Summer Dress Series: Belvello
Summer dresses are one of the hottest trends this season.
Today’s Top 5: Monday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top(less) 5: Monday
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date.
11th Annual Plaza Midwood Pig Pickin’, Independent’s Day Explosion, Langhorne Slim tonight (7/3/11)
Block party on Gordon Street. A dozen undersigned acts at Amos’ Southend. Indie folk and soul artist at U.S. National Whitewater Center.
Weekenders tonight (7/2/11)
Retro garage rock Charlotte trio at Snug Harbor.
Heard: random drunken statements (June 2011)
Documenting all the random drunken statements yelled out throughout the evening, here’s the first of a regular feature.
The CLog Top 10: June 2011
Feature counts down the 10 most-read CLog stories of the previous month.
Taking Back Sunday live Webstream today at 4:30 p.m. EST
Band will broadcast live performance on the Web today.
RUMOR ALERT: Fantasia’s pregnant? (She’d better watch out. Cheating costs in N.C.)
Could the alleged baby send the singer back to court?
Funny bumbling at Edge Bee
There are a couple of ways to go in casting The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Bay of pigs
Michael Bay serves up another miserable stinkbomb.
Larry Crowne not worth knowing
Tom Hanks vehicle is clumsy and unconvincing.
RSVP for kick-off party to Yelp’s Passport to Selwyn
Here’s a party bringing you the chance to get great discounts to all of the up and coming shops on Selwyn.
10-in-10 CD reviews
Each Friday, we review 10 recently released CDs in 10 words each.
Catawba Riverkeeper asks you to take action on ‘Dirty Water Act’
And, he’s made an easy button for you.
Elizabeth’s own Block Party this weekend
Elizabeth hosts a Red, White and Blue Block Party with live bands and free water rides.
The Blackhounds tonight (7/1/11)
Classic, time-tested rock ‘n’ roll at Double Door Inn.
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today Top(less) 5: Friday
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date.
Weekender, July 1-3
Check out these events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area this weekend.
Best bets in Charlotte comedy, June 30-July 2
Here are a few of the best places to find comedy events in Charlotte this week.
Suite, 6/29/11
Suite hosted the Top 21 Service Industry Night on June 27.
Monte Carlo trailer
Comedy opens this Friday, July 1.
Rachel Zoe collection coming to SouthPark
“Like” Neiman Marcus on Facebook for a chance to win a $2,500 gift card from Neiman’s plus a private meeting with “the” Rachel Zoe
“I Might,” the new single from Wilco
After Solid Sound Fest, Wilco streams its newest single online.
RECIPE: Parchment Salmon
Why don’t you give it a whirl and let me know if it works for you…
Democratic National Convention 2012 Notebook: Some public relations lessons … from Detroit?
If ever a city had to dig itself out of a PR hole, it would be Detroit.
Analysis: N.C. marshes shows sea-level on the rise
Researchers found that sea levels have risen much faster over the last 150 years than they had before.
Landfill ban on electronic waste begins July 1
eWaste can contain toxic materials that can find their way into our soil and water.
Whitewater Center’s sparkles and strums
The U.S. National Whitewater Center packs free music and fireworks for a patriotic (and Southern sounding) Fourth of July weekend
First, N.C. wanted to stop folks from having babies … now the state wants you to keep them
Talk about your bipolar government.
Booming 4th of July events
Check out this list of events celebrating Independence Day in Charlotte and the surrounding area this weekend.
Cheerwine filled Krispy Kremes are back
The flavor is only around for the month of July, so eat ’em up while you can.
Charlie Faye tonight (6/30/11)
Desert folk at The Evening Muse.
Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Live review: Comedian Pat Godwin
Comedian ties plenty of music into his act.
Whisky River, 6/28/11
The last Tuesday of the month are Boots & Bikinis Tuesdays.
Free food from Morton’s for cabbies and limo drivers
Morton’s The Steakhouse will be giving free meals to the taxi and limo drivers of Charlotte for “Taxi and Limo Appreciation Day.”
Dad or date?
The father-daughter dating dance.
Gov. Perdue, veto the ‘fracking’ bill!
