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The 2nd annual Charlotte Film Festival is underway at a variety of venues in the central city. It's part of the month long Charlotte Shout! Festival which brings artists of every genre to town annually in September.

You can check out the daily doings at the Film Festival at the NCFlix blog.

Nights of Fire: A Skytower Spectacular, a one of kind fireworks display, returns to Carowinds on July 4th. Partially launched from the top of the Carolina Skytower, the state-of-the-art, computer designed and controlled pyro-musical fireworks show was first presented four years ago when the park began using the Skytower in its July 4th fireworks display.  Nights ...

Red, White & Boom
Charlotte's  annual July 4th event is long on the Family Fun this year with family-friendly activities from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. The event is alcohol-free but there will be food and soft drinks on sale.

It will also be spread out throughout the Center City area. The fireworks themselves - a 20 minute show at 9:30 - will be shot ...

The Juneteenth Festival Of The Carolinas will take place this weekend. Juneteenth, for those not in the know, is the oldest national celebration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Originating in Galveston, Texas in 1865, the commemoration of the end of slavery on June 19 has taken root in many communities nationwide.

 The Charlotte celebration this weekend will take place from Thursday, June 14 until Sunday, June ...

A Charlotte-area teacher was caught by his principle preparing to inject heroin into his arm earlier this week. George McDonald, who taught art at two area elementary schools, was arrested after the principle opened his locked classroom door to find him strapping his arm.

The teacher had placed a sign on his door reading, "Art class is cancelled until Friday." Teachers who would have been leading the students to their ...

I'm one of the lucky souls who works a job I love with hours I love. I don't have to get to work until around 10 or 10:30, and I usually stay at work until 6:30 or 7:00, so I generally miss Charlotte's wretched traffic scene. Today, however, I had to leave a little early, and I was stuck in the hellish nexus that is Charlotte's uptown at 5:00.

 I live ...

Finally - a cause we can give our complete support to.

A group calling itself Friends of the Five Day Weekend is trying to convince Congress to change the way Americans work: toss out the five-day workweek and allow hardworking Americans a little more down time - preferably in western North Carolina.
Behind the so-called grass roots effort is a bold new marketing move by the tourism industry in Asheville....

The Charlotte Observer reports that the Financial Times group's fDi magazine ranked the city No. 3 overall among large cities in its annual selections.

The magazine placed Charlotte No. 1 in the US in economic potential, No. 1 in quality of life, No. 3 in development and investment promotion and No. 5 in human resouces.

In addition, ...

Plenty of speed, turns and wrecks are on tap this Friday, March 9 at Cricket Arena as the Saludo Latinoamericano 250 comes to Charlotte! This special event features NASCAR Driver Jesus Hernandez, Puerto Rico Native Johanna Gudinez, Spanish PA Annoucers, Latino Music, Clowns and Latino food and drink from the Cricket Arena concession stands. The pits open at 6:30PM to ...

Ann Wolff, one of the foremost names in contemporary glass art, came to Charlotte to open her retrospective exhibit "Observations" in person at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design.

It is the largest retrospective of her work ever with over 80 works spanning 30 years of her career.

Wolff has been working on the retrospective since 2002. "I wanted to go through what ...