photo credit: Justin Ruckman
Happy Holidays from the entire CLT Blog Crew. Hope everyone is having a merry Christmas and has a happy New Year. We would love to hear your holiday stories, so feel free to share them in the comments. Also any sweet holiday pictures, we would love to see them too.
Now that [...]
photo credit: @sleuth
open until: January 4th, 2009
when: 11am – 10pm
where: The Green Uptown
Price: $7 admission; $3 skate rental
WB’s Holiday on Ice is one of my personal favorite things to do during the holidays. I have already have had the chance to go this year, and it was pretty great, minus a few falls. It [...]
Looking to escape Charlotte and enjoy the outdoors and autumn weather without driving three hours to the west? Morrow Mountain State Park and the Uwharrie National Forest are located just an hour or so east of the Queen City.
Looking across Lake Tillery to the Uwharrie National Forest
Artwork by Cecil Vizcaino & James Willamor.
day: Friday, Oct 31time: 7:30 pmplace: Common Market
The monthly bicycle ride known as Critical Mass will happen on Halloween, Friday, October 31st at 7:30 PM at the Common Market near The Plaza and Commonwealth Ave. The ride is held on the last Friday of every month, and several times [...]
“The state of North Carolina plans to buy Grandfather Mountain and about 2,600 acres of surrounding wilderness in the Linville area in a $12 million deal, intended to ensure preservation of the area tourist attraction, according to a member of the family who owns the land.
Catherine Morton, marketing director of Grandfather Mountain and daughter of [...]
In 1791, George Washington called Charlotte, N.C., a “trifling place.” In 1941 an author scoffed that the city had as much use for high-rises “as a hog has for a morning coat.” By 1991, Charlotte was still a minor-league city without major-league sports, a cultural wasteland with a central business district that died every weekday [...]
While our next President (whomever that may be) gets ready for debating and the local electoral races heat up, it can be easy to forget that there is much more at stake for Charlotte and Mecklenburg county this November.
The mycommunitybonds.com site launched today aiming to educate voters, as part of a larger campaign, on the [...]
This is off Mallard Creek Rd. in Charlotte. I usually ride my bike on a trail that leaves from these soccer fields and follows a creek as part of the Charlotte Greenway trail system. Rain for 3 days straight and 4.5 inches yesterday alone has crested that creek to about 14 feet above normal. The [...]
Today, Sunday, was by most measures the peak of Charlotte’s recent heat wave. The upcoming week will bring us just a day or two more of sun, finishing out with a solid block of summer storms.
Don’t be like I was today — playing an hour of tennis at the peak of the day, at the [...]
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