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Join Sustain Charlotte for our new Impact 704 Academy that kicks off on Oct. 6 at Camp North End. This in-person series will equip you to help shape our future and meet others who share your desire to make an impact!

This is the first of three events in our advocacy-focused series about sustainable land use and transportation. Attend one, two, or all three! If you attend all three events and complete a small advocacy activity of your choosing, you'll receive recognition as an Academy graduate and a certificate. Register for the first event now and mark your calendar for the upcoming ones on Nov. 10 and Dec. 15.

We are thrilled to offer Impact 704 Academy at no cost to you thanks to the generous support of Southminster!

Light refreshments will be provided. This is an alcohol-free event.

While we won't have childcare available, you're welcome to bring your kids and supervise them. We'll have some simple toys and games available.

With Blizzard, FLIP Fabrique takes you on a crazy, poetic and gentle journey in the dead of winter, and invites you to lose yourself in a moment of complete wonder. With performers at the peak of their art and outstanding visual poetry, blizzard promises to blow away everything in its path.

*This performance will have ASL interpretation.

To show our appreciation for teachers who faithfully educate students from diverse and underserved populations, the members of Davidson Lodge #511 will host a school supply giveaway. A generous box of supplies will be provided for K-12 teachers within the Charlotte, NC vicinity. Advance registration is required. Please come out to help us celebrate our teachers!

Charlotte Roller Derby is leveling up the action at 8-Bit Brawl! Watch Team Might and Team Magic go head-to-head in a thrilling Thursday night showdown. Don’t miss your chance to see it live August 7th!

We're brewing a good time for you at Witches Night Out on Thursday, October 26th from 5:30PM - 8:30PM. Enjoy witchy fun, sip wine & shop your way through Waverly while enjoying specials, discounts and swag from participating merchants.
PURCHASE TICKETS: https://bit.ly/3PDy2sB
Tickets cost $20 and all ticket sales will go towards Carolina P.A.W.S. (Pet Adoption & Welfare Society). Their dedicated volunteers are devoted to helping abandoned and abused cats and dogs find loving homes. You can read more about them at https://www.carolinapaws.com/. They'll also be at the event with some adoptable dogs!
CHECK IN LOCATION: Check-in will be held at a yellow tent by the splash pad on The Terrace at Waverly. The Terrace is located in front of Hilton Garden Inn.
TICKET INCLUDES: A swag bag and a variety of wine pours and spooky specials at each of the boutiques listed below:
Athleta: 10% Off
Fab'rik: $10 Jewelry + 20% Off 1 Clothing Item (Excludes SPANX)
Ivy & Leo: 20% Off
Leenie Rae: 15% Off (Excludes Mother Denim)
Mainstream Boutique: 20% Off
Scout & Molly's: 20% Off
Urbane South: 15% Off + Gift Card Raffle

In "Beyond the Wall," beardy bros go on a wight-hunt and struggle to get to know one another. Luckily, in this penultimate episode of Season 7, they find the perfect ice-breaker.

If you somehow had a giant photo album of the last 40 years of fashion history, as you scrolled you would see one face over and over again, a head taller…

9:00 Monday, December 15, 2014When it comes to food, we live in a 50/50 world. Half the world has plenty to eat, the other half is starving. Even though…

The FBI announced Thursday the arrest of the man the believe planted two pipe bombs near the site of the U.S. Capitol complex on Jan. 6, 2021.

Abortion is almost entirely illegal in some states. The Catholic church hopes to keep it that way, but many Catholics support abortion rights. How do they reconcile their politics with their faith?

Reception begins at 6 p.m.

For millennia, female authors, printers, and songwriters have shared their beliefs and devotional practices within their domestic and religious networks. Even Protestant women have a long history of making significant religious contributions, according to Amanda C. Pipkin, Ph.D. To illustrate the power of these efforts, Pipkin recounts the story of six Dutch women who were vitally important to the development of the Reformed Church, a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century predecessor of other reformed faiths based on the teachings of Jean Calvin, such as Presbyterianism. Her book reveals that a substantial number of early modern women did, in fact, drive reform and revival movements thus providing an early foundation for women’s ministry in today’s reformed Churches. Although many collectors, archivists, and librarians in the intervening centuries have not valued women’s creative works—so much so that most of the women’s texts featured in this book now survive in a single copy—Pipkin presents ample evidence that women’s devotional books were best-sellers, printed in many editions, and widely read. This long tradition laid a firm foundation for women leaders in Presbyterian Churches in Charlotte and beyond.


