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Woven Wire Basket Making Class

Ornamentea 509 North West Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

Learn to create woven-wire baskets in this fun, exploratory class.

Beginning Altered Book Class

Ornamentea 509 North West Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

Join us for an evening of page-ripping fun! You'll learn about book selection, preparation and treatments and leave with pages of ideas and techniques to incorporate into your own altered books.

First Friday Featuring Spanish Selections from PROOF Wine & Spirits

The Wine Feed's August First Friday tasting event will feature Spanish selections from the outstanding portfolio of PROOF Wine & Spirits. The Wine Feed will be pouring six delicious wines from throughout Spain that reflect the country's diversity, value, and quality. There will be works from local artists on display, and many neighboring artists in […]

Free First Fridays Featuring: Archbishops Of Blount Street

Free First Friday show with Archbishops of Blount St! For fans of: Pietasters, The Specials and English Beat. Archbishops of Blount Street play ska music unlike anyone from Roanoke Rapids to Wilmington, from Greenville to Greensboro. There are ten guys in the band! We have five gentlemen who play fiery horns, five who sing like […]

Author Feast with Bull Spec

Quail Ridge Books & Music 4381-105 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Raleigh, NC, United States

We're delighted to host the Bull Spec third annual summer speculative fiction event, led by editor Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, on Saturday, August 3, at 7 p.m.

Rockin The Suburbs w/ Joe Hero (Foo Fighters Tribute)

Borrowing their name from Ben Folds’, “Rockin The Suburbs”, these male-middle-class-and-white musicians manage to seriously rock without ever taking themselves too seriously. The members of Rockin’ The Suburbs came together in 2012 with a common appreciation for the not-so mainstream. Tired of being all alone in their white boy pain, they drew upon a broad […]

New ‘Savor the South’ Cookbooks at Quail Ridge Books

Quail Ridge Books & Music 4381-105 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Raleigh, NC, United States

The authors of two new Savor the South cookbooks join us on Sunday, August 4, at 3 p.m.: Miriam Rubin with Tomatoes and Kelly Alexander with Peaches.

Melody Moezzi On Haldol & Hyacinths a Quail Ridge Books

Quail Ridge Books & Music 4381-105 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Raleigh, NC, United States

She wears many hats: activist, attorney, writer, and award-winning author. With honesty, candor, and humor, Melody Moezzi now shares Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life with us on Wednesday, August 7, at 7:30 p.m. She chronicles her experiences as a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman with both clinical and cultural bipolarity.