Charles Runnells is reporter who covers arts and entertainment for The News-Press. If you look around at a local arts event in Ft. Myers, you can probably find him sitting in a corner scribbling notes for a review or standing near the stage shooting photos with his trusty Nikon. Charles was born in Alabama, but he grew up all over the place thanks to his Army father. He has a journalism degree from Auburn University and started working at The News-Press in 1998.----more----He’s obsessive about music (practically anything, but especially heavy metal), and that he also loves reading, video games, and movies. He lives in Cape Coral with his girlfriend and their six cats (that’s halfway to a Paula Poundstone level of cat).