Walter Now Podcast: May 2016
In our May podcast, editor Liza Roberts sits down with food writer Dean McCord, and the WALTER crew discusses the behind-the-scenes of our travel issue.
Category: Arts & Culture
Spotlight: It’s her bag
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Nick Pironio Everyone knows a bag can make or break an outfit. Raleighite Marcia Spencer has the solution: a fashionable, fun, and affordable Keechii clutch. Made of printed fabrics, calf hair, and layered, fringed, and tasselled leather,…
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.
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…
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…
Due diligence
A curatorial team dives into an island’s influence on American Impressionist Childe Hassam by J. Michael Welton Childe Hassam was more than America’s foremost Impressionist painter. He was a global force, a peripatetic artist who wandered the world to paint Paris, New York,…
Reggie Edwards
Bringing people together, improving lives by Settle Monroe photograph by Nick Pironio From her office at Building Together Ministries in 2006, Reggie Edwards used to watch mothers walk through the Halifax Court public housing complex to drop their children off for Building…
1944 Sanitorium
by June Spence Inside a small wooden picture frame I have taken to keeping on my desk lately, there is a charming hand-stitched scene of a sort-of Spanish villa with arched doorways, turrets, and bougainvillea spilling over the walls, the colors…