Lisa Jeffries Nobling – Raleigh, NC

Category: events

  • Calling All Raleigh/Cary/Apex Readers

    Normally, I’m not a big McDonald’s girl (unless it’s 2am and chicken nuggets are about as good as it’s gonna get), but this is so worth doing fast food for lunch and dinner.

    If you’re in the area, or know anyone who might be, please pass this along!

    Kristi Winters (Walker) Family Fundraiser

    On Feb 5th at the Lake Pine McDonald’s in Apex we will be having a fundraiser for the family of Kristi Walker who is a young woman fighting cancer. On that day from 11am to 11pm we will give 50% of all sales for both drive thru and inside purchases. We will also have someone collecting separate donations during this period.

    It is wonderful that people have made so many request for separate donations if you cannot attend, here is the info: 100% of all separate donations go to the family.

    Please make checks payable to: KTL McDonald’s, in the memo line please put “Kristi Winters Walker Fund”

    Mail to: Attn: Kristi Winter Walker Fund
    320 North Salem Street Suite 104 Apex NC 27502

    We hope to see you then!! It is a great cause for a family who needs our support!!

    Info on Kristi
    Chuck and Kristi Walker are the proud parents of 3 young boys, Cade (4 1/2), Mason (2), and Zane (newborn).

    During Kristi’s third trimester of pregnancy with Zane she started experiencing extreme back and hip pain, requiring her to be put on bedrest. On Friday, October 17th, Kristi was admitted for an emergency C-section due to what was believed to be ‘Hellp Syndrome’.

    Kristi was transported to UNC Hospital following the birth, and after several days of extensive testing, the doctors diagnosed Kristi with Stage IV breast cancer with metastasis in the liver, spine and pelvis.

    Please if anyone have question please feel free to email me or call (919)606-6069)!!
    Thanks, Shannon Haynie

    Here’s the event on facebook to enable easy sharing!

    50% of sales is VERY GENEROUS so I hope anyone who can will be willing to stop by.

  • Local Bar & Restaurant: {New} Ruckus

    “New Ruckus” isn’t really the name, but it’s what we call it in my social circle.

    The original, a dive-y sort of bar in Mission Valley (sandwiched in between NCSU’s main and Centennial campuses) with some darn good bar food is a stark contrast to the new Ruckus Pizza, Pasta, and Spirits near my Mom and Dad’s house in the “Swift Creek” area of suburban Raleigh, NC bordering Cary, NC.

    It has become a regular lunch and dinner spot for us as it is smack in between our townhouse and Adrianne and Joey’s – so much so that we did NYE there. (Besides, we sure weren’t passing up $3 homemade Limoncello – which was super delish, $4 Sweet Tea Vodkas, and $12 bottles of champagne with NO COVER.)

    They have an equally exciting promo coming up that I thought I would share as it’s very Southern appropriate and currently appropriate:

    Wii Tournament!
    Hosted by Magic Hat Brewery

    Grand Prize — 2 trips to Charleston, SC

    Every Tuesday Night at 9pm
    Jan 20th (Tonight) thru Feb 24th (Fat Tuesday)

    Come show us your Wii Sports skills and win great prizes from Magic Hat with $3.50 Magic Hat Beers all night long!

    Join us on Fat Tuesday for the finals. Win a trip to Charleston just for being here!

    And to top it all off – 1/2 off bottles of wine on Tuesdays. Take a wild guess where you’ll be able to find me on Tuesdays? There are two free trips to Charleston up for grabs – perfect for me, Nick, Adrianne, and Joey. 🙂

    I’d put money that if G.R.I.T.S were a Raleigh girl she’d be attending too for the Charleston promo!

  • It’s Gonna Be a Good Summer

    Bring it!

    Kenny Chesney Books Lady A, MirandaHey, all the retailers are already sportin’ their spring/summer lines even though it’s just starting to get cold… at least I can start thinking about concert season and a great reason (or two) to head in for the opening acts!

