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f you’ve never had a grinder with a side of fries at Arthur’s Restaurant on the lower level of Belk, can you even call yourself a Charlottean? I’m kidding (sort of). I’d never heard of a ‘grinder’ before eating at Arthur’s for the first time, many years ago. It was my husband’s go-to order — mine was the club sandwich. According to a 2013 Bon Appetit article, ‘grinder’ might have been the original term for the submarine sandwich. Fast forward to today and, at press time, grinder sandwiches are the latest viral TikTok sensation. Arthur’s version is made with just a few basic ingredients — turkey, ham or another protein on a sub roll topped with tomato slices, oregano and melted provolone. Like the rest of the cafe’s menu, there’s nothing fussy about it. But Arthur’s sandwiches, burgers, soups and salads are a reliable local alternative to standard food-court fare for guests wanting a quick bite while shopping. Arthur’s has moved around in Charlotte a few times, and the menu’s expanded since the early days. The current location, often obscured behind displays of housewares and bedding when you step off the escalator in Belk, is so 8
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hidden newcomers might need to ask for directions to find the restaurant or Arthur’s Wine Shop, the other half of the business. The Balsley brothers who own Arthur’s have been stocking Charlotte’s wine cellars for 50 years. They chose not to have a big celebration to mark the anniversary, contributor Kathleen Purvis writes in the story on page 103. Perhaps instead, the best way we can honor the milestone is to be sure to dine there, regularly. Charlotte has lost too many homegrown staples over the last few years. Let’s keep Arthur’s around for another 50. SP
IN THIS ISSUE: 1 - Dale Halton with Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt and PepsiCo CEO Roger Enrico at Pepsi's centennial in 1985 (Page 32) 2 - Retired general contractor Bob Killough, photographed by Richard Israel (Page 38) 3 - Makeup artist Anna Grace with model Erica Lynn Foulkes (Page 94) 4 - The Radiant Yellow Icicle Tower sculpture by Dale Chihuly at Atlanta Botanical Garden (Page 114)
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Glorious grass ORNAMENTAL GRASSES EARN A PLACE IN THE GARDEN.
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tough love. Carexes, however, can work well in shadier gardens, and, depending on the species or cultivar, also can work in richer soils that range from very wet and boggy to dry. Unless you are attempting to create rhythm through your garden with vertical single specimens dotting back and forth along a garden path, consider maximizing impact by planting larger groups of grasses. Doing so brings drama and cohesiveness to a space. If possible, attempt to site your grasses in areas of your garden where they will be backlit by the morning or late afternoon sun. This can produce a mesmerizing magical glow. Siting groups of grasses in open areas where breezes are common, the grasses will produce a kinetic effect as they flirt and dance with the prevailing wind. With regard to garden maintenance, there’s nothing easier than grasses. Low water usage, little to no fertilizer, and simply cutting them back to within several inches of the ground in very early March before new growth appears makes caring for them simple. Many carexes do not need to be cut back at all and generally prefer average to moist soil. FIVE COMMONLY AVAILABLE GRASSES AND HOW TO USE THEM
Panicum. Commonly known as switchgrass, Panicum is a tough native grass for sunny locations. Normally thought of as a drought-resistant grass, it can also be used in areas that are somewhat moist but not boggy. Switchgrass is a warm-season grass, which means that it emerges in mid-spring and works well in our hot humid summers. They are vertical growers with a height of 2 to 4 feet, depending on the variety. ‘Shenandoah’ is a popular cultivar that sports bright burgundy atop green foliage. In midsummer, it produces clouds of seed heads.
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Calamagrostis. Commonly called feather reed grass, Calamagrostis is a cool-season grass, which means that it emerges earlier than does Panicum but can look a bit tattered by midsummer in our area. ‘Karl Foerster’ is the most popular cultivar. Its vertical growth pattern makes it a valuable addition to contemporary gardens or in applications in which vertical rhythm is desired. Pennisetum. Commonly called fountain grass, most but not all Pennisetum species and cultivars are hardy in our area. These generally are shorter than Panicum and Calamagrostis, topping out in the 1.5- to 2-foot range. They are warm-season grasses that hold up extremely well in our hot humid summers. Popular hardy cultivars include ‘Karley Rose’ and ‘Cassian.’ Be advised that the varieties with purple foliage are generally not hardy in our area and should be treated as annuals. They can rot in winter if the soil stays too wet, 28
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so site in areas with good drainage. Pennisetums work exceptionally well when interplanted with flowering perennials such as verbena bonariensis, veronia and liatris. Schizachyrium scoparium. Commonly referred to as little bluestem, Schizachyrium is a shorter clumping native grass for sunnier areas in the garden. It puts on a midsummer show by producing taller colorful growth and seed heads. It is particularly attractive when backlit by the afternoon sun. Carex. If your garden is shady and moist, carexes are your answer. While some, like the coppery New Zealand carex, require almost full sun, most are at home in light to medium shade or filtered sunlight. A favorite is ‘Everillo’ carex: While most grasses turn brown in late fall and provide textural winter interest, ‘Everillo’ shines through, with four season chartreuse foliage. Attaining a height of 1 to 1.5 feet, it plays well with ferns and hostas. Additionally, its color works magic in darker areas that need brightening. In fact, planting in larger groupings can create the illusion of sunlight piercing the woodland canopy and creating patterns on the forest floor. Give these grasses a try and, with their texture and kinetic movement, watch your garden move to the next level. SP
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I’d been doing the advertising before taking over as president. I can be a very good organizer if I want. I had a lot of experience working with numerous groups. I think that must have helped. But we already had the people in place, they just weren’t allowed to do their job. I couldn’t have done it without [General Manager] Darrell Holland. I’d known him since 1970. He was our adult Sunday school teacher and the last one to stop wearing white gloves to church on Sunday. We knew and respected each other. We had such a great team. In fact, after I sold (Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.), we met the first Friday of every month at Pike’s Drugs. We had to stop during the pandemic, but we’ve started again. We go to Rooster’s in SouthPark.
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hen Dale Halton stepped in as president of PepsiCola Bottling Co. of Charlotte in 1981, she was a rare female CEO. The business was close to insolvency, and Pepsico’s leaders were threatening to pull the franchise from her family, which had been affiliated with the soft-drink company for more than 70 years. Within several years, the franchise was ahead of its larger CocaCola rival in soft-drink market share in the Charlotte region, she says. Saving the company from ruin was personal for Halton, whose grandparents, Henry and Sadie Fowler, opened the business in Charlotte in 1905, 12 years after New Bern pharmacist Caleb Bradham created “Brad’s Drink.” (It was renamed Pepsi in 1898.) In 2005, after serving more than two decades as president, Halton sold the company. It was then Charlotte’s biggest female-owned company, the Charlotte Business Journal reported. As a fierce supporter of the underdog, Halton, a Myers Park High School graduate, has wielded her influence to provide opportunities for athletes, dancers and students —– young people who may not have the means to obtain access to what they need. Her philanthropy has extended to numerous nonprofits, such as Charlotte Ballet, Central Piedmont Community College and UNC Charlotte. She’s served on countless boards, including Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Historic Rosedale. In 2020, she was inducted into the inaugural class of UNC Charlotte Athletics Hall of Fame. Her latest passion is Aspire Carolinas Foundation, where she teamed with veteran Charlotte nonprofit executive Jennifer Nichols to create a school for 3rd through 8th graders with learning disabilities related to autism spectrum disorder. The Halton School opened in 2019 in Huntersville. With additional fundraising, Halton envisions the program starting a charter school focusing on vocational training for trades such as plumbing and culinary arts. Halton has an extensive collection of Native American and western American art from her days living in Telluride, Colo. While she grew up in a privileged family, Halton says country clubs aren’t her style: She prefers hosting a group of longtime friends for lunch in her Myers Park home, which boasts a sweeping view of the city’s tree canopy. And in case you were wondering, she still enjoys Pepsi products. Comments are edited for length and clarity.
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Dale Halton, center, at the ribbon-cutting for the Pepsi plant on South Boulevard in 1985
‘It’s time for you to go out and be the face of this business,’ [Darrell said]. I didn’t want to be the face of the business. If you want a woman, pick somebody else. He said, ‘No, it’s the right time.’ I got to meet a lot of people I would have never met. I got to understand politics a lot better. When I first got involved, they gave me the campaign donation checks to the women in our state legislature. At that time, Mecklenburg wasn’t making much noise in Raleigh. Pepsi sent two of its lawyers down and met with my lawyer and myself. They threatened to take the franchise away because I was female. I said, ‘Come on down to my courts and we’ll work it out.’ They never did. A few years later, we were one of the top performing bottlers. We were a far second to Coke in the market [in 1981]. Maybe four years later, we had a better market share than Coke. Pepsi had a regional office in town, and we had to go down to see the latest dog and pony show. They said, ‘We’ve got the numbers. You surpassed Coke.’ I almost cry now when I talk about it. I had to leave the room. It meant so much to me to do this. It was a really beautiful moment in my life. When we moved back to Charlotte, my grandfather had his arm twisted by Bonnie Cone (who is considered a key founder of UNC Charlotte). He and my grandmother were the first Pepsi bottlers — ever. He was giving money every year. When he died, I couldn’t see all these flowers coming from all over the country because of his position in the company. I suggested no flowers but [instead] donations to UNC Charlotte, to the business college.
