Archive for August, 2010
Duplicity A New Beginning
“Look, there’s Chopper 9,” Laura said, pointing into clouds behind Bank of America Stadium, as the latest news helicopter emerged from the hazy morning horizon and banked into an arc over the scene below on Stonewall. That made three news and two police helicopters circling the jet-black smoke...
August 17th, 2010 | August 2010 | Read More
London to Charlotte Direct
For the past four years, I’ve lived the high life in London, England. I had access to movie premieres, world-class museums and stage productions, with the rest of Europe just a short, cheap plane ride away.
So when I began telling people that I was trading London for the other Queen City across the...
August 16th, 2010 | August 2010 | Read More
Everything for Sale
As we’re talking, I casually look around and see what looks like an old war helmet. I ask to see it and the gentleman behind the counter starts talking. It is a World War II German military helmet, he says. From the heft of the metal and crusty leather interior it’s hard to disagree with the age...
August 10th, 2010 | August 2010 | Read More
Lost in Space: The elusive art of the live recording
Live albums, as a general rule, suck.
Even without poor recording clarity, it’s rare that a live record manages to capture not only song, but also a sense of place; rarely are we taken into the recording instead of merely hearing a facsimile of it. But occasionally, a live recording – not necessarily...
August 9th, 2010 | July 10 | Read More
Lawless
Ellenora Barker stands by her man. When her husband, Andy, announced he wanted to build his very own old-fashioned Western town, she told him it sounded like a great idea.And when he sold his share of a successful construction company and moved the family from their comfy life in Charlotte to a remote...
August 5th, 2010 | July 10 | Read More
Note from the Publisher July 2010
The magazine is 5 years and 60 issues old this month, but I can only think about my youngest daughter, Anna, with her new tooth that came in as a present to me on Father’s Day. Anna has Down syndrome and everything takes a bit longer for her. She’s over a year old, just getting her first teeth and...
August 2nd, 2010 | July 10 | Read More
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