“We’re a pretty fun team to play; we don’t take ourselves too seriously.” –Anna Prorock, member of The Volley Lamas beach volleyball team by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Travis Long If you drive past landlocked Jaycee Park this summer, you may catch…
by Liza Roberts Hundreds of art and garden lovers came from all over the Triangle to Frances Alvarino Norwood’s lush North Raleigh gardens for her 21st and final Larkspur Party June 4 and 5. Garden lovers will still have a chance…
“This is about relationships. It’s not about how much coffee we can put out there in the world.” – Lem Butler, Counter Culture Coffee employee and national barista champion by Jessie Ammons photograph by Christer Berg It’s not every day you meet…
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by Liza Roberts photographs by Catherine Nguyen If your cookout requires 240 pounds of live Louisiana crawfish, it’s important to plan ahead. Raleighite Duc Tran, a Vietnamese immigrant by way of Biloxi, Miss., knows the drill. Twice a year, he has four…
by Jessie Ammons On August 13, the Raleigh Rose Garden is the place to get your groove on. “We’re not just trying to go with what we think will be the hottest band, but what we think fits the area and…
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Keith Isaacs When you walk into the Butterfields candy factory in Nashville, N.C., the first thing that hits you is the smell. Sweet and delicious, it’s like you just stepped into a big bag of the peach-and-coconut-flavored…
by Jessie Ammons photography by Tim Lytvinenko Dave Wofford invites you to get lost in the magic of a book. “I make books for readers, not book collectors,” says the designer and letterpress printer behind Durham-based Horse & Buggy Press. His work…
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Eric Waters If you’re walking on Hillsborough Street toward downtown, Taverna Agora is likely to call your name. The open-air seating on the roof is often packed-to-the-brim, as is the front patio, and live Greek music (and…
by Mimi Montgomery There’s no World Cup this summer, but that doesn’t mean you have to go without your soccer fix. In fact, you don’t have to go far at all. You already know the Carolina RailHawks play at WakeMed Soccer…
by Mimi Montgomery As the wise writer Nora Ephron once said: “Everything is copy.” Dr. Lucy Daniels clearly agrees. A prolific writer and psychoanalytic psychologist, she frequently draws on mental struggles and life’s obstacles as the inspiration for her work. In…
by Jesma Reynolds photographs by Tim Lytvinenko It’s a vertical world we live in, and Raleigh is going up. Young professionals and empty nesters are migrating downtown to live, work, and play, fueling demand for stylish residential projects that are reshaping…
by Suzanne M. Wood photographs by Jill Knight I’ve always admired fishing kayaks, with their canoe-style cargo capacity and high seats combined with the lighter-weight and kinder learning curve of a kayak. Their small draft also gives dedicated fishermen access to…
by Larry Wheeler I love artists, always have. It goes way back, long before I had the privilege of directing an art museum. Many of the artists were great characters whose voices resounded beyond the canvas, the Mauds and Claudes, for…