In nine years, Envision Charlotte’s executive director has evolved from environmental novice to the city’s voice for sustainability PHOTO BY RUSTY WILLIAMS Before Envision Charlotte hired Amy Aussieker as its executive director in 2013, she didn’t think much about the environment. Since then, she’s been a part of an effort to reduce energy use in
Read MoreThe Charlotte Mecklenburg Library CEO leads an organization on the move PHOTO BY RUSTY WILLIAMS M.T. Turner returned to his native South almost two years ago. Time, he says, moves faster here than on the West Coast, where he led the Seattle Public Library for a decade. “I worked in a job where they told
Read MoreWithout ever intending to, a maven of Southern cuisine cooked up the largest Black-owned personal chef service in the country PHOTO BY RUSTY WILLIAMS Lisa Brooks will tell you she makes the best low country shrimp and grits on the East Coast, and she’s gotten marriage proposals over her Southern marinated filet mignon. “You don’t
Read MoreThe CEO not only pulled Blumenthal out of COVID but led it to new places—and broke records along the way PHOTO BY RUSTY WILLIAMS In March 2020, theaters all over the country closed their velvet curtains. Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, with its six Charlotte theaters, was one of them. It laid off 220 employees and
Read MoreAs educators quit in droves, this elementary school teacher leads an online science classroom for millions on TikTok PHOTO BY RUSTY WILLIAMS Three days before her students returned for the 2022-2023 school year, Nancy Bullard posted a 60-second video to her TikTok account, mrs.b.tv, for her 3 million followers. The time-lapse video, shot over four
Read MoreFour years after a colon cancer diagnosis and a bout with MRSA that left him unable to walk, the longtime journalist still chases stories that matter PHOTO BY RUSTY WILLIAMS In the blur of information that followed Steve Crump’s July 2018 cancer diagnosis, one word drove home how dire his situation was: “hospice.” But the
Read MoreHe concluded his 12 years at the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra’s helm having built more than just a vehicle for music PHOTO BY RUSTY WILLIAMS The conductor of a symphony orchestra, says Christopher Warren-Green, is essentially a ship captain. He commands a large, unwieldy vessel with a large crew whose members must work in near-perfect synchronicity.
Read MoreThe first season was far from smooth, on or off the pitch. But our new pro soccer team was the big noise in town, and it echoed throughout a maturing city PHOTO BY LOGAN CYRUS The national anthem moment, before the first match at Bank of America Stadium in March, was the first sign that
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Read MoreScooter MacMillan, Editor A group of musicians ended a song about how their good-looking date is going to appear, everything’s going to sound like a rhapsody and it’s all going to be different — when the songwriter paints his masterpiece. After the performance of Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece” at a Sunday reception
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