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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 sure to make a note of any new businesses you’d like to check out. Congratulations to all of our winners! BEST HAIR SALON GOLD: Hush…

January 1, 20260Comments 2 minRead time

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 to see if your favorites are there, and be sure to make a note of any new businesses you’d like to check out. Congratulations to…

January 1, 20260Comments 2 minRead time

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 professional development fields and hobbies. Ten years later, SkillPop has conducted thousands of classes, both in person and virtually.

December 31, 20250Comments 8 minRead time

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.

December 31, 20250Comments 12 minRead time

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 that a turnip, beet, or head of cabbage can taste like pure comfort

December 31, 20250Comments 28 minRead time

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.

December 22, 20250Comments 6 minRead time

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.

December 17, 20250Comments 6 minRead time

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 between mood and music.

December 12, 20250Comments 6 minRead time

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 love it or hate it.

December 4, 20250Comments 5 minRead time