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We started going to UNC Charlotte games. I wasn’t into basketball, but I felt like UNC Charlotte was the poor little downtrodden school in the system. I didn’t like that. I have an affinity for the underdog. I sort of fell in love with the school. About four and a half years ago, some of us got together and decided that public schools aren’t taking care of the learning-disabled children. We decided to start a school for children with Asperger’s. In the meantime, businesses were complaining they couldn’t get people to work. They’d hire someone and train them, and then they’d leave. Someone said, ‘Why don’t you do a trade high school?’ That’s what we’re doing now. Up until last fall, there wasn’t that much money assigned to these [educational] grants. I started playing the political game, getting involved again. Last fall, lots of money was put toward education, including grants our children can get. Our school costs almost $24,000 a year. I have known Jennifer Nichols since she was at the Red Cross, Discovery Place and then Dore Academy. I’d already been a little involved with the Dore Academy. When they moved, I got more involved. Those little kids just stole my heart. We decided we needed something that went deeper. If you went to the school, you’d feel the warmth, the caring and the love. [Many of] these students have never had friends. These kids are having playdates and overnights. We teach them social lessons. We give them the ability to learn the best way they can. SP
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Tailor made CHARLOTTE DESIGNER MITCH PURGASON CREATES BESPOKE CLOTHING FOR MEN, INCLUDING A FEW ELITE ATHLETES. by Jennings Cool
My parents did a great job encouraging all my siblings to pursue creative stuff. My mom was an actress. She did set design, and she now does interior design and real estate. Our house was just ridiculous. My mom would find antiques at old spots. Our house looked like a set design. I grew up in a really creative home — a really colorful home.
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In college, I took a design class, which combined creativity, personal business and fun. My whole life, I figured I had to do banking or marketing. The art of design reframes your mind on how you think about products. But it reframed how I think about my life, by me saying, “Hey, I really could do something creative, and if I got good at it, I could make it a career.” I took an entrepreneurship class in college. We had to start a business. One of my buddies was in a program at Appalachian where they went to China and learned about supply chain. There was a tailor there that would tell people who went on the program that they could bring a couple hundred dollars for custom suits. My friend told the tailor, ‘If you teach us how to do this, we will sew these suits back in the U.S.’ That’s how it started. We made custom suits for college kids as our project. [The first few] years were not glory years — they were sleeping on couches, couldn’t afford rent, sleeping in my car. Each year that passed by, it got a little bit better. It was really year four when things started taking off. It was that year I got my first NFL client. It really exploded in year four and year five. It is all really word-of-mouth. I have never made a cold call in my life, which is why it was a slow growth. But my philosophy on that is if I am good at what I do, it will speak for itself. I want to know as much as I can about the client. I ask questions to help me understand their personality, their association with color and what they want to exude when they are wearing clothing. In the past seven years, I see that people care less about Prada and Gucci, and they want to work with creative individuals. Though accidental, I could not have timed being a personal brand better. SP
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hile he was a student at Appalachian State University, Mitch Purgason, 29, started a clothing design business for an entrepreneurship class with two classmates. His friends moved on to other pursuits, but the Greensboro native’s itch for design never wavered. Stitched by Mitch, his custom clothing brand, has produced more than 1,500 suits for a clientele that includes celebrities such as Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey, NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle and social-media influencer Gary Vaynerchuk. Purgason works with eight tailors to create men’s suits that range from $2,500 to $20,000, depending on fabric, amount of work involved and other factors. He also makes shirts and bespoke leather jackets for women and men. Mitch Purgason His suits feature a tricolor Milanese buttonhole, which conventional suit-makers cannot duplicate, he says. For himself, Purgason prefers a wide peak lapel with a soft shoulder, as little construction as possible and a cashmere-silk blend. “It feels like a cloud and drapes wonderfully.” Comments are edited for clarity and brevity.
Left: Carolina Panthers tackle Derrick Brown is a client. Right: Purgason’s suits feature a distinctive tri-color Milanese buttonhole.
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Street seen SPOTTED: FROM LAID-BACK TO BUTTONED-UP, DADS IN CHARLOTTE STEP OUT IN STYLE. SouthPark Style Editor Whitley Adkins and photographer Richard Israel scouted three Queen City neighborhoods — South End, Uptown and NoDa — to identify seen-on-the-street fashions for men.
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Years in Charlotte: 28 Neighborhood: Midtown Children: two Occupation: managing director and co-founder, Fund Finance Partners
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Matthew Gonzales
Years in Charlotte: 16 Neighborhood: Davidson Children: one Occupation: talent agent/owner, KNOWN Management Group
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Years in Charlotte: 23 Neighborhood: Cotswold Children: three Occupation: partner, Cherry & Associates
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Years in Charlotte: five (originally from Senegal, Africa) Neighborhood: Steele Creek Children: three Occupation: regional director, Dimensional Fund Advisors
Chris Wilson
Years in Charlotte: six Neighborhood: Plaza Midwood Children: one Occupation: general manager, Khali Yoga Center
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Richard Israel
Years in Charlotte: 20 Neighborhood: Mallard Creek Children: three Occupation: photographer
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Years in Charlotte: 25 Neighborhood: SouthPark Children: three Occupation: owner, Bentala Salon in South End
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Find the Perfect Father’s Day Gift at Queen City At Queen City, we are here to help transform your ordinary backyard, deck or patio into an outdoor oasis that will become an extension of your kitchen. Let us help you find the perfect grill for all your backyard BBQ favorites. Shop the all new Timberline by Traeger. Discover the pinnacle of outdoor cooking with the completely redesigned Timberline, the world’s most versatile, consistent, and customizable grill.
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Lovely lavender photographs by Justin Driscoll
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Blackberries don’t get nearly as much attention as their crimson cousins, strawberries. Darci Frank of The Vintage Whiskey & Cigar Bar shares how to make this pleasing purple cocktail featuring a homemade blackberry-sage simple syrup. The violet color comes from Empress gin, which is infused with butterfly pea blossoms. “The simple syrup is made by boiling down blackberries with sugar, simmering with sage leaves, straining and cooling,” Frank says. Blackberry season in North Carolina typically begins in late June and runs through July.
2 ounces Empress gin 1/2 ounce Licor 43 3/4 ounce blackberry-sage simple syrup 1/2 ounce lemon juice 1 ounce egg white
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For all your outdoor living needs Grills I Outdoor Kitchens & Living Spaces I Gas Logs I Grill Cleaning & Repair-we come to you!
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Mezcal and black lava salt add a smoky flavor to Tap That Ash, another seasonal cocktail on the menu at The Vintage. Lime and lychee aloe vera juice add a tropical twist and help beat the heat on a hot summer day.
Tap That Ash 1 1/2 ounce Los Vecinos mezcal 1 1/2 ounce lychee aloe vera juice 3/4 ounce simple syrup 1/2 ounce lime juice black lava salt rim
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CARMEL PARK
16460 Mar vin Road, Charlotte
Sandra Singer 704.231.8575
$5,800,000 – Breathtaking estate on 5 acres in gated community. 5BR/7.2BA, exquisite details, elevator, pool, cabana, outdoor kitchen, & gardens.
4824 Carmel Park Drive, Charlotte
Maren Brisson-Kuester 704.287.7072
$4,600,000 – Timeless estate on 1+ acre w/resortstyle backyard. Remodeled 5BR/5.2BA home with guest suite, gourmet kitchen, wine cellar, & pool.
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WENDOVER HILLS
SEVEN EAGLES
158 Mc Alway Road, Charlotte
9030 Winged Bourne Road, Charlotte
Susan May 704.650.7432
$2,195,000 – Elegant 3 story in gated community. 5BR/4.1BA, curved staircase, updated kitchen, built-ins, rec room, wine cellar, & covered patio.
Patty Hendrix 704.577.2066
$2,175,000 – Magnificent new construction on 0.41 acre. Open plan, 5BR/4.1BA, chef’s kitchen, primary suite down, & covered back porch.
Under Contract EASTOVER
LAUREL HILL
1418 Biltmore Drive, Charlotte
Elizabeth McNabb 704.763.8713
$1,505,000 – Wonderful living spaces! Many updates, 4BR/3.1BA, formals, den, family room, covered porch w/fireplace, detached garage.
