Rhonda’s Top Ten Continued: #2

Ok, I walk into the lobby–it’s spacious and shiny, flooded with sunshine from skylights in the ceiling and enormous two story glass walls–past display cases and cubbyholes chocked full of community info and free brochures about everything going on in Raleigh; a lounge area to my left has chairs and tables where people lounge with [...]

Rhonda’s Ten Best Reasons to Live In Raleigh: #1

In no particular order, cause I love them all equally, I’ll start with a long-time favorite (Note: these will be my own personal favorites, which may or may not be yours and may or may not be found on some slick top ten list in a magazine somewhere; which means they are highly specific and [...]

Crema Coffee Shop downtown

Open only since last October, Crema, a great little coffee shop on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh, serves Seattle, Washington coffee brand Gillano, which Tim tells me roasts the finest one to two percent of all available fair trade beans.  Nearby office workers drop in for lunch or coffee or both; some are sitting in a corner [...]

Some sunshine for your weekend at the State Farmers’ Market

Reasons to go to the state market this weekend: Strawberries!!! Local strawberries that taste like strawberries, not like cardboard. You’ll never eat strawberries from the grocery store again. Support local farmers and get to know them. Walk up and down the aisle and at each stall they call out to you, holding out a strawberry [...]

Arcade Fire in Asheville

Ok this has nothing to do with Raleigh, and will no doubt make the people posting to the Bickett thread believe that I am an “elitist” for sure if I’d come all the way to trendy Asheville to hear trendy Arcade Fire. But here I am, because I think Neon Bible is pretty good, and [...]

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