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Wednesday, February 28, 2018The nation’s top teacher, Bobbie Cavnar, from South Point High in Belmont talks about excellence in teaching and why, after…

Join the League of Women Voters of Charlotte Mecklenburg and WFAE for an in-person candidate forum ahead of this fall’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education election.

WFAE’s education reporter James Farrell will moderate the conversations, and the event will be livestreamed on WFAE's YouTube and Facebook pages.

• Date: October 27
• Location: WFAE Center for Civic and Community Engagement, 301 E. 7th Street
• Doors Open: 6 p.m. | Forum Begins: 7 p.m.

Space is limited. Registration will close once we reach capacity.

Getting There:
Parking: Preferred Parking lot at 219 E. 7th Street (flat lot adjacent to the Lynx Blue Line 7th Street Station); additional street parking is available near First Ward Park.

The location is accessible from the Lynx Blue Line 7th Street Station. Bike and scooter parking is available at the park.

Arrive early for the best seating. 

We get some tips on good books to spend time with this summer at the beach or on your couch.

In 1964, a teenage girl group from New Orleans proved to be The Beatles' biggest competition, knocking the Fab Four out of the No. 1 spot on the charts.

Friday, Dec. 29, 2017A year-in-review edition of the Local News Roundup - from political changes and Charlotte's rising murder count, to the swift…

The seven plaintiffs, which include all of the publishing industry's Big Five, say the audiobook company is violating copyrights with a planned feature that would transcribe audiobooks for listeners.

Ann Powers picks her favorite chart-topping, radio-dominating songs of 2012.

Ross Cooper, 33, got into trading Pokémon cards in 2018, but he's less interested in making money than he is in building the community. He finds joy in simply giving the cards away, mostly to kids.

The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy.

In the immortalized-by-meme words of Usher: Watch this.

Rachel Martin talks to Hannah Hart about her YouTube seriesMy Drunk Kitchenand about her book Buffering.Hart got famous for getting drunk and recording herself cooking a grilled cheese sandwich.

The panel's third meeting this month will focus on how former President Trump pressured former Vice President Mike Pence not to count lawful electoral votes. The hearing starts at 1 p.m. ET.

Many of those views may have been involuntary. Rick-rolling, for those who don't know, is when you prank people by sending them a link to that song, disguised as something else.

Can the Panthers afford to trade or let Sam Darnold go? Where do the ten Division I football programs in the Carolinas rank? And, a possible new nickname for Sir Big Spur that is NSFW, among other things.

Mark Meadows, the former North Carolina congressman and presidential chief of staff, was indicted again last week. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his "On My Mind" commentary, says Meadows now sits at the top of a notorious list.

All three women’s college basketball teams in the Triangle — Duke, UNC and N.C. State — are ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll this week. The success of these teams is driving interest and historic ticket sales among local fans and students.

Mecklenburg County Commissioners move ahead with a $2.5 billion school bond package. Get ready to see the beginnings of the Brooklyn Village redevelopment project after county sells some uptown property to prepare the way. With the start of the school year weeks away, CMS and Union County schools have significant bus driver shortages. For the second time, North Carolina is named “America’s top state for business.” Those stories and more.

Friday, April 7 2017The NCAA ends its boycott of North Carolina after last week's repeal of HB2. Charlotte's homicide figures continue to rise, now to 27…

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.