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* Originally from NY, Alessandra Salvatore has called Uptown Charlotte home for a year now. An avid writer of articles, reviews and screenplays, Alessandra’s other addictions include interior decorating, red wine, and “swapping”—she recently created SwapSassy.com, a website where fashionistas can swap clothing. When not scoping the Charlotte scene, you can find her at home in the company of her husband, Greg, and her fat cat, Marcus. 16

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Charlotte native Matt Kokenes is no stranger to the media-sales business in the Queen City. He has been selling both print and television for almost seven years. Through perseverance and intestinal fortitude, Matt has shown he has the toughness to succeed in this business and was recently promoted to Ad Director for the magazine. Shake Matt’s hand if you see him—he deserves it, plus he looks much better in person.

Originally from Atlanta, Joey has made Charlotte his home for six years now. With his ‘hood roots and current Uptown lifestyle, he can relate to just about everyone. Fashion comes with style and is tied to hair: everything has to come together. At Uptown Magazine Joey gets to combine all of this into one fun package and strives to bring you something fresh, fun, and inspiring. You can find Joey and his constant companion, Bamboo, at J Studio in South End.

Ryan Sumner is both Creative Director and Owner of Fenix Fotography (www.fenixfoto.com), a full-service photo studio located in Plaza-Midwood that’s dedicated to creating compelling and artful images for corporate, advertising, fashion, and weddings. The studio also offers on site studio work for executive headshots. Ryan photographed this month’s fashion section. Click to fenixfoto.com to find out more.

Responding to whatever makes you smile, Melissa Fazio—also known as the Faz, Fazerati, or Emmy- is the newest addition to the Uptown family. In Charlotte media for the past six years feeding her passion for creative thinking, hard work, building, inspiring and helping you succeed. She is eager to assist your business grow through strategic marketing and advertising. As her motto goes “The service you deserve and the results you can trust!”

name: Little Shiva species: mutant here for: the smell of ink on paper interests: juxtaposition, transformation, mystery, clarity, the process of becoming, images, and design contributions to this issue: table of contents website: littleshiva.com

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Chris Wooten is a designer, artist, builder of tree houses, father, and avid traveler who is known for a neurotically meticulous attention to detail. Since the 1990s, Chris has been designing print and interactive solutions with zeal! Modry Design Studio was born after he hooked up with his partner in 2003. For now the company is firmly rooted in NoDa. If you want to talk design, stop by their studio or find them them online at ModryDesignStudio. com

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Letter from the editor

I never knew this before, but a pregnancy doesn’t really last nine months. Instead, it’s 40 weeks of morning sickness, fatigue, and amazing weight gain. I like to refer to it as OUR pregnancy. Sure, I didn’t carry the baby—I just carried the crackers to temper the nausea and tried to keep the house running while Julie, my wife, made a baby. On May 2, about 38 weeks into our 40, Julie started having contractions that grew more and more regular throughout the day, and by about 2 o’clock that afternoon we called the doctor’s office. They told us to come in, and Julie was examined. It was decided that our baby would greet the world that very afternoon. Julie was to get a C section, so all the necessary experts were called in. They walked us through what would happen, and begun preparations. Julie was whisked away into the operating room and because I wanted to watch the operation I was given a surgical beret for my bald head and a clean suit to put on. I looked ridiculous and was having a great time, so I snapped a couple self portraits from my phone and quickly emailed them to a group of friends. Fifteen minutes later: the time had arrived. Our nurse said Julie was ready. With wobbly legs I followed the nurse into the operating room, where I was surprised to see Julie relaxed and smiling even as, behind a blue curtain, the surgical team had opened a foot-wide hole in her belly. Cool, things were going well. 20

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About ten minutes later, and after very little drama, Anna Victoria Trimakas greeted the world with an ear-piercing scream. When I say she was purple, I don’t mean a tinge or a slight hue, I mean Willy Wonka blueberry. I was concerned, but the nurses all said that it was normal, and Anna quickly turned a rosy pink. Because our fist baby might as well be a mini-me, Julie turns to me and asks who Anna looks like? I look at Anna and can’t really tell. With a mohawk of dark hair and a dark complexion, my initial impression was that she didn’t look like either of us. I was still enthralled by the surgery, and once Anna was breathing fine, my attention turned back to the doctors who were closing up Julie. A moment later a nurse pulled me aside: Anna has signs of trisomy 21. Our genetic tests had been 28 weeks earlier, and I really couldn’t remember what that meant. My initial reaction was to do nothing. A couple minutes later, the nurse told me again, “I think she has signs of trisomy 21.” At that point, I asked what that meant, and she lets me know that she thinks my brand new baby, Anna Victoria, more than likely has Down syndrome. With those words, a massive fissure opened in my heart. I’m pretty sure I went into shock and could not contain the tears that streamed down my face. I wish I was just heartbroken, but I think it’s more like heartpulverized or heart-vaporized. And for the next twelve days, while Julie took care of Anna in the intensive care unit, I cried. Now, a couple weeks later, Anna is home, Julie is home, and Kate, our two-year-old, cannot contain the love she feels for her new baby sister, who is, in Kate’s words, “my baby.” After too many times walking around the Harris Teeter crying while picking up dinner, I’ve finally stopped. I’ve also come to realize that Anna is “my baby” too, and that even though this is not the adventure I would have chosen, it’s an adventure nonetheless—and I will not be the guy lagging behind the group. So last night, while Anna was enjoying her 11 p.m. snack and we watched the Magic and Cavaliers game together, I promised her that I won’t cry again until she, Kate, and I get out together in our whitewater kayaks and enjoy our first day of paddling together. I’ll be sure to take plenty of pictures on my phone to send to our friends. ~Todd Trimakas Publisher / Editor [email protected]

Editor/Publisher Todd Trimakas Advertising Melissa Fazio Matt Kokenes 704.944.0551 Executive Editor Andy Graves Contributing Editor Peter Reinhart (Food) Contributors Celina Mincey Chris Wooten Alessandra Salvatore Joey Hewell Little Shiva Signal Studio Photography Ryan Sumner Todd Trimakas Sharan Downes Cover Todd Trimakas Distribution Sean Chesney Office 1600 Fulton Ave., #140 Charlotte, NC 28205 Contact us at [email protected] Uptown Magazine is a trademark of Uptown Publishing inc., copyright 2009. All rights reserved. Uptown is printed monthly and subscriptions are $25 annually and can be purchased online at uptownclt.com.

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Big Wedding, Big Problems

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y mother thinks I’m crazy. So much so that she now can’t stand when my newly engaged sister and I talk, for fear that I am “negatively” influencing her. And all I did was get married. Well, to be more truthful, I should say that all I did was have a wedding. A big fat wedding, with all the fanciness one could imagine. A cocktail hour involving a sushi station and a vodka slide. A Viennese hour that would rival a carnival. A bridal party the size of a football team. I realized how unnecessary most of it was. But I was unsuspectingly sucked into the “wedding machine” propelled by society.

