Our experts on parenting, frugal living and the best that the Triangle has to offer have scoured their sources and shopped the stores (and the internet) for the best suggestions for your holiday giving. No matter the age or interest, you'll find gift ideas here.

WRAL 2023 Holiday Gift Guide

From "Bull Durham" to Academy Award-winning dramas, the state has played host to multiple films based on fact and fiction.

20 famous movies filmed in North Carolina

20 popular movies made in NC

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Randy Jones, best known as the Cowboy from the Village People, will be at the GalaxyCon event in Raleigh this weekend. He talks about his career in music and more. 

AHEAD OF THE CONVENTION. >> HERE FOR YOU. >> YOU GET THE RAIN BE JOE. READ THE WAS THE VILLAGE PEOPLE COWBOY, THE GROUP THAT HIT IT BIG IN THE LATE 70. RANDY GREW UP IN RALEIGH. MY PARENTS WERE LOVING AND WONDERFUL AND THEY WERE YOUNG AND THEY HAD ME AND I WAS BORDER REX HOSPITAL. HE WENT TO ENLOE HIGH SCHOOL, PERFORMED IN LOCAL THEATER, ATTENDED UNC AND THE NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. I AM A CAROLINA. >> WHEN HE CALLED HIS BIG BREAK WHEN HE BEGAN PERFORMING IN NEW YORK, THERE PRODUCES A VILLAGE PEOPLE SAW ME IS THAT, HEY, WE LIKE YOUR MUSTACHE. WE LIKE THE WAY YOU LOOK. WE LIKE YOUR BODY. >> WE LIKE THE WAY YOU DANCE AND SING. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN A GROUP? RANDY SAID, WHY NOT? >> DID YOU EVER SHAKE YOUR HEAD AND SAY I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING EVERY DAY. >> THE VILLAGE PEOPLE ENDED UP SELLING MORE THAN 100 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE. AND NOBODY HAD ANY IDEA THAT WOULD WORK. IT WAS KIND OF SILLY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. GOT A COWBOY. YOU'VE GOT A CONSTRUCTION WORKER. YOU GOT A SOLDIER. YOU GOT A COP AND WE PUT ALL THAT TOGETHER INTO A THING THAT NO ONE HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE. >> EVERYBODY FELT INCLUDED AND WHAT THE JOKE WAS. SO WE ALWAYS LEFT HIM WITH A WINK AND A WIGGLE AND A WAVE AND WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME STRONG AS THEY COULD AFTER VILLAGE PEOPLE. RANDI, SET OUT ON HIS OWN SUCCESSFUL ACTING AND SINGING KAREEN 122 MILLION RECORDS LATER. AND THE STAR ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD AND WE'RE HERE HERE VISITING FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN NORTH CAROLINA. BUT THIS IS A WONDERFUL PLACE. >> NORTH CAROLINA AND RANDY JONES IS A BUSY MAN. WE'VE HAD THESE FEW MOMENTS TO SPEAK. CAN YOU IMAGINE ME? NOT TO. >> EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT SADDAM WOW. >> YOU CAN SEE RANDY AND MANY OTHERS AT GALAXY CON. YOU DO NEED A TICKET FOR THE CONVENTION COMING UP AT 6 O'CLOCK. HOW THE WRITERS STRIKE

Tar Heel Traveler : Randy Jones, the Cowboy from the Village People

Randy Jones, the Cowboy from the Village People

Whatever the season a cowboy hat is a staple on both the ranch and in the rodeo stands. It's an extension of the wearer through its design and how its accessorized, or not.

It shows that they have character and they have the strength to do anything. I got to pick the rim and the ribbon and the color and there's even a little, I haven't covered up a little bow in the back. And so all those little details make it special to me at the Black Hills stock rodeo, regardless of whether or not you work on a ranch. No, to cowboy hats are alike from the look to the smallest of details. Every generation has their own style, their own look right now. This look is a little bit wider in front, a little bit laid down on the sides. A little bit taller crowns. I think I probably had my style since I was a rodeo back in, back in the early 80s. And it just stuck with me. Of course, with a great hat comes great responsibility. As you learn the customs and traditions that have been passed down over generations, leave another man's hat alone like you leave his belongings alone. His horses is stocked. You never let your cowboy hat on a bed. I don't know where that came from, but it's supposed to be bad. Luck taking your hat off when you go out. You know, like I said, in church for funerals, weddings, all that. I mean, that's what you've just been part of what you were taught growing up when you take it off and make sure that you put it on crown side up. And most importantly, your hat is an extension of who you are. So when you wear it, wear it with pride.

Yee-haw: A look into cowboy hat culture

Cowboy hat culture

Two highly anticipated venues at the Fenton development in Cary have announced opening dates. 

Sports & Social, PBR Cowboy Bar announce opening dates

PBR Cowboy Bar

PBR Cowboy Bar will be opening in the new Fenton development in the first half of 2023. 

PBR Cowboy Bar with mechanical bull coming to Cary

A Texas cowboy hopes his impromptu gymnastics routine gives people a good laugh, and a little distraction.

YOUR STORY OF AN EVERYDAY HERO. >>> A GOOD LAUGH AND A LITTLE DISTRACTION. GUY DELL WAS WITH HIS FAMILY WHEN HIS DAUGHTER PRACTICED HER SKILLS NEARBY. SHE INSPIRED HIM TO GIVE IT A SHOT. HE MADE A PERFECT LANDING. MAYBE A LITTLE TOO MUCH ON THEATER THEET RICKS. >> A LITTLE NERVOUS ON A COUPLE OF THOSE JUMPS. GOOD FOR HIM. PRETTY GOOD. BETTER THAN I COULD DO.

Cowboy's gymnastics routine goes viral

Scott Mason, our Tar Heel Traveler, has found a link to the old west via a Johnston County man who works on cowboy boots.

Johnston County man keeps cowboy tradition alive by cobbling boots

Capitol Broadcasting Company, in partnership with Black Country Productions announces Black Country, an original documentary from North Carolina filmmaker Keyetta Mangum. 