Arcade and taproom set to open in summer 2025

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Sol's Arcade + Taproom in downtown Fayetteville hopes to open its doors in early July. Credit: Kaylynn Suarez for Sol’s Arcade + Taproom

We have another sneak peek into our , with a story on a new downtown Fayetteville business more than a year in the making.

The owner of , Cameron Carlotti, hopes to open in across from Segra Stadium.

In today’s newsletter, Senior Columnist Bill Kirby Jr. recounts his experience at the meeting on Thursday, where some . Ken Burns, a 61-year-old lawyer and board member, called it Plus, magazine columnist Diane Parfitt shares her about the everywhere: .

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Valeria Cloës
Magazine Editor & Lead Copy Editor

Credit: Kaylynn Suarez for Sol’s Arcade + Taproom

Sol’s owner Cameron Carlotti plans to have customers sipping beers, rolling skeeballs, playing air hockey, shooting hoops, pirates and targets, and playing other arcade games in Fayetteville’s newest arcade bar in July.

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🏅 Making their steady rise in the ranks, Detour Slam Team, the slam poetry team led by Fayetteville local LeJuane “El’Ja” Bowens, won 4th place at the 33rd Annual Southern Fried Poetry Festival, according to a press release by Bowens. The festival took place June 11–14 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is open to slam poetry teams across the country.

The team had previously ranked 11th in the region in 2019, then 6th in the nation last year. Read about Bowens and the origins of Detour Slam Team in our article from CityView‘s October 2024 “Arts & Culture” magazine.

~ Valeria

Valeria Cloës is the lead copy editor and magazine editor for CityView Media. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and its Hussman School of Journalism and Media, and has worked across daily and weekly news publications, like the Daily Tar Heel and the Chatham News + Record (under Bill Horner III), and magazines, like Coulture Magazine and Triangle Media Partners’ Chapel Hill, Durham and Chatham Magazine, and Heart of NC Weddings. She is trilingual, speaking fluent Spanish, French and English, and has lived in Argentina, France and multiple cities across the United States. Valeria loves baking, listening to music and traveling.