So here’s where we are now: After 11 months of having no home, we now have two — the mansion basement we are leaving and an apartment unit less than a mile away that we are moving into, it being…
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We all need somebody to lean on
by John Woestendiek • • 3 Comments
Skyler and Pierce were part of the same litter — two white Great Danes who, one being half blind, one being deaf, neither having the distinct black markings harlequin Great Danes are supposed to have, were headed to the kind of future “defective”…
Roadside Encounters: Charles the mayor
by John Woestendiek • • 0 Comments
Name: Charles Edwards AKA: “The mayor of NoDa” Age: 58 Encountered: At the Smelly Cat Coffee House in Charlotte Backstory: Charles is a fixture in Charlotte’s NoDa district, where he has lived all his life, except for a month in Philadelphia.…
Old dogs, new tricks, good times
by John Woestendiek • • 1 Comment
How could you not love a guy whose last name ends with “mutt?” How could you not be smitten with a man with the mug of a pug, the work ethic of a sled dog; the insatiable curiosity of a…
Chasing the blues away at The Dog Bar
by John Woestendiek • • 1 Comment
And here is my idea of paradise. It exists, after all, in Charlotte, North Carolina, where five years ago two dog lovers got together and opened a bar that takes “dog-friendly” to new and unfettered bounds. This is not…