“Fracking,” short for hydro-fracking, is a highly controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock formations — and with the help of our fine lawmakers in Raleigh, it could be coming here.
Coal ash is polluting our water as feds keep their hands off regs
Congress’ idiotic war on environmental regulations must end.
The Money is bringing on the shock factor
The Money is having a party this Friday with dancers, freaks, music and drag.
Greenpeace kickoff meeting tonight
Meet the local chapter’s new organizer.
Neighborhood Theatre, 6/27/11
Sugar Society brings back Monday Night Social Club with Borgore, Clicks & Whistles and other dubstep acts to Neighborhood Theatre on June 27.
The Farewell Monument, Wisebird tonight (6/29/11)
Spacey, experimental combo at The Milestone. Southern blues and soul at Double Door Inn.
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top(less) 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date.
Gov. Perdue vetoes ‘most extreme’ abortion bill
I’m starting to like this governor more and more.
Who said you couldn’t wear bikinis in a bar?
Friday, July 1 at The Chop Shop is a bikini fashion show sponsored by Earth Angel including music, drinks and giveaways.
‘I was talking to the dog’
Must love dogs, and we like the dog better
Live review: Hot House Heftones, Pain After Death, Pig Mountain, Towering Pyre, MC Cataclysm, Clavius, Hectagons
House show doesn’t fail to impress with musical variety.
Elle King’s “Good To Be a Man”
Singer’s song offers a hint of Southern sass mixed with a good bit of rasp.
Discounted gift cards for Ruth’s Chris Steak House’s anniversary
You can purchase a $76 gift card for only $46.
City Council signifies it wants Tim Newman out, but can’t come out and say so
CRVA still on the city’s shit list … but well, here, take this anyway
Bank errors continue to cause wrongful foreclosures
Charlotte’s Bank of America is all mixed up in this mess.
Inter-city visit: What Seattle thinks of the Q.C.
Charlotte is no Seattle, as if we didn’t already know that.
Arcade Fire’s “Scenes from the Suburbs” online now
Video is available online for a short time.
Recycle your wardrobe for Green Jeans Consignment event
Each spring and fall, sisters Cindy Williams and Dana Degan host a three-day shopping event in Lake Norman and Fort Mill, S.C., that attracts over 200 consignors and hundreds of shoppers.
This week’s new releases (6/28/2011)
Beyonce, Thievery Corporation and others release new albums.
Latte art competition brings out true believers in spite of hellish heat
As a Jesus-loving barista notes, “Charlotte has a close, and growing, coffee community. Really, we all just like hanging out and talking.”
Raising money has never been as fun as this
This coming Tuesday, Make A Wish Foundation is having a fundraiser at TILT in Charlotte with drink specials, music, food and a 50-50 raffle drawing.
Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
MUSIC: One Voice Chorus’ Hollywood Squares
One Voice Chorus’ Hollywood Squares is an audience-interactive cabaret-style show. Those attending will be chosen at random (shy folks beware!) to be the contestants in a game show with questions centered around the Broadway shows and performers. Silent auction, too. $20. June 30, 7:30 p.m.; July 1, 7:30 p.m. Duke Energy Theatre, 345 N. College…
Comic review: X-Men Legacy No. 251
As superhero comics take over the multiplex this summer, over in comic book land, there’s a ton of spandex-laden publications on the stands. Here are some quick takes on a few I recently picked up: X-Men Legacy No. 251: Now here’s a title that, depending on the story arc, is incredibly hit-or-miss. And that’s because,…
NIGHTLIFE: Su Casa at Dharma Lounge
The fresh-faced and funky nightlife event Su Casa is returning for its third installment — but the soul-house-Afrobeat-and-more-fueled party sports one major change this time. Instead of popping off on its usual Sunday, the latest Casa is happening on Friday, July 1. So, all you folks who have jobs and things to do on Monday…
Photographic memory: Celebrating Chris Radok
Just months after losing their parents, Chris Radok (aka Kodar) and his longtime friend Lori Bilger were discussing their own funerals. They both decided that when the time came, they wanted their friends and family to celebrate their lives instead of taking part in mournful send-offs. Neither of them could have imagined that on Jan.…
SPECIAL EVENT: Coca-Cola 4th of July Festival
