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1 week ago | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard |Tess Allen |Taylor Bowler |Gavin Edwards
EAT: The Best in Food & Dining in CharlotteThe decor is clutch, the service top-notch, and the food absurdly good. But we’d expect nothing less from Joe and Katy Kindred, the couple behind Kindred, Milkbread, and Hello, Sailor. They opened this Mediterranean-meets-Southern restaurant in September on the ground floor of the Duke Energy Building uptown, and it might be their finest work.
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1 week ago | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard |Tess Allen |Taylor Bowler |Gavin Edwards
Shop: The Best of Style and ShoppingThis resale shop is bright pink and glittery, a walk-in treasure chest of vintage dresses, low-rise cargos, and fuzzy jackets of all sizes. Dressing rooms are wallpapered in vintage magazines, and the mirror has a squiggly pink frame. 1824 Statesville Ave., Ste. 103If celebrities had to stock their pantries in Charlotte, this is where they’d go.
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1 week ago | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard |Tess Allen |Taylor Bowler |Gavin Edwards
Our staff picks and voters' choice winners Every May, we reconnect with our good friend BOB, and the guy just keeps changing on us. A couple of years ago, he was into artisanal doughnuts, acai bowls, car detailers, and custom jewelers. This year, trend-chaser that he is, he’s all about brunch boards, THC seltzers, disc golf, plant-based frozen desserts that taste like something other than siliconized caulk, and, of course, tinned fish. He’s all over the place.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard
The stories you read, shared, and talked about most online Our lists of where to eat and what to do always rack up the most digital traffic. But these are the 2024 stories that earned the most readership on our site this year. Painter Jerry Kirk helped found a scruffy art collective that established Charlotte’s arts and entertainment neighborhood. Little is left of the art, but Kirk keeps the memory of old, gritty NoDa alive.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard
Twas two months before Christmas, and my house was stuffed with nearly a dozen trees. Most people find my Christmas obsession a curious dichotomy. From January to October, I exude an aura of cynicism and irreverence. Come November 1, a joyous holiday spirit overtakes me, and I launch into decorating. I can’t quite figure out why. I was an adopted, only child, raised by a Jewish mother and Italian Catholic father. We had a tree and a menorah—simple and traditional.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard
Heard this one? Someone who really does not like craft beer walks into a taproom… The magazine received an invitation from Birdsong Brewing Co. in August: Would any of your staff like to come by the taproom for a step-by-step seminar on the proper way to taste beer—how to take account of appearance, aroma, flavor, mouthfeel, and finish? “This could be a great story,” a brewery spokesperson suggested, “especially from a woman’s perspective.”I am not a beer drinker.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard |Tess Allen |Taylor Bowler |Allison Braden
The 10th anniversary of our annual awards honoring those who made Charlotte better Want diversity? Sharing this space are a sports executive and former NFL team president; a reality show on Netflix; a new (and most welcome) music festival; a woman who’s injected fresh life into our city’s history museum; and quite a bit more. It sounds a bit like a reworking of The Real World.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard
It was a carnival of blankets, gold cups, halter tops, birth control, and EpiPens—and it directed all eyes, for once, toward us The first season of Netflix’s Love is Blind aired in the early days of the pandemic, which granted the series automatic viewership. But in the seasons that followed, the show made few waves in the pop-culture zeitgeist. Then came Season 6. In September 2022, producers dropped a casting call for Charlotte singles on social media.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard |Taylor Bowler |Tess Allen |Greg Lacour
Our winter travels to Alberta, Montana, Minnesota, and Quebec Your skin tingles. Your breath forms a plume of vapor. The word “bracing” comes to mind. It’s merely the initial shock. Why did you come here? It’s the middle of winter, and you decided to go north? Damn right. Look. The sun gilds the Rockies. The hotel seems to rest on a bed of frosted firs. A glacial lake is nearby, and it glows emerald in the light. It looks magical. It’s not.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
charlottemagazine.com | Amanda Howard
MILES FROM CHARLOTTE: 2,270TRAVEL TIME: 4-hour flight to Denver, 2-hour flight to Missoula, plus a 30-minute drive to the resortThe yips and howls begin when the dogs hear our tires crunch over snow. As our truck comes into full view, the sounds of jerking chains join the increasing volume of howls and cries. These huskies are far thinner than domesticated ones, and their manic jumping and pulling against their chains has me worried that this activity might be cruel.
