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The 6th edition of Charlotte Pecha Kucha Night went down this past Friday. Pecha Kucha Night continues to evolve and always showcases some of the best and brightest in the QC. Earlier this year, Charlotte Pecha Kucha was selected the city’s “Best Creative Gathering” in the Charlotte Magazine “Best of the Best” awards. PKN CLT [...]

From PC Mag: There’s more mobile data competition than ever before, and more people are surfing the Internet on the move. So PCMag.com decided to take a snapshot of America’s mobile networks and see who’s doing the best in 18 cities. Using more than a dozen staffers and freelancers with software of our own design, [...]

Street scenes outside the NRA convention. Charlotte hosted the 2010 National Rifle Association Annual Meeting (NRAAM) over this past weekend. The NRA reports that up to 70,000 people visited the convention. On Friday afternoon, crowds slowly began to file out of the arena after Sarah Palin’s speech. There were no guns to be seen; the [...]

Have you been wondering what those things are on South Tryon Street at the I-277 bridge? Those are the latest monuments donated to the city by the Queens Table foundation – anonymous donors who also gave us the Queen Charlotte statue at the airport, among other monuments. Read the Queens Table monuments presentation to city [...]

Uptown’s streets are the heart of Charlotte’s political voice. Anybody who has anything to say, to celebrate, or to protest, can do so publicly here. I love to photograph the honesty seen on the streets. Rallies for an against everything from taxes, to war, to human rights, to religion – every side of every issue [...]

Los Angeles transit website MetroRiderLA recently created a bracket of NBA playoff teams based on their home city transit systems. The first round matches Charlotte against Orlando. Will CATS fare better than the Bobcats have so far? The most interesting angle to this first-round contest is that it is between two cities with feline-themed transit [...]

A packed Dharma Lounge hosted the fifth installment of Pecha Kucha Night in Charlotte on Thursday, April 8th. The set up for the event was simple – each presenter gets 20 slides, with 20 seconds per slide. The night started off with a poetry slam and ended with a musical performance, with the presentations in [...]

Barcamp Charlotte 3 took place on Saturday, bringing together technology, design and creativity at Area Fifteen. Around 150 attendees pitched ideas for sessions and then voted on their favorites. Sessions ranged from freelancing, to civics 101, budget film making, Google, social media, mobile development, tips on marketing, and an intro to massage therapy. One session [...]

Thousands of rabid fans packed Uptown Charlotte on Wednesday for the Mexico versus Iceland soccer “friendly.” While the game ended in a zero – zero draw, Mexico dominated most of the game, getting several close scoring opportunities. The festivities start early in the day for fans of Mexico, and by 5PM tailgate parties are in [...]

Dugg Dugg, an upstart art gallery in NoDa, created a buzz upon opening last April. It was closed by June – a victim of costs and code enforcement. The historic NoDa factory building was returned to the stewardship of insects and dust, but this would only be the beginning of Dugg Dugg’s evolving life. Co-founders [...]

Several local blogs are campaigning to name the Carolina Raptor Center’s newest baby eaglet “Noah,” after Charlotte’s Lance Corporal Noah M. Pier, a Marine who was recently killed in Afghanistan. Cedar Posts first posted a story about the naming of the eaglet Tuesday, saying: More than 800 names were submitted in WCNC’s “Name the Eaglet [...]

photos: James Willamor; view this video on Vimeo One hundred, twenty-six photos of Charlotte taken in 2009, more or less in chronological order. The majority of the photos were taken for CLT Blog and Crossroads Charlotte. The song is Brand New, released in 2009 by Charlotte area artists One Big Love. A list of events [...]