Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Lunch Break (4/13/16): Racially charged drama featuring Helen Hunt begins filming in Gastonia
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Remember that all free drinks comes with a price
Desperate for a drink? Think again.
Live review: Elle King, Amos’ Southend (4/11/2016)
Talented songstress captivates sold-out crowd in Charlotte debut.
Gov. McCrory signs Executive Order 93, doesn’t change HB2
Executive Order 3 does more to reaffirm HB2 than to change it
Anastasia, Only Angels Have Wings, Village of the Damned 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.) ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1956). If nothing else, writer-director Robert Rossen’s take on the life of the legendary Greek conqueror is at least preferable to 2004’s ghastly Alexander, still the worst film made by…
Lunch Break (4/11/16): Suspect in March murder turns self in
The weekend already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Today’s Top 5: Sunday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top 5: Saturday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
The Boss: Help needed
THE BOSS *1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Ben Falcone STARS Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell They say that love is blind, but when it comes to starring in a movie co-written and directed by your spouse, it can also prove to be deaf and dumb. As in tone-deaf and very, very dumb. Melissa McCarthy has…
Hardcore Henry goes limp fast
HARDCORE HENRY *1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Ilya Naishuller STARS Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky It was amusing to read the Hardcore Henry reviews by several online critics, the sort who believe cinema didn’t exist before the release of Pulp Fiction in 1994 (the really smart ones think it didn’t exist before the release of…
Gyllenhaal props up Demolition
DEMOLITION **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Jean-Marc Vallée STARS Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts With Demolition, audiences are once again expected to feel sorry for a pampered, well-to-do white guy who can’t feel anything for anyone else. Here, it’s Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal), who works for the father (Chris Cooper) of his wife (Heather Lind)…
Lunch Break (4/8/16): Campus protests follow Spellings HB2 enforcement announcement
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Lunch Break (4/7/16): Police investigating city’s 13th murder in northwest Charlotte
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (April 7)
Nothing to See An east Charlotte man recently proved he is just as bad at holding a grudge as he is at holding his liquor. He called police to his home, but was too intoxicated to explain why he needed the officers once they got there. Police found the 30-year old man in his home…
Weekly horoscope (April 7-14)
For All Signs: The planet Mars is parallel to Saturn and will be so through the month of June. Their coming together represents a debate between polarities: action vs. stasis, hot vs. cold, spontaneity vs. containment, individual needs vs. the collective. It presents a challenge to initiation of new projects. One foot is on the…
The Gong Show Movie, Lilies of the Field, Star Wars: The Force Awakens 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.) EXODUS (1960). As detailed in the best picture of 2015, the criminally underrated Trumbo (go here for a complete look at the Best & Worst Films of 2015), the heinous Hollywood blacklist was…
Aix en Provence flourishes in Myers Park
Layering is as essential in French cuisine as it is in fashion. French dishes — from haute cuisine to humble regional dishes — are built to let flavors unfold. Somehow, though, this innocent concept became dominated by old-school Escoffier-inspired hotel restaurants with white linen tablecloths and confusing specialized utensils. Really — a fish knife? The…
Targeting gun theft in Charlotte
In mid-February, a woman living near Mountain Island Day School in northwest Charlotte calls police after her kids find a Smith & Wesson .38 special revolver while playing in the woods behind her home. On March 17, staff members at Goodwill on Albemarle Road come across a revolver; the only contents of a purse donated…
Ongoing debate has, at the very least, put Trans Rights in the spotlight
This is not a column about HB2. Well, sort of. But don’t freak out. In the two weeks since HB2’s passing, I’m sure you’ve read plenty about what the law does, what it doesn’t do, the debate around restrooms and the debate on transgender rights. Some of you are probably sick of hearing of the…
A fond farewell
As I end my time as a full-time employee of Creative Loafing, after nine fantastic years, with this edition — I’ll still write some reviews and previews as a freelancer — it’s tough to say how much I’ve enjoyed writing about the music scene since I started back in 2007. Venues have come and gone,…
Elle King is not America’s sweetheart
Two-time Grammy nominee Elle King burst onto the national music scene just over a year ago with her debut album, Love Stuff. Her top-10 single, “Ex’s & Oh’s” earned her the Grammy noms while the fiery attitude and infectious tempo of her second single, “America’s Sweetheart,” landed her on plenty of late night shows and…
CD review: Lucius’ Good Grief
With similar hair styles and modes of dress, you might think Lucius’ frontwomen Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig are related in some way, but the look-alike duo only shares a penchant for stellar harmonies and catchy pop-rock tunes, not a bloodline. The first time I saw the group live — the band opened for Tegan…
BOOM takes over Plaza Midwood
Are you ready to rumble? Because you should be after hearing all the hype surrounding BOOM, a Charlotte showcase of experimental and contemporary performance and visual art, going down in Plaza Midwood the weekend of April 8-10. Organized by staunch creatives who make up Que-Os — the collective responsible for Charlotte’s Pecha Kucha — BOOM…
Sink or swim
Believe it or not, there are benefits to almost drowning. For artist Charles Williams, near-death experiences — three of them in total — have brought him closer to God and taken his career to another level. Since having encountered the “white light,” he’s been continuously facing his fears. Part of that involves staring at blank…
