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More Job Cuts at The Charlotte Observer
To All Observer Employees:The Charlotte Observer continues to manage through an economic downturn that is having an unprecedented negative effect on revenues, and, therefore, our financial health. While we have taken many steps to reorganize and streamline operations to respond…
Score One for Pat McCrory
"Pat McCrory launched a desperate negative attack today in his first TV commercial of the general election – an ad that is simply untrue."Bev Perdue has consistently said that she supports offshore drilling, urging oil companies to use some of…
U R So Dumb
It's difficult to imagine Hamlet examining poor Yorick's skull and asking it, "WTF?" But this is where we may be headed, now that the text-messaging culture has infected everything from teenage communications to college schoolwork and workplace interactions. (OMG!) Here's…
Equation for Success?
When the Bill and Melinda Gates Foun-dation announced its $1.4 million grant for five of Charlotte-Mecklenburg's lowest-performing high schools in March this year, it was with the knowledge that Charlotte, as a school system and as a community, was already…
Baggage
A few years ago I thought I was having serious cardiac problems. The area around my heart would seize up in such severe pain that I would have to lie down. Both of my grandfathers died young of heart disease…
CRW Meal 7: Copper, the Last Supper
I couldn’t wait to return and dive in to the anticipated gastronomical delight in this quaint historic house on East Boulevard that has been home to numerous restaurants over the years and is most famous as the temporary residence of…
CRW Day 6: Swimming Upstream
The restaurant group’s celebrated Executive Chef Tom Condron has created a menu with a broad but approachable variety of the freshest possible seafood. Accolades abound: just after the restaurant opened in 2000, Esquire magazine food maven John Mariani named Upstream…
CRW Day 5: Diving into Melting Pot
Apparently the 1970s U.S. fondue craze is having a rebirth, with fledgling Melting Pot franchises blooming across the country. It’s nothing new, really, as the first fondue reference popped up in Homer’s Iliad. Later, the Swiss took up the practice…
Introducing "CRW: The Morning After"
Greetings Gastronomes,Bruce and Jill Hensley reporting here. We are the couple (and company) that has developed, executed and promoted the inaugural “Queen’s Feast,” Charlotte Restaurant Week (CRW).Our company, Hensley Fontana PR/Marketing, specializes in hospitality and tourism, and we learned about…
Starving Charities
Beverly Howard has been helping to feed the hungry in Charlotte for almost twenty years. In that time she has never seen a higher demand for services of Loaves and Fishes than right now. "We've been in operation for thirty-three…
Best. Gift. Ever. (?)
"Honey, what if we don't like it?" I asked.He looked up from the paper, distracted: "Don't like what?""Like having sex every day . . ."He smiled. "I don't know about you, but in my case . . . I think…
