It's well documented that Charlotte's charities, once the beneficiaries of such philanthropic largesse that it was a point of civic pride, have suffered mightily during this recession. The reasons have been equally well documented: health and human services nonprofits have…
The December issue hits the mailstream any day now, but I thought I would offer a quick sneak peek of the cover.
Has it already been a week since we elected a new mayor?The narrow victory of Anthony Foxx over John Lassiter, coupled with a near-Democratic sweep of the at-large City Council seats, prompted a bevy of insightful analysis. Here's the best:Brian…
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal offered a narrative of how Ken Lewis "lost control of a bank he had worked at for 40 years" (here's the link, but the story is for subscribers only).Meanwhile, nymag.com's irreverent blog Daily…
For our November issue, Ken Garfield interviewed nine Charlotteans who are survivors of the Holocaust. Together with Chris Edwards's photographs, the result is a compelling, poignant portrait of a group of people who lived through horrors I can't even imagine.The…
Enjoyed Lawrence Toppman's profle of the Blumenthal's Douglas Young in the Charlotte Observer. Young books the talent at the Blumenthal's cohort of theater spaces, and he's one of the Charlotte arts scene's good guys. He should get a lot of…
What, we don't have a sports blog on this site? Who's in charge of this operation? Guess I'll have to fill in. I did start my career as a sportswriter, writing for this weekly paper.Former Davidson star Stephen Curry played…
An article in Slate.com, a digital-only publication, albeit one that is consistently contrary in nature, sort of backs up what I wrote yesterday, that the recent precipitous decline in newspaper circulation does not signal the demise of newspapers. (Now that…
McClatchy recently released circulation numbers for its papers, and all the numbers went down. In the past six months, the Charlotte Observer lost more than 20,000 daily subscribers over the past six months, bringing total circ down to 167,585 (source).The…
In uptown’s Phil’s Tavern there’s a framed photo of the female staff: about a dozen women all (barely) wearing tube tops. “A strip club!” you might gasp, before tiptoeing out the side door.
CONFETTI FLUTTERED from the ceiling, a big, rowdy crowd roared, and Bobby Lutz had tears in his eyes as he blew a kiss to his wife in the stands. Lutz’s Charlotte 49ers had just beaten their rivals from the University of Cincinnati in a basketball game at a sold-out Halton Arena on the school’s campus up at University City.
This new blog takes the place of our old catch-all blog, The Daily Buzz. Well, sort of. Although I wrote most of The Daily Buzz posts, we also ran small articles from other writers. And the topics were all over…
Three weeks ago I shut off part of my brain. It was a self-inflicted lobotomy, accompanied only by the fizzling sound of my computer shutting down.I gave up the Internet for three weeks. I chewed through my electronic leash to…
Today my brother is climbing redwoods in California. He's helping a famous research team collect data from the world's largest trees, Sequoiadendron giganteum. High in the canopy are ecosystems that exist nowhere else on Earth, isolated for hundreds of years…
View He Said, She Said in a larger map The LongtimerAge: 52Profession: Owner of The Common Market, South EndResidence: Poplar Apartment Condominiums at the corner of Tenth and Poplar streets, in the Fourth WardYears in the city: 30"I initially came…
The WFAE Public Conversation will feature a panel of experts on charitable needs and community philanthropy including – Todd Cohen, Editor and Publisher of the Raleigh-based Philanthropy Journal; Carol Hardison, Executive Director of Crisis Assistance Ministry in Charlotte; and, Richard…
Exclusively @charlottemagazine.com Listen to Presbyterian's forensic nurses describe what it's like to do their jobs. Nestled inside the labyrinth of hallways, corridors, and nursing stations of Presbyterian Hospital's emergency department is a nondescript exam room. Hand-painted flowers run along the…
