Spotlight: Happy New Year!
If you plan to venture out for New Year’s Eve, a variety of events going on throughout town will get your 2017 off to a stylish start. The N.C. Symphony’s annual New Year’s in Vienna concert begins at 8 p.m.,…
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Salvation Army volunteer
“When I ring the bell I sing Christmas carols the whole time.” –Patrick Sheehan, Salvation Army volunteer by Jessie Ammons photograph by Jillian Clark If you visit the Harris Teeter at Falls Pointe in North Raleigh this December, you might see –…
Whisk Kitchen
“Our goal in creating this business was to create a local community of cooks.” –Dan Saklad, owner and co-founder of Whisk kitchen store by Jessie Ammons photograph by Jillian Clark Dan Saklad is admittedly not a shopper. “I’ve never really spent time…
SkillPop
“I’ve always loved learning new things … learning is such a good thing to do in the community and to meet people and bond with people.” –Haley Bohon, SkillPop founder by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Jillian Clark When Haley Bohon graduated from…
Moore Square Christmas day dinner
“They know that you’re doing it from your heart, and that’s what makes it even better.” –Mary Brown, Moore Square Christmas Day dinner organizer by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Jillian Clark For Mary Brown, the holidays are about giving, not receiving. On Christmas…
Upper Neuse Riverkeeper
by Jessie Ammons photograph by Ray Black III There is no murky water under the bridge for Matthew Starr. “My goal is fishable, swimmable, drinkable water, which means my goal is to stop pollution from entering our surface water.” Starr is the…
Sunday Supper
by Liza Roberts photographs by Juli Leonard Raleigh gets top ranks for all kinds of things: education, employment, quality of life. Those of us who love it know that our city’s true value may be less measurable, but it’s no less real….
UNC President Margaret Spellings makes her historic house her home
by Liza Roberts photographs by Catherine Nguyen A little over a year ago, newly elected UNC President Margaret Spellings walked for the first time under the monumental portico of the 1907 Neoclassical house on Franklin Street that serves as the President’s home….
Tally Ho!
by P. Gaye Tapp
photographs by Geoff Wood
Inspired by the hunt
Brunch by Jesma Reynolds photographs by Keith Isaacs Brunch. It’s a tradition most food historians agree is as old as the 19th-century English field sport of foxhunting. Today, brunch is a hearty midday meal perfect for gathering friends and family to linger…
Nose so bright
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Missy McLamb Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Who hasn’t empathized with that fabled creature of holiday lore at one point or another? Whether you were teased by the Dashers and Dancers of the playground or weren’t allowed to…
The Odyssey
Lou Moshakos’s restaurant empire by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Christopher T. Martin On an unusually warm autumn day, Lou Moshakos is inspecting tomatoes. A shipment has just arrived at Taverna Agora, his Greek restaurant on Hillsborough Street, and he wants to make…
Countdown: Putting on the North Carolina Governor’s Inaugural Ball
A co-chair’s diary by Samantha Thompson Hatem It’s early November 2016, days before the gubernatorial election – which nobody yet knows will be contested even after election day – and Jennie Hayman, fellow Junior League of Raleigh member and unofficial keeper…
Eric McRay
by Tina Haver Currin photographs by Christopher T. Martin The first thing you see when you walk into painter Eric McRay’s studio is a wall populated by small square canvases filled with colorful hearts. Inside each heart, there are emblems of North…