In photography class at South Mecklenburg High School, Bryce Lankard’s teacher told him and his fellow students to challenge traditional notions. Inspiring advice received in one’s formative years so often goes the way of teenage crushes and ambitious goals, tucked into long-term memory....

I park my car at the light rail station on Sharon Road West early on Saturday morning. Two people are talking on the platform, their breath visible in the distance. As I button up my coat against the cold, the words of my friend, an art buff, ring in my rapidly freezing ears. She told me to be sure to...

Washington, D.C. – Decades after working in Washington as an aspiring attorney in the U.S. Justice Department, Anthony Foxx recently returned as a leader. Charlotte’s second African-American mayor – the first Democrat in two decades – shows up at the Capitol Hilton with a plastic folder full...

A few sit-ups, two glasses of wine before noon, a make-up artist, and a photographer who knows his lighting as if he were a descendant of Thomas Edison, and you, too, can have a gift for the man in your life that will knock his socks – and pants – off. In the name of sex, art, and Valentine’s Day...