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BUZZIN’ It’s the age-old caffeine debate: coffee or soda? Now you can have both with Sola Coffee’s new coffee soda. The independent coffee shop combines Counter Culture Coffee and a blood-orange-pomegranate-infused simple syrup to make a refreshing carbonated twist on your usual cup of joe. Topped with a fresh orange peel and poured over ice, it’s a new take on the midday caffeine jolt. 7705 Lead Mine Road; Monday Thursday: 6:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Friday: 6:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., Saturday: 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., Sunday: Closed; solacoffee.com
RANCH WATER Lime wedges Flaky sea salt, such as Maldon Aleppo-pepper flakes 1 bottle (750 ml) silver tequila, chilled 48 ounces (6 cups) Topo-Chico, chilled Run a lime wedge around rim of each serving glass; dip in salt and pepper flakes. Fill glasses with ice. Pour 1 1/2 to 2 ounces tequila into each, top with sparkling water, and serve each with a lime wedge.
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FINS UP Join fellow Parrot Heads to hear the man who has recently inspired Mississippi legislators to consider renaming a beach for him. Pascagoula native Jimmy Buffet performs April 21 at Walnut Creek.
The Sport Fishing School, hosted by the Office of Professional Development at N.C. State, isn’t until June (June 5-9), but spaces fill up quickly for this coveted getaway. It’s four-and-a-half days out in Hatteras learning all about offshore big game fishing, with classroom instruction and excursions into the Gulf Stream on charter boats. It’s the school’s 62nd year, so you know you’ll be learning from the experts. June 5 - 9; To register: ncsu.edu/mckimmon/cpe/ opd/fishing/index.html
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Opening dessert reception Meet the designers for a first look of this year’s arrangements. Proceeds of this event go toward future Art in Blooms. Thursday April 7; 8 p.m.; $55 Olivier Giugni Mastermind of the leaf-wrapped vase, Olivier Giugni is considered an haute couturier of floral design. After a floral demonstration and illustrated presentation, he’ll sign copies of his book, Living Art: Style Your Home With Flowers. Thursday April 7; 3 p.m.; $55 Bonsai demonstration A bonsai-growing class for beginners sold out by the end of January. But this event gives you the chance to watch experts from the Triangle Bonsai Society demonstrate the steps of bonsai design. Friday April 8; 3 p.m.; free Create a personal perfume Carolyn Hassett, owner of Cary-based Escentuelle Signature Fragrance Creation, will offer pointers and ingredients to let you concoct your own unique scent. Sunday April 10; 10:30 a.m.; $115 Parent-child blooms and brushstrokes Raleigh florist Cydney Davis-English will teach artists of every age how to create a floral design in pottery and mix a plant-inspired color palette. Sunday April 10; 2 p.m.; $30
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Left: Cassie Sebas models sportswear by designer Meaghan Shea. Right: Courtney Randall and Grace Bilbao model clothes by designer Quinan Dalton.
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HAT IS FASHION? WHEN IS IT ART? FOR 15 years, N.C. State’s College of Design has challenged its students to ask and answer these questions with Art2Wear, a studentorganized runway show that showcases a juried selection of fashion, costume, and wearable sculpture. On April 22, the school’s latest crop of design talent – under the guidance of celebrated designer and faculty member Justin LeBlanc – will show how far this annual show has evolved. Incorporating fabric they’ve printed and knitted themselves, accessories they’ve stitched and forged, and boundless imagination, 10 students, whose studies range from industrial design to textiles to art and design, will showcase the polished and sophisticated results of months of hard work. The creations of Quinan Dalton, Bailey Knight, Leeza Regensburger, Susan Stephens, Meaghan Shea, Gena Lambrecht, Grace Hall-
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man, Kathleen Davis, Angele Gray, and Annie Gray Gibbs will be on show. Their designs, which will be modeled by fellow students, include hip eveningwear and polished sportswear as well as imaginative creations that push the boundaries of fashion. The designers were chosen last December from a pool of applicants by a jury that included WALTER editor Liza Roberts, N.C. State University Theatre director John McIlwee, Scholastic UK Creative Director Jennifer LaRoe, and author and consultant Heather Allen. The show “seeks to explore new fashion ground,” says LeBlanc. With a definition of fashion that includes “a product or sculptural piece that interacts with the body and serves as either a cultural artifact, an artistic expression, a reflector of society, outward illustration of a person’s identity…(a) starter of revolutions, economic building block, basic human need, or body covering,” you’re in for a treat and more than one surprise. -L.R.
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ALL in good fun I N A SATURATED DIGITAL ERA, IT’S REFRESHING TO SEE positivity go viral. One example is the sensation of the Holderness family’s online videos. Two years ago, the Raleigh family created a silly digital Christmas card featuring the foursome dancing in matching pajamas and lip-synching made-up holiday lyrics to the tune of Will Smith’s Miami. It took off – as in, more than 16 million views on YouTube – and helped Kim and Penn Holderness launch Greenroom, their own digital marketing company. Now, the couple also spends their off-time creating more funny, family-friendly videos with their children, Lola and Penn Charles. “This is the most fun either of us have ever had doing our job before,” Penn
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says. “It’s as much fun as it looks like.” On April 30, they’ll raise the bar on affable absurdity by leading a charity 5K where participants are encouraged to wear pajamas and underwear. With backgrounds in television journalism (Penn spent years as evening news anchor at WNCN and Kim was an onair reporter in Florida, New York, and in Raleigh at WRAL; she was also a national correspondent for Inside Edition), the Holdernesses (or Holderni, as they like to say) knew what they were doing when they posted the family dance video two Christmases ago. “To be perfectly honest, we were hoping to promote our company,” Kim says. She had recently started Greenroom and was working on it full-time, while Penn was
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BEARTHDAY Celebrate both Earth Day and the fourth birthday of Raleigh City Farm on April 23. The “bEARTHday” festivities kick off with an opportunity to volunteer on the farm – no gardening experience necessary – during the day. Then, stick around for a concert and plenty of food and brews into the night. It all happens at the nonprofit’s downtown plot of land off of Person Street. 9 a.m. - 12 noon volunteer shift, 6 - 10 p.m. concert and party; $20 in advance, $25 at the door; 800 N. Blount St.; raleighcityfarm.com
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The Fill Your Bucket List Foundation helps cancer patients check a few items off their wish list while battling a terminal disease. No dream is too big or too small for the two-year-old nonprofit to help make happen – most recently, it sent a patient and her family on a Disney Cruise. Convene for an evening of food, drink, dancing, and a silent auction at the foundation’s second annual fundraising gala on April 23. 6 p.m.; $75; 2001 Carrington Mill Blvd.; fillyourbucketlistfoundation.org
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William Shakespeare wrote 38 plays. Local thespians will read every word of each of them back-to-back April 23-28. Organized by Burning Coal Theatre Company, the massive reading at the N.C. Museum of History will involve a dierent repertory from across the state reading each play as a way to honor and mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. (He died on his birthday, April 23.) The nonstop readings will take ďŹ ve full days. Stop by the museum beginning at noon on April 23 to catch a few scenes, or watch the live stream online. Nonstop; free; 5 E. Edenton St.; burningcoal.org
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N.C. Theatre’s latest production is WIT, a Pulitzer Prizewinning drama about an English professor who is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. The fictional Dr. Vivian Bearing devotes her life to teaching and interpreting difficult metaphysical sonnets, and her cancer diagnosis forces her to reasses both her life and her work. It is an intense, moving, darkly-funny show, and runs through May 8. Showtimes vary; $25-$80; Fletcher Opera Theater, 2 E South St.; nctheatre.com
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Raleigh Little Theatre’s wide array of productions are characteristically lighthearted, and the nonprofit’s annual fundraiser is no exception. On April 30, enjoy some of the company’s regular actors dressed in a “diva” version of themselves to perform musical numbers both familiar and improvised. You vote for your favorite diva by making a donation, and this year’s theme is Starry, Starry Night. 7 p.m. reception, 8 p.m. show; $40-$60; 301 Pogue St.; raleighlittletheatre.org
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Downtown Wake Forest launches a new free music series on April 8. “Friday Nights on White” will take place on the second Friday of the month throughout the summer and feature a well-rounded array of local bands, from jazz to classic rock. Eat dinner from a food truck, or walk somewhere nearby after the show. 6 p.m.; free; South White Street, Wake Forest; wakeforestnc.gov/friday-night-on-white
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17 HANDS ON Get up close and personal with hardworking vehicles of every type at Touch-a-Truck on April 17. Fire trucks, ambulances, tractors, backhoes, delivery vans, and military tanks are among the vehicles that will be at Apex Community Park. You can touch and climb on them and ask the drivers as many questions as you’d like. 1 - 4 p.m.; free; 2200 Laura Duncan Road, Apex; apexnc.org
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Enjoy a two-hour sailing clinic on April 17. Durham Parks and Recreation sta will instruct at a beginners’ level on two different types of boats. At the end of the workshop, there will be a friendly sailboat race for those who want to test their new skills. 1 - 3 p.m.; $7-$13; Lake Michie Recreation Area, 2802 Bahama Road, Bahama; durhamnc.gov/753/parks-recreation
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PARTY with a PURPOSE G ETTING BACK ON YOUR FEET CAN BE hard. The Carying Place in Cary tries to make it a little easier. The nonprofit helps working homeless families achieve independence through a mentoring system that focuses on managing personal finances, obtaining affordable housing, and maintaining a steady job. Families selected to work with the program are housed by the nonprofit for 16 weeks while they take steps toward independent living. After they move out on their own, the families become part of a thriving support system that includes about 300 volunteers who work with them to develop budgeting skills and debt-payment plans and help find permanent housing. Volunteers also work with children of the families to help develop their self-esteem and build a sense of stability. It’s a successful program, which is why The Carying Place is in such high demand: Last year, 350 families who sought assistance from the organization met the initial criteria of its three-tiered application process. Currently, the organization only has eight housing units available, which
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Pictured: Taste of the South Vice Chairman Laura Gulledge of Raleigh and Executive Member Katie Lawrence of Smithfield. Not pictured: Chairman Killoran Long of Greensboro
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to its N.C. charity. Covington knows the philanthropic support will be put to good use. “This will allow us to hopefully seek out more housing and maintain it,” she says, and to “find those families who are willing to work hard and get on their feet, and we’ll have the space for them to do that.” And there’s more purposedriven partying happening closer to home, too. The Carying Place hosts its own gala April 29 at Prestonwood Country Club. It’s a busy social month for the nonprofit, but Covington knows the fun falls second to the true mission. “It’s for the families.” -Mimi Montgomery Taste of the South: April 16; Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.; tasteofthesouth.org The Carying Place 15th Annual Benefit Auction: April 29; 6 p.m.; Prestonwood Country Club, 300 Prestonwood Parkway, Cary; ticket and sponsor information as well as volunteer opporunities: thecaryingplace.org
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The Cup sponsors Ocean of Hope, a group of paddlers and ocean-lovers who dedicate their races to raising funds for and awareness about the Sarcoma Alliance, which raises money for research on the connective tissue cancer. If you aren’t able to make the two-hour drive east that weekend, there are plenty of SUP opportunities nearby. Head to Apex Outfitter and Board Co. to get everything you need for a day of paddling. Owners Kyle and Megan Denis are genuine outdoor and action sports enthusiasts, and if it’s not in their store, they’ll go out of their way to help you find it. Plus, they’ll hook you up with guides and suggestions to some of the best spots nearby to take your new board out for yourself. Paddle on. -Mimi Montgomery Carolina Cup April 19 - 24; wrightsvillebeachpaddleclub.com/carolina-cup Apex Outfitter and Board Co. 225 N. Salem St., Apex; apexoutfitter.com
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PIEDMONT FARM TOUR 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh T O P : Childe Hassam, Isles of Shoals (large detail), 1907, oil on canvas, 19 ½ × 29 ½ in., North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Promised gift of Ann and Jim Goodnight B O T T O M : Amedeo Modigliani, Female Bust in Red, 1915, red gouache and black ink wash on wove paper laid down on Japan, 14 × 10 5⁄16 in., Minneapolis Institute of Art
Both exhibitions made possible, in part, by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources; the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.; and the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment for Educational Exhibitions. Research for this exhibition was made possible by Ann and Jim Goodnight/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Curatorial and Conservation Research and Travel.
