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TabbedOut, the iPhone/Android app we broke the news on this morning, has officially launched in NC! Though Charlotte missed by a hair, the app is now live in Raleigh. I personally am excited to try it out and that our great state is included in the list of 7 states supporting the app (along with Texas, [...]

A little birdy told me today that TabbedOut will go-live in NC soon, as in very soon. Ooh look! It’s an exclusive report! As seen on NBC, Mashable, and The Food Channel, TabbedOut is a location-based iPhone and Android app that allows customers to close out their bar or restaurant tab (at an affiliated establishment) via their [...]

The Democratic National Committee Summer Meeting in St Louis, MO (#STL) begins tomorrow. Representatives of bidding cities will have a ‘meeting of the minds’ to discuss political approach for the 2012 DNC. This morning at 10AM EST we strongly encourage the city of Charlotte (because we’ve got a bid in for the DNC, too) and [...]

#IgniteCLT was last night at The Neighborhood Theatre in the heart of NoDa. Local visionaries and  tech nerds gathered to be inspired and, if you weren’t there, you missed a killer version of Happy Birthday being sung to presenter Becky Knight. It’s not often you get to hear 200+ people sing Happy Birthday to a [...]

So, we CLTBlog.com folk volunteer for a lot of stuff around town if you haven’t guessed already. One thing we’re regularly involved with is Pecha Kucha (@PKNCLT) and tonight is one event we really encourage everyone in Charlotte’s creative class to attend. Tonight we’ve got presenters speaking on a wide range of topics from physics to art [...]

“The Mecklenburg County Health Department is receiving a $300,000 grant to curb smoking at college campuses in the area. The funds come from the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund, and are part $1.2 million being distributed across the state in the third phase of its Tobacco-Free Colleges initiative. The health department will bring anti-smoking [...]

Local photographer Armando Bellmas, whom I had a wonderful chat with about a year ago about his influences as a Charlotte based artist, has a really nice interview of local artist Sharon Dowell up on his blog, Be Still Please. He talks with her about how living in Charlotte influences her work and showcases some [...]

Move over Ladies… there is a new Festival in town and it’s all about the Dudes! Just a month after NoDa saw the invasion of Femmefest 2010, its time for the men to party with DudeFest! And why not? Last year, Charlotte was listed at number two on the “Top 50 Manliest Cities” in America [...]

TEDxCharlotte is a licensed TED event that CLTBlog is involved with on a volunteer basis. The conference series started over 20 years ago in California and has birthed many smaller TEDx events since then.  Think “Ideas Worth Spreading”, which is pretty self explanatory. TEDxCharlotte will feature presentations by some of the Queen City and surrounding [...]

Grammy-nominated vocalist Jordin Sparks kicked off The Battlefield Tour on June 2nd and is stopping though Charlotte to sing. Lucky for us she agreed to answer some questions I couldn’t wait to ask! I’m a big Jordin Sparks fan mostly because she’s one of the performers that keeps her name out of the gossip rags, [...]

Well this one is a bummer! I love this Center of the Earth Gallery, especially during the NoDa Gallery Crawls! The Center of the Earth Gallery will close this month after nearly 24 years of anchoring the North Davidson arts district. “We are closing because we can, not because we have to,” says Paul Sires, [...]

Last night was the Sex and the City 2 VIP event & pre-screening of the movie and man, did Charlotte’s ladies show up and they brought their style with them! Everyone there was dressed in their sexiest, looking all hot on a Tuesday night. There were tons of Charlotte’s familiar faces! Ladycat Stacey, Cubby from [...]