’80s, there were fewer than 100 craft breweries…
Meet Sepi Saidi, Founder of SEPI Engineering & Construction
by Amber Nimocks photographs by Nick Pironio With another narrator, the story might seem a tragedy: A young woman leaves her home for opportunity in a far-off land, only to learn shortly after her departure that her father has died and that…
Rasslin’ up a good time
G.O.U.G.E. puts on a show by Billy Warden photographs by Nick Pironio Making people mad enough to scream at you – in person, not on social media – is hard work. But I was willing to give it a go. In the…
Obscure no more: N.C. Senator Josiah Bailey
by Garland S. Tucker III The most enjoyable aspect of writing my second book, Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America, from Jefferson to Reagan, was that I got to choose the heroes. I set out to identify a consistent philosophical…
Q&A with Cid Cardoso
When São Paulo, Brazil native Cid Cardoso, a competitive swimmer and cyclist, graduated from the University of Virginia in 1991, he moved to Raleigh and took a job exporting car and truck parts to Latin America. On the side, he competed in triathalons. “The great thing about the sport is the huge sense of accomplishment you get,” he says, “and there’s always so much you can do to improve. Improvement is never-ending. There’s always a new goal.”
Richie Shaffer
“It’s awesome. I love the Carolinas in general … This is a good place to be.” –Richie Shaffer, Durham Bulls baseball player by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Travis Long Raleighite Richie Shaffer, 25, is happy to be back for a second season…
Leon Capetanos
A Triangle-based Hollywood screenwriter launches Act II by Jessie Ammons photographs by Nick Pironio In 1965, Leon Capetanos, a UNC graduate from Raleigh with a poetry degree, answered a call to make a difference in the world. He embarked on a year…
Doctors doing good
by Liza Roberts Raleighites are a worldly bunch, venturing frequently to distant places for work and for pleasure. But the group of travelers we most wanted to profile for this travel issue take themselves far from home in order to do…
Wine + Weeds
by Jessie Ammons photograph by Travis Long “It all started with a jelly jar in 2013,” says Lisa Grele Barrie, co-chair of the board of directors at Raleigh City Farm. The nonprofit urban farm had begun to take root…
Emily Kotecki
by Jessie Ammons photograph by Travis Long This month, you’ll find Emily Kotecki busy connecting the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Egyptologist Caroline Rocheleau with students at Matthews Middle School in Graham and Havelock High School in Havelock – via videoconference. But…
Michael Morrison
by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Travis Long By day, Michael Morrison works as an investigator for the United States Department of Agriculture. After hours, you can almost always find him in his studio. Painting, photography, mixed media – Morrison does it…
Kerri Martinsen: Costume maestro
by Liza Roberts photographs by Jillian Clark At Carolina Ballet headquarters, in a fluorescent-lit workroom where sewing machines whirr, scissors snip, and tutus sway in the rafters, costume director Kerri Martinsen orchestrates an unusual sort of dance. Like the work of…