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Friday, Jan. 27 Charlotte Regional Farmers Market will be hosting Meat Soup Day from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. January is National Meat Month and National Soup Month. What better way to celebrate than combining those two things and hosting a Meat Soup Day? Four Charlotte Regional Farmers Market vendors will be sampling different meat soups made from their chicken, beef and even crab. Come enjoy a savory chicken soup from All Natural Farms, two tasty beef soups from S & J Produce and Rockraven Farms, and a comforting crab soup from BB’s Homemade Krab Kakes. These meat soups are sure to warm you up and put a smile on your face with how mouth-wateringly excellent they are. Stop by to enjoy the tastes of the Charlotte Regional Farmers Market.

After sampling some delicious soups, you may want to make some yourself. This is an excellent place to purchase local ingredients for your meals, in-season produce and products for gifting. The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market is open Wednesday through Sunday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. year-round; This can become your weekly food shopping location!

The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market is one of four, state-operated farmers markets located across North Carolina. It is located at 1801 Yorkmont Rd, Charlotte, NC 28217. For more information visit www.charlottefarmersmarket.com or follow them on Facebook.

Attend the premier Business to Business Expo serving South Charlotte, Pineville and the surrounding areas. Unlike other trade shows and expos, the South Charlotte/Pineville Expo is a place to talk business and to discover both small and large businesses in the South Charlotte, Pineville and local surrounding areas.

Discover a wide variety of products and solutions and services for your business and for you personally. This year we have further improved the Expo with a number of new enhancements. The Expo itself is now 2 1/2 hours long followed by a 1 1/2 hour networking social with free wine and beer where you can take more time to interact with more new vendors and other attendees and build new relationships. We'll hold raffle prize drawings at various times during the event that generate excitement. We also feature a new inside food area.
It's a great event, all for only $10 for attendees. Reserve your ticket today!

Attendee Tickets: https://business.pinevillencchamber.com/calendar-of-events/Details/south-charlotte-pineville-business-expo-attendee-tickets-and-info-1047275?sourceTypeId=Website

Sponsor/Exhibitor Registration: https://business.pinevillencchamber.com/calendar-of-events/Details/south-charlotte-pineville-business-expo-sponsor-exhibitor-registration-page-1046042?sourceTypeId=Website

2026 Charlotte Area Chamber Business Expo @ The Park Expo & Conference Center

Mark your calendar for the 2026 Charlotte Area Chamber Business Expo—one of the region’s premier business networking events! This dynamic gathering brings together local and regional business leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals for a full day of connection, collaboration, and opportunity.

Attendees will have the chance to explore a vibrant exhibit floor, discover new products and services, build meaningful relationships, and gain valuable insights to help grow their business or career. Whether you are looking to expand your network, generate leads, or stay ahead of industry trends, this event offers something for everyone in Charlotte’s thriving business community.

This year’s Expo will also feature Speed Networking presented by Dr. Angel Taylor of Soulful Sounds Entertainment, an engaging and high-energy experience designed to help participants make authentic connections in a short amount of time. Through intentional conversations and interactive activities, attendees will leave with new contacts, fresh opportunities, and a deeper connection to the Charlotte business ecosystem.

Who should attend:
Business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, sales professionals, and anyone looking to build relationships, discover partnership opportunities, and grow within the Charlotte business community.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and elevate your business at the 2026 Charlotte Area Chamber Business Expo!

Bright Star, a heartwarming tale of love and redemption set in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, running January 17–February 1, 2025, at the Fullwood Theatre in Matthews, NC.

Featuring a Tony®-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, this acclaimed Broadway musical blends bluegrass, folk, and Americana to tell the transformative journey of literary editor Alice Murphy and a young soldier returning from World War II. Directed by Paula Baldwin, with musical direction by Ellen Robison and choreography by Rachel Peterson, the production promises stirring performances and live music. A Pay What You Can preview on January 16, 2025, will support the matthewsplayhouse.com or by calling (704) 846-8343. Recommended for ages 12 and up.


Performance Details:

Preview/Pay What You Can Performance: Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 7:30 PM
-Theatre lobby opens at 6:30 p.m. - doors open at 7:00 p.m.
-Seating is general admission and limited to first come first serve.
-Donations will be accepted at the door via cash or credit - the suggested donation is $10 per person, but any amount will be accepted.
-Net proceeds will be donated to North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund.

Run Dates: January 17–February 1, 2025

Run Time: Approximately 2.5 hours with intermission

Location: Fullwood Theatre 100 McDowell St, Matthews, NC

Join us for our highly anticipated show, The Garden of Dreams March 28th & 29th, a two day runway event and don't forget the after party!

The Fashion Excursion is a fashion show production company and each year we help to support local non profit organizations and local businesses through fashion shows like no other. This year we are supporting the Gracious Hands Foundation, helping women with children transition out of homelessness to gain their lives back and self sufficiency.

Our runway lineup is AMAZING, and we are so excited to have you join us and donate to such an important cause. Uptown VIP ticket holders will receive a wrist band and have a good time upstairs with the designers in the Orchid Lounge for our cocktail hour with some good music, delicious bites, a live painter, a pool table for the gentleman, complimentary wine, and open cash bar downstairs.

For all of our guests, there's a FREE after party @ Club Halo 3701 N Davidson St #201, Charlotte, NC 28205 in Noda, three mins down the street from the venue. Let's have a good night!

We have to help serve and love others through what we do; that's what we believe! Get your tickets today and bless a family's life!

For more info about the foundation visit www.gracioushandshousing.org

How do we write our own stories that reject what society writes onto us? "It Be Like That Sometimes" combines theater, installation art, and music to pose that question while celebrating the ways we can maintain our mental health by honoring our own truth and experiences.

