my city life

with Melinda Burris

An Event Lady Production is a full-service event planning and design production firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founder and owner Angela B. Cameron prides herself on creating distinctive events for private and corporate clients, always going the extra mile to give each tailor-made event all the personal touches and detail required to fulfill each client's vision."As a wedding planner my joy comes from seeing my clients' faces filled with joy and excitement." An Event Lady Production (ELP)...

Steve McGill is an educator and private hurdles coach in Mooresville, NC. Steve has published two books: a biography, A Hurdler’s Hurdler: The Life of Rodney Milburn, Olympic Champion; and an instructive book, The Art of Hurdling: A Manual for Hurdle Coaches. He is also the webmaster of HurdlesFirst.com. In this interview, Steve discusses the numerous sources of inspiration that drove him to embrace the sport of hurdles.Competing in the 1981 Weltklasse meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, Renaldo...

Longtime Charlotte fashionista Nira Love has opened a new business, Nira Love's Fashion Boutique, offering personalized wardrobe styling and retail consultation. Nira has extensive experience, having worked in the fashion industry for two decades. God. Love. Fashion.Mirroring her personalized approach to fashion, the tagline Nira chose for her new business reveals much about her as a person.“I put God into all that I do, as my faith is most important to me," she says. "Love represents what...

Rod Wimer, a self-described creative, is a versatile, fashion-forward artist who has established a reputation as a talented and thoughtful fine arts painter, specializing in abstracts and mixed media collage compositions.An Idea is BornRod spent his childhood in Africa, where he was raised by missionary parents. The seeds of what would become AfricanEkoezJewelry were planted in 2013 when Rod came across an old stash of African trade beads his parents had brought back to the States with them. His...