Collage by Cathryn Virginia | Images from Getty, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster After striking out with a cadre of “macho white guy” chefs, restaurateur John O. “Johno” Morisano had a lightbulb moment: “A Black woman,” he recalled telling his design team. “An African American woman is who should run […]
Dan Mullin, a philanthropist generous with the gift of his friendship, dies at 78
In the business world, as in the rest of his life, “he just had the most positive way of looking at everything,” said his friend Cathy E. Minehan, former president and CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. “But he wasn’t saccharine. He knew all the downsides of everything, too, […]
Plastic skeleton embodies the spirit of friendship in neighborhood [I Know a Story column] | Food + Living
This is an open love letter to my plastic skeleton, Bobby Bones. Our love story begins with a fateful chance meeting. I was leisurely strolling the aisles of Target when our eyes meet. I was stopped dead in my tracks. (My mouth may have fallen agape; I’m not sure). As […]
The Year’s Funniest Animated Comedy Bloomed from a Real-Life Friendship
“Dicktown” is a perfect title, even if without context you may never guess that the animated series it belongs to follows a pair of detectives investigating the mysteries of their chosen client base: North Carolina teenagers. The title refers to a nickname for Richardsville, a Tar Heel State town that […]