See where our food, flowers, and other locally-grown goodies come from for yourself at the annual Piedmont Farm Tour April 23-24. The self-guided trek through farms and sites spans Alamance, Chatham, Orange, and Person counties. You can visit any farm, in any order, rain or shine, for two days only. You pay a flat rate per vehicle for the weekend, so gather friends and family to carpool. 2 - 6 p.m. each day; $30 per car; carolinafarmstewards.org/pft
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29, 30 MARCH FOR BABIES The annual Triangle March for Babies walk and 5K is scheduled for April 30. March of Dimes needs your help making the event happen. Volunteer to set up on Friday evening or during Saturday’s event. Day-of volunteers will check-in participants and keep them on course, and meals are included in your shift. 2 - 8 p.m. Friday, 7 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday; free; 3005 Carrington Mill Blvd., Morrisville; activategood.org/opportunity/2338
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for design. The clean aesthetic of Scandinavia, the timelessness of British style, and the handcrafted naturalism of Southeast Asia are all sources she cites as inspiration. When it came time to move back to the United States, Muñoz and her husband scanned the country for the perfect place. In fall of 2014, they settled on Raleigh. “It’s got everything we want in our lives right now,” she says. A thriving downtown that’s only a 10-minute drive away from lakes and greenways, a vibrant and intellectual community, proximity to both the coast and mountains – “It’s just an impressive city.” And one she’s excited to give back to. Muñoz says she’s happy to offer another creative option in an already-burgeoning downtown, where she and her husband live with their nine-monthold daughter. “Living downtown, you want to do things locally,” she says. “I want this to be a place of discovery.” –Mimi Montgomery
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T ALL STARTED WITH A JELLY JAR IN 2013,” SAYS Lisa Grele Barrie, co-chair of the board of directors at Raleigh City Farm. The nonprofit urban farm had begun to take root on the corner of Blount and Franklin Streets near her Oakwood home, and detail-oriented Barrie had a penchant for weeding. “I’d bring my Bonne Maman jelly jars and a bottle of wine and we’d go out into the space when it was just wiregrass.” Barrie is also the president and CEO of the nonprofit N.C. Theatre, so creating a volunteer initiative was admittedly in the back of her mind – but at first, it was mainly a troupe of civic-minded gardening friends. To hold themselves accountable, the group coined a name for their gathering: “I feel like you need a handle, you need alliteration, and you need a date to commit yourself to,” Barrie says. “So, we called it Wine and Weeds on Wednesday.” As the farm grew, so did the weekly group. By 2014, Wine Authorities had opened a few doors down, and Raleigh City Farm had
Back row, from left: Rebekah Beck, James Edwards, Chase Zwissler, Diana Wilson. Front row, from left: Charlotte Coman, Anna Menzies, Lisa Grele Barrie.
begun offering volunteers a complimentary glass of wine to fuel an hour of weeding. Now, anywhere from 10 to 25 volunteers meet every Wednesday evening between April and October. Weeders of every age show up: nearby Oakwood Garden Club members, office groups, millenials seeking community. “There’s something about weeds and their resilience and how relentless they are that’s a good metaphor for life,” Barrie says of the appeal. Plus, it’s approachable: “Anybody can weed. You show up without expectation and you get free wine. It’s a no-brainer.” A core group is there every Wednesday, but it’s not an exclusive atmosphere. “There’s always a huge need for weeding at the farm,” says general manager Rebekah Beck. It’s a way to roll up your sleeves, dig in, and make a tangible difference. “It’s beautiful to be in that corner lot at that time of day,” Beck says. “The sun is setting; you’ve got a glass of wine. It’s just really nice.” –Jessie Ammons photograph by TRAVIS LONG
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“This is an object that was created 2-3,000 years ago and here it is being replicated before our eyes. It makes you think about materials and the implication they have on our lives – in art, in medicine, in so many ways.” –Emily Kotecki, Distance Learning Educator at the North Carolina Museum of Art
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HIS MONTH, YOU’LL FIND EMILY KOTECKI BUSY connecting the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Egyptologist Caroline Rocheuleau with students at East Wake Academy, Matthews Middle School in Graham, and Hemlock High School in Hemlock – via videoconference. But this distance learning project – part of an effort to bring the NCMA’s collections and expertise to kids all over the state – is anything but abstract. In fact, these students will be holding replicas of ancient artifacts in their hands as they talk to Rocheuleau about the time and place those objects were made. They can do that because Kotecki and her colleagues are able to scan objects from the museum’s Ancient Egyptian collection and e-mail them to the schools, where the images are 3-D printed. “Students are looking at an exact replication of objects in our museum and making observations within the context of their history unit,” she says. “This technology is great. It’s fun and it’s flashy and it’s innovative, but really it’s just a tool to deepen and activate the learning experience.” The technology also includes state-of-the-art interactive screens at the museum that broadcast videoconferences and in-
clude touch-screens to allow instructors to zoom in on images and circle relevant details, not unlike the colored arrows and squiggles drawn by sports commentators during football games. An accompanying camera-on-wheels can be rolled through galleries, its images transmitted to the interactive screens and beyond. “The mobile broadcast cart provides an opportunity to share the art gallery experience,” Kotecki says. “The goal is to create a dialogue.” Schools are a top priority for this museum effort, but community centers, assisted living communities, and local cultural resources departments can also benefit, she says. “We’re a thought leader in education,” Kotecki says. It was the museum’s standout approach that drew the North Carolina native back to her roots a few years ago. She had been working as a digital journalist for The Washington Post when she decided to make a career change to the arts and the NCMA’s groundbreaking work caught her eye. “We feel strongly about our mission as the North Carolina Museum of Art,” Kotecki says. “Statewide outreach is critical to our mission. It’s not a one-way conversation: here’s an opportunity to engage in live discussions about art with audiences across the state.” –Jessie Ammons photograph by TRAVIS LONG
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“Painting brings out joy in me and it brings out a sense of calm. It’s both tranquil yet fun. And you have to do that in your everyday life ... life is too short.” – Michael Morrison, USDA employee and artist
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Y DAY, MICHAEL MORRISON WORKS AS AN INVESTIGAtor for the United States Department of Agriculture. After hours, you can almost always find him in his studio. Painting, photography, mixed media – Morrison does it all. “It has to be coming from here,” he says, placing his hands over his heart. Raised by an artistic family in Texas, he’s been creating since he was young. His travels in the natural beauty of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Florida, and Italy have all inspired his love of painting landscapes, as has his education and his background as a horticulturist. “All these experiences helped me (become) self-taught in art,” he says. They affect “my paintings as well as my philosophy on life.” He may be self-taught, but he’s won first place in the USDA’s Art and Agriculture competition the past three years, and his art was selected to be featured in 100 Raleigh-area buses as part of the Art on the Move contest. His work is currently on display
at the USDA Gallery in Washington, D.C., Northgate Mall in Durham, and Nickelpoint Brewing Co. in Raleigh. All of that is exciting, but the message behind his paintings is what Morrison most values. When his wife, Ivana, was diagnosed with cancer a second time, he began a series of abstract paintings (Salvador Dali, Jackson Pollock, and Pino Daeni are role models) symbolizing the heartache surrounding the disease. It also inspired him to create art for philanthropic reasons. He’s made paintings on ceiling tiles for Duke Raleigh Hospital’s Cancer Center, so patients can look up at them during chemotherapy treatments; he also regularly donates a portion of the proceeds from art he sells to nonprofits like the Spirit of Harmony Foundation, Hearts of Color, and Blooming with Autism. “It’s all about giving and human emotion,” he says. “It means so much to be able to give back to people.” –Mimi Montgomery
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Ryan Dart sits on his Bantam chair, which takes its design cues from his Quarry bench. In the background, stacked at left, are unfinished Compass tables. Opposite page: The Quarry bench is available in any Benjamin Moore paint color, or stained, as seen here.
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IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE A SPIDER-MAN FAN, YOU MAY HAVE SPOTTED A pair of stylish benches with a primeval flair making their motion picture debut in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Made by Raleigh furniture designer Ryan Dart, there’s no denying the benches have star power beyond the silver screen, as well: Dart’s first foray at the High Point furniture market last fall resulted in orders for these Quarry benches from boutique stores on the West Coast. APRIL 2016 | 57
NATURAL WONDER The Bantam chair, which consists of many meticulously-fitted pieces, is a far cry from the Adirondack chairs Dart made at 13 for his aunt and uncle’s hotel. The Jersey bench, above right, is named for the sloped back of a Jersey cow. It has a fiberglass seat and sleek, tapered walnut legs with brass fittings.
Using innovative techniques and precision machinery, Dart’s modern collection of occasional tables and benches are practical but eye-catching. He describes his collection as “functional art.” He makes the cutting-edge furniture at his workspace called bones-studio in Raleigh, where he moved to in 2013 with his wife Holly, a City of Oaks native (and Wake ForestRolesville High School 2000 homecoming queen). Dart, 39, has a degree in industrial design from Brigham Young University, and makes sure each piece created in his Oakwood workshop is more than technically precise. Each must also pass Holly’s “personal appeal test” and undergo kid-testing by the Dart’s four children. This spring, bones-studio will expand its Quarry collection with a coffee table and chair (above). Dart is also designing a collection of occasional furniture for CaraGreen, a sustainable products company. 58 | WALTER
EARLY INSPIRATION “I grew up in Vernal, a very small town in Utah that sits high in the Rocky Mountains on the UtahColorado border. The area in which the town sits is a geological wonderland. The Dinosaur National Monument is a mountain packed with almost all the dinosaurs from the late Jurassic period. There are complete T-Rexes and Supersauruses excavated from that spot. The Quarry bench was inspired by the visuals of this place. I envisioned a scientist chiseling away at the layered rock and uncovering a never-seenbefore creature – that is Quarry.” INFLUENCES Dart cites modern furniture designer Milo Baughman, who believed that good modern design “has already proven to be the most enduring, timeless, and classic of all design movements,” and industrial designer Marc Newson as influences. Dart also says his mother instilled a love of art that influences his designs. DESIGN PROCESS All of Dart’s designs, which he describes as “organic modern,” start with sketches that are CAD-prototyped for precision and uniformity, and then manufactured in-house from metals, brass, aluminum, acrylic, marine-grade Baltic birch, fibreboard known as MDF, oak, locally sourced walnut, and fiberglass. PRODUCTS Named for elements from the earth and nature, many of Dart’s tables and benches can be custom-finished in hybrid lacquers from Benjamin Moore paint colors.
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ART AND CRAFT “There’s a fine line ballet costumes need to straddle between distinction and invisibility,” says Martinsen. “They need to be characteristic of a time, a place, and a character, but never detract – or distract – from a dancer’s artistry.” Clockwise from top: A costume begins in muslin; Lady Macbeth’s finished wedding dress; a rehabilitated 1950s sewing machine, still a workhorse; “bloody” notes keep things straight; a sketch for one of Lady Macbeth’s eight costumes.
