Charlotte's 12th Annual Q-City Charlotte BBQ Championship and Festival is coming to Uptown this Friday and Saturday (Oct 17th + 18th). There will be hundreds of variations of pork and chicken, as well as roasted and smoked veggies, and Charlotte's finest craft beers on tap. At the corner of Trade and Tryon they're setting up the Charlotte Blues Society Main Stage...
Apple's new iPhone features some incredible technology that you may be completely unaware of! Each major new update that Apple rolls out for their wildly popular iPhone brings new features and changes. Here are the top 10 amazing things you can do with your phone that you may have never known about; #1 Listen To Your E-Mails Read Outloud If you say to...
"You should have no concerns about Ebola at all. None. I promise," reported Fox News' Shepard Smith as he carefully and meticulously detailed the facts of the current Ebola hysteria around America. He also remarked, "Do not listen to the hysterical voices on the radio and the television or read the fear-provoking words online. The people who say and...
After a widely opposed 'non-discrimination ordinance', Houston's first openly homosexual mayor Annise Parker has just issued subpoenas to over 400 pastors, requiring them to turn in all sermons or internal communications that might relate to homosexuality, gender identity, or Annise Parker herself. Any pastor who fails to submit their sermons could face hefty fines or jail time. “The city’s subpoena of sermons and...
The state of Georgia is shelling out $8.9 million to re-pave a 42-mile stretch of Interstate 20 in an $8.9 million contract with the Georgia Department of Transportation. The section will be through most of Augusta going south down I-20 between Ga. 44 in Greene County and the Thomson Bypass in McDuffie. All of the sections of concrete will be either repaired or...
Wyman-Gordon, a subsidiary of Fortune 500's Precision Castparts Corp., is now building a $155 million plant in South Carolina for post-forging operations including heat treating, machining, and parts assembly. The national aerospace and power generation company will be bringing 400 jobs to Dillon County over the next few years. Their new 60-acre plant near the juncture of Interstate 95 and S.C. Highway 34, just outside Dillon, has...
Many think that the iPhone is the greatest piece of technology to come along since the PC, but many of those same people also have plenty of money for constant upgrades. Have you ever wondered why your iPhone tends to slow down after a couple years, or why it starts to struggles to perform basic tasks or load apps seemingly out of nowhere? The...
Tazewell County was one of the major recipients of more than $4.8 million in federal funds that was distributed to multiple local government agencies to increase emergency preparedness throughout the state of Virginia. The money was given out by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, and came from the State Homeland Security Grant program. “These critical funds, provided by our partners at the U.S. Department of Homeland...
The #1 high school in North Carolina and #203 in America is located right here in the greater Charlotte region. Six of North Carolina's high schools were named in Newsweek's recent rating of the top 500 high schools in the nation in terms of preparing students for college. According to Newsweek, Gray Stone Day School ranks first in North Carolina, and...
In a bold move to advance faster than their rivals, financial giant USAA is now working on using flying drones to fast-track insurance claims. The company has just asked the FAA for permission to use unmanned drone aircraft to survey accident sites, if approved, it would make them the first insurance company to fly to disaster insurance claims at a moment's notice. The exemption they are seeking...