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My sister is now contemplating (gasp!) quietly sidestepping the elaborate celebration for a smaller, more intimate party. When she first got engaged, she started planning a “typical” wedding. But then the opinions crept in. There was my mother: “If you have Clarice in your wedding then you must have Jennifer too.” His mother: “My cousin does flowers and she’s chosen your centerpieces.” Aunt Martha: “You cannot have purple dresses in October!” And the postman: “Don’t seat me in the nosebleeds!” My sister has become completely turned off by all the petty details involved, and she and her fiancé can’t justify the price tag. They have also realized that the ones who are “helping” her fund the event, (my parents and her fiancé’s), are slowly leaking their own agenda. In all fairness, my sister understands that planning a wedding requires cooperating with the parties who are contributing financially. Mom and Dad, the new in-laws, Uncle Johnny and Aunt Robert, whoever, there needs to be some compromise. But all too often, this is the scenario: Big checks are written. Expectations are “suggested” (read: shoved down your throat). Your fantasy wedding becomes a squashed memory, like a wedding cake that’s been dropped on the floor. Details and decisions swirl around you like a tornado,

“You know, unfortunately, weddings aren’t really for the bride and the groom.” and suddenly, you are getting used to hearing: “You know, unfortunately, weddings aren’t really for the bride and the groom.” No wonder my sister is reconsidering. I encourage her to look into other options. But now I am messing with the natural course. To my mother, I have become The Enemy, a bug that must be squashed. My mother loves throwing an elaborate soiree, and what better reason to throw one other than the wedding of her daughter? At my mother’s wedding, there were over 400 guests. She had two bands: a standard band and an Italian band. There was a rolling bar for every two tables, stocked with top-shelf liquor. These were the days where big weddings were glamorous, when people stayed drinking and dancing until 4 a.m. in smoke-filled rooms. Honeymoon vacations lasted for weeks, and when all 24

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was said and done you had a down payment for your first house and money to bank. My mother’s wedding cost $7.50 per person. Brides-to-be, I will wait while you regain consciousness. This price included her cocktail hour, a seven course meal, and a loaded Viennese hour. Things were clearly different then. It is inevitable that times change. But is it me, or has the wedding industry (as

well as certain bridezillas that fuel it) taken things a bit too far? How much “stuff” do we really need to say “I do”? Apparently, a lot. Weddings have become streamlined and commercialized, and all the products on the market can make a girl’s head spin. Have you ever been to a bridal show? It’s a friggin’ circus. Picture every stereotypical sales character coming at you from every which way, trying to sell you things. “Put this ultra deluxe special hand mixer-slash-nose-hair-remover on your registry!” “Drink this to lose 45 pounds in time for the big day!” “Open wide for a wedding cake trial!” And it doesn’t stop at the bride, as any good bridesmaid or maid of honor has learned. If I see one more bachelorette running around a crowded bar, slurping out of a blinking penis straw, carrying other disposable, made-in-China products, and wearing a t-shirt on that reads: “Final fling before the ring!” I may go insane. Today’s posh reception halls cost upwards of $120 per guest, and if you are in the market for a prime location on a Saturday night, get ready to shell out anywhere from $150 to $200, soup to nuts. And you haven’t even looked at dresses, photographers,

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flowers or entertainment yet. Today’s bride is taken advantage of and over-marketed to, and everyone’s got an opinion for her whether she asks for it or not. What do you mean you don’t want matchbooks with your names on them? How will you serve drinks without monogrammed napkins? You’re telling me you haven’t gotten laser hair removal yet? Planning a wedding has become a full-time, exhausting job for most brides. Many stay engaged for two years or more before their wedding, so they can put themselves on an affordable payment plan and avoid drowning in debt. Throw in unreliable vendors, outrageous dress prices, and bridesmaids who have announced they will be eight months pregnant at the time of your wedding (how dare they!), and you’ve got yourself a burntout bride-to-be. And we live in a culture where this is not only accepted, but expected. But with recent brides I’ve encountered, especially in Charlotte, a strange trend is emerging. They are opting out. Whether it’s due to a strict budget or just a different outlook, these girls have a new mantra: less is more. They are realizing that details and drama mean about as much as the bubbles blown outside the ceremony; they are present for a moment, transparent, and just as quickly they vanish into thin air and are forgotten. A wedding is a celebration of the love of two individuals—not a marketing machine with the product being you and your new spouse. Back to my sister’s wedding. My mother is “encouraging” her to enlist several cousins, in-laws, and friends to be a part of her bridal party. My sister wants nothing to do with it. She wants to have myself as her maid of honor, and her fiancé’s brother as best man. She feels it will be more special that way. The hard and fast fact is that most girls (other than the maid of honor, let’s hope) are secretly wishing you won’t ask them to be a bridesmaid. They’d rather be there for you in other ways, comfortably wearing their own dresses and wishing you well on your special day. Brides, when was the last time you heard someone say: “Wow! I’m so excited to be in [any bride]’s wedding! I can’t wait to spend too much money on that cheaply made dress that I most certainly will wear again! (Gush) I just can’t wait to plan the shower!” Is this hard to swallow? Think about it: when was the last time you said that? The moral of the story is this: if you truly want the big wedding and have been planning it most of your life, I suggest you go for it. But keep your feet on the ground. Ask yourself whether or not diamond encrusted champagne flutes are crucial to you and your groom’s future as husband and wife. And don’t do anything for anyone else, no matter who is footing the bill. Because when it comes to wedding planning, no matter what you do you will be complained about or preached to by at least one guest there. So you may as well do what it is that you have always dreamed of, with no regrets in the end. Just please, I beg you, forego the blinking penis straw. U You can reach Alessandra at [email protected] For more info go to www.uptownclt.com

