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This Sunday, May 13, is Mother’s Day. Living in an apartment in Raleigh, are you looking for a special treat for your mother or wife? There are plenty of restaurants around Raleigh that are offering special mother’s day menus, cocktails and champagne brunches.

Whether you are looking for a champagne brunch or a five star dinner, there are so many restaurant choices in Raleigh. Many restaurants are offering, special menus, complimentary mimosas, and champagne for moms.

Auston Grove Apartments would like to give you an easy list of some of the area restaurants that are offering special menus, treats and cocktails this Sunday:

42nd Street Oyster Bar
618 Bistro and Lounge
Brasa Brazilian Steakhouse
Capri Restaurant
Jibarra Modern Mexican
Mandolin
Mia Francesca-Raleigh
Posta Tuscan Grille
The Prime Smokehouse
Solas
Sullivans Steakhouse

Happy Mother's Day from Auston Grove Apartment Homes.

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If you live in an apartment in Raleigh, NC, you have surely made loads of friends and acquaintances and there are plenty of things to do.  But have you heard about the Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival coming up in August?

This is one of the best events of the summer so get your tickets soon. This festival is a great day of beer sipping, bourbon tasting, music listening, cigar smoking, and barbeque eating. Your admission buys you a sampling glass so you can enjoy all-you-want-to taste samplings of beer and bourbon. Some of the best barbeque vendors are on-site if you get hungry, all while enjoying seminars in the tasting theater and Live music all day.

There are 40 Bourbons and 60 Beers on Tap. Enjoy, but we do want you to drink responsibly. There's BBQ Galore! Enjoy the great barbeque selection - pulled pork from whole hogs, ribs, brisket, chickens, sausages and any fixin' you could imagine. The portions are heavy and the prices are low. Enjoy Seminars in the Tasting Theater with Master Distillers, Brewmasters, and Pit Masters From the Deep South.  Listen to live rock and blues music and great bluegrass on The Main Stage.

Other fun things will be available like: taking the BBQ Sauce Challenge, The Rare Bourbon Tasting Table and other surprises. There will be four different Pitmasters on-site to show off all their latest tricks and let you taste the BEST. Only in Raleigh!

College graduates coming to the triangle to seek work, life and the pursuit of happiness are looking for the perfect place to live in the Raleigh area. No need to look any further than Auston Grove Apartment homes. We have a 2011 college grad special. Auston Grove Apartments are luxurious apartments located in Raleigh, NC. Each apartment home features unique details and offers beautifully finished one bedroom, two bedroom, and three bedroom floor plans.

College graduates are coming to Raleigh and Wake County for jobs. Many of the 10,000 students from schools in the Triangle choose to stay in the area after graduation -- and this is part of the reason Wake County stands out nationwide.

For a decade now U.S. city planners have obsessively pursued college graduates, adopting policies to make their cities more like dense hot spots such as New York, to which the "brains" allegedly flock.

However, this analysis--no matter how widely accepted in the media--is grossly oversimplified, even misleading. Lately, college graduates, for the most part, are heading not to big cities on the coasts, but to smaller, less dense and quite often Sun Belt cities.

Where are the college graduates heading? To Raleigh and other smaller sunbelt cities. It turns out that none of the top 10 cities gaining colleges grads were large Northeastern cities, they were largely Southern or Midwestern. Raleigh being in the top 10.

Auston Grove Residents are getting ready for the summer, and so are our kid’s teachers! If you are looking for a great and unique way to say “thank you” to your child’s teacher this summer, here is a list of great ideas!

Give your favorite teacher a night (or morning) off - With a fun basket full of foodstuffs that will minimize cooking for at least one meal your child’s teacher can take a break from cooking. From a pasta dinner, a jar of gourmet sauce, pasta, breadsticks and a bottle of wine; or a pancake breakfast complete with mix, syrup, pre-wrapped sausage, juice and some fruit; this is a fun gift to put together and it will be greatly appreciated.

