Greg Lacour

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.

2 months ago | 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).

Feb 17, 2025 | charlottemagazine.com | Greg Lacour

The eastern Caribbean island blends a unique history with spectacular mountains and beaches, a drive-in volcano, and one of the world’s best music festivals MILES FROM CHARLOTTE: 1,925TRAVEL TIME: 4 hours, 25 minutesNONSTOP SERVICE ON: American AirlinesIt’s Caribbean Fusion night at the Saint Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival, and an older gentleman in black-framed glasses and a light-blue cap croons onstage about how he feels good when he’s wrapped up in your arms.