  • Chef Todd Reaches 100th Episode – Contributes to Great Cause

    From a fellow Chix:

    100th Episode of “Cooking Coarse” Party to benefit Food Bank of NC

    Good Afternoon Ladies and Happy New Year!

    I wanted to let everyone know about a special event we are having this Thursday, January 8th at Savor Hospitality at 6:00 PM.

    This week, we will release the 100th episode of “Cooking Coarse”, the daily online video blog created by my husband, Chef Todd to provide free cooking instruction online.

    This is a milestone for the project and we are inviting friends, clients and fans to celebrate with us at a cocktail reception and live taping of the 100th episode (which will be released the next
    day).

    A$10 donation is requested, which includes beer/wine and light hors d’oeuvres. All collected money will be donated to The Food Bank of NC. Our goal is to raise $1000 at this event so we need your help!

    This is sure to be a fun, social event and I hope to see you all on Thursday!
    Register online today www.SavorHospitality.com/cart

    To view all 96 (and counting) episodes of “Cooking Coarse”:
    www.SavorHospitality.com/cookingcoarse

    Please feel free to pass along to anyone who might have an interest.

    Warmly,
    Heather Mohr
    Savor Hospitality
    Heather@SavorHospitality.com
    919.760.7599

    If you haven’t checked out Chef Todd’s videos… you are SO missing out!

    I have 849481 things to do on Thursday, but this is on my “I have got to stop by for a bit” list to congratulate them on such a job well done!

  • What’s Your Guilty Pleasure?

    Mark your calendars!

    From skirt!Raleigh Editor, Faith Dwight’s, blog:It’s all happening Tuesday, January 13, from 5:30-7:30pm at 518 West Italian Café on Glenwood South and, as always, we’ll be benefiting a worthy cause.

    This month, it’s Interact of Wake County, and we’re asking you to bring every woman’s guilty pleasure – lotions, creams, shampoos, and other pampering products – so that the women who benefit from Interact can experience a little pleasure of their own.

    I haven’t been able to go since the first Skirts for Success event but I am starting the year off on the right foot – networking and contributing to a great cause!

    PS – My guilty pleasure? Late-night TMZ on Sunday nights/Monday morning (seriously – like 1:00 am) before starting the week off. I’m not a tabloid follower, but TMZ is hilarious – “keeping Hollywood real since 2007“.

  • Starting the Year Off Right

    I’m not really one for New Year’s resolutions… trust me, I can find a million ways to improve myself and life around me any darn day of the week.

    In that spirit, I’m still going to share some good vibes to start 2009 with… might as well set the bar high for a good year ahead with some good news, events, and buys from all over place (no rhyme or reason to the following list):

    Heart-warming Headline: Highwoods Properties Donates $10,000 to Homes for Our Troops

    Style Report    : Green koozies that won’t break the bank

    Green Reads    : for parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles, nannies, etc. – Green Babies, Sage Moms

    Less is More    : Cleaning out? Here’s a few uses for household items that help our furry friends you might not have thought of otherwise.

    This Might Hurt a Little    : Spend Saturday mornings with Paragon Crossfit for free bootcamp workout sessions when you need a swift kick in the butt to get going.    There you go. A green, simple, healthy, and karma-positive start to 2009.

    Note: Adrianne and I (and possibly some other Raleigh girls) will be going to bootcamp tomorrow morning… it’s gonna be interesting for sure.

  • {Double Post} Bring EcoStiletto to Raleigh

    If you read my fashion and trend blog, you might have responded to my call to action to subscribe to a great eNewsletter that combines two fabulous things: fashion and reducing your carbon footprint. (As they say in today’s edition: “where you get the scoop on how to shrink your carbon footprint from the size of an Ugg boot to a Manolo with eco-focused fashion, beauty, lifestyle and parenting updates“.)

    Also in today’s EcoStiletto eNewsletter was the potential to bring a ridiculously fabulous event to our area: Want EcoStiletto in your hood? We’re planning a whole series of EcoStiletto Green Girls’ Night Out events nationwide for 2009 and the cities that that have the highest concentration of newsletter subscribers get our free, super-eco-fantabulous party coming to their town first. So go get your friends to sign up, already!I can’t even start to count the number of gal pals who I know would attend this event… so let’s bring it to town!

