By Jennifer Brule Julia's Talley House At the Talley House in the small town of Troutman in Iredell County, country favorites are served cafeteria or family style. Joe Shumake, who opened the restaurant more than thirty years ago with his mom, Julia, still runs it with his wife, Kim. Many family members, including four children and a nephew, have worked…
Today, the biggest threat to public arts funding in Charlotte is the economy, but fourteen years ago it was a group of Mecklenburg County commissioners who became known as the Gang of Five. In the wake of controversy over Charlotte Repertory Theater's 1996 staging of Angels in America, a Pulitzer-winning play about the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, these five…
Dr. Sidney Fletcher FACEP, Medical Director of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Chief of Staff, Presbyterian Hospital Chris Edwards I was a second-year resident. It was the afternoon, early in my shift, and I had only seen a patient or two when they brought him in, a sixteen-year-old kid with asthma. His mom drove him in instead of calling an ambulance,…
