N.C. State Fair Exploits Legal Loophole to Clear-Cut 19 Acres of Forest for Parking Lot
There was scant transparency and public engagement for the $30 million land deal, which impinges on Raleigh’s Westover-Mt. Vernon neighborhood.
Your N.C. State Fair Eating Game Plan
Some go for the rides, we go for the food. Here are the old-school classics and new faves to sample this year.
Here Are the New Foods to Try at the State Fair This Year
Arepa burgers? Yes. Bacon-glazed corn? Eeehhhh…
Ashley Christensen Raises $124,000 for Hurricane Relief and Wilson’s Eatery Opens Monday
And more from this week’s Friday Night Bites
Good News: You Can Buy Beer at the N.C. State Fair This Year!
Come October, the N.C. State Fair will no longer be the country’s only state fair to not allow any alcohol sales. For the first time in the fair’s 164-year history*, you’ll be able to buy beer and wine. Not a lot of beer and wine, but some beer and wine, and some beer and wine…
After a decade of losses, the state fair gambled on Tar Heel talent. They won.
Eddie Sanchez had just played an arena, but he had not prepared to give any autographs. On Friday night, just 15 minutes after he stood stage right with The Love Language, working the strings of his electric bass for an hour-long set, Sanchez did not appear ready to stick around. Clutching a few small cases…
A running tally of the money lost or made at this year’s N.C. State Fair concerts
Ahh, yes, Fall is here: The leaves are changing colors. There’s a gentle crisp in the evening air. Kids are talking costumes. And each night, for the next 10 days, if you bend your ear just so, you can hear rock, rap, gospel and country coming from the old concrete seats of the much-neglected Dorton…
More NC State Fair Coverage
What might be missing in the N.C. State Fair’s $663,000 band budget
Monday was a wash for the North Carolina State Fair. After estimating that more than 100,000 people would walk through the gates during each of the convocation’s 11 days in Raleigh, only about 52,000 arrived to start the week. A band of storms had streamed across the state from the late afternoon into the early…
N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 10
Emily Wallace Tenth post in a series of drawings to coincide with the North Carolina State Fair (October 13-23).
Meet-and-Three: St. Paul’s State Fair Restaurant
Judy Caves arrives at 6:30 a.m. each day of the North Carolina State Fair to make biscuits for St. Paul’s. Judy Caves has worked through 100 pounds of flour in two hours. “It’s been really busy,” she says. It looks like things will continue that way. The tables are packed at a restaurant operated by…
N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 9
Emily Wallace Ninth post in a series of drawings to coincide with the North Carolina State Fair (October 13-23).
N.C. State Fair Illustrated: Day 8
Emily Wallace Eigth post in a series of drawings to coincide with the North Carolina State Fair (October 13-23).
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