It’s not just Hunting Wives. Two prominent filmmakers were planning to shoot in Charlotte — one of them the granddaughter of the man who made It’s a Wonderful Life, the other a Broadway legend. Then North Carolina’s film money ran out.

Charlotte has about seven PR pros for every journalist. The gap between who can design their message and who can survive a bad one shapes everything you know about this city.

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.

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.

Photographer Logan Cyrus spent six months finding the human moments inside Charlotte’s strangest season of governance. A photo essay.

A note of thanks, on the anniversary of The Charlotte Optimist.

To know Ohavia Phillips-Reed, one of Charlotte’s most recognizable media personalities, you have to understand her history. Specifically, you have to understand the history of ackee and saltfish.  The national dish of Jamaica, ackee and saltfish is an identity dish similar to the bacon, egg and cheese for New Yorkers, or pork barbecue for North […]

On the same April night, a hardcore punk band in a 100-year-old club and a bank CEO in a ballroom reached, from opposite ends of the city, for the same word.