Aug 24-31, 2016

Aug 24-31, 2016 / Vol. 30 / No. 27

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (August 25)

Laundered Goods A thief was probably hoping for a tablet or some other valuable goods when they broke into a car and stole a suitcase near the airport last week. A 46-year-old man reported that someone had used a pry tool to break into his rental vehicle and make off with a suitcase. The man…

Ryan Pitkin

There’s nothing fishy about Ciel Gallery’s Clambakes

I have taken pottery, drawing, watercolor, oil and encaustic classes in my ongoing attempt to find some art form I’m good at. In each case, I was the shittiest person in the class. Years ago, a pottery teacher told me (in a total grasping-at-straws moment) that my hands might be “too small” for pottery. (Word…

Page Leggett

Will Puckett on the works of Will Puckett

Squid mural — North Davidson and 28th Streets (no longer there) “This one I did way early and I totally misspelled something. It was a bunch of squids and I misspelled invertebrates. That was terrible, just terrible. I corrected it but the mural itself did not stay up very long. ” Chair painting, 505 S.…

Ryan Pitkin

Chatham County Line charts a changing course

If Dave Wilson had GPS back in 1999, he might not have called his then-newly formed bluegrass string band Chatham County Line. Wilson (guitar/lead vocals), John Teer (mandolin/fiddle/vocals), Chandler Holt (banjo/vocals), and Greg Readling (bass/pedal steel/keyboards/vocals) had just transitioned from “a group of guys jamming, to an honest to goodness band,” says Wilson, when they…

Pat Moran

A black girl on Gentrification Street

It took me precisely one hour on a Saturday afternoon to begin then quickly conclude my apartment hunting. The day began beautifully. I dropped by at work and made my way to the mecca, also known as Plaza Midwood, where the hipsters thrive and the walkable tree-lined streets welcome you like a scene out of…

Sherrell Dorsey

Dinner with the Dumpling Lady

On a leafy side street in Plaza Midwood sits a red cube of a trailer. On the front, a shaded map of the Chinese province of Szechuan is punctuated by a black-and-white yin/yang symbol. That marks the capital city of Chengdu, where owner Zhang Qian (pronounced zhon chen, last name first), the self-proclaimed Dumpling Lady,…

Alison Leininger

Weekly horoscope (Aug. 25-31)

For All Signs: On Aug. 24, the planet Mars (ancient god of war) conjuncts Saturn (ruler of limits and boundaries). Their coming together represents a debate between polarities: action vs. stasis, hot vs. cold, spontaneity vs. containment, individual needs vs. the collective. These planets meet in the sky approximately every two years. It urges us…

Vivian Carol

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