It’s that time of year again – a time to be amazed by the dazzling lights of the 10th annual North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival in Cary. From November 15th until January 11th, the Koka Booth ...

For the past nine years, Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheatre has hosted larger-than-life, handcrafted Chinese lanterns. The N.C. Chinese Lantern Festival lights up for two months to celebrate Chinese New ...

The day before the North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival opened, on November 13, operations manager Andrew Bowman was busy testing the lights. For two weeks, Bowman had worked 12-to-14-hour days: ...