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AT CAROLINA BALLET HEADQUARTERS, IN A FLUORESCENT-LIT WORKroom where sewing machines whirr, scissors snip, and tutus sway in the rafters, costume director Kerri Martinsen orchestrates an unusual sort of dance. Like the work of the ballerinas across the hall, hers requires talent, precision, grit, coordination, and practice. But when she’s finished, Martinsen won’t take a bow to an auditorium of applause. Instead, she’ll be happy if her work attracts little attention. “The dancing takes priority over everything else,” she says. “When there’s nothing glaringly obvious” about her costumes, she says, she knows she has succeeded. “A passing comment” about their beauty “is almost better” than effusive praise. “You want people focusing on the dance.” APRIL 2016 | 61
Carolina Ballet fans certainly do that. The small but mighty ballet company is nationally renowned for its excellence and also for its originality. Several times a year, the company creates and performs new ballets – sometimes as many as six new ballets in a single year. Amazingly, in its 19 years, Carolina Ballet has produced more new work than any other ballet company in the country besides the New York City Ballet. Choreography, costumes, scenery, lighting, and sometimes the score – all are new. Many of these new ballets call for minimalist costumes designed to showcase a dancer’s body and the beauty of movement. Then there are the story ballets. Theatrical productions like Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Firebird. At the Carolina Ballet, a new story ballet comes up rarely. When it does, the work that Martinsen and her team put into the costuming is a feat to behold. Story ballets involve enormous casts and costumes that can’t just melt into the background – they need to help build character, showcase dramatic action, and tell a story. And then they need to get out of the way so the dancers can shine. When Carolina Ballet debuts its much-awaited Macbeth on April 14 – the first full-evening story ballet it has produced since Don Quixote in 2008 – it will feature choreography by artistic director Robert Weiss; an original score by J. Mark Scearce; scenery by Jeff A.R. Jones; lighting by Ross Kolman; and costumes created by a small and talented army of workers 62 | WALTER
that includes principal guest costume designer David Heuvel; eight far-flung seamstresses and tailors working remotely from Florida to Oregon; a temporary in-house costume-making team of five; and the orchestration and ingenuity of Martinsen, who acts as maestro. Modestly, Martinsen likens her role to that of a general contractor, and it’s true that she operates under a similar kind of get-it-done imperative. “The architect does the drawings,” she says – in this instance, the “architect” is Heuvel, a renowned ballet costume designer whose full-time job is costume production director at Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah – “and the general contractor takes all of these drawings and figures out how to turn it into a building.” But the efficiency and creativity Martinsen brings to her role is more like that of a conductor –
MANY HANDS, MUCH WORK Opposite page, left: Martinsen fits a Lady Macbeth costume on dancer Lara O’Brien. “At first, you want it to look a certain way – but then you have to let it go,” Martinsen says. “Things change very quickly once you get them on bodies and they’re dancing.” Center: As artistic director Robert Weiss looks on, dancer Miles Sollars-White is fitted for the costume he will wear as a fighter on the battle team of Scots led by Macbeth and Banquo. Right: The process starts with sketches.
one with a diffuse, far-flung, multi-talented orchestra, a modest budget, and a curtain about to rise. For Macbeth, the “building” behind that curtain will involve 130 new costumes that involve three to eight pieces each. They range from snug doublets, headpieces, dresses, shirts, peignoirs, leotards, nightgowns, capes, armor, and pants to fluffy under-armor shirts known as gambesons. Principal dancer Lara O’Brien as Lady Macbeth alone has eight costumes including a wedding dress, a “murder dress,” a “morning-after-murder dress,” a banquet gown, and two pregnancy pads to take her through 9 months. Which is less time than it takes to sew them all. “We started talking about the costumes back in May,” Martinsen says. “You have to plan, and you have to be flexible.” Indeed, it’s a process. Making a ballet costume is not like making a dress, she points out. “If you think of a typical dress,” she says, “you might wear it three or four times a year. A costume gets worn 11 times in a month. And it gets very sweaty.” So it needs to be durable, flexible, adjustable, cleanable, and lightweight. It needs to come off with lightning speed and go back on the same way. Importantly, it also needs to last for years to come. “We build to re-do,” she says. “You’re never going to reap your investment in one year. We hope we can use them again, and again, and again.” The colorful tutus fluttering overhead are a case-in-point: They’re for Nutcracker, dusted-off, and repaired year after
year. In a nearby warehouse, the ballet stores costumes (and scenery) for 30-odd productions, including Carmen, Romeo & Juliet, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid. By May, Martinsen’s creations (and the dramatic boulders of Jones’s new scenery) will take their place beside these others so they, too, can be used again, a down payment on years of Macbeths to come. It’s no small matter. The budget for the Macbeth costumes – including travel for Heuvel, shipping back and forth, the additional staff, all of the freelance work – is more than $100,000, or a fifth of the production’s entire budget of more than $500,000. It helps that the company has supporters who believe wholeheartedly in what it does. Carolina Ballet says funding for Macbeth was made possible through a grant from the John William Pope Foundation, in conjunction with a significant anoymous gift from a North Carolina family. Without that kind of major philanthropic support, Carolina Ballet wouldn’t be in a position to create so boldly. Artistic director Weiss says he has long dreamed of choreographing a ballet to Macbeth, but couldn’t find music to do it justice. He’s not alone. The only other known Macbeth ballet in the world, Carolina Ballet says, was choreographed by Russian dancer Vladimir Vasiliev for the Bolshoi Ballet in 1980, and was in the repertory there for only a short time. But after Weiss and Scearce received a fellowship from New York University’s Center for Ballet and the Arts in 2015, they APRIL 2016 | 63
project management and budgeting. spent five weeks over the summer working together on a liAnd she’s as parsimonious as they come. Instead of railbretto and score for their imagined Macbeth. Now that muing against her tight budgets, Martinsic will be played live by the Chamber sen relishes the challenge, peppering Orchestra of the Triangle, yet another THE CAST her conversation with stories of makcreative contributor to the massive Macbeth: Marcelo Martinez ing something out of nothing, scoring Macbeth undertaking. great deals on supplies, finding terrific Lady Macbeth: Lara O’Brien sub-contractors, eliminating waste. ‘It’s never the same job twice.’ Macduff: Richard Krusch Instead of risking the chance that While the result of so many crethe building’s cleaning crew might Lady Macduff: Margaret Severin-Hansen ative minds working together is exsweep away a dropped pin or scrap of pected to be remarkable, the day-toBanquo: Pablo Javier Perez fabric, for instance, Martinsen foreday work that makes it come together Three Witches: Alicia Fabry, Alyssa Pilger, goes their services. Once a week, she is just that: work. Back in the costume Lindsay Purrington or a staff member sweeps the floor room, Martinsen, who is in her sixth themselves so they can comb the pile season at Carolina Ballet, is used to it. Hecate: Randi Osetek for fallen treasures, running a magnet After earning a master’s degree in costhrough the dust to capture dropped tume production from UNC-Chapel pins and needles. When she needed another sewing machine, Hill, she spent four years at the Washington National Opera she found one from the 1950s in storage and got it working and worked for a traveling theater company before moving again. When Danskin discontinued the tights the company back to the Triangle. had used for years, Martinsen found a cache of them online Her talent got her in the door at Carolina Ballet, but her and bought enough at a cut rate to last for years to come. ingenuity might be one of her most impressive traits. To do When it’s time to buy safety pins and other supplies, Marher job well, she has to be adept at skills as unrelated as inventinsen waits until she has $100 worth of “notions” lined up tory control and pattern-making; team-building and design; 64 | WALTER
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so she can get free shipping. When she found a new source for the flesh-colored mesh she uses for many costumes at a rate less than half of what she’d paid before, she was plainly thrilled. She can tell you the cost-per-yard of every fabric she uses without pausing to think. The silk jersey for Lady Macbeth’s nightgown: $35/yard. The “mermaid sequins” fabric she’s tinkering with for Lady Macbeth’s “murder dress”: $25/yard. The tinkering itself is another example of ingenuity. In the famous “Out, damned spot!” scene toward the end of the ballet, a sleepwalking Lady Macbeth wipes her hands on her dress and leaves a trail of blood, representing the murders she and her husband have orchestrated. Martinsen didn’t want to use liquid stage blood – “it likes to get on everything except where it’s supposed to be,” she says, and is hard to wash out – so she decided to experiment with fabric. She’d seen a kind of sequined fabric that allows the sequins to completely flip over when smoothed in different directions, and bought a single yard online from a supplier in Los Angeles. When it arrived, she spray painted one side a dull white, the other a distinctly bloody red. With a sweep of her hand, O’Brien can now make the fabric appear to trail blood. The whole thing took a couple of days to get right, Martinsen
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says – but the result is a permanent solution to a problem that could have been a constant mess. She credits her small seasonal staff – as well as Heuvel, the designer, and the eight freelancers who are working remotely to create a huge number of costumes – for making it all possible. When Heuvel came to town in early March to check on the progress, he requested countless changes, from the length of hems to the placement of seams, which then had Martinsen and her crew doubling back to catch up. “It’s such a pigeonhole skill set,â€? she says of her staff and the freelancers. At press time, she was waiting for The Lion King to close at DPAC at the end of March so she could get the help of three additional talented costume-makers who were temporarily working the Broadway show as dressers and costume repairers. In the meantime, a month before Macbeth’s premiere, Martinsen’s workroom is nonstop action. “We’re a long way out,â€? she says. From the corner, a seamstress shouts out: A shirt is complete! “Yay!â€? Martinsen says. “That’s two shirts done.â€? Two pieces down, hundreds to go. But once it gets rolling, Martinsen says, all of the initial hard work – the research, the design, the pattern-making, the trips, the ďŹ ttings, the tweakings – it all bears fruit surprisingly quickly. “It’s like construction,â€? she says, continuing her earlier analogy. “You see a construction company digging in the dirt, digging in the dirt for a long time, and then boom! The building goes up.â€? And it’s a beauty. Macbeth will be performed at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium April 14-17 and at Durham Performing Arts Center April 30-May 1. Tickets: carolinaballet.com
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WHEN RALEIGH BUILDER MARK KIRBY SAW A TIMELESS TUDOR Revival house built in Raleigh in the late 1930s by developer Thomas Adickes, he knew it would be perfect for his family of six. “I could see how we could live there,” he says. “The spaces were just right – or could be made just right without major surgery.” APRIL 2016 | 69
UPDATED CLASSICISM This page: All of the special details in the house are Mark Kirby’s inspirations. As a “new classicist,” his design philosophy is to look back to the past, “not bound by it,” but reinterpreting it. A vestibule just off the foyer is lined with limed oak panels, and the floors are made with reclaimed wood from old tobacco barns. An elegant steel handrail graces the multi-leveled staircase. A casement window is one of the salvaged materials from the original house that gained new life under Mark’s direction. Opposite page: Mark Kirby designed the fireplace millwork in the sitting room, which adjoins the kitchen and a formal dining space. Kirby decided to combine these three typically separate areas into one highly-functioning hub. The result meets the expectations of all the Kirbys, even the adorable English bulldog puppy, Gus. Previous pages: The Kirby’s pre-World War II Tudor Revival in Raleigh’s Bellevue Terrace neighborhood has been invigorated by a complete remodel ideal for 21st century living. A breezeway and detached home office are additions, yet blend seamlessly. Mark fell in love with the house and says it “felt like the house was made for us.”