    Be sure to sign up for the eNewsletter here.

  • Tobacco Road… Officially Open!

    I say officially, because by the time I finish this post and it hits your Google Readers, it will be after 11:00am.

    Last week I was very fortunate to be invited to the sneak preview of Tobacco Road Sports Cafe – many thanks to the Amra brothers and Amy for that! I took Nick, Adrianne, and Joey along for the fun and we all had a great time and everyone enjoyed their (well thought out) selections from Tobacco Road’s awesome menu and the service was faaaaantastic.

    If you get a chance to check it out this week (heck, even today!) – be sure to do so. Here’s a word from Rommie about the opening:

    We have been busy finishing training and putting the finishing touches on the menu and decor of Tobacco Road Sports Cafe. I just wanted to send you a quick note to let you know that we officially open today at 11 a.m. We will now be open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday – Sunday.

    I hope you can stop by to check it out. There are plenty of parking spaces in the garage behind our building. Parking is free, you just need to get a token from us to exit the garage. Also, disregard the “Lot Full” sign–someone is supposed to fix it this week.

    Our menu is posted online here.

    The new website should be up this week with photos and more information.

    We will send updates on great deals at Tobacco Road, exclusively for email list members, later this week. Thanks for your patience and your support!

    Be sure to get on that email list (right in the top/right of the homepage). Good things come to those in the know! That should be my new tagline.

    PS – Note the good advice on parking. There are NO excuses to not make it downtown.

  • Free Tomorrow?

    Free tomorrow? (Yes.) Fantastic!

    You may remember this event from one of my very first posts as a blogger. The 2008 event is tomorrow:

    Racing Heroes Charity Auction
    benefiting the Duke Children’s Hospital: Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Family Support Program
    http://www.TheRacingHeroes.com

    Tuesday – December 9th – 7pm
    Gov. Holshouser Building
    NC State Fair Grounds
    (Google Map)

    Doors open and silent auction begin at 5pm
    Live auction begins at 7pm

    *Free Admission*

    Over 200 items to be auctioned including autographed NASCAR sheet metal, die cast, and other sports memorabilia.

    Please pass this along to any of your NC friends and family who might enjoy attending!

    PS – The over 200 items to be auctioned off aren’t just sports-themed either – 2 years ago our family was the high bidder on a year’s supply of “Some Kinda Good” bbq sauce that we used to put together grilling-kits for holiday gift baskets.

  • Best Holiday Party EVER

    This seems like it’ll be a hoot. Well worth a Saturday night in Downtown just to see this for yourself.

    The Official Santa Rampage
    Who can argue with a hundred Santas?

    Time and Place: Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 8:00pm – Raleigh, NC
    Street: Glenwood South

    Dress in a Santa Suit. Go bar hopping. Spread cheer. BE 21 OR OVER.

    Wear a Santa suit!!! Bring prezzies or little gifts if you want to. Bring cash for bar tabs. Santa does not pay cover. The more the merrier. Ho ho ho!

    Santa apparel is mandatory. A Santa hat is not enough. Get a Santa suit. Make a Santa suit. Steal a Santa suit. Buy a Santa suit. If you don’t have any money, be creative. If you don’t have any creativity, slap yourself three times and ask your mom to help you. Glue cotton balls to red long johns. Already have a Santa suit? Make a spare so Santa can assimilate strangers.

    Pay your own damn bar tab.

    The answer to important questions that may arise:
    Q: Who’s in charge?
    A: “Santa”

    Q: What organization are you with?
    A: “Santa”

    Q: What are you protesting?
    A: “Shitty holiday parties”

    Q: How did you get here?
    A: “A sleigh and eight tiny reindeer”

    Q: Where are you going?
    A: “I’m only allowed to tell you if you dress like Santa”

    Here’s the facebook invite and a great New Raleigh article (with video). Put it on your calendar!