Conversations with
Robb Curry
A driving force behind Queen City Pride on life, family and the namesake of his popular Madear’s restaurant in Pembroke.
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t the end of the day, I’m a family man,” says Robb Curry. He’s sitting across the table from me at Industry East in Manchester wearing glasses with vivid blue acrylic frames that match bright blue hoop earrings in each ear. When he speaks his voice travels octaves, full of drama and enthusiasm, his hands shape sigils in the air, his words spill into the noise of the bar with Joycean stream-of-consciousness abandon. We’ve been talking for a little more than two hours and he shows no sign of tiring. >>
