Is Charlotte Southern?
Not long after I moved to Charlotte, in the summer of 1989, I was crossing Church Street with a coworker who grew up in New York City. Just as we jaywalked out into the street, a car whipped around the…
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Jim Szoke: The Voice of the Panthers
Meet the man who has been narrating the team's games since 1995
In the Rearview Mirror: Busing in Charlotte
“James has never known the meaning of racial segregation,” Darius Swann wrote of his six-year-old son in a September 2, 1964 letter to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. “We have been happy to watch him grow and develop with an unaffected…
The Fall of the Lions
When busing ended, West Charlotte High School went from being a model for the nation to a problem the city has yet to solve
The Story of Charlotte, Part 5: Blood’s Bedroom
Charlotte avoids becoming a battlefield during the Civil War. But as the South is decimated, the city becomes a place of refuge for the Confederacy—including, in the end, the fleeing president from a nation that never was
Adjustable-Rate Suburbs
Where more for less is becoming more for more
The Many Faces of Bojangles’ Coliseum
A look back at the venue's history, before it changes again
Herrin Brothers Ice: A Family Legacy
The new light rail won’t destroy a company that has been heating and cooling NoDa for 85 years
Some Things We Love about the August Issue
How the August 2014 issue became one of our most popular ever
Editor Beats Publisher in Company Bowling Outing
Related: Magazine people are terrible bowlers
Goodwill Announces Plans for $20 Million Opportunity Campus
Robert and Carlos Hunter took Tuesday morning off work. That’s not an easy thing for them to do these days. Their construction business is still relatively young, a little more than three years old, and they're always looking for more…
Why Was This WWII Bomber Circling My House?
No really. I have a picture and everything.
50 Things Every Charlottean Should Do
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The Story of Charlotte, Part 4: Whistles to War
Charlotte’s fight for the railroad, and the bigger battles that follow
Period.
The man who writes obituaries, the people who hire him, and what we learn from our last words
Wheels Through Time
From the executive editor
Welcome to the World, Son
A father’s letter to the greatest thing in the world
Around Towns: Matthews
Fresh food, fresh faces, and an old way of life preserved
Riding the Waves at the U.S. National Whitewater Center
Despite the center’s ups and downs, Jeff Wise stays steady at the helm
Soccer for the Masses
The Guinness International Champions Cup comes to Charlotte
LYNX Blue Line Extension: What You Need to Know
This spring, the light rail extension began taking shape in NoDa. Here’s what you need to know about the train that will connect uptown to UNC Charlotte
Rooted: Charlotte magazine essay to be included in new book
Virginia Brown among list of writers in 27 Views of Charlotte: The Queen City in Prose & Poetry
The Story of Charlotte, Part 3: The Corrupting Treasure
Two hundred years before Charlotte becomes a banking hub, a gold rush gives the city its first taste of wealth
Top Doctors 2014
Our annual list of the area's best returns
Joe DeLamielleure Wants to Live
But will his brain let him?
Friend of a Friend: Project Life
About 23 million people are on the bone marrow donor registry. But to those who can’t find a match, that’s not enough. Now, some of Charlotte’s most influential people are rallying around one of their own to build the list of a lifetime
A Year and Change
From the executive editor
Anthony Foxx: All Roads Lead to Washington
A year ago, he was still Charlotte's mayor. Now settled into his job as U.S. Secretary of Transportation, the West Charlotte graduate has the task of addressing perhaps the most important question for America’s future: How are we going to get around?
