So far, more than a million people from North Carolina have voted early in this year’s election. Only one of those people cast a ballot from Antarctica. I had questions. Like: Who is this voter? Is it ...

That request—find me the audio of someone reading the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools lunch menu from the late 1990s—seemed like a bit of a tall order. After all, we’re talking about an era of answering ...

A Chinese restaurant next to the Food Lion in the Raleigh Oaks shopping center (Photo by James Willamor) Here’s a fun game that you can play right now. Go to Google Maps. Look up any Food Lion in ...

Before I started writing this, I consulted a longtime acquaintance who’s also an SEO expert. I wasn’t trying to trick people into reading this story. I just didn’t want to give people the wrong idea.

A historic modernist bank building in Uptown was converted into condos occupied, largely, by rich, single men. Then the city's greatest athletes moved in. So did Michael Jordan and an American Idol.

For months, the company said nothing. At all. Hence, to fill the vacuum, plenty of people wrote their own obituaries for Neese’s. They reminisced about their favorite recipes, many of which called for ...

Many people like them because they work better than any other beach shade. Some people think they are very loud, although new ones aren’t as loud as the old ones. They’re really popular on the east ...

Let’s say you were a musician with a pile of money. How might you try to break into the music business? Would you pay your dues? Work your way up? Or would you buy your way to the top by, say, ...

How did a long-dead pizza restaurant give birth to not one but two beloved breakfast chains? Here's the overlap between Biscuitville and Tudor's Biscuit World, with a possible connection to Mayberry.

Yesterday, the Artemis II mission blasted off to send humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. Its astronauts will achieve a number of firsts just by getting there. Jeremy Hansen will become ...

In 1966, a brand new shopping center opened on the south edge of Greenville. There was a J.C. Penney, an tire shop, a pharmacy, a shoe store, a supermarket, and a woman’s clothing store. There was ...

A reader asked what was up with an old sign on a two-lane road up in the mountains. It may be the last of its kind! Unless you can prove me wrong. But! Lindsey Sullivan, who actually lives in Meat ...