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Van Eure, owner of the nationally renowned Angus Barn Restaurant in Raleigh, was awarded the 2004 Gold Plate, the food industry's highest honor, and named 2004 Foodservice Operator of the Year by the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association.
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There is a major music business success story in progress in the small town of Graham, North Carolina. In a pair of indistinct warehouses, Tor Hansen and Glenn Dicker have turned a wild idea about distributing records into Redeye Distribution and Yep Roc Records. With a combination of foresight, patient, and music biz savvy, Hansen and Dicker have made Redeye one of the top small music distributors in the US.
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Smith discusses the twenty-five years of service offered by the Hospice of Wake County.
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16754
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With the approaching hurricane season, the North Carolina coast must also deal with the lack of funding to provide for renourishment programs.
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Lea discusses the life and work of landscape architect, Richard C. Bell, who was born in Manteo in 1928. He was a member of the first graduating class in 1950 of a revolutionary design school at NC State University and has been a landscape architect for fifty years. Among his 2,000 projects are the rolling hills and gardens of Raleigh's Pullen Park, NC State's famous \"Brickyard\" and Student Center sculpture plaza, Meredith College's amphitheater, and the Moore Square Transit block in Raleigh.
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Ensrud, Metro Magazine's Wine Editor, discusses the wine scene in North Carolina, which is developing into a major wine region with top-flight products, vineyards, and a growing reputation.
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North Carolinian Scott Sawyer is a versatile guitarist. He is well-known among jazz fans, especially for his many performances with jazz singer Nnenna Freelon, and is equally adept at rock, blues, R&B, and funk.
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16787
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METRO magazine presents its yearly selection of North Carolinians who have made a contribution to the quality of people's lives in 2003. These include William Friday, Ira David Wood, III, C. Colon Willoughby, Jr., Jim Talton, Dr. Danny, Bolognesi, Chuck Stone, Richard Moore, Roland Vaughn, Jr., Ann Goodnight, and William M. Dunlap, MD.
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Leggett presents her Top 10 list of people who are preserving the culture and sense of place that years from now will allow people to say \"I'm from Down East,\" and have it mean something. Included are Mamie's Drive-in in Laurel Hill, Pete Jones Eastern-style barbecue in Ayden, and Ashley Futrell and Hoover Adams, who continue the tradition of the locally owned, rural newspaper in Little Washington and in Dunn.
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16789
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Taylor talks with Raleigh author Kaye Gibbons about her seventh novel, Divining Women, which is scheduled for publication in April.
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16790
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Droschak reports on the changes underway at the venerable Pinehurst #2 in preparation for the 2005 U.S. Open.
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16791
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Since the early 1970s, Ligon Flynn has practiced architecture in the communities of the state's southeastern coast. His firm mainly designed private residences and gardens, including a number of houses on Figure Eight Island. Lea tours the island with Flynn to view his designs and how they connect to the environment.
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In Part 3 of Metro Magazine's series on towns and places that comprise their coverage area from Raleigh to the coast, Jim Hughes discusses the city of Durham--where it has been and the future it's looking toward.
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During the 1970s there were few quality restaurants in the Research Triangle Area; however, an event in the 1979 North Carolina General Assembly would soon change all that. It was the passage of an act to allow local jurisdictions to vote on whether they would allow the sale of mixed drinks. At the time most of the state counties were dry, but in wet counties restaurant diners were allow to \"brown bag,\" or bring their own liquor to the restaurant.
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16798
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Over the past sixty years Raleigh has grown far beyond its historic downtown. Lea describes the return of the city's center as the heart of the state capitol.
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