In the plant world, a rhizome is an always growing, horizontal stem underground that puts out new shoots. For April C. Turner, a member of the leadership team with QC Family Tree’s Rhizome Coalition, ...

At 39 years old, violinist Lindsey Stirling was a whirlwind of energy on stage at Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre on Saturday ...

MLS All-Star Week set to take place in Uptown Charlotte July 28 & 29 (Photo courtesy of MLS) 2026 MLS All‑Star Game in Charlotte: MLS vs Liga MX at Bank of America Stadium As part of the biggest ...

When Adrian Crutchfield was 4 years old, his parents took him to a Kenny G concert. The smooth jazz saxophonist saw the child sitting on his father’s shoulders and invited him up onstage. After ...

James Romney, Adriane Leigh Robinson, Christopher James Stevens, Paul Vogt, and Kelly Bashar. (Photo by Alexander ...

Early voting for Charlotte City Council and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education elections starts tomorrow, Oct. 16. (Photo by Grant Baldwin) It’s that time of year again, folks. If you didn’t get ...

Across the span of nearly 40 years reviewing, reporting and pontificating on the performing arts, quite a few events and performances have etched themselves into my mind. On rarer instances, an ...

Pressure and deadlines are good for creatives. Or as Duke Ellington famously put it, “Necessity is the mother.” What David Adjmi’s Stereophonic explores — at excruciating length — are the consequences ...

Pop singer Lynsea posed for portraits before undergoing cranioplasty surgery to replace part of her skull. (Photo by Colin Cassidy) Lynsea Rohde was born in the backseat of a Chevy Blazer on the side ...

David McGee in The Griot & the Nightingale at the Bechtler Museum of Modern of Art. (Photo by Ghost Crab Productions) A griot is a West African storyteller who keeps tribal histories and cultural ...

HNin Nie passed away on Aug. 26 at 32 years old. (Photo by Will Jenkins) HNin Nie has died. What an awful sentence that was to write. And worse still to read. But it’s true. It is real. I’ve been ...

Jordyn Zaino performs at The Milestone in May. (Photo by Dan Russell-Pinson) “What were your musical inspirations growing up?” It’s the obligatory cliche question that all musical journalists ask — ...