Best bookmark – have your child make a beautiful bookmark with their class photo affixed to the top. Have them add a few of their favorite titles, or the titles of some of their favorite books that were read in class. Add to it a gift certificate to a neighborhood bookstore and this gift is sure to please.

Learning gift basket - Many teachers pay for their own classroom supplies. Put together a basket of markers and crayons or craft items. You can either pack a basket full of supplies or you can make a small basket and add to it a gift certificate to an area learning supply or stationery store.

Movie night – There is plenty to do in Raleigh, but a great gift would be to send your teacher to the movies with a marvelous movie gift to Raleighwood cinema and grill. Give your favorite teacher a gift to the highest rated movie theatre in Raleigh, and it will be fun and different than regular movie passes. Not only can they see a movie, but they can grab a bite to eat too. Pool your resources with some friend’s parents, this is a fun gift. If you‘d like, give this gift with a jumbo pack of Dots candy.

What kind of American city is the best for small business? They're the ones that have prosperous economies, are expanding rapidly, and are densely packed with like-minded entrepreneurs. And the top two are in North Carolina.

The two markets with the nation's top scores for small-business vitality, according to a new BizJournals study, sit 140 miles apart in the Tar Heel State. Raleigh is No. 1 in the national rankings, while Charlotte is No. 2.

BizJournals used a six-part formula to analyze the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas, searching for the places that are most conducive to the creation and development of small businesses.

The two North Carolina markets emerge as the clear leaders, thanks to their outstanding records in four statistical categories with a direct impact on small-business activity:

1.Population: Raleigh and Charlotte picked up a combined total of 427,000 new residents between 2002 and 2007. Raleigh grew by 21.2 percent in that five-year period, Charlotte by 17.4 percent. Both dwarfed the national growth rate of 4.8 percent.

2. Employment: The entire country is endangered by the current recession.  But Raleigh cushioned any future blow with outstanding job growth during the 2003-08 span—23 percent in Raleigh, 15.4 percent in Charlotte. The U.S. gain was 5.8 percent.

3. Small-business growth: The number of small businesses grew dramatically in both markets from 2005 to 2006, the latest period covered by official statistics. Raleigh led the way with a 4.6 percent rise, followed by Charlotte at 4 percent. The national increase was 1.3 percent.

4. Small-business concentration: The typical U.S. market has 24.57 small businesses for every 1,000 residents. The North Carolina markets enjoy concentrations that are at least 10 percent bigger, with Raleigh at 27.58 per 1,000, Charlotte at 27.07.

And that's not all. Two other markets with North Carolina connections rank among the 30 best metros in the study, Greensboro and the Virginia Beach-Norfolk metro. 

The highest scores went to areas that have prosperous economies, are expanding rapidly, and are densely packed with small businesses.

Raleigh is the only market to rank among the top 10 in four key categories: growth rates for small businesses and population, and one- and five-year increases in employment.


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Having a celebratory liveliness is what the Raleigh area is all about, and zest is a simple word with a big meaning. Greater Raleigh offers old-world charm in combination with unique festivals and events that set the area apart from the competition.

Featured Event - Spring Daze Arts and Crafts Festival - April 30, 2011

The festival is filled with wonderful arts and crafts, your favorite festival foods, community based civic groups handing out information on things you can get involved with, and entertainment. Children will be delighted by activities just for them in the Children’s Village and will be invited to exercise their imagination as they play in the always popular Lazy Daze Playground. Learn more »

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Banner Year For The Creative Genius

This year, the art scene in the Raleigh area takes center stage with the opening of the North Carolina Museum of Art. A visually-stunning, environmentally friendly building, nestled in the country's largest art park, the NCMA showcases a collection that makes it one of the most distinguished museums in the South.

Featured Event - American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell - November 7, 2010 - January 30, 2011

This exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art traces the evolution of Rockwell's art and iconography throughout his career - from carefully choreographed reflections on childhood innocence to powerful, consciousness-raising images in the 1960s. Also find special exhibits of works by Bob Trotman, Eric Carle, Binh Danh and John James Audubon. Click Here to Learn More.

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