I saw a leaf fall to the ground the other day, I swear. And the temperatures are expected to drop below 1000° this week so… With that in mind, Olde Mecklenburg Brewery hosts the first of two Mecktoberfest weekends starting Saturday and Sunday, the 15th and 16th. They’ll even kick things off the Thursday night […]
Let’s hope our number nine is a number one with a bullet in his big league debut. Young, whom the Panthers took with their first overall pick in the NFL draft, and the team start the season on the road in Atlanta. Young’s first NFL start will come at the same stadium he made his […]
The podcast starts with questions about being easily startled, Halloween pranks and finding somone asleep or possibly dead. Simple enough stuff, no? But then Matt & Ramona wander into the dangerous neighborhood that is JD’s brain. Specifically the part of his brain that involves making decisions when mailing a letter. We find out that it […]
Let’s start with local! It’s the first episode of Charlotte Football’s “Mining For Greatness” airing at 7pm on the streaming (subscription-required) service ESPN+. Coming off their Week One win, the Forty-Niners make their prime time debut in an episode where they introduce Coach Biff Poggi. Next up for the Niners: They’re on the road at […]
It’s a double play to Strike Out ALZ as MIX 107.9 teams up with the Charlotte Knights for a special Alzheimer’s Awareness Night game Saturday, September 9th at Truist Field in uptown Charlotte. Each Knights game ticket purchased by 11:59 pm on September 7th through the Strike Out ALZ link (click here) contributes a $5 donation to the Western Carolina chapter of […]
Some of us say there’s no such thing! Matt defends his ability to eat Uncrustables, the pre-made peanut and butter jelly sandwich that comes in a box and is easy to freeze and consume. You know it’s serious when even The Wall Street Journal got in on the game, writing an article entitled “The Grown-Ups […]
As it usually does, the conversation starts easily enough. Matt telling charming tales of his daughter’s first two weeks at the University of South Carolina and her pledging a sorority. But it devolves quickly into nothing but Ramona’s unabashed laughter as JD tells a wide-eyed, innocent tale of working in college. At a sorority. And […]
College football is afoot and ESPN’s premier college football pregame show, College GameDay, is constructing a temporary set in the heart of Uptown! As of 5am this morning, workers clad in orange Home Depot hardhats (I might be exaggerating) were putting up the set that former Ohio State Quarterback Kirk Herbstreit, ex-Michigan player and former […]
For the second season of Netflix’s “The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On,” you can see the city since it was shot all over Charlotte. It’s a reality tv show featuring a handful of couples (some are from Charlotte!) deciding whether to get “hitched or call it quits.” It’s the second season of the Netflix show […]