Kathleen Purvis

4 days ago | ourstate.com | Kathleen Purvis

On rare summer afternoons when I was allowed to play inside instead of being banished to the backyard after breakfast, I got to witness my mother’s strange ritual. Sometime after lunch, she would pull the drapes closed over the open windows. Then she’d strip off her house dress down to her slip — modest, but cooler. She’d unfold the ironing board with a screech of its metal legs, plug in the electric iron, and wait for the hiss of steam to signal that it was hot enough.

5 days ago | charlottemagazine.com | Kathleen Purvis

There are moments when Camp North End feels sublime, like on a recent Friday afternoon. A little girl wrestles giant Legos—they’re taller than she is—in an outdoor play space while “thwocks” echo from the pickleball courts at the huge Tipsy Pickle. At other moments—too many, truthfully—it feels like there’s more life at Hebrew Cemetery across Statesville Avenue.

2 months ago | ourstate.com | Kathleen Purvis

When chefs talk about what inspires their cooking and who steered them into working in a kitchen for a living, they almost all have stories about their families and cooking with their mothers and grandmothers. That influence is evident for three North Carolina chefs who share their stories — and recipes — for dishes that are homages to their families’ matriarchs.

2 months ago | ourstate.com | Kathleen Purvis

The NuWray Hotel stretches out beside Burnsville’s town square like a graceful dowager awakening from her afternoon nap, a Southern vision of rocking chairs, porch, and balcony. As the oldest continuously operating hotel in the state, The NuWray is finally rising from a 30-year slumber that saw the once-stately property slide into a steep decline. “This should have been condemned,” admits James Keith, who now runs the circa-1833 hotel with his wife, Amanda.

Jan 20, 2025 | charlottemagazine.com | Kathleen Purvis

Albertine has a lot of reasons to attract attention. There’s the luxe dining room, the Rorschach test swirls in the massive stone slab behind the bar, the Mideast-meets-Carolinas playfulness of the menu. Then there’s the curiosity behind owners Joe and Katy Kindred’s decision to make their first foray into the city center. They opened their bistro, Kindred, in Davidson in 2015, followed by Hello, Sailor on Lake Norman and several locations of the fast-casual eatery Milkbread.