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ASC’s ‘Midnight Marathon’ showcases Charlotte’s creative landscape, and the city’s longest-standing cultural organization
By Cameron Lee April 15, 2026 The Arts & Science Council is Charlotte’s longest-operating arts organization, having invested millions of dollars in support of cultural institutions across Mecklenburg County as well as individual artists and creatives. The Arts & Science Council’s ‘Midnight Marathon’ will take...
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Audrey Baran and Baran Dance are redefining and elevating Charlotte’s contemporary dance scene
By Cameron Lee April 3, 2026 Photo: Butch Delatina Contemporary dance often gets overlooked when thinking about modern performing arts and entertainment, but it has all the characteristics many look for in a captivating production: storytelling, music, theatrics, emotion, and compelling movement that keeps audiences...
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How Art, Beats + Lyrics redefined the urban art scene, and how Charlotte helped shape it
By Cameron Lee March 22, 2026 In 2004, hip-hop and R&B were dominating the charts, Facebook was first launched at Harvard, and the blog era was just beginning to seep into the cultural mainstream. But street art, or “urban art,” had yet to fully enter...
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For nearly seven decades, Biggs Camera has been a hub for the photography community in Charlotte
By Cameron Lee March 5, 2026 There aren’t many family-owned businesses in Charlotte that have lasted nearly seven decades — even fewer that have survived in an industry as fast-moving as photography and video. But Biggs Camera has done exactly that. Originally opened in 1959...
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Petra’s is adapting to the times, complementing live music with a vintage store, Little Shop of Petra’s
By Cameron Lee February 15, 2026 For nearly two decades, Petra’s has been the heartbeat of Plaza Midwood, a place where live music, art, and locally focused eccentric events converge in a tight-knit corner off Commonwealth Avenue. But as the neighborhood swells with new development,...
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‘Sinners,’ ‘Shaft,’ ‘Do the Right Thing,’ ‘Dream Girls,’ and ‘Love & Basketball’ will play at Carolina Theatre for Black History Month
By Cameron Lee January 31, 2026 From the pioneering ‘70s Blaxploitation film Shaft, directed by the trailblazing photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks, to Spike Lee’s breakout 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing, to Disney’s first Black princess, and Ryan Coogler’s latest supernatural horror thriller, Carolina...
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Levine Museum of the New South has found a new home in South End and will bring much-needed culture
By Cameron Lee January 28, 2026 After nearly four years, the Levine Museum of the New South has found a new home in South End, bringing much-needed culture to the area at the corner of South Boulevard and East Boulevard. The Levine Museum of the...
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Onyx Williams — much like his father, Durham artist Jooselord — just wants to make friends and inspire hope and belief in others
By Cameron Lee December 3, 2025 Onyx Williams, the five-year-old son of Durham rapper Raheem Williams, better known as Jooselord, had an unexpected seizure in the early hours of a November morning in 2024. “He had a tumor in his head, and then they removed...
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CharlotteEAST launches small business campaign to award gift cards to those who shop in Eastland area
By Cameron Lee December 2, 2025 CharlotteEAST — the nonprofit community-development organization originally founded in 2002 as a City of Charlotte task force, later known as the Eastland Area Strategies Team (E.A.S.T.), and now CharlotteEAST — has launched a new campaign designed to help re-energize...
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‘Black Charlotte’ spoken-word artists will perform poetry album with Charlotte Symphony Orchestra at Carolina Theatre
By Cameron Lee November 5, 2025 Photo: Daniel Coston Charlotte’s Black history — still often overlooked — has been celebrated through murals, exhibits, and articles over the years, but never quite like it will be on November 19 at the Carolina Theatre. Black Charlotte: A...
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