WRAL Out & About

Sassool is a family-owned restaurant serving homemade Lebanese & Mediterranean cuisine in north Raleigh and Cary. The restaurant is also a multiple WRAL Voters' Choice Award winner! This week, we sit down with the family behind this business to find out how the pandemic has affected them, what the future holds and how they keep their family's rich history in every dish served. Learn more about...

On this week's Out and About Podcast, Mix 101.5's Diane Ramsey talks with the National Women’s Theatre Festival Executive Artistic Director, Johanna Maynard Edwards, about what to expect at this year's event! Get more info about the festival - https://www.womenstheatrefestival.com/festival22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

True crime author and reporter Amanda Lamb has a new podcast that explores how forensic scientists try to identify human remains. Find out more about What Remains - https://www.whatremainspodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fresh off of his James Beard Award win for Best Chef in the Southeast, Saltbox Seafood's Ricky Moore talks about his career and what it was like to hear his name called at the award's ceremony last week. WRAL Durham reporter Monica Casey caught up with Ricky the next day and was kind enough to share her interview with us for this podcast! Read more about Ricky Moore and Saltbox Seafood - https://w...

MOFU Shoppe proudly takes cultural ingredients and creates unique cuisine that its owner, Sunny Lin, likes to call "authentically untraditional." This episodes was produced in honor of Asian-American Pacific Islander month to feature small business owners who are highlighting their heritage through their entrepreneurship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Alley Twenty Six owner Shannon Healy said, North Carolina is full of great bars, but what makes his stand out? Alley makes its juices in-house and makes an effort to curate drinks based on guests’ preferences. The attention to customer service, fresh-made spirits and a picturesque alleyway outdoor setting have made the bar a finalist for a James Beard Award. Since its opening in 2012, Alley Twe...

That Station puts music and community first. Those aren't empty words or just some corporate tagline. That Station is a genre-bending radio station in Raleigh, NC that lifts up local artists, highlights the good in the community, and brings listeners together with music. (It also happens to be part of Capitol Broadcasting Company, the parent company of WRAL.) That Music Fest is a two-day music fes...

Farmers and vineyard owners are already seeing the effects that climate change will have on the wine industry. Grapes that make up favorite wines like Merlot and Pinot Noir are becoming harder and harder to grow. These grapes -- which have been around for centuries -- are being threatened by our changing climate. In this episode, we talk with Preston Williams, who owns a winery and event space in...

This week, we go aboard the Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington with local paranormal investigators, The Ghost Guild.  Learn more about The Ghost Guild - https://theghostguild.weebly.com/ Battleship North Carolina - https://www.battleshipnc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It might be hard to believe but 61 years ago, history in North Carolina was almost irreparably changed when two nuclear bombs fell from a crashing military airplane, landing in a field near Goldsboro. Go with WRAL Tar Heel Traveler Scott Mason and Hidden History reporter Heather Leah on a trip to the site. Read more about the bombs - https://www.wral.com/nuclear-mishap-the-night-two-atomic-bombs-d...

This week, we take a trip to Juniper Level Botanical Gardens in Raleigh to find out about this 28-acre campus. Tony Avent and his wife started Juniper Level Botanical Gardens in 1988. It is a nonprofit botanical garden in southern Wake County. In this episode, Tony speaks with WRAL multi-platform reporter Maggie Brown about sustainable gardening, the effects climate change has on North Carolina's...

This podcast was recorded LIVE at the Earfluence podcast studio at American Underground in Durham on March 16, 2022. During this episode, WRAL lifestyle editor Kathy Hanrahan talks with Durham Performing Arts Center's Community Engagement Manager Megan Rindoks. Find out more about DPAC's Community Programs - https://www.dpacnc.com/community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

We started working on this episode last month, weeks before Sola Coffee co-owner Jeanne Luther passed away. WRAL multi-platform producer Maggie Brown interviewed her husband and Sola co-owner John Luther at the cafe. He talked a little about Jeanne's health - words that are even more poignant since her passing last week. Read more about Jeanne and Sola Coffee - https://www.wral.com/20233240/ Sola...

