🏡 Dilworth home tour

🌷 Hello, Saturday! It's Laura, channeling my inner Lily Bloom today and going flower picking.

🌤 Weather: Partly cloudy with a high of 89.

🍖 Situational awareness: Tomorrow is National Burnt Ends Day and to celebrate Midwood Smokehouse has a couple of specials through the weekend, like a burnt end combo plate for $21 and their "Burnie Mac" for $16.

Today's Smart Brevity™️ count is 493 words — a 2-minute read.

Hundreds of runners will swarm Uptown for the Around the Crown 10K tomorrow.

Why it matters: Proceeds benefit multiple local nonprofits.

• The race takes place along the three-mile inner loop of I-277 so expect traffic delays around Uptown.

What's next: Registration is still open for the race and can be done virtually or in person.

More weekend events and activities

Tickets for the 50th annual Dilworth Home Tour are now on sale, and it's expected to be another sell-out event.

What to expect: Wander through seven homes and enjoy a beverage and lite bites while you chat about your favorite homes.

• A few local restaurants are offering specials during the event, like half-price appetizers at Foxcroft Wine Co., a complimentary homemade spread at Kid Cashew, a free appetizer or starter at the Penguin, and 30% off appetizers at QC Pour House.

Details: The event takes place Sept. 13-14.

• Tickets are $35 and can be purchased online or in person at Paper Skyscraper, Dilworth Drug, Park Road Books and BraveWorks. 

🚌 Monday was the first day of school for CMS students, and your student's teacher is probably paying out of pocket for supplies.

🚊 The future east-west Silver Line light rail, if it's ever built, won't drop you and your suitcase off right at CLT's real front door, but it will come close — about a mile away.

🥤 A new smoothie shop will open at Camp North End in mid-September.

🛤 The city of Charlotte wants to buy 22 miles of Norfolk Southern's O-Line for $74 million and land near the future Charlotte Gateway Station for $17 million.

✈️ Charlotte Douglas International Airport estimates more than a million people will fly through Charlotte this Labor Day weekend.

🍳 Biscuit Belly, a Kentucky-based brunch chain, opened in Elizabeth.

🏙 Charlotte City Club, an exclusive membership club in Uptown, has made recent changes to appeal to a broader audience, adding more events and a new food-pricing method.

🥇 The 2024 Paralympic Games started this week, and a few Charlotteans are competing.

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The Green Room is hosting a cocktail pop-up event inspired by the 1966 surf classic "The Endless Summer."

What to expect: For $20 per person, you get a welcome punch and three hors d'oeuvres.

• Plus, the menu features other themed cocktails, mocktails and dishes.

If you go: The event is every Friday and Saturday through Sept. 28.

• The Green Room is located inside Lincoln Street Kitchen & Cocktails in South End.

Go deeper: The Green Room is a hidden bar from top Charlotte mixologist

📚 Did you get that "It Ends With Us" reference up top? Not my favorite book tbh, but I did watch the movie to support Charlotte's latest rumored resident.

• If you want to read a book that takes place in Charlotte, give "The Promise of Tomorrow" a try. Author A.D. Haywood is from nearby Indian Trail.

S/O to Katie Peralta Soloff for editing this newsletter and Amy Stern for copy editing.