August 2021

By Ashley Wahl August leaves you wanting.     In the afternoon, when the air is all milk-and-honey and the primal thrum of late summer has reached a crescendo, she will boldly take your hand. [...]

Pretty as a Picture Artist’s home captures bygone America By Deborah Salomon  •   Photographs by John Gessner Monet painted from a studio adjacent to his country home in Giverny. Van Gogh rented [...]

Friday Night Rocks The Asheville-based soul/funk/rock/jam band Travers Brothership will take the First Bank stage at Sunrise Square, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, on Friday, Aug. 6, from 5 [...]

Legion of the Night The beauty of moths By Todd Pusser Butterflies get all the love. All around the world, festivals are held in their honor. Entire gardens are planted specifically to attract [...]

What’s in a Name? Sometimes it’s everything By Kate Smith My first nickname was Catfish. Dad pronounced it at my birth because I arrived “slippery and wide-eyed as one.” When I was old enough to [...]

Windsor Knots These are the ties that bind By Deborah Salomon Back in the day, ancients believed their leaders descended from the gods, therefore possessed “divine right” to rule. Those chosen [...]

Neighborhood Gold Clearing the bar in the backyard By Bill Fields A few years ago, not long after I began freelancing as a booth researcher at golf tournaments broadcast by NBC Sports, someone [...]

Forgive and Forget You’ll be healthier because of it By Karen Frye We have all experienced some form of emotional or physical pain in our lives caused by another. Some are easy to overcome, but [...]

Leo (July 23 – August 22) Have you ever met a Leo with a show dog? I doubt it. Because if there’s one thing this fire sign hates more than sharing the spotlight, it’s feeling inferior to another [...]