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Columns, Editor's Notes, Mar 13, 2013
Now taking submissions for CL's Fiction Contest

This year's theme focuses on religion and spirituality
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, fiction, contest, flash fiction, religion, spirituality

Columns, Editor's Notes, Mar 6, 2013
A field trip to The Range

The gun debate is uncomfortable and complicated
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, guns, debate, The Range at Lake Norman, assault rifle, The Coup, Sandy Hook, AR-15, Larry Alan Burns, The Liberal Gun Club

Columns, Editor's Notes, Feb 27, 2013
CIAA: What's in a name?

Plus, some protest about our recent HRC article
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, CIAA, copyright infringement, Jacqie Carpenter, party, basketball tournament, Destination: Out, experimental music, avant-garde music, jazz, HRC, Human Rights Campaign, Mark Kemp

Columns, Editor's Notes, Feb 20, 2013
Fela! comes to Charlotte

What a journey
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela!, Michelle Williams, Option, Rolling Stone, Spin, Afrobeat, Yoruba folk music, highlife, dancehall, Bob Marley, Youssou N'Dour, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Carlos Moore', Fela! This Bitch of a Life

Columns, Editor's Notes, Jan 9, 2013
Why do we compile the classic 'Year in Review' issue?

Because you love it
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, 2012 in review, best album of 2012, best movies in 2012, worst movies in 2012, best books in 2012, restaurants trends in 2012

Columns, Editor's Notes, Nov 7, 2012
Finding the soul of Charlotte's scene

Black music keeps getting stronger
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, black music in Charlotte, music in Charlotte, R&B, hip-hop, soul, gospel, Anthony Hamilton, Jodeci, Lute

Columns, Editor's Notes, Oct 31, 2012
Re-elect Obama

Why there's only one reasonable choice in the presidential election
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Election Day 2012, Barack Obama, Obama administration, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney

Columns, Editor's Notes, Oct 24, 2012
So long, Chilly Willy

Homelessness and addiction are not circus sideshows
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Chris Radok, Chilly Willy, Antoine Young, death, homelessness, Mark Kemp, Urban Ministry Center of Charlotte, Charlotte

Columns, Editor's Notes, Oct 10, 2012
Peace, love and misunderstanding

What's so funny about religious pluralism in a free society?
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, religion, diversity, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Million Man March, Charlotte, anniversary, Day of Atonement

Columns, Editor's Notes, Sep 26, 2012
Call for snark

CL is looking for the next Michael Musto or Molly Ivins
- by Mark Kemp

Columns, Editor's Notes, Sep 19, 2012
Are the Avett Brothers America's last great rock band?

The folk-rock band has "enough ambition to make even their failures interesting"
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Avett Brothers, Greil Marcus, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll, rock, music, Mark Kemp, Charlotte, Emotionalism, I and Love and You, The Carpenter

Columns, Editor's Notes, Sep 12, 2012
Seeds of DNC contemplation

What a couple of weeks to be a Charlottean
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, DNC, Democratic National Convention, DNC 2012, Charlotte, normal, political, New York

Columns, Editor's Notes, Sep 10, 2012
Mixed feelings at the Republican National Convention

Editor of CL Tampa looks back on the agony and ecstasy
- by David Warner
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Republican National Convention, Tampa, David Warner, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Hurrican Isaac, media, Martin Amis, Ritt Momney, Oscar and Edna Poole, Tampa Host Committee, Google Lounge, CNN Grill

Columns, Editor's Notes, Sep 5, 2012
The difference between soul food and Southern food

"It's just poor-folk food," my mom told me.
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Rudean's, Rudean, Southern, cuisine, soul food, Mark Kemp, Charlotte

Columns, Editor's Notes, Aug 30, 2012
No more Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. President

And the partnership with Huffington Post continues
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Huffington Post, DNC 2012, Democratic National Convention, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, Barack Obama, election, Charlotte

Columns, Editor's Notes, Aug 24, 2012
Music and conventions

This week's cover story has brought out a veritable playlist in my head
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Chicago Democratic National Convention 1968, Tlatelolco Square, 1968, Arab Spring, Occupy, smartphone, RNC, Republican National Convention, Rolling Stones, Prague Spring uprising, Cat Mother, All Night Newsboys, What I Did Last Summer, Graham Nash, Chicago, Phil Ochs, Where Were You in Chicago?, The Temptations, Ball of Confusion, Marvin Gaye, What's Going On?, "Trouble in Mind, Nina Simone, The Whole World is Watching, Chicago Transit Authority

Columns, Editor's Notes, Aug 15, 2012
The most destructive sort of 'progressive' political statement one could make

The plight of today's undocumented immigrants should not be compared to that of Africans kidnapped into the Transatlantic slave trade
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, slavery, slave trade, undocumented, immigrants, The Tortilla Chronicle, Charlotte, South, L.A. Times, Ernest Hardy, progressive, fail, social media, Tavis Smiley, America I Am, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Mark Kemp, editorial

Columns, Editor's Notes, Aug 8, 2012
Spoken-word poetry doesn't get the attention that spoken-word politics does

And that's a shame
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Mark Kemp, National Poetry Slam, SlamCharlotte, Bluz, spoken word, DNC, Democratic National Convention, DNC2012, Boris Rogers, Gil Scott-Heron, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Terry Creech, Ed Mabrey, Carlos Robson,, Micah Roman, Sylenz, Tavii, 23rd Annual National Poetry Slam

Columns, Editor's Notes, Aug 2, 2012
Thornton Dial and the Rev. Howard Finster

Is it primitive art? Visionary folk art? Is it naïve art? Outsider art?
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, Thornton Dial, Mint Museum, Howard Finster, art, painter, Charlotte, untrained, Scott Lucas, Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial, Mark Kemp

Columns, Editor's Notes, Jul 26, 2012
Meet your neighbor, Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara

The elitism in our music scene is a little out of proportion
- by Mark Kemp
- Tags: Editor's Notes, music, Adam Lazzara, Taking Back Sunday, Billboard, DD Thornton, Deaconlight, ErrorFM.com, Avett Brothers, celebrity, hipster, underground, mainstream, Mark Kemp

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