During the first weekend in May, Brian and I visited two wineries in Thurmond, located north of Elkin off Highway 21, close to Stone Mountain State Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. The wineries are in the Yadkin Valley AVA, an American Viticultural Area, which covers an area of approximately 1,400,000 acres in the Yadkin River Valley and includes land [...]
Betty Cone’s name is synonymous with the arts in Greensboro, so it's not surprising that she is the first to twice receive the O. Henry Award for exceptional, lifelong contributions to Greensboro’s arts and cultural development. In fact, ArtsGreensboro has named its most prestigious award in her honor, the Betty Cone Medal of Arts award. Betty Cone flanked by her [...]
Groupon Getaways do not appeal to me. By the time I sort through the restrictions, try to find dates that work for me and realize that if I succeed in both, I’ll still feel like a second class citizen when I hand over my coupon at check-in. It’s just not worth it. That said, I like a good deal as [...]
Loring & Lee Mortensen Loring Mortensen is the marketing and publicity officer at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. His wife, Lee Mortensen, is the director of the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market. Both reside in Greensboro where breweries are (happily) popping up left-and-right these days. When out traveling, the first thing my wife and I do is a Google-search of what craft [...]
Rose gown: Mother-of-the-groom dresswith matching clutch. Satin brocade with handcrafted cabbage roses. Doris Dosher of Raleigh wore this dress to her son’s 1959 wedding at Raleigh’s First Baptist Church. For nearly six decades, Willie Otey Kay transformed dreams into dresses for Tar Heel brides, debutantes and partygoers. The esteemed Raleigh designer overcame hardship and transcended racial boundaries to create a [...]
Lia Miller, executive director of Creative Aging Network, asks “How do you allow yourself to be moved… emotionally… physically? And what does age have to do with it?” You can find out Friday, May 6, at the seventh annual Creative Aging Symposium, Move & Be Moved, at Southminster in Charlotte. More than a professional conference, it is an immersive, inspirational [...]
Shakespeare is coming to Raleigh. That is, the First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. will be on exhibit from Saturday, May 7, through Monday, May 30, at the North Carolina Museum of History. The 1623 First Folio, published seven years after Shakespeare’s death, includes 36 of Shakespeare’s plays. [...]
NCMA Sponsors Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy, the eclectic, unclassifiable, genre-defying jazz/funk/global band, will give an early start Sunday, May 1, to the North Carolina Museum of Art’s 2016 summer concert season. Doors open at 5 p.m. prior to the 6:30 p.m. performance. Formed in 2004 at the University of North Texas, the band has toured four continents, recorded [...]
The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame will induct nine new members during the 53rd annual induction banquet on the evening of May 6, 2016 at the Raleigh Convention Center. The nine new members will be introduced at an afternoon news conference at the North Carolina Musuem of History. They are, listed alphabetically, Rod Brind’Amour, Eric “Sleepy” Floyd, David Fox, [...]
N.C. Museum of Art Exhibition Offers Rare Opportunity to Watch Conservator at Work Conservator Noelle Ocon will work on Flemish painting in Museum gallery Beginning February 20, 2016, the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) presents Actual State, a rare opportunity for Museum visitors to watch a conservator restore a painting in the galleries. On select days during the exhibition, [...]