Step into the story and meet the Reynolds family, who has overcome the labels, financial woes, and disappointments to create joy, authenticity, and most importantly, self-love.

“It Be Like That Sometimes” looks at how the outside world's stories creep into our domestic space and the most sacred space of all, our minds. During this 55-minute show, you’ll walk through an Enderly Park home with just nine other audience members. Don’t miss this intimate, immersive theatrical experience.

From Mixed Metaphors Productions, the award-winning artist collective that brought you “Kudzu: A Story of Belonging,” “SwimCap” and “FixaPlate.” Co-sponsored with QC Family Tree.

Show dates and times:

July 24th & July 25th: 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm
July 26th: 2:00pm, 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm
July 27th: 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm
July 31st & August 1st: 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm
August 2nd: 2:00pm, 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm
August 3rd: 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm

For the second time CTTC is giving focus to the origin of theatre productions by beginning at the beginning with the playwright. The work of the playwright is central to the world of theatre. They are the originator, interpreter, and voice of individual communities and institutions. Playwrights have the power to write stories that reflect and shape our culture. Through their writing, they introduce audiences to new ideas, perspectives, and experiences, challenge societal norms, and encourage critical thinking.

For two weekends CTTC will shine a spotlight on two different playwrights, presenting a directed and rehearsed reading of their play. This unique event offers audiences a rare opportunity to witness fresh, original stories from voices in our own community.

The Race, written by Brian Daye is about an African American criminal defense attorney agrees to represent a White Supremacist Death Row Inmate falsely accused of murder. The attorney is the White Supremacist’s last hope for a clemency appeal before the inmate is scheduled to die by lethal injection at midnight on Christmas Eve morning.

Massage Group Therapy, by David Schoenfeld, centers around four female massage therapists who face challenges like blurred boundaries, emotional labor, and client entitlement, affecting their work and personal lives. They explore the meaning of healing while focusing on self-protection. Through mutual support, they reclaim their profession, voices, and dignity within a framework of consent, care, and solidarity.

Come celebrate local talent, discover new stories, and connect with the creative voices shaping our community’s artistic landscape!

The Charlotte Braille Trail Community Reveal pulls back the curtains on a paradigm-shifting outdoor experience two years in the making!Join us for this celebratory community event to learn more about the trail and Lions Services’ work to design a world where vision status is never a barrier to a life of choice, career, and connection. You’ll have a chance to explore this multisensory outdoor space, experience the everyday barriers our blind and low vision neighbors encounter, and tour the Lions Services’ facility, where we leverage custom engineered accessible technology and rely on a highly skilled, majority blind or low vision workforce to manufacture products that protect our troops.

About the Braille Trail: The Charlotte Braille Trail is not your ordinary trail. This innovative community project blends nature, art, and technology into a multisensory experience designed for everyone.

Threading through a tactile, fragrant landscape, the trail ensures blind and low-vision residents have safe, walkable access to public transit, paired with an accessible recreation and exercise space. From the musical "Bloom Circle" to interactive light and sound sculptures, the trail serves as a vibrant community hub where everyone—regardless of how well they can see—can engage their senses and connect with the heart of the city.

The Charlotte Braille Trail is an initiative of Lions Services Inc., designed to create inclusive infrastructure and open the doors to everything Charlotte has to offer for our blind and low vision neighbors.

As new COVID-19 cases decline here, a new, more contagious strain emerges. The line of candidates running to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Richard Burr is getting longer. Belk files for bankruptcy and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says sports can resume after being shut down due to the pandemic.

On the local news roundup: Tropical Storm Debby wreaks havoc in North Carolina. County Manager Dena Diorio announces her retirement. Truist Bank, headquartered in Charlotte, will sponsor the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. Mike Collins and guests discuss these stories and more.

Volunteers will place household goods, personal items, and food supplies, among other products, in car trunks and on truck beds of up to 2,000 local families. The Big Pop Up, sponsored by the North Carolina Community Action Association and hosted by Charlotte Area Fund, Inc., is open to the public at no cost on a first come, first-served basis. The contactless drive-through distribution event requires participants to safely remain in their vehicles and drive through various stations to collect the supplies.

The new documentary The Waiting Room chronicles a day in the emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. The film has no narration or expert interviews, but instead the camera shows interactions between hospital staff and patients, many of whom lack health insurance. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with filmmaker Peter Nicks.

GOP leaders hope to have the sweeping bill to President Trump's desk by July 4, but some Senate Republicans are speaking out about what the bill would mean for the debt and Medicaid.

The Tennessee Republican senator is not denying reports that he is mulling over whether to run for re-election this year after all. Corker announced his retirement plans in September.

The leaders of ICE, Customs and Border Protection and and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services appeared for their second oversight hearing this week and as lawmakers tussle over their funding.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former National Security Advisor, General H.R. McMaster, about how climate policy can be used to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin's agenda.

The interim Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools superintendent says he's ready to remove gridlock in the district. U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn is in trouble again after being caught with a loaded gun at Charlotte's airport and is facing a possible ethics investigation. Meanwhile, Panthers owner David Tepper avoids speaking about what happened with the team's project in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper loosened COVID-19 restrictions. Teachers are now eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The CMS superintendent gets a raise and a contract extension. Belk files for bankruptcy. And the ASC apologizes for past behavior. Those stories and much more.

Miners across Appalachia are dying of black lung. Now they're coming to terms with decades of dedication to a job that would drastically change their lives and that of their families.

In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as government troops and militia allies battle Rwanda-backed M23 rebels for control of mineral-rich land, civilians pay the price in a brutal war.