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Fall Music Festival Guide 2013
Cooler weather always makes for a more enjoyable music festival — the tunes just go over better when you’re not drenched in sweat and worried about your next bottle of water. Whether you’re sticking around Charlotte for a day-long event or taking a road trip for a long weekend, these are our picks for the…
STS9 at the Uptown Amphitheatre tonight (8/28/2013)
Sound Tribe Sector 9 crafts circular compositions flavored with funk, hip-hop and psychedelia.
Judith Hill headlines Pride Festival today (8/25/2013)
Adjusting her vocal chords to add vivid harmonies to R&B, blues, jazz, hip-hop and gospel, Hill has definitely marked a spot for herself on “artists-to-watch” lists.
Shot Silk at the Visulite Theatre tonight (8/24/2013)
Filled with blues-based grooves and rock/metal attitude, Shot Silk has grown tremendously since that debut EP.
Amigo at the Evening Muse tonight (8/24/2013)
The honky-tonk trio is the antithesis of bedroom navel-gazing, crafting joyous tunes that are meant to fill a room with people dancing all over their troubles.
Miranda Lambert at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre tonight (8/23/2013)
Unlike Gretchen Wilson’s brassy cartoon, Lambert seems the real deal, spinning taut and tuneful tales of domestic abuse and blood-simple revenge.
Green River Ordinance at the Chop Shop tonight (8/22/2013)
GRO has been on major tours, had songs featured on TV shows and films, and has steadily created a loyal fan base.
Upcoming: Martini Madness @ Label
Which Label bartender has the most flair, tricks and skill with a shaker?
Amour, Body Double, Greystoke among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD.) AMOUR (2012). It won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It nabbed the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and also scored four additional nominations (including Best Picture). Its writer-director and lead actress each won or…
Charlotte pop-rock quartet Sugar Glyder calls it quits
After 10 years, band announces its conclusion in Facebook post.
CMPD presence light at first local Moral Monday
Police presence was light and arrests a non-issue at Charlotte’s first Moral Monday, held Aug. 19 at Marshall Park. The nearly 2,000 attendees protested bills passed during this year’s state legislative session that limited access to voting, abortions and healthcare and cut funding for public education. Speakers addressed the crowd and musical acts took to…
Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Recipe: Arnold Palmer Cupcakes
Flavor doesn’t have to be real to be tasty, people.
Andrew Christian is a ‘Pride virgin’
Close your eyes and imagine a man with the chiseled body of a Greek god. His facial expression offers a mix of boyish charm and suggestive sexy swagger. His colorful, stylish drawers distract from the goods they cover. But these are no ordinary undies. They are open in the back, revealing a firm tush. The…
CD review: Sonny & The Sunsets’ Antenna to the Afterworld
San Franciscan Sonny Smith proved his songwriting chops in perpetuity with 2009’s 100 Records, making up 100 fictitious bands and recording 200 songs in a compendium of styles for an art installation (some of it released in collections through Turn Up Records). Smith’s latest, Antenna to the Afterworld, dials back the style-hopping without sacrificing his…
New Nightbreed cut to see light of day
Horror film has Charlotte connections.
Live review: Scott Weiland, The Fillmore (8/18/2013)
Stone Temple Pilots frontman brings solo tour to Charlotte.
Featured Cocktail: What’s Up Doc
Found at e2 emeril’s eatery.
TONIGHT: Moral Monday comes to Charlotte
The weekly protests in Raleigh have garnered national attention.
Live review: Serena Ryder, Uptown Amphitheatre (8/16/2013)
Canadian songstress impresses with short opening set.
Cannon beats Mitchell for Black Political Caucus nod
On Sunday the caucus announced its endorsements for mayoral and City Council candidates.
Today’s Top 5: Monday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Pastavores Delight: OGGI Ristorante Italiano
If you don’t live in Ballantyne, chances are you won’t venture there for dinner, either. In general, people dine near their homes or an event. So for restaurateurs in Ballantyne, or any suburban area for that matter, becoming a great neighborhood restaurant is critical, and the recipe to do so requires offering consistent and well-crafted…
Today’s Top 5: Sunday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Weekend Film Reviews: Lee Daniels’ The Butler; Paranoia; The Hunt; and more
What’s new and covered in theaters.
Today’s Top 5: Saturday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Bizarre crimes from Charlotte police files (Aug. 15)
Snoop Lioness: A University-area woman was arrested last week after she smoked some weed that would make Snoop Lion proud. A man who lives in the woman’s apartment complex called police after he saw her walking up and down the apartment building steps, yelling and talking to herself. When police found her, she was in…
The importance of being Thanos, Part 1
The villain has always been kind of a dick.
Sex in a box
Spice things up with these subscription-based sexy surprises (hint: Packages are involved).
America the Weirdiful: Dinosaurs
Dinosaur sculptures are sprinkled all over the country.
Coal-ash settlement: Nearly 5,000 public comments received
Comments will be posted online “promptly.”
