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…
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.
From the perspective of photographer Logan Cyrus
A week of trying to balance golf in one hand, and the news of the world in the other
After Charlottesville, can anyone deny it?
On the trail of one of the sport's most legendary and flamboyant characters
Scenes from the first day of play at Quail Hollow
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.
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…
And why he’ll be back
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
After avoiding golf for years, a skeptic turns to the game to answer life’s bigger questions
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
Addressing the City Council, a woman used the soccer proposal to lament the loss of the Charlotte that was.
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…
Just 125 miles from Charlotte, the highest incorporated town east of the Rockies feels like another land, especially in summer
Family-friendly living made comfortable at a patriotic home
With the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow this month, a Charlotte native and longtime sportswriter reflects on the city’s growth as a sports town
Dressing for the golf club, including this month's PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, doesn't have to mean stuffy. We put together two winning outfits for a day walking the fairways or relaxing in the clubhouse.
Quail Hollow will receive all the national attention this month, but across town a nine-hole course with a remarkable history is named for golf legend Charlie Sifford—and it remains the course for everyone
In the spring of 2013, I wrote a feature story for this magazine about the latest wave of growth in uptown. During the editing process, then-editor Rick Thurmond handed the story—and me—to his replacement as editor: a soft-spoken guy named…
THE YOUNG MAN WALKED into the barbershop around the end of May, a few days after his release from the Mecklenburg County Jail. He was 18, and he’d served nine months for breaking into cars. He looked at the barber…
JIM NANTZ HAS GIVEN VOICE to the sports soundtrack of our lives. Since 1985, he has worked for CBS Sports, becoming the network’s most recognizable talent while calling many of the biggest sporting events in the world. Nantz debuted on…
