Apr 4-10, 2018
Tweaked, skateboarding story; Indigo Jo; littleSpoon; Celeste Moonchild; Zenith Nadir
GRAPHIC VIDEO: CMPD Releases Footage From January Ambush of Police Officers
This afternoon, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released footage of an incident in which a group of officers were ambushed at the department’s headquarters in January. An officer was shot in the incident, while the suspect was shot and killed. According to CMPD, on January 11, officers with CMPD and North Carolina Probation and Parole were…
A Quiet Place: Loud and Proud
A QUIET PLACE ***1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY John Krasinski STARS Emily Blunt, John Krasinski Actor John Krasinski’s previous picture in the director’s seat, 2016’s The Hollars, made minimal noise when it was selected as part of the Sundance slate, but its subsequent wide release led to dismissive reviews, scant box office, and serious…
Blockers misses some moves
BLOCKERS **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Kay Cannon STARS Leslie Mann, Jon Cena It all starts going downhill around the time Jon Cena drinks beer through his butt. Until then, Blockers is a rather savvy and – if you squint really hard — even subversive comedy about three high school seniors who make a…
The Blotter: Great Will
Bury the Hatchet PSA: Do not fuck with Goodwill employees. A thief in the Ballantyne area learned this the hard way last week when an employee stopped him in his tracks despite the fact that he was holding a weapon. According to the report, the suspect shoplifted seven pairs of shoes and a hatchet from…
Charley Crockett Brings His Own ‘Wild Frontier’ to Moo & Brew
This descendant of Davy Crockett has some stories to sing you.
Charlotte Singer and Rapper Raheeme Will Rock the Spectrum Center Friday Night
Local musician supports Genuwine, Guy, Tank, others.
The Sandlot, The Twilight People, Women in Love among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray, DVD and Streaming. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) THE CITY OF THE DEAD (1960). While the title hints at a zombie flick (more so since there is an Italian zombie film with a similar moniker, City of the Living Dead),…
Listen Up: Autumn Rainwater Springs Forward on ‘Local Vibes’
Spring may not seem like the right time to bring in Autumn Rainwater, but there’s never a bad time to catch up with this local R&B sensation. We talked to Autumn about last year’s release, Leaf, and whether all these connections to nature are purposeful. We also discussed the local R&B scene, dating stoners and…
News of the Weird: The Toilet Bandit
Public Service Announcement Police in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, appealed to the public for help in late March tracking down a most unusual perpetrator. “Over the past year and a half,” the department posted on its Facebook page, “someone has been clogging the women’s toilet (at the Deland Community Center) with a 20-ounce soda bottle. This is…
Can a Pop-Up Art Show Shake up Charlotte’s Scene?
One sure-fire way to raise hackles in an art community is to critique it without any sugarcoating. “I felt the art scene was lacking in Charlotte,” Logan Bennett says. “There’s a lot of money here, but not much organic culture.” The culture we do get, Bennett says, is “what the wealthy — the powers-that-be —…
GRAPHIC VIDEO: CMPD Releases Footage of 2017 Hostage Situation, Shooting
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department released body camera footage this afternoon that shows officers shooting a man in west Charlotte in 2017 after he held a woman at gunpoint. The department released three videos from the officers involved in the shooting — Shon Sheffield, Joseph Bauer and James Tindall — from the night of September…
The Newly Split Personality of littleSpoon
For a whole eight weeks, Myers Park residents and folks from all around the city had to go without their beloved littleSpoon, but the hip-hop brunch spot has returned, and it brought a friend. In January, the restaurant’s’ owner Alesha Stegemeyer closed littleSpoon for renovations and transformed it into a two-in-one restaurant. Comida, an upscale…
Charlotte Is Not Street-Skating Friendly, but in the End, Skaters Gonna Skate
It was an insane skateboard jump no one had ever made. William Daughtry II landed “Death Gap,” and he did it with epic flair. The first time the 20-year-old tried making the gap, it was 1:30 a.m. He snapped the tail off his board in one attempt, snapped the nose on another. He borrowed his…
My Summer Bucket List
Has spring officially sprung? You’d think so with the 80-degree weather we’ve experienced this week in the Queen City. But something deep down tells me that the cool nights of winter haven’t given up just yet. Especially when I’m scrolling through my timeline and see my N.Y. friends posting pics of snow still coming down,…
Indigo Jo’s Truth is Subject to Revision
Talking to Indigo Jo is like being in the eye of a storm. The rapper formerly known as Joel Verdad is preternaturally calm, spiritual, but not in a heavy way. You just feel yourself preparing for a minor miracle or two. So it wasn’t a shock that he opened the interview with an anecdote about…
