Archive for February, 2010
Green Tee
Audobon International has taken up golf: well, greening the greens, that is. Golf courses are generally the antithesis of the environmental movement; they require lots of land which requires lots of {usually drinking-quality} water, and keep up their lush, green appearance with the aid of ugly chemicals and pesticides. Their goal in their words: Assist [...]
No Comments »Handmade Chocolate From Mountains to Sea
Whenever we head out west to Asheville, one of my favorite stops, in addition to the Early Girl Eatery and Malaprops Bookstore, is The Chocolate Fetish. Everything there is handmade, and everything is GOOD. Beyond good. With Valentine’s Day around the corner (and we all know the real reason for V-Day is to eat chocolate), I [...]
NOFO at the Pig Will Cure What Ails You
All of this ridiculously cold (and WINDY) weather has me in a funk. So for a little cheer, I visited one of my favorite spots in Raleigh, NOFO at the Pig. And then I figured, hey, I’ll stick around for lunch so I can post about the entire NOFO experience for indieNC. All in the [...]
The Fight to (re)Light Raleigh’s Color Wall
You’d never know it, but nestled among the stacks inside NC State University’s D.H. Hill Library is one of Raleigh’s most original and beautiful works of public art. The Color Wall, a creation of the late Joe Cox, a local artist and former NC State College of Design professor, once broadcast a striking, ever-changing palette of color [...]
Winter Farmers Market = Happy Belly
A trip to the State Farmers Market always puts me in the mood to cook. Especially during the summer, when you can’t walk two feet without coming face-to-face with a mountain of ripe tomatoes, corn-on-the cob or peaches. Or in late spring, when every other booth is handing out strawberry samples. And don’t even get [...]
On Cloud Nine in Downtown Raleigh
Hi! I’m Suzanne with pretty*swell, and I’m really excited to be contributing to indieNC this week. One of my favorite local artists is Keith Norval. His work always makes me chuckle. He and fellow artist Anna Podris just opened an exhibit, “Cloud Nine,” at The Morning Times in downtown Raleigh. Glad for the excuse to [...]
Art “Venue” Highlight: Winston-Salem’s Art-o-Mat
(From www.artomat.org) The subject of today’s post is somewhat of a throwback to art school for us, and it’s also the only thing we knew about the Piedmont Triad before moving out here: the Art-o-Mat. (For those of you who have experienced it—especially for those of you from Winston-Salem, where the Art-o-Mat was born—thanks for [...]
Urban Harvest Greensboro
(Photo courtesy of Urban Harvest Greensboro, from their website) We’ve been pleased to see posts on the IndieNC blog about sustainable agriculture, especially support of sustainable farming in NC as well as urban gardening, because it reminds us that there are like-minded people out there for whom “local” and “fresh” (and often “organic”) are synonymous [...]
Greensboro Artist Spotlight: Jordan Owens
Carrying on with the theme of highlighting some of our favorite Greensboro artists, we move on to the talented Jordan Grace Owens. We first saw her work at her solo show last summer at the Green Bean Coffeehouse downtown and completely flipped out about it. Afterwards in our minds she was yet another famous illustrator, [...]
Hello Indie Greensboro!
Hello! We’re This Paper Ship, and we’ll be contributing to the IndieNC Blog all week! Our first post comes a little later in the day than we had originally intended, but the reason for it is a great one: we just finished moving our household, three cats, and studio into our new apartment in downtown [...]
