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Movie Recommendation: Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry

January 30, 2013

Mateo Restaurant, Durham, NC – Tapas

Earlier this month for my husband's birthday we were able to catch a free screening of the documentary Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry. The two of us actually met at a documentary film festival so it was a nice way to celebrate. We got a babysitter and strolled around Durham, our favorite local city (which . . .

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Movie Recommendation: Midnight in Paris

January 9, 2012

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The past few months have been a whirlwind of activity followed by lots of family in town for the holidays. So instead of getting a babysitter for New Year’s Eve, we decided to herald in the New Year by staying in, making fondue and watching a movie by candlelight. We settled on Midnight in . . .

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Movie Recommendations: The Conversation

July 27, 2011

Ben and I met at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, and it was a bewitching experience. We were both first in line to see the band Yo La Tengo orchestrate a live soundtrack to a series of underwater silent films by Jean Painleve. I know it sounds so cheesy, but really, it was . . .

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Movie Recommendations: A Man Named Pearl

July 22, 2011

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Have I talked about the documentary A Man Named Pearl on here before? If not, I don’t know why I haven’t. I recently recommended the fascinating movie to a friend. It is about a man named Pearl Fryar who has made it his lifelong quest to turn his front and back lawn into a topiary sanctuary. The . . .

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Movie Recommendation: Grey Gardens

February 3, 2010

Gray Gardens Movie Still

This past weekend I had the privilege to watch the original Grey Gardens documentary for the first time. It was astounding. Every movie I've seen by the Maysles brothers impresses me, and this one, strange and voyeouristic, was no exception. I don't know if it was the chaos, the relationship between . . .

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Movie Recommendation: Where the Wild Things Are

October 19, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are was visually stunning and emotionally rich. The cinematography and the writing captured the sheer rawness of adolescence: the tumult, the freedom and the confusion of deeply felt emotions. A fan of the screenwriter Dave Eggers since reading his similarly moving book, A . . .

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Feminine Modern is the blog of entrepreneur Michelle Smith. She works professionally as a photographer, food and prop stylist, and illustrator. She owns the store Gather Goods Co. in Raleigh, She's worked with West Elm, 3M, Design*Sponge, Meredith Publications, Fons & Porter and Spoonflower among other well-known brands. A garden & DIY lover, she is the photographer of the book Modern Terrarium Studio.

Passionate about shining a spotlight on maker entrepreneurs, she is also the owner of Gather, a maker-focused gift shop and classroom in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. She founded The Rock & Shop Market in 2004 (an event she organized for ten years). The market featured thousands of maker entrepreneurs alongside bands, djs and food trucks and was the first of its kind in North Carolina.

Her husband Ben, a scientist by day, is an entrepreneur too who concocts recipes by night with his business The Apothecary's Kitchen. They live in Raleigh, North Carolina with their elementary school-aged daughter, a prolific doodler who wants to be an artist, a singer, a robot scientist and a teacher when she grows up.

Orange Cake Recipe - Food Photography by Michelle Smith

Orange Cake Recipe

Gingerbread Layer Cake with Eggnog Cream Cheese Frosting

Gingerbread Layer Cake with Eggnog Cream Cheese Frosting

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