Creative Loafing Charlotte

Question the Queen City: Charlottetown Mall and its nearly forgotten time capsule

• by David Aaron Moore
A child's coffin contained relics of the past that stood neither the test of time nor the elements
• Tags: Culture, Charlottetown Mall, Metropolitan, midtown, Charlotte, history, Question the Queen City, David Aaron Moore, mall, shopping, Outlet Square, Midtown Square

Question the Queen City: Who killed Ella May Wiggins?

• by David Aaron Moore
Hers is one of Charlotte's most notorious unsolved murders
• Tags: Culture, Question the Queen City, David Aaron Moore, Ella May Wiggins, Gastonia, Gaston County, Bessemer City, activist, union, mill, textile mill, history, murder, African American, workers, rights

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Question the Queen City: The history behind Bojangles' Coliseum

• by David Aaron Moore
The eyesore to some is hailed as an architectural delight by others
• Tags: News, Opinion, Bojangles’ Coliseum, Question the Queen City, David Aaron Moore, history, events, music, performer, Charlotte Coliseum

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Question the Queen City: Pinewood Cemetery

• by David Aaron Moore
Watch where you step
• Tags: Opinion, Question the Queen City, David Aaron Moore, history, uptown, grave, funeral, dead, Elmwood Cemetery, Pinewood Cemetery, Potter's Field, African American, black, Civil War, slave, burial, tombstone, Charlotte

Question the Queen City: What happened to WGIV?

• by David Aaron Moore
"The Soul of the City" is no more
• Tags: Opinion, WGIV, David Aaron Moore, Question the Queen City, Charlotte, radio, AM, FM, R&B, hip hop, pop, gospel, music, radio station, history, Frank Neely, WAYS, WIST, broadcasting, The Commodores, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, The Spinners, Cameo, Parliament-Funkadelic, James Brown, LTD, DJ Genial Gene, World War II, The Excelsior Club, Beatties Ford Road, Soul of the City

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Question the Queen City: What is the story of Washington Heights?

• by David Aaron Moore
It served as the first community for middle-class African Americans and remains a symbol of their struggles - and successes
• Tags: Opinion, David Aaron Moore, Question the Queen City, Washington Heights, Elizabeth, Piedmont Park, Oakhurst, Colonial Heights, Crescent Heights, Club Acres, Wesley Heights, Chatham Estates, Dilworth, Excelsior Club, civil rights movement, black, African American, race clause, white, neighborhoods, history, Charlotte, black history

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Channel Norman Rockwell's ghost in Oxford, N.C.

• by Desiree Kane
Get back to N.C.'s roots in a town roughly three hours from Charlotte.
• Tags: Desiree Kane, dbirdy, North Carolina, NC, Oxford, Norman Rockwell, historic, historic preservation, history, old, roots, country, Gray Powell, Revlon, NASA, Biofuels, Biofuels Center of North Carolina, Alternative Energy, clean energy, green energy, Slideshow

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Question the Queen City: Forgotten pieces of Charlotte

• by David Aaron Moore
A Cold War relic, cemetery staple and old train depot make for unique and fascinating slices of this city's history
• Tags: News, Opinion, David Aaron Moore, Question the Queen City, history, Charlotte, The Piedmont & Northern Thrift Train Depot, The Crying Lady, missile, Cold War, Depression, landmarks

Like father, like sons: The Weir Family

Mint exhibit keeps it in the family

• by Grace Cote
• Tags: Visual Arts, The Weir Family, Robert Weird, Julian Alden Weir, John Ferguson Weir, art exhibit, Mint Museum Uptown, art in Charlotte, painting, American life documentation, history

Lincoln parked

Rating: **1/2

• by Matt Brunson
• Tags: Reviews, Lincoln, Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Abraham Lincoln, movies in Charlotte, history, review, film, Matt Brunson

Question the Queen City: Historic Charlotte eateries

• by David Aaron Moore
Where you can get a slice of pie - and history
• Tags: News, Opinion, David Aaron Moore, Question the Queen City, restaurant, Beef 'n' Bottle, Bar-B-Q King, history, food, Charlotte, Open Kitchen

Question the Queen City: The school teacher’s fountain

• by David Aaron Moore
A plaque and fountain in Independence Park memorializes Lillian Arhelger, who plunged to her death trying to save a little girl
• Tags: News, David Aaron Moore, Central Piedmont Community College, Lillian Arhelger, Myers Park, Independence Park, Charlotte, Girl Scouts, Elizabeth, history, Central High School, Blowing Rock, Glen Burney Falls, Al Capone, Great Depression, Question the Queen City

DNC 2012 Notebook: Southern-fried pessimism intrudes on the party

• by Mary C. Curtis
Meet the new South, which has some of the same problems as the old South.
• Tags: News, Democratic National Convention 2012, DNC 2012, Democratic National Convention, DNC, Mary C. Curtis, Judy Woodruff, The South and Presidential Politics 2012: Red States and Purple States, UNC Chapel Hill, Gene Nichol, Center on Poverty Work Opportunity, race, education, Southern Oral History Program, poverty, Jacquelyn Hall, Kareem Crayton, history

DNC: A timeline

Some choice moments from conventions past

• by Mike Cooper
• Tags: DNC News, Democratic National Convention, DNC 2012, Charlotte, history, timeline

A donkey of a different color

History can tell us why Tar Heel Democrats are in danger of losing big in November

• by Mike Cooper
• Tags: DNC News, North Carolina, Democratic National Convention, DNC, DNC 2012, history, Barack Obama, #ncpol, politics, Pat McCrory, Walter Dalton, W. Kerr Scott, Beverly Perdue, governor, election, John Locke Foundation, John Hood, Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, Michael Bitzer, John Edwards, Jesse Helms, Frank Porter Graham, Gary Pearce

Letters and online comments from the readers (July 19 edition)

In which one commenter talks hipster socialism

• by Editorial board
• Tags: Letters, hipster, socialism, history, Ella Wiggins, Kristina Horton, Ella May Wiggins, Ella Mae Wiggins, Charlotte

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Not just Black History: America I Am

Gantt Center exhibit expands the American narrative

• by Emiene Wright
• Tags: Cover story, Tavis Smiley, African American, black, history, Harvey Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, art, museum, exhibit, Doors of No Return, Democratic National Convention, National Constitution Center, Barack Obama, Raymond Ross, Ryan Schaub, America I Am, W.E.B. Du Bois, Fath Ruffins, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Howard Dodson, Schomburg Center, Thelma Golden, Studio Museum of Harlem, Carlton Farmer, Arts and Exhibitions International, David Taylor, Charlotte, Cover Story

The Wearn House could serve as a west side museum ...

... but for now, it's been left to rot

• by David Aaron Moore
• Tags: News feature, Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, Wearn House, Charlotte, history, Darryl Hall, Happy Box, architecture, Richard Wearn, Charlotte: Murder, Myster and Mayhem, David Aaron Moore

Great Dismal Swamp fire in N.C.

• by Rhiannon Fionn
This is the second fire in three years at the wildlife refuge.
• Tags: News, Great Dismal Swamp, fire, NC, VA, wildlife refuge, history

'Power and Smoke: A Nation Built on Coal'

• by Rhiannon Fionn
Scratch that, in the Q.C. it's a company — Duke Energy — built on coal.
• Tags: News, Duke Energy, coal, pollution, history, Riverbend, Mountain Island Lake