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A Terrific evening of good music, good wine and a great place to unwind. This every Saturday evening event at the Treehouse features live music like this weeks Woody and the String Pullers, winery tours and tastings, and just a great place to unwind with your friends and a few local two and four legged […]
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The Mark Roberts Band played the most recent Rockin’ and Reelin’ concert presented by the Pineville Parks and Recreation Department. The Lake Park Stage was once again the place to be for good friends and good music. Please join us on 8/21 for the next concert. Photos by Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina. [nggallery […]
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The next to last Tuesday night Shootout of this summers season brought lots of excitement and plenty of collisions for the bandolero drivers. Photos by Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina. [nggallery id=150]
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Hoshicon is a weekend event to celebrate Japanese culture, animation, and video games. As a convention it has grown since its origin as a college project in 2010 to a gathering of over 2000 members and fans. Photos by Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina [nggallery id=148].
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The high horsepower and off road excitement invaded the Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the fourth time in the series’ history. Mix the high power trucks and drivers with the jumps and bumps and hair pin turns of a well designed course and you get TORC. Photos by Glen Simmons with Event Images […]
July 28, 2015 | Posted in Photos Not Featured | Read More »

The Charlotte Symphony made its annual Pineville stop in its Patriotic Tour on July 1. A crowd of over 1500 packed Lake Park for the concert which featured marches from John Phillip Sousa, and the anthems of all five of the US Armed Services. Photos by Glen Simmons with Event Images Carolina. [nggallery id= 146]
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Before we get to The Worst Supreme Court Decision of All Time, let’s take a quick look at some doozies that didn’t quite make the cut. The (Dis) honorable mentions below were either mercifully overturned, superceded by an even worse ruling, or are too new to figure out what just happened. Like our Awful Eight, […]
July 23, 2015 | Posted in House Guests,National | Read More »
When you think about it, throughout history the United States has struck some pretty good deals with foreign adversaries. In fact, some great ones. Seward’s Folly On March 30, 1867, “U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward sign(ed) a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of […]
July 23, 2015 | Posted in House Guests,National | Read More »
The two recent pieces on the intersections of government, business, and large projects have produced record numbers of pave views. Those pieces were about the I77 HOT Lanes project generating a lot of recent controversy. However, you do not have to look at just large projects involving hundreds of millions of dollars to see examples […]
July 13, 2015 | Posted in Char-Meck Beat,House Guests | Read More »
We’ve just learned that Monday will kick off an astroturf spectacle in front of the federal courthouse in Winston-Salem after the first day of court for North Carolina’s trial of the century: The lawsuits against NC over measures to prevent vote fraud. The Left is so afraid of these common-sense reforms that several organizations funded […]
July 12, 2015 | Posted in Carolinas,House Guests | Read More »