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Kirby preserved the house’s exterior but took it down to the studs inside, completely reconfiguring the rooms. It was an opportunity to uncover the soul of the house “lying just under the surface,” he says. It was also an opportunity to make the house work for the way his family lives today (which includes homeschooling the children), while preserving the original builder’s
from Kirby’s attention to detail. Floors made of wood reclaimed from old tobacco barns are pristinely finished. Original materials from the house were also repurposed. Kirby considers himself a new classicist, blurring the lines between new and old, “not bound by the past, but looking back creatively.” “It was actually a lot of fun,” he says. “It was an opportunity
“Simplicity in decoration is one of the essential qualities without which no true richness is possible.” -C.F.A. Voysey, English architect and furniture and textile designer detail and design. As a builder himself, Kirby says he is passionate about “building a home that will be worthy of preserving – to think generationally – even though it’s not fashionable to do so these days.” The result of the renovation is a sanctuary where the Kirby family – Mark, Christin, and their four young children – are able to live a modern life in an old house, embraced by comfort, beauty, and charm. Bespoke elements abound, like a polished iron handrail on the winding staircase, and a limed oak vestibule leading into the family room. Simple yet sophisticated, each room benefits
for us to draw even closer as a family.” His young children “swung the first sledgehammers – with a great deal of effort – when we started the demo,” he says, and wrote “little notes” on the wall studs with Sharpies “that may be found some day when some other family remodels this house in some distant future.” Today, a house built more than 75 years ago reflects a modern builder’s love for houses and for family, and like all great houses, mirrors its owners, preserves the past, and makes way for the future. APRIL 2016 | 71
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FUNCTION + FORM + ELEGANCE This page: The original blueprints of the house hang in Mark’s home office, above, along with a vibrant Sue Scoggins painting, shown right. The decoration and ambience of the home office, also shown below, reflect Kirby’s ease and style. He works at a built-in desk made from wormy chestnut. Opposite page: Mark designed the cerused (limed) oak table in the kitchen with elements inspired by much-admired English designer C.F.A.Voysey. The family of six dines here every night. Practical but stylish chairs and benches are covered in a white polyester faux leather. Open shelves provide storage on either side of a soaring window overlooking the front yard. Just off the kitchen, a pantry, bottom left, features open shelves for colored glass and crockery, with baskets tucked below. A second den, bottom right, on the covered terrace opens off the hub of the house.
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FAMILY TIES Opposite page, top left: A tranquil master suite is an addition to the original house. The bedroom shares a fireplace with an expansive bath, blurring traditional lines. Modern details are integrated into classic cabinetry designed by Kirby, and a casement window original to the house looks out over the kitchen. Opposite page, below: Christin homeschools the children in a spacious schoolroom where they meet for morning lessons. There is an atmosphere of camaraderie in the classroom that permeates the house. This page, top: Though the house is large, Mark and Christin wanted the boys to share a bedroom. Neatly-made beds with striped duvets and lime green quilts line a wall painted in Benjamin Moore’s Hale Navy. Tall headboards in white faux leather accented with brass tacks are stylish and practical. Bottom: With a modern twist on pink, designer Ashley Thompson paired pink and white curtains and bedding with a black chair and ottoman. A bassinet the children slept in as babies now holds stuffed animals and dolls.
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AS RALEIGH CONTINUES TO LAND ON FORBES LISTS AS ONE OF THE FASTESTgrowing cities in the United States – #1 in 2013, #2 in 2014, #4 last year – the city is, understandably, evolving. According to the Downtown Raleigh Alliance’s State of Downtown report, published late last year, we can expect to see 1,840 new downtown residential units over the next year, resulting in more than 3,000 new residents. While all those new city dwellers eagerly await a downtown grocery store, they need somewhere to eat! Thankfully, we’ve become a hotbed of innovative new restaurants as well.
It helps that Raleighites love eating out. Our most recent restaurant week attracted over 16,000 downtown diners and generated nearly $300,000 in revenue. The recent addition downtown of original concepts like the patisserie lucettegrace, the bakeries Boulted Bread and Night Kitchen, the salad and juice spot Happy + Hale, the sandwich place Linus and Pepper’s, and of course Ashley Christensen’s Death & Taxes (just named a James Beard award finalist for best new restaurant of the year), is keeping things interesting. Downtown began the year with 129 restaurants – and that num-
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ber’s already growing. Here’s a look at four new spots that have recently opened or will open soon, all of which add to our choices and to our city’s unique culinary culture.
Provenance Provenance, chef Teddy Klopf’s new restaurant, opened in the SkyHouse building at 308 S. Blount St. in February. Klopf, 31, decided it was time to hang out his own shingle after four years in Charleston at McCrady’s under the wing of James Beard award-winner Sean Brock and a year as the chef de partie at Herons in The Umstead Hotel & Spa. The New Mexico native says he chose Raleigh because he can find fresh ingredients and supplies here from all over the state – something he’s been “almost obsessive” about at Provenance. Klopf hopes the restaurant recalls a time when food was used as a connector between places and people. “I was speaking with my grandfather a few months ago, and he told me a story about how, as a child, a rabbit that his sister had taken care of would within a few hours be in his belly,” Klopf says. “Over the course of one generation, that’s been lost. This is about trying to reconnect with where your food comes from.” Provenance is open Wednesday mornings through Sunday afternoons. The restaurant’s downstairs breakfast and lunch menus change daily to reflect what’s locally fresh and in-season. The upstairs section is reserved for a subscription dining service, which makes meals tailored to diner’s individual preferences; the upstairs will also hold a reservation-only dining series on Friday and Saturday nights. Served as a tasting menu, the series will allow the team to explore other cultures and ingredients through a North Carolina lens. Though the Provenance menu is entirely N.C.-based, Klopf says he’s concerned about more than the place the food is grown. Animal and environmental welfare, in addition to taste and quality, are integral parts of the Provenance mission. “Just because someone is making cheese in their basement down the street doesn’t make it good,” Klopf says, with a chuckle. “We’ve spent months exploring the state, one back road at
FOOD FOR ALL Maggie Kane of A Place at the Table stands beneath a crane on Hillsborough Street where the nonprofit pay-what-you-can café will open this fall.
a time, to find the best producers, craftspeople, and artisans.” That same spirit is reflected in the dining room. Billy Keck and Melody Ray of Raleigh Reclaimed made the tables from a single poplar tree in Chatham County, while David Brown and Christina Shipman at New South Manufactory fabricated the staff’s uniforms and aprons from North Carolina cotton. The plates were custom-made in the community of Eli Whitney by Chris Pence, Mark Warren, and the team at Haand. Local artist Kalesia Kuenzel created the restaurant’s artwork with leftovers from the tables, benches, and woodwork. “It sums up our zero waste philosophy, as all the ‘scrap’ became, quite literally, the canvas for something beautiful,” Klopf says. “We’ve gone to great lengths to make sure this is a place that gives an impression of all things North Carolina. I thought it might be a pipe dream to try to source all the materials for the space from the state, but when I found out we could do it, I said, ‘Well, if we’re going to go for it, then we might as well go for it.’”
A Place at the Table A Place at the Table is the brainchild of 25-year-old N.C. State alum Maggie Kane, who grew up in North Raleigh. After graduating in 2013 with degrees in international relations and Italian studies, Kane planned on continuing her work in the nonprofit sector, perhaps abroad. She never thought it would lead her into the restaurant business – it’s not an industry she knew anything about. “I have learned a lot already by Googling,” Kane says, laughing. She relies on her 12-member board of directors and volunteers within the restaurant industry to teach her what she needs to know. This fall, with their help, Kane and company will open a paywhat-you-can café in a newly-constructed seven-story building at the corner of Hillsborough and Horne Streets, across from the N.C. State campus. A Place at the Table is taking a bit longer to open than a APRIL 2016 | 79
typical venture might, because it won’t just be WINE + ART MEET a place that serves good food – though it plans Vita Vite owner Lindsay Rice combines wine and art in an to do that, too – it’ll also be a nonprofit. The elegant bar and gallery on ers for whatever amount they can pay. Kane hopes to establishment will join nearly 60 others across West Hargett Street. recreate April’s pop-up event on a monthly basis until the country connected through the One the construction on Hillsborough Street is finished. If all goes World Everybody Eats Foundation. The foundation started in well, A Place at the Table could open as early as August, she says. 2003 with one of the first pay-what-you-can cafés in Salt Lake “We would like to have our startup costs and an operating City, Utah. Currently, the closest similar concept is in Boone. budget when we open,” she says, so the delay is “a blessing in “If it can work in a small town like Boone, it can definitely disguise.” work in Raleigh,” says Kane. “We have a lot of awesome restauIn the meantime, “We’re able to do these pop-ups to show rants, and we live in a city with a lot of great resources for peowho we are. I really believe in collaboration, and I think that ple facing food insecurity. What we’re missing is a place that Raleigh is shifting toward that. If we all do a little bit and we brings all people together. That’s what these restaurants can do.” all contribute what our passions are, it makes Raleigh – and the A Place at the Table will focus on providing its customers world – a better place.” with chef-prepared, healthy food choices, grown locally whenever possible, for a price of their choosing. Kane will work with Vita Vite restaurant partners to provide her staff with a stream of fresh, With its plush couches and fluffy pillows, dark walls and donated excess food that would otherwise be headed to the gargolden chandeliers, the new art gallery and wine bar Vita Vite, bage. at 313 W. Hargett St., feels more like an elegant living room than The organization’s first big event will be a pop-up brunch at a bar or gallery. Solas on Glenwood Avenue on April 2. Kane is working with “Vita Vite was born out of my passion for wine and art, Leadership Raleigh, a nine-month leadership incubator run by and is a place designed for guests to enjoy both under the same the Chamber of Commerce, to put the event together. Like all roof,” says owner Lindsay Rice, a 30-year-old from Warrenton, of A Place at the Table’s meals, the brunch will be offered to din80 | WALTER
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Va. Rice has worked in museums Teddy Klopf’s Provenance in the and galleries, maintained a pro- SkyHouse building on South Blount Street features a N.C.-based menu fessional photography business, that adheres to strict environmenand most recently managed an tal and animal welfare practices. antique shop in Washington, D.C. But her ultimate goal was to open her own gallery. With Vita Vite’s open and comfortable atmosphere, Rice says, she hopes to invite people to enjoy both art and wine, two cultures that are often considered exclusive. “I wanted to create a relaxing, non-intimidating environment” where people are “exposed to beautiful artwork,” she says, but aren’t required to devote all of their attention or energy toward it. That might mean curling up in front of a fireplace with a good book and a glass of wine, or gathering with friends to play board games at a communal table. The bar’s name comes from the Italian words for “life” and “vine,” inspired by the creativity that revolves around the two, says Rice, and “how they bring people together in a common space of appreciation for the beautiful things that can enrich and enhance a life.” Her location on Hargett Street provides access to a thriving arts community, as well as a network of supportive businesses working together to enhance and grow the city. As soon as Rice saw the building, she knew it was the perfect spot. At Vita Vite, framed art and paintings hang not only for ornamentation, but also for purchase. The spot’s intimate atmosphere is designed to help guests “visualize the art in their own homes,” instead of on a stark white wall or an industrial gallery
setting. Vita Vite currently represents 11 Southern artists – including Raleigh’s Caroline Boykin and Alice Miles – with an eclectic mixture of painting styles. One photographer, Doug Van de Zande, is also represented. Rice hopes to expand the art offerings to include more photography, as well as sculpture and ceramics, throughout 2016. Although Vita Vite’s main focus is wine, the bar also offers plates with fresh-baked bread from local bakeries, like Yellow Dog and Boulted Bread, paired with toppings like pimento cheese, hummus, and pickles. The plates allow the spot to highAPRIL 2016 | 81
light local specialties for sale in the bar’s small retail section. “Launching a startup company myself, I feel it’s important to support similar companies and products that come from small, family-run businesses in their first or second year of business,” says Rice.
