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So somewhere out there Charlotte’s little hipster haven NICHE MKT (Its at Camden & Tryon in Southend, so watch out for the skateboarders and kids on fixies!) has a guy out there who thought so much of the store that he tattooed it’s logo on his hand. Kids these days! WOW! I really can’t believe [...]

watch this video in HD on YouTube Exclusive video from the CLT Madness trophy ceremony, recorded milliseconds after we declared them the champions. Congratulations again to the US National Whitewater Center (@usnwc).

US National Whitewater Center swiftly overtook Uptown in an overtime tiebreaker yesterday, catapulting ahead to a final score of 67-40. This 16-seed contender surprised many, crushing Carowinds, then Future’s boob, Queens & Queens, Getting gas in South Carolina, and finally the towering 1-seed Uptown. We’ll be presenting their trophy to them soon, stay tuned for [...]

In the highest scoring games of the tournament, your final two teams have made their mark. Click here to skip over to voting in the Championship game, if you like. The US National Whitewater Center rushed past The Penguin, 88-68. Uptown rose above NoDa Gallery Crawls, 84-72. Now 1-seed Uptown will face 16-seed US National [...]

A skyline, man-made rapids, a restaurant, and Soho’s little sister. The first ever CLTmadness Final Four is set! If you picked these teams in your bracket, I’d like to shake your hand.  Let’s take a look at the results from the Elite 8 games! Click here to skip over to voting in the Final Four, [...]

Talk about some upsets! Let’s recap the best and the worst of the Sweet 16. Click here to skip over to voting in Round 4, if you like. You can download a big version of the second round bracket too. Mecklenburg Running on a streak hotter than their fried pickles, The Penguin took out Trade [...]

Cinderella stories and heartbreaking upsets! After an awesome set of match-ups, we now have our Sweet 16! Let’s take a look at some of the action from Round 2… Click here to skip over to voting in Round 3, if you like. You can download a big version of the second round bracket too. Mecklenburg: [...]

I was waiting on an order of Bunny Rancheros at Zada Janes, flipping through a Creative Loafing, when I had an amazing idea. Are you ready? Wait for it…Local Media Madlibs! Right? Right?! Okay, so you already knew that from the title but, get excited anyway. Local Media Madlibs…yippee! Wait, what are madlibs? Since I [...]

Check out what the creator of Favrd, a widely popular service that showcased who “favorited” tweets and tallied them, said via the Favrd homepage the day he pulled the plug on it a little over a week ago: There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is [...]

Part of what makes Twitter so enchanting is that it’s still considered “safe” (for the time being) in the minds of those who use it. The average person isn’t bombarded with some of the net elements they encounter nearly everywhere else: there are not tons of unwanted ads, or spam, or what I can only [...]

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video: James Willamor; watch this video on Vimeo Shahrazad Improv, which frequently performs at Wine Up and the Pineville Dinner Theater, seek to entertain the Charlotte community with the art of improvisational acting and comedy. In the process, they use the money they earn to help those in need—locally, and around the world, and have [...]