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He also created amendments to the CAA allowing industries with older coal-burning plants to duck the requirements for lowered emissions and the installation of scrubbers that would lower the amount of pollution being released into the atmosphere. The Reagan Administration gave the coal industry a free pass, a free pass it enjoys to this day, in that coal plants that were built in the 1960s still operate producing the same emissions without any upgrades, because upgrades would void the protections they have from the expensive installation of scrubbers and other pollution-control equipment. In essence, to create a “cleaner coal,” all the coal industry would have to do is upgrade or shut down these particular plants, reducing emissions but still not drastically changing the current carbon footprint. Instead of making this change, Big Coal, in conjunction with George W. Bush’s Department of Energy, has created a distraction, the charming FutureGen project. Touted to contain 90 percent of contaminants generated by a coal-fueled power plant, this project is a financial disaster of epic proportions. The plants depend in part on gasification technology, wherein CO2 and other contaminants are separated out and pumped into underground storage. Proponents say that eventually this could keep 100 percent of pollutants from leaking into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, after decades of work on this type of technology, only two plants are operating, and while both limit the release of sulphur and a variety of other pollutants, neither is capable of containing CO2, the biggest threat to our environment. In early 2008, the Department of Energy pulled the plug on a major FutureGen project because of financial issues. In other words, coal is dirty power, and cleaning up coal is an expensive process. For now, the project continues with private funding. Even if the FutureGen project works, there are other environmental issues. Coal is obtained through mining, much of it strip mining. Over the past few years, more than one million acres of hardwood forests were destroyed in the pursuit of coal. www.uptownclt.com

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“Wind power is friendly to the environment, so every bit of electricity we can generate with wind helps the environment,” states Rocky Sease, CEO of SOS Intl, a Charlotte-based corporation that provides consulting and training services for power companies. “From a reliability standpoint the wind does not always blow. If we need the electricity from a wind turbine and the wind stops blowing, we need to replace that electricity [with something] from another source. Because of this, every megawatt of wind power must be duplicated by a more reliable source. We have the same issue with solar power, although the technology for storing electricity is advancing. The current problem is that solar generation only works when the sun is shining. If the

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sun stops shining, we have to be prepared to generate that power somewhere else unless someone is prepared to stop using that electricity.” As a whole, Americans are not very tolerant of the idea of a day—or even just an hour—without electricity. As much as we love our earth, none of us can make it through the workday or the primetime cable hours without our humming machines happily feeding off the body electric. Storage is one of the main issues facing green power generation. Wind and solar can generate large amounts of energy, but so far we do not have successful means of storing this power. “With today’s technology,” states Sease, “we don’t have any way to store significant amounts of excess energy. Excess energy cannot be put in the power grid. Electricity must be put into the grid at the same rate it is being used. Putting excess energy into the grid will cause the grid to go down the same as too little energy. Until we figure out how to store electricity in quantities that are usable, we cannot operate on green energy sources alone.” Yet there is hope for green power storage. Matt Sadinsky, president and CEO of PREP, a local company that trains power industry professionals, states, “We are just

for decades, sold as dangerous and volatile, a last-resort type of power. The waste that pours out of nuclear plants is toxic and must be carefully disposed of. Even worse, it’s permanent. Why, then, would nuclear be a good idea? Chief Executive Jim Rogers of Duke Energy stated to The Charlotte Business Journal in 2007 that industry research indicates the only way to get carbon pollution down would be to build the equivalent of thirty 2,200-megawatt nuclear plants nationwide. Nuclear plants reduce emissions and provide large amounts of energy for a relatively smaller environmental impact. Nuclear power also creates jobs, a fear pushed by the coal industry’s arguments that shutdown of plants and subsequent replacement by solar and wind farms would incur a loss of jobs worldwide. In fact, Toshiba America Nuclear Energy is set to infuse the Queen City’s economy with 194 new high-paying nuclear jobs as they move their project management and engineering center to Charlotte. But what about the danger? What if there is an accident and Jack Bauer can’t figure out a solution in 24 hours? “Yes, we had accidents like Three Mile Island,” states Rocky Sease. “Yes there was an accident at Chernobyl. And no one can state that there will never be another nuclear incident. But

America cannot wean itself of its coal dependency immediately. While clean coal is a little more than wishful thinking, we are not willing to start paying hundreds of extra dollars in electric bills to obliterate coal use. beginning to see new research into storage, hydrogen cells, using compressed air in retired salt mines, experiments with algae and biomass, tides, and many new ways to generate and store power dynamically. In more than a few ways, we are just at the beginning of a whole new energytechnology revolution.” But for now we still need affordable, clean energy. And for that we might need to look to the black sheep of the energy industry. Nuclear power has been vilified

we can put safety features in place so we can operate nuclear facilities in a manner that is not dangerous to people or the environment.” Since the issues at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, computer technology has rapidly advanced. Today’s computers have the capability to interpret and fix human error in operation. While this is not a complete safeguard, the situation has certainly changed since the nuclear scares of the past. www.uptownclt.com

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However, nuclear is not the shining lime-green glowing light at the end of the tunnel. There are still a lot of issues with the waste generated. “Disposing of the spent fuel is still an issue,” states Sease. “Figuring out where to store it is still a challenge. Some efforts have been made to reuse the waste, but it does not significantly impact the amount of waste generated. We need to continue research in how to effectively recycle nuclear waste.” The answer to the problem of economical and environmentally friendly power is not a simple, straightforward one. There is no absolute. Instead, it is a combination answer, a blending of all the imperfects until the research and development can catch up with the needs and demands. As Sease notes, “I don’t see any way of doing one or the other. Today, green energy sources alone cannot generate as much energy our society requires. We need to embrace all sources of electricity, increasing the percentage of green energy as we go.” America cannot wean itself of its coal dependency immediately. While clean coal is a little more than wishful thinking, we are not willing to start paying hundreds of extra dollars in electric bills to obliterate coal use. Neither are we willing to suffer rolling blackouts when the demand outweighs the supply available. A bargain will have to be struck with the power sources, and a balance managed. “With the current push for green power and conservation,” states Sadinsky, “we are going to see three major trends. First, we are already seeing conservation and we will start using less electricity and become more efficient in how we use it. Second, there will be a premium on the cheapest, cleanest power, which will likely be nuclear. Finally, we will continue to explore how to best store and manage power generated from water, wind, and solar power.” By blending our current options and optimizing power use, we might be able to create a temporary solution for our energy crisis and its path of environmental destruction. Coal isn’t clean, but green power can’t sustain right now. Pointing

fingers at one industry without a viable solution is as useful as claiming we should be able to fly and jumping off a cliff with no parachute. We can’t afford to buy into the clean coal propaganda, but neither can we feed off of the myths of solar, wind, and waterpower. As individuals we can replace our bulbs with energy savers, wash our clothes in cold water, shorten our showers, turn off our lights, find ways to reduce waste. But even more importantly is to hold Big Coal accountable, to become educated and active with Department of Energy initiatives, be aware of the projects being put into place. We need to encourage our government to be more active in finding solutions. President Barack Obama, back during his election campaign, showed support for SmartGrid technology. In short, the SmartGrid will transfer energy more efficiently, using computational technology to conserve energy and balance transmission of power, requiring less power to be generated. Simply put, the SmartGrid will catch the drippings off our energy turkey and make us some gravy. More gravy, in this case, means less turkey needed. Changes such as the SmartGrid are necessary in order to reduce our carbon footprints and save our earth from the onslaught of CO2. So is pushing for further research into cleaner energy sources, better energy storage, and the passing of laws to restrict emissions. We can’t just reduce the amount we drive, we have to learn to put our votes towards the responsible decision-makers who will safeguard the environment and not crash the system, which isn’t always the Green Party. Rocky Sease is optimistic about the energy situation, “Green energy is the right thing to do but there is a cost to doing it. We need to understand the costs as well as the benefits of pursuing it. Development of green energy will impact each of us as individuals, how we use electricity, and how much electricity we use.” U You can reach Samantha at [email protected] For more info go to www.uptownclt.com www.uptownclt.com

