Walter Now – April
Check out our April podcast, where we discuss the latest issue and our editor, Liza Roberts, sits down with a Harley-Davidson aficionado.
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Spotlight: Pony up in Pinehurst
by Samantha Berlin May is one of the prettiest months of the year to visit Pinehurst. If you’re a golfer or an equestrian, you know that already. And if you’re a shopper, walker, reader, or music-lover, you’ve also got a lot…
Spotlight: Put a lid on it
by Mimi Montgomery Springtime in the South means hats. About now, they start making appearances at Kentucky Derby parties, church services, and garden get-togethers. If you’re going to don some artful headwear this season, why not pick a topper with…
Spotlight: Blue Ridge jaunt
by Jessie Ammons Author Henry Miller once wrote that, in matters of travel, “one’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” To change your perspective, you need not go far: Primland, for one example,…
Spotlight: Mountain swagger
by Mimi Montgomery A weekend trip to the mountains is one way to escape the swelter. The Swag bed-and-breakfast is a secluded, luxuriously rustic boutique getaway in Waynesville, cozied right up to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Four of North…
Spotlight: Head to Hatteras
by Samantha Berlin In 2001, Trip Forman and Matt Nuzzo turned their love of watersports into a career. With $100 apiece, they set up shop in Forman’s garage and began teaching kiteboarding and surfing on the shallow, sandy-bottomed waters of…
Maupin Travel
“The internet changes the way people engage with the travel industry, but it doesn’t take away the need for service … Travel is pretty personal, and that’s an important experience for people.” – Trevor Smith, president and manager, Maupin Travel …
EVOLVE Movement
“There’s something about shaking off the Newtonian mechanical man-made time – minutes, seconds, days – that allows you to let go of tension and stress and the need to be perfect, or something other than who you already are.” –Carson…
Richie Shaffer
“It’s awesome. I love the Carolinas in general … This is a good place to be.” –Richie Shaffer, Durham Bulls baseball player by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Travis Long Raleighite Richie Shaffer, 25, is happy to be back for a second season…
Sean and Lizzy Fowler
“The restaurant is fast-paced and high-stress. When I’m out in the garden, I have to slow down and be in tune to the natural world. … It’s meditation, a relief.” – Sean Fowler, chef and owner of Mandolin restaurant by Jessie…
Carolina Couture
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Catherine Nguyen Custom, one-of-a-kind dresses are typically associated with haute couture – the glamorous reserve of New York and Paris fashion shows. That wasn’t always the case. There was a time when custom-made gowns weren’t just…
Keeping the music alive
Raleigh Fine Art Society’s Choral Celebration by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Jillian Clark It’s a Tuesday evening in April, and Meymandi Concert Hall is packed. In a few short minutes, Powell GT elementary school’s chorus will take the stage, and the kids are…
Mountain living redefined
by Jesma Reynolds photographs by Catherine Nguyen When a Raleigh couple went looking for their ideal vacation home in Asheville, they imagined a log cabin deep in the woods. What they found instead was a mid-century modern five minutes from downtown with…
Wilmington: A culinary tale of two cities
text and photographs by Dean McCord There was a time not so long ago that Wilmington was considered a coastal afterthought by some Triangle residents. It wasn’t a destination like Wrightsville Beach or Carolina Beach, and it lacked the storied history…