On Saturday, May 3, The City of Raleigh’s Planning Department and Marbles Kids Museum partnered to host the first Kids City Planning Day 2030.
The City of Raleigh currently is updating its Comprehensive Plan for the first time since 1989. Over the next 20 years, the city is expected to grow by 70 percent and reach [...]

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The first general meeting of SPARKcon got underway this week. This will be the third installment of working with a wide variety of people throughout the Triangle who want to help ignite the “Creative Hub of the South” with showcases and workshops. The focus is on local creative talent getting showcased through various venues (like [...]

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Every year I go to the ISPO, the largest sporting goods show in the world. ISPO is hosted at Messe Munchen. Being the location of the old airport, the fairgrounds are huge: 15 airplane hangers with 2 train stops. It even includes a pedestrian autobahn to get from one site to the other.

Wandering this [...]

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Woke up this morning and went to our neighbor’s to buy some eggs from their chicken coup, but got distracted by an amazing sight - an incredible, straight out of 1978, mega custom van. It woke me up like no cup of coffee ever could. I wanted to “breaker 1-9″ on a CB radio [...]

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Fellow Designbox member and Onionhead Monster creator, Paul Friedrich, along with Bojangle’s expert, Bryan Pack, are currently attempting one entire day at Bojangles - from the moment Bojangles opens (5:30am) until it closes (10pm) or they are asked to leave. They decided on the Western Blvd Bojangles (Raleigh) because of the awesome wireless reception. Check [...]

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