At Kinston’s Mother Earth Brewery, Travis Quinn and Josh Brewer often deal in limited-release beers. But the phrase “super OOP”or super out-of-printhas not yet made the jump from record-store nerdom into craft-brew obsession in describing the rarest of goods. They’ve never heard it. For Valentine’s Day, Mother Earth will launch another limited-edition creation through its […]
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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Five Things You Need to Know About Amazon’s New-to-Raleigh Delivery Service, Prime Now
Amazon launched its hyperfast delivery service, Prime Now, late last year. The service promises customers will receive “thousands of items” within a two-hour window of clicking the little yellow “checkout” button on their phones. Prime Now is free for those who hold an Amazon Prime account, which costs $99 per year (expedited one-hour delivery can […]
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North Carolina wins big at the Good Food Awards
It’s been a good year for Goat Lady Dairy. In July, the Climax farm’s creamy Roasted Red Pepper Chevre and semi-soft Providence brought home awards at the annual American Cheese Society competition. In September, the family institution celebrated its 20th anniversary. By the end of the year, extensive renovations on the 42-acre farm allowed the […]
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Help Top of the Hill catch a boozy bandit
Identify that (presumable) fratty bro, win free beer! Yes, another Triangle culinary caper occurred this weekend, this time at a downtown Chapel Hill staple, while Ashley Christensen’s cooker remains on the loose. Just before closing time on Saturday night, a young man in a striped collared shirt yanked three taps from behind the bar of […]
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Slingshot coffee and Durham Distillery’s damn fine liqueur collaboration
On the whiteboard above the desk that Jenny and Jonathan Bonchak share in the small, square office of Slingshot Coffee Company’s headquarters near downtown Raleigh, a mantra written in lime-green ink reminds the couple to “rise up and greet the day with enthusiasm.” Below the quote, the complete set of the brand’s bottled libations stands […]
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Greg Fishel was once a Limbaugh-loving climate skeptic. Now he’s fighting global warming.
You might assume that your local meteorologist believes in climate change. Certainly if he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology from Penn State in 1979 and began working at WRAL-TV as the station’s first meteorologist in 1981. Especially if he was promoted to chief meteorologist in 1989, a post he has held ever […]
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Size matters: Neil deGrasse Tyson brings his expanding universe to Durham
Neil deGrasse Tyson Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 Durham Performing Arts Center Like Bill Nye and LeVar Burton before him, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has achieved the kind of stardom that makes knowledge seem impossibly cool. Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, a popular author and radio host and, of […]
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The physics behind lucettegrace’s pickled apple grilled cheese sandwich
lucettegrace 235 S Salisbury St Raleigh, NC 27601 (919) 307-4950 You can perch on a yellow stool near the floor-to-ceiling windows that flank lucettegrace’s downtown Raleigh entrance and watch the world go by. Or, better yet, you can turn around and peer through the two oversize windows behind the pastry case and watch chef Daniel […]
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Raleigh’s Standard Foods hopes to use a restaurant and grocery store to expand its audience’s tastes
Standard Foods 205 E. Franklin St., Raleigh www.standard-foods.com 919-307-4652 The pace at Standard Foods is slow. Early on a summer afternoon, construction workers hack away at a dining room meant to seat 80 diners. Nearby, in the prep kitchen of the combination restaurant-and-boutique-grocery in Raleigh’s redeveloped Person Street Plaza, a giant steam kettle sits beside […]
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Humdinger, Raleigh’s original cold-press juicer, shortlisted for Martha Stewart’s American Made Award
After only three years in Raleigh, the phenomenon of cold-press juice appears here to stay. There’s Happy + Hale, which recently announced an expansion into downtown Durham, Raleigh Raw and Cold off the Press. But it’s Raleigh’s original cold-press juice company, Humdinger, that’s on the short list for Martha Stewart’s 2015 American Made Award. The […]