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and depart for South Charlotte. I comment that it’s interesting to see the city wake up. He laughs at me. The city’s solid waste pickup crews—the label applies to garbage, recycling, yard waste, and bulk items—only cover residential sites in North, East, and South Charlotte. The West side is privatized, as is commercial waste. As we turn left from Providence Road onto PinevilleMatthews Road, I spot a Republic Waste Services truck, filled with trash from The Arboretum, heading for its next pickup. Meanwhile, Jimmie tells me how people make his job difficult—never complaining, mind you, but merely observing the often humorous ways people take out the trash. “You look at it and think, ‘Man, how did he get that in there?’” he asks, chuckling. Sure enough, in the approximately five hours before we head to the landfill we see garbage cans overflowing with scrap wood or patio furniture. One can is bursting with the tangled limbs of a pink and yellow tent, left assembled, with poles poking out like a bagpipe. Another can is adorned with a final trash bag, sitting atop the closed lid. Jimmie laughs again, and in one motion pops the parking brake with a hiss, slides the door open and hops out to move the bag inside the can. He laughs, but I can tell it frustrates him. Every time he has to hop out for something like this it adds time to his route. “It just costs so much time,” he laments, “during the course

Perhaps that’s a silver lining. Or perhaps it matters not a whit. There will still be 10.7 tons of garbage in the back of this single truck before noon. of a whole day, you know.” The former sous-chef got this job because it allows him to spend more time at home with his wife than a restaurant’s allnight every-night schedule. His time is invaluable. Recycling bins placed within inches of the roll-out canisters pose an added challenge as Jimmie operates the truck’s robotic arm. Loose trash is another culprit. “The trash is supposed to be in bags in the roll-out container,” Jimmie says. “You get that loose trash in there, and the wind starts blowing when you dump it. It just goes all over the street.” When it happens, it’s not unusual for Jimmie to slide out of the truck and pick it up, even though it’s not his fault it spilled. He sighs. “I just hate to leave a place looking worse than it did when I came.” A clean city The whole truck shakes and wheezes. You can’t hear much of anything. It happens every few seconds. Jimmie Gaddy’s left hand, punctuated by a thin ribbon of gold settled into the skin on his fourth finger, flicks and pulls and pushes and twiddles the joystick protruding from the truck’s console. 44

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When the robotic arm comes out, there’s no way around noticing it. You hear it over the hum of the engine sitting between Jimmie and me. But mostly you feel it. Down. Out. Grab. In. Up. Turn. Dump. Turn. Down. Out. Release. In. Up. I set the tip my pen on my notebook, and let the truck have its say. It looks like the scribble of a gregarious toddler, jagged and unpredictable in its herky-jerky movements. Meanwhile, Jimmie’s eyes hold fast to the array of mirrors at his disposal. His hand moves as if by instinct, with the same fluidity a virtuosic musician brings to his instrument. I think to myself, “I bet he could win a lot of stuffed animals from that claw game.” He sings along, under his breath, to the quiet strains of Elton John coming from K104.7, “Charlotte’s one and only ecofriendly station.” The music is just audible above the thrumming engine and the shots of compressed air that move the truck’s arm. When the trash falls into the hopper, Jimmie presses a button and the compacter squeezes the trash into a tighter mass, then scuttles it back into the truck’s cargo bay. I watch the crushing plane of metal move away, into the dark, then slide back. When the truck nears capacity, the blade moves slower. It begins to struggle against the weight behind it. The truck holds between ten and eleven tons of garbage. On a dry day. “When it rains, you can always hold more,” Jimmie says. But there’s a limit, legally, to how much a truck can hold in one load. Drivers can be ticketed for operating an overloaded truck, even though there’s no way short of driving over a scale that you can tell how much weight the truck is packing. No way other than experience. It only takes four neighborhoods’ worth of garbage before the truck fills up. After the trip to the landfill, Jimmie will come back to finish the job. “It always is a lot of trash,” he says. It hardly fluctuates. There might be more at Christmas (wrapping paper) or the Fourth of July (cookout waste), but there’s always work to be done. Collecting trash is a fulltime job, eight or more hours a day, five days a week. Jimmie says he hasn’t seen a reduction in the amount of trash, even as people “go green.” Recycling, though, has increased. “Most everybody is recycling,” he says. “People are real serious about their recycling.” Perhaps that’s a silver lining. Or perhaps it matters not a whit. There will still be 10.7 tons of garbage in the back of this single truck before noon. I’m beginning to realize just what goes into keeping the city tidied up. I’ve certainly learned how to arrange my curb to be more courteous to my garbage collectors. Jimmie says something early on in our ride that seems to sum up why he does what he does, and why what he does is so important. “Charlotte’s a good city,” he says. “It’s a clean city.” “We take care of it.” U

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My conversation with Russell Jewett, Ph.D., and subsequent two-hour tour of his brand new Sencera facility, in West Charlotte, were disarmingly fun—so much so that a couple of times I had to force myself to remember the importance and value of his creation. The guy has been visited by Beverly Perdue, Sue Myrick, and John Lassiter of late, and even though Sencera has yet to sell its first solar panel, his vision and ability have been backed to the tune of $18 million by confident investors.

