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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Höm put on an awesome show last Friday with world-famous DJ & producer Kaskade. A few of us from CLT Blog were there, and I got a ton of photos.
This morning, Citigroup Inc. announced their agreement to purchase all of Wachovia’s banking operations.
Some key facts:
Wachovia, in its now dramatically slimmed-down state, will retain its headquarters in Charlotte, holding on to its retail brokerage and Evergreen asset management units
“new” Citigroup retail banking headquarters will be in Charlotte
Citigroup is paying $1 per share
after merger, resulting company [...]
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 [...]
This weekend is another great weekend here in the Queen City. It is filled with two very exciting events, the 10th Annual Oktoberfest and the Charlotte Film Festival. CLT Blog will be there and bring you coverage from both. Expect full write ups on Monday.
The Charlotte film festival, which is currently going on, [...]
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