Center of the Earth Gallery has managed to become assimilated into the larger cultural landscape without losing her enviable alternative status. This edge-land purveyor of sometimes freaky, often fine and, most recently, formidable visual art has served up a bounty of both hinter and heartland talent year in and year out. Once a renegade upstart in the lunatic fringe burb of NoDa, Center of the Earth now pulses blue blood into Charlotte’s hippest gritty neighborhood. 3204 N. Davidson St. 704-375-5756.