3rd Annual Downtown Home Tour this Saturday
The Department of City Planning/the Urban Design Center will be hosting its 3rd Annual Downtown Raleigh Home Tour this Saturday. Held during the same weekend as Artsplosure, the tour (which is self-guided) is intended to show off the great variety of options available in downtown housing. The tour takes you through historic properties, single family [...]
Artsplosure Brings Free Festival of Art and Jazz to Moore Square
Artsplosure will bring its annual Art and Jazz Festival to Moore Square this weekend. Featuring a variety of music, tons of artisans, street shows for kids, collaborations and exhibits inside Exploris, life size chess games, sand sculpting and lots more, its sure to be as big a success as usual. You can check out the [...]
The Nash Changes Shades
A development formerly known as ‘The Nash’ has changed its name to simply ‘Hue‘ as a new site sign reflects. Perhaps the name change is to reflect the appearance of the colorful building, or perhaps to make it sound less like a disease. Regardless, it is slated at 7 stories which will sit between The [...]
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 [...]