Living Kitchen Living Kitchen, slated to open this summer in City Plaza’s Charter Square Tower, will be open for breakfast, but don’t expect to find cheesy scrambled eggs or a side of bacon. Instead, look for something like the living bagel: a raw bread made from flax, almonds, zucchini, olives, and herbs, topped with cashew sour cream and organic tomato, onion, and basil. The restaurant’s original incarnation, known as Luna’s Living Kitchen, opened in Charlotte in July 2010 with a mostly raw menu made from locally sourced organic fruits and vegetables. This summer, owners Juliana Luna and Stephen Edwards say they’re excited to be expanding east. Luna, a native of Bogota, Colombia, was raised by a nutritionist mother and says she’s always thought of food as a way to nourish the body and to bring people together. Encouraged by the confluence of nearby vegetarian restaurants like The Fiction Kitchen and juice-and-salad bars like Happy + Hale – plus the built-in downtown lunch crowd – Luna says City Plaza seemed like a great place to expand their concept of nutritious breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes in a comfortable environment. “There are a number of restaurants that position themselves as healthy. We approach it a bit differently,” says Edwards, Living Kitchen’s president. “We strive to deliver creative dishes with unique flavors in a beautiful environment, 100-percent organic and exclusively plant-based. For us, that’s the palate that we work with.” Living Kitchen’s menu is unexpected and inventive with its use of healthy foods, like nuts, seeds, and produce. There are sunflower seed “refried beans” and cauliflower rice, sweet potato noodles and dulse-flake “tuna” sandwiches. The restaurant also offers more traditional selections, like kale and Caesar salads and, yes, even beer for diners (there’s
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also kombucha beer for those who want an additional nutritional punch to their suds). Though the restaurant features online ordering and handy on-the-go items like sandwiches and smoothies, everything is prepared with fresh ingredients and is made-to-order. You won’t find any hot lamps here. “We are a full-service restaurant with a strong focus on hospitality, which means premium preparation and presentation of the food together with superior table-side service,” Edwards says. Above: Juliana Luna stands in the soon-to-be-completed Living Kitchen in City Plaza’s Charter Square. The restaurant will feature 100-percent organic, plant-based dishes. Left: An architectural rendering shows the completed space.
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JAKE AND SHANNON WOLF AREN’T JUST THE OWNERS OF HOT DOWNTOWN restaurant Capital Club 16 – they’re also husband and wife, and they have a long North Carolina history. The couple first met in high school in Southern Pines, where Jake’s dad was the tennis director at Pinehurst Resort and Shannon was an avid tennis player. They both eventually left the state to pursue careers: Shannon as a television producer in New York; Jake as a culinary school student and then chef. His studies and work took him around the globe from Colorado to Germany, but when he reconnected with Shannon and they got married, he settled in New York and took a job as a chef in the German restaurant Zum Schneider. The Wolfs decided it was time to head South again when Shannon became pregnant with their son Johnny, now 6. After exploring cities in North Carolina, the couple settled on Raleigh and went to work opening their restaurant. “We just liked the energy here,” says Shannon. “It’s such a great downtown community.” They loved the space they found, too, in a building at 16 W. Martin St. that once housed photographs by KELSEY HANRAHAN
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Host your next event at the Capital Club, a men’s social club of the 1920s and ’30s. It had a restaurant and card rooms on the 11th floor and a ballroom and gymnasium on the 12th floor. The ground floor, with its high ceilings and Art Deco architecture, was the perfect place for the couple to create their restaurant, they say. “We’re both kind of history buffs, so we wanted to pay homage to the building,” says Shannon. The Wolfs’ fascination with history is apparent in the restaurant’s decor, from its wood Art Deco chairs, which once stood in an old automat restaurant called Horn & Hardart at Times Square, to the paneling in the bar, which once graced the famed 100-year-old German restaurant Lüchow’s in Manhattan. The restaurant pays homage to its owners’ histories, as well: paintings on the walls were found in Shannon’s grandmother’s basement in Wilson; old black-and-white photos of both of their families adorn the walls; and Jake’s repertoire of simple American cuisine with German influences is a nod to his roots as well as to his previous culinary experiences. But it’s not all a look back. The Wolfs are very much involved in the present Raleigh scene, as well. They frequently partner with the nonprofit Helping Hand Mission, and also host the Sunday Supper dinner series, in which the restaurant joins forces with local makers of various provisions to deliver a dinner to benefit a local charity. This month, the Wolfs have created a delicious concoction to benefit WALTER readers everywhere – a strawberry cobbler cocktail, complete with fresh mint. The Wolfs say ingredients at Capital Club often make their way from the kitchen out to the bar – which is a particularly handy trick for the home mixologist who wants to create a seasonal drink out of what’s already in the fridge. Luckily for us, strawberries are just coming in season. What better excuse to stock up and start mixing cocktails?
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BENEATH THE DIN OF A BUSTLING THURSDAY EVENING CROWD, THE PHONE IS RINGING at The Hibernian Pub’s hostess stand. Niall Hanley is the only one who can hear it. Spirited chatter at the bar and mellow, adult-contemporary background music mute the house phone’s electronic bell to all but the owner, whose ears perk up like a pointer’s picking up the inaudible squeal of a dog whistle. From his seat in the dark wood booth a dozen steps inside the front door, Hanley calls to the busy bartender. Too late: The ringing stops. When it begins again a few moments later, Hanley halts mid-sentence and cranes his neck for a look at the hostess stand. “Where is she?” he asks testily. The rest of his table strains to hear what he hears. Seconds later, the hostess jogs over to catch the call. With the flash of anxiety over, Hanley returns to the state of relative ease he seems to typically enjoy when he’s at his Hibernian Pub in Glenwood South. He resumes a conversation about the arc of his success, and a wry smile begins to play on his face. DECEMBER/JANUARY APRIL2015 2016| |75 89
Hanley dreamed up the concepts for each of his seven successful local venues. He drew up the floor plans. He sweated – and continues to sweat – the details for every one of them. Raised them like they were his children, as attuned to their wants and needs as any mother hen to her chicks. So, when a phone goes unanswered, you can bet Hanley’s going to hear it. That’s no surprise to his marketing director, Frank Bloom. Bloom listens with a cocked ear as his boss tells his life story, lays out his plans for expansion of his small and growing restaurant empire, and explains why hand-held mobile devices might spell the end of personal social interaction as we know it. Hanley’s Irish accent is lilting, worn smooth by a couple of decades in the U.S., but the lively pace of his conversation recalls the banter at the pub his father ran in County Mayo. A broad guy in his 40s who stands well over six-feet tall, Hanley has the strong arms of a man born to give bear hugs and hearty claps on the back. He has a wavy mane of graying brown hair and turns a phrase as easily as he pulls a pint. He looks you dead in the eye when he makes a point. Bloom describes Hanley as succinct. “You know what you get when you’re working for him,” he says. “There’s no agenda.” Also, Bloom adds, he’s kind, sincere, and decent. Hanley squirms. “Sometimes on the weekend, I have a halo over my head,” he jokes. A gift for banter, obsessive attention to detail, a drive to create, and an Irishman’s practical desire to own – never rent – the roof overhead all combine to fuel Hanley’s thriving restaurant 90 | WALTER
GARDEN OF SUDS The plethora of beer on tap at Raleigh Beer Garden, this page and opposite bottom, has garnered attention from around the globe. Opposite top: Hanley and marketing director Frank Bloom work out details at The Hibernian.
enterprise, which is now earning him attention not just in North Carolina’s capital city, but around the world. Last November, Hanley’s latest venture, Raleigh Beer Garden, won two Guinness World Records – for the most varieties of draft beer on tap (369, according to the Guinness web site), and the most beer brands – or breweries – on tap in one place (203). The records beckoned the international press, including Forbes, CNN, Travel + Leisure, and The Irish Times. The Beer Garden opening capped a 15-year period of expansion and creativity in which Hanley ignited the transformation of two separate faltering commercial areas into some of the most popular streets in Raleigh. With the Hibernian in 2000, Hanley helped spur Glenwood South’s emergence as an entertainment destination; when he added big-city glamour with his four-story nightclub Solas, and brought in upscale funk with Dos Taquitos Xoco, he sealed it. Then in 2013, he gave the Person Street district a life-affirming boost with the opening of The Station restaurant. There’s also a North Raleigh version of The Hibernian, and a Cary Hibernian, which closed last year after Hanley sold the space. Bloom says he’s looking to reopen it as soon as he finds the right piece of real estate. And in the meantime, he’s working on what might become his biggest project yet: a 15,000 square-foot food hall he aims to open next year on W. Morgan Street.
Joycean odyssey Hanley found his way from Ireland to Boston and then the Triangle by way of Durham’s James Joyce pub, where he came to work with a friend. It wasn’t long before he wanted someplace to call his own, so he scouted around and wound up on Glenwood South. Back then, the stretch was known more for building supplies than bars, but there were signs of emerging hospitality life. Sullivan’s had opened, presenting fine dining in an unexpected spot. Hanley read the signs and decided to take a chance. “If they come for dinner, maybe they’ll come for a drink before or after,” he reasoned. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship between Hanley and Raleigh. “If you were to ask me 21, 22 years ago, would I be in North Carolina, living in America, I’d say you’re out of your mind,” he says. After all, it’s a long way away from Claremorris, the village of about 3,000 people in County Mayo, Ireland, where he grew up. Hanley’s dad was a pub keeper, and the family also farmed. But he says his adopted hometown is not so different from his birthplace as it might seem. The friendliness of Raleigh’s people and our proximity to the country reminded him of his West Ireland home. “I could drive a mile and see some cows.” In many ways, Raleigh seemed like a reassuringly small town. Even now, a person can live in downtown Raleigh and seldom need to go further than a mile or two from home. It’s a closeness that breeds familiarity, and Hanley says he likes seeing folks he knows on the street and in the shops. As Raleigh has changed, HanAPRIL 2016 | 91
LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR Top: The Station at Person Street has quickly become a favorite neighborhood hangout. Bottom: Hanley stands outside his latest acquisition, the former Jillian’s warehouse on West Street, where he plans to create a food hall.
