credit: James Willamor; view these photos on Flickr
Hundreds turned out Saturday afternoon in uptown Charlotte to rally for gay rights. Similar rallies and marches, promoted by Join the Impact, took place simultaneously across the nation. The rallies were prompted by the passage of Proposition 8, a California ballot measure than put an end to same-sex [...]
photo credits: Matthew Tyndall
“This was not the night we had planned, but I accept the voters’ conclusions from North Carolina.â€
Last night was a first for Mayor Pat McCrory, the first time he had to make a concession speech. The speech was quick and and filled with many thanks to all of his campaign staff. McCrory [...]
Some excerpts from an email just sent out to all UNC Charlotte students, faculty and staff regarding parking and driving tomorrow on campus in light of the Obama rally:
ENTRANCE ALERT: Vehicles entering campus on the day of the event, Monday, Nov. 3, should use the U.S. 49 main entrance, the John Kirk Rd. entrance, or [...]
Nikolas Schiller is a digital artist and cartographer. He’s 28 and lives in Washington, DC. These pictures of Charlotte are just the beginning of the immense body of work he’s produced, sampling satellite photography around the world and making some incredibly complex, beautiful, trippy geo-industrial artwork.
You can see the rest of his Charlotte and Raleigh [...]
In case you didn’t catch it, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric was broadcast from Charlotte last Friday, and on Sunday, Charlotte was again featured through an interview with Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis, including a walk through parts of uptown. Couric focused on North Carolina’s position as a swing state, and 60 Minutes [...]
date: Sat, Nov 15location: uptown @ Charlotte Observer
As the first event of its type in the Queen City, Charlotte WordCamp is a conference on all things blogging. Why WordCamp? The conference is focused on Wordpress, currently the most popular blogging software. Registration opened up last week and is already 50% full. It is $15 to [...]
photo credit: Tanker Narc
Via Jeff Taylor at the Meck Deck, apparently a CATS bus accidentally took out the light rail crossing arm by the Convention Center a couple days ago. Jeff relays that the damage was minor. If I didn’t know any better I’d say the bus was expressing some latent jealousy of its newer, [...]
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“(…) the proposed University City light-rail line (…) now stands at $900 million, to the old standbys of escalating construction costs and evolving plans that have broadened the scope of the project.
CATS officials are counting on the federal government to foot half of the bill for the U-City line, and to [...]
What’s ↑? NMH. Wachovia totally broke up with Citi through a note this morning, and now her and Wells Fargo are hanging out. Wells Fargo is totally hott. He’s gonna treat her so much better. All her friends like him, and he’s like totally a cowboy, OMG!
Anywayz here are the deets:
Wells Fargo signed a definitive [...]
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