We are "out and about" a lot and when we come home we just want to relax and not step on LEGO bricks. For tips to help us declutter our lives, WRAL contributor Tara Lynn turned to Sarah Valeri with Hello Clutter. She has some great tips, especially for our closets! Get more tips in this story on WRAL's Go Ask Mom: wral.com/20234726 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, WRAL contributor Sloane Heffernan takes us on a trip into the world of anti-aging products and treatments. It's time to take care of yourself, but how do you know what products will actually work? Sloane interviews Amelia Aesthetics' Plastic Surgery and Skincare educator Gretta Nance. (https://askamelia.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Out and About Podcast is ready to take you places! After a brief winter break, we are back with more topics, more hosts and even more fun! This week, we welcome Mix 101.5 FM's Diane Ramsey to our slate of podcast hosts! Diane chats with Emily Foster, the Marketing Director and Associate Interim Festival Director at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The festival is coming up April 7-10, 202...

The Out and About Podcast is taking a break for the holidays! Make sure to check out Out and About on WRAL.com for all of our gift guide and holiday coverage! WRAL.com/wraloutandabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raleigh embryologist Alease Daniel has become a TikTok star. She takes people into the fertility lab and explains everything from how embryos are graded and to sperm motility. This isn't your average Out and About Podcast this week! We are talking TikTok, science, fertility and even monthly cycle myths. Follow Alease on Tiktok @aleasetheembryologist - https://www.tiktok.com/@aleasetheembryologist...

The Ghost Guild take a break from ghost hunting to talk about their most recent paranormal investigations and where you can find them next! You can actually see them virtually on Oct. 21, 2021, via a presentation with Wake County Public Libraries and on Oct. 28, 2021, via another virtual event with the North Carolina Museum of History. Find info about their upcoming events and investigations - htt...

County superstar and Garner native Scotty McCreery recently stopped by to talk about his new album, Same Truck. We chatted in the WRAL Azalea Garden about the album, marriage and his beloved pickup truck. Find out more about Scotty's new album and see our full interview - https://www.wral.com/scotty-mccreery-talks-new-album-and-his-beloved-pickup-truck/19879448/ Learn more about your ad choices. V...

Yes, that Bob Saget. Danny Tanner himself stops by the podcast to talk about his new standup show coming to Raleigh Improv on Sept. 24-25. Plus, we talk about his dear friend Norm Macdonald, who recently passed away. See Bob Saget at Raleigh Improv - https://improv.com/raleigh/event/bob+saget+with+special+guest+mike+young/11169305/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Jen Fulwiler has six children. She says the jokes just write themselves. A former talk radio show, Jen is an author, podcaster and social media superstar going viral on TikTok and Instagram with her parenting hot takes.  Fulwiler drops by the podcast to talk about her upcoming Raleigh Improv show on Sept. 23, 2021, and other funny musings about parenting life! Get more info about Jen Fulw...

Inez Ribustello is a mom, restaurant and brewery owner and now an author. Ribustello has self-published a book about the past 20 years of her life. The book includes her time in New York, when he worked in the north tower of the World Trade Center in 2001. Ribustello was out of town the day of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, otherwise she would have been at work on the 107th floor. Follow In...

Alejandro Contreras is a one-man operation. He is the chef and owner of one of the most Instagrammable treats in the area - Tepuy Doughnuts. He shares the reason why he wanted to make doughnuts in the first place and what drives him to create such fun flavors (banana pudding!) on this week's podcast. Find out more about Tepuy Doughnuts - https://www.instagram.com/tepuydoughnuts/ Learn more about y...

Cape Fear Farm Credit CEO Evan Kleinhans talks about the company's Produce Project, which has helped local farmers and food banks.  Learn more about the Produce Project: https://www.capefearfc.com/produce-project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices