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Is it "NC" enough? Let's Find Out! - May 14th
It’s been a rainy couple of days but things are starting to pick back up with local sports, fairground events, grand openings and more. Read more below!
Mason @ TRI
May 14, 2025
Happy Wednesday folks!
I am running behind today, as I was out getting the best events for you last night! (aka I stayed up to midnight after a Red Hat Show) so let’s just get into it. Hope you’ve had your caffeine for the day by now!
If you know, you know.
• The Got to be NC Festival is this weekend at the NC State Fairgrounds! This FREE, mini state fair like event, features carnival rides, independent vendors, and NC food and wine! If that’s not enough to get you out, I’m not sure what is — more info on the event here.
• Another Saturday event is going on at Trophy Maywood, this time with their Raleigh Pop-up market! They will have local art & vintage, coffee, bounce houses & more.
• Lucky Tree’s new location at Moore Square opens this Saturday! From 4-8PM join them for live music, free samples, and collab art — see the new venue sneek peek below:
• Every third Thursday of the month join Unlikely Professionals for Tarot & Toast, a tarot card reading an wine tasting event starting at 6PM — event page here.
• Life After 5 is almost back! Next Wednesday bring a chair (or stand and dance) at City Plaza downtown for the FREE live music event — view the full lineup here.
• It’s been Bike Month but tomorrow is DRA’s Bike to Work Day! Find a Bike to Work Pitstop on this custom google map if you’re planning on partaking — map here.
• Also tomorrow, DRA is hosting a FREE mini-golf round at Raleigh Beer Garden from 6-8PM for the first 100 people that show up — see more here.
• Campo Taco, a new Mexican restaurant, is heading for the new Rockway apartments on S. Saunders Street, and aims to open in Fall 2025. They will be located next to a Benchwarmers Bagels and hope for traffic from Dix Park — see the spot below.
• Feel like you’re missing an event? Check out our events calendar which has everything we share in a convenient Google Calendar or iCal format! A few of you have already gotten access to it (thanks for sharing) — use the button below to share with 3 friends.
• Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker (The Civil War, Baseball, etc.) is hosting a night at Martin Marietta with PBS on The American Revolution and will include a panel discussion the time period — history buffs can get tickets here.
• Speaking of history, join for a FREE Lunchbox Lecture every 3rd Thursday of the month at 12PM in the CoR (City of Raleigh) Museum, this weeks lecture is on the historic red-light district of the city in the early 1900s — see the event here.
Free events first, then organized by time, for each day.
May 14th - Wednesday
• Jazz Jam Session [jazz] @ Moon Room | 8PM - FREE
• TV Smith’s The Adverts, Scarecrow [punk rock] @ Kings | 8PM - $18+
May 15th - Thursday
• Abigail Dowd [folk] @ NC Museum Of Natural Sciences | 7PM - FREE
• Beach Music Series @ Midtown Park North Hills | 6PM - $5+
Rigoberto Mena’s, Skin of the City exhibit, opens today at 5:30PM, view the work of this Cuban abstractionist below or at the CAM opening later today.
Local sports teams scores and updates.
• NCSU: Men’s Soccer has just revealed their Fall 2025 schedule, with their first home game being August 21 and their first conference game against UNC, only September 5th — click for the full schedule.
• NC FC: Just a reminder that the FC play Friday at 7PM against the Oakland Roots, home at WakeMed Soccer Park.
• NC Courage: And the Courage play Saturday at 5PM against the Chicago Red Stars, also at home.
begin no caps zone 🚨
• hurricanes: the canes took a 3-1 series lead over the caps monday night with a 5-2 win. they play again tomorrow night with a chance to close out the series at 7PM, this game being away in washington.
end no caps zone 🚨
Raleigh is cool but so are our neighbors.
• Fable Books + Cafe will bring a new independent bookstore and coffee shop to Holly Springs, aiming for a summer 2025 opening. The shop plans a mix of new and used books, plus events and a full coffee menu — more here.
• Astronomy on Tap returns on tonight at Durty Bull in Durham, promising drinks, cosmic talks (this one about black hole research), and astronomy trivia starting at 7PM — click to learn more.
• The Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle (yes, that is their name) has a show tonight at the Cary Arts Center. Featuring a somewhat humorous event of amateur musicians, auditions only require you to read music while breathing — click for tickets.
Business focused, occasionally sponsored.
• A proposed bill (which has only needs a House floor vote now) would give drivers in NC a two-year break between required driver’s license renewals, bringing the interval to 10 years for most adults and taking some pressure of the DMV currently — info here.
• Big Ed’s will reopen TODAY after the unfortunate police investigation this past weekend at their North location — see their announcement here.
Weather, moon phases, and thing’s that don’t fit elsewhere.
May. 14th - Wednesday - Patchy rain nearby, High 88°F, Low 66°F
• Sunrise: 06:09 AM, Sunset: 08:13 PM - Moon: Waning Gibbous 🌖
May. 15th - Thursday - Partly Cloudy , High 90°F, Low 70°F
• Sunrise: 06:08 AM, Sunset: 08:14 PM - Moon: Waning Gibbous 🌖
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Comments and posts from around Raleigh, just a bit more personal.
• Want to help the compost bin at Raleigh City Farm? They accept old newspaper donations to their bin just drop them in at the end of their compost structure.
• Wake Gov has announced the winners of the Wake County Public Library bookmark contest! These bookmarks will be printed and distributed through the library system during the 2025 Summer Reading Program — see the winners below:
The ramblings of your author, apologies in advance.
That’s all for today folks! Next week and into June start looking for some more updates on referral rewards, some design changes, and general new updates I’ve been working on. Should be an exciting time as I aim to take the inbox into the next stage!
See you Friday!
— Mason at The Raleighwood Inbox
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