In honor of Independence Day, U.S. National Whitewater Center is hosting three days of live music and fireworks for its Coca-Cola 4th of July Festival. It all kicks off on July 2 with a performance by Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Riley Etheridge Jr., and Do It To Julia. Langhorne Slim (pictured), Overmountain Men…
EXHIBIT: Eyes of Carolina
DOMA Gallery’s photography exhibit Eyes of Carolina opens on June 30. At the reception, Larry Wheeler, the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art and juror for the show, will speak about the five photographers he selected to showcase. They consist of Eric Baden (see his photo, “Dispersed Sand and Rock”) of Asheville, Frank…
SPECIAL EVENT: 11th Annual Plaza Midwood Pig Pickin’
The folks in Plaza Midwood sure do know how to throw a party. In its 11th year, the annual Plaza Midwood Pig Pickin’ is proof of that. The block party in celebration of the 4th features food, drinks, live music (Belmont Playboys, Temperance League, Sea of Cortez, Aqualads and Modern Primitives), a rockabilly car show,…
Bizarre crimes from Charlotte police files
Strange Times: Your humble Blotter author was playing a game of disc golf at Kilborne Park last week with some friends when four police officers suddenly walked across the course. Surprised at seeing uniformed cops searching the deep woods, I asked if we had anything to worry about or if maybe I could help find…
Jason Isbell tells the tales
It’s the kind of behavior that gets people killed. Seems like one of Jason Isbell’s friends has taken his girl in and given her codeine. On his latest release, Here We Rest, he tells the tale that had him rambling around his house in his boxer shorts, his pistol by his side, till the wee…
Can I become a Scottish laird for £30?
Is it really possible to purchase a lord, laird, or lady title online? As I understand it, some websites allow anyone to buy a square foot of land in Scotland for a relatively small amount. As the purchaser now technically owns land in Scotland, they now can use “Lord,” “Laird,” or “Lady” in front of…
Zac Brown Band defies labels as its fan base grows
He’s written with John Mayer and been a part of the Marshall Tucker Band and Shawn Mullins’ group, but it wasn’t until Clay Cook joined the Zac Brown Band that he truly found a comfortable spot in a band. The multi-instrumentalist enjoyed working with those other artists, but the diversity within the ZBB’s style and…
EXHIBIT: Dual Citizenship
The exhibit at Central Piedmont Community College features photography by Sarah Baron. Baron received her MFA from Pratt Institute in New York and was an affiliate artist at McColl Center for Visual Art in 2004. She currently teaches at the Art Institute of Charlotte and The Light Factory. Her latest exhibit, Dual Citizenship is said…
CL previews upcoming concerts (June 29-July 4)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 THE FAREWELL MONUMENT Properly composed instrumental music can elevate the listener, despite the lack of a human voice. Add improvisational forays into angular alleys and loops and you’ve got N.C.’s The Farewell Monument. The combo contorts delayed sounds, guitar licks, strumming, jazzy percussion and effects into a spacey and experimental world. Playing…
Weekly horoscope (June 29-July 5)
Cancer The Crab (June 21-July 22) At last — the final eclipse in your sign. Please see the lead paragraph for the headline. This eclipse season has probably been hard on you in general because we have had three eclipses since the beginning of June. Perhaps you will be able to take a breather after…
The Council-CRVA fiasco
Tim Newman’s contract as CEO of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority is scheduled to expire Thursday, June 30. By the time you read this, Newman could be looking for a new job; or CRVA could have renewed its deal with its controversial honcho; or the whole thing could still be up in the air. If…
Capsule reviews of films playing the week of June 29
THE ART OF GETTING BY An appealing small fry in Finding Neverland (when he was 12) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (13), Freddie Highmore now turns up in his first significant role in years at the age of 19. To quote Fred Willard in A Mighty Wind, “Hey, wha’ happened?” Of course, it would…
It’s still the economy, stupid
It was unthinkable just six months ago. According to all the right reporters who always quote all the right economists who are always wrong, we were in an economic recovery. If so, why did the unemployment rate in the Charlotte region just inch up to 10.4 from 10.3 in April? We were told that if…
