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Fetchin Bones was one of Charlotte’s most successful bands in the 1980s. They went their separate ways in the '90s and their music faded into the city’s music history. But the pandemic gave some band members time to restore lost demo tapes, and this summer a few songs found new life.
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Blumenthal Performing Arts is hoping amateur gumshoes in Charlotte might help solve a theft of $500 million worth of art during its first COVID-19-friendly performance, “Art Heist.”
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A new play opens this week in Charlotte — one dealing with themes of social justice, trauma, and the Black experience.
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Some people want to call SouthEnd ARTS an art organization. Others label it a social justice organization. SouthEnd ARTS calls itself both, as it seeks to “promote the nexus point between social justice and art-making.”
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A series of new COVID-19-themed murals are appearing in the front windows of five Charlotte businesses as part of a new project organized by Count on Me CLT and Charlotte is Creative.
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Artist Dammit Wesley and his business partner, Will Jenkins, are embracing the opportunity they now have to show the Charlotte art world that creators can look just like them: Black men who are successful entrepreneurs and see the world differently than their white counterparts.
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Roy Wood Jr. has spent a career telling jokes with sharp edges. He grew up in Birmingham and has spent more than 20 years doing stand-up, returning again to his experiences as a Black man and a Southerner. For the last five years he has also been a correspondent for “The Daily Show,” often coming back down South to poke at our contradictions and absurdities.
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One day, Charles Sledge II hopes he can look back on this time and think of how he started something big in Charlotte. Something that helped the city find…
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Dr. Mary T. Harper, whose idea for an African American cultural center in Charlotte became reality in the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts…
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Thursday night is a big night for Charlotte's theater scene. A live show will open to an in-person audience for the first time since March, though the…