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Huffington Post Highlights Salute! NC Wine Celebration

The Huffington Post recently released their list of Must-See Wine and Food Festivals of 2013 and Salute! The North Carolina Wine Celebration made the list. Read below to see the excerpt on the wine festival: Over 30 North Carolina wineries will showcase their products, offering wine sampling and purchase. In addition to the wine festival, on the Thursday and Friday evenings prior to the festival, several downtown restaurants participate in Salute Winemaker Dinners, with chefs collaborating with winemakers to create one-of-a-kind… More

Twin City: Winston-Salem’s substance goes deeper than its tobacco lands

Winston-Salem was recently highlighted in the Greenville, South Carolina based publication Town Magazine. Read below to see a sampling of what they reported: A city with a dual personality, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, straddles old and new. Tobacco built the nineteenth-century city of Winston, but the area’s earliest history tells its tales in colonial Salem. Though Winston and Salem were officially consolidated back in 1913, to know this mid-sized city today, you must first dig into its Moravian roots. More than a century… More

Wake Forest’s University’s Museum of Anthropology Celebrates 50 years!

A student-curated retrospective exhibit of the museum’s history, "Celebrating 50 Years of the Museum of Anthropology," is on display until Saturday, Oct. 26 and features a timeline illustrating the museum’s 50-year history with photographs from the archives and artifacts from around the world. New Exhibit: The museum has recently opened a new long-term exhibit, "Chinese Ceramics from the Changsha Kilns: Reflections of Tang Dynasty Openness and Tolerance." The exhibit provides an overview of the ceramics produced by families at… More

2012/13 Wine & Dine Guide

It’s only natural that the City of Arts and Innovation would elect to toast the agricultural underpinnings in its history and celebrate the food and drink of the South. Winston-Salem is one of the region’s best-kept culinary secrets. But not for long. It has everything culinary travelers dream about, and spicy stories you won’t find anywhere else in the country. Our culinary roots dates back to 1753 with the arrival of the Moravians, hard-working followers of a mainstream protestant religion who settled here 250 years ago. They… More

Winston-Salem Receiving High Marks and National Rankings

Forbes.com Recognizes Downtown Winston-Salem as One of the Best in America Although Winston-Salem has a lot to offer from an active arts and culture scene, it’s the downtown district of Old Salem that really earns the city a place on the list. Many of our cities boast historic downtowns, but Old Salem’s is different because of its focus on the town’s former Moravian settlers, and because there is a steadfast effort to keep parts of downtown in a time warp to the 18th century. It’s like a little slice of Old Williamsburg in the… More