Cedar Rapids, Sucker Punch among new home entertainment titles
BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (2011). Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son isn’t like Some Like It Hot; instead, it’s like every other witless sequel meant to prolong the life cycle of a flailing franchise. Like it or not, the fact remains that there’s not much to like here, and it only escapes a…
SPECIAL EVENT: July 4th Spectacular
For those of you who have the energy — provided it’s not been emptied from all the Independence Day shindigs around town over the weekend — the annual fireworks show at Memorial Stadium is worth attending. Family activities from 6 p.m.-9 p.m., as well as food vendors and live music. Fireworks show begins at 9:30…
Cars 2: License to thrive
Think of Pixar as a person instead of a studio. Imagine it as Clint Eastwood. Remember that middle stretch in Eastwood’s career, when he would alternate more artistic endeavors with pure popcorn flicks? One year he’s helming something as weighty as The Outlaw Josey Wales, the next he’s starring in something as blatantly stupid as…
THEATER: Deathtrap
Central Piedmont Community College’s Theatre department likes a good thrill. In Deathtrap — performances in Pease Auditorium — there are so many unexpected twists and turns, the work has been hailed by some as a play-within-a-play. Murder, an affair, psychics and writer’s block are all the hilarious crumbs leading up to the final crunch. No…
Bad Teacher: Cameron Diaz’s class act
It’s no Bad Santa, but Bad Teacher brings just enough naughty behavior to the table to make it a decent watch for viewers tired of PG-13 timidity. In her best role since 2005’s underrated In Her Shoes, Cameron Diaz plays Elizabeth Halsey, a gold-digging middle-school teacher who, having just been dumped by her wealthy fiancé,…
THEATER: Deathtrap
Central Piedmont Community College’s Theatre department likes a good thrill. In Deathtrap — performances in Pease Auditorium — there are so many unexpected twists and turns, the work has been hailed by some as a play-within-a-play. Murder, an affair, psychics and writer’s block are all the hilarious crumbs leading up to the final crunch. No…
Incendies: Fiery Canadian drama
OF THE FOUR 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominees to have played Charlotte — the fifth, Algeria’s Outside the Law, seems unlikely to reach our city at this point — Canada’s Incendies ranks as the only one remotely worthy of the prize (the actual winner was Denmark’s so-so In a Better World). Moving back…
COMEDY: Grandma Lee at NC Music Factory
Just how old is Grandma Lee? Old enough. The 76-year-old lady — should we call her a lady or is her mouth too foul for the title? — made her claim to fame after appearing on NBC’s America’s Got Talent and Last Comic Standing. In her stand-up act, she really doesn’t hold back, and folks…
Where to find it: Actual Greek Yogurt
Greek yogurt is unlike many of the yogurts that populate the dairy shelves. The proper consistency of Greek yogurt is thicker than sour cream, and much creamier. After spending a summer eating yogurt throughout Greece a few years ago, I was happy to discover Fage (pronounced phy-ye) Total (Classic) as the product most closely approximating…
Japan’s meltdowns demand new no-nukes thinking
New details are emerging that indicate the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan is far worse than previously known, with three of the four affected reactors experiencing full meltdowns. Meanwhile, in the U.S., massive flooding along the Missouri River has put Nebraska’s two nuclear plants, both near Omaha, on alert. The Cooper Nuclear Station declared a…
Bask in the glow of this Harvest Moon Grille
Even though the Dunhill Hotel is designated as a historic landmark, the adjacent restaurant space has not been worthy of note since the renowned Chef Scott Howell was there in 1991 — until now, that is. Farmer and chef Cassie Parsons has changed the dynamics of the space by opening her Harvest Moon Grille, a…
3 questions with Maynard Goble, entrepreneur
Maynard Goble, three-time entrepreneur, enjoys golf — “although you wouldn’t know it by my scorecard,” he says with a laugh. Goble is the co-owner of Dandelion Market (115 W. 5th St.; www.dandelionmarketcharlotte.com) as well as the recently opened Prohibition Bar (200 N. Tryon St.; www.prohibitionclt.com) — a reconstruction and melding of The Attic and Madison’s,…
