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Mex ’n’ Match No less than four new restaurants expand Downtown’s dining scene By Billy Eye “How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?” ― Julia Child This month Eye offer [...]

Rum Discovery Straight up sugar cane By Tony Cross In the spring of 2018, I was able to get into the five-year anniversary party at the mezcal bar Gallo Pelon in Raleigh. It was a fun night [...]

Dog Days of Winter Because, well, outside dog By Susan S. Kelly You knew that sooner or later, there’d be a column on dogs. February may seem a strange choice, but when it comes to my dog — a [...]

“Homewoods, Winter”, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches Jeremiah Miller: Finding Solitude Jeremiah Miller used to paint models, posing them in front of windows. Eventually, he became [...]

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow With one exception: Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony! A musical joke so typical of the maestro, Symphony No. 45, as it’s also known, was composed as a plea among the [...]

The Arrow I tried to explain Cupid to a 4-year-old today.  He was making a Valentine for his grandmother,  festooning a pink paper heart with stamps and stickers,  writing ‘I love you’ across it [...]

For artist Kelly Rightsell, home is an ever-changing canvas By Nancy Oakley   •   Photographs by Amy Freeman “I always have this feeling: It would be great to have this blank place to work where [...]

The New and the Proud Transformation is the name of the game By Astrid Stellanova The new year’s percolating, the stars are circulating and a new you is brewing. . .  Or an old you looking like [...]

Speed Dating and Mating For mallards, timing is everything By Susan Campbell For some birds — like mallards here in central North Carolina — spring comes early. While other birds are simply [...]

The Winter Gardener There’s plenty of life stirring beneath the season’s snows By Jim Dodson As you read this, the first winter of the new decade is drawing to a close. Like a certain fabled [...]