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- It's Gonna Be May! - Apr. 30th
It's Gonna Be May! - Apr. 30th
It just feels right to use a joke that only works once a year, don't you think?
Mason @ TRI
April 30, 2025
Good morning Raleigh! Hope you’re having a good Wednesday.
Don’t forget what tomorrow is! If you have queue up the Justin Timberlake as we get… NSYNC with all of these midweek events.
(I swear I will stop making these jokes whenever you all stop telling me you like them).
If you know, you know.
• Starting off strong with our first May event, it’s First Friday! As always you can find happenings all around town but the Moore Square and Warehouse Districts tend to be the hot spots — see a list of ALL the events on the official page here.
• May is National Bike Month! Together with Oak City Cycling, look for the First Friday event to host a Bike Parade through downtown around 6PM — their Instagram here.
• Copperline Plant Co is offering Plant Portraits at First Friday — read more here about how you can sign up and get that new profile plant based picture you’ve always wanted.
• The Juniper Level Botanical Garden is back open for one of only 9 weekends per year, with THREE of those happening in May — check out their maps and schedule here.
• Triangle Pop-up Market has their NCMA event Saturday, from 11-4PM — more here.
• Fiction Kitchen, the plant based restaurant that recently relocated to Crabtree Blvd, is aiming to announce their re-opening in Mid May — we’ll keep you updated.
• The Gipson Play Plaza at Dorothea Dix Park has an official opening date of June 6-8th, where they will hold their ribbon cutting and two day community event with family activities, food trucks, live music, and more.
• Think you have the skill to judge a poet? Tickets are sold out this week already but sign up at their email for June for access to the next Poetry Slam event, where you may be selected to be a judge! — events page here.
• We mentioned Cuya Cocina Latina recently but they have officially opened up on Glenwood as of this week — check out their page for more info.
• Into Sewing, Quilting or Embroidery? Check out experts in the industry and take some classes from professionals at the Original Sewing & Quilt Expo tomorrow through Saturday at the Raleigh Convention Center — more info here.
Free events first, then organized by time, for each day.
Just a note, that I am going to start linking to the venue event page vs the direct ticket site as many of the ticket sites aren’t directly local and frankly I think some of these sites are just pretty cool and well made.
Apr. 30th - Wednesday
• The Head & The Heart… Listening Party! [alternative] @ The Pour House | 3PM - FREE
• Dunlow [acoustic] @ Clockwork | 7PM - FREE
• Jazz Jam Session [open jam] @ Moon Room | 8PM - FREE
• Davy Knowles [blues rock] @ The Pour House | 8PM - $20
• The High Kings [celtic/sea shanties] @ Martin Marietta | 7:30PM - $49+
May. 1st - Thursday
• Bumpin Uglies, Sons Of Paradise, Rockstead [reggae rock] @ Bowstring Pizza | 6:30PM - $25+
• Beach Music Series w/ the ToneZ [beach] @ North Hills | 6PM - $5+
• Evan Honer w/ Barrett [acoustic/indie] @ Lincoln Theatre | 8PM - $25+
• Booster Club, Tiger Knives, Tiny City [post-punk] @ Neptunes Parlour | 8PM - $10+
Local featured artists, in any medium.
Maurice Melvin is a local photographer / videographer in Raleigh. If you have ever been to a music event downtown, you were likely sharing the same room as Maurice.
Check out his live streams of local shows on his Instagram linked here and his website down below:
Local sports teams scores and updates.
• Hurricanes: After another double overtime game, the Canes knock out the New Jersey Devils in Game 5 to be the first team in the NHL playoffs to advance to the second round. They await either the Capitals or Canadiens, in the next round.
• NCSU: The Men’s Tennis, NCAA First Round kicks off this Saturday with No. 9 seed NCSU hosting UNCW, Georgia, and South Carolina State. The matches will be free for fans to attend if interested — info here.
• NASCAR: It’s lights out and away we go! This Friday Night, check out the Accent Imaging 170 @ Wake County Speedway, donations of canned food items will earn you a discount on your ticket at the gate — more details on their page here.
It is quite close to downtown if you’ve never been.
Raleigh is cool but so are our neighbors.
• Maybe belonging to the sports section but just a short drive outside of Raleigh, the Carolina Mudcats Baseball team, in their last season before relocating to Wilson, play the Myrtle Beach Pelicans in their series going through Sunday.
• We mentioned Bike Month already but Durham has plans of their own as well! Check out the Bull City Bike Stampede at CCB Plaza this Saturday at 11:30AM, featuring an 8 mile ride through campus and downtown. — info on the event here.
• Heading to the coast this weekend? Check out this great Wilmington based newsletter below if you’re looking for more to do.
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• WRAL has found that potentially 23,000 cars in the state might have been charged MORE in fees when registering their car. Double check that the fuel code matches what your car actually uses and call the DMV if you notice it being wrong — more here.
• Aunt Betty’s Gin Bar, attached to Morgan Street Food Hall, is staffing up! They are looking for bartenders, servers, and hosting — contact them at the email here.
• The Burrow is having their Bins sale this weekend! — more details below on prices and when you can stop by:
Weather, moon phases, and thing’s that don’t fit elsewhere.
Apr. 30th - Wednesday - Partly Cloudy , High 81°F, Low 61°F
• Sunrise: 06:23 AM, Sunset: 08:01 PM - Moon: Waxing Crescent 🌒
May. 1st - Thursday - Moderate rain, High 84°F, Low 67°F
• Sunrise: 06:22 AM, Sunset: 08:02 PM - Moon: Waxing Crescent 🌒
Comments and posts from around Raleigh, just a bit more personal.
• Heading to a Canes game soon? Check out this reddit thread on the best food options and pro tips for the stands in/around the arena.
• The weather has me thinking it’s time for a beach trip but be careful where you relax at, not all NC beaches are friendly to drinking (even if it’s not glass) — more here.
• The Raleigh Police Dept is running their Cops on the Block program, an initiative that connects neighborhoods with the officers that server them, in a relaxed community setting — learn more about the program here.
The ramblings of your author, apologies in advance.
I wrote everything today except the score of the Canes game and my last thoughts… before the game.
Now here I am at near midnight, after the game, both exhausted and ecstatic, sleepy yet caffeinated, and trying to stay coherent enough to write the final touches to the newsletter on another fine Tuesday night in… Raleighwood.
Now, time for some much needed rest (and apologies to my neighbors for the screaming at that OT winner a few minutes ago).
See you folks on Friday!
— Mason at The Raleighwood Inbox
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