Lee Daniels’ The Butler: White House down
LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER **1/2 DIRECTED BY Lee Daniels STARS Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey It’s impossible not to chortle during that notorious scene in 1965’s The Greatest Story Ever Told, when Christ (Max von Sydow) is hanging on the cross and up lumbers John Wayne as a Roman centurion, drawling, “Truly, this man was the…
Paranoia will destroy ya
PARANOIA * DIRECTED BY Robert Luketic STARS Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman In the 1997 hit Air Force One, Harrison Ford’s U.S. president bellows at Gary Oldman’s terrorist, “Get off my plane!” The circumstances surrounding that face-off are far more exciting than the ones in Paranoia, in which Ford’s crusty CEO yells at Oldman’s cranky CEO,…
The Hunt hits its marks
THE HUNT ***1/2 DIRECTED BY Thomas Vinterberg STARS Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen Few crimes are as revolting as the sexual abuse of small children, and even staunch opponents of capital punishment should reasonably find their stance softening when it comes to meting out the proper justice for such an abhorrent offense. Yet witch hunts…
Makeup with violence
We women have been giving each other incredibly bad advice throughout the years, especially when it comes to beauty tips. A cynic might postulate that we’re all trying to sabotage each other, but I think most of us will try anything if it’s fairly convenient and inexpensive — especially because it just might work. This…
Good job, Pat: McCrory vetoes drug testing welfare recipients
Giving credit where credit is due.
Live review: Ke$ha, Uptown Amphitheatre (8/15/2013)
Glitter for everyone!
Theater review: The Lion King
Seeing a show as distinctively original as The Lion King with fresh eyes the third time around can be a little daunting for a critic who wishes to give the wonder of Julie Taymor’s staging adequate weight. So I did a couple of things to pep up the experience that worked well for me: I…
Question the Queen City: What’s the scoop on SouthEnd?
The once-faltering industrial area is now a booming neighborhood.
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Republicans inspire new progressive state PAC
Upward South will endorse candidates running for local offices, including sheriff and county commissioner.
Top 10 North Carolina memes
If memes tell us what the rest of the world thinks of N.C., well, the outlook isn’t good.
Live review: Jimmy Eat World, The Fillmore (8/13/2013)
Band’s nearly two-hour set of new and old material leaves fans satisfied.
Weekly horoscope (Aug. 15-21)
Leo The Lion (July 22-Aug. 22): Many Lions are trying to deal with people that won’t come together and flow as they should. A health or legal challenge may be interfering with forward motion. This episode will settle fairly soon. For All Signs: For instant peace: Go outside two hours before sunrise and find a…
Legendary civil rights leader Julius Chambers dies
Julius Chambers, the legendary civil rights lawyer who died here Friday, Aug. 2, at 76, was guided by two beliefs. He believed in the law as a potent weapon in the fight for racial justice. And he believed the battle was never over. For those who expect renowned trial lawyers to be masters of bluster…
No one has a ball at I Love Lucy
Hollywood had already been a screwy place for many years when I Love Lucy premiered on TV in 1951, and LA-LA Land has shown no signs of wising up or reforming during the intervening years. So anyone expecting the new “Live on Stage” version, originally produced in Metro LA and currently touring at Knight Theater,…
Xbox One, Playstation will debut this year
The seventh generation of video game consoles began in 2005 with the launch of Microsoft’s successor to the Xbox, the Xbox 360. In 2006, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii entered the marketplace, providing consumers with multiple forms of new gameplay experiences. The Xbox 360 revolutionized the online multiplayer experience, while the PS3 provided…
Blindfolded speed dating unmasks more than what meets the eye
Out of The Box dating offers Charlotte a truly unique speed-date night.
Love knows “Nolimit” in new film
Charlotte writer-director Fred Forte, Jr. discusses his new film Petey and its recognizable star, Nolimit Larry.
Meet your City Council candidates, Districts 4, 5, 6 and 7
An introduction of City Council candidates running for Districts 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Meet your City Council candidates, Districts 1 and 2
An introduction of City Council candidates running for Districts 1 and 2.
Deniro Farrar releases video for “The Calling”
Song is from rappers latest mixtape, The Patriarch II.
The Pull List (8/14/13): X-Palooza, and Vaughan’s latest (and greatest) continues
Saga is a vast success for Image.
Pat McCrory gets animated after signing controversial voter ID bill into law
On Tuesday, he makes it big on Washington Post.
Last day to comment on the Duke Energy coal-ash lawsuit settlement
It’s as easy as sending an email.
Pride returns to friendlier city, faith community
David Hains kept his answers short in our first interview for this story. According to the spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, the church’s position on gay marriage was set in stone — it would never acknowledge a union between two men or two women. Conversation over. End of discussion. But soon after we…
Hopscotch gets bigger every year
On Sept. 9, 2010, the first Hopscotch Music Festival hit Raleigh. The event lured more than 120 bands from all over the world to the capitol’s downtown area, packing clubs and keeping a crowd of 5,000 dancing through a downpour thanks to the hip-hop bombast of the infamous and influential Public Enemy. By almost every…
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’ll love you, TomorrowWorld
Though dance music is American grown, for more than 20 years its mecca has been in Europe. So, it makes sense that the most extravagant festival in the genre would come from the Eastern mothership. And leading the over-saturated pack of festivals popping up like boobs at a strip club is Belgium’s TomorrowLand. Having just…
A progress report on our little piece of the World Wide Web
Creative Loafing is like a Transformers toy: We’re “more than meets the eye.” While we’re limited in the number of conversations we can start in our print edition, our little piece of the World Wide Web has been booming lately. Here’s what we’ve been up to online: • Straight from the pages of our sister…
2013 Charlotte Pride brings lots of LGBT shenanigans
Don’t miss your chance to be fabulous among fellow members of the LGBTQ community during Charlotte Pride Week. You definitely don’t want to miss the annual Charlotte Pride Festival and Parade (www.charlottepride.org) on Aug. 24 & 25 – featuring guests like Mya, Judith Hill and Big Freedia, among others – but there’s a lot more…
