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Side Dish
Boco Coffee Roasters Holds Fourth Annual Charlotte Coffee Crawl
The time for pub crawls and bar hopping is over — for a weekend — and a different kind of beverage adventure is underway. Hosted by BoCo Coffee Roasters in Villa Heights, the Fourth Annual BoCo Coffee Crawl is April 6 and 7 starting at 8 a.m. Participants meet at…
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Food & Drink
Backstage Lounge Pays Tribute to Prohibition-Era Speakeasies with a Twist
Walk through the barber shop, veer left, turn a corner and pick up the rotary phone. After a few rings, you’ll hear a voice on the other end say, “Backstage.” That’s how you know you’re in the right place. Head southbound from Uptown and with the right clues, patrons can…
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News & Opinion
HackathonCLT Mines for Healthcare Solutions in Seventh Year
Charlotte is most known for banking, finance and craft beer, but the city has quietly become more of a tech hub in recent years, helped along by events like hackathonCLT. Local AI software company Tresata has been hosting the annual hackathon here since 2013 to provide data-based solutions for the…
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Food & Drink
Piedmont Culinary Guild Addresses Burnout in the Restaurant Industry
Imagine this: it’s 9 p.m. on a Friday night, and you’re working at a busy restaurant. The air is filled with the loud voices of guests digging into appetizers and dinner plates while sipping wine and cocktails, but you’re in the kitchen over hot stoves, trying to cook up consistent…
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Music
The Menders Embrace New Southern Gothic Sound
Gastonia rockers The Menders have gone through a lot of changes since the band’s inception in 2011. Members came and went for various personal and professional reasons, but the five-piece outfit finally settled on the ultimate lineup, so they say. “This is the final lineup of The Menders. If [anybody]…
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Food & Drink
East Charlotte Bakery Owner Defines the American Dream
Manuel Manolo Betancur came to America from Colombia with $100 in his pocket, two shirts and two pairs of pants. After working as a dishwasher near Tampa, Florida, and later unloading and packing fish behind an airport in Miami, he was selected for a scholarship to go to King…
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Music
Sofar Sounds Pops Up in Camp North End
In today’s Instagram era, when it seems everyone’s main goal is to give their friends FOMO, it’s not hard to see why Sofar Sounds shows have blown up in popularity. The international organization that hosts low-key performances at somewhat-secret venues showcasing regional musicians and bands started in London in 2009…
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Arts & Culture
Local Carnival Party Celebrates a Decade of Authentic Brazilian Fun
We all need a night to let loose, Carnival is just the perfect time to do it. While the pre-Lent celebration of Carnival, sometimes spelled Carnaval, is observed in countries ranging from Spain to the Netherlands, it’s biggest in in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The celebration of culture, history and…
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Music
Deion Reverie’s New Album Chronicles Post-Relationship Coping
While Charlotte DIY musician Deion Reverie is working through a specific experience on his new album, Kill Me With Your Closure, he does so in a variety of styles that will please all types of music fans. The 14-track compilation dives into a multitude of genres, exploring the fallout of…
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Music
Courtney Lynn & Quinn Raise Funds for New EP
It had been a few months since I had the chance to sit down with Courtney Lynn and Jocelyn Quinn Russell, the married duo that heads the four-piece folk and soul band, Courtney Lynn & Quinn. When I met them on a recent Thursday evening, I could tell a lot…
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Arts & Culture
Artist Statement: Local Poet and Storyteller Hannah Hasan has the Tough Conversations
Hannah Hasan is a storyteller. Not the stories of fiction or elaborate tales of wonderment and far-away places. She tells the stories of people in Charlotte and gives life to voices that fall on deaf ears in the city. Partnering with Q.C. Family Tree, a nonprofit in west Charlotte’s Enderly…
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Food & Drink
On the Nines Makes it Worth the Long Drive
Mooresville isn’t all about tank tops and blue jean shorts, according to Chris Boukedes. The Iredell County town that’s steeped in history but at times tainted with a redneck reputation is beginning to emerge as a new hotspot for foodies and those tired of the Charlotte dining landscape. On…
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Music
Van Huskins Continues Blending Punk and Metal at The Milestone
They’re too punk rock for the metal-heads and too metal for the punk rock kids, while the indie rockers won’t touch ‘em. Gastonia-based punk rock/metal band, Van Huskins is actually an ideal blend of both genres, toeing the line between ’80s punk and metal. Take a closer listen, and you…
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Arts & Culture
Charlotte-Area Comedy Theater Finds Permanent Home
After more than two years of searching, Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte has finally settled into a permanent home on South Boulevard. The new CATCh location provides a dedicated space for actors, comedians and improv performers in Charlotte to hone their skills, attend workshops, make audition tapes and receive coaching.…
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Food Features
Brewery Partners with Botanical Gardens for Horticultural Homebrew Event
There are four base ingredients for beer: barley, hops, yeast and water. But of course, there are many more ingredients that you can throw into a recipe to make a great beer, and that’s the point of an event that will take place at Free Range Brewing on Jan. 30…
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Arts & Culture
Sci-Fi Noir Podcast Places Charlotte in the Wake of a Zombie Apocalypse
For the right price, detective Samwel Sift can find any of your zombiefied loved ones and bring back their heads. Hey, everybody’s got to survive somehow after the zombie apocalypse. In a new podcast released and produced by Stationary Hobo Productions, writer and producer Kevin Patterson and sound engineer Adrian…
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