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August 2009

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Donna Scott

Donna Scott Independent theater producerIndependent theater producerCall her crazy, but in 2005, independent theater producer Donna S. Scott thought it might be fun to laugh at the anguish women...

Saving Us From Sprawl

Tom Low will not rest until we all think differently about planning and designIf you've got an idea, Tom Low has the perfect place to discuss it: the wide, columned veranda of the 1920s Greek...

Housing the Homeless

MOORE PLACE When it opens, the eighty-five units will house the chronically homeless. Kathy Izard thought someone here should start a program offering permanent housing to the homeless. Then she...

Brilliant!

25 big ideas from 30 geniuses for how to make Charlotte a better, more interesting city -- and how to make it matterBy Miriam Durkin, Jarvis Holliday, Tamela Rich, Jen Pilla Taylor, and Richard...

Speaking of Art ...

Manoj Kesavan's lunchtime salon has grown into a full-blown support group for creativesIt didn't take Manoj Kesavan long to start making an impact on his new home. A few weeks after Odell...

Keeping an Eye on the Americas

Someone has to make sure the president doesn't forget about this side of the world. That someone is Russell CrandallBefore moving to Alexandria, Virginia, in June, Russell Crandall taught...

Todd Mansfield

Todd Mansfield The environmentalist developer The environmentalist developerTodd Mansfield, fifty, is seemingly a study in contrasts. He's the CEO of Crosland, one of the Southeast's...

Josh Thomas

Josh Thomas Accidental environmentalist Accidental environmentalistThis spring, Josh Thomas told 250 community leaders that he was going to get Charlotte's kids outside. It was the culmination...

Mark Peres

Mark Peres Celebrator of the creative classCelebrator of the creative classSix years ago, relative newcomer Mark Peres saw a void in Charlotte. There was no outlet, he thought, that celebrated...

Speaking Truth to Power

Armed with a keyboard and an audience, Mary Newsom is doing her damnedest to coax Charlotte to grow betterMary Newsom found her niche in 1995, writing about planning and development for The...

Making Eating Local Easy

CHRISTY SHI founded Know Your Farms, which makes it easy to be a locavore. Christy Shi will deliver farm-fresh food to your house -- along with recipesWhen she's not talking to farmers about...

The Sweetest Thing

MARCO CASOL The Venice native runs PreGel from a $15 million headquarters in Concord. Marco Casol's big idea is to make gelato ubiquitous in the U.S. -- and to do it from ConcordIt's the...

The Avetts' Arrival

The Avetts' Arrival

On the cover of the October 2005 issue, this magazine proclaimed the Avett Brothers as the local music scene's best hope. This month, the band starts making good on that

The Urban Frontiersman

Rich Deming is an evangelist for self-sufficiency-while still living an urban lifestyleRich Deming is an evangelist for self-sufficiency -- while still living an urban lifestyleWhen you learn that...

The Online Migration

BORAKS AND BURKINS They've seen the future of news, and that future is online.Ex-Observer staffers David Boraks and Glen Burkins have launched hyperlocal Web sites. Welcome to the future of...

Big Ideas

Our August issue contained lots of what we called Big Ideas. But we're not through yet. Submit your own big idea for how to make Charlotte a better, more interesting city, and we'll post...

A Trauma Collar You Can See Through

Sometimes it's clear: a genius of an idea just needs someone to run with it. That's the case with Clear Collar, a product dreamed up by Alan Donaldson of Winston-Salem and being developed...

The Global Mentor

Ann Francke is helping women in North Carolina help women around the worldDon't mistake Ann Francke for only being the founder of the successful Charlotte-based online shopping site for natural...

Sharon Portwood

Sharon Portwood Working on the nonprofit holy grail Working on the nonprofit holy grailUNCC's impossible task: find someone with an undergrad in advertising, a law degree, and a doctorate in...

Matching Needy Tenants with Affordable Housing

A middle-of-the-night epiphany spurred frustrated social worker Van Gottel to launch Socialserve.com, a nonprofit Web site that matches people with affordable rental housing. Though other...

Will Miller

Will Miller Social venture capitalistSocial venture capitalistWhile thousands of local United Way donors seethed in anger this year over that agency's alleged mishandling of money, a small...

The Future of Journalism

CLT BLOG From left, CLT Blog honchos Matthew Tyndall, Justin Ritchie, and Justin Ruckman Justin Ritchie, Justin Ruckman, and Matthew Tyndall are citizen journalists, but their vision goes beyond...

Soccer Anywhere

AKBAR MAJEED The Concrete2Green futsal center at Eastland Mall keeps kids off the streets. Akbar Majeed's love for soccer turned into an avenue to help underprivileged youthAkbar Majeed grew...

Lost and Found

When Luz Ma and Graham Beasley decided to start a family, they never dreamed they'd go to Russia and back. But that was nothing compared to the journey that awaited them when Luz Ma decided to find...

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