Gregory Bovino, who led last November’s “Charlotte’s Web” immigration operation, had an exchange with beloved bakery owner Manolo Betancur

Queen City Nerve closed last week, eight years after rising from Creative Loafing’s ashes to become Charlotte’s new alt-weekly. Here’s what actually happened, and what Charlotte will miss about it.

Discovery Place’s chief learning officer on how the museum aims to reach Charlotte teens through new afterschool, mentorship, and internship programs.

An eight-week investigation into CMS Superintendent Crystal Hill ended with the board reinstating her. Where things go from here will determine how they’ll be remembered.

Four years after losing the NFL, Rock Hill’s having a banner summer.

A photo essay of the last remaining pay phones in Charlotte, and the many ways people still use them to communicate

Dae-Lee Arrington is mounting a campaign to reconnect the people who run Charlotte — before the city’s biggest decisions arrive this fall. He started by asking nine of the city’s most accomplished artists to make a song.

While Charlotte debates a curfew, Monique Perry-Graves and Road to Hire are staging a different kind of teen takeover.

At The Pauline Tea-bar Apothecary, a no-WiFi sanctuary in west Charlotte, Sherry Waters built a place that makes people say: I needed this.

Andrew Dunn’s “The Change Agent” is a Charlotte story — the mayor years that built McCrory before the governorship unmade him.