Feb 24 – Mar 1, 2016

Feb 24 - Mar 1, 2016 / Vol. 30 / No. 1

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2016 CIAA Parties and Events

Thursday (2/25) Day: CIAA Tournament – Game Men’s Quarterfinal 1 (1 p.m.), Quarterfinal 2 (3 p.m. or 20 mins after Quarterfinal 1), Quarterfinal 3 (7 p.m.), Quarterfinal 4 (9:00 p.m. or 20 mins after Quarterfinal 3). Feb. 25, 1 p.m. Time Warner Cable Arena, 333 East Trade St. ciaatournament.org. CIAA Career Expo College students and…

Laura Eason and Anita Overcash

Eddie the Eagle: Soar spot

EDDIE THE EAGLE *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Dexter Fletcher STARS Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman The “underdog sports movie” — if there’s a sub-genre that doesn’t need any more piling on, it would be this one. Yet for all its familiar trappings, Eddie the Eagle manages more often than not to escape that overbearing…

Matt Brunson

Triple 9 not always by the numbers

TRIPLE 9 **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY John Hillcoat STARS Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor Triple 9, bless its grubby little heart, tries really hard to be something more than just another gritty cops’n’robbers flick — for one thing, in this film, the cops are the robbers. Set in Atlanta, this finds a group comprised…

Matt Brunson

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Feb. 25)

One Woman’s Trash One-upping sleuthing spouses everywhere, a Lake Wylie wife decided to let police do the legwork and track her husband’s afternoon activities. After watching her husband drive his pick-up truck away from their home, the woman phoned authorities to report him missing. Though the not-quite-missing man had explicitly outlined his plans to head…

Madeline Lemieux

Weekly horoscope (Feb. 25-March 2)

For All Signs: Monday, Feb. 29, is a Leap Day. This extra day is inserted to our annual calendar every fourth year. The reason this is necessary is to keep our calendar in line with the four seasons. The fact is, that a full circle around our sun requires 365 days, plus six hours. In…

Vivian Carol

Theater review: Casa Valentina

The cool Catskill Mountains have long served as cities of refuge for young and old New Yorkers. Escaping the summer heat, families might settle in for a few weeks at bungalow colonies, letting the kids run wild until dusk. Or parents might breathe easier back in the city, sending their schoolkids off to the many…

Perry Tannenbaum

Three questions for Jeff Eckert, founder of Dick Stevens

For Chicago-native Jeff Eckert, beef jerky was never a snack he couldn’t live without. He didn’t pass bags of it back and forth on camping trips. That’s because the pungent smell of dried meat repulsed him. Not to forget, the ingredients. Longtime brands on the market had high sodium that turned him off to the…

Anita Overcash

Vandaveer’s childhood influence

If Mark Charles Heidinger’s kids can grow up to like The Kinks, The Beatles and Vandaveer, Heidinger will be a happy man. The Vandaveer founder is a full-time stay-at-home dad when he’s not on the road. Just as he balances time with his two sons — one is 15-months old, one is 5-years old —…

Jeff Hahne

Entertainers should be applauded for taking a stand

I am not a sports fan, nor do I watch many mainstream award shows anymore, so I had to find out after the fact what all the commotion was about regarding two recent performances by Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar. In both cases, according to what I was reading in my social media feeds, you would…

Charles Easley

Looking back on the case of the Wilmington Ten 45 years later

In recent years, a resurgence of black justice movements has brought the continuing struggle for civil rights back into the spotlight, with activists taking to the streets to protest injustices in Ferguson, Missouri; Baltimore, Chicago and Charlotte alike. Throughout Black History Month this year, both Beyonce and PBS have recalled the rise of the Black…

Ryan Pitkin

Blind taste test changes perspective

You never know how much preconceived notions can color your judgement, and you don’t know how much you’ll miss something until it’s gone. I could be talking about my past married life, but I’ll focus on beer instead. All this introspection started with a simple, blind beer tasting hosted by Unknown Brewing. The premise was…

Jonathan Wells

Reason for the (Party) Season

With all the high-profile parties going on, people sometimes forget that there’s a basketball tournament being played. If you’re planning to catch some of the hoops action, but don’t know what to watch for, we’ve got you covered. Teams to Beat: Virginia State By all accounts the favorite to take the championship, Virginia State comes…

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