Joyous Cooking: Get Crafty
Moreton Neal offers two very simple craft cocktails to make for sipping on the patio
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Southern Season
An Expert Guide to Planning a Chapel Hill Wedding
The professionals answer your most pressing wedding questions from how to pick a venue to what last-minute details to consider.
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The Wedding Guide: A Month-by-Month Timeline To Get You to Your Big Day
If your holiday takeaways included giving or receiving a very shiny piece of jewelry that now adorns a ring finger, firstly, congratulations! Now it’s the new year, and the furor of announcing your new fiancee-status to the world and receiving lots of Instagram love is winding down. Like many newly engaged couples, you may feel
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Parents: We’ve Featured Extracurriculars To Keep Your Kids Engaged
SPORTS We are fortunate to have many specialized sports complexes and team leagues to help kids expend some energy and learn leadership and discipline skills along the way. Complexes like Baseball Rebellion (currently based in Hillsborough, but planning to move to Durham soon), Bull City Gymnastics, OC Gymnastics in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill Gymnastics offer
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Take a Look Inside This Westwood Retreat
When Angela and Sam Eberts began searching for a home in Chapel Hill, they knew they needed something special. The pair had been living in a converted cookie factory in Chicago, and weren’t afraid of a renovation – but every home they saw seemed wrong. “We must have looked at a thousand homes before we
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Something Borrowed, Something (Carolina) Blue: 5 Wedding Ideas to Steal
“Doug and I both knew that we wanted cupcakes right away – we didn’t even have to talk about it! We both prefer the frosting-to-cake ratio of cupcakes, and it offered guests more options for flavors. [Our selection included] spice with vanilla buttercream, chocolate with chocolate buttercream and almond with raspberry buttercream. The spice was
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Tonya Council Continues Mama Dip’s Sweet Legacy
It should be no surprise that one of Tonya Council’s earliest memories involving food is spending time in the kitchen, “Watching my grandmother prepare breakfast before school, and then the smell of fresh cakes cooking after school.” Her grandmother is Mildred Council – better known, of course, as Mama Dip – and if you’ve ever
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Four Summertime Sippers to Enjoy This Season
“The Green Man Wayfarer is a light, American-style IPA. This beer is easy drinking; it’s actually deceptively alcoholic at 6.0%. It’s a perfect beach beer, it’s a perfect picnic beer and it’s a perfect warm weather beer because it is so easy on a hot day to sit there, drink and enjoy.” –Connor Rice, Carrboro
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Staycation: Splurge On a Southern Season Cooking Class
Need some more staycation ideas for summer? Try Cat’s Cradle or the Carolina Basketball Museum. Honestly, I’ve always been a little intimidated by Southern Season. It’s so beautiful, between the delicious bites and nifty tools. I’ve walked the aisles, back and forth, with out-of-town guests, my husband or friends before lunching at the Weathervane. But I’ve
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Our Latest Obsessions: The Pink Pearl, Philanthropy and a Peacock
You know us… we’re always out doing something in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Pittsboro or Hillsborough. Click through our photos to see what we’ve been up to this week! Crook’s Corner On his very first visit to Crook’s Corner, Kevin tried the legendary shrimp and grits. The Pink Pearl How cute is this North Carolina pashmina
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