“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Crane operator Kenny Loch by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Ray Black III If you drive past one of the many construction cranes looming over the Raleigh skyline, there’s a chance the tiny speck you see in the cab is tower crane…
“Just making people happy … (that’s) the true meaning of Christmas.” –Mark Harris, Triangle Float Company owner by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Annie Cockrill Mark Harris, 52, has worked with floats pretty much his whole life. When he was a child, his…
“Being in the military, it’s something special … you’re serving something bigger than yourself.” –Danny Liebman, N.C. State Air Force ROTC cadet by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Christer Berg College students are busy. But college students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps…
by Liza Roberts Photographs by Christer Berg It took him five days to transform a vacant North Hills storefront into a work of art that can be entered and experienced in three dimensions. “How do you get a square room not to…
by Henry Gargan photographs by Tim Lytvinenko Everyone in the Triangle’s burgeoning virtual reality industry seems to have a story that drives home the same point: No amount of artfully worded description can adequately convey what it’s like to enter virtual reality…
Raleighites on Broadway by Merrill Rose If you can make it here, can you make it on Broadway? For many young people whose dreams of a life in theatre are shaped by their time in Raleigh, the answer is a resounding…
photographs by Robert Willett On Nov. 11, our nation honors the service of all military veterans. North Carolina has the third-largest military population in the country, and is also home to nearly 800,000 veterans, so our state has a special role…
by Adam W. Jones The temptation was just too great. Fallon Creek ran for a good quarter mile along our walk to and from Myrtle Underwood Elementary, and the gurgling water called to us daily. It turned a 15-minute walk home…
by Mimi Montgomery photograph by Keith Isaacs This month, when runners cross the finish lines of the many races being held during the City of Oaks marathon event, they’ll be leaving with more than medals and views of Raleigh. Local artist Autumn…