Every time I see the pair of electric green palm trees glowing in the night off Highway 55, just past the midpoint between my childhood home in Harnett County and my grown-up home in Wake County, I worry that I have finally lost my mind. They sit at the dip of a long, slow slope, […]
Grayson Haver Currin
Bio: Grayson Haver Currin was the music editor of INDY Week and the co-director of Hopscotch Music Festival.Twitter: http://twitter.com/currincy
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Record Review: On Blues from WHAT, Jenks Miller Joins the Threads
Jenks Miller Blues from WHAT During the last decade, you could have heard half a dozen records featuring the Chapel Hill multi-instrumentalist Jenks Miller and never realized they shared a band name, let alone a key musician. In the solo guise of Horseback, Miller’s material has been deliberately mercurial, shifting shapes between wafting waves of […]
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Moogfest Director Marisa Brickman Steps Down
By most accounts, Moogfest’s debut in downtown Durham last month was a success: The people partied. The press raved. And the festival announced its dates for next year’s before this year’s festivities had even ended. Between now and then, though, Moogfest will need to do some restructuring, as director Marisa Brickman—a North Carolina expatriate who […]
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Chef Shuffle: Piedmont’s Greg Gettles Heads to Charleston, The Boot’s John May Moves to Piedmont
A year will do it for Greg Gettles, the young executive chef at Durham’s revitalized Piedmont. He stepped into the role early last June, and this week will mark the end of his remarkable run in Durham. The longtime Raleigh resident and Umstead alumnus is headed to an as-yet unannounced gig in Charleston, South Carolina. […]
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Restaurant Review: Raleigh Raw Loves Its Image. We Love Its Food.
Raleigh Raw 7 W. Hargett St., Raleigh I’d been perched on a stool alongside the alabaster bar of Raleigh Raw for less than thirty minutes when my nightmare suddenly morphed into reality. Since my arrival, the man one seat over had been quietly reading a new biography of the inventor Elon Musk while sipping from […]
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Eat This: Piedmont’s Pretzels Are a Supremely Nostalgic Snack
Piedmont 401 Foster St., Durham For Greg Gettles, pretzels elicit playful reminiscences. He recalls sitting around with his sisters, puffing at the end of pretzel sticks as though the kids were power brokers enjoying a cigar, or sharing a bowl of classic twists with his dad while watching Jurassic Park on the couch. But standing […]
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Want to Support Roy Cooper and Hang with the State’s Best Chefs, Brewers, And Bartenders? That’ll be $1,000.
Farm to Fork—one of the Triangle’s best annual collections of chefs, artisans, and farmers—happens this weekend. But for an encore that expands the geographical borders and raises money to upend Pat McCrory from the gubernatorial seat, you’ll need to free your Thursday night and $1,000 in your budget. Chef and charity powerhouse Ashley Christensen and […]
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Standard Foods to Close for Six Weeks, Naming New Chef As Early As Next Week
The saga of Standard Foods—the vaunted Raleigh restaurant that has gone from James Beard Award nominee to troubled Raleigh restaurant without a head chef in a matter of three months—continues apace. This time, Standard Foods will be closed for at least six weeks, according to owner John Holmes, while a still-unannounced new chef builds a […]
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In Memory of Wes Phillips, 1977–2016
The first half of this year has been a brutal one for our musical icons. David Bowie died early in January, a canary in a coal mine for a string of deaths that’s been particularly tough to takePrince and Phife Dawg, Tony Conrad and Merle Haggard, all gone before the start of summer. Last week, […]
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Farm to Fork Is More Than a Fancy Meal. It’s an Essential Opportunity to Educate New Farmers.
Farm to Fork Sustainable Supper Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw Friday, June 3, 6 p.m., $15–$35 Farm to Fork Picnic Breeze Family Farm, Hurdle Mills Sunday, June 5, 4–7 p.m., $100 Jillian and Ross Mickens sit perched on a wayward assembly of sagging hay bales, plopped between the short, straight rows of the small rectangular plots […]