Charlotte Magazine – August 2019

18 CHARLOTTEMAGAZINE.COM // JULY 2019

Can’t wait to pick this up!! The cover

is awesome!

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@phenomenalphoods

To: “Open House,” page 25

Great article, Lace. Honored to call you

a friend. And my forever prom date.

Facebook comment by Christina Gardner

To: “BOB Awards,” page 50

Some really good stu‡ in the May

issue of @charlottemag! Proud to be

featured as the Best Out-Of-The-Box

Museum ...

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Major gratitude to

@CharlotteMag + everyone who named

@WFAE’s Ampli™ er as “Best Podcast”

in Charlotte! And major shout-out to

every person in the #CLTmusic scene -

you are the best + you deserve the most.

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To: “Charlotte’s Wall,” page 76

Anyone sensible knows our city would

grind to a halt without the immigrant

community. Aside from the inherent

value in being decent to decent people,

which is what is needed (this ICE

behavior is cruel and hurts innocent

families), economic conservatives

should at least recognize that.

Facebook post from Chris O’Brien

While fear remains a reality for

many immigrants, this article fails

to recognize the work of immigrant

organizers who continue to push back

against ICE enforcement in NC, groups

like @ColectivaCLT @AlertaMgratoria,

SiembraNC, and CIMA.

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EVENTS

August 1

Top Doctors Reception

We’re honoring the

2019 class of Top

Doctors at a reception

at The Terrace at

Cedar Hill, and we’ll

include ticket purchase

information with the

invitations we mail to

all the physicians on

the list. Learn more at

charlottemagazine.com/

topdoctors.

On March 25, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police

o­ cer shot and killed 27-year-old Danquirs Franklin

in a Burger King parking lot on Beatties Ford Road.

On April 30, a former student opened Ž re in a

classroom on the UNC Charlotte campus, killing

two and wounding four.

When news happens, we try to step back from

the facts at hand and give readers a sense of what this might mean for

our city. A• er the Franklin shooting, I wrote on our website about the

complications of an already confusing case (“Stepping Back To Assess

the Danquirs Franklin Case”).

The UNCC shooting compelled Editor Emma Way to follow staš ers at

the student newspaper, the Niner Times, and write about their eš orts to

chronicle what Chancellor Philip Dubois called “the saddest day in UNC

Charlotte’s history” (“A• er UNCC Shooting, Student Journalists Show the

Strength of a #LockdownGeneration”).

It was, in many ways, a di­ cult Ž rst half of 2019 for Charlotte. The

story continues, and we’ll continue to tell it, both in the monthly print

magazine and on charlottemagazine.com. —Greg Lacour

On the Web

Student

journalists like

Nikolai Mather

(with camera)

distinguished

themselves as

they covered

the UNC

Charlotte

shooting and

its aftermath.