http://www.PR.com/ Latest news releases from PR.com for Metro Magazine. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:36:54 -0500 © 2012 PR Worldwide, Inc. 60 en-us http://www.PR.com/images/logo_white.jpg http://www.PR.com/ 68 69 PR.com provides Free Press Release Distribution, & is a unique Directory of Businesses, Products, Services, & Jobs - in all industries. Find Full Company Profiles. http://www.pr.com/press-release/153614 Fri, 22 May 2009 03:00:00 -0400 Gale-force winds and pounding waves aren’t the only elements lashing at North Carolina’s 326 miles of critical coastline. A political and economic storm is brewing that that could prove a greater threat to the health and prosperity of NC beaches than severe erosion if a consensus isn’t reached soon, according to Dr. James Leutze, former chancellor of UNC-Wilmington and regular contributor to Raleigh [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/153614 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/132903 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:00:00 -0500 On the pages of Raleigh Metro Magazine - and on his blog accessed through Metro’s website (www.metronc.com) – acclaimed film critic Godfrey Cheshire tackles the agendas and other factors that influence Oscar nominations and winners, with additional comments on “the first 2009 movie strongly resonating with our current difficulties” – The International. In Metro’s February edition, [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/132903 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/129990 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:00:00 -0500 The village of Chapel Hill, the charming town that hosts the nation’s first state university, has worked diligently to withstand the growth generated by its role as one of the three sister cities in the burgeoning Research Triangle region of North Carolina. But is there trouble in paradise? Raleigh Metro Magazine addresses the issues confronting Chapel Hill in its second in a series of special sections on the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/129990 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/126638 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:00:00 -0500 To celebrate its tenth year of publishing during 2009, Raleigh Metro Magazine has launched a five-month, in-depth exploration of the cities, towns and coastal communities that comprise its readership reach: their history; where they are today, and what they’re poised to become by the Year 2020. The series begins this month in the Triangle area -- which, as editor and publisher Bernie Reeves notes in his [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/126638 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/117914 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:00:00 -0500 Educating potential gang members, an anti-literary epidemic, “real education,” and college prep scams are only three of the subjects covered in Raleigh Metro Magazine’s annual Education Report, on newsstands now in the November edition. Senior writer Liza Roberts celebrates the efforts of one dedicated retired teacher from Los Angeles battling Durham’s high school drop-out and gang involvement [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/117914 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/116975 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:01:12 -0500 Admitting that James Bond was "among my first cinematic obsessions," world renowned critic Godfrey Cheshire gives the newest 007 film "Quantum of Solace" a mere "six" on a scale of one to 10 in his first film column for Raleigh Metro Magazine, available online now at www.metronc.com. Cheshire, former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle and a member of the National Society of Film [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/116975 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/108926 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:00:00 -0400 Godfrey Cheshire, the Raleigh-born New York City-based film critic – and writer and director of the critically acclaimed documentary film Moving Midway - will join Raleigh’s Metro Magazine beginning with the November 2008 edition. Cheshire will write a monthly essay for Metro and contribute regularly online to www.metronc.com. Cheshire is ending his previous association with The Independent Weekly of [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/108926 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/92032 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:00:00 -0400 The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University Medical Center in Durham will be one of the beneficiaries of the proceeds from this year’s Mannequin Ball, a fashion and fine art gala to be held in the new Convention Center in downtown Raleigh in November, sponsored by Raleigh Metro Magazine. The Tisch Center is one of the largest and most successful in the field. It has received the highest rating of [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/92032 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/87481 Thu, 29 May 2008 03:00:00 -0400 From London via New York City, the hottest and hippest retro-glam singers on the scene today – The Puppini Sisters, currently on tour with Cyndi Lauper - will make their Southern debut as headliners for “A Twist of the Big Apple,” the theme for the Third Mannequin Ball set for November 22, 2008 - one of the first events to be held at the new Civic Center in downtown Raleigh. A portion of the proceeds [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/87481 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/86883 Sat, 24 May 2008 03:00:00 -0400 Eye Spy, Great Britain’s leading intelligence publication, praises the 5th Annual Raleigh Spy Conference in its current issue, calling it “an unprecedented, bold effort” to dispel CIA myths and inform a lay audience about the intelligence