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had done my best to prepare for some serious dialogue, furrowed brows, and lots of haughty scientific jargon. But the 42-year-old president and founder of Sencera had all of the intimidating qualities of an enthusiastic college buddy. He patiently (thankfully!) described the complicated science of what he does in terms that were easy for me to understand. After making each of us a damn good cup of 50

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coffee, the nuclear engineer and Silicon Valley veteran jumped into the nuts and bolts of how his company will succeed in the business of designing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling highly efficient and affordable photovoltaic (a.k.a. solar) panels. These solar panels are born in an industrial park off Wilkinson Boulevard, here in Charlotte, and offered for sale worldwide. The company’s signature product—the affordable Sencera 100 Solar Panel—is designed to be both useful and easy-to-obtain for everyone from singlefamily home-owners looking to juice the sun to farmers who use large tracts of land to farm and sell electricity, moving away from perhaps less-promising crops such as, say, tobacco. Rusty’s passion for solar technology was contagious, and his eyes intense, as conversation darted from his background in nuclear physics to the critical decision, made a couple of years ago, for his company

to shift concentration from developing plasma technology to its sole current focus on photovoltaic research and production. Sencera’s one purpose now is the development of solar panel technology. Dr. Jewett seemed amused, though, as I reminded him that this was more a human interest story about him and less of a scientific piece for Popular Mechanics. “What do want to know?” He smiled. “Undergrad at Chapel Hill. Studied nuclear physics at the University of New Mexico. Married with three kids. My wife’s from Charlotte.” He points behind his desk to the photos of his family. “And, believe it or not, I wasn’t always into science, either,” he recalled with a laugh. “I tried to be a musician when I was eleven—a singer. It didn’t go so well. It seems like I remember my attempt as a vocalist being gently referred to as ‘enthusiastic.’” “He’s 16 days into the P90X,” his CFO and PR-man Britt Weaver offers, grinning. I had heard about the workout that will purportedly “transform your body from regular to ripped in just 90 days.” A good friend of mine swears by it. “How many pull-ups can you do now Rusty?” Brett coaxed. “A hundred,” he replied, a little red from having just been on the spot. “We’ve got a pull up bar over in the corner of the shop,” Britt continues. “Rusty’ll be happy to provide a demo!” The guy has had enough press and success recently to fuel a justifiably enormous ego, yet he was refreshingly reluctant to let the conversation dwell on him. Instead, he was clearly intent on sharing the success of his company and his team. He had quite a story to tell, and I was with him every step of the way… until we touched on the reality of the solar powered home. It took me a few minutes to catch back up with Rusty when he confirmed a statement I’d recently written off as preposterous gossip, a cruel rumor too good to be true: That a house outfitted with solar panels could generate not only enough electricity to power the entire dwelling—everything in the house that requires electricity, from the lights to the stove to the hot water heater—but actually

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have enough energy left over to literally push power back into the grid. The meter would, in fact, spin backwards. Unused solar generated electricity would be sold to the local power company. As he spoke, I daydreamed about cashing one check after another from Duke Energy. In response to the question, “Why solar?” he quickly drove home the glaringly obvious advantage of the sun’s energy compared with other sources. Unlike deposits of coal, oil, natural gas, uranium, or even wind, the energy from the sun is constant and will never run out. Harnessing the sun’s energy does not produce nasty byproducts like carbon dioxide or nuclear waste. The sun keeps shining without fail, even as wind turbines sit idle without a steady breeze. “Consider that the earth receives more energy from the sun in an hour than the whole world uses in a year.” Assuming the intensity of the sun hasn’t changed significantly in the last century (it hasn’t), why are we just now starting to take advantage of such an obvious, constant, and readily available energy source? “It’s simple,” he explained. “It’s affordable now.” The same technology that Rusty and his engineers at Sencera are using to create the solar panels—or Amorphous Silicon Solar Modules, to be exact—was developed and implemented decades ago. Large-scale production was cost-prohibitive though. “Something like the new handheld calculators of the 1970s that I’ve heard about costing a hundred dollars—the same ones that are 99 cents in the checkout line at the grocery store now?” I tentatively suggested, trying hard to contribute a decent analogy to the conversation. “Exactly. Our new automated facility delivers high-quality solar panels that are perfect for use in any application, even large-scale operations, like a solar farm, that are finally cost effective and can realistically compete with fossil-fueled energy”. Finally, there is serious discussion about how the world will continue to meet its constantly growing need for energy. It’s the combination of exponential advances in a portion of the line where sencera’s solar panels will be manufactured

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science, he explains, and fresh new political (and consequently financial) support for viable ways to power humanity, other than fossil fuels, that has made companies like Sencera not just sideshow novelties but profitgenerating, serious contenders. “Basically we’re now able to take ten percent of the silicon that traditional, expensive solar panels are made with (the ones we’ve all seen for years now: thick, blackish-purple squares), and spray it as a gas deposit of amorphous silicon cells right onto a simple piece of glass,” Rusty explained. “This thin film silicon product works better than other PV technology, and works well in heat, low light, even in the shade. And it’s finally affordable.” “They work in the shade?” I pressed with a bit of doubt. “Okay, take Germany for example,” he told me. “A pretty cloudy and cold country for the most part, with almost no fossil fuel resources to mine or pump. Unlike the U.S., which has sizable oil and coal reserves to tap into, for decades they’ve been forced to import

Lewis proud. It was the design and manufacturing area, so well-lit that it was devoid of shadows, visible through giant windows, that had me spellbound. Work stations made up of wires, tanks, tubes, and hundreds of unfamiliar shiny parts are placed for maximum efficiency over thousands of square feet. For now, this is where all the magic happens. We toured the “clean room”—the testing area with a sophisticated air circulation and filtration system running around the clock to eliminate any dust. That room, says Rusty, which is not much bigger than a high school biology lab, is outfitted with specialized PV efficiency testing technology crucial to the company’s never-ending quest to make more a productive solar panel. Custom-made machines in the clean room beam light onto small chips containing various levels and ratios of the amorphous silicon film in the hope of improving upon the already impressive 8.7 percent sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency.

“Power companies like Duke are not opposed to solar power, and, to the contrary, are watching what we’re doing here very closely. As soon as they see this as a more profitable way to succeed in the energy business than what they’re doing now, they’ll quickly be building solar farms instead of burning coal.” everything. Now, the Germans are using the same technology we use to make the Sencera 100 panel to create massive solar-energy farms, and are on the fast track to completely weaning themselves off imported fossil fuels. Right now, about 47 percent of the world’s photovoltaic installations are in Germany.” Walking through the Sencera facility, I couldn’t help but feel a little like James Bond scouting out Dr. No’s secret underground lair. The façade of the building is nondescript brick, and would fit right into any interstateconvenient industrial park. The reception area and the receptionist were both friendly and warm, and the large conference room, with finely appointed walnut accents and overstuffed leather chairs would make Ken

Construction crews noisily prepared the largest part of this dynamic place—the production and assembly area that is the last piece of the Sencera puzzle. By year’s end, 65 employees will design, fabricate, package, and sell ready-toinstall, high-efficiency, low-cost solar panels under this one roof. A product that is 100 percent environmentally friendly, has no toxic materials such as lead or cadmium, no moving parts, and produces no harmful emissions— and at a profit. Rusty is even using geothermal energy, via water channeled through 300-footdeep wells on the grounds, to both heat and cool the building. “How does Duke Energy feel about you guys?” I wondered aloud. Having seen the

We hear it on the morning news: “Gas prices rise another ten cents this week.” All told, Americans use a whopping 57 million gallons of gasoline each day. What that means is that increasing the efficiency of our automobiles by an average of just ten percent would save a collective $10 million per day. That was Toyota’s goal when building the 2010 Prius, an increase of over 10 percent miles per gallon from the previous model—from 45 mpg to an amazing 50 mpg. Available this month, the King of Hybrids will have an all new interior and exterior, and a new hybrid system. The current 2009 Prius, available now for less than $20,000, gets 45 mpg, making it 90 percent more efficient than the average car. This is by far the best deal in Hybrids available. Imagine the savings if each of us drove a Prius! The Toyota Prius is all about saving you money, and now is the perfect time to buy a hybrid. Because tomorrow that same news story will run: “Gas prices up another ten cents.”

