You know how sometimes you’ll be reading the newspaper, and then suddenly you find an unexpected article in there about you…? No? Well I now do. Today I found an article about me in the Sunday edition of the area’s major newspaper, the Charlotte Observer. I don’t mean that I just happen to be mentioned [...]
It’s raining tonight. It’s far from a torrential downpour but definitely a steady rain. This certainly won’t end our record-setting drought but every little bit helps, and the forecast calls for rain again tomorrow. I can’t even remember the last time it rained in two consecutive days.
This afternoon there was a bank robbery in Fort Mill. Police chased the thieves in to Charlotte where the car crashed. One suspect was apprehended quickly but another darted in to a nearby apartment complex. Dozens of police cars were called in to search for the missing bank robber, as were two police search helicopters, [...]
Snow dusted the ground this morning and the entire city of Charlotte shut down. [Pause for my northern friends to stop laughing.] Although we didn’t get any snowfall last year, Charlotte does average a few inches of snowfall each year. In 2003 we had one storm that dumped 18 inches on a city that isn’t [...]
If “Touch My Building” didn’t make you curious, alternative titles for this post were “The Fish Smells Fine” and “The Ghost of the 7th Street Station”. In Charlotte there is an interactive work of art that lights up and plays music when you touch it. This enormous artwork is nine-stories tall and stretches a full [...]
Today is WAXN-TV’s 10th birthday. The station officially signed-on air on August 4th, 1996. Happy Birthday! For the record this isn’t technically the birthday of “Action 64” because that branding line wasn’t introduced used until September 2nd, 1996.
I’ve been waiting for this day all year. No, not the premiere of the movie I’m in – the opening of the new Super Target at River Gate. Hooray! River Gate is a new 60,0000-square-foot shopping center being built just a few miles from my house. There’s not much in the way of retail shopping [...]
This is one of several billboards put up as part of a promotional campaign by WCNC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Charlotte, NC. They are promoting the accuracy of their newscast’s weather with the following text: “It’s not that they are wronger… We’re just righter.” P.S. Incase you’re wondering… No, they don’t have any weather talent [...]
This week the Charlotte Department of Transportation released compelling video of three collisions that occurred within one month’s time at one particular intersection in Uptown Charlotte. They claim that there were zero collisions at this interection the previous eight months, during which time there were red-light cameras in operation. CDOT goes on to claim that [...]
Tom and I solved the riddle of the Seventh Street Station. Well almost. The Seventh Street Station is a nine story parking garage that has dozens of 28-foot high panels that light up and play music if you touch them. Some call it the musical parking garage. Legend goes that if you solve the riddle [...]