Retro-Fitted Glamping out at the Vintage Fan Fair by Katherine Poole photograph courtesy Vintage Fan Fair Everything Old is New Again is the song everyone will be singing at the N.C. State Fairgrounds November 10 – 11. The Fairgrounds’ first…
HEARTH BAKED La Farm Bakery opens a new location When the new Whole Foods Market opens at Alston Town Center in Cary this month, it will carry more than local produce. It will also feature an outpost of La Farm…
A Piece of the Pie A sweet way to support the community by Katherine Poole photograph courtesy of Share the Pie This month, Step Up Ministry and Alliance Medical Ministry want to put a pie in your face. With a…
MERRY + BRIGHT Mixed and a-mingled holiday fun by Katherine Poole Jill Knight/News and Observer Yes, it’s November, but make no mistake about it, the countdown to Christmas has begun. So with apologies to the humbuggers and a full acknowledgement…
Dog Gone Good Shorty’s Famous Hot Dogs by Jessie Ammons photograph courtesy Wake Forest Historical Museum Walking into Shorty’s Famous Hot Dogs in downtown Wake Forest is like stepping back in time, and that’s why people love it. The no-frills…
GROWING UP Marbles Kids Museum plans its next decade by Jessie Ammons photograph courtesy Marbles Kids Museum Marbles Kids Museum celebrated its tenth anniversary this fall by planning for its next decade, purchasing a 16,000-square-foot building next door on Hargett…
ART HERE, TOO by Liza Roberts photograph courtesy North Hills The next time you park your car in the deck at North Hills near Target or J.C. Penney, take a moment to look around and be inspired, because that parking…
HOUSE GUESTS Colorful coziness at The Gray House by Jessie Ammons photograph by Kat Dela Cruz There’s no place like home for Sheri Outlaw. “There’s a lot going on here,” she says of the 1920s house near N.C. State that…
Raleigh’s Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild host it’s 48th annual artisan craft market by Jessie Ammons Theresa Kwong jewelry/courtesy Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild “Fine craftsmen are caretakers of the skills passed on to them. … North Carolina has a rich tradition…
“Bill used to say it was our castle and there was a moat that went all the way around us.” –Merrie Hedrick, The Dr. Bill and Merrie Hedrick Homestead at Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve by Jessie Ammons photograph by Madeline…
DRAPED IN COLOR Lisa Hoang and Susan Woodson turn abstract paintings into kimonos by Jessie Ammons photographs by Juli Leonard Dramatic and elegant, Lisa Hoang’s latest kimono collection includes floor-length silks in a cool palette of blue, grey, purple, beige,…
Irregardless … it’s Thanksgiving by Liza Roberts photographs by Madeline Gray On Thanksgiving Day, Arthur and Anya Gordon will be thankful for many things: For the biggest day of the year at their restaurant, Irregardless Café & Catering; for the longevity…
In Raleigh, her chosen hometown for the last 20 years, Melisse Shaban is eager to make a mark on creative and entrepreneurial communities.
Paths to enlightenment: Local labyrinths show the way by Liza Roberts photographs by Tim Lytvinenko A labyrinth is not a maze. With a single, meandering path to a center destination, a labyrinth guides a walker along a prescribed route; it does not…