Archive for February, 2009
Featured indieNC Designer: Sonya Coulson Rook, Metamorphosis Metals
Tell us a little more about your business and how you got started:
My business started as a hobby and has slowly grown from there. I first started making jewelry while studying art in college. I tried working in several different media before a professor suggested that I take a Metal Design class. [...]
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Fiddler on the Roof
While you may have been spending time with your sweetheart this past Valentine’s Day, I was sick and bundled up on the couch. Lest you think this sad or depressing, I got loads of stitching done and discovered that Turner Classic Movies is playing 31 Days of Movies that have won Oscars!
Not only did I [...]
Mckinney Style (Part 2)
Welcome back, to the “streets” of Mckinney!
I really restrain myself because every time someone walks by my desk with cute shoes or a snazzy top I want to ask for a picture. I’ve thought it would be hilarious if I set up the camera and then got in the picture with them, but I think [...]
Lilly’s Pizza
Lilly’s Pizza is a Raleigh institution, a place where loud rock music, yuppies, hipsters, and great pizza converge in a tiny restaurant in the city’s five points neighborhood. Everything about the place is loud, from the conversation-limiting rock and roll, to the outlandish décor (including mannequins, wild paint, and backgammon-style table tops), to the waiters [...]
Through the Lens: Anna Naphtali
From Charlotte photographer, Anna Naphtali.
Lark & Key, One Year Anniversary Exhibit
Lark & Key, a boutique & gallery in Charlotte that we profiled a few months back, will be hosting an anniversary exhibit featuring the work of San Francisco potter Diana Fayt. In addition, there will be new works from co-owner Duy Huynh and music by Nicolette Emanuelle and Fritz Kessler.
The opening reception is Thursday February [...]
Bake It Pretty, Amanda Krueger
Amanda Krueger runs the online shop Bake It Pretty from her Asheville home. Her boutique specializes in cute, vintage-inspired items to decorate food and baked goods, all of which you didn’t know you needed until now. Who can resist a forest-themed cupcake complete with tiny deer and mushrooms? Read on for our interview with Amanda [...]
North Carolina Zoo
As much as I love to travel and meet people with experiences to share, I am always pleased when I visit a place and there are no crowds. You can imagine how delighted I was when my family took a trip to the North Carolina Zoo just before Christmas and we saw only a dozen [...]
Pamela Pecchio
Photographer Pamela Pecchio’s dream-like images explore the places we inhabit and the inanimate objects with which we choose to surround ourselves. Pamela currently splits her time between North Carolina and the Univeristy of Virgina, where she is a professor.
Elodie Farms - Dinner on the Porch
If the idea of an elegant multi-course meal, prepared by one of the region’s top chefs, served on quaint farmhouse porch sounds fabulous to you (as it does to me), then allow me to introduce you to Elodie Farms. Located in Rougemont, NC (north of Durham, halfway to Roxboro), Elodie Farms is primarily a dairy [...]
