Charlotte Magazine - February 2014

In this issue

The February issue is special. It’s the magazine’s first music issue since October 2005, when we put The Avett Brothers on the cover and proclaimed them “The (Charlotte) Music Scene’s Best Hope.” The Avetts took off after that, and now we are back with another proclamation: Matrimony, a family band with a married couple as the leads and her two brothers playing banjo and drums, is “The Rock Act Charlotte’s Been Waiting For.”

The issue is packed with longform feature stories from some of the top writers in the region, including Matt Crossman, Michael Graff, Greg Lacour, Adam Rhew, and Brandon Sneed. Their stories go beyond the mainstream. At Queens University, Sneed takes us inside the music therapy program, which is bringing music into hospitals and schools for autistic children to use sound to heal and train damaged brains. On the streets of uptown, Crossman introduces us to Rodney the Street Singer, a formerly homeless man who once landed on American Idol, and now returns nightly to sing on the streets and give back to the city that gave him his start. And at Central Piedmont Community College, Lacour introduces us to a man who is trying to build totally sustainable houses that will help us as our population grows.

The issue also includes a new “Around Towns” feature, in which we take readers to a town around Charlotte. This month, Rhew shows us a little down-home life in Waxhaw, just a short drive outside the Charlotte city limits.

And as always, this issue features the incredible photography and design our readers have come to expect from us in our 45 years serving as Charlotte’s city magazine.

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Charlotte magazine is filled with timely, well-written features and resources to help readers satisfy their lifestyle-driven needs. Readers rely on Charlotte magazine for information to enhance their modern lifestyles while getting the best out of what our city has to offer. In every issue, readers find information on the people, places, and trends that define Charlotte.