A two-hour walk with Rickey Hall through the neighborhood he’s spent his life defending. And why he now wants his neighbors to stop fighting the I-77 toll lanes and name their price.

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.

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.

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.