Charlotte won its bid to host the 2017 NBA All-Star game, and already the calculators are overheating. Last fall Charlotte’s city council committed local taxpayers to $27.5 million in upgrades to Time Warner Arena, enough to persuade NBA commissioner Adam Silver that the Queen City deserves the event. The city will spend at least an […]
I’m a rock guitar player. I grew up riffing to “Funk 49“. I lived in the Rocky Mountains and reveled in singing along with Joe Walsh’s irreverent “Rocky Mountain Way.” I always LOVED guitar god Joe Walsh, the goofy leader of the James Gang and the only member of the Eagles who would make sure you got your $50 worth of […]
I was walking downtown the other day and saw a really sad thing. There were transgendered and LGBT people all over the place, frantically looking for a rest room they could use. I felt so sorry for them and wondered what it must be like to have to go all day without being able to find a place to […]
