Ten years after Keith Scott, an essay on the night at the Omni and how Charlotte’s changed in the decade since.

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.

Queen City Nerve closed in mid-August 2026, 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.

Four years removed from a failed project with the Panthers, Rock Hill is now moving on. The city just landed 1,500 six-figure jobs from Octapharma and a large investment from Novant. But there's more beneath the surface, in places like Baxter Mill Archive, which houses 1.5 million swatches and sketches and other pieces being reborn in creative ways at Springs Creative. This week we dive into all that Rock Hill has going on, and the role it plays in the Charlotte region.

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.