The Black Eyed Peas played Time Warner Arena in front of close to 20,000 people, then kept the night going with their after-party at Butter and played to a lucky few. Joined by Nicky Hilton, Will.I.Am took to the DJ booth and Fergie grabbed the microphone to sing along to their own songs. No one moved...

With my hands on my knees and sweat dripping off my face onto the worn Astroturf I glance at my heart-rate monitor connected to my watch. It’s 176. For some reason I always run the numbers in my head. My heart is beating almost three times a second. I’m breathing as hard and as deeply as I can, I...

Everybody loves a happy ending, and for Charlotte music lovers, news that the Neighborhood Theatre will continue without missing a beat was welcome indeed. As a musician, music writer and diehard fan, I was as stunned as anybody when the theater’s operator, JEM Entertainment, announced in January that...

Pizzaiolo – n. Italian for a male artisan pizza chef who specializes in the perfection of the crust, the secret ingredient to an outstanding pizza.  This elusive and exclusive group obtains their titles from nearly a lifetime of experience, earning respect from their peers.  f. pizzaiola pl. pizzaiolos/pizzaiolas....

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...