At Sweet Peas Urban Gardens in Hillsborough, a million things are happening at once. Bees are pollinating, shiitake mushrooms are growing, LED lights are illuminating seedlings in a crop box, compost is slowly turning scraps into fertile soil, and WWOOFersvolunteers who work on farms in exchange for room and board through the World Wide Opportunities […]
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Biere de Femme Showcases Female Brewers in North Carolina This Saturday
Biere de Femme Saturday, March 3, 2 p.m., $45-$75 614 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh www.bieredefemmefest.com If someone were to walk into a brewhouse in North Carolina one hundred and fifty years ago, it would most likely be an actual house, and the brewmasters would be women. Women in brewing has something of a hidden history. But […]
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Arty Bars Ruby Deluxe and Arcana Cultivate Queer-Friendly Atmospheres in Raleigh and Durham
ARCANA 331 W. Main St., Durham www.arcanadurham.com RUBY DELUXE 414 Fayetteville St., Raleigh www.rubydeluxeraleigh.com Gender-neutral bathrooms, affirming signs, and diverse bookings all help make a space more inviting, but the process of creating a truly inclusive space is a bit more elusive. But two barsArcana in Durham and Ruby Deluxe in Raleighhave decided they’re up […]
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Durham’s Reid Miller Wants to Use New Tech to Push Past Standard Sizes in Professional Womenswear
Since the standardization of sizes in the 1940s, women have been forcing their bodies into the so-called average mold. But, with the help of new technology, apparel designers like Durham’s Reid Miller (reidmillerapparel.com) want to provide affordable, custom-made clothing for the modern woman. The idea took root when Miller was a bike commuter pursuing a […]
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Moogfest, Night One: Gotye’s Not Just Somebody That We Used to Know
Moogfest: Gotye Presents a Tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey Downtown Durham Thursday, May 18, 2017 Shortly after his hit song “Somebody That I Used to Know” reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2011, it seemed, by all accounts, that Gotye had vanished back into the foothills of Australia whence he came. As it […]
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Free Your Mind: Techno-Shamanism Practices Aim to Get Your Brain on An Enlightened New Level
Amos Gaynes photo courtesy of moogfest Free Your Mind Amos Gaynes experienced an unexpected spiritual awakening in the middle of a field in the summer of 1999. Around that time, Gaynes had been hanging out at his friend’s farm just outside Asheville, when his friend was contacted by a group of psych-trance party organizers from […]
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The Makery and Mercury Studio Merge Into the Mothership, a Haven for Coworking and Local Design
The Makery and Mercury Studio have long collaborated and shared a building on Geer Street, with the Makery selling local makers’ wares on one side and Mercury providing a homey coworking space on the other. Now they’re making it official by merging the businesses into one, the Mothership. The founding mothersthe Makery’s Krista Anne Nordgren […]
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The Resistance, Day Two: With N.C. Organizers at the Women’s March on Washington
Depending on whom you ask, anywhere from five hundred thousand to one million people came to Washington, D.C., for the Women’s March on Saturday. Several million more marchers descended on cities across the country, including seventeen thousand in Raleigh (see page 20). Thousands of those who took to D.C.’s streets Saturday traveled from North Carolina […]
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A Fifty-Year-Old Time Capsule Exhumed in Lakewood Reveals Continuity in Durham’s Shifting Urban Landscape
The people who buried a time capsule at what’s now the Scrap Exchange fifty years ago were not joking around. They sealed the memorabilia in an airtight metal box, welded it shut, reinforced it with rebar, and planted it under an 800-pound slab of concrete. “It’s been a big ordeal to get this thing out,” […]
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With the Trump Presidency Looming, Women Are Getting IUDs While They Still Can
On the evening of November 8, Megan Squires gathered at the Isaac Hunter’s Oak City Tavern in downtown Raleigh with about one hundred supporters of the Wake County transit referendum to watch the election results roll in. The mood was festive and restless at first. But as state after state went for Donald Trump, Squires […]