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place firsthand and come to understand how Sencera will succeed in the energy business, I connected the dots and could see that Rusty Jewett and company really have pulled this off. They are on the cusp of success in creating a way to sell energy from the sun that can compete dollar for dollar with other sources, and that had me instantly worried. Politicians, huge corporations, powerful lobbyists—they all have a knack for stamping out challengers to the status quo like Sencera. The technology to mass produce profitable 100 m.p.g. cars has existed for decades, and battery technology has improved so much in the past two years that plug-in electric cars could be rolling off the assembly line now as well. But for some reason they’re not. “Is the power company trying to keep you from succeeding, using their might and political clout to keep you guys at bay?” I asked,

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braced for a disappointing explanation in the affirmative. I was already envisioning elected lawmakers nodding in agreement to Duke executives on the 18th hole that solar energy “needed to be researched for a few more years before it could be looked at seriously.” Nice putt, Senator. “Not at all,” said Rusty “Duke is in the energy business. They are a legal monopoly, but still very much for profit. They use whatever is on hand to make energy and sell it to make as much money as they can. If the most cost-effective way of producing power is coal, then coal-fired steam plants won’t be hard to find. If it makes more business sense to split atoms and spin steam turbines to generate electricity, then don’t be surprised to see the silhouette of a pair of cooling towers off in the distance.” “Power companies like Duke are not opposed to solar power, and, to the contrary, are watching what we’re doing here very closely. As soon as they see this as a more profitable way to succeed in the energy

business than what they’re doing now, they’ll quickly be building solar farms instead of burning coal.” This news put a big smile on my face as we concluded the tour. Two hours had flown by. As we finished up, I asked Rusty to put on his white lab suit for a couple of photos. He demurred. These “space suits” were not necessary, as the clean room filtration system was more than effective in keeping dust at bay. “They’ve sat there since day one,” he insisted. “We never wear them.” Okay, so in lieu of a photo op, I instead insisted on a pull-up demo. P90X is apparently no joke, and neither is Rusty Jewett. The guy cranked out a bunch of pull ups for the group. More importantly, he has brought something spectacular to our city. At a time when things seem to always be a bit overcast, the future at Sencera is burning bright and hot under the able guidance of Russell Jewett, Ph.D. U

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Adams 7th Street Market – $ 401 Hawthorne Ln. 704.334.0001 Art’s Barbecue – $ 900 E. Morehead St. 704.334.9424 Art’s Barbecue – $ Common Market – $ 900 E. Morehead St. 704.334.9424 Coffee Cup – $ 2007 Commonwealth Ave. 704.334-6209 914 S. Clarkson St. 704.375.8855 Dikadee’s Deli – $ 1419 East Blvd. 704.333.3354 Einstein Brothers – $ Dogwood Cafe – $ 201 S. Tryon St. 704.332.4015 138 Brevard Court 704.376.8353 Einstein Brothers – $ 1501 South Blvd. 704.333.4370 Fresco Cafe & Deli – $ 704.376.5777 IHOP – $ 3642 Moultrie St. 2715 E. Independence Blvd. 704.334.9502 Grand Central Deli – $ 101 N. Tryon St. 704.348.7032 Monticello – $$ Great Harvest Bread Co. – $ 235 N. Tryon St. – Dunhill Hotel 704.342.1193 901 S. Kings Dr. 704.333.0431 Owen’s Bagel & Deli – $ Groucho’s Deli – $ 2041 South Blvd. 704.333.5385 201 N. Tryon St. 704.342.0030 Tic Toc Coffeeshop – $ Halfpenny’s – $ 512 N. Tryon St. 704.375.5750 30 Two First Union Ctr. 704.342.9697 BRITISH Jersey Mike’s Subs – $ 128 S. Tryon St. 704.343.0006 Jersey Mike’s Subs – $ Big Ben’s Pub – $ 1408 East Blvd. 704.295.9155 801 Providence R d. 704.334.6338 Jersey Mikes Subs – $ 2001 E. 7th St. 704.375.1985 CAJUN & CREOLE Jump N Joe’s Java Joint – $ Boudreaux’s Louisiana Kitchen – $ 105 E. Morehead St. 704.372.3217 Laurel Market South – $ 501 E. 36th St. 704.331.9898 1515 South Blvd. 704.334.2185 Cajun Queen – $$ Leo’s Delicatessen – $ 1800 E 7th St. 704.377.9017 1421 Elizabeth Ave. 704.375.2400 C A R I B B E A N Li’l Dino – $ 401 S. Tryon St. 704.342.0560 Matt’s Chicago Dog – $ Anntony’s Caribbean Cafe – $ 425 S. Tryon St. 704.333.3650 2001 E. 7th St. 704.342.0749 Owen’s Bagel & Deli – $ Austin’s Caribbean Cuisine – $ 2041 South Blvd. 704.333.5385 345 S. Kings Dr. 704.331.8778 Philadelphia Deli – $ CHINESE 1025 S. Kings Dr. 704.333.4489 Phil’s Tavern – $ 105 E. Fifth St. 704.347.0035 88 China Bistro – $ Rainbow Café – $ 1620 E. 4th St. 704.335.0288 400 South Tryon 704.332.8918 Vanloi Chinese Barbecue – $ Reid’s – $ 3101 Central Ave. 704.566.8808 225 E. 7th St. 704.377.1312 Wok Express – $ Ri-Ra Irish Pub – $ 601 S. Kings Dr. 704.375.1122 208 N. Tryon St 704.333.5554 Salvador Deli – $ COFFEE SHOPS N. Davidson St. 704.334.2344 Sammy’suptown Deli – $ Caribou Coffee – $ www.uptownclt.com 63 1113 Pecan Ave. 704.376.1956 100 N. Tryon St. 704.372.5507

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DESSERT Crave the Dessert Bar – $ 501 W. 5th St. 704.277.9993 Dairy Queen – $ 1431 Central Ave. 704.377.4294 Dolce Ristorante – $$ 1710 Kenilworth Ave. 704.332.7525 Luce Ristorante – $$ 214 N. Tryon St. – Hearst Plaza 704.344.9222 Monticello – $$ 235 N. Tryon St.– Dunhill Hotel 704.342.1193

ECLECTIC The Melting Pot – $$$ 901 S. Kings Dr. Stuite 140-B 704.548.2431 Therapy Cafe – $ 401 N. Tryon St. 704.333.1353 The Fig Tree – $$ 1601 E. 7th St. 704.332.3322

FRENCH Terra – $$ 545-B Providence Rd.

