A Taste of Hillsborough Street: Irregardless Café
When you think of Irregardless Café, you typically don't think Hillsborough Street. This is because the café is located on West Morgan Street, tucked away passed a little roundabout off of Hillsborough Street. Situated between a funky and modern hair studio, Atomic...
Small Business Spotlight: The Wine Feed
The Small Business Spotlight series features small businesses and their owners, to get a feel for what truly makes Southwest Raleigh a great place to live, work, learn, and play: the people. This Small Business Spotlight features Phillip Zucchino, a French-trained...
What You Should Do if You Accidentally Dialed 911
The Wake County Emergency Communications Center is still experiencing an increased volume of 9-1-1 hang-up calls. In the past, this most often happened when callers were dialing long distance numbers, which included the 910 area code. When the process of dialing...
Trophy Brewing Opens Doors, Taps on West Morgan
The Creative District has a new craft brewery. Trophy Brewing Company, located at 827 W. Morgan Street between NC State and Downtown Raleigh, is Raleigh's newest and most exciting craft brewery. That brings Raleigh's total to eight breweries and a grand total of 20...
Parks in the Creative District: Help Shape Raleigh Parks
The City of Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department held several community meetings about a month ago to engage the citizens and learn about their needs and priorities for the System Plan. The System Plan is a five-part process that is intended to help guide the...
Triangle Raw Foods Tasting at Rebus Works
Rebus Works is hosting a tasting events featuring favorites from the Triangle Raw Foods menu. If you have heard about raw foods and want to know what it is, this is a great introduction,not to mention a super filling healthy dinner with like-minded locals. You know...
Free shred-a-thon on February 23
Prevent identity theft by shredding your old documents–like old tax forms, financial statements, and anything with your social security number on it that you might normally toss in the trash. Check out this free shredding event scheduled for February 23, 2013 right...
Learn about open source at the FOSS Fair
Join over 100 open source enthusiast on Saturday, February 9 in Engineering Building 2 (EB2) on NCSU's Centennial Campus for the 2013 FOSS Fair. The Free and open source software (FOSS) day is an unconference style event similar to BarCamp. An unconference is a...
Parks in the Creative District: Valentine’s Day Ideas
Why not take a different approach to celebrating Valentine's Day and explore a park in the Creative District with a loved one? Whether it's a spouse, friend, or special little one these ideas are sure to entertain and provide fun memories: Valentines for Veterans -...
A Hub for Creative Entrepreneurs: Innovate Raleigh 2.0
Guest post by Jeff Singh from Vybee.com Raleigh is going through it's next revolution with Innovate Raleigh 2.0, an initiative to make Raleigh NC, a hub for creative entrepreneurs. After last year's Innovation Summit, we saw some impressive strides towards this...
Parks in the Creative District: “Mill as Muse” Art & Photo Contest
Do you love all that the Historic Yates Mill County Park has to offer that you want to submit your original artwork or photography inspired by the park? Historic Yates Mill County Park is having their 7th annual "Mill as Muse" Art and Photography Contests. The...
The Saturday Market at Rebus Works is open year round
There are so many wonderful foods grown in North Carolina all year long and with the support of our vendors like the LoMo Market and Double T Farm we have decided to continue The Saturday Market at Rebus Works through the winter and right into the spring, summer, and...
Advancing Regional Solutions for Growth Challenges
ULI Triangle District Chair Keynotes at WakeUP Wake County Annual Meeting WakeUP Wake County will host its 2013 annual meeting on January 17, 2013 from 7-9 p.m. The keynote speaker is ULI Triangle District Chair Ken Bowers. Mr. Bowers will present: "Reality Check:...
Your Parks, Your Future
The Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department is developing a new long-range planning document called the System Plan. They want to hear from you. What are your ideas, solutions, and support so Raleigh can continue to be a national leader in parks and recreation? You...
Creative Spotlight: Beth Yerxa | Executive Director of Triangle ArtWorks
If you are somehow involved in the arts in the Triangle area then you either know Beth Yerxa already or have had someone/will have someone soon say to you "Oh you HAVE to meet Beth Yerxa, she is so connected!" And she is. As Executive Director of the growing Triangle...
Taking a short break
Hi Southwest Raleigh friends, We apologize for the lack of new posts over that last two weeks. Our writers have been busy and our editors needed a break. We hope everyone had a great holiday season and has a safe and happy start to the New Year. We'll be back in...
Join the “Edit your city” group photo at Dorethea Dix
Edit your what? Yeah, you read that right. Edit your city. It's a campaign to drive awareness to add your knowledge to Triangle Wiki. Anyone can edit the Triangle Wiki. Join the "Edit Your City" photo campaign at Dorothea Dix Hospital to celebrate the future park!...
A Crown Jewel Park in Dix for the Creative District
The path is being paved to add the Dorothea Dix campus as a major destination park in Raleigh's Creative District. Adding Dix to our list of parks including Pullen Park, Lake Johnson, and miles of Greenways to explore, only secures Southwest Raleigh as the best place...
Boosting the Creative District to Adopt Bus Shelters
Do you know someone that can adopt a CAT bus shelter in Southwest Raleigh? Maybe it's a business, a volunteer group, a school, a neighborhood, or an individual? The obligation includes a 1-year commitment to clean the adopted bus shelter once a month and report any...
2012 Boylan Heights ArtWalk
Guest post by Lyman Collins It's a great way to enjoy great art, in a wonderful neighborhood and you can kickstart your holiday shopping! Head over to the Boylan Heights Artwalk on Sunday, December 2, from noon to 5 pm. did we mention there will be home cooked food...
Via Penland 9th Annual Exhibit at Rebus Works
For it's 9th annual exhibition Via Penland, Rebus Works draws from the vast resource of artists associated with North Carolina's Penland School of Crafts to fill its gallery with fine art and high craft. This year the main exhibition space features a collection of...