“This side! Stand up and yell: ‘Fight, Knights, fight! Fight, Knights, fight!’ ” A lone football hurtles through the looming dusk, a fanfare of blue and white pompoms flutters, and the crowd, buzzing from Charlotte Christian School’s first-quarter touchdown at…
He's committed to play football at UNC, but Williams says winning a state championship is his focus right now. As a member of the first graduating class to have started at Mallard Creek High School as freshmen, he wants to add to his group’s legacy.
One play, one and a half yards to go. The South Point Red Raiders huddle around their coach, get their instructions, and then, weary but hungry, line up across from the ball. If they can keep the Lincolnton Wolfpack from…
At home games, the Charlotte Catholic Cougars run onto Jim Oddo field. Not far behind them runs Coach Oddo, his red or brown ball cap tugged low, his mind churning about the next play. Charlotte Catholic, in its thirty-seventh season…
We're just as tired as you are of hearing about the doom and gloom in our public schools. So instead of rehashing the bad we turned to the good — as in some really amazing kids.
As the Blue Ridge Parkway's stewards look to the future on its seventy-fifth anniversary, its visitors continue to enjoy the spectacular views that have made it famous
Charlotte—and North Carolina—is in the midst of a beer revolution, and we’ll drink to that.
After decades of planning and dreaming, the Mint Museum finally has a fancy new uptown location all its own. Now new leader Kathleen Jameson is challenged with building a museum to match
For our February issue, Charlotte journalist Rhiannon Bowman profiled David Merryman, who serves as the Catawba Riverkeeper. This was the subtitle of that story: "David Merryman, charged with protecting the Catawba River, has a big job in any year. But…
The more we learn about where most of our beef comes from, the more we are demanding that it be local and grass-fed. An unlikely breed of rancher is answering the call
Ten great spots to spend a couple days or a long weekend—the shopping, the fine dining, the spas!—all within driving distance of Charlotte. So pack your bags, fill ’er up, and spend the weekend getting away from it all
“All cities are ideas, ultimately. They create themselves, and the rest of the world apprehends them or ignores them as it chooses.”Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections, wrote that. It came early in his first novel, called The Twenty-Seventh City,…
After an infamous steak dinner and the county’s fiscal crisis, Parks Helms is battling to preserve what he once thought was a sure thing—his legacy
Following your favorite celebs on Twitter? Make sure it's actually them
An online dating site for the unfaithful is thriving in Charlotte
Rasslers, rogues, and rapscallions. The original Hornets and Panthers. A guy in a Speedo, a serial killer, and The Group who built modernday Charlotte. We tracked down 70 newsmakers from the past few decades, and their stories spill over the following 24 pages
Or I can just make stuff up, which is much more fun
Darryl and Ricky Childers were hometown heroes, football stars at Davidson, and friends. One was in the Peace Corps, the other a banker thinking about seminary. Then came the tragedy of October 22, 2009
In the 1970s and 1980s, under the leadership of promoter Jim Crockett Sr., Charlotte was a hot spot for professional wrestling, just as the "sport" was beginning to take off. Even after Ted Turner bought Crockett's company and moved it to Atlanta, many "rasslers" stuck around.
It takes work to keep families strong. Work, and a good old-fashioned family vacation
ON THE MORNING of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school -she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat,…
THIS MAY BEWILDER or bother plenty of people, but here goes anyway: Jim Bakker hosts a religious TV show with his perky wife. At age seventy-one, he preaches God's love while peddling Jesus pendants and the like from a new Christian…
For a moment, Jay Thomas ponders the interview's theme. "Where are they now?" he says, sounding amused. "Well, f---, I'm right here." Actually, Thomas seems to be everywhere. He's just wrapped up his regular Friday gig hosting Howard Stern's 7…
The Carolina Panthers played in Clemson the first season while Bank of America Stadium was being constructed. Courtesy of Carolina Panthers It's difficult for longtime Charlotte residents to believe, but there is an entire generation of sports fans who don't…
On our 2010 Top Doctors list you'll find 276 physicians in 60 specialties that other doctors said they would send their loved ones to if they were in need of medical attention
Love it or hate it, if you're uptown, you can't ignore EpiCentre.
Remember when The Washington Post ran this story last fall? It really irritated local business leaders, not least because it was written by a former Observer reporter, the talented Binyamin Appelbaum. In fact, it still holds a special place in…
"Those Who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it," goes the famous line. With Charlotte's growth on hold, it's time to look back at what we did right -- and what we screwed up.