Amanda C. Pipkin, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her book, “Dissenting Daughters: Reformed Women in the Dutch Republic, 1572-1725,” published by Oxford University Press, has received the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender’s national 2022 Best Book Award. This first book-length study of women within the Dutch Reformed Church reveals the vital contributions women made to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith. This includes women’s work as editors and authors as this blog post shows. Dr. Pipkin also wrote ”Rape in the Republic, 1609-1725: Formulating Dutch Identity” (Brill, 2013), highlighting the significance of sex and gender in the construction of Dutch identity in pamphlets, plays, poems, and advice manuals, and co-edited “Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750” (Brill, 2019) (available in open access). While earning a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University, she volunteered in Mother Teresa’s homes in Calcutta, and later she earned a master’s degree at the University of Leiden, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Prepare for an unforgettable journey as Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts presents "Around the World in 80 Days," a timeless tale of adventure and exploration, February 22 through March 3, 2024. This epic production, based on Jules Verne's classic novel enjoyed by generations of readers, transports audiences to various exotic locations, capturing the spirit of adventure that defines this literary masterpiece. The content in this production is suitable for ages 8 and up.


Performance Dates: February 22 - March 3, 2024

Where: Fullwood Theatre (inside of the Matthews Community Center) 100 East McDowell Street, Matthews, NC 28105

Tickets: Prices range from $10-$19 and are available for purchase. Tickets and show times are available at www.matthewsplayhouse.com/around-the-world-in-80-days


Special Performances:

Pay-What-You-Can-Night Thursday, February 22, 2024 @ 7:30 p.m. - General admission, donations can be made at the door and most of the proceeds will benefit a local non-profit organization.

Sensory-Friendly Performance Saturday, March 2, 2024 @ 11:00am​ - This performance will be modified to accommodate children on the autism spectrum and/or with a cognitive or developmental disability. All questions about this performance can be directed to contact@matthewsplayhouse.com.

Weekday Performances for School Children February 26-March 1, 2024- Matthews Playhouse is offering weekday performances of “Around the World in 80 Days” for school children, teachers and homeschool communities to enhance and support the classroom curriculum. Those interested in attending a weekday performance can visit www.matthewsplayhouse.com/plan-your-field-trip.

Happens on the following Dates:
Feb 22, 2024, 7:30pm to 9:30pm CST
Feb 23, 2024, 7:30pm to 8:30pm CST
Feb 24, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST
Feb 24, 2024, 6:00pm to 7:00pm CST
Feb 25, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST
Mar 1, 2024, 7:30pm to 8:30pm CST
Mar 2, 2024, 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Mar 2, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST
Mar 3, 2024, 2:00pm to 3:00pm CST

Israelis surged into the streets Sunday night to demand a cease-fire with Hamas after six hostages were found dead in Gaza. Israel's largest trade union also called a general strike for Monday.

Kelsey Snell talks with HBO's Jon Frankel about the explosion of legal sports gambling and the professional leagues' embrace of it.

The four crewmembers spent a half-year on the International Space Station conducting dozens of experiments and science research. NASA's Crew-8 mission relieved them on the orbital outpost last week.

Rolling Stone has just put out its ranking of the top 50 one-hit wonders from the 2000s. Some of the songs might surprise you.

The Between Two Fernsmovie that dropped last week on Netflix expands on the Web series' proven formula, but its sheer joke density rewards repeat viewings.

Kenneka Jenkins had gone to the Crowne Plaza Chicago-O'Hare hotel in Rosemont, Ill., for a late-night party. Her mother quickly realized something was wrong.

The documentary Get Back revisits The Beatles' final days together. McCartney says he took the band's breakup hard: "I didn't know what to do at all." Originally broadcast Nov. 3, 2021.

The 2022 World Cup's Round of 16 took place this past week, with the top half of competing countries now reduced to eight teams.