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Guides & Events
A Guide to Throwing the Perfect Backyard Hangout
The air hums with conversation and a ’90s hip-hop beat on a Charlotte neighborhood street. Folding chairs line a driveway. String lights sway overhead while somebody’s cousin DJs from a Bluetooth speaker balanced on a cooler. Kids dart between front yards as neighbors slowly drift over, pulled in by music,…
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News & Opinion
OPINION: Why I’m Voting Yes on the Transit Tax Referendum
One of the defining moments of my life as both an urbanist and a native Charlottean came on the opening day of the Blue Line light rail in November 2007. At the time, Charlotte felt a bit rudderless. It was growing, but to what end? I had just graduated from…
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News & Opinion
The James K. Polk Building, a Eulogy
Friends, family, Queen City Nerve readers I’ve come here today to pay my last respects to one of the largest, oldest and most mistreated buildings in all of Uptown Charlotte. While we watch the James K. Polk building be removed brick by brick, I wanted to tell the story of…
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