WEDNESDAY 8
The Charlotte Knights, boasting the muscles of homerun king Jose Canseco, take on the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons tonight through Friday at 7:15pm. Tickets are $6-9, available by calling 704-36-HOMER.
THURSDAY 9
The American Institute of Architects Convention will take place in Charlotte today through Saturday at the Charlotte Convention Center. As part of the event, several architectural exhibits will be on display in uptown Charlotte, located in the Wachovia Atrium, The Hilton Charlotte and Towers, the Omni Charlotte Hotel, the Charlotte Marriott Center City, and the Adams Mark Hotel. In addition, the influx of architectural types — some 17,000 strong — will no doubt leave uptown Charlotte a parking lot at rush hour. If you want to eat lunch uptown, better get there early. For more information, visit www.aia.org.
The BareBones Theatre Group will present its 2nd Annual New 15-Minute Play Festival tonight through May 12 at the Suzanne Little Recital Hall in Dana Auditorium on the Queens College Campus. Showtimes are 8pm on May 9-11 and 2pm on May 12. Tickets are $6. For more information, call 704-577-7274 or visit online at www.barebonestheatre.com.
Join Moving Poets for their season finale Fowl Play starting tonight at Booth Playhouse in the Performing Arts Center. The play is a satirical, contemporary interpretation of the classic Swan Lake. Showtimes are 8pm May 9-11 and 7pm on May 12. Tickets range from $14.50-$18.50. For more information, call 704-372-1000 or visit online at www.movingpoets.com.
Theatre Charlotte will present the Neil Simon and Cy Coleman musical Sweet Charity continuing tonight at the theater. The show will run on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2:30pm through May 19. Tickets range from $15-$20. For more information, call 704-334-9128.
FRIDAY 10
Country pin-up Kenny Chesney will perform at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at 7pm tonight, along with pals Montgomery Gentry, Jamie O’Neal and Phil Vassar. Tickets are $18, $25, and $35, available by calling 704-522-6500.
The CPCC Opera Theatre will present a double-bill of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins tonight through May 12 in Pease Auditorium. Performances are at 8pm tonight and May 11 and at 2:30pm on May 12. For more information and ticket prices, contact the box office at 704-990-6571.
North Carolina Dance Theatre is set to premiere Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s Carmina Burana at the Belk Theatre tonight and tomorrow. This unique choral ballet, set to Carl Orff’s cantata, features the Charlotte Symphony, the Oratorio Singers, the Winthrop University Chorale and the Charlotte Children’s Choir. Performances are at 8pm tonight, and tomorrow at 2pm and 8pm. Tickets range from $20-$50. For more information, call 704-372-1000 or visit online at www.ncdance.org.
Children’s Theatre of Charlotte will present The Velveteen Rabbit, the classic tale of a toy that is loved so much it becomes real. The show will run through May 19, however, all shows are sold out except for May 19 at 4pm. Tickets are $9 for center and $6 for side. For more information, call 704-333-8983 or visit online at www.ctcharlotte.org.
SATURDAY 11
The Charlotte Museum of History, as part of its Real to Reel History series, presents The Madness of King George today from 2-4pm. The series examines the way history is portrayed by Hollywood as visitors view the movie and then take part in an examination of King George’s debilitating disease and his treatment, as well as how he would be treated in modern times. The movie is $2 with regular museum admission. No reservations are required. For more information, call 704-568-1774 or visit online at www.charlottemuseum.org.
Spirit Square will host the Orengo Band, a group specializing in Latin rhythm, jazz and fun, tonight at 8pm in McGlohon Theatre. Tickets to the performance range from $15-$20. For more information, call 704-372-1000 or visit online at www.performingartsctr.org.
The Charlotte Knights take the field against the Toledo Mudhens tonight through Monday at 7:15pm, with an 11:15am game on Tuesday the 14th. Tickets are $6-9, available by calling 704-36-HOMER.
Internationally renowned metals artist Albert Paley, whose work is in the permanent collection of the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, will speak at 1pm today at Spirit Square. The event is free to the public.
An Asian Festival will be held today in Marshall Park from 10am until 6pm. The festival is in honor of Asian Heritage Month. The event is free — for more information, call 704-336-5058.
The Christopher Columbus Italian Club of Charlotte will hold its annual CIAO Italia Festival today from 11am until 8pm in the First Union Atrium. Events include music, dance, food, a raffle, and more. Admission is $1. For more information, call 704-896-5433.
SUNDAY 12
Jazz vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway, a classic-style singer and interpreter of standards, will appear tonight with many other vocalists and local personalities at 7pm at the Belk Theatre of the Performing Arts Center as part of the Komen Charlotte Sing For The Cure. Writer Pamela Martin took stories of breast cancer patients and turned them into poetry, which will be sung by Callaway and others. Tickets are $20-75, available by calling 704-372-1000.
Now in the second round of the NBA playoffs, the lameduck Charlotte Hornets take on Jason Kidd and the New Jersey Nets today at 12:30pm at the Charlotte Coliseum. Tickets are available by calling 800-4NBA-TIX, or online at www.hornets.com. For those wishing they’d just go ahead and leave already, we suggest you check out www.neworleanshornets.com, where life is always a party and Ray and George are heroes on a scale only slightly less than that enjoyed by, say, Paul Prudhomme. A word of advice to N’awlins: when the high wears off, all you’re left with is the hangover and a couple of goobers picking your pocket.
MONDAY 13
S.N. Goenka, considered one of the greatest living teachers of Vipassana meditation, will speak at the Hindu Center of Charlotte at 7pm. Admission is free. For more information, call 704-544-0790.
WEDNESDAY 15
Talky Texas outlaw Jerry Jeff Walker appears tonight at 8pm at the Neighborhood Theatre with his band, The Gonzo Compadres. Tickets to see Mr. Bojangles are $40, available by calling 704-358-9298.
The Charlotte Hornets once again take on the New Jersey Nets tonight at the Charlotte Coliseum. At press time, the starting time for the game is unknown. Tickets are available by calling 800-4NBA-TIX, or online at www.hornets.com.
This article appears in May 8-14, 2002.
