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Shopping Diamond Award Winners 2026

We are excited to present this year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners for the 2026 Midtown Diamond Awards! Browse the list to see if your favorites are there, and be…

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Booze + Brews Diamond Award Winners 2026

We are excited to present this year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners for the 2026 Midtown Diamond Awards! Browse the list to see if your favorites are there, and be…

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Food + Fare Diamond Award Winners 2026

We are excited to present this year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners for the 2026 Midtown Diamond Awards! Browse the list to see if your favorites are there, and be…

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Arts + Entertainment Diamond Award Winners 2026

We are excited to present this year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners for the 2026 Midtown Diamond Awards! Browse the list to see if your favorites are there, and be…

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Sports + Fitness Diamond Award Winners 2026

We are excited to present this year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners for the 2026 Midtown Diamond Awards! Browse the list to see if your favorites are there, and be…

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Health + Beauty Diamond Award Winners 2026

We are excited to present this year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners for the 2026 Midtown Diamond Awards! Browse the list to see if your favorites are there, and be…

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Community Features Special Sections

2026 Diamond Award Winners

Midtown readers voted for their favorite businesses, services, and venues. Now, we are excited to present this year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners! Select a category, browse the list…

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Family & Education Features Local Business People & Profiles

SkillPop matches expert instructors with casual learners in a social setting

Story by Kurt Dusterberg | Bohon took matters into her own hands in 2015, when she launched SkillPop. The company provides in-person classes led by experts in a variety of…

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Features Food Travel

Florence, SC has a burgeoning food scene and an annual festival to celebrate it

Story by Page Leggett | Florence “has a vibrant, nascent food scene with real energy, and special spaces even Charleston doesn’t have,” Ted says.

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Features Food

Local chefs transform the season’s hardiest vegetables into pure comfort

By Jennifer Primrose | These recipes aren’t about fuss or flash—they’re about connection. About finding flavor in what the soil gives us this time of year and discovering…

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Drink Food Sip & Savor

A Southern-Leaning Standout Inside The Casso in Raleigh

By Dathan Kazsuk | Airports are hectic, especially in December. But near Gate C18 at Raleigh-Durham, there’s a Bobby Flay burger joint that’s worth slowing down for.

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Food Travel

Bobby Flay Brings the Crunch to RDU

By Dathan Kazsuk | Airports are hectic, especially in December. But near Gate C18 at Raleigh-Durham, there’s a Bobby Flay burger joint that’s worth slowing down for.

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Arts Literary Arts Music

David J Live in Raleigh—A Rare Night with Goth Music Icon

By Dathan Kazsuk | It’s not every day you find yourself in the presence of a godfather of goth—a man whose very aura seems to blur the line…

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Food

Farewell to K&W: The Last Scoop of Green Jell-O

By Dathan Kazsuk | K&W Cafeteria was never trying to be the coolest or cleanest table in town, depending on who you ask—It was a middle ground between…

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Pets

The Silent Signs of Pet Aging

By Kyle Marie McMahon | The years we spend with our dogs often feel like they vanish in a blink, and it can be surprising when our companions…

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