Nope, your eyes don’t deceive you… that’s First Lady Michelle Obama on our cover along with Chapel Hillian Mena Choi and her mom, Tracy DeLozier. Mena was North Carolina’s winner in a national cooking contest for kid chefs this summer and visited the White House where she posed for this photo. Read all about her conversation with the […]
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Growing up at Akai Hana, the restaurant her dad managed, Kay Huneycutt only ate tuna rolls. She’s come a long way since her picky eating days as a kid and waiting tables as a teenager. Today, her family owns the Carrboro location and another outpost in Morehead City, and she can’t pick a favorite dish
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All About America – through Sept. 11 – This exhibition of photographer Burk Uzzle’s work, held at Ackland Art Museum, spans 50 years of iconic American moments, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, the Woodstock music festival, and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, as well as more recent studies of the country’s social landscape. Downtown Pop Up Farmers’ Market –
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In our July/August issue, four restaurants earned the highest marks from readers for going above and beyond when it comes to treating them right. We asked a few readers to spill – “What is it about the winning restaurants that makes them so outstanding?” “Kitchen is our go-to place for date night or with a
Lisa Johnson of Governors Club Pick a color palette “A great way to pull together a summer celebration without locking into a specific ‘theme’ is by layering hues together for an ombre effect. For example, using beautiful shades of blue for a beach party can allow you to bring in pale turquoise shades to rich
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With tracks titled “Shortnin’ Bread,” “Greasy Greens” and “Cherry Pie,” the lineup for “Biscuits for Your Outside Man” resembles the menu of a hearty Sunday supper. Instead, it’s a compilation of food-themed songs released last month by the Music Maker Relief Foundation. The soulful collection features music spanning three decades from “mostly North Carolina artists
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Darkness overtook twilight as I drove down the winding road to Jordan Lake. It was pitch-black and desolate when I made the final turn into the Ebenezer Church Recreation Area; I began to wonder whether that night’s sky-watching session put on by Morehead Planetarium and Science Center had been canceled due to the clouds. But then I
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This story originally ran in our March 2015 issue. The Yellow Chair Market store in Carr Mill Mall closed in May 2016 but Amy is still focused on custom projects out of her studio. Visit her website for more information. Not all kids grow up using power tools, but Amy Caylor and her three siblings
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2000 Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro 919-542-1239; fearrington.com “I’m not putting pepperoni on a pizza, and you can quote me on that, because it’s charcuterie,” chef Colin Bedford tells me when he stops to check how my pizza turned out. (It was perfectly crisp and chewy.) Instead he tops the pies at Roost with duck confit,
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Meals on Wheels Dining for Dollars – Thursday, 6 p.m. – This dinner at Hickory Tavern benefitting Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels will include a silent auction featuring items such as a UNC football game day experience for four, a vacation to Aruba and tickets to “Riverdance” at DPAC in Durham. Listen to our latest podcast to
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