community. The two-page spread, entitled “Myths of Cold War Spy Cases Shattered in Raleigh Conference,” offers a synopsis of the conference and notes that [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/86883 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/85100 Wed, 14 May 2008 03:00:00 -0400 Tick borne diseases are on the rise in North Carolina, with many incidences of infection unreported to state health authorities, making it difficult to measure the severity of cases, according to a report by Anthony Vecchione in the May 2008 issue of Raleigh Metro Magazine. “What is known by state health officials is that tick-borne diseases have become a very serious problem in North Carolina,” Vecchione [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/85100 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/80873 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:00:00 -0400 Kevin Finnerty, father of Duke lacrosse player Collin Finnerty -- one of the three boys exonerated after false charges were dropped in the high profile case by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper -- remembers April last year when his son and family were reeling under the false allegations and lurid media coverage across the globe. In a letter to Raleigh's monthly Metro Magazine, Kevin Finnerty thanks writer Sharon [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/80873 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/74696 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:00:00 -0500 In the March issue of Metro Magazine, candidates for governor discuss coastal issues with columnist and former UNC-Wilmington chancellor Jim Leutze; former UNC women soccer players defend coach Anson Dorrance; Southern author John Shelton Reed begs Metro readers to vote for the best barbecue; and the 5th Raleigh Spy Conference – set for March 26-28 at the NC Museum of History - presents unsolved mysteries of the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/74696 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/73199 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:00:00 -0500 David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and former Moscow bureau chief will deliver the keynote address at the fifth annual Raleigh Spy Conference (www.raleighspyconference.com) to be held in downtown Raleigh March 26-28. Ignatius is also the author of espionage fiction applauded by the intelligence community. His newest book, Body of Lies, is being made into a major motion picture starring Russell Crow and Leonardo [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/73199 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/72341 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:00:00 -0500 Double agents are a staple of classic counterintelligence offensive operations. Having an intelligence service believe that it has successfully recruited a spy within the ranks of its targeted adversary allows the controlling service to manipulate the double agent in support of a myriad of operational objectives. A well designed and run double-agent operation morphs into the spy versus spy drama played out within the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/72341 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/72236 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:43:32 -0500 The Woman’s Club of Raleigh and the Carolinas Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) have chosen Metro Magazine (www.metronc.com) as the Program Sponsor for the 2008 Designer Showhouse scheduled for May 10 through June 1. The event will showcase two state-of-the art townhouses in Ramblewood at North Hills in Raleigh. Each room in the town houses will be designed and furnished by area members [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/72236 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/71408 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:00:00 -0500 Long a foe of the Triangle Transit Authority plan for rail transit in the Triangle region of North Carolina , Bernie Reeves, editor and publisher of Raleigh Metro Magazine, has come out in support of the concept announced by the newly established Special Transit Advisory Committee that calls for a Raleigh-outward rail system. Reeves says he opposed the old TTA plan since its inception in the early 1990s and is credited [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/71408 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/70882 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:00:00 -0500 ...and Metro Music editor has exclusive interview with singer/songwriter Tift Merrit. [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/70882 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/67408 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:00:00 -0500 “Wilderness of Mirrors” is the theme for the fifth annual Raleigh Spy Conference, an internationally acclaimed event that draws top experts in the field of intelligence to Raleigh each year. The 2008 conference will be held March 26-28 at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh. Association of Intelligence Officers president Gene Poteat says of the Raleigh conference: “In Washington, [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/67408 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/63902 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:00:00 -0500 For several years, Raleigh Metro Magazine editor and publisher Bernie Reeves has underwritten the live broadcast of “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College” on public radio. When WUNC-FM dropped its broadcast of the service, Reeves helped arrange for its airing on WCPE-FM (89.7). This year, WRAL-TV’s chief news anchor, David Crabtree, will join him as co-sponsor for the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/63902 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/63708 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:00:00 -0500 The latest Media Audit for North Carolina’s educated and affluent Raleigh-Durham-Research Triangle region reports that Metro Magazine dominates the high-end demographic spectrum of the market. The report uses a multimedia, qualitative audience survey covering over 450 target items for each rated media's audience. According to The Media Audit, 82 percent of Metro’s readers are 25 to 64 years old and have an [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/63708 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/61610 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:00:00 -0500 Sometimes it’s good to be on the CIA’s radar. A recent column by Bernie Reeves, editor and publisher of Raleigh’s Metro Magazine and founder of the annual Raleigh Spy Conference (www.raleighspyconference), not only captured the Central Intelligence Agency’s attention, it was placed in the number one position on the Office of Public Affair’s daily media highlights. The column, entitled [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/61610 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/59547 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:00:00 -0500 East Carolina University’s 100th anniversary inspired Raleigh’s Metro Magazine to lead this month’s edition with an in-depth look at the impact the “rising star of the East” is having in the state and nation. ECU’s medical advancements – including a new Dental School -- are complemented by a special feature on current research at UNC-Chapel Hill at the Thurston Arthritis [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/59547 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/58538 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:00:00 -0400 As the holiday gift-giving season cranks into gear, Raleigh’s Metro Magazine is suggesting a gift idea to make even Jack Bauer’s eyes light up: espionage. Metro editor and publisher Bernie Reeves founded the successful Raleigh Spy Conference in 2005. He believes tickets to the 2008 conference, to be held March 26-28 at the North Carolina Museum of History in downtown Raleigh, would make a timely – not [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/58538 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/54979 Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:00:00 -0400 The back-story behind this historic event headlines Raleigh Metro Magazine's October offerings. [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/54979 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/53773 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:00:00 -0400 Arrogance, the original rock band once called “the fountainhead of North Carolina Music (News & Observer) and who Gaff Music says “paved the way for just about every successful ‘80s and ‘90s rock act south of the Mason-Dixon” will come together again to entertain the crowd at the First Annual MetroBravo! Party to be held this Thursday, September 27, at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/53773 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/52538 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:00:00 -0400 Editor and publisher Bernie Reeves offers an opinion of the ins and outs of Osama Bin Laden’s recent pitch to Americans to join international Islam to avoid high taxation at (http://www.metronc.com). Reeves, who writes the My Usual Charming Self column in the monthly Raleigh Metro Magazine, noticed Bin Laden’s offer in the first of the terrorist leader’s two recent videotaped messages directed at the [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/52538 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/51819 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:46:46 -0400 Metro Magazine announces that Clear Channel Radio, a leading radio company focused on serving local communities across the U.S. with more than 110 million listeners, has signed on to sponsor the First Annual MetroBravo! Party, which will be held Thursday, September 27, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. The Clear Channel van and tent will be on site offering partygoers information and [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/51819 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/51302 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:51:40 -0400 Jessica Jacobs will join the fun at the event of the season. [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/51302 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/50574 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:00:00 -0400 Fourteen corporate sponsors have signed on so far for Metro Magazine’s First Annual MetroBravo! Party to be held Thursday, September 27, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. These corporate sponsors include: Time Warner Cable, Cool Cups & Stuff in Rocky Mount, The Franklin Hotel in Chapel Hill, Raleigh-based business consulting firm CD Anderson, Johnson Lexus, Great Southern Mortgage, [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/50574 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/50023 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:36:42 -0400 Duke lacrosse defense attorney Joe Cheshire explains NC's Open Discover law while Joe VI produces surfing videos from Wrightsville Beach [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/50023 Metro Magazine http://www.pr.com/press-release/47345 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:00:00 -0400 After eight years of presenting the popular “best of” MetroBravo! Awards, Raleigh-based Metro Magazine will bring together a selection of this year’s award recipients and their fans – and everyone who wants to meet and mingle with the winners – during the first annual MetroBravo! Party. The gala celebration is set for Thursday evening, September 27, at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. [PR.com] http://www.pr.com/press-release/47345 Metro Magazine