704.332.1886

GREEK Greek Isles – $$ 200 E. Bland St. Little Village Grill – $ 710-G W. Trade St. Showmars – $ 214 N. Tryon St.

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INDIAN Copper – $$ 311 East Blvd. Maharani – $ 901 S. Kings Dr. Suruchi’s – $ 129 W. Trade St.

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Carrabba’s Italian Grill – $$ 1520 South Blvd. 704.377.2458 Coco Osteria – $$  214 N. Tryon St.–Hearst Plaza 704.344.8878 Dolce Ristorante – $$ 1710 Kenilworth Ave. 704.332.7525 Fig Tree – $$$ 1601 E. 7th St. 704.332.3322 Frankie’s Italian Grille – $$ 800 E. Morehead St. 704.358.8004 Hawthorne’s NY Pizza – $ 1701 E. 7th St. 704.358.9339 Intermezzo Pizzeria & Café – $ 1427 E. 10th St. 704.347.2626 Little Italy – $ 2221 Central Ave. 704.375.1625

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L AT I N Cloud 9 Confections – $ 201 S. College St. 704.334.7554 Latorre’s – $$ 118 W. 5th St. 704.377.4448 Coffee Cup – $ 914 S. Clarkson St. 704.375.8855

M E AT & T H R E E Dish – $ 1220 Thomas Ave. 704.344.0343 Mert’s Heart & Soul – $ 214 N. College St. 704.342.4222 Blue – $$$ 214 N. Tryon St. 704.927.2583 Intermezzo Pizzeria & Café – $ 1427 E. 10th Street 704.347.2626

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Luce Ristorante & Bar – $$$ 214 N. Tryon St. – Hearst Plaza 704.344.9222 Mama Ricotta’s – $$ 601 S. Kings Dr. 704.343.0148 Open Kitchen – $ 1318 W. Morehead St. 704.375.7449 Pasta & Provisions – $ 1528 Providence Rd. 704.364.2622 Portofino’s Italian – $$ 3124 Eastway Dr. 704.568.7933 Primo Ristorante – $$ 116 Middleton Dr. 704.334.3346 Cafe Siena – $$ 230 N. College St. 704.602.2750 Salute Ristorante – $$ 613 Providence Rd 704.342.9767 Terra – $$ 545-B Providence Rd. 704.332.1886 Villa Francesca 321 Caldwell St. 704.333.7447 Volare – $$ 1523 Elizabeth Ave. 704.370.0208 Zio Authentic Italian – $$ 116 Middleton Dr. 704.344.0100

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Cabo Fish Taco – $ 3201 N. Davidson St. Johnny Burrito – $ 301 S. Tryon St. La Paz – $$ 1910 South Blvd. Phat Burrito – $ 1537 Camden Rd. Salsarita’s – $ 101 S. Tryon St. Taqueria La Unica – $ 2801 Central Ave.

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MIDDLE EASTERN Kabob Grill – $ 1235-B East Blvd.

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OUTDOOR DINING Big Ben’s Pub – $$ 801 Providence Rd. Cans Bar – $ 500 W. 5th St.

704.334.6338 704.940.0200

East Boulevard Grill – $ 1601 East Blvd. 704.332.2414 Ember Grille – $$$ 601 S. College St. - Westin Hotel 704.335.2064 Ri-Ra Irish Pub – $ 208 N. Tryon St 704.333.5554 Sullivan’s – $$$ 1928 South Blvd. 704.335.8228 The Corner Pub – $ 335 N. Graham St. 704.376.2720

PIZZA Brixx – $ 225 East 6th St. 704.347.2749 Donato’s Pizza - $ 718-A West Trade St 704.714.4743 Domino’s Pizza – $ 343 S. Kings Dr. 704.331.9847 Fuel Pizza – $ 214 N. Tryon St. 704.350.1680 Fuel Pizza – $ 1501 Central Ave. 704.376.3835 Hawthorne’s NY 1701 E. 7th St. 704.358.9339 Italian Village Pizza 1225 East Blvd 704.332.2880 Latta Pizza – $ 320 S. Tryon St. 704.333.4015 Papa John’s Pizza – $ 1620 E. 4th St. 704.375.7272 Picasso’s – $ 214 N. Church St. 704.331.0133 Pizza Hut – $ 901 S. Kings Dr. 704.377.7006 Rudino’s Pizza & Grinders – $ 2000 South Blvd. - Atherton Mill 704.333.3124 UNO Chicago Grill – $ 401 S. Tryon St. 704.373.0085 Villa Francesca 321 Caldwell St. 704.333.7447 Zio Authentic Italian – $ 116 Middleton Dr. 704.344.0100

QUICK BITES Bojangles’ – $ 310 E Trade St. 704.335.1804 Boston Market – $ 829 Providence Rd. 704.344.0016 Burger King – $ 310 E. Trade St. 704.334.3312 Chick-fil-A – $ 101 S. Tryon St. 704.344.0222 Chicks Restaurant – $ 320 S. Tryon St. – Latta Arcade 704.358.8212 Church’s – $ 1735 W. Trade St. 704.332.2438 Dairy Queen – $ 1431 Central Ave. 704.377.4294 Domino’s Pizza – $ 343 S. Kings Dr. 704.331.9847 Fuel Pizza – $ 214 N. Tryon St. 704.350.1680 Fuel Pizza – $ 1501 Central Ave. 704.376.3835 Green’s Lunch – $ 309 W. 4th St. 704.332.1786 Mr. K’s – $ 2107 South Blvd. 704.375.4318 Papa John’s Pizza – $ 1620 E. 4th St 704.375.7272

Pasta & Provisions – $ 1528 Providence Rd. 704.364.2622 Pita Pit – $ 214 N. Tryon St. 704.333.5856 Quiznos Sub – $ 127 N. Tryon St. 704.374.9921 Quizno’s – $ 320 S. Tryon St. – Latta Arcade 704.372.8922 Roly Poly Sandwiches – $ 317 S. Church St. 704.332.6375 Sbarro – $ 101 S. Tryon St. 704.332.5005 Simply Subs – $ 212 S. Tryon St. 704.333.0503 Smoothie King – $ Epicentre - 210 Trade St. 704.979.6911 Smoothie King – $ One Wachovia Center 704.374.0200 Spoons – $ 415 Hawthorne Ln. 704.376.0874 Woody’s Chicago Style – $ 320 S. Tryon St. - Latta Arcade 704.334.0010 Zack’s Hamburgers – $ 4009 South Blvd. 704.525.1720