911 Laurel Creek Lane, Charlotte
Patty Rainey 704.534.0096
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1825 Sprague Avenue, Charlotte
Greg & Liz McIntosh 704.488.6224
$1,225,000 – Fantastic open plan in new gated community. 4BR/3.1BA, study/LR, chef’s kitchen open to great room w/fireplace, loft, cov’d patio.
$679,000 – Charming 3BR/2BA cottage on cul-desac street. Spacious formals, archways, guest suite down, screened porch, deck, & workshop.
222 S. Caldwell St., #1803, Charlotte
Melanie Coyne 704.763.8003
$525,000 – Gorgeous 18th flr corner unit w/amazing skyline & uptown views! 2BR/2BA split BR plan, open LR/DR/kitchen, & wide terrace. Fantastic amenities!
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2236 Overhill Road, Charlotte
Meg Wilkinson 704.906.5747
$2,395,000 – Gorgeous 5BR/5.1BA home on 0.72 acre with a beautiful rose garden and covered terrace. 2nd living quarters over detached garage.
5505 Carmel Road, Charlotte
Connor Sinacori 704.996.5406
$2,255,000 – New luxury dream home on 1/2+ acre. Gated driveway, 5BR/5.1BA, kitchen, scullery, theatre, vaulted terrace, & 3 car garage.
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5435 Wintercrest Lane, Charlotte
2700 Rothwood Drive, Charlotte
Margaret Wood 704.904.6022
$1,795,000 – Spectacular 0.64 private, corner lot. Incredible living spaces, vaulted Great Room, 5BR/3.1BA, primary suite down, loft, & 2 patios.
Jessica Jenkins 704.607.9389
$1,595,000 – 5BR/4.1BA, 2 offices, 10’ ceil’s down, hardwood floors throughout, bonus rm w/wet bar, vaulted primary suite, screened porch, fenced yd.
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2823 Providence Road, #212, Charlotte
5703 Copperleaf Commons Ct, Charlotte
Peggy Peterson Team 704.904.6279
$895,000 – Stunning 3BR/3.1BA home in gated community. Beautiful finishes, modern kitchen, 10’ ceilings, hardwoods, archways, & 3 car garage.
Judy Raghavan 704.807.9970
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11017 Spritz Street, Huntersville
7511 Bedfordshire Drive, Charlotte
Beth Livingston 704.778.6831
$475,000 – Adorable ranch w/an updated kitchen, baths, and interor paint. Three spacious BR’s, 2 full baths, formals, family room w/fpl, & fenced bkyd.
$815,000 – Luxury 1st floor end unit with open plan, 2BR/2.1BA, 10’ ceilings, crown molding, natural light, spacious patio, & views of garden.
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$400,000 - 3BR/2BA home w/flowing plan, beautiful flooring, kitchen opens to great room w/fpl, primary suite w/tray ceiling, covered front & back porches.
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Hip Pies, a to-go pie shop from Mother Earth Group, is open during lunch hours uptown. Located in the Charlotte Visitor Info Center, the shop sells sweet and savory individual pies with an ever-changing menu of flavors such as Green Curry Chicken, Apple Bourbon Bacon Crust, Strawberry Rhubarb and Chocolate Peanut Butter. Hours and selection varies. Follow on Instagram @hippiesclt for updates. 327 S. Tryon St., hip-pies.com
retail roundup
New at SouthPark Mall: UNOde50, which sells jewelry handcrafted in Spain, and men’s suit retailer Hive & Colony are now open. Luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer, jeweler Blue Nile and iconic denim brand Levi’s will open later this summer. At Phillips Place: Women’s shoe boutique Marmi and menswear store Peter Millar are now open. Bonterra Dining & Wine Room will debut this summer in a 3,505-square-foot space across from The Palm. New York-based restaurant Limani, featuring Mediterraneaninspired seafood, will open in the former Upstream location later this year.
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El Toro Bruto has launched weekend breakfast taco pop-ups at Resident Culture Brewing South End. Orders are to-go only, and flavors include barbacoa, chorizo and egg and cheese tacos. Preorders are encouraged at eltorobruto.com. 8-11 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays. 332 W. Bland St., Suite C.
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Bakery & Cafe LegionAmelie's BrewingFrench on Morehead Street
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Early Girl Eatery, the Asheville farm-to-table restaurant serving breakfast and lunch, is open in South End, 1515 S. Tryon St., Ste. 104, earlygirleatery.com u Mexican restaurant La Capital MX opened at The Steel Yard in South End, 1910 South Blvd., lacapitalmxclt.com u Amelie’s French Bakery and Café debuted its new NoDa location at 136 E. 36th St., ameliesfrenchbakery.com u Legion Brewing opened its third taproom in Charlotte at 2013 W. Morehead St., legionbrewing.com u Bit by Seoul Food, a fast-casual concept from the team behind Seoul Food Meat Co., is open in the Morrison shopping center. On the menu: bao buns, lettuce wraps, wings and bowls. 721 Governor Morrison St., bitbyseoulfood.com
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Summer music guide MAKE THIS YOUR GO-TO GUIDE ON WHERE TO FIND LIVE MUSIC THIS SUMMER — JUST GRAB A BLANKET OR CHAIR AND GO! MANY OF THESE CONCERTS ARE FREE, KID- AND DOG-FRIENDLY, AND OFFER FOOD FOR PURCHASE. CHECK ONLINE FOR UPDATES BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT THE DOOR.
Anne Springs Close Greenway This nature preserve in nearby Fort Mill, S.C., hosts live music every Thursday night through June 30, from 6-9 p.m. Food and beverages will be available for purchase — bring your own lawn chairs and blankets. Ticket prices vary for nonmembers. $5 parking per vehicle.
Atherton Nights A new summer treat in South End at Atherton: Shop local while listening to live music. Mark your calendar for Thursday, June 9 and July 14, 5-9 p.m.
Ballantyne Markets at 11 The second Saturday of each month, this open-air market has live music, yoga, food trucks and more. The event is dog-friendly; bring a picnic blanket. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Ballantyne’s Backyard park.
Beats ’N Bites This new concert series in downtown Matthews offers live tunes and food-truck fare on the last Friday of each month. No pets or outside alcoholic beverages allowed.
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This SouthPark favorite returns to Symphony Park for three Sundays in June. CSO Resident Conductor Christopher James Lees opens Summer Pops with jazzy favorites on June 12. Concerts start at 8:15 p.m.; purchase tickets online.
Fridays at Camp North End This ongoing event each Friday centers around live music, food, new public art and goods from local businesses. 5-9 p.m.
Jammin’ by the Tracks Head to downtown Waxhaw and relax under the water tower on the first and third Fridays of the month. Now through August, 7-9 p.m.
Jazz at the Garden Bring your lawn chair and a picnic to Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden and enjoy the show every first Thursday of the month through October. Large coolers, alcoholic beverages, tents and umbrellas are not permitted. 5:308:30 p.m.; purchase tickets online.
The Music Yard at SouthBound Look for new concerts and events every week at this outdoor live music venue along
South Boulevard. Food and drinks are available for purchase.
Thursdays Live MoRa’s free concert series runs through September on the third Thursday of each month, from 6-8 p.m. Bring a blanket and hear some great bands around the Embrace sculpture at the corner of Monroe Road and Conference Drive. Dogs are allowed.
Whitewater Center River Jam Sit back and relax with live music every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night through September. Music genres range from bluegrass to funk. Leashed dogs are allowed. Parking is $6. These local shopping centers also sponsor weekly or monthly live music: Stonecrest Shopping Center, Promenade on Providence, Metropolitan and Ballantyne Village. Find updates online:
Three Leaf is now open in SouthPark! Our practice is built around caring for friends like you. Our patients notice the Three Leaf difference the moment they walk in the door! As a specialist in orthodontics, Dr. Markey expertly treats an array of oral health issues related to teeth and jaw alignment. Our combination of cutting-edge technology, quality care, and an experienced team creates a fun journey toward amazing results with braces or Invisalign. Give us a call to schedule a complimentary consultation at our new facility at Apex-SouthPark. We give patients something extra to smile about with convenient hours and flexible payment options, too!
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Big summer concerts
June 24 Backstreet Boys: DNA World Tour
July 22 Luke Bryan: Raised Up Right Tour
PNC Music Pavilion
PNC Music Pavilion
JUNE
June 28 Def Leppard: The Stadium Tour with Motley Crue, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
July 27 The Black Keys: The Dropout Boogie Tour with Band of Horses
June 5 Barenaked Ladies: Last Summer on Earth Tour
June 30 Train: AM Gold Tour
July 29 Jason Aldean: Rock N’ Roll Cowboy Tour
PNC Music Pavilion
PNC Music Pavilion
JULY
AUGUST
July 8 OneRepublic: Never Ending Summer Tour
Aug. 4 Gladys Knight
Head to southparkmagazine.com for updates.
Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
June 9 Ben Rector: The Joy of Music Live Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
Bank of America Stadium
June 13 Tears for Fears: The Tipping Point World Tour
PNC Music Pavilion
PNC Music Pavilion
PNC Music Pavilion
June 16 Maren Morris: Humble Quest Tour
July 15 Garth Brooks
Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
Bank of America Stadium
July 14 The Chicks Tour with Patty Griffin
PNC Music Pavilion
Ovens Auditorium
Aug. 12 David Gray - White Ladder: The 20th Anniversary Tour Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
Aug. 12 Keith Urban: The Speed of Now Tour
Aug. 23 Jack Johnson: Meet the Moonlight 2022 Tour with guest Ziggy Marley PNC Music Pavilion
Aug. 25 Jack White: The Supply Chain Issues Tour with Cautious Clay Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
Aug. 26 Rod Stewart with special guest Cheap Trick PNC Music Pavilion
SEPTEMBER Sept. 1 Red Hot Chili Peppers Global Tour 2022 with the Strokes and Thundercat Bank of America Stadium
Sept. 18 Elton John: Farewell Yellow Brick Road The Final Tour Bank of America Stadium
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MEETING AMONG THE PINES SINCE 1895 Leave distractions behind at our quaint village and historic resort. Nestled in the Sandhills of North Carolina, Pinehurst is the perfect place to retreat and refocus. We’ve been hosting successful meetings and events for companies large and small since 1895, and we’d love to host yours. Consider Pinehurst for your next corporate gathering.
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June HAPPENINGS Events + activities An Evening With Nicholas Sparks at Knight Theater June 2 | 7:30 p.m. From The Notebook to The Return, New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. Sparks takes a deeper dive into the poignant characters he’s brought to life, while weaving in his own encounters with rejection and success. Tickets start at $29.50. blumenthalarts.org
Fiddler on the Roof at Belk Theater Through June 5 This new production of the Broadway classic recounts the heartwarming story of fathers and daughters, husbands and wives, and the timeless traditions that define faith and family. Tickets start at $25. blumenthalarts.org
NoDaHood Market June 11 | 12-5 p.m. Seventy artisans and makers will be on hand at this family-friendly open-air market at Divine Barrel Brewing and Great Wagon Road Distilling. Expect DJs, food trucks, and alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages for sale. Free to attend. 3701 N. Davidson St., Ste. 203. divinebarrel.com
Pigs is Pigs at Children’s Theatre of Charlotte Through June 12 Guinea pigs steal the show when a package arrives at a rail station, and heartwarming hilarity ensues. Adapted by Michelle Hoppe-Long from the story by Ellis Parker Butler. Tickets start at $10. ctcharlotte.org The 2022 North Carolina Juneteenth Festival at Cabarrus Arena & Events Center
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June 18 | 1-5 p.m. This family-friendly event will feature activities, performances, kids games and offerings from 40 Black-owned businesses. Free to attend. eventbrite.com/e/2022-north-carolina-juneteenth-festival-tickets-216003511317 Untappd Beer Festival at American Legion Memorial Stadium June 18 Craft beer enthusiasts can choose from two different sessions at this daylong festival. Enjoy unlimited beer samples from more than 100 breweries, plus live music. Tickets start at $60. festivals.untappd. com/charlotte-beer-festival
Marc Maron: This May be the Last Time Tour at Knight Theater June 18 | 7 p.m. The podcast host and standup comedian performs thought-provoking comedy with a self-deprecating twist. Tickets start at $45. blumenthalarts.org Great American Campout at Anne Springs Close Greenway June 25-26 A night under the stars is even more dreamy with an evening hike and a cookout dinner, complete with s’mores for dessert. In the morning, fuel up with breakfast before a guided morning hike. Cost is $22 per person; members get a 20%
discount. Children 3 and younger are free. ascgreenway.org Camden Commons in South End June 26 | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The last of a three-part series of events that transforms Camden Road — South End’s main street — into an outdoor living room. Discover new food, play with a billboard-sized puzzle, shop local vendors and get your creative juices flowing. Free to attend. southendclt.org/ events/camden-commons Crayola IDEAworks at Camp North End’s Ford Building Through Sept. 5 Let your creativity run wild at this 17,000-square-foot interactive exhibit featuring immersive experiences and hands-on activities for the whole family. Tickets are $25. crayolaideaworks.com
Museums + galleries Deb Koo: Sweet at Sozo Gallery June 4-July 20 In scenes from everyday life, Koo reveals the true essence of joy in the midst of the seemingly mundane. An opening reception will take place 12-5 p.m. June 4. 904 Pecan Ave., Suite 101, sozogallery.net
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Charlotte Squawks: NC-17 at Booth Playhouse June 9-26 The annual comedy stage show returns with plenty of hot takes to keep you cackling. Local singers and actors poke fun at pop culture and politics in what the creative team of Mike Collins and Brian Kahn describe as “part Saturday Night Live, part Broadway and all Queen City.” Tickets start at $24.50. blumenthalarts.org
blvd. | calendar A Midnight Thing at SOCO Gallery June 15-Aug. 3 An exhibition curated by Lia Newman featuring works by Bethany Collins, Allison Janae Hamilton and Hong-An Truong. 412 Providence Rd., socogallery.com Grant Drumheller: Joie de Vivre at Elder Gallery Through June 18 Through paint, watercolor and gouache, Drumheller portrays crowds of characters engaging and celebrating with each other. 1520 S. Tryon St., eldergalleryclt.com Broad Strokes at Anne Neilson Fine Art Through June 30 A vibrant and distinctive exhibit featuring works by four female artists whose work is “defining current contemporary art culture with their use of broad strokes.” 532 Governor Morrison St., Suite 110, anneneilsonfineart.com
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Imprinting the land THE ARTISTRY OF PRINTMAKER KATIE HAYES by Wiley Cash | photographs by Mallory Cash
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|creators of n.c. I know that Katie is talking about her studio, but she could be referring to the 10 acres she shares with Sean and their daughter, Millie, and son, Ben. Or she could just as easily be talking about Hillsborough, or even North Carolina, for that matter. Although she was raised in Cullowhee, at one point in her life she’d lived in 13 houses in four states, and that was before she and Sean settled in Ohio, where Sean worked for Oberlin College and Katie worked for a nonprofit, assisting high school students with everything from completing college applications to locating their Social Security numbers. With each move, whether it was from the mountains of North Carolina to the Piedmont to attend UNC Chapel Hill, or from Carrboro to Ohio, Katie began to see her regional identity more clearly. “It wasn’t until I really left the South that I realized that being a Southerner was part of my identity, like I didn’t realize that being a rural mountain kid was part of my identity until I went to Carolina,” she says. At the moment, Katie is using a heavy glass baren to smooth paper atop the block cut in order for it to absorb the ink that covers the block. The process of making a single print is long and tedious. After cutting a design into a block of linoleum, which can take anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of days depending on the complexity of the image, Katie uses a brayer to evenly smear ink across a piece of plexiglass before using the same brayer to cover the block in ink. She then lays the paper over the block and runs the baren across the back of it. Most prints make use of more than one color ink, so each print goes through this process at least twice. Katie made her first print in an art class at Smoky Mountain High School in Jackson County. She carved a linocut of a rabbit, and
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after her teacher put it on display someone offered to buy it. She sold it for $15, and while she didn’t return to printmaking for many years because she didn’t have the tools and materials, the early satisfaction of knowing that her work had spoken to someone stayed with her. What also stayed with her was the effect her grandmother’s art and practice had on her. Shirley O’Neill was an accomplished amateur watercolorist, and she always made sure that Katie had good materials — high quality paints, brushes and paper — in order to do her best work. I watch Katie make print after print, nervous that our conversation will distract her and cause her to make a mistake, and also impressed at how she seems both careful and carefree. The block she is working from now is for a 12x16 inch matboard print from her limited edition Mid-Century Botanical series. Each print features a colorful design — a gold sun, a soft pink segmented circle, a gray oval — overlaid by the black shapes of various flora: Virginia bluebells, native ferns and peonies. She peels back the matboard, revealing a cardinal flower set against a segmented gold sun. I watch her repeat the process of imprinting cardinal flowers on several more matboards with various colorful shapes already set onto them, and each time she reveals the flower her face lights up in a smile. “It feels so good,” she says. “When it works, it’s so good.” While the process is repetitive, it doesn’t allow Katie to shut off her brain and rely on rote memory. She is constantly assessing the amount of ink on the brayer, the placement of the paper against the block, and the countless other adjustments she makes during a single print run, which she limits to 100. There are no reproductions. Every print is handmade, distinct and limited. Katie’s designs don’t only end up as hand-pulled prints made in
