Come out and join us on Wed., May 16th at Queen City Q's Bar-B-Q, Bourbon, and Beer! Eat, taste, and sip on BBQ plate specials and flights of craft beer and bourbon. Indulge yourself with delicious BBQ, tasty drinks, and live music.
24 Hours of Booty, Inc. announced today that registration for its 2012 cancer charity cycling events, including the 11th Annual 24 Hours of Booty presented by Levine Cancer Institute, will kick off on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 at 9:00AM (EST). All participants must register online at www.24hoursofbooty.org.
Did you know that North Carolina presently ranks sixth in the U.S. in terms of the highest percentage of citizens experiencing food hardships every month? Did you also know that the unemployment rate for the Charlotte metro area jumped from 4.9% to 13% and is expected to end 2011 around 10.9%? As a result, food insecurity levels in our city and the surrounding areas have increased drastically in a very short period of time. The United Way Young Leaders group will hold their annual Week to Fight Hunger on November 7-14 to increase awareness of the needs in our community and to get young professionals engaged in community service focused on serving the hungry.
Charlotte, N.C., December 9, 2011 – Christmas came early in Davidson when Ingersoll Rand presented a check for $831,622.14 to United Way of Central Carolinas, an increase of 74% over last year’s contribution. The campaign is the largest in the history of Ingersoll Rand’s Davidson campus, which serves as Ingersoll Rand’s North American headquarters and corporate center.
The end of the year is approaching and for most of you that means scouring to find the biggest, best and brightest NYE locations to ring in 2012. Think of Elevate as your own personal zaggat guide as we put the hard work of research prep into an organized cheat sheet of the finest NYE celebrations, world-wide, at your very own fingertips. In no particular order, here are the top 5 locations we found that are sure to fulfill that travel desire as well as entice your fantasies of NYE parties of unsurpassed grandeur.
Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond, features over thirty exceptional works on paper, never before exhibited in Charlotte by Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali. Paris and Beyond tracks the development of these artists from their initial avant-garde beginnings through later decades of the 20th century as they moved ‘beyond’ Paris.