THERE'S A DRAGON head attached to the bow of the boat and a tail adorning the stern. Twenty rowers glide across the water in unison, following the beat of an onboard drummer. It takes strength, focus, and endurance to compete in…
A Charlotte native remembers when men had two places to shop for clothing in the city, and they were within a short stroll of each other on Tryon Street
> Best Hot Yoga Arrichion Expert yogis and novices will enjoy Arrichion, tucked down a side street in South End. The classes, which run from 45 minutes to an hour, are challenging yet relaxing, and they’re typically filled with a…
With Publix opening stores from Ballantyne to Cornelius and a Whole Foods planned uptown, the options for grocery shopping can be overwhelming. Whether you’re an avid coupon collector or dread pushing the shopping cart, these tips will help you navigate the aisles.
Goodbye to you, Charlotte: Here’s to all the things I’ll miss and all the things I missed
WAKE UP, SLEEPY POET. The BOBs are back in town, here to celebrate Charlotte, here to introduce you to the best things our city has to offer. Want to meet them? Of course you do. Carpe Diem, and all. They…
Six months after an accident left her grounded, the former US Army Golden Knight is on her way back up
ON APRIL 7, historian and UNC Charlotte professor David Goldfield, takes a look back on a century and a half of Charlotte history in his talk, “Visions of the New South—1860s and today,” at the Levine Museum of the New…
Rising rents, hot neighborhoods for investors, and other facts you need to know about the real estate market this year.
Home sales are down, rental prices are up, and everywhere you look in South End, a new apartment complex is rising. Charlotte is finally attracting legions of young professionals to its urban center, but that means some families are fleeing to the outskirts of town. The latest real estate boom raises an old question: Will we grow up, or out?
When school budgets are tight, arts courses often are the first to be cut. But for many kids in Charlotte, art isn’t just a fun break from math or science—it gives them a place in the world
Charlotte City Manager Ron Carlee has had to handle a state attempt to seize control of the city’s airport, a hot-potato transit project, and an arrested mayor. He’s done so by getting to work, and remembering when times were far worse
Led by Hugh McColl and a motivated banking industry, Charlotte becomes the world-class city it’s always wanted to be. Or does it?
The other Southern city’s growing fascination with being more like Charlotte
EIGHT YEARS AGO, two North Carolina men made national headlines because of an unusual custody dispute. It started with an auction of items inside a storage unit in Maiden, a small town west of Lake Norman. Shannon Whisnant opened up…
The clarinetist is an ambassador for klezmer, the Jewish folk music of his youth
Former New York Times staff writer and Nieman Fellow will take over back-page duties
The home of America’s first public university belongs to us all because no matter where we went to school, we’re all in search of memories
Just south of the state line lies a nature-lover’s dream: acres of water, wildlife, and wonder
Lessons from the course that played host to the 2012 PGA Championship
THE BEST THING about an antique is that it had an owner, maybe two or three, before you. Someone else held it, stored it, worked with it, dented it, molded it. When you purchase an antique you don’t just purchase…
Where people from all over the world go to immerse themselves in the music of the mountains
In Bishopville, South Carolina, one man’s plant project has inspired people for three decades
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Charlotte tears down a neighborhood and disperses its people, a young lawyer fights for civil rights, and the buses roll
Auctioning off old times at a Plaza Midwood landmark
The online station shares good tunes with friends
A frustrated resident of northern Charlotte speaks out
From Chiquita to charter schools to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, 2015 is off to a turbulent start. Here are some of the highlights.