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her studio; her designs are also printed on everything from fabric to wallpaper by Spoonflower, a global marketplace based in Durham that manufactures textiles, connecting artists directly to consumers with no overhead costs for the artists. The family moved south from Ohio to Durham five years ago, when Sean took a job running operations for a firm that services solar farms. “The move was a chance to get back closer to family,” Katie says, “but my daughter was 4 1/2 at the time, and when we moved it was really hard for her. She had a newborn baby brother. We had lived in a great neighborhood in Ohio, and she’d had tons of friends at a great school, and she was uprooted.” Katie started creating images at night. “When she would go to bed, I would make her these coloring pages, where I would illustrate different native Southeastern flora and fauna. During the day I would have my hands full with the baby, but I would whisper to her, ‘Pssst, I made you some new coloring pages. These are passion flowers. They grow wild here and look like jungle plants.’” For a long time, Katie resisted doing art professionally. “I always saw the art world as something really exclusive,” she adds. “It wasn’t for redneck girls from Cullowhee.” But moving to Ohio made her reconsider the role art could play in her life, and the lives of people both inside and outside the region. “When I moved to Oberlin, people always had all these misconceptions about North Carolina and the South; it’s either Gone with the Wind or Duck Dynasty. Neither of those are authentic to my experience,” she says. This, combined with her connecting her daughter to her new home via images of the Southern landscape, inspired Katie to develop a library of images, eventually culminating in New South Pattern House. “As parents we’re always trying to curate the best parts of our childhood,” she says. “That’s how I think of my Southern identity with my kids and, frankly, my business. What parts do I want to highlight? We have this incredibly rich biodiversity. We have beautiful, vibrant cities. What are the parts we want to move away from? When people think of Southerners, do I want them to think of the Confederate flag? No, not for me. I want them to think of coneflowers.” SP
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collide. Trees, fields, ponds, creeks: Bradford finds wonderlands in them all. Representational, but with deep, twisting tentacles into abstraction, her canvases beg the viewer to look hard. In January 2023, Hidell Brooks Gallery plans a solo exhibition of her work. Wilmington’s Cameron Art Museum exhibited a powerful one-woman show of Bradford’s work, entitled A House of One Room, in 2021. Her paintings are also in the permanent collections of The Mint Museum in Charlotte, the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro and Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, as well as in many
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From top left: Cumberland Island Swamp, Float Dream and Water’s Edge
top corporate collections. This UNC Chapel Hill graduate considers herself largely self-taught as an artist, but she also studied painting and lithography at Davidson College and worked as an art teacher before devoting herself full time to her craft. Bradford says her work began to “develop a power” when she started backpacking in the mountains of North Carolina about nine years ago. With two friends, she started “going into a lot of obscure places, wild places, where the world is crazy,” she says. Now armed with a pole-mounted camera, she takes photos as she goes, hundreds of them in the space of a few days’ hike. These images become her inspiration when she
returns to the studio. “Truth is stranger than fiction,” she says. “The wild is stranger than anything I can dream up.” It’s also more meaningful. The wilder the land, the more Bradford says she finds to care about. “I’m on a mission to sensitize people to the beauty of the Earth,” she says. To take things “that aren’t obviously beautiful and to render them beautiful.” She does that in large part with unexpected, vibrant oil and sometimes embedded shards of glass, something she once eschewed as a “cheap trick.” But after a number of years hewing as close to the actual color of the natural world as possible, she decided she was selling herself short. “Why are you being this ascetic?” she southparkmagazine.com | 65
asked herself. “Why are you denying yourself access to something you love so much? And so I started pumping up the color. And as a result, I’ve gotten more imaginative, more intuitive. More soulful.” She brings all of that to every one of her subjects, most recently weeds. “Weed studies have introduced me to some really cool forms,” she says. “Arabesques and extravagant curves. I’ve been playing with a lot of that … I’m always trying to keep moving outward, not just repeating the same things. I keep looking for newness.” Actively challenging herself has become an ingrained habit, one that began the year Bradford turned 40 and made a promise to herself: “Instead of getting bummed out about getting old, every year for my birthday I would pick something I didn’t think I could do, and I would spend a year trying
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to do it.” That first year, she decided she would paint a painting every day. A few years ago, she made the commitment to learn French. Lately, she’s begun renovating an 1890s farmhouse, one she discovered deep in the woods on the bank of a creek, far from roads and traffic and noise. A two-hour drive from her (also 1890s-era) Davidson home, it will serve as Bradford’s summer residence and studio. “It’s my dream,” she says. So as she ages, Bradford’s world gets more and more interesting — not that boring is an option. “The world is just so complicated and fascinating,” she says. “There are just not enough years of life to do everything you want to do.” SP This is an excerpt from the forthcoming book Art of the State: Celebrating the Art of North Carolina, to be published by UNC Press this fall.
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ver the past five years, I’ve been building a garden in the old neighborhood where I grew up, a garden of shade and light beneath towering oaks, and my third effort at a major landscape project. Each one has been distinctly different from the one before it. The first was a woodland retreat I built on 15 acres atop a sunny coastal hill in Maine, carved out of a beautiful forest of beech and birch. I was a new father when the gardening bug bit with emphasis, inspired by the British sporting estates and spectacular public botanical gardens I routinely visited in my work as a golf editor and outdoors correspondent for a pair of national magazines. My children spent the first decade of their lives on that hilltop, living in a rugged post-and-beam house I built with my own hands and never expected to leave. It was, or so I told myself, my dream home and private garden sanctuary, the last place on earth I would abandon. My own growing obsession with gardening even inspired me to spend two years researching and writing a book about the horticulture world, the beautiful madness that overtakes those who fall in love with shaping landscape. It was difficult to say goodbye to that little piece of heaven, but life changes when you least expect. That’s an important lesson of living. When I had an opportunity to come home to the South and teach writing at a top Virginia university and start a trio of arts magazines across my home state of North Carolina, I didn’t hesitate. Next came a cottage on 2 acres in Pinehurst that we inhabited for a year with the full intention of buying. The property came with a charming but wildly overgrown garden and an aging swimming
pool. Over a full year, I liberated a handsome serpentine brick fence, rebuilt the garden and enclosed the property with a new wooden fence and gate. We also updated the pool and enjoyed it for the span of one lovely summer. Our golden retriever, Ajax, particularly loved the pool, taking himself for a dip every morning and floating for hours on his own air mattress. The problem was the cottage. It was built over a forest swamp and turned out, upon the required inspection for sale, to have massive mold below the decks. The entire structure had to be immediately evacuated and gutted. We took a bath on the deal, a gamble, and lost a small fortune. But such is life. One lives, learns and moves on. The midcentury house we bought six years ago in the Piedmont city where I grew up was built by the Corry family — a beautiful California-style bungalow that was Big Al Corry’s dream house. Mama Corry was the last to live in it, and the family was thrilled when they learned we were buying it because I had grown up two doors away from the Corry boys. As we approach six years on the grounds, restoration of the house is nearly complete. Sometime later this summer, after I finish the stone pathways and install a new wooden fence and gate, my latest woodland garden will be complete as well. Or will it? One of the lessons I’ve learned from building three ambitious gardens is that a garden is never complete — and neither is its creator. We don’t just grow a garden. It continually grows us. I think of this phenomenon as the garden within. We scheme and dream, we build and revise, we learn from the southparkmagazine.com | 69
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I thanked her and promised I would soon drop by, shovel in hand. But sadly, I got so busy with work and travel, I failed to get there before the house was sold and the peony row was plowed under by the new owners. Another life lesson from the garden — everything in life has an expiration date. Delay may cost regret. But sometimes, when you least expect it, another opportunity comes along, a chance for more growth. This latest garden saved my sanity during the lost days of the pandemic. It’s designed for the hot summer days now upon us, cooled by more than 20 flowering trees I’ve planted around the property, creating my version of an urban woodland retreat — a Scottish vale, as I imagine it — where birds gather to feed each evening and the aging gardener sits with a fine bourbon in hand, still scheming and dreaming. In the meantime, this month, the new peony row I planted last summer in memory of my mom — using the same small wooden-handled pot she used to plant things in her garden — should really be something to see. SP
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, by Patrick Radden Keefe From the prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing — and one of the most decorated journalists of our time — comes 12 enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue. Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the “worst of the worst,” among other bravura works of literary journalism. Horse, by Geraldine Brooks Kentucky, 1850: Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name painting the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, far from the glamour of any racetrack. New York City, 1954: Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, D.C., 2019: Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly drawn to one another through their shared interest in the horse — one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America’s greatest stud sire, Horse is a gripping, multilayered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.
