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CUSTOM BUILDER: “Backstory: Playing Both Sides”
A creative duo’s partnership is driven by client needs, site specifics, and school schedules (Photos: Tzu Chen) By Stacey Freed Masonry, glass, metal, concrete … these are the building materials that Vincent “Vinny” Petrarca and Katherine Hogan, AIA, owners of the firms Tonic Design and Tonic Construction, in Raleigh, N.C., favor. “These things last…
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Making History: Katherine Hogan, Vincent Petrarca Receive Kamphoefner Prize for Modern Architecture
The first husband-wife partnership Katherine Hogan, AIA, and Vincent Petrarca, partners in life and in the award-winning Raleigh firm Tonic Design, were honored to receive the 2017 Kamphoefner Prize at the AIA North Carolina Design Conference held in Wilmington September 13-15. Named for the founding dean of NC State University’s School (now College) of Design, Henry…
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Sir Walter Salutes Five Points Icon: Tonic Design receives 2017 Sir Walter Raleigh Award
1700 Glenwood Avenue before (bottom) and after (top). For transforming an odd, vacant eyesore into a gleaming glass, energy-efficient commercial building that deserves its place at the pinnacle of Raleigh’s Five Points intersection, Tonic Design principals Katherine Hogan, AIA, and Vincent Petrarca received a 2017 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Community Appearance for their work on the building at…
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Coming Oct. 1: “Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik,” a collection of new stories that celebrate Jewish history, culture, and the Old Country
On October 1, in time for National Jewish Book Month (November) and Chanukah 2017 (December), Jewish Storyteller Press will release its latest title, Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik , via Amazon.com, BN.com, Powells.com, and other online and local bookstores. The publisher predicts that the 120-page book will become a new tradition for an ancient holiday. Chanukah…
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Winston-Salem Author’s New Football Novel Wins Best Book Award
In the NABE’s Young Adult Category Winston-Salem author Frank McNair recently learned that his new novel Life on the Line: Football, Rage and Redemption has been named Best Book in the Young Adult category for the Spring 2017 Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards. “This is a great book for anyone who loves football or loves someone…
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YES!WEEKLY: “Summer Reading for Middle- and High-School Sports Fans – Gritty New Football Fiction by Triad Author Will Make Them Want to Read”
By Charles Womack June 29s, 2017 (Winston-Salem, NC) – Just in time for summer football camps, a new sports novel for middle- and high-school sports fans will give camp-goers something to do during downtime. For all football fans who love the game whether they play/played or not, Life on the Line: Football, Rage, and Redemption could go…
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AECCafe.com/ArchShowcase: “The Professor’s House in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by Arielle Condoret Schechter”
by Sanjay Gangal This small, modern house was designed for an eminent author and professor of Native American studies. A widow now, she wanted to downsize from her 3200-square-foot house and live in a new, age-in-place home in a quiet, wooded neighborhood in Chapel Hill, NC, with her dog, Calamity Jane. Architects: Arielle Condoret Schechter Project: The Professor’s…
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FORSYTH FAMILY: “Frank McNair, Life on the Line”
By Vonda Henderson Frank McNair, a native North Carolinian, knows about football. He loves the game. The football team of his youth was the Laurinburg Fighting Scots, the same as that of his characters. “I had a 72-hour career as a football player for the University of North Carolina,” Frank shared. “I was invited to…
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Modern Home in Raleigh’s Historic Cameron Park to be Open for Public Touring September 6th
During the evening “ModHop” Tour of private homes in Raleigh, NC The Hawthorne Residence, a modern, award-winning home in Raleigh’s Cameron Park neighborhood, will be open to the public during the “ModHop” Tour, an evening house tour on September 6th from 6 – 8:30 p.m. hosted by North Carolina Modernist Houses in association with the 2017 Hopscotch Design…
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THE INDIE VIEW: “Interview with Frank McNair, author of Life on the Line”
My agent retired and I am a 65-year-old man with a first novel. Given the state of publishing today, I was never going to find an agent. Frank McNair – 28 August 2017 The Back Flap Life on the Line is the ideal book for the sports novel enthusiast or the reluctant teenage reader. It is…
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