When Blumenthal Performing Arts created a new position — director of creative engagement — and named Boris “Bluz” Rogers to the post you could almost hear Charlotte’s artistic community respond with a ...

I wince every time I watch old episodes of the 1950s TV show “Twilight Zone” and see some wrinkled actor playing an “old man” of 50. I think to myself, “I look and act younger than this guy, and I’ll ...

Waitresses on roller skates, koala bears hanging from the ceiling, a large-screen television and blaring Motown music. Those features are what makes the Vine Street eatery Lucy Bluz different from ...

They frame a benign face and bearded mouth, like curtains pulled aside from a darkened stage. Poetry begins to flow from him, like a clear stream descending from a peak. He wears a T-shirt as Carolina ...