UNC Charlotte’s Brad Lambert is coach of a (brand-new) football team. With no practice facilities, no stadium, and no players yet, he’s spending this year ordering business cards and observing other programs. But he knows he’s a part of history, and he’s savoring every day
With the departure of one of the city’s biggest environmental advocates, Charlotte’s green movement faces a murky future
One of the South’s best foods is underappreciated. That needs to change
One group plans to turn Charlotte into a social media hub during the DNC
In the country’s lowest performing schools one national education reform group is trying to use its young, energetic teachers to make a difference and to close the ever-daunting achievement gap. In Charlotte, one of those teachers is defying the odds—school violence, low funding, poor infrastructure—to do just that.
As the county’s greenspace gets swallowed up at an alarming rate, the Catawba Lands Conservancy is working hard to preserve what’s left of our natural land. Born out of civil disobedience, the group has held off funding challenges and the occasional politician. As it celebrates its twentieth anniversary, it has big plans for the next twenty
How four European artists traversed time and space to alter the identity of Charlotte
What about Charlotteans? Where do we stack up? To find out, we narrowed down the five conditions and diseases that affect us the most and found out just how healthy (and unhealthy) we really are
Who says sports belong to the young? One local softball league, in which a third of the players are over sixty, offers that thing we all want—a chance to keep playing
Charlotte has been called a “foreclosure hot spot” and one of the nation’s worst gas-guzzling cities. Meanwhile, fuel prices continue to climb, single-family home sales continue to dip, and developers still exert undue influence over the planning process
When the little pink dome on my leg turned out to be cancer, I thought of myself, then other young women basking in the sun. Then I thought of my kids
The editors of The New York Times Sunday Magazine--one of the best mags in the business--publish a surprisingly uninteresting blog (note to the seven people who read this blog: I totally get the irony of me making that statement) called…
Some interesting stuff in the big O this morning:"Love him or hate him, but Gorman made a difference"Once again, Tommy Tomlinson demonstrates how he's become the conscience of the city. I admire his adventures in storytelling, but I wish he…
This morning, I had the opportunity to watch Anthony Foxx and Jim Rogers discuss the Democratic National Convention in a moderated conversation (that is to say, a moderator asked questions and then Foxx and Rogers answered them, more or less.…
In this JumboTron era, do people still get excited about being on TV? Sure they do! That's why it's the JumboTron era!Rob Boisvert over at News 14 Charlotte is kind enough to host me as a semiregular guest on his…
Because I know you're dying to read it, here's my editor's note column from the June issue:If you're bored this summer, don't blame us.This issue is packed with ideas of what to do from June to September. I started to…
I just got word that Davidson College, the little school just up the road that is most famous for being my alma mater (kidding), just named its 18th president. Carol Quillen, who will also be the first college's president in…
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There are 98 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day — and we have an idea for every one of them
Microloans could give a big boost to small business in Charlotte
James Lubo Mijak survived the infamous Sudanese Lost Boys death march and years in refugee camps. He ended up in Charlotte and settled in well. Now he’s facing one of his toughest challenges—he’s going back home
Others can commemorate the Civil War, America’s ugliest and bloodiest episode, all they want. I’m going to celebrate my hero Shelby Foote—the man who wrote its story
According to an article in The New York Times today, some municipalities are trying to figure out ways to "tax" nonprofits who occupy valuable, expensive land. They're not using the word "tax," of course, but some form of the term…
This past Thursday, the Magazine Association of the Southeast held its annual conference in Atlanta. I'm proud to report that we picked up eight Gamma awards at the conference's luncheon. Charlotte magazine won six awards, and our sister publications Charlotte…
I couldn't help but notice an interesting juxtaposition on the front page of today's Charlotte Observer. Below the fold, there was a story about two Muslim imams who were kicked off a US Airways flight. Right next to it was…
We scoured Charlotte all year long to compile this year’s list of 138 Best of the Best winners, from the best burger and the best childrens shoe store to the best house cleaner and the best happy hour and more!
As a lifelong racing fan and Charlotte native, I wanted to like the NASCAR Hall of Fame. But it just wasn’t honest enough
The corner of Caswell and Seventh streets has always been cursed ... until now