S E A F O O D Aquavina – $$$ 435 S. Tryon St. 704.377.9911 Cabo Fish Taco – $ 3201 N. Davidson St. 704.332.8868 Capital Grille – $$$ 201 N. Tryon St. 704.348.1400 Fig Tree –$$$ 1601 E. Seventh St. 704.332.3322 GW Fins – $$ 525 N. Tryon S 704.716.3467 LaVecchia’s – $$$ 225 E. 6th St. 704.370.6776 McCormick & Schmick’s – $$$ 200 South Tryon St. 704.377.0201 McIntosh’s – $$$ 1812 South Blvd. 704.342.1088 Outback Steakhouse – $$ 1412 East Blvd. 704.333.2602

SOUTHERN & SOUL Lupie’s Cafe – $ 2718 Monroe Rd. 704.374.1232 Mert’s Heart and Soul – $ 214 N. College St 704.342.4222 Price’s Chicken Coop – $ 1614 Camden Rd. 704.333.9866 Savannah Red – $$ 100 W. Trade St. 704.333.9000 Marriott City Center

S P A N I S H Arpa Tapas – $$$ 121 W. Trade St. 704.372.7792 Sole Spanish Grille – $$$ 1608 East blvd.. 704.343.9890

S T E A K H O U S E Beef & Bottle – $$$ 4538 South Blvd. Capital Grille – $$$ 201 N. Tryon St.

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T A P A S Arpa Tapas – $$$ 121 W. Trade St. Cosmos Cafe – $$ 300 N. College St. Town Restaurant – $$ 710 W Trade St.

704.372.7792 704.372.3553 704.379.7555

V E G E T A R I A N Dish – $ 704.344.0343 1220 Thomas Ave. Something Classic Café – $ 715 Providence Rd. 704.347.3666

V I E T N A M E S E Pho An Hoa – $ 4832 Central Ave.

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B A R S Amos SouthEnd – $ 1423 S. Tryon St. 704.377.6874 Apostrophe Lounge – $$ 1400 S. Tryon St. 704.371.7079 BAR Charlotte – $ 300 N. College St. 704.342.2557 Big Ben’s Pub – $$ 801 Providence Rd. 704.334.6338 Brick & Barrel – $ 200 N. Tryon St. 704.370.2808 Buckhead Saloon – $ 201 E. 5th St. 704.370.0687 Cans Bar – $ 500 W. 5th St. 704.940.0200 Cedar Street Tavern – $ 120 N. Cedar St. 704.333.3448 Connolly’s on 5th – $ 115 E. 5th St. 704.358.9070 Cosmos – $$ 300 N. College St. 704.375.8765 Coyote Ugly – $ 521 N. College St. 704.347.6869 Crave the Dessert Bar – $ 501 W. 5th St. 704.277.9993 Crush – $ 300 E. Stonewall St. 704.377.1010

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Cosmos Cafe – $$ 300 N. College St. Fujo Uptown Bistro – $$ 301 S. College St KO Sushi – $$ 230 S. Tryon St. Nikko – $$ 1300-F South Blvd. Restaurant i – $$ 1524 East Blvd. Ru-San’s Sushi – $$ 2440 Park Rd.

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Dilworth Bar & Grille 911 E. Morehead St. 704.377.3808 Dilworth Billiards 300 E. Tremont Ave. 704.333.3021 Dixie’s Tavern 301 E. 7th St. 704.374.1700 DoubleDoor Inn 218 E. Independence Blvd. 704.376.1446 Ed’s Tavern 2200 Park Rd. 704.335.0033 Evening Muse 3227 N. Davidson St. 704.376.3737 Fox and Hound – $ 330 N. Tryon St. 704.333.4113 The Graduate – $ 1308 E. The Plaza 704.332.8566 Grand Central Deli – $ 101 N. Tryon St. 704.348.7032 Hartigans Pub – $ 601 S. Ceder St. 704.347.1841 Hawthorne’s NY Pizza – $ 1701 E. 7th St. 704.358.9339 Howl at the Moon – $ 210 E. Trade St. 704.936.4695 Jillian’s SouthEnd – $ 300 E. Bland Street 704.376.4386 Loft 1523 – $$ 1523 Elizabeth Ave. 704.333.5898 Madison’s – $$ 115 Fifth St. 704.299.0580 Morehead Tavern – $ 300 East Morehead St. 704.334.2655 Phil’s Tavern – $ 105 E. Fifth St. 704.347.0035 Picasso’s – $ 214 N. Church St. 704.331.0133 PJ’s Coffee & Lounge - $ 210 E. Trade St. (Epicentre) 704.688.0366 Pravda – $$ 300 N. College St. 704.375.8765 Presto Bar and Grill – $ 445 W. Trade St. 704.334.7088 Ri-Ra Irish Pub – $ 208 N. Tryon St 704.333.5554 Selwyn Pub – $ 2801 Selwyn Ave. 704.333.3443 Stool Pigeons – $ 214 N. Church St. 704.358.3788 Suite – $ 210 E. Trade St. 704.999.7934 The Attic – $ 200 N. Tryon St. 704.358.4244 The Corner Pub – $ 335 N. Graham St. 704.376.2720 The Forum – $$ 300 N. College St. 704.375.8765 The Gin Mill – $ 1411 S. Tryon St. 704.373.0782 The Penguin – $ 1921 Commonwealth Ave. 704.375.6959 The Pub – $ 710 West Trade St. 704.333.9818 Thomas Street Tavern – $ 1218 Thomas St. 704.376.1622 Tilt – $$ 127 W. Trade St. 704.347.4870 Tremont Music Hall – $ 400 W Tremont Ave. 704.343.9494 Tutto Mondo – $ 1820 South Blvd. 704.332.8149 Tyber Creek Pub – $ 1933 South Blvd. 704.343.2727 Vinnie’s Sardine – $ 1714 South Blvd. 704.332.0006 Visulite Theater – $ 1615 Elizabeth Ave. 704.358.9250 Whiskey River – $ 210 E. Trade St. 704.749.1097

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LaVecchia’s – $$$ 225 E. 6th St. 704.370.6776 Longhorn Steakhouse – $$ 700 E. Morehead St. 704.332.2300 McIntosh’s – $$$ 1812 South Blvd. 704.342.1088 Morton’s – $$$ 227 W.Trade St.- Carillon bldg. 704.333.2602 Outback Steakhouse – $$ 1412 East Blvd. 704.333.2602 Ruth’s Chris – $$$ 222 S. Tryon St. 704.338.9444 Sullivan’s – $$$ 1928 South Blvd. 704.335.8228

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