The trivia question at Caribou Coffee this afternoon. They included the $24 million parcel of land the county is GIVING the Knights, but that no one mentions anymore, so I was one of the few to get the “correct” answer: $72 million.
5:59 pm - 31 May 2012
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Filed under: #Charlotte #baseball
Charlotte’s Speed Street is decadent and depraved.
1:28 pm - 24 May 2012
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Filed under: #Charlotte #Coca Cola 600
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Taken outside Amelie’s, on North Davidson.
9:42 am - 21 May 2012 - 1 note
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Filed under: #license plate #Star Wars #Charlotte
My buddy, Eric, and I have a totally unconfirmable theory that Charlotte, NC, is six months behind the U.S.’s coastal cultures, and the food truck boom here is doing nothing to dispel that notion. Besides our radio stations only getting around to playing Gotye, like, a month ago, the locals are only just getting around to appropriating the joys of mobile food dispensaries.
Keep in mind: West Coast cities have already gone through the full food truck pop culture cycle.
Hiller is not alone in feeling that what was once an exciting, underground food scene driven by a punk rock aesthetic and an exploratory mentality is swiftly becoming a mainstream, bottom-line-obsessed maze of infighting and politics.
4:25 pm - 7 May 2012
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Filed under: #food #Charlotte
The dissonance came from Jordan’s previous career — Greatest Basketball Player Ever — and his aggressive role in previous NBA labor battles, most notably a 1998 exhortation to Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin to sell his team if he couldn’t afford it. Jordan can’t afford the Bobcats, and no one can make money on the team, which really means that in an economy where few have patience for losing bets, no one can afford the Bobcats.
But it didn’t have to be this way in Charlotte. The city was once a beacon of hope for smaller markets in the NBA, proof that with some on-court success, a rabid fan base and some key sponsors, success was possible outside of Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
What happened?
Tom Ziller attempts to explain why Michael Jordan has taken the position he has in the NBA’s current CBA negotiations. For more context on pro basketball in Charlotte, check out my bit on the piece from a few years back.
11:06 am - 23 Nov 2011 - 1 note
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Filed under: #basketball #Michael Jordan #Charlotte #Charlotte Bobcats
Am I crazy for thinking the best writing on Grantland, week in and week out, has been on pro wrestling?
The Mecklenburg County courthouse in Charlotte contains thousands of pages documenting Fliehr’s legal adventures. There, it’s possible to unearth the gory specifics of a lifetime: how he passed out after attacking his son Reid in a fit of anger after the boy broke his drunken mother’s arm by pushing her out of an elevator; how he lost a fistfight with his daughter’s boyfriend; how he exposed his genitalia to airline attendants. One can also read how Fliehr allegedly flew into steroid-induced rages against his wife and children; how he suffered anxiety attacks and at least one nervous breakdown, how he broke his back in a 1974 plane crash; how he was mistreated by powerful bosses such as Eric Bischoff; how he bought millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry for the women in his life; how he was cited for letting a drunk 20-year-old woman drive his car in North Carolina; how he used the same NWA title belt as collateral for two different loans.
Taken together, the information produces a rough timeline that illustrates Fliehr’s self-destructive impulses. It includes excesses that Hollywood screenwriters wouldn’t have the audacity to invent, and yet it follows its own logic — one bad decision comes after another, each magnifying the damage of the one to follow.
1:21 pm - 25 Aug 2011
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Filed under: #Ric Flair #wrestling #Charlotte
A parking lot in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, today. According to reports, we got up to 7 inches of rain over three hours.
4:23 pm - 5 Aug 2011 - 12 notes
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Filed under: #Charlotte #rain #flooding
3pm, yesterday, in Charlotte. At least it’s a dry heat (/sarcasm).
12:48 pm - 23 Jul 2011 - 2 notes
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Filed under: #Charlotte #weather
I have no problem judging this group the most awful people on earth. You don’t need a $7,000 vehicle to take a walking tour.
8:57 am - 21 Jul 2011 - 5 notes
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Filed under: #Charlotte #segway
Crazy clouds over Charlotte this afternoon.
6:24 pm - 13 Jul 2011 - 3 notes
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Filed under: #weather #clouds #Charlotte
