5 Minutes in Charlotte: Recent Episodes
Jesse Steinmetz
Five Minutes in Charlotte is a podcast that brings you five minutes of sound from all across Charlotte.
For the final episode of 5 minutes in Charlotte, I return to where the show began: a pond at RibbonWalk Nature Preserve. Featuring a cold breeze, passing planes and a chirping animal.
Sitting outside of Amélie's on East 36th street. Featuring car doors being shut, a plane overhead and the light rail.
Sitting on the edge of Derita Creek Park. Featuring a distant train, barking dogs and sirens.
Standing outside the AMC Carolina Pavilion 22 movie theater on South Boulevard. Featuring crickets, cars and a goose.
Standing in the Habitat for Humanity ReStore on North Wendover Road. Featuring moving furniture, a rolling cart, and shoppers.
Standing in Nevin Park. Featuring a disc golf basket, a phone ringing, and cars pulling in and out of the parking lot.
Standing in the Woodland Fairy Garden outside of the Duke Mansion. Featuring crickets, laughter, and woodland fairies?
Standing by the Crossings at NoDa development in the Sugar Creek neighborhood. Featuring a nail gun, a distant saw, and wind.
Sitting outside of Nordstrom in the SouthPark Mall. Featuring squeaky shoes, families shopping and a metal chair scraping against the floor.
On the patio of Resident Culture Brewing Company on Central Ave. Featuring a barking dog, an unhappy baby and a broken glass.
Alongside the Rail Trail in South End. Featuring the light rail, construction and walkers.
Standing inside a Lowe's Garden Center on Iverson Way. Featuring a loud dog, customers and a short conversation about shopping carts.
Sitting outside of Benny Pennello's Pizza in NoDa. Featuring an empty picnic table, passing traffic on N. Davidson and a single car honk.
Standing in an aisle at Food Lion on Plaza. Featuring the self-checkout machines, customers and grocery carts.
On the Saint Andrew’s Lane loop off of Belvedere Ave. Featuring a quiet residential road, birds and a jogger.
Standing by the flowers outside the entrance to Trader Joe’s in Midtown. Featuring grocery carts, a siren, a girl asking her dad for flowers.
Standing by a gas pump at the CITGO on Plaza and Parkwood. Featuring cars refueling, honking, and passing in and out of the station.
Overflow Parking Lot 1 at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Featuring cicadas, a creaky gate, and airplanes overhead.
The lower entrance to the airport. Featuring the hum of idling buses, people getting picked up and dropped off, and passersby.
A bus stop on North Tryon and Hilo Drive. Featuring a man picking up something off the road, a variety of passing cars, and the bus.
Sitting in the shade at Independence Shopping Center. Featuring traffic from East Independence Boulevard, some exceptionally loud cars, and brief moments of quiet.
The Bojangles Coliseum. Featuring a motorcycle, occasional birds, and an empty parking lot.
The 36th Street light rail station in NoDa. Featuring the light rail, a skateboarder, and a "filmmaker looking for audio people."
Near the ping pong tables at Chantilly Park. Featuring a loud bug, the breeze, a siren in the distance.
The outskirts of Camp North End. Featuring a band in the distance, passersby, and taking out the trash.
The Uptown Farmers Market on South Davidson Street. Featuring people buying vegetables, greetings, goodbyes.
What, exactly, does Charlotte sound like? Episode by episode, this podcast brings you five minutes of audio from all across the Queen City.