North Carolina is a land rich in culture, art and creative diversity. Our State magazine brings you features about the people and places of North Carolina.
On numerous stages in multiple venues, an actor or audience, donor or director, is contributing to Camel City’s decades-deep identity as an arts hub. Here was born the nation’s first arts council and the state’s only arts conservatory; here a fledgling group of thespians spawned many more; here a local film fest became nationally recognized. At every level, Winston acts up.
Impatient for the state’s all-clear date for planting? For seed devotees, the pleasures of growing begin long before that first green shoot.
As the flowers blossom, birds are singing a different tune. Celebrate the start of spring with our playlist that features the latest music from North Carolina artists. All from forthcoming albums, these songs are just begging to be listened to with the windows rolled down.
From a resolution that makes hurricanes illegal to a ban against off-key singing, this state has some unusual laws reputed to be true.
Many wood-carvers steer clear of our state tree as a medium, but Tom Wolfe has always seen faces in the pine.
An Asheville couple taps into the local creative industry with a beer shampoo line, BRÖÖ. What other beauty company bottles shampoo in a six-pack?
If you think industrial, antique, and ornate are three styles that can’t live in harmony, you haven’t been to Revolution Mill in Greensboro.
It wasn't designed to awe or to be beautiful. It was designed to function. But in its new incarnation, the Roxboro Cotton Mill does, and is, just that.
After falling into a state of disrepair, the American Tobacco factory in Durham has been revitalized as the American Tobacco Campus, a center of culture.
