Home & Garden picked up golds for Best Single Issue and Best Design. Charlotte magazine won gold for Best Feature (Van Miller's "Fear/Guns" ), Best Profile (Michael Kruse's "Staying Stephen" ), and Best Cover (October's barbecue cover).Silver awards winners were…
If you have a bone to pick with Kathy Reichs, good luck catching up with her. The world-renowned forensic anthropologist and best-selling author has resided in Charlotte for the last thirty years but divides her time between here and Montreal,…
To do this story, I read Sunday Money, by Jeff MacGregor; One Helluva Ride, by Liz Clarke; The Wildest Ride, by Joe Menzer; At the Altar of Speed, by Leigh Montville; The NASCAR Way, by Robert G. Hagstrom; The Subprime…
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Winter is finally over in Massachusetts. Never mind those ten inches of icy, crusty snow outside my door. The state's natives observe the change of seasons at the end of February, when the Red Sox play their first spring training…
No disrespect to the O's current columnists, but the events in Charlotte over the past several months are why columnists like Tomlinson were invented. Not only does he write like the wind, he has the gift of putting everything in…
"A short sale is not for someone who doesn't want to get their hands dirty," says Michelle Alejandre (with husband Jaime). They purchased the home for $21,000 below what the original sellers paid for it in 2006. Tough Market My…
Yes, I’m blue. I’m as blue as I can be. I’ve been hanging out in downtown Charlotte, an increasingly blue zone. I’m not talking about the blues caused by all that trouble with the banks and the down economy. What…
Architecture in downtown Charlotte faces something new: limits. For forty years, using excavators, bulldozers, and cranes, armies of workers dug holes in the ground and built the sky-scraping towers that help define this city, feeding its bumptious pride. "We’ve been…
Charlotte, which once boasted of being the nation's second-largest banking center after New York, now has a new distinction: we well could be the nation's premier loser in the financial sector meltdown.Sure, New York has the hat-trick disasters of AIG,…
Bob Morgan President, Charlotte Chamber On an early March day that felt like the first day of spring, Ken Thompson called to order the annual meeting of the Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC). When the crowd realized it…
And did anyone really think that WSOC and Time Warner wouldn't come to an agreement? Although the Observer must have loved the dispute, because Time Warner took out huge ads to plead its case to consumers.And some truly inspired writing…
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