The Bartender’s Cure, by Wesley Straton Samantha Fisher definitely does not want to be a bartender. But after a breakup and breakdown in San Francisco, she decides to defer law school for a year to move to New York, crashing on her best friend’s couch. When she is offered a job at Joe’s Apothecary, a beloved neighborhood bar in Brooklyn, she tells herself it’s only temporary. As Sam learns more about bartending and gets to know the service industry lifers and loyal regulars at Joe’s, she is increasingly seduced by her new job. She finds acceptance in her tight-knit community and even begins a new relationship. But as the year draws to a close, Sam is increasingly pulled between the life she thought she wanted and the possibility of a different kind of future. When destructive cycles from her past threaten to consume her again, Sam must decide how much she’s willing to let go of to finally belong. More Than You’ll Ever Know, by Katie Gutierrez In 1985, Lore Rivera marries Andres Russo in Mexico City, even though she is already married to Fabian Rivera in Laredo, Texas, and they share twin sons. Through her career as an international banker, Lore splits her time between two countries and two families — until the truth is revealed and one husband is arrested for murdering the other. In 2017, while trawling the internet for the latest, most sensational news reports, struggling true-crime writer Cassie Bowman encounters an article detailing that tragic final act. Cassie is immediately enticed by what is not explored: Why would a woman — a mother — risk everything for a secret double marriage? Cassie sees an opportunity — she’ll track Lore down and capture the full picture, the choices, the deceptions that led to disaster. But the more time she spends with Lore, the more Cassie questions the facts surrounding the murder itself. Soon, her determination to uncover the truth could threaten to derail Lore’s now quiet life — and expose the many secrets both women are hiding. SP Sally Brewster is the proprietor of Park Road Books. 4139 Park Rd., parkroadbooks.com.
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Mike has been selling real estate in Charlotte and the surrounding areas for over 16 years. He’s known for his no-nonsense, client-centric approach to listing and buying property with his loyal clients. Mike is constantly learning to help keep his clients informed of current trends in the market. Why would you trust one of your largest financial transactions to just anyone? You need a seasoned professional to coach you to make the best decision possible for you today, and in the future.
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Henderson Ventures Inc. O. 980.333.3485 admin@hendersonventuresinc.com Compass is a licensed real estate broker under the name “Compass South Carolina, LLC" in South Carolina and under the name “Compass” in North Carolina and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdrawal without notice. No statement is made as to accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. This is not intended to solicit property already listed. Nothing herein shall be construed as legal, accounting or other professional advice outside the realm of real estate brokerage.
The Cook Pizzo Team Constant Support. All hands on deck. We have you covered. Now that’s a client-focused, luxury real estate experience! The Cook Pizzo team is ready to provide you access to all of our knowledge of the greater Charlotte market. Whether you are buying your first home or your forever home, we are here every step of the way! Now more than ever it is critical who you trust with your greatest investment. Reach out to start working together to achieve your real estate goals today!
1621 Rutledge Ave, Charlotte, NC 28211 5 BD | 4 FB | 1 H B | $ 1 ,750,0 0 0
Meticulously maintained home on quiet street very close to SouthPark, Cotswold and Uptown. Beautiful curb appeal and lot with mature landscaping, outdoor terrace and pool. Formal living room with wet bar. Generous open kitchen, breakfast area and den! Tracey Cook & Ashley Pizzo T. 704.236.11135 | A. 704.756.8654 tracey.cook@compass.com ashley.pizzo@compass.com
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Blank canvas HOUSE OF NOMAD COMBINES COASTAL HUES, ORIGINAL ART, INTERNATIONAL FINDS AND VINTAGE TREASURES IN A CALIFORNIA-CHIC FOXCROFT HOME. by Catherine Ruth Kelly | photographs by Laura Sumrak
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Walter was their first purchase and served as the impetus for the family room design. Soft creams and blues in the room’s decor accent the pastel colors within the work of art, which hangs over the mantel. The Schultes admire the painting so much, they bought four smaller pieces by Walter for the entry hall. Lentini and Minkhorst discovered another abstract artist, Robert R. Landry, in Palm Springs, Calif., whose color palette was perfectly suited for the cool, coastal hues
of the Schultes’ house. They brought one home with them for the living room and commissioned a second work for the dining room. “The beautiful, soothing colors in the art really complement each other and set the tone for the entire house,” Sandra says. “It creates such a nice flow as you move from room to room.” To add texture to the walls of the media room, Lentini and Minkhorst included a work by an artisan they met southparkmagazine.com | 87
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in Queretaro, Mexico. The large-scale piece is made of woven cotton fibers recycled from a denim factory in the central Mexico town. House of Nomad is known for sourcing furniture and accessories from around the globe for their clients, and the Schultes were no exception. Moroccan rugs, Balinese baskets and Turkish textiles season the home, creating a look that balances bohemian traveler with sophisticated collector. “We get so inspired when we travel — it’s such a passion for us,” Minkhorst says. “Sometimes we find one amazing item that is the springboard for an entire project.” Throughout the Schultes’ house, Lentini and Minkhorst masterfully integrate their international finds with vintage treasures, new acquisitions and custom creations to achieve a layered, livable setting with a sleek, minimalist aesthetic. “This project falls into a different category for us because the use of color is more restrained,”
“The beautiful, soothing colors in the art really complement each other and set the tone for the entire house.” — homeowner Sandra Schulte
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Lentini notes. “But it is very textural, which adds so much depth to a neutral color scheme.” The casual, airy theme continues outside, where the designers assembled an eclectic mix of light, bright cotton fabrics and woven wood and rattan furniture throughout the al fresco gathering spaces. The covered area next to the pool is a favorite hangout for the Schultes’ adult children when entertaining friends. A sitting area above is adjacent to the family room and has become an enjoyable spot for the Schultes to relax, read or watch TV. The pergola-covered dining area, kitchen and bar are ideal for poolside entertaining, and an outdoor fireside lounge is a cozy retreat when the weather is cooler. Watching their new house come together during the slower pace of the pandemic made the Schultes appreciate the creative process even more. “We love how Kelley and Berkeley personalized each room to meet our needs,” Sandra says. “To start from scratch and create a space that we love was almost like therapy.” SP
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Mixing vintage, consignment and secondhand luxury goods with contemporary, trendier items can help you create a closet that’s big on style without blowing the budget. Fashion stylist and SouthPark magazine Style Editor Whitley Adkins demonstrates the one-of-akind approach she takes when shopping for herself or private clients seeking a inimitable look all their own.
Peter Pilotto sundress, $425, EDIT Charlotte (@edit_charlotte). Murphy multicolor earrings, $55, Boem (shopboem.com). Inez Sofia twotone snake sandals, stylist’s own.
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Yellow floral Carolina Herrera dress, $550, EDIT Charlotte. Billini Adele crossbody bag, $66, Boem. Tibi laceup sandals, stylist’s own, purchased on consignment. One-shoulder floral Acler dress, $225, EDIT Charlotte. Sunglasses, $10, Stash Pad (stashpadvintage.com). Black lace-up sandals, ASOS, model’s own.
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1970s Tennisseur T-shirt, $58, Stash Pad. Marianna Senchina floral ruffle skirt, $149, JT Posh (jtposh.com). Proenza Schouler orange snakeskin bag, $450, EDIT Charlotte. Vintage gold belt and acrylic clamp bracelet, Etsy; Tabitha Simmons metallic sandals, JT Posh; Sojos retro vintage sunglasses, $15, Amazon; all stylist’s own. 96
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Stine Goya turtleneck, $69; Ganni silver dress, $139; Coclico sandals, $59; all JT Posh. Sunglasses, $10, Stash Pad.
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Gucci track jacket, $550, EDIT Charlotte. Vintage Betsey Johnson dress, $225, Stash Pad. Vintage Coach sandals, stylist’s own. Handmade 1970s green dress with matching jacket, $150; sunglasses, $10; 1960s red patent leather belt worn as bracelet, $25; all Stash Pad. Daydreamer Rolling Stones T-shirt, $78, Boem. Nancy Gonzalez gold lizard clutch, $175, EDIT Charlotte. J. Crew turquoise pumps, stylist’s own.
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RNWY Orchid maxi dress, $124; I-Sea green sunglasses, $28; multicolored rings $28; all from Boem. Tabitha Simmons metallic sandals, $89, JT Posh. Nancy Gonzalez purple alligator clutch, $325, EDIT Charlotte. Vintage clear acrylic bracelets from Etsy, stylist’s own.
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Peter Pilotto one-shoulder dress, $425, EDIT Charlotte. Murphy multicolor earrings, $55, Boem.
