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    Students at area schools are hand-painting T-shirts expressing global issues they care about.

    Any1Can: Charlotte students paint hundreds of t-shirts to raise awareness of global issues

      Take your pants off for charity!

      • Sunday January 13th
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      Bhuwani’s wedding: Nepali refugees celebrate in East Charlotte
        photo by James Willamor, 'shopped by Justin Ruckman

        Ten sure signs of the Mayan apocalypse
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          CLT Out & About: Nov 16–18

            Video: trailer from CLT Blog’s trip to Turkey!

            • We want your feedback! Love it? Hate it? Let us know in the comments.

            Help CLT Blog host Bobby DeMuro get to Turkey!

            • we are producing a TV pilot!
            • you can help us get to Turkey and make it great
            • Support our Kickstarter campaign

            Social entrepreneurship, Military families in Charlotte, plus St. Patricks day, on the latest 282

            • our guests: Charles Thomas: Queen City Forward; Lt. Gen. Tom Waskow: USO of North Carolina; & Brittney Cason: The O Show on KISS 95.1
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            Discovery Place welcomes indie media in first blogger open house

              Eating disorders, on A Healthier Charlotte

              • Lynn Dreyer of Melissa's Voice shares her story with eating disorders
              • Southeast Psych, Carolinas Healthcare System and Teen Health Connection join me to discuss the medical perspective

              Meet J.D., Jackson and Buck Lewis, a local family on a trip around the world

              • their project, Twelve in Twelve, kicked off on July 1 this year
              • we caught up with them on camera before they left
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              Charlotte Symphony music director to conduct London Chamber Orchestra at royal wedding
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                Best of Google Street View includes Charlotte
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                  Fareed Zakaria speaks at Blumenthal on the “rise of the rest”

                  • Pulitzer Prize winner, TIME editor, CNN host
                  • "The odd thing about the U.S. is in the early twenty-first century they actually achieved their one historical objective; they globalized the world. They just forgot along the way to globalize themselves."
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                  Charlotte native to bike 400 miles across Africa, raising scholarship money for orphans

                  • Meghann Gunderman leaves Friday for a 10-day, 400-mile mountain biking trek, from the base of Mt Kilimanjaro across Tanzania to the Indian Ocean
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                  UNC Charlotte’s Stop the Traffik hosts 21st century emancipator: Aaron Cohen

                  • Where: UNC Charlotte's Student Union - Room 340
                  • When: Thursday, April 8th
                  • Cost: FREE (with student ID); $5 (non-students)

                  Citizen media & activism in Vancouver (w/ Kris Krug)
                    Opening day protest/parade in Vancouver

                    Opening day protest/parade in Vancouver

                      Vancouver protestors peacefully parade yesterday, but for what?