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ley’s fortunes have come along, too. Asked to describe Raleigh today, Hanley says the city reminds him of a beautiful child experiencing growing pains as she blossoms into a woman and faces a world full of new possibilities and tricky technology – like dating apps. “A girl who has had a very reserved childhood and has just discovered Tinder,” he says. “She’s discovering who she is and with that, all the complications and issues that come along.” He leans back in the booth and laughs at himself a little for being so very Irish. But he and Bloom agree that it’s an apt comparison. The city’s growth spurt is wondrous, they say, but it’s not without its difficulties. For those who have been here long enough to remember a Glenwood South without Uber, the Hibernian feels like a familiar face in an ever-growing crowd. It’s Hanley’s favorite, his eldest child. “It’s the first. It’s a pub. It’s Irish. It’s home,” he said. “I just like it. It’s just a good spot.” As he holds forth with a group of regulars at the bar, it’s easy to wonder why Hanley’s so eager to expand. Wouldn’t it be nice to spend a little time soaking all this in? No, he’s got plans for at least two more downtown Raleigh ventures, and his eyes are also on the Charlotte market, where he’d like to put another beer garden. “I want to call it the Raleigh Beer Garden and open it in Char-
lotte,” he says. “I’m just not sure if I’ll get a shovel to the back of the head.” Not that he sits still long enough for anyone to take aim. Inactivity is not his strong suit. Thinking up big new ideas is. And improving what he’s already got. Solas, for instance, is due for a remake, he says. He’d like to make better use of its fourth floor with a two-story deck. And the beer garden has drawn visitors from abroad, including a convention of German travel agents, so Hanley sees it as a cornerstone for making Raleigh an international beer destination. There’s always something. While he’s confident that he can keep building his empire, Hanley worries about the long-term future of the hospitality industry. He wonders about a generation that keeps its eyes glued to phones rather than to friends around the table. And the growing trend of everything being home-delivered, from groceries to fish and chips to growlers of ale, isn’t something those who make their living on delivering food to tables should take lightly. “What are these millennials going to dictate to us?” he muses. The idea of social interactions and personal commerce being conducted solely via digital apps – and eventually through virtual reality – is unnerving. Is there room for serendipity, for casual interaction, for a surprising conversation over a pint in the world of tomorrow? “That’s what I find scary,” he says. On the rare occasion when he needs refuge, Hanley heads for the couch in his house in Cameron Park, where he cuddles up under a couple of small dogs, both rescued from the pound. His Chihuahua is named Tom and his miniature dachshund is Mehaul, which is Irish for “Michael.” “I named him after my brother just to annoy him,” he says. Another respite is golf. This year, he has vowed to improve his game. He says he’s gotten better over the years, but not good enough to remember – or in any event to share – his score. “I’m not that good,” he says. “I just want to hear the ping.” But most of the time, Hanley is to be found knee-deep in the running of his restaurants, where he can hear the ring of the phone and of the register, and keep ahead of all the young upstarts in town. “There’s an advantage to being the old guy,” he says. “We were one of the few. Now we’re one of the many.”
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CONSIDER CARY. “EVERYBODY THINKS THERE’S RALEIGH AND THEN ALL the other towns and cities outside of it. That’s really not the case,” says the town’s downtown manager, Ted Boyd. “Cary has exponentially grown.” According to the latest statistics, he’s right: The town’s population is three-and-a-half times larger than it was 25 years ago and has grown 13 percent in the past five years alone, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. With its growth have come various “best of” accolades, many in the same vein as the Oak City’s – best place to live, number one city to get a job, top place for technology jobs. But growth and top rankings aside, Cary’s many planned suburban developments and its proximity to RTP and downtown Raleigh have long given the town the reputation as a bedroom community, a suburban traffic jam. “I thought Cary was a place to get lost,” admits Alisa Huffman, president of the Heart of Cary Association. A self-proclaimed former “Raleigh snob,” Huffman moved to Cary in 2000. To her delight, the move was a breath of fresh air. “People here are friendly and welcoming, through and through. It really is a small town.” Finally, the small town’s downtown is catching up with its growth, rising to meet the expectations of its true believers and newest fans. Chatham and South Academy Streets are in the midst of major revitalization efforts that combine the restoration of historic buildings and the construction of trendy new haunts. Here are a few highlights. APRIL 2016 | 95
downtown, and we’re giving them that.”
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Cultural impetus It all began at The Cary Theater. Built in 1946, The Cary was a live performance venue and movie house and an early center of town life until the early 1960s. Its weekend serial film showings were a hit in the then-rural crossroads town. “There’s a rumor that Patsy Cline played here before she died,” says operations and program director Joy Ennis. The theater became a recording studio, a clothing boutique, and an auto parts store before falling into neglect. Then, in 2011, the Town of Cary purchased and renovated the building, sparking the revival of Cary’s downtown on a broader scale. “Our goal is to be the art house theater for Cary: independent films, classic films, and other shows that are hard to find.” Behind a cheery retro façade, the theater’s main floor holds a concession stand – snacks, sodas, beer, and wine – and cinema-sized movie screen. On the second floor, a Cary location of Brew coffee bar (the original is in Seaboard Station in downtown Raleigh) caffeinates journalists at The Cary News community paper, also on that floor. The third floor houses a business incubator focused on tech start-ups. It’s a hub of activity. But at its core, The Cary is a showtime spot. “It’s very happy being a theater,” Ennis says of returning the building to its former glory. This year’s docket includes an inaugural film festival, educational screenings with guest film lecturers, stand-up comedy performances, and open-mic nights. “I see us as the trailblazer. People are looking for an interesting reason to come 96 | WALTER
Twin brothers Jay and Jeremy Bond saw a thirst. “Cary is 150,000 people strong and they only have one craft brewery,” Jay Bond says, referring to Fortnight Brewing southwest of downtown. “I’d say there’s definitely a market here.” The Bonds had homebrewed together for years, often sharing the results with friends and family. As they considered turning beer into a business, Andy Schnitzer, a running club buddy, suggested to the Bonds that they check out Cary. They loved it. Within a month, the three had added “brewmaster” Whit Baker to their Bond Brothers Beer team, and signed a lease for a space on East Cedar Street, one block over from Chatham Street. The kegs have been tapped for various soft openings since early this year, and construction will wrap for the official Bond Brothers Beer grand opening festivities April 2 at 2 p.m., they say. In characteristic Cary style, “we want everyone to feel like they’re welcome here,” Jay Bond says. He describes the high-ceilinged warehouse taproom as “easygoing but upscale,” with emphasis on an outdoor beer garden. “We brew pretty much across the board,” Jay says, offering “anything from cream ales to imperial stouts to IPAs and American ales.” But their specialty is distinct: “We have a passion for sour beers. It’s a newer style (of brewing) that not everyone has caught onto yet.” Sours have a tart, distinct taste akin to both saisons (highly carbonated pale ales) and ciders. You can always ask for just a taste. If it’s not your thing, no worry. Jay Bond’s glad you tried. “We should have something for everybody.”
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Community cure A few months before the Bonds, Tyler Watt picked up on the same Cary thirst. Without homebrewing experience to draw on, the young entrepreneur instead submitted a renovation proposal for a bar-and-bottle-shop on Chatham Street. He beat dozens of other proposals and earned the town’s backing to refurbish an unoccupied building that had operated as a pharmacy from 1950-1990. Watts says his is a different kind of cure. Pharmacy Bottle + Beverage opened a year ago and quickly became the watering hole of Cary’s trendy set. White subway tile and chrome taps are a modern nod to the space’s medicinal past. A rotating selection of local and craft beers is updated on a chalkboard, and there are always a few bottles of wine open. If you like what you taste, the majority of the shop is dedicated to aisles of specialty and craft beverages for purchase. With 7-by-15-foot sliding windows, ample sidewalk seating, and a pets-welcome policy, Pharmacy often becomes a bustling local gathering space regardless of whether you order a drink.
Familiar tune Across the street from Pharmacy and The Cary is an unassuming shopping center where, if you look closely, humble signage indicates the location of Cary Guitar Lessons. It has no need to be obvious. “Our schedule has been full ever since we opened,” says Cary Guitar Lessons teacher and co-owner Mike Krause. He founded the school with business partner Blair Linthicum in 2011. The two met teaching at a now-defunct nearby instruction center and decided to strike out on their own, but both men say the positive reception has been continually humbling. “There’s no better compliment than to have our name
passed along to another person, which is where a majority of our business comes from,” co-owner Linthicum says. What sets Cary Guitar Lessons apart is a comprehensive approach. “We merge an enormous amount of practical real world experience with an academic background,” Krause says. He went to Berklee College of Music in Boston before embarking on a solo guitar career, including playing on the albums of North Carolinians Tift Merritt and Ben Folds Five. Linthicum is a lifetime musician who began playing at age 10 and today divides his time between teaching and directing contemporary youth worship at Edenton Street United Methodist Church in downtown Raleigh. His Cary students are mainly children, and Krause’s are mainly teenagers and adults. From their Chatham Street vantage point, Krause and Linthicum have seen downtown change enormously in the past 16 years. Students used to drive in for their lesson and leave: Now, they meet friends afterward to hang out. They’re excited to plug into The Cary Theater’s open-mic nights and live performance programming, and they’ll continue to welcome hopeful musicians. “We’re going to keep on keeping on,” Krause says. “There’s a thriving situation in Cary, and this teaching gig is totally great. We love it.”
Piece of cake Another unassuming anchor in downtown Cary is Once in a Blue Moon Bakery and Café, nestled into a shopping center on the corner of Chatham and South Academy Street. For years, it was a “destination type of bakery,” says owner Roger Dragan. “People had to go out of their way to come here.” But come they did, mainly for celebration-worthy specialty cakes. “We have 40 different varieties and buttercream is our specialty,” says Dragan. Over the past five years, increased foot traffic has given Dragan the opportunity to realize his true goals for the bakery. “We have breakfast pastries, coffee, espresso, and sandwiches. There’s a real café feel,” Dragan says. It harkens back to his culinary school training, he says, which he pursued as a career change after more than a decade in the health care industry. “I went to culinary school when I was 40. I was tired of the corporate world. I was following my dream and a passion for cooking.” Of course, he Pharmacy Bottle + Beverage
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South Academy Street is lined with stately historic homesteads, restored to their former glory to house decidedly modern businesses: fine jewelers, bridal boutiques, a pottery shop. There’s the public library and a town park that’s under construction. The road ends at the front door of the Cary Arts Center. If Chatham Street is full of hip new hangouts, Academy Street has a “signature street vibe,” says downtown manager Ted Boyd. “It’s a pleasant street, meant for strolling.” That’s the ambiance fueling The Mayton Inn, a boutique hotel that opened in February. Despite its towering traditional Georgian exterior, “we break a lot of rules,” says Deanna Crossman, who owns the hotel with her husband, Colin Crossman. “We don’t come from hospitality, so we don’t do things according to hospitality norms. We do it the way we think it should be done, and the way the community wants.” The Crossmans had been living above and running their The King’s Daughters Inn, a Durham luxury bedand- breakfast, when they were approached by Cary town planners in 2011. The town wanted lodging to
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WHEN PETER FONDA TOOK TO THE OPEN ROAD IN EASY RIDER, HE EMBODIED THE cinematic ideal of the macho male biker. These days, motorcycling isn’t just for the boys, and women are more than along for the ride. In the Triangle, with its miles of rural roads and beautiful surroundings, women of all kinds are debunking stereotypes on the back of a bike. They take it seriously, with many rolling up their sleeves to fix, restore, and even build their own motorcycles. These women are as unique as the bikes they ride, and they’ve built a community of sorts, sharing the thrill that comes with a ride across blurred yellow lines and beneath a canopy of swaying pines. In the combination of chaos and calm as they rev their engines on back country roads, these women find and savor a slice of serenity – a departure from the stress and demands of daily life. 100 | WALTER
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“I love to ride mostly because it is extremely fun. It makes me laugh, squeal, and smile underneath my helmet.”
Robin Dail, 56, is an associate professor at Duke University in the School of Nursing. She is also a mother and a soon-to-be grandmother. Dail started biking after her husband died at 53. When she started dating again, Dail found herself on the back of a motorcycle with a new beau and decided to fulfill a childhood dream and get her own motorcycle license. That was four years ago. Dail jokes that the relationship didn’t last, but her obsession with motorcycles did. She has since married a man who shares her passion for riding. Today Dail has four bikes, including the 2016 Triumph Tiger XCX that she rides most often, a 2012 Triumph Bonneville, and a 2007 Triumph Daytona 675 that she likes for buzzing around the track. When she isn’t riding, Dail restores a 1966 Triumph Tiger T100 SR. Robin also runs Moto Girl Café, a virtual group she created to expand the community of women motorcyclists. motogirlcafe.com
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“I like the solitude of back country roads.”
