Archive for May, 2009
Featured indieNC Designer: Tamara Galiano Bagnell, Modern Radar
Tell us a little more about your business and how you got started: When I started Modern Radar about two and a half years ago, I was really thinking of it as more of a hobby. I learned to screen-print while I was in art school in the late 90′s, and started sewing when I [...]
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Green Sleeves
It’s not often you find a company whose mission is “…to build a sustainable company that simultaneously looks after the People, the Planet, and Profits.” TS Designs walks the talk in Burlington, NC. Their shirts start as organic cotton blanks, are printed with water-based inks, and then dyed to the buyer’s specs with low impact [...]
Support Local Farms
I dashed to Chapel Hill to meet a friend for the farm tour Sunday afternoon. Even though we just made it to three farms, I learned an incredible amount about where my food comes from by talking directly to the farmers. Chapel Hill Creamery – our first stop. We walked down a dusty road past [...]
Call for Vendors – The Rock & Shop Market
We are now accepting vendor applications for the tenth! Rock & Shop Market on Saturday June 20th from 1-5pm at the Tir Na Nog in Downtown Raleigh. The first event of its kind in the Raleigh, NC area, since 2004 the event has remained a local favorite. To check out past vendors and bands and [...]
Toast
Of the many reasons to love Durham, the dining scene is near the top of my list. Durham boasts some wonderful haute cuisine, to be sure, but also some terrific little cafes and neighborhood eateries – places that help make the city a vibrant community in a way that is altogether different from Chapel Hill [...]
