Posts Tagged ‘uptown magazine’
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
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
Anna Kooiman
Uptown contributor Anna Kooiman writes blogs for us that are sure to hold your attention. She gives us the scoop on everything from concerts, new restaurant openings, fashion trends, and fitness to insight on controversial issues facing the Queen City, to information about community service events. She...
July 29th, 2010 | August 2010 | Read More
Going Local in Nicaragua
Sure, I could have signed up for an all-inclusive vacation, sipped umbrella cocktails on a guard-patrolled beach and pretended to be in another country. But as the UnTourist, I took a different tactic: I picked the cheapest Central American city Orbitz had to offer and booked a $250, three-hour flight...
July 19th, 2010 | July 10 | Read More
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