by Laura Frankstone photographs by Catherine Nguyen If my garden could talk, you would hear mostly French, with traces of North and South Carolina-inflected English. I lived in France for three years as a young child; the shapes and patterns of that…
by Liza Roberts photographs by Justin Cooke On a hot, cicada-loud summer day at Tony Avent’s place, a black cat slips through the canes of a massive muscadine vine, one of 23,000 plant varieties that fill these 28 Raleigh acres. Home to…
by Jessie Ammons photographs by Lissa Gotwals By 10 a.m. on a weekday morning, the kitchen at Centro, the downtown Mexican restaurant, is bustling. Sous chefs are chopping pounds of tomatoes for salsa; they’re frying nuggets of hominy for bar snacks and…
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Keith Isaacs “Haymaker” is a term for a wild punch in boxing – a final, loose, unexpected blow. A knockout. It’s also the inspiration for The Haymaker, a recently opened cocktail bar in downtown Raleigh that lives…
Finding strength when he needs it most in the act of giving by Settle Monroe photograph by Jillian Clark In 2015, on a rural farm just outside the African fishing port of Cape Coast, Ghana, a farmer heard a loud ruckus…
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Joseph Rafferty An enthusiastic group of 210 Triangle area women (and three men) gathered at the Umstead Hotel and Spa Sept. 9 for Walter’s second-annual WINnovation event, sponsored by Bank of America and the Umstead. Celebrating women…
by Liza Roberts Two years ago, when Raleighite and aspiring actor Ella Jones was 8, she got an email that fulfilled a dream: She’d been cast in a Hollywood movie starring Kate Beckinsale. That movie, The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller,…
Tune in to Walter’s September podcast for behind the scenes tales from this month’s stories, as well as an interview with N.C. Opera’s Eric Mitchko.