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Welcome to Charlotte ViewPoint.

Charlotte ViewPoint is informed, aware, and savvy.  It’s the play you just saw.  It’s the discussion you’re attending next week.  It’s what you don't know, and more importantly, what you do know.  It’s your community.  It's in your hands. Because it's your life, and you make the world happen.

Listen Local: The Best Bands on the Charlotte Scene

Think Charlotte isn't a music town?  Find yourself making the two-hour trek to Chapel Hill again and again to see your favorite bands?  Maybe you're just looking in the wrong places.  Bryan Reed gives readers a sample of some of the most exciting bands found right here in Charlotte.



Laughing Ourselves into Mediocrity: Sam Lipsyte's The Ask

"With The Ask, Sam Lipsyte follows up his cult classic Home Land with a dark and darkly entertaining commentary on the texture of modern America... Nothing is spared from the barely controlled yet ultra-articulate narrator’s seething discontent."  A review by Kathleen Brazie.



Weep You No More, Alan Rickman

"There goes my heart again, hurtling like a Nebraskan cow..." Kendra Chapman delights with literary references and a crisp sense of language in her latest addition to Charlotte Viewpoint, the poem "Weep You No More, Alan Rickman."



An Interview with Pinckney Benedict

Lacey Lyons interviews professor and author Pinckney Benedict, and discusses teaching, writing style, his latest work, Miracle Boy and Other Stories, and breaking the curse of literary fiction.



Kit Kube: Celestial Mechanics in the Carolinas

Turning, time, tesselations: According to Phillip Larrimore, the light-and-shadow kinetic sculpture of local artist Kit Kube has the ability to make architecture musical.  In this profile, Larrimore examines Kube in the context of other kinetic sculptors.  Plus: is Charlotte a kinetic art center?