The last time I saw Tatiana Birgisson, founder and CEO of MATI Energy, she was cutting the yellow ribbon in her new production facility with an oversize pair of novelty scissors. The facility—the first of its kind in the United States—was chock-full of the sparkling, caffeinated tea for which the twenty-seven-year-old Duke grad has become […]
Tina Haver Currin
Bio: Tina Haver Currin lives in Raleigh, where she works as a copywriter for film and TV. Her essay "Go Pack" appears in the new anthology 27 Views of Raleigh.
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This American Life Host Ira Glass Remixes His Radio Saga Onstage at DPAC
SEVEN THINGS I’VE LEARNED: AN EVENING WITH IRA GLASS Saturday, Sept. 10, 8 p.m., $35–$65 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham If there’s such thing as a public radio star, Ira Glass is it. Each week, This American Life, the program Glass developed in 1995, garners more than two million radio listeners before being downloaded another […]
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A Perfect Night for Manifest Pussy: The Sudden, Tragic Poignancy of Shakina Nayfack’s Trans Song Cycle
Manifest Pussy Friday, June 17, Local 506 Sunday, June 19, The Pinhook, Durham On Sunday, I didn’t want to do a single thing. For weeks, I’d had the date blocked off on my calendar with the proclamation: “Day Off.” On Monday, as I pulled images for a rock group’s statement regarding HB 2, I told […]
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Puppy Bowl: One Dog’s Search for the Triangle’s Best Dog Ice Cream
The first time I ordered dog ice cream, it was awkward, largely because I didn’t have a dog with me. I was on my way home from work, and I had planned to return with Alice, my mutt who looks like an oversized Boston Terrier with a bulldog’s underbite. But then the sky opened up, […]
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With First Squeeze, Raleigh Brewing Company Delivers a Perfect Springtime Beer
Raleigh Brewing Company 3709 Neil St., Raleigh Tucked on a side road between an Applebee’s and a Waffle House is a beer-lover’s multiplex at Raleigh Brewing Company. The twenty-barrel brewhouse and taproom are attached to a brewing supply store. Though that interior entices through the smell of sweet malt, an outdoor corral of picnic tables […]
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Former Standard Foods Chef Scott Crawford to Open Crawford & Son in Raleigh This Fall
On a recent warm Saturday evening at Raleigh’s Standard Foods, things appeared to be business as usual. Reservations rolled in. Every seat at the bar was spoken for. Hungry diners milled about the restaurant’s exterior, waiting for the host to beckon them to their tables. But one thing was missing: the chef. Two days earlier, […]
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Tomorrow, The Borough’s Liz Masnik Steps out of Retirement to Fight HB 2 at Hadley’s
If there’s a silver lining to be found in HB 2, it’s the way distinct communities continue to work together to employ creative ways to speak out against the discriminatory legislation. Concerned citizens are no longer relegated to holding signs and attending rallies (though you must still vote in November). These days, you can eat […]
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Dish by Dish: Five Area Favorites, Course by Course, Ingredient by Ingredient
We like to eat out. And in the Triangle, especially during the last ten years, the number and types of places to do just that has ballooned, with the foods of the world and the traditional foods of our own region scattered side by side, from strip mall to roadside stand, from a bank building’s […]
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Standard Foods’ Not-So-Standard Ice Cream Sandwiches
Standard Foods 205 E. Franklin St., Raleigh Eating at Standard Foods is like a tasty game show; your experience depends on the door you choose. Behind door No. 1, you’ll find an eighty-seat restaurant. Behind door No. 2, though, you’ll spot shelves stocked with cooking essentials, soup and pasta take-alongs, fresh vegetables spilling from bushel […]
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At Virgil’s, Downtown Raleigh’s New Taqueria, The Avocado is Fried and Delicious
Virgil’s Taqueria 126 S. Salisbury St., Raleigh For two years, Jon Seelbinder has been transforming a two-story space in downtown Raleigh piecemeal, first with The Level Up kitchen and arcade upstairs, followed by Linus & Pepper’s sandwich shop down below. The newest undertaking for his hospitality group, Local Icon, is Virgil’s, a cozy downstairs taqueria […]