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FOR 50 YEARS, ARTHUR’S RESTAURANT & WINE SHOP HAS BEEN A CHARLOTTE MAINSTAY FOR WINE CONNOISSEURS — AND SHOPPERS RECHARGING WITH A QUICK BITE. by Kathleen Purvis | photographs by Michael Hrizuk
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Brothers Steve, Robert and John Balsley, with John’s son, Robert, second from right
a job at a cheese shop in Eastland Mall. That’s when he and John started looking at a little spot, Arthur’s Gourmet Shop, in the lobby of the old Clayton Hotel at Church and West Fifth streets. The shop owner, Arthur Pressman, had decided to retire. The area had gotten a little seedy — The Observer noted that Pressman’s customers were mostly “winos who drank in the graveyard across the street and a few connoisseurs of international wines.” Robert and John approached him and offered to buy the shop, inventory and all, for $6,000. Pressman agreed, and even let them keep his name. They knew so little about wine, they couldn’t even pronounce the names on the French bottles. “Young and stupid,” John recalls. “We broke every law,” Robert adds. They spent $300 on tables and chairs from an unfinished furniture shop, and added a few sandwiches to the menu. At the time, most restaurants in uptown were small diners owned by Greek immigrants. “They hated us,” John says. Louis Politis, son of Greek restaurateur Pete Politis, would be sent on spying expeditions, to see how many customers they had. “The pie was finite. Charlotte was a small town still.” In 1973, they found out their building was being torn down. Luckily, they had one big fan: George Ivey Jr. He co-signed their first business loan, and he thought a wine and food shop in his downtown department store was just the thing. While women shopped, their husbands could go 104
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downstairs and get lunch and a glass of wine or a beer while they waited. “Without him,” John says, “we wouldn’t be here today,” Robert finishes. As Ivey’s expanded to SouthPark and Eastland, Arthur’s Restaurant & Wine Shop went along, eventually opening seven locations in the Carolinas, including one in Overstreet Mall. They also opened East Boulevard Bar & Grill, modeled after the legendary Clyde’s in Washington, D.C. After they sold it, it became the White Horse Restaurant and then 300 East. When Ivey’s was bought by Dillard’s in 1990, they moved across SouthPark to the lower floor of Belk. Tom Belk had always told them, “If you’re ever unhappy at Ivey’s ...” Along the way, Robert, John and their siblings, Steve and Jacquelyn, all learned the wine and restaurant businesses. And Robert became the city’s personal wine steward. Whatever his well-heeled customers bought, they would share with him. “The more they ordered, the more I learned,” he says. Robert started teaching classes and supporting the growth of a wine world in Charlotte. He helped start three of Charlotte’s five crus, or wine clubs, and was a longtime board member for the Charlotte Wine & Food Festival. And they started taking customers on wine excursions, from Napa to Burgundy — the place, not the color — and beyond. “Geography is my business,” Robert says. “I make sure they walk out of here learning something.”
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Angie Packer, co-owner and executive vice president of Tryon Distributing, met Robert when she came to Charlotte in 1986, as one of the few women in the wine business here in those days. Until Arthur’s, “your choices were white, red and pink,” Packer says. The Balsleys changed the wine landscape in Charlotte. “He was kind of the only game in town that wasn’t a chain store,” she says. She remembers the reaction when winery representatives would come to town and she would tell them she was taking them to an important wine store — at SouthPark. “‘The mall? One of the best wine shops in North Carolina is in a mall?’” was a typical reaction. On a recent Monday morning in the basement of Belk SouthPark, the action is in the back of Arthur’s, around a high table that’s usually used for wine classes. A half-dozen men, all representatives for different distributors, are wolfing down sandwiches from the Arthur’s café next door while they go over orders on their laptops. Robert, now 75, moves around the table constantly, checking what they have, what they’re charging — and what he wants to pay. On Mondays, he says, “I hold court. They’re all trying to get my knickers.” The Balsleys aren’t planning any special celebration to mark their 50th anniversary. They had a party once, for their 10th anniversary. They rolled back prices and had 300 or 400 people there. Afterward, Robert and John agreed: “This is stupid. Everybody else had a good time but us.” Anyway, both Robert and John say Arthur’s isn’t going anywhere. John’s son now works for the family business as well. “I’m still having fun,” Robert says. “I still get to travel. I still get to drink great wine.” SP southparkmagazine.com | 107
Serving soldiers A HOPEWAY PROGRAM LAUNCHED LAST YEAR HELPS VETERANS WITH PTSD AND OTHER MENTAL-HEALTH ISSUES.
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TREATING TRAUMA Owens, a Chapel Hill resident, joined the Veterans Program in July 2021 as a residential client. The first several days of her 32-day stay were spent detoxing from alcohol and marijuana. Ross Cole, a therapist in the Veterans Program, saw Owens a few times a week for intensive individual therapy. Even now, she affectionately refers to him as, “the exorcist,” because he compelled her to do the work to get better. He asked difficult questions when exploring Owens’ troubles. “He said, ‘By the time you leave here, you’re going to be thinking differently,’” Owens says. “And I did.” Many of Owens’ mental-health issues stem from trauma. Fleeing an abusive home, she entered the military seven days after graduating from high school in 1984. The evening she graduated from basic training, she says a sergeant assaulted her. She fought off the attacker and didn’t report it, for fear of ruining her career. Owens remained in the military for 14 years, working in supply and services and as a heavy engineer and parachute rigger. She finished as a staff sergeant. Almost a year after treatment at HopeWay, Owens continues her sobriety. She’s in a relationship and has a steady job making medical vials for pharmaceutical companies. Triggers from her past
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still sometimes occur, but she’s relied on strategies she learned at HopeWay to stay calm and not react. “Twice, I’ve looked back at some of the things Ross and I talked about [and used it] to get my negative thinking out,” Owens says. A HOLISTIC APPROACH Dr. Justin Johnson, a North Carolina native, joined HopeWay in 2020 as the director of veteran services. His experience treating post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries, and military and veteran mental-health issues as a board-certified psychiatrist has been valuable in shaping the Veterans Program. Since 2015, Johnson has served in the U.S. Army Reserve, including active duty in the U.S. and a deployment to the Middle East. He’s currently the command psychiatrist for a unit at Fort Bragg, where he advises on mental health issues. “The general idea was that [HopeWay] wanted to do more to help veterans,” Johnson says. “As many people are aware, veterans have higher suicide rates: About 20 veterans die a day by suicide.” Veterans participate in group programs alongside HopeWay’s nonveteran clients. HopeWay’s Veterans Program is distinctive because it offers a residential option, includes intensive individual
and group therapy, and welcomes all veterans with or without combat experience. VA Salisbury operates a PTSD-focused residential program providing group therapy for combat veterans only. Other nonresidential programs in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles have a similar approach to treatment as HopeWay. Once a veteran is admitted into the program, Johnson develops a holistic plan that includes exercise, medication, medical treatment, nutrition, therapies and spiritual counseling. “We work with them to tailor the therapies to that person,” Johnson says. “We are flexible, especially with a person with PTSD. We have to make sure the person agrees with what they’re doing and is motivated to do it.” A patient’s weekly schedule includes intensive individual therapies multiple times a week, daily group therapy sessions, and integrative therapies such as art, cooking, horticulture and music. Pet therapy and horsemanship programs provide a connection to an animal, Johnson says. “One of the things that help people struggling with mental health is mindfulness activities,” he says. “It’s just you focused on something. All the integrative therapies help with that. You lose yourself with the dog and forget about the struggles you have. You can redirect your thoughts.” southparkmagazine.com | 109
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The Veterans Program is built on evidence-based treatments backed by scientific research. For example, prolonged exposure therapy may be used with veterans who develop increased anxiety when they hear fireworks because it reminds them of explosions during combat. “Maybe they avoid going to firework events which leads to problems in their family,” Johnson explains. “Exposure therapy gradually exposes them to loud noises until they basically extinguish or get rid of that nervous response. Then they are more able to participate in family functions and live a full life as opposed to hiding at home.” Veterans pay with private health insurance, if they have it, or VA covers up to six weeks. Donations through corporations and from individual donors provide financial assistance for patients. EQUINE PARTNERSHIP At least once a month, a staff member from HopeWay brings no more than five veterans to Healing Horse Therapy Center in Monroe for a 90-minute horsemanship and wellness program. (Other HopeWay clients participate in equine therapy as well.) Maurette Hanson, a certified therapeutic riding instructor and a certified equine specialist in mental health and learning, founded the nonprofit in 2011. Hanson starts the group with herd observation: Participants meet the horses, called equine partners, and learn about each one. “Within that time period, [the veterans] are getting a sense of who they would like to match up with,” Hanson says. “Sometimes a horse comes to them and lets them know right away.” It’s an unmounted program — veterans do not ride the horses — but instead, they learn grooming techniques to use with their equine partner. The focus is on being in nature, building a relationship and trust with a sentient being and discovering how to communicate with a horse, Hanson says. “What I see over and over again is the confidence that [the veterans] get. They see they can do something they might have been a bit fearful of before.” SP
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Just peachy ATLANTA, OUR SISTER CITY TO THE SOUTH, OFFERS BIG-CITY BENEFITS WITH PLENTY OF SOUTHERN CHARM.
