Jessica Stringer

September/October 2016

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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Weekend at a Glance: Beer, ‘The Beautiful Beast’ and Be Loud! Sophie

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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At Your Service

  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

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New Album Preserves the Musical Traditions (and Recipes) of the South

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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Staycation: Experience A Breathtaking Night with Morehead Planetarium

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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The Dish: Roost Beer Garden

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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