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Kristie Holsclaw, 43, is a top salesperson at Ray Price Harley-Davidson who says she first found empowerment and confidence on the back of a motorcycle when she was 21. Her fascination was sparked as a little girl listening to her grandfather tell tales about his days professional hill-climbing in the 1930s on the back of a Harley-Davidson. Today, the Raleighite says the freedom of the open road – a place with no television, email, or phone – beckons her. She rides for the solitude, preferring to take her Triumph Bonneville on rural roads.
“For me it’s not so much about the speed, it’s just the ride.” Global sourcing and social responsibility specialist Rika Dunder of Fuquay-Varina started riding motorcycles at 21 in Taiwan as the most affordable way to get around. But she was no stranger to bikes – as a little girl in Sweden, Dunder had spent time at classic bike meets with her father, who raced and restored classic motorcycles. Dunder stopped riding after a decade on that first motorcycle when her work for UNICEF in sourcing and corporate social responsibility took her around the globe. But after landing in North Carolina in 2012, Dunder started riding again. Now in her 40s, she’s hooked on her 2012 Royal Enfield Bullet and a 2014 Triumph Bonneville T100 that she takes out on long, curvy roads. She and her husband, an avid motorcyclist himself, are also active in their biker church, a “brotherhood of bikers” that shares a passion for the road and for Jesus.
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“Anyone who ever thought riding a motorcycle was sexy has never geared-up properly. ” Beth Williams, a Saxapahaw hoop dance teacher and residential designer in the design-build firm she owns with her husband, rode on the back of a boyfriend’s bike at 19 and realized she wanted to ride her own. Longing for independence, she was drawn to the stir of an engine. But when she became a mother and moved abroad, she put the hobby aside – for 28 years. Then, just weeks shy of her 49th birthday, Beth bought a Triumph Bonneville. Today she rides a 2013 Triumph Thruxton on country roads. She says she embraces the mental challenge that comes with riding motorcycles and appreciates its meditative qualities.
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“It started with a bike and became just a desire to say ‘yes’ to life.”
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Software development product manager Selma Pittman’s life was renewed with a motorcycle. After losing her parents, she says she sunk into sadness and complacency. Then one day, she stumbled into a motorcycle show and thought: “That’s what I’ll do … I’ll buy a motorcycle and be a giant badass.” She’d grown up riding dirt bikes and four-wheelers and had raced cars, so it wasn’t such a departure for her to buy her first motorcycle at 33. About five years later, the busy foster mother rides a 2014 Triumph Bonneville, a 1979 Yamaha XS650 Bobber, and a 1993 Suzuki GS500. She heads out to Saxapahaw or Falls Lake when she yearns for twisty roads, the thrill of speed, and the meditative state she says only comes with the joy of the ride.
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vast collection of coin-operated and novelty machines in the Fuquay-Varina home of Keith and Catherine Morris.
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IT BEGAN IN CHILDHOOD – AS MANY GROWN-UP INTERESTS DO – WHEN KEITH MORRIS’S pinball-loving parents took the family to arcades. Keith was fascinated there by the workings of the coin-operated games and novelty machines. One in particular, a vintage Rock-ola World Series baseball game, captured his then-13-year-old imagination. “It was old, 1937, but I thought it was so cool that I went home and built one,” he says. “I made it out of scraps of wood and these old relays. I spent a lot of time tinkering with it, changing the design to make it better. But it worked!” That he would go on to attend MIT and co-found ATI Industrial Automation, an engineering-based developer of robotic tools, underscores Keith’s knack for mechanical things. That he has since built up a well-regarded collection of antique, coin-operated machines speaks to the enduring fascination such pieces hold for him and, now, for his wife Catherine Morris.
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Pinball and Pachinko Keith bought his first pinball machine in 1970, when he was in junior high. “It was working, but I fixed it up a bit,” he says. “My mom played it when she did laundry in the basement. Then I bought another one, and when I went off to college I sold them because I needed the money.” Over the next two decades, Keith got his master’s in mechanical engineering, married his wife Catherine, and spent two years in Japan as liaison for Lord Corporation’s industrial automation products. In 1990, he returned to lead ATI, which had acquired the product division from Lord. Catherine joined ATI’s automotive sales division in 1994. While they brought back a few Japanese Pachinko games, which function like upright pinball machines, it wasn’t until the couple settled into their home in Fuquay-Varina that Keith revisited his childhood pastime. “When we finished the basement, I said, ‘It would be cool to have a pinball machine down here,’ so I bought one off eBay. Then I bought another, and another. That’s fairly typical, I think, with any kind of collectibles,” he says. “You get a bit addicted.” Fueling that interest was Keith’s itch to tinker with machines. As president of ATI, he says, “I had to work with people a lot. I didn’t use my mechanical engineering skills in the traditional sense. So I pursued outside interests to fill that need. It was very satisfying to take an old, non-functioning machine and make it work and look like new.” Even as the collection grew to include historically significant pinball machines – including a 1936 Bally Bumper, the first machine to keep score electronically – most were there to be played. “Our kids would have parties, and the adults couldn’t believe they were allowed to touch these things
because they’re old, they’re temperamental,” Catherine says. “But Keith enjoyed it, because if they got broken then he got to fix them again.”
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slots and horse racing; working models, with mechanical figures depicting humorous or macabre scenes; and music machines, including a circa-1900 Regina music box he bought for Catherine.
As ATI flourished, Keith found himself with “a little more time, space, and money – all three (of which) are needed for this hobby.” He explored online collectors’ forums and joined the Coin Operated Collectors Association (COCA) to learn more about these machines. As former COCA president Bill Petrochuk explains, it’s a broad field. “There were probably more than 50,000 different models of coin-operated machines made in the last 130 years,” he says. “Each collector seems to have a different reason for being attracted to a particular machine … The most attractive machines usually have some sort of ‘wow’ or ‘it’ factor that combines art, engineering, and memories.” As Keith’s knowledge grew, his interests widened. He began collecting other vintage coin-operated machines: gambling machines such as
EVERY DAY IS GAME DAY A rare 1907 Caille Peerless roulette machine, shown above as well as in the living room, was auctioned on behalf of the heirs of John Goodson of Goodson-Todman, producers of early TV shows including Beat the Clock. To its left in the living room is an All-American Baseball game by Amusement Machine Corp, circa 1929.
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“That was when it started for me,” she says. The couple began attending “coinop” shows and conventions, relishing the social aspects and tours of private collections as well as the informational sessions. On one tour in Chicago in 2004, Keith spotted a 1930 All-American Baseball game, predecessor to the 1937 Rock-ola World Series game he had loved as a kid. Although he had passed on buying the World Series game before, he returned home determined to find one. “It’s a very rare machine, and they don’t come up for sale very often,” Catherine says of Keith’s quest. But his networking paid off: A couple living off the coast of British Columbia were selling one, and he quickly began negotiations, arranging his travel and international shipping for the sizeable piece. “I had to deal with Canadian and U.S. customs and thought that would be a nightmare, but that turned out to be the easiest part,” he says. The problem came as they were load-
ing it onto the truck to catch the return ferry, when the owners’ adult son balked at parting with the family heirloom. “He was swearing, cussing. I was thinking, ‘What have I gotten myself into? I’ve got to get out of here!’” Keith says, calling it his “most stressful acquisition.” “I think (our acquiring that game) was probably the thing that made people start to take notice” of the collection, says Catherine.
“A rock star” When they added on to their home six years ago, the Morrises designed a new great room around their prized pieces. In contrast to the neon-and-chrome flash of the pinball machines, which were to be housed in an expanded basement game room, the Morrisses wanted a room with a “mountain lodge feel,” Catherine says, to showcase the machines that are built into finely crafted cases and often embellished with ornate metalwork.
The work was completed in time for the Morrises to host the welcome reception when the 2012 COCA convention was held in North Carolina. “We got lots of compliments about how things were displayed,” Keith says, “because they kind of look like they’re where they belong.” Petrochuk, who lives in Chapel Hill, remembers guests “soaking up the wonder and excitement of the Morrises’ hospitality and great collection,” noting, “Some of their pieces are rare or one-of-a-kind examples.” One such piece is a horse racing game with no manufacturer’s information on it. “That machine came from the collection of William Harrah, of Harrah’s Casinos. He had it in his office for decades,” Keith says. “All of the old-timers were looking at it, trying to figure out who built it. It was clearly, to them, a one-of-a-kind.” The Morrises’ highest-profile acquisition came last year, in Las Vegas, when Keith won a fierce bidding war for a rare 1907 Caille Peerless roulette machine.
“When Keith bought it, it was like he’d become a rock star,” Catherine says, making Keith laugh. “People were coming over like, ‘I want to shake your hand!’” “Some machines will always be valuable because of their history or rarity,” Keith adds. “When I started I would buy a machine (just) because I liked it, but now I’m more interested in the uniqueness, the complexity and history of it, and how well it will hold its value.” Yet even among such pieces, the Morrises keep a bowl of coins handy so visitors can enjoy watching their machines work. If something jams up, Keith is ready to fix it. That would make a certain teenaged tinkerer proud.
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For more on antique coin-operated machines: Visit the Coin Operated Collectors Association website (coinopclub.org) for news, articles, videos of machines in action, and more. Website editor Bill Petrochuk also recommends books by Richard M. Bueschel, Ken Rubin, Tom Gustwiller, Bill Enes, and Marshall Fey, coin-op historians who are in the COCA Hall of Fame. You can also see vintage machines in person at the Chicagoland Show (chicagolandshow.com), which Bill calls “a must for anyone who wants to experience coin-op sensory overload,” and the Pinball Hall of Fame (pinballmuseum.org) in Las Vegas, where, Keith says, “you can go in and play.”
Mixing Business, Pleasure and the World’s Greatest Game.
COIN OPERATED Top left: Keith Morris with his vintage 1937 Rock-ola World Series pinball machine and the replica he made when he was 12. He traveled nearly 2,400 miles by plane – plus a ferry ride – from Raleigh to an island off Vancouver, British Columbia, to pick up the Rock-ola. Bottom left: Original Buffalo nickels in a vintage slot machine, or “one-armed bandit.”Bottom right: The mechanical guts of the Caille Peerless 1907 roulette game.
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ANY TENNIS PLAYER WILL TELL YOU THAT THE MOST COVETED TROPHY outside of the professional circuit is the gold ball. No bigger than the nail on your pointer finger, the gold ball is a charm that hangs against a velvet background in a wooden box, signifying a national championship victory. Paul Goode, the Raleigh Racquet Club’s director of tennis, has three of them – one just five months old. They sit, unassuming, on his desk in a clubhouse office he rarely occupies.
