Welcome to A Trifling Place , a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte.

Welcome to A Trifling Place , a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte. Overall, Charlotte has more than 100 pieces of public art . In this episode, we’re going to take a tour of a few of them.

Welcome to A Trifling Place , a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte.

Correction: This story wrongly says the Really Really Free Store will move in March to a building next door. The Free Store moved into that building this month. The on-scene reporting for this piece was conducted in mid-October, when the Free Store was still located in the house. In the latest episode of our podcast A Trifling Place , we take you to a store where everything is free. It's in a complex called Area 15.

Welcome to A Trifling Place , a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte. Charlotte has a lot of nicknames. Some of them are flattering and others … not so much. One of them is "The Great State of Mecklenburg." Much of this has to do with how Raleigh perceives Charlotte and vice versa. "If you've lived here long enough, you know about the bitter feud between Raleigh and Charlotte," Morgan Fogarty says on Fox News Edge in 2008. " They hate us. We don't care. " Some

Welcome to A Trifling Place , a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte. The story goes that the deeper South you go, the friendlier the people become. So moving here a year ago, I was well-prepared for the onslaught of Yes mams and chivalrous men who insist that you walk through the revolving door first.

Welcome to A Trifling Place , a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte.

Welcome to A Trifling Place , a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte. When I accepted this job, I knew I was choosing to live in the so-called "Bible Belt". I didn't think much of it at the time, but my travel guidebook on Charlotte warned me to get used to the question, "Which Church Do You Go To?" Or in my case, "Which Mosque Do You Go To?" And it was right.

Welcome to A Trifling Place , a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte. When I first moved here, there was one billboard that I found really confusing. It was for the new ' 49ers football team at UNC Charlotte . The only 49ers I know of are 3,000 miles away … in San Francisco.

Welcome to “A Trifling Place,” a podcast dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of Charlotte. So about a month ago, reporter Lisa Miller handed me a book called How To Speak Southern . It has some funny tips on how to exaggerate a Southern drawl – but it wasn't too surprising – I mean, it's pretty easy to identify a Southern accent. But it got me thinking – I have no idea what a Charlottean sounds like. In New York, I can easily tell what part of the city you're from by your accent. In