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Tryouts will be June 19 at Time Warner Cable Arena. Registration will be held the previous two days, the show’s producers say.

Among the highlights at ABC, 'The Neighbors,' is about a family that moves into an exclusive New Jersey neighborhood populated by aliens from Zabvron.

Emily Maynard, the "Bachelorette" series' first single mom, greeted 25 suitors at a Charlotte mansion.

BooneOakley is known in Charlotte as an advertising agency that takes offbeat approaches.

William Armstrong Jr. was known in Boone as the tortured artist who sold his works on the sidewalk outside the drug store.

Keith Larson and the station came to terms late Wednesday on a new agreement to keep him on the air.

In advance of the debut next month of “The Bachelorette,” ABC has released some details of this season’s show: Charlotte’s Emily Maynard, the bachelorette, gets a scene with the Muppets.

For a decade, Larson has reigned as one of Charlotte’s most scathing wits on talk radio.

Central Piedmont Community College is moving rapidly to absorb Charlotte’s public television station just a month after the takeover was approved.

Today is an interesting anniversary in the history of electronic journalism. It was 100 years ago Saturday night that the largest ship on Earth brushed an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and the way the story was reported – and misreported – still has resonance in the Twitter age.

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Mark Washburn
Mark Washburn writes television and radio commentary for The Charlotte Observer.