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When college basketball teams make it to the NCAA tournament, they say they're "going to the dance." In his new book, sports writer John Feinstein looks at the story of the last dance -- the Final Four. Read an excerpt from Feinstein's Last Dance.

The Loft, a party that David Mancuso first threw at his Manhattan home in 1970, seeded a community — and cemented a belief system that continues to reverberate.

Members of Sigur Rós found their way back together slowly, but the Icelandic group's singer says that when they started playing it felt like nothing had changed.

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award.

Scott Simon talks with Seamas O'Reilly about his memoir, "Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?" It's a tribute to his widowed father, who raised 11 children in rural Derry, Ireland, during The Troubles.

There are few bigger worries than displacement and gentrification for many neighborhoods in Charlotte, a city with a well-known fondness for bulldozers, cranes and shiny new buildings. And as traditionally low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods around uptown experience some of the most dramatic changes and skyrocketing real estate prices, that’s led local politicians to focus intensely on avoiding, or at least mitigating, some of the impacts.

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This week's episode of The Thistle & Shamrock explores the intersection where folk meets electronic music, highlighting the compositions of Martyn Bennett, Barry Reid, and more.

Wells Fargo has agreed to pay more than $11 million to settle charges that Wachovia overpriced complex mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the…

The (Raleigh) News & Observer is cutting 20 jobs. The newspaper is owned by McClatchy Co., the same company that owns the Charlotte Observer. The cuts…

http://66.225.205.104/CT20080912.mp3Barbecue Around America We are joined by some of the most award winning BBQ chefs in America. Chef-in-Radio Peter…

http://66.225.205.104/CT20080214.mp3Today, we present a sweet version of CharlotteTalks with Mike Collins when we talk all things chocolate. We'll learn…

http://66.225.205.104/CT20070620.mp3 A Guide to North Carolina Wineries We'll look at the burgeoning wine industry in North Carolina. The state has some…

Kaley Cuoco plays a messy flight attendant in the HBO MAX series that begins when one very bad night leads to one very rough morning.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Sirus XM hosts Charles "Shorty Corleone" Garris and Rico Anderson, who are giving the D.C. region's go-go music a national boost with the new Crank Radio show.

Thirty years ago this week, ABC's mini-series Roots was broadcast. The finale was among the most-watched programs in TV history. Roots star LeVar Burton reflects on the impact of the series in a conversation with Rebecca Roberts.

Charlotte musician Jason Jet’s long-held dream of opening a music coworking space came to fruition in late January when he opened GrindHaus Studios. His goal is to offer professional-quality recording and producing services to anyone in Charlotte who needs it through monthly memberships, hourly packages and add-on mixing and mastering services.

The joyously chaotic rap team-up Scaring the Hoes is less Watch the Throne and more Wedding Crashers: a pair of motormouthed eccentrics running wild trick plays and daring you to stick around.

Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith has spent decades framing violence as a public health issue. She spoke to Morning Edition about how guns fit into that picture and what prevention would look like.

As the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest marks its 50th anniversary, on-screen portrayals of mental illness and treatment have evolved.