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By Kia O. Moore (kiamoore@cltblog.com) I didn’t know how much I missed it. I didn’t know how much it meant to me. It took a 3990.041 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean for me to get it back. When I was a child, just about every weekend my godmother, mom, big sister and I would [...]

If one were to be walking through the Brevard Courtyard in uptown Charlotte on Thursday, April 12th after a spending some time at one of the local bars, they would probably have to look twice into the Genome art gallery. They would have seen a group of anywhere from 5-15 artists throughout the night working [...]

The best thing about Charlotte Hip-Hop is that it is sooo versatile. This versatility also obstructs Charlotte from placing its rap city tac on the hip-hop map. The hip-hop sound of the Queen City is so dynamic that it has yet to be defined. I quite love this undefined quality of my city’s hip-hop music [...]

This week on A Healthier Charlotte, we are taking a look at something that affects so many of us every day. Healthy workplaces, good corporate wellness habits, and positive culture surrounding health at the office are critical — since so many of you might be spending as much as half your life at work! This [...]

282 is produced weekly at WTVI, and airs each Monday at 6:30 and 11:00 PM. This week we talk about: Uptown baseball: The Charlotte Knights have been trying to build a baseball stadium in uptown for years. After numerous legal hurdles and challenges, they’re planning to break ground this fall and play ball there beginning [...]

North Carolina will be home to the nation’s largest private fuel cell energy project, a nonpolluting, silent power plant that will generate electricity from hydrogen. Apple (yes, that Apple) filed its plans with the N.C. Utilities Commission on Thursday to build the 4.8-megawatt project in Maiden, about 40 miles northwest of Charlotte. That’s where Cupertino, [...]

Great news for Charlotte, the airport, and freight-conjested NoDa! Norfolk Southern Corp. and the city of Charlotte became business partners Wednesday, signing a lease that paves the way to add a freight center at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The freight hub, known in the industry as an intermodal facility for its combination of transportation (rail, [...]

AHC is produced bi-weekly at WTVI, and airs every other Tuesday. This week on A Healthier Charlotte, we examine The Naked Face Project. A movement started by Molly Barker and Caitlin Boyle, The Naked Face Project began as a challenge between the two women to go 60 days without make-up, primping, or other beauty needs [...]

282 is produced weekly at WTVI, and airs each Monday at 6:30 and 11:00 PM. This week we talk about: Pedestrian life in Charlotte: are we a pedestrian-friendly city? Recent pedestrian deaths suggest otherwise, or do they? Arts & culture: some people say there’s not enough of it in Charlotte, while others say you just [...]

See more at Chris’s blog post about the photo, his website’s photo gallery, and his Flickr profile.

282 is produced weekly at WTVI, and airs each Monday at 6:30 and 11:00 PM. This week we talk about: The subject of technology in CMS has been making headlines lately. There was talk last week about CMS officials announcing first that they were spending $10 million on a Teacher iPad project and then it [...]

Each month, Jim Van Fleet distills the city’s startup community news and events into a single, easy-to-read digest. You can get this same information delivered directly to your inbox by signing up here. March Madness! There is too much to talk about in March for one issue. Expect the second installment of Charlotte Startup March [...]