Jun 8-14, 2016

Jun 8-14, 2016 / Vol. 30 / No. 16

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Shakina Nayfack tours North Carolina in protest of HB2

Look at the above photo and tell me, what’s wrong with this picture? The picture warrants a second look because it depicts a woman sitting on a urinal meant for standing men. It’s a visual that plays with the binaries most of us have been indoctrinated with since birth — a binary Shakina Nayfack will…

Ryan Pitkin

The Conjuring 2: Anarchy in the U.K.

THE CONJURING 2 *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY James Wan STARS Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson When The Conjuring was released in the summer of 2013, I was one of those who rocked the status quo — that contingent being made up, of course, by those scores of critics and filmgoers who declared that Ohmygodthisisthescariestmovieevermade!…

Matt Brunson

All’s bare in loveless Warcraft

WARCRAFT *1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Duncan Jones STARS Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton For the sake of decency, movie theaters playing Warcraft should offer free popcorn to all non-gamer audience members who survive the first 20 minutes of the film. Fans familiar with the Blizzard Entertainment franchise will doubtless weep sweet-and-salty tears of joy…

Matt Brunson

Weekly horoscope (June 9-15)

For All Signs: The Saturn-Neptune square affects us on a personal level. It isn’t just about the world at large. There are those who have lied to themselves about reality and their denial tactics must come to an abrupt end. Something will be standing in the mirror that represents a cracked illusion. You can no…

Vivian Carol

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (June 9)

Who Me? As if run-ins with the in-laws aren’t awkward enough, an incident in south Charlotte last week will make dinners for one family dreadful for many years to come. Police reported coming across a woman asleep at the wheel of her car in the parking lot of a Harris Teeter in the Providence Commons…

Courtney Mihocik

Take my name

Who Me? As if run-ins with the in-laws aren’t awkward enough, an incident in south Charlotte last week will make dinners for one family dreadful for many years to come. Police reported coming across a woman asleep at the wheel of her car in the parking lot of a Harris Teeter in the Providence Commons…

Courtney Mihocik

Anomalisa, Roots, Zootopia among new home entertainment titles

(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) ANOMALISA (2015). An Academy Award nominee this year for Best Animated Feature, Anomalisa is decidedly not one for the kiddies. The latest work of out-there innovation by Charlie Kaufman, this latest effort may…

Matt Brunson

Sid Davis climbs the comedy ladder

Sid Davis’ voice is deep. He’s aware of that and when speaking by phone he speaks softer, noting “If I don’t yell, it sounds like I’m tired, but I’m not tired. It’s like a chipped horn. If I’m not blaring, it sounds like I’m run down.” But Davis is anything but run down. In fact,…

Anita Overcash

@Dawn elevates Steele Creek’s breakfast game

As the old adage goes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And while boring old bacon and eggs will get you through your day, I suggest you elevate your breakfast game with a visit to @Dawn, the newly opened breakfast and coffee concept in Steele Creek. Tucked into Ayrsley (literally, it’s wedged…

Chrissie Nelson Rotko

Dead & Co. keep a Grateful spirit alive

For more than 50 years, Bob Weir has been a storyteller of sorts — with the Grateful Dead and all of its incarnations and in numerous solo projects. So while some fans mourned the end of the Grateful Dead with the death of Jerry Garcia and the final “Fare Thee Well” tour shows in 2015,…

Jeff Hahne

Jon Lindsay gets personal with Cities and Schools

Bolting out of the gate with bubbling New Wave keyboards, crunchy guitars and Jon Lindsay’s crystal-toned tenor, “All Them Houses,” the lead off track of Lindsay’s Cities and Schools, sets the tone for the rest of his third solo album. “It’s a hybrid of vintage and modern pop,” Lindsay says, a love letter to Prince,…

Pat Moran

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