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Still Fighting
In my early twenties I decided to go to Boston for graduate school. I'd lived in North Carolina my entire life. By the time I was packing my U-Haul to head north I had been given specific instructions to…
Symphony announces 09/10 season: Yo Yo Ma coming
FROM PRESS RELEASE: The Charlotte Symphony announces today its 2009-2010 Bank of America Classics Series, a new 10-program season of inspiring orchestral masterworks with extraordinary guest artists. “Our 78th season is an exciting year of transition, as the Symphony embarks…
Charlotte Fillmore Music Hall looking like a sure thing
The project is designed to look like The Fillmore, the historic music venue in San Francisco, and is expected to bring national acts to uptown Charlotte. The 20,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in June and will have a capacity…
Charlotte mentioned in The Atlantic cover story
"Last fall, [Charlotte] escaped losing, big-time, by no more than a hair’s breadth. Overall, the roster of places that benefit from the failure of their champions’ rivals will probably be pretty short, and the names on the roster somewhat unpredictable.…
Trouble in Whitewater City
Local news orgs are reporting that the center has defaulted on its loans and that it will once again ask local governments to chip in the max. Jeff Wise, the executive director, "could not be reached for comment." County commish…
I-Banker: The new epithet
“I’d almost rather say I’m a pornographer,” said a retired Wall Street executive who, for self-evident reasons, asked not to be identified. “At least that’s a business that people understand.”The story has more than 250 comments. Here's Gawker's take.
Aligning My Compass
The woman in the Harris Teeter bathroom kept talking. "I've gotten so used to these faucets that when I go home, I hold out my hands and wait for the water to come on. Then I remember I'm not at…
Modern Mr. Mom
"The women tend to think he doesn't know what he's doing when he does," says Allen's wife, Valerie. Allen often takes his four-year-old twins, Quentin and Ainsley, to a playgroup he organized in his neighborhood. It's an early Thursday morning…
It's Not Easy Being Green
It wasn't until I found myself yelling at my mother that her use of paper plates instead of reusable ceramic ones was going to kill baby seals that I realized my Going Green for Thirty Days experiment may have gotten…
Bruce Springsteen, the Super Bowl and ex-Observer writers
In the piece, Posnanski writes about attending Springsteen's last Charlotte show. I was there, too, and it was great. (As a hardcore and longtime Bruce fan, I have no qualms with him playing the Super Bowl. Why should Tom Petty…
