Greg Lacour

3 weeks ago | charlottemagazine.com | Greg Lacour

The latest in the city's international markets — with a pan-Asian food court attached Jennie Nguyen and her husband moved to Charlotte from Charleston in 2021. The main reason: He landed a job here. A secondary reason: She was tired of Charleston, including its seafood-and-Southern-dominated food scene. Nguyen, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrant parents, had graduated from Winthrop University in Rock Hill four years before.

2 months ago | charlottemagazine.com | Greg Lacour

A week after New Year’s, Resident Culture Brewing showcases its nonalcoholic drinks—Dry January, you know—during a tasting event on the lower level of its South End location. Chilling in ice baskets are reasons you might cheekily rebrand the month as High January: cans of Cümulo, a line of hemp-derived THC-infused seltzers, which the brewery launched in August 2023. Resident Culture sells four varieties.

2 months ago | charlottemagazine.com | Greg Lacour

The Hornets were once the city’s pride and passion. Now they’re an afterthought. What happened? Two days before Christmas 1988, in a brand-new arena off Tyvola Road, the Charlotte Hornets played the Chicago Bulls. The Hornets had cast-off veterans, career backups, and a 5-foot-3-inch point guard. The Bulls had Michael Jordan. And the Hornets won, 103-101, on a basket by Kurt Rambis at the buzzer.

2 months ago | charlottemagazine.com | Greg Lacour

Available land dries up. Housing prices soar. New city regulations encourage density. People hate yard work. All propel a dominant trend in Charlotte real estate. Last year, fresh off a divorce, Emily Allen thought she could continue to live in the house she and her ex-husband had bought in 2019.

Mar 24, 2025 | charlottemagazine.com | Greg Lacour

Even after 40-plus years making music, the audacity of Hope Nicholls blasts from the speakers Hope Nicholls, the queen of Charlotte’s underground, turned 65 in January. “Having a huge birthday party at Snug Harbor,” she says with glee on a gray, drizzly December weekday at Boris & Natasha. That’s the offbeat boutique she and her husband, Aaron Pitkin, have owned and operated since 1999 (though at its current location on The Plaza near Matheson Avenue only since 2021).