Category Archives: Review

My Charlotte Foursquare Christmas List, 2009

23 Dec 09 – 1:45 am

A little over a month ago Foursquare, the location-based social media scavenger hunt/game, chose inclusion for Charlotte in it’s then very elite list of cities supported by the app/website. In no time at all we’ve seen local/independent business are getting in on the Foursquare e-gold rush.  We’ve already covered UNC Charlotte, so here are the [...]

By Desiree Kane | Also posted in Infrastructure, Media, Opinion, Retail, Technology, Transportation, UNC Charlotte | Comments (14)

Is that a fact?

16 Oct 09 – 3:21 pm

Dr. Richard Dawkins speaks at Queens University, Charlotte. Photo: James Willamor; view this photo on Flickr
This is the opiniony part:

The thing one must remember about scientists, and this is my opinion, is that they expect to be wrong.  They allow for wrongness. Science gets it wrong, often. It’s a rare occurrence when scientists observe something [...]

By Minimum Failure | Also posted in Feature, History, Opinion, World | Comments (2)

Book review: Charlotte North Carolina: A Brief History

8 Jul 09 – 11:34 am

Do you ever look around the Queen City and wonder what came before? How did College Street get its name? Have the various neighborhoods always battled for attention? What “nation” does Nations Ford Road refer to? What’s a “ford”? (Hint: It doesn’t have anything to do with cars.) Why do some NoDa houses have such [...]

By Rhi Bowman | Also posted in City | Comments (3)