My love affair with Charlotte started in the mid-'70s. My family would stop at the old Krispy Kreme on Independence Boulevard on the way to the beach.
Long before going to work as a call girl for Sallie Saxon, Charlotte's most notorious madam in recent history, Wendy Kohn needed money to pay her bills.
Cycling enthusiasts earned a major victory recently in making the city more “bicycle friendly.”

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Seven high-end steakhouses sit comfortably within two miles of Uptown's 277 loop.
In the family album is a picture of Kristin Wells, age 3, on a ladder and wearing a tool belt. Her path to a job on HGTV was being crafted even then, following in her dad's footsteps.
Walk into Tremont Music Hall on some weeknights and you don't hear distorted electric guitars or pounding drums wafting through the entryway. Instead, it sounds more like a school gym. There are tennis shoes squeaking on the concrete floor, and the poing! of rubber balls bouncing off the cinderblock walls of the venue's big room.
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