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Friends, family, and loyal customers gathered Friday night to celebrate the one year anniversary of Charlotte’s Not Just Coffee. Originally located at Area Fifteen near NoDa, Not Just Coffee relocated Uptown when the Seventh Street Market opened in November. Opening Not Just Coffee was originally a part time endeavor for James Yoder, who continued working [...]

This June, Charlotte will once again play host to international soccer. Last March, Bank of America stadium hosted Mexico vs Iceland in a warm-up for the World Cup with over 65,000 fans in attendance. Charlotte will host Group A matches between Costa Rica and El Salvador at 7PM, and Mexico and Cuba at 9PM on [...]

The Christmas party at Area Fifteen was unique in Charlotte, and that was even before the samurai sword-wielding giant gorilla arrived. The event, Urban Stratum, was a little bit of everything; an art show, a concert, a covered dish supper, a rope dance demonstration, and a coffeehouse.  The show was put together in a few [...]

Pedestrians on North Davidson stop and snap photos as a man in suspenders and a red wool hat steadies himself atop metal scaffolding. William Puckett and his wife Lauren have spent the weekend finishing their large mural in NoDa. Started in June of 2009, Puckett has worked on the project between other jobs. Chris Ingram [...]

Pulitzer Prize winning author, TIME editor-at-large, and CNN host Fareed Zakaria spoke Tuesday evening at Charlotte’s Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. A guest of the Queens University Learning Society, Zakaria spoke on the phenomenon he refers to as “the rise of the rest.” The Twentieth century was the American century. The industrial revolution and two world [...]

World’s largest airplane in Charlotte until Tuesday
Originally built by the Soviet Union to carry their space shuttle

The new Mint Museum opened Uptown to much fanfare on Friday, October 1st, making it the largest museum in the state and competing Charlotte’s new cultural campus along with the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Knight Theater, and the Harvey B. Gantt African-American Cultural Center. Charlotte Pecha Kucha Night volume 7 was part of [...]

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 [...]