Category Archives: north carolina
Come See the Junior League Band!
I love, love, love Lissy Rosemont’s old-tymey, soulful voice and cannot wait to see her and the Junior League Band play at Mercury Lounge tomorrow night. Lissy’s from Atlanta and her family runs the annual Fiddler’s Grove fiddler’s festival in Union … Continue reading
Filed under Events, Georgia, Music, north carolina, Southern Folk
Belle Boggs Gets Love from the Daily Beast
Kudos to Virginia-born writer, Belle Boggs, who is one of the Daily Beast’s featured Best New Writers today.
Filed under Books, Media, north carolina, Southern Folk, Virginia, Writers
Lee Norwood’s Street Style
I love Unabashedly Prep‘s picture of North Carolina–bred Lee Norwood, who heads up the men’s design team at Rugby RL. Lee is not only a sartorially skilled stylemaker–as evidenced by his progressive embrace of the white bucks–he’s also one of … Continue reading
Filed under Guess Who's Southern, north carolina, Southern Folk, Style
Hunter Dixon on Rue La La
For the next two days, you can shop Hunter Dixon‘s price-slashed collection of flirty tops, dresses and jackets here.
Filed under north carolina, Shopping, South Carolina, Southern Folk, Style
I and Love and Music
The Avett Brothers are playing Radio City on October 13. Tickets go on sale TODAY. Need a more instant form of music gratification? The Punch Brothers are playing in Billyburg tonight. (PB and Chris Thile, featured in Monday’s Wall Street … Continue reading
Filed under Events, Music, north carolina, Southern Folk
Thoroughly Modern Taxidermy
Meet Melissa Dixson, the ethical taxidermist. She’s a conservationist, relying on non-endangered animals harvested due to overpopulation, stillborn animals and animals harvested for meat whose hunters have donated the hides. She never uses fur from fur farms in any of … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Design, north carolina, Southern Folk
Carolina Chocolate Drops Are Coming to Harlem
The Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time, all-black string trio from Durham, will be playing at the Schomberg Center for Research in Harlem on May 1. These guys (and girl) are worth checking out for a number of reasons, but here … Continue reading
Filed under Music, north carolina, South Carolina, Southern Folk
Coffee Buzz
On Monday mornings, I have an Olsen Twins–esque craving for coffee. I need it and the bigger the cup the better. The only problem is that coffee can make me kah-razy, especially if it’s really strong and caffeinated. So when … Continue reading
Filed under Drinks, north carolina, Shopping
At Home(s) with Dick Jenrette
Bunny Williams (a Virginia native) is famous for harboring mad, passionate love for the 18th-century New England manor house she and her husband John Rosselli spent decades rescuing and resuscitating. Fellow Southerner-by-way-of-New York Richard Jenrette (North Carolina), co-founder of the … Continue reading
Filed under Design, north carolina, South Carolina
