Hello there! I’m Arshia Simkin, a writer and teacher living in Raleigh, co-founder of the Redbud Writing Project—an organization that offers creative writing classes to adults in the Triangle—and new… Read More →
Featured Blogs
Down on Copperline: Bland Simpson on 50th Anniversary Re-release of Debut Album
Nowadays Bland Simpson is best-known as a celebrated and beloved UNC-Chapel Hill professor and author, pianist of the Red Clay Ramblers and collaborative architect of musicals including “King Mackerel And… Read More →
This Human Way: The Photographer of Stories Sia Yazdanfar
—Article by Emilie Menzel In 2017, the world had grown too steady for Sia Yazdanfar. His work was stable, his home in Hillsborough comfortable, and his sense of personal growth… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Remembering Tim Carless: Renaissance Man and Esteemed Arts Community Member
—Article by David Menconi You can get a good sense of a person’s standing in the world based on who shows up for memorial events after they’re gone. So it is… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Brent Lambert and Carrboro’s Kitchen Mastering
—Article by David Menconi Pretty much by definition, mastering engineers do their work behind the scenes and largely unheralded. That describes Brent Lambert, proprietor of Kitchen Mastering on Brewer Lane in… Read More →





