Greg Lacour

2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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.

1 month 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).

2 months ago | 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.