What to DO this Week in SouthWestRaleigh: Sep. 1-7.
Wondering what to get up to this week? Check out these SWR picks! First Friday First Friday is a free self-guided tour of downtown’s cutting edge cultural hot spots. Local art galleries, art studios, alternative art venues, and museums stay...
What to DO this weekend in SouthWestRaleigh – Aug. 25-27
Wondering what to get up to this weekend? Check out these SWR picks! Gregg Museum of Art & Design Grand Opening - Saturday The new Gregg Museum of Art & Design opens its doors this Saturday! The day of free events will begin with a...
What to DO this Week in SouthWestRaleigh
Wondering what to get up to this week? Check out these SWR picks! Packapalooza - Saturday, 8/19 Packapalooza is an all-day block party and street festival capping off Wolfpack Welcome Week at the start of the academic year. The event has...
Museum Month: The NC Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh 27607 Hours: Tuesday – Thursday 10am-5pm, Friday 10am-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 10am-5pm. The North Carolina Museum of Art is a truly amazing resource that boasts world-class collections and events that connect visitors to a range of art...
What to DO this weekend in SouthWestRaleigh – Aug. 11-13
Wondering what to get up to this weekend? Check out these SWR picks! NCMA Summer Film Series: Kubo and the Two Strings Big-screen movie magic under the stars has been a cherished NCMA experience for more than 20 years. Plucky Kubo lives with...
Museum Month: NC Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street, Raleigh 27601 Hours: Monday to Saturday 9am -5pm, Sunday: 12 – 5pm. The NC Museum of Natural Sciences was founded in 1887 by decree of the NC General Assembly to “illustrate the…natural history of the state” It has been doing just that for 130...
What to DO in SouthWestRaleigh this Weekend
Wondering what to get up to this weekend? Check out some of the great stuff going on in SouthWestRaleigh! A Night at the City of Raleigh Museum Sir Walter Raleigh is teaming up with Sammy the Squirrel – the City of Raleigh Museum mascot – to...
Museum Month: City of Raleigh Museum
City of Raleigh Museum 220 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh 27610 Hours: Tuesday- Saturday: 9 AM - 4 PM, Sunday: 1 - 4:00 PM. Located in the historic Briggs Hardware building in the heart of downtown, The City of Raleigh Museum reflects a time continuum of the capital...
Well Fed and Community Grown
By Clodagh Bastian - Raleigh’s Irregardless Café has been a staple on West Morgan Street since 1975. Innovative from its inception, the popular restaurant was the first in town to offer good vegetarian food and nightly live music. It’s now continuing that pioneering...
From Boys to Men: A Homecoming in Method
By Clodagh Bastian - I pulled into the parking lot on Raleigh’s west side on one of the coldest mornings this year. A small cluster of people stood waiting while several men set up a row of folding tables. As I approached, I was greeted by one of them: John Goode,...
Visioning Raleigh’s Southern Gateway
By Anthony McLeod - Entering Raleigh from the Southern Gateway gives one of the most picturesque views of our iconic downtown skyline and sets the stage for many travelers that are coming to the city on a daily basis or for the first time. The most heavily trafficked...
Boylan Bridge Brewpub Resumes Old Life and Begins a New Chapter
By Clodagh Bastian - The Boylan Bridge Brewpub reopens this week after a year-long restoration to secure a foundational wall collapsed by flooding. The brewpub will resume its place as the best spot to enjoy a craft brew while overlooking the downtown Raleigh skyline....
Development and Citizen Engagement: Who Leads Community Input in Rezonings?
By Clodagh Bastian - Raleigh’s Citizen Engagement Task Force is nearing its deadline for recommendations to City Council this month. The group’s mission is to flesh out what citizen engagement means and how community-municipality dialog can be improved, but one issue...
A New Life for Historic Oberlin Village Homes?
By Ann Sides - Two reconstruction-era homes along Oberlin Road may be restored and re-purposed as offices for Preservation North Carolina (PNC). It’s a project warmly supported by the surrounding community. However, further progress awaits a City of Raleigh decision...
Raleigh City-Citizen Dialog Under Review
By Clodagh Bastian - What does citizen engagement mean? What forms does it take? How can it be inclusive and responsive? What roles do city council, staff and citizens play? Should information flow be primarily city-driven or two/multi-directional? Are all topics...
Release Your Inner Thespian at Raleigh Little Theatre
By Kathleen Rudolph - Drama classes have started again at RLT and the building is bursting with energy! Why take a drama class you ask? Well, why not? Have you always wanted to be an actor? Have you wondered what it is like to perform on a stage? Were you an actor...
Focus on Affordable Housing and Transit at WakeUP Wake County Annual Meeting
By Karen Rindge - Rapid growth and urbanization in Wake County have brought opportunity, but have also affected land values and rents. A rising number families spend more than 30% of income on housing prompting growing concern about the need for housing that’s...
Open Source 101 debuts at NC State’s McKimmon Center
By Jason Hibbets - If you are interested in exploring what the world of open source has to offer or seeing what the professional technology environment will look like in the future, then mark your calendar for Saturday, February 4, 2017. Open Source 101 is a one-day...
Remnants of Fall: Raleigh’s Last Leaf Pick-Up
-By Ann Sides If you see a big municipal truck with a long, tubular snout crawling along the street gutters, don’t be surprised. Raleigh’s leaf collection trucks are beginning their second –and final—seasonal cleanup of loose leaf piles in our neighborhoods. The job...
SouthWestRaleigh Real Estate
SouthWestRaleigh Real Estate Raleigh’s population has mushroomed over the last few years, making us the third fastest growing metro region in the country (TBJ). New construction, infill, and growing density requirements are reshaping the real estate market...
Photography with Friends
Have you ever wished you had someone to help you build your photography skills and give pointers on the ins and outs of image capture? Wish no more! The Capital City Camera Club brings amateur and semi-professional photographers together to share their work and help...