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It is Official: QC Housing Tanks
No way to spin a decline both in the number of homes sold and a 4 percent drop in the average price. The national housing funk has finally hit Charlotte.…
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"An ImaginOn for Adults"
The Uptown paper of record catches up to a new Main Library eating Spirit Square concept and helpfully adds the phrase to our public lexicon. I thought a public library…
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Another Uptown Attraction
A signature library. No, not the ImaginOn. Another one. The Charlotte Business Journal peels back a little more on the push for an entirely new Uptown main library to subsume…
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Our Gold-Plated Libraries
I love public libraries. Very, very important. But a look at what the Public Library of Mecklenburg County intends to spend money on is eye-popping. A Power Point presentation made…
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The Charlotte Art Coup D'etat
The fate of Spirit Square should not be confused with the fate of the performing arts in Charlotte, except for the nagging feeling that many of players in this drama…
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The Spirit Square Scam
Great to see Charlotte’s various arts groups finally notice that Spirit Square is being sold out from underneath them and that the Uptown crowd doesn’t much care what happens next.…
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Black: Spoke Too Soon
Scratch that. The Jim Black era is not over. Not as long as he still has defenders. Check out what Mecklenburg County commissioner Parks Helms has to say: It’s a…
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98,240 Reasons to Say No to ASC
Arts and Science Council honchos Claude Lilly and Lee Keesler doubtless mean well, but as long as ASC is handing out over $50K to Charlotte Trolley and $47K to Winghaven…
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The Great Arts Beg-a-thon
Here’s comes the evil twin to the $160 million Wachovia Arts Tower — a drive to raise $66 million to endow operating funds for the new spaces. Not to fund…
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Farewell Spirit Square?
We’ve tried for some time now to sound the alarm on big changes in the works for Charlotte’s arts community, changes that may not be for the better. Now those…