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Festa Italiana is Sunday, May 16 from 1PM to 7PM! Save the date! A CHARITABLE EVENT FOR THE NEVINS CENTER CREATING OPPORTUNITES for the DISABLED and DISADVANTAGED OF OUR COMMUNITY CELEBRATING ITALIAN CULTURE FOOD and WINE LIVE ENTERTAINMENT SILENT AUCTION UNLIMITED ITALIAN FOOD AND WINE via St Anthony Charlotte. Ticket prices vary and can be [...]

Tons of people in fancy hats and fancy pants flocked to the 15th Annual Queens Cup Steeplechase in Waxhaw this weekend for a day of tailgaiting, horses, terrier races and fun!  I went out to spend the day at the race and was pleasantly surprised that there was such a thing in the South that [...]

The Carolina Panthers announced the schedule for the 2010-11 football season at the new Giants Stadium, which is across the parking lot from where the old stadium stood. PRESEASON Thursday Aug 12 @ Baltimore Ravens 8:00 pm Saturday Aug 21 NEW YORK JETS 8:00 pm P Saturday Aug 28 TENNESSEE TITANS 8:00 pm Thursday Sept [...]

Unemployment in the Charlotte metro area fell to 11.9 percent in March from 12.8 percent in February, according to the N.C. Employment Security Commission. The ESC says 102,809 residents were unemployed in March in the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord area. Read more at the Charlotte Business Journal.

Doors open at 7, the presentations begin at 7:30! It’s that time again!  Dharma Lounge is hosting Pecha Kucha, a gathering of creative and innovative minds to present on a variety of forward thinking topics designed to intrigue and fortify Charlotte’s culture. From the press kit: Born in Tokyo a few years ago, “Pecha Kucha” – Japanese [...]

Did you know Charlotte in the 2000 Census only had 63-68% participation rates? It’s true. Think about all of the federal money we missed out on because people didn’t return their census!!!! Lately the 2010 Census Bureau has been hitting the airwaves, billboards and tv ads pretty hard to encourage people to complete the paperwork [...]

photo: James Willamor; view this photo on Flickr Tuesday evening CLTBlog-tographer James Willamor and I had the most amazing opportunity to cover a speech given by the Former President of Mexico. He was in town with the Former First Lady, Marta, speaking at the Charlotte Museum of History for their Distinguished Speaker Series. Even better, I [...]

A little over a month ago Foursquare, the location-based social media scavenger hunt/game, chose inclusion for Charlotte in it’s then very elite list of cities supported by the app/website. In no time at all we’ve seen local/independent business are getting in on the Foursquare e-gold rush.  We’ve already covered UNC Charlotte, so here are the [...]

Check out what the creator of Favrd, a widely popular service that showcased who “favorited” tweets and tallied them, said via the Favrd homepage the day he pulled the plug on it a little over a week ago: There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is [...]

Part of what makes Twitter so enchanting is that it’s still considered “safe” (for the time being) in the minds of those who use it. The average person isn’t bombarded with some of the net elements they encounter nearly everywhere else: there are not tons of unwanted ads, or spam, or what I can only [...]

voice: Jeff Elder, production: Justin Ruckman, music: RJD2; watch in HD on Vimeo There’s an impostor on your Twitter and it’s not who you think. Want to know what former Observer social networking columnist Jeff Elder is responding to? Catch the second installation of our three-part series on #TheBotFather tomorrow morning.

The second BarCamp Charlotte kicks off this morning at Area Fifteen in Charlotte. If you have never heard of BarCamp, here’s the skinny from the website: BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related [...]