Controversial YouTube star Jake Paul reportedly got into a bit of trouble on Monday at our very own Carowinds amusement park. As he rode a mobility scooter around the park, his team allegedly encouraged a crowd of fans to follow him and…
Jesse Soloff’s essay “Our Last Home,” which appeared in the April 2017 issue of Charlotte magazine, won the “Essays/Commentary/Criticism” award at the 33nd-annual National City and Regional Magazine Awards on Monday. This year, the national awards ceremony was held in…
Pop your own pizza in the oven or on the grill for an easy way to entertain. Food writer Cat Carter shares the best ingredients to keep it seasonal and local
Heather Batt launched her uptown wedding boutique weeks before the market crashed in 2008. Ten years later, business is thriving
IT'S HARD to teach someone to be curious. It may not be possible. Some people are more naturally interested in new experiences than others. Our experiences reinforce or challenge that natural “set point” as we sort them into memories that…
MY STOMACH seems to be rejecting the medications I’m taking for a sinus and ear infection, and I think of Denis’ dad, Miles. Only a few days before I became this sad sight—lying on my side in bed, trying to…
GOOOAAALLLLL! Few things compare to watching a heated soccer match with some of the sport's diehards. Beers clank, spilling onto outfits, and vocal chords stretch when an underdog team sneaks the ball beyond the opposing keeper's grasp, with fans singing…
Richard Kessler plans on bringing funk to Charlotte's hotel scene
THE MOMENT Rosa Plaza Dest signed on to a design project in Myers Park, she knew it would test her skills. The homeowners wanted Dest, owner of Rosa Dest Interiors, to refresh the interior of their traditional brick home, while…
How one sentence from my father shaped my perspective on a complicated national conversation years later
For the past three decades, the emergence of cankerworms has accompanied the blossoming flowers and running weather during spring. This season, the little green caterpillars that always seem to find a home on cars or people’s heads were nearly absent…
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Faith and courage mark an attorney’s quiet influence
THIS WAS 35 YEARS AGO, but Rev. Lisa Saunders still remembers the day a mourner had to run up to the lectern and hand her a handkerchief. It was during the funeral of the church secretary she had worked with…
IN MY EARLY 20S, back when I graded most things as either amazing or awful, I was the proud founder of an intramural soccer team named “I Hate Soccer.” The gist was that we were made up of people who…
In wake of the city’s failed Amazon bid, there are new questions about the Charlotte Regional Partnership’s ability to recruit companies
As the Revolution swirls around Charlotte, allegiances are formed, a college rises, and a city carves out an identity
All your questions answered.
EIGHT MINUTES BEFORE the North Carolina Legislature convened at noon on Wednesday, Rep. John Autry stepped into the doorway of his Raleigh office wearing an apple made of construction paper on his lapel. It read “Char/Meck.” At the same moment,…
MORE THAN A DOZEN groups and causes have designated May as a month for awareness. Mental Health Month is just one of those. This month also marks the 17th anniversary of my own battle with depression. I thought I’d escaped the…
On his WBT Radio show Wednesday, former Charlotte Mayor and N.C. Governor Pat McCrory remarked on Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s ‘segregated political system.’
African-Americans hold nearly all key elected offices in Charlotte. What does, and will, that mean?
We sat down with first-term Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles to discuss the changes she and new City Council members have brought to the city’s operation.
The Wall Street investment firm AllianceBernstein on Wednesday announced a relocation that will move 1,050 jobs and $70 million in investment to ... Nashville. That doesn’t mean a collapse of the sky in Charlotte.
Photographs from a year in the Smokies
Now’s the time to support the places we want to keep alive
A life sentence turned into her life’s work
Fifty years after the civil rights leader’s death, an opera urges each of us to do more
