WEB EXCLUSIVE The City of Raleigh may have cancelled its Fourth of July fireworks this year, but there’s still plenty to do around town to enjoy the holiday with family and friends, including the Triangle’s first-ever food truck cinema experience. This Saturday evening, enjoy the movie classic “Independence Day” at a drive-in event with food trucks in northeast Raleigh.
Food Truck Flix was founded by a group of local food truck owners eager to host unique events in the City of Oaks. They drew inspiration from similar food truck cinema project elsewhere in the country and have more events planned for the summer.
Each will feature rotating food trucks and a film you can watch from the comfort of your car and enjoy with a delicious meal. Order your food on location or up to 72 hours in advance through Street Food Finder.
On July 4th, enjoy Korean BBQ from Bulkogi and chopped barbecue chicken sandwiches and burgers from Chick-N-Que while you watch Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum take on alien invaders on the big screen at Focus Church. The cost of entry is $20 and this month, Food Truck Flix will donate all profits from passes to Emancipate NC, a nonprofit seeking to demolish structural racism and mass incarceration in North Carolina.
Also this holiday weekend, the Durham Bulls are hosting Movies on the Monster, a movie screening event at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. “Captain America: The First Avenger” will play on the Bulls’ Blue Monster videoboard, followed by a virtual fireworks show.
Pods will be spaced six feet apart across the outfield so groups of up to ten people can maintain a safe distance from one another while watching the film. Each pod will get popcorn delivered upon arrival, and additional snacks are available to buy at DBAP’s concessions stand. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. and the movie starts at 8:00 p.m.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Every Wednesday at Raleigh City Farm, a colorful display of hyper-local produce awaits customers eager to get their hands on fresh vegetables. Lettuce, radishes, kale, green onions and carrots are just some of the rainbow of vegetables available each week at the Farmstand, all of which are grown sustainably and without any chemicals on an acre of land in the Person Street Neighborhood.
Raleigh City Farm’s Farmstand is part of its mission to connect the community to sustainable agriculture and ensure that consumers are getting their food from a reliable, local source. Purchasing vegetables from the Farmstand at Raleigh City Farm also supports the nonprofit’s efforts to share produce with other nonprofits who address food access and insecurity, including A Place at the Table and Inter-Faith Food Shuttle.
Flower bouquets, tote bags, hats, masks from Edge of Urge and locally-made birdhouses are also for sale at the Farmstand, along with Raleigh City Farm t-shirts adorned with the farm’s mascot Sir Walter Rabbit, drawn by artist Jenny Eggleston.
Join Raleigh City Farm’s Cultivator Club to further help the group share its produce with other nonprofit organizations by donating anywhere from $10 to $100 a month. You’ll receive one to three additional items free at the Farmstand each week.
The Farmstand at Raleigh City Farm takes place every Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m. at 800 N. Blount Street. Wear a mask, socially distance from others and know that your produce haul is doing good for both yourself and your family, and for others in need.
WEB EXCLUSIVE The group behind Black August in the Park, an annual Durham-based event to creatively inspire people of African descent and connect local and regional justice movements, brings The Black Farmers Market NC to Raleigh this Sunday. The market’s mission, according to Black August in the Park’s website, is to “create change and develop a culture of Black sustainability that is inclusive of all walks of life within the African diaspora.”
At the market you’ll find fresh, organic produce from Black farmers, a variety of goods and services from Black-owned businesses and a delicious array of food vendors for when hunger strikes during your shopping spree.
Additionally, The Black Farmers Market NC teamed up with the Durham Bulls to raise $8,000 in eight weeks in an effort to expand its impact and frequency by creating a “sustainaBULL” eco-network of Black farmers and entrepreneurs across the state. The group asks that individuals contribute $6.19 or more that will go towards new signage for the bi-monthly markets, a website that will allow for direct sales through farmers and market pre-orders for pickup, a living wage for the market manager and the creation of a Farmers Assistance Fund to help farmers with unexpected costs.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Spend a day or two rediscovering everything you know and love about the City of Oaks through Search in the City’s Raleigh Car Scavenger Hunt. Grab a friend, or the whole family, and work your way through a set of clues that take you around popular locations in Raleigh, along with some hidden gems you may not yet have seen before.
Throughout the scavenger hunt, you’ll venture to famous murals, parks, sculptures, restaurants and more while learning fun facts about Raleigh. When hunger strikes, take a break to dine at one of the hunt’s featured restaurants, or get takeout to enjoy in one of the parks.
Additionally, each location on the hunt has an optional task associated with it, ranging from finding words to taking pictures to shooting a short video. Once you’ve completed the scavenger hunt, submit your word finds into a form on Search in the City’s website and email photos and videos to [email protected].
Search in the City’s inaugural Internet Scavenger Hunt
Participants who correctly submit all word finds by the last day of June will be entered into a random drawing for a gift card. Only one entry per person or team will be submitted into the drawing. Search in the City will also share participants’ pictures and videos on its social media pages, so have fun and get creative!
Search in the City’s car scavenger hunt is free to participate in, but you have to first sign a waiver in order to be eligible to participate and win prizes. Find the car scavenger hunt clues at searchinthecity.co/car-scavenger-hunt.
WEB EXCLUSIVE There are plenty of resources available out there for educating yourself on and contributing to the fight against racial injustice. This one involves cookies.
Earlier this month, Washington D.C.-based pastry chef Paola Velez put out a call on her Instagram account asking professional bakers, chefs, home bakers and cooks across the country to participate in Bakers Against Racism, a bake sale dedicated to fighting against racism in America with food.
Velez asked that participants make a dessert to sell and then donate the majority of the proceeds to a charity that supports black lives. So far, more than a thousand individuals and businesses nationwide have joined the bake sale, including Raleigh’s lucettegrace, Union Special and Raleigh Night Kitchen and Durham’s Loaf Bakery and East Durham Bake Shop, which is featuring baked goods from a number of local home and professional bakers.
Sarah Thor’s Glazed Lavender Lemon Cake Slices, available through East Durham Bake Shop | Photo courtesy of @rahktoro on Instagram
Loaf Bakery is offering a cookie box filled with two dozen cookies and is donating proceeds to Emancipate NC. lucettegrace is selling a cook’s dog treats and donating 75 percent of sales to RaleighPACT. Night Kitchen is also selling cookies, with proceeds going to the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Union Special is baking up strawberry pithivier and pecan frangipane with all sales going towards NC Black Alliance. East Durham Bake Shop is asking buyers of the variety of baked goods it offers to donate to Sankofa Farms or SAAFON.
A majority of Raleigh’s Bakers Against Racism began preorders on June 15 with pickup set for Saturday, July 20, though some of the local bakeries are also offering stop-in purchases on Saturday as well.
Learn more about the bake sale at bakersagainstracism.com and visit each bakery’s or individual’s Instagram to pre-order.