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Unlike most Division 1 college tennis players who picked up a racquet as soon as they could walk, Goode, 36, spent the better part of his childhood in Boone on skis. It wasn’t until age 11 that he stumbled upon the hard courts at Watauga County Parks-and-Rec and discovered tennis for the first time. With little formal training, he went on to dedicate the next two and a half decades of his life to mastering – and now also teaching – the sport. For many of Raleigh’s most promising young tennis players, Goode is the coach he never had. Thorne Gregory, a high school junior who left his family in Connecticut and moved to Raleigh in order to train with Goode, says his mentor’s influence has transcended tennis. “I’ve learned as much from Paul as a person as I have from him as a coach. In addition to pushing me be-
pionship (the source of Goode’s second gold ball). “He doesn’t make many unforced errors. You have to earn every single point you win against him.” Goode was young when he learned to be relentless. In the notoriously expensive world of competitive junior tennis, the next tournament was never a sure thing for him. He had to make every match count, had to make his parents’ weighty sacrifices worthwhile. “My dad lost his business because he chose to put what little money he had into my tennis,” Goode says, “My parents taught me to give it everything I had.” Goode found the discipline, even as a teenager, to undertake most of his training on his own, taking lessons only when he could get them for free. He is still grateful to the few teaching pros who recognized his potential and hit with him without charge, usually squeezing
“He’s intensely dedicated to the game, and he’s an invaluable asset to the Raleigh tennis community. Not may people love tennis the way Paul does.” - Matt Lucas, friend and former teammate yond what I previously considered my limits both physically and mentally, Paul is constantly encouraging me to put my progress in perspective and, above all else, to enjoy the process.” Watch Goode play, and you’ll notice right away that “enjoying the process” comes naturally for him. He’s quick, his strokes are clean, and he doesn’t hit many backhands. He’s a baseline grinder, a natural lefty who figured out early that his forehand is his best weapon. He tends to run around his two-handed backhand to set up his dominant shot – a tactic he can use thanks to his speed and strength, which he credits to off-court training. “It’s huge,” Goode says of the importance of running and lifting. “If you stay in really good shape, you don’t have to hit as often. You won’t lose your timing if you can be on the court for hours without getting tired.” Long hours are par for the course with Goode. He favors clay, a slower-paced court surface that makes smacking winners more difficult, meaning points last longer. “You go into a match against Paul knowing that you are going to be in a long battle,” says North Hills Club’s Director of Tennis, Jonathan Janda, who was Goode’s partner in winning the 2014 National 30s Clay Court Doubles Cham-
him into the most undesirable time slots at 9 or 10 in the evening on school nights. Their generosity and Goode’s dedication paid off: He had a successful career as captain of the team at UNC-Greensboro, and then found his balance in the real world as both a player
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and a coach. With stints in numerous coaching positions – from assistant at N.C. State, to head coach at Lees-McRae College, and also at the University of Texas-Pan American – Goode was rarely without a racquet. One benefit of his late start in tennis is that Goode hasn’t burned out. He hasn’t even come close. Instead of tapering off as he got older, Goode played more tournaments than ever. At 34, he won his first gold ball at the 2013 National 30s Clay Court Championship. His wife and three children were on the sidelines. “The boys get into it. Sometimes they cry when I lose,” Goode says of sons Gavin and Griffin. “They want me to win.” And so he won it again. The following year, he brought home his second gold ball from the same tournament, this time winning the doubles draw with Janda, the North Hills Club pro. Leading up to his third consecutive victory this past November, Goode had not played a match in months. A tear in his rotator cuff kept him off the competitive court for the summer, and
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as fall approached, he was still unable to serve. Thanks to a friend in physical therapy who introduced Goode to trigger point needling – a cousin to acupuncture, in which thin needles stimulate muscular trigger points – Goode decided to make the trip to Weston, Fla. for the 35s National Clay Courts again, though he didn’t know what to expect. Seeded fifth in the tournament, he managed to cruise through the first three rounds, dropping only
DEDICATION AND HARD WORK Goode is known for his passion and drive, frequently putting in 12-to14 hour days as director at the Raleigh Racquet Club. The three-time recipient of a national championship gold ball came to tennis later in life. For many of the area’s most-promising tennis players, Goode is the coach he never had. Above, he gives a private lesson to Durham Academy freshman Joy Callwood.
eight games. Riding on those early wins, Goode entered the semi-ďŹ nal match against Ricardo Mena (who was previously ranked in the world top ďŹ ve in the 40s division) by dominating the ďŹ rst set 6-3. But the brutal Florida heat got to him, and with the temperature soaring into the 90s, he dropped the second set 1-6. “I felt like I was done,â€? Goode says, “My body was cramping, and I made a conscious decision to change what I was doing, to take more risks, and just leave it all out there.â€? In the third and ďŹ nal set, Goode shifted away from his typical style of play and started going for bigger shots, ending points faster. It worked. He ďŹ nished Mena off 6-2 in the third set, and got ready to meet number-one seed Paulo Barros the next day in the ďŹ nals. The heat had also taken its toll on Barros, who ended up retiring after only four games against Goode. In a soaked Nike hat and “RRC Tennisâ€? t-shirt, Goode accepted his third gold ball. Back at the Raleigh Racquet Club, Goode has resumed the 12-to-14-hour days he spends on the courts, a ďŹ rm grip on his Babolat Pure Drive racquet – the one he’s used for a decade. His loaded schedule is ďŹ lled with adult clinics and private lessons, offcourt training sessions, and extra hours with the academy youth. “Paul is one of the hardest-working guys I’ve ever known,â€? says childhood friend and former high school teammate Matt Lucas. “He’s intensely dedicated to the game, and he’s an invaluable asset to the Raleigh tennis community. Not may people love tennis the way Paul does.â€?
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THE FIRST INDICATION THAT THE OWL “SAFARI” I WAS ABOUT TO EMBARK on would be more of an audio experience than a visual one came when leader Meredith Massengill hoisted a large black boom box and megaphone into the cab of the white, full-size Chevy pickup. A dozen of us were gathered on a brisk Friday evening, and we had just heard owl calls blaring from that boom box. Massengill, the program director at Rudolph Howell & Son Environmental Learning Center near Smithfield, was about to play her recorded screeches in the woods for the local population of barred owls and great horned
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owls, the two species most plentiful in the Triangle. We’d be lucky to hear the secretive birds, she told us, let alone see them. A couple of young families and other owl adventurers and I packed in shoulder-to-shoulder, huddled for warmth on wooden benches in the back of the truck. The wind came at us full-force across the fields. After about half a mile on a dirt road riddled with muddy ditches and an overflowing stream, we pulled over in a copse of bare-limbed trees. We were adjacent to the Neuse, and it turns out that bottomland forest along a river like this is prime habitat for the barred owl. Massengill and Jordan Astoske, the center’s director, set up the audio equipment while we made the four-foot leap off the back of the truck. One young father took it upon himself to gallantly help the women disembark, and although I was prepared to jump, I took his proffered hand. Parents hushed their kids as the “who-cooks-for-you” call of the barred owl blared from the loudspeaker, alternating with the “who-who” call of the less-common great horned owl. “It might take a few minutes,” Astoske said. First, the owls would have to recognize the call – or the “bark,” as ornithologists describe it – and then decide if they felt safe enough to respond in kind. Although we were as quiet as any group of amateur birders with five kids under 10 could possibly be, nobody heard an owl respond. Even my husband, Scott, who wandered away from the group in the hopes of a better chance of hearing one, had no luck. Instead, we were treated to the honking of a few Canada geese heading in to roost just as full dark set in. And several sharp-eyed children caught sight of a small herd of does in the woods about 30 yards from where we stood. As the air grew colder and the light dimmer, we headed down another of the several roads that traverse the 2,800-acre property, which the late Rudy Howell donated to the college in 1993. This time, the water obstacle we faced – a roaring stream with rapids and a roar that got the children squealing – was too much for even the full-sized Chevy and its high clearance.
Another road took us to a clearing that had proven to be an ideal spot for owl-hearing during prior safaris. Stiffer and number from the cold, I decided to stay on my perch atop the truck; about half the others, including most of the kids, tumbled off. Massengill fired up the tape, and we waited. And waited. Then, very faint and seemingly far away, it came: “who-cooks-for-you? who-cooksfor-you?” I wanted to cheer. I’ve always been fascinated by owls. Maybe it began when I came across a copy of a slim volume called Owl by William Service at my great-aunt’s house. The book describes how the author and his family rescued an abandoned owlet and then, besotted, let it rule the roost. I yearned for an owl of my own, but my mother reminded me that Manhattan wasn’t the ideal place to rescue or raise one. My first close encounter came much later, when a giant great horned owl glided noiselessly just over my head at dusk on a canoe trip to Merchants Millpond State Park in Gatesville, N.C. about 25 years ago. But whether it was the inevitable squirms of children trying hard to be silent, or just the wariness of the owls themselves, the woods went silent once again. Back at the learning center, which displays indigenous reptiles and amphibians on loan from the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, I visited two permanent winged residents of Howell Woods. Neither Trixie, a barred owl, nor Carl, a great horned owl, can be returned to the wild because of injuries they suffered prior to captivity. They were dignified in their enclosures. And, like most of their wild friends that night, silent.
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CARSON VARGAS IS IN HIS SECOND YEAR AT BROUGHTON HIGH School. His favorite subject is English. His powerful backhand is a mighty weapon for Broughton’s varsity men’s tennis team. He loves dancing to hip-hop and prefers Lil Wayne to Kanye. He’s got a killer smile and a quick wit. Although Carson faces the challenges of autism, he thrives with the support of his special education teacher and his peers.
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In 2012, sisters Wynn and Parker Burrus were students at Broughton High School when they noticed a wide divide between students with special needs and the rest of the student body. They saw that students like Carson were often isolated and misunderstood – and the sisters knew something needed to change. When efforts to bring the students with special needs into the fold through service projects and community outreach seemed to merely inch the gap closer, Parker, then a 16-year-old junior, had an idea. Broughton needed a dance that would not only include but also celebrate these invaluable students. The Burrus sisters already knew how to put on a production. They’d been doing it since they were little girls, creating summer camps for neighborhood children and performing homegrown theatrical performances for their family. But what started out as play and imagination had developed into confi-
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-Wynn Burrus dence and leadership. These children, who were never afraid to step out in front of others, were now young women who were primed to break down boundaries. Parker quickly got to work. She rallied the support of the Broughton principal, a small group of volunteers, and her sister, at that point a 14-yearold freshman. Soon, the idea had become a family, school, and community project. Wynn and Parker’s mother scoured thrift stores for formal dresses. A local rental company came to the school to fit the boys for tuxedos. A DJ was enlisted, snowflake decorations were hung, and pizza was ordered. Broughton’s first Winterfest was even complete with a red carpet entrance,
lined with cheering student volunteers. “There was so much excitement that year,” Wynn recalls of the first dance. “It was really cool to watch everything come together. The most amazing part was seeing the smiles on the students’ faces.” Those smiles led the sisters to dream bigger. In planning the next Winterfest, the two invited students from other high schools to attend. It grew quickly. Three years later in December 2015, with Wynn a senior at Broughton and Parker a sophomore at Washington and Lee University, Winterfest hosted 63 students with special needs from Broughton, Athens Drive, and Leesville Road High Schools. Over 130 student volunteers came out to support the dance and celebrate the dancers. While the students with special needs certainly leave the dances with wide smiles and sweat-drenched hair, the dances’ greatest gifts, the sisters say, reach far beyond the Broughton gymnasium. Carson Vargas and his classmates are not the only ones who receive these gifts. Austin Bell, a senior at Broughton, has been a student volunteer for Winterfest and the recently added dance, Spring Fling. “The dances open people’s eyes,” he says. “They allow people to get to know the students with special needs
and build relationships with them. I have learned that these kids are just like everyone else. They love to dance and laugh and get to know you.” Parker Burrus agrees that the dances have affected the entire high school community. “I can honestly say that I have never seen Wake County come together like it does for the dances. When you look back as a spectator, you can truly admire the diversity … (as well as the) connection between all of the students.” This year, with Wynn graduating from Broughton and headed to UNCChapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain Scholar, the sisters are keenly aware that plans must be in place to ensure that the show goes on in their absence. So Wynn has partnered with local businesses such as Flywheel Sports to hold fundraisers for the dances, and has trained a small group of freshmen and sophomores who are equipped to carry the baton. She says she’s optimistic that the dances will expand to reach more students in the future, and is already planning to start dances for students with special needs at high schools in Chapel Hill. “The dances have shown me the impact that a small group of people can have,” she says. “Actually experiencing this has made me realize that we can all do something for good.”
WINTERFEST Athens Drive student P.J. Nelson, left, dances with Broughton High volunteer Isabelle Babson, right, during the second annual Broughton Winterfest in December 2014.
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