The Triangle
There are no tours of the Tar Heels’ home, but basketball fans can visit the 2nd and 3rd floors during business hours. It’s named for legendary coach Dean…
Must-see entertainment in North Carolina
The Triangle
Fans of the Duke University Blue Devils worship inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, which opened in 1940 and is perhaps the nicest basketball arena on the…
The Triangle
Everyone from Nirvana to Arcade Fire has played the Cradle, which has been hosting the cream of the indie-music world for four decades. Most shows are all…
Charlotte
At the very heart of National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) country, 14 miles northeast of Uptown, Charlotte’s prestigious motorsports…
Asheville
Asheville’s premier live-music venue, downtown’s Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club has been a showcase for big-name indie and punk bands since 2002…
Outer Banks
This tiny live venue (or room) inside a clapboard waterside house offers a chance to hang out with real locals, and experience the island's homegrown folk…
Ocracoke Alive's Deepwater Theater
Outer Banks
Community theater showing amateur productions. Shows range from a comedic take on the story of Blackbeard (the pirate who took a liking to the island) to…
Outer Banks
Staged between late May and August, this outdoor play, written by Pulitzer Prize–winning North Carolina playwright Paul Green, dramatizes the fate of 116…
Charlotte
This huge complex on the northern edge of Uptown incorporates multiple entertainment venues, ranging from the open-air, 5000-seat Charlotte Metro Credit…
Outer Banks
You can't miss this colorfully painted haunt in Kitty Hawk, where tourists are 'sometimes tolerated.' This place prides itself on being a 'local secret'…
The Triangle
While away a quintessentially American afternoon of beer and watching the Durham Bulls minor-league baseball team, as seen in the 1988 Kevin Costner movie…
The Triangle
This rather beautiful former auto-garage hosts gigs almost every night by local and touring bands, in every conceivable genre. The on-site restaurant,…
Coastal North Carolina
Dark, cramped, underground and in the heart of downtown, just like a comedy club should be. Stop in for improv, open-mic nights and touring comedians,…
Charlotte
The Charlotte venue of choice for the biggest music tours, this 20,000-seat arena is also the home of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
North Carolina Mountains
As well as all the usual casino games, this high-rise complex holds a towering hotel block, two swimming pools, a spa and restaurants of all kinds. There…
Children’s Theater of Charlotte
Charlotte
Based in the dazzling high-tech Imaginon – a reinvented Uptown library complex that’s more relevant to local schoolkids than it is to visitors – the…
Outer Banks
Movies take place once a night at this atmospheric old theatre, dating back to 1918. Built in English Tudor–style, it remains the oldest family-owned…
