How Can We Keep Housing Affordable?
As teachers, cooks, cashiers, and bus drivers are being priced out of Charlotte, one question looms: How does a growing, thriving city in modern America keep housing affordable for its working-class citizens?
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Transportation: How to Avoid Becoming Atlanta
The plans, and some suggestions, for Charlotte’s ever-growing webwork of transportation options
Essay: One Immigrant's Journey
In a city where the Latino population is growing by the day, one man’s journey shows how the help of just a few people can change families for generations
Why Access to High-Quality Preschool Could Be Our Best Chance
Mecklenburg County’s bold plan could be the way to boost two generations
Photos: Uptown During the Great American Eclipse
WHILE MANY CHARLOTTEANS traveled elsewhere for 100-percent totality during the Great American Eclipse, the city was still abuzz with onlookers. Photographer Logan Cyrus captured scenes around uptown on Monday. Take a look below.
How Can We Bridge the Community-Police Divide?
One year ago, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, and Charlotte erupted. Today, CMPD and the citizens it’s supposed to serve peer at each other across a gulf of distrust that some members of both sides are trying harder than ever to cross
Our City's Most Pressing Concerns (And Why We Can't Wait to Fix Them)
And why we can't wait to fix them
Where Can You Get Some Eclipse Glasses?
LISTEN. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s an eclipse coming. But glasses needed to view the Monday event are elusive for Charlotteans. So we’ve compiled an ongoing list of businesses that are selling them or will have them…
Editor's Note (September 2017): A Backdrop for Big Things
ONE EVENING not long after I moved to Charlotte, I slipped into a comfortable chair at Park Road Books to listen to an author who once created an entire fictional community out of fish stories. Daniel Wallace is best known…
The End of Healthy Home Market?
Healthy Home Market, under one name or another, has sold local, organic food in Charlotte since 1979. Now, under financial pressure from larger competitors, it’s put itself on the market.
Photos: The Last Day at Quail Hollow
From the perspective of photographer Logan Cyrus
Closing Thoughts on the PGA Championship
A week of trying to balance golf in one hand, and the news of the world in the other
Opinion: ‘Who We Are’
After Charlottesville, can anyone deny it?
A Photographer (and Golf Newbie) Discovers John Daly
On the trail of one of the sport's most legendary and flamboyant characters
Round One at the PGA Championship
Scenes from the first day of play at Quail Hollow
CMPD Reformers’ Half-Victory
The Citizens Review Board didn’t rule against police in the Keith Scott case—but for the first time, it didn’t endorse the officer’s actions, either.
The Sound and the Fairway
YOU'D EXPECT IT to be quiet here, under a waning moon and beside the dew-flecked grass at Quail Hollow Club. It’s an hour or so before sunrise, about that long before fans in polos and khakis and sunblock stroll in for…
That Time Rory McIlroy Almost Moved to Charlotte
And why he’ll be back
Why it’s OK to Love the PGA Championship
GOT MY 10,000 STEPS in Monday. A golf course requests that of a pair of feet. Up slopes and down stairs, and side to side on the walkways when those Tasmanian-devil television people with The Golf Channel logo on their…
3 Things to Know: PGA Championship
THE CHAMPIONSHIP ROUNDS at Quail Hollow Club are slated to begin on Thursday (Aug. 10). Below, find three things to know about the PGA Championship. 1. How Can I Watch It? On Thursday (Aug. 10) and Friday (Aug. 11), live…
A Contentious Council Shuffle
Charlotte’s mayor has the authority to assign council members to key committees. On Friday, Jennifer Roberts switched Ed Driggs’ assignment—and the GOP saw red.
Kristen Wile Named New Editor of Charlotte Magazine
LOGAN CYRUS We needed something special. Nearly 200 people applied for the open senior editor position at Charlotte magazine in the fall of 2014. Dozens were qualified. Many were better than qualified. At the time, though, our editorial staff consisted…
Finding Fresh Starts in a New School Year
MORE THAN 150,000 students are expected to start school in Mecklenburg County in the next few weeks. Take a minute and let that sink in. More than 150,000 people are going to be doing something different than they were the…
See Which Charlotte Locale Appears in LOGAN LUCKY
IF YOU GOT WORD of actors Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, and Adam Driver robbing Charlotte Motor Speedway, you heard correctly. Welcome to the ridiculous world of Logan Lucky, in which Craig’s bleached-blond hair, Tatum’s country accent, and Driver’s prosthetic arm…
Last Call With Ron Stodghill: What I Learned from Plaid Trousers
After avoiding golf for years, a skeptic turns to the game to answer life’s bigger questions
A Look Back at the the Timeless Carson McCullers
In 1937, an unconventional woman moved to Charlotte and began working on her best-selling novel. Eighty years later, it’s hard not to wonder whether she’d be accepted here today
Roundup: Charlotte’s ‘Absentee Landlords’
Addressing the City Council, a woman used the soccer proposal to lament the loss of the Charlotte that was.
How to See Aug. 21's Solar Eclipse
FOR THE FIRST TIME since 1979, a total solar eclipse will be visible in the contiguous United States. The August 21 event has space nerds and schoolteachers planning special viewing parties, and some of the best views are within a short…
