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This morning, the Charlotte Coliseum was imploded.  For those of you who don’t know or remember, the Coliseum was built to house the Charlotte Hornets. George Shinn’s design was as bad as ability to run the team and, after 14 years, Shinn took the Hornets elsewhere, basically stealing our city’s colors, mascot, and innocence (when […]

Tristan’s long private battle against ALS finally ended today.
Respect.

The NoDa Film Festival starts today at the Neighborhood Theatre. This year’s theme is “Celebrating Great Asian Cinema“.
I won’t be able to make all of the movies (though I hate to miss great FREE movies I’ll never see on a big screen elsewhere) but I will definitely make it out Wednesday for Battle Royale, […]

Charlotte is only number 34 this year but I’m sure we’ll do better this year.   Charlotte seems to be following Cingular’s motto (’more bars in more places’) and that is fine with me.
Forbes.com’s Top Drinking Cities:
1. Milwaukee
2. Minneapolis-St. Paul
3. Columbus, Ohio
4. Boston
5. Austin, Texas
6. Chicago
7. Cleveland
8 Pittsburgh
9. Philadelphia
9. Providence, R.I. (tied)
11. St. Louis
12. San Antonio
13. […]

It wasn’t the same night as the 4 reports of someone rummaging through cars in Elizabeth mentioned at Under the Water Tower, but my car was left unlocked overnight in Elizabeth one night last week and, the next morning, my glove box was open, as was my driver’s door, and the couple dollars in change […]

These are just my immediate coworkers, not everyone in the company/building… and I’m sure I am missing a few.
http://www.darkdaysdawn.com/
http://www.pyromantic.com/
http://www.juan2003.com/
http://bigbaldbastard.com/
http://www.michael9.com/
http://www.evilburn.com/
http://solidmercurie.blogspot.com
http://pompy704.blogspot.com/
I will probably update this list when the 40% of my team that isn’t represented here starts feeling left out…
[UPDATE: added Big Pomp’s site]

Good news for all of us who have wished there was something that would attempt to fill the holes left when we suddenly found ourselves without Mythos, Tonic, Fat City, and The Steeple.
SK Netcafe has had a good record of serving up consistantly interesting nights, I look forward to seeing what they’ll do with this […]

Charlotte Biz Journal reports the demise of C-SET. Good riddance. I was pissed about C-SET from the beginning but apparently being handed an NBA team doesn’t require you to have the sense to avoid something as stupid as C-SET (aka “the corner of the dial where we’re going to hide our your […]

Music for Robots posted a link to my vote for 2005’s Summer song: Destination Diamonds by Diamond Nights. If that song doesn’t sound like driving with the windows rolled down, one arm out the window, sunglasses on, hair and stereo up too high, nothing does.
They’re coming to Charlotte in August, I have […]