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15 things to see, do, and eat in Davidson
By Clay Morrell | June 2, 2020 Views: Our Davidson guide is proudly presented by Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat Associates, P.A. Whether you’re suffering from seasonal allergies or need to update your eye prescription, the experts at CEENTA can help you out. Plus, with almost 20 locations (and their nearby Huntersville practice), you can be seen quickly no matter where you live. Davidson is one of North Carolina’s best kept secrets.
Farm to fridge: CSA season kicks into high gear
By Clay Morrell | April 24, 2015 Views: Waking up this past Thursday morning made me feel like a kid on Christmas morning. “Why?” you ask? Because this past Thursday marked the first day of Concord, NC’s own Barbee Farms’ Spring CSA. What is a CSA? CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture.
2015 summer read list from some of Charlotte's English teachers
By Clay Morrell | June 8, 2015 Views: As a teacher, I look forward to summer every year. As nerdy as it sounds, one of the things I look forward to the most is getting to read what I want to read. For 10 months out of the year when school is in session, I read what my kids are reading. Whether it’s books I’ve assigned (many of which I’ve read year after year), or books my students recommend, I do what I can to connect with my students through books. I am an English teacher after all.
Behind the Kitchen: A conversation with Jay Pierce from ROCKSALT
By Vanessa Smith | | June 19, 2015 Views: This is part of a chef interview series. View all interviews here. On a Monday afternoon, I met with Chef Jay Pierce of ROCKSALT restaurant to talk about chef life. He immediately scored brownie points when he brought over a taste of monkfish that he poached in whey. Come to find out he’s a New Orleans native, worked for Emeril Lagasse, likes ugly food and crunchy, funky salads. He also digs Vietnamese food. Can we be friends?
Dinner Lab: My kind of experiment
By Clay Morrell | May 28, 2015 Views: I am not a scientist. Not even close. My high school Chemistry teacher passed me (barely) just so he could get me out of his classroom forever. True story. And yet, last Friday night I went to Charlotte Dinner Lab and realized that there are some experiments I can get down with. This is one of them.
Meet Cat Bao Le, Executive Director of the Southeast Asian Coalition
By Gi Hallmark | | May 18, 2015 Views: Cat Bao Le is the Executive Director of the Southeast Asian Coalition (SEAC). I met Cat last year and was inspired by her dedication to helping refugees and immigrants here in Charlotte. She spends the vast majority of her time advocating for the underserved refugee and immigrant youth and families in our area while passionately engaging and educating our community about needs and resources.
Solutions for clean water in developing countries are on Independence Blvd.
By Collin Beck | May 13, 2015 Views: Inside a nondescript office complex off of Independence Blvd, Chris Matthews and Justin Sonnett have that ‘recent graduate’ look in their eyes: eagerness, excitement and charisma. It’s infectious. The 2 newly minted Engineers from UNCC (’14) are taking a senior project to new depths and it might just change the way clean water is produced in needy areas.
NY Times bestselling author Brendan Reichs is a night owl and Taylor Swift fan
By Gi Hallmark | | June 22, 2015 Views: For some people, becoming a NY Times bestselling author is just another day at the office. Brendan Reichs is one of these people, staying cool, calm, and collected whilst thousands of people fanatically buy his books.
Overheard this week: Baby naming while drinking beers at Kennedy's
This is part of an ongoing series titled #OverheardinCLT, things overheard in our city. Participate by tagging a social post or submit what you’ve overheard. —– Strategic baby naming Outside on the patio at Kennedy’s in Elizabeth. Guy with a button down shirt drinking a draft beer talks to a group of 7. Guy: “The one great thing the government does is the social security website with baby names. The site really helped us choose. Haden is trending right now and anything that ends in ‘a’ is popular.
Rosalia Torres-Weiner's food truck-turned-art studio helps young immigrants cope
A young immigrant girl hides in a dark, empty apartment. A kind woman with a handful of paintbrushes and other art supplies enters the room. She urges the girl to join her for a few hours of time creating art. Together, girl and woman talk about the young girl’s mother, an undocumented immigrant who was captured and deported just 24 hours prior, her whereabouts unknown. The woman encourages the young girl to paint first the pain she feels and then whatever might make her happy.
This six-year-old coffee roasting business will soon open a coffee house in South End
Climb’s Roast Coffee is operated by The Climb, Inc., a nonprofit run by local pastor Chip Furr and his wife, Cheery. The soft opening for the coffee house is planned for September 15 at 1515 South Mint Street. Chip plans to fire up “Abraham,” a portable grill, and “Joy,” a food truck, to prepare waffles, smoked pastrami and nitro cold brew coffee. All food and drinks will be free, but donations to The Climb will be welcomed. Climb’s Roast is not your average Joe coffee shop.
Evolution of young guy to dad. 7 reasons to stop googling "what to do with kids in Charlotte"
By Jon Show | June 30, 2015 Views: One of the earliest memories from my childhood involves a Kentucky Fried Chicken and the tailgate on my mom’s 1979 Chevy Caprice station wagon. She called it a parking lot picnic. Some days, after a bucket of the Colonel’s finest, my younger brother and I would climb back in the car and, at my mom’s request, randomly shout “left!” and “right!” at intersections until we were sufficiently lost, and then we’d try to find our way back home.
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