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n a recent weekend at the Atlanta Botanical Garden — just as the roses and peonies were flaunting their blossoms — couples, tourists and families in their Sunday best stroll, sip wine at patio tables and laze about on benches, admiring the blooms. There’s a quiet buzz over in Storza Woods, where a new Dale Chihuly sculpture, a stunning 30-foot glass and steel tower installed in December, has captured the crowd’s attention. Across the park, in the outdoor kitchen near the edible garden, a sold-out class, “Cooking with Fresh Herbs,” is about to begin. Throughout the spring and summer, chefs including acclaimed restaurateur Hugh Acheson and local 2022 James Beard Award semifinalist Craig Richards will host dinner events here. In the Skyline Garden, notes from a band playing at the adjacent Piedmont Park reverberate, with downtown’s gleaming towers as a backdrop. The bustle of the city is nearby — but no one seems hur114
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ried inside this peaceful slice of nature in the city that touts itself as the capital of the Southeast. The garden is just one of many discoveries I made upon returning to the city I’ve known since childhood. A four-hour drive from Charlotte, Atlanta’s museums, restaurants, entertainment venues and shops offer more than enough to fill a weekend. Even if you think you know Atlanta, chances are you’ll uncover something new on your next visit.
EXPLORE Atlanta Botanical Garden encompasses more than 30 acres and includes an expansive children’s garden, canopy walk, orchid center and more. On view through Oct. 16, Origami in the Garden showcases 18 colorful metal installations by Santa Fe artists Jennifer and Kevin Box, from whimsical birds and bunnies to pinwheels spinning in the breeze. The garden abuts the 200-acre
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from Virginia Highland, the tree-lined neighborhood with cozy cafes should you want to stop for a bite before or after the day’s adventure. With an eye-catching design by esteemed North Carolina architect Phil Freelon and immersive exhibits, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights highlights key moments in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. The museum includes artifacts from Martin Luther King Jr., including handwritten notes and manuscripts, and an enlightening exhibit depicting the modern-day struggle for human rights around the world. College football fans can while away an afternoon at the College Football Hall of Fame, a $68.5 million attraction that moved here from South Bend, Ind., in 2014. Upon arrival, link your pass with your alma mater (or any school of your choice) for a personalized experience. From displays spotlighting legendary
coaches to interactive experiences like a touchdown simulator, there are more than 50 exhibits to explore across three levels. Serious shoppers will want to allow plenty of time in Buckhead. With luxury brands galore, Phipps Plaza and Lenox Square have anchored the upscale neighborhood for decades. Buckhead Village (previously The Shops Buckhead Atlanta) is a pristine open-air mixed-use center with high-end boutiques including Billy Reid, Veronica Beard, Jimmy Choo, Hermes, Etro and Dior. Chastain Park is a 260-acre green space in Buckhead with walking trails, a public golf course, a horse park and amphitheater. While you’re in the area, stop by The Chastain, a country store-turned-restaurant serving upscale comfort food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The historic Old Fourth Ward neighborhood is home to Ponce City Market, a 2.1 millionsquare-foot former Sears distribution center that houses a sprawling food hall plus local and national retail shops. The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park is here, along with access to the Atlanta BeltLine, an urban network of parks and trails in development along a 22-mile rail corridor encircling the center city.
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St. Julep at the Kimpton Sylvan Hotel
Luxury options abound in Atlanta. A couple of new Buckhead hotels are shaking up the buttoned-up reputation of this tony neighborhood with a relaxed atmosphere and boutique amenities. The Kimpton Sylvan is a 217-room hotel with a midcentury aesthetic and sprawling outdoor spaces, including a spacious outdoor pool and a trio of clever dining and drinking options. St. Julep is the Sylvan’s rooftop bar with a casual, upbeat vibe: Take in the skyline view of Buckhead while imbibing easy-sipping cocktails with cheeky names like Kicked by a Mule (Tito’s vodka, Pimm’s and ginger beer) and Smokey and the Bandit (Vida mezcal, Buffalo Trace bourbon, Chincina). Willow Bar is a spacious outdoor lobby bar in a garden-like setting. The Betty is a modern throwback to the glamourous supper-club era, with plush velvet booths, friendly and attentive service, and a menu of updated classics infused with bold flavors. Start with oysters on the half shell, wagyu steak tartare or tuna crudo — ginger wasabi mustard gives this dish a spicy kick. If your server asks if you’d like any bread, the answer is yes: The warm bakedto-order gougères, or cheese puffs, will melt in your mouth. Mains include mushroom lasagna, prime steak, Cornish rock chicken, and a zesty basil spaghetti with Calabrian chili and tomato confit. Hotel Colee offers a playful and unpretentious vibe, with a rooftop pool, a comfortable lobby bar for drinks before heading out on the town and local artwork on display. Interior designer Andrew Alford was brought in to inject pops of color and modern Southern style into the 286-room hotel, part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection. Whimsical decor like the colorful streamer art installation in the port cochere and the cheerful mix of pattern and color in the lobby exude fun.
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The Betty at the Kimpton Sylvan Hotel
Hotel Colee lobby bar
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EAT & DRINK Start the day at Le Bon Nosh, a French-inspired counter-service cafe in Buckhead serving coffee, breakfast and house-made pastries in an elegant, airy setting. Or drop by for lunch (soups, salads, sandwiches and tartines are on the menu) and grab a seat on the patio, at one of the communal tables or at the elegant curved marble wine bar. A dinner menu features shareables like crudites and burrata serrano, along with heartier dishes like steak frites and grilled red snapper, with an all-French wine list. Grab breakfast or lunch to go at Kinship, a butcher shop/market/coffee bar in Virginia Highland serving a small menu of breakfast and lunch sandwiches like the Poultrygeist: smoked Springer Mountain chicken salad with celery, spicy cucumbers and arugula on a pillowy brioche roll. There’s also a small but curated selection of dry goods, wine and flowers — all the necessary provisions for a picnic in nearby Piedmont Park. Storico Fresco Alimentari is a lively classic Italian restaurant in a tuckedaway basement that’s also a pasta shop and market during the day. Stellar cocktails, knowledgeable service and a convivial atmosphere (along with a
surprisingly good lemon-rosemary fried chicken) make this a Buckhead mainstay for lunch or dinner. Little Rey’s is a Tex-Mex counter-service concept from Chef Ford Fry that’s an ideal choice for families or a casual meal. Nachos, tacos, salads, margaritas and soft serve are on the menu. Inside, expect the same vintage vibes as Ford’s Superica, or dine on the covered wraparound patio at this busy intersection in Piedmont Heights. A spinoff of the Manhattan original, Le Colonial in Buckhead Village serves French-Vietnamese fare in an upscale setting and offers great Happy Hour specials weekdays, including $8 cocktails and bar bites. Off the beaten path in Old Fourth Ward is Bully Boy, a seafood-focused restaurant serving an Asianinspired menu ranging from oysters to Australian wagyu, with an emphasis on sushi. Apps include crispy Brussels sprouts with a sweet chili glaze and Chinese broccoli with togarashi pepitas and a ginger mirin glaze. The Spirited Away roll — spicy snow crab topped with sesame-crusted tuna and cucumber — is a nod to the 2001 anime film by the same name. Finish your meal with colorful mochi — bite-sized portions of the Japanese rice-flour dessert filled with ice cream in seasonal flavors. SP
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Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal delighted the crowd as guest DJ during the black-tie fundraiser, which also highlighted the stories of providers, families and children.
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razed to make way for new development. “There is still this memory of what this place was,” Garten says. “So I wanted to find a way to communicate their stories.” Today, the 11-acre green space attracts a range of parkgoers: couples walking their dogs, parents watching their kids play soccer, young men sweating it out in a game of pickup basketball. The park is a connector, just like it was for neighbors 80 years ago. With the Metropolitan retail center and Little Sugar Creek Greenway across the street, the future development of Atrium Health’s innovation district (named The Pearl) nearby, and more uptown condo projects on the rise, Pearl Street Park offers an urban oasis. As a quote by former Brooklyn resident Doris Parker Williams reads on Brooklyn Stories, “My hopes for the future are … I would like to see neighborhoods that were like the Brooklyn community. The closeness, everybody helped everybody, you know.” May it be so. SP
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