Month: April 2023

Photos: Black Trivia Night with QCity Metro

QCity Metro welcomed a capacity crowd to its first Black Trivia Night, which we hosted Friday evening at Weathers Souls Brewery. If you knew that Whitney Houston’s nickname was Nippy, or that Michael Jackson died in 2009, or that, back in the day, your parents said you needed “McDonald’s money” to eat at McDonald’s, then

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Police investigate death in northeast Charlotte

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating an incident in northeast Charlotte that left a man dead early Saturday.  The incident was reported shortly after 2:45 a.m. in the 100 block of Atando Avenue, near the intersection with N. Tryon Street,  in CMPD’s North Tryon Division. When officers got there, they found a “male victim” with traumatic injuries,

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What happened on Capitol Hill

Our featured couple: Bride: Gabrielle Hughes, 30, teacher, native of Greenville, North CarolinaGroom: Timothy Hughes, 33, attorney, native of Asheville, North CarolinaCurrent Residence: Charlotte, North CarolinaWedding Date: April 1, 2023Venue/Location: Ceremony – Duke University Chapel/ Durham, North Carolina – Reception- Prestonwood Country Club/ Cary, North Carolina If you ask most people about what is happening

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Livingstone College names new women’s basketball coach

Queen Smith, a Connecticut sports Hall of Famer and former assistant coach of the women’s basketball team at Yale University, was introduced Thursday as the new head women’s basketball coach at Livingstone College. Livingstone officials announced Smith’s hiring on Tuesday and, two days later, held an introductory press conference on the Salisbury campus. Before Livingstone,

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New Black-owned tapas bar opens in Charlotte

Fumee’ Kitchen & Cocktails, a tapas and hookah bar, opened near the University area earlier this month. The upscale space has a lounge-like atmosphere that feels intimate, cool and a little more refined than some of its local hookah competitors. Small plates like wings, wagyu sliders and tacos, and cocktails like a specialty lemon drop

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