Top chefs from across North Carolina bring the heat at the 7th Annual Pepper Festival on Sunday, Oct. 5, at Briar Chapel in Chapel Hill. More than 30 chefs and craft brewers have been invited to create dishes for the festival. The chefs have a great deal of latitude as they can make anything from […]
Curt Fields
Bio: Curt Fields is the Associate Editor at INDY Week. He lives in Raleigh.Email: [email protected]
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Have mug, will travel? Oktoberfest opportunities abound
For many, this time of year stokes the urge to stick a K in October and then grab a mug and fill it—repeatedly—with beer. Even if you never get closer to Bavaria than a dessert order of Bavarian cream, you can celebrate Oktoberfest at several spots in the Triangle in the coming weeks. Head to […]
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Food Bank Holding 24-Hour Online Telethon Starting Friday
The Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina will try to raise funds and have fun at the same time on Friday, Sept. 26, as part of #FoodBank24: A New Media Telethon. It may be more accurate to call it a Computerthon because the event is streaming for 24 hours straight at foodbank24.org beginning […]
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Eat and drink local at recent addition to Wake Forest’s restaurant scene
Farm Table 960 Gateway Commons Circle Wake Forest Sunday–Thursday 5–9 p.m. Friday–Saturday 5–10 p.m. 919-569-6714 www.giorgiosgroup.com As the northern edge of Raleigh shifts farther and farther up the map, Wake Forest no doubt feels like a dot in the path of an oncoming Pac-man. The single plus to such encroachment is that there becomes enough […]
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You can indulge or be healthy at two recently opened Fayetteville Street spots
Happy and Hale 443 Fayetteville St., Raleigh 919-307-4148 www.happyandhale.com Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tasty 8’s Gourmet Hot Dog Company 121 Fayetteville St., Raleigh 919-307-8558 www.tasty8s.com Monday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m; Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 a.m. If you encounter people brandishing hot dogs and hurling smoothies at each other on Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street, don’t […]
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Game plan for a winning tailgate
Perhaps you’ve seen the commercial in an insurance company’s popular “mayhem” series where a car goes up in flames after a tailgate session before a big game. In his haste to get into the stadium, a buddy didn’t get the grill quite extinguished and then packed it near the warehouse-shopping size can of lighter fluid. […]
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DISH goes to college
Dish Goes to College WELCOME TO ANOTHER EDITION OF INDY’S DISH. With our area’s universities shifting from summer stroll to a full-speed fall pace, we started thinking about collegiate cuisine. Here’s our tasty syllabus: Football is back and that means tailgating is too. We provide some ideas on keeping it simple to keep it fun. […]
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Crank Arm Brewing takes Best of Show honors in N.C. Brewers Cup
Raleigh’s Crank Arm Brewing won Best of Show in the N.C. State Fair’s 2014 N.C. Brewers’ Cup competition, organized by the N.C. Craft Brewers Guild and presented by All About Beer Magazine. Finishing second overall was Asheville’s Hi-Wire Brewing’s followed by Hillsborough’s Mystery Brewing in third place. It was the competition’s third year and there […]
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Durham company providing gift bags for Hopscotch speakers
The Hopscotch Festival is ramping up in Raleigh but it’s a Durham company helping sponsors and speakers feel welcome. NC Made, which curates gift boxes that feature North Carolina foods, was tasked with putting together swag bags for some of the festival’s participants and sponsor representatives. The bags may not rival the legendary goodie bags […]
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The Pull List: Southern Bastards worth keeping company with
Southern Bastardsby Jason Aaron and Jason Latour Image Comics The Image Comics series Southern Bastards is a tribute to the South, both its warm, sunny side and its sordid dark side. If you’re from the South, you approach such projects with wariness. They tend to ladle on the magnolias and moonshine with a heavy hand […]
