Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2013

Aug 28 - Sep 3, 2013 / Vol. 27 / No. 27

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DNC Charlotte: 1 year later

Charlotte was happy to show conventioneers a good time, but, frankly, we couldn’t wait for the Democratic National Convention to leave. There were more important things to tend to — like bringing the Hornets back. But like it or not, parts of the convention have lingered. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police added the $22 million worth of surveillance…

Book reviews: We Live in Water, Mission to Paris

Summer is almost over, as are your chances to spend the day basking on the beach with a book. Of course, you could head to the shore the week after Labor Day and avoid the big crowds, but work with me here. In the interest of getting you out on the sand with a story…

John Grooms

The World’s End: See it before it’s too late

THE WORLD’S END *** DIRECTED BY Edgar Wright STARS Simon Pegg, Nick Frost The World’s End is one of those comedies that’s so uproarious as it sets up its premise and establishes its characters that it’s almost a shame when the story proper gets underway and breaks up the heretofore nonstop merriment. The third picture…

Matt Brunson

The fortunate one: Ming Fu Chinese and Sushi Restaurant

When restaurateur and Hong Kong native Tom Poon opened DragonFly Chinese Cuisine and Bar with his uncle and successful restaurateur Raymond Lam in 2003, he had already studied Charlotte diners’ proclivities and expectations of Asian cuisine. Poon made his reputation serving fairly standard, crowd-pleasing Asian recipes: orange beef, Singapore mei fun, crispy duck and egg…

Tricia Childress

Love at First Cite

I am a sucker for an inspirational quote. My whole house is littered with words said by everyone from Buddha to Hank Williams Jr. They’re on $6 greeting cards. They’re painted on signs. They’re scribbled on Post-it notes and piled up in my desk drawers. For years I’ve threatened to have my favorite quotes tattooed…

Danny Bonvissuto

Former anchor Bob Inman pens another novel

Forget the Robert “Bob” Inman that you knew as an anchorman for WBTV — that’s if you still remember, seeing as he left back in 1996. Once known for his reporting, he’s long moved on to penning novels, screenplays and stage plays. Inman, who now resides in Conover and Boone, will visit Charlotte to sign…

Anita Overcash

An intimate look at touring with The Lion King

Home means something different to everyone. To some, it’s the family surrounding them; to others, it’s a specific place. To others still, it’s the meatloaf at the old diner up the street, and to some, it’s the sound of cicadas in the trees. As a dancer on the national tour of The Lion King, the…

Selena Moshell

Soft Metals’ love in the void

When electro dance-pop duo Soft Metals brings its meticulous textures and danceable rhythms to Snug Harbor on Sept. 5, audiences may feel seduced and rebuffed. By turns sexy, oblique and chilly, Soft Metals seems to be harboring a startling secret it cannot reveal — something about relationships, or the mutability of existence. Even its contradictory…

Pat Moran

Jazz at the Bechtler series will blow your top

It was on the first Friday in July 2010 that Ziad Jazz Quartet member Ron Brendle got empirical support for a long-standing thesis he’d held. That’s the evening the crowd for the newly-minted Jazz at the Bechtler monthly series went viral, leaping from around 40 people to nearly 10 times that in just its third…

John Schacht

Tiësto talks music and more

Even if you never sported JNCOs, popped E at a warehouse rave or counted yourself a fan of the untz, untz, untz, chances are you’ve still heard about the pioneering producer and DJ, Tiësto. Voted “Greatest DJ of All Time” by Mixmag, Tiësto, known to his postmaster as Tijs Michiel Verwest, has reached a level…

Brittany Gaston

Pat McCrory, cronyism and corporations: par for the course

“Hey, you’ve covered McCrory for years. What the hell is up with that guy?” I hear some variation on that question these days whenever I talk with out-of-town friends, including a couple of journalistic cohorts. And for some reason, every time I hear it, the question reminds me that not everyone had the great fortune…

John Grooms

Weekly horoscope (Aug. 29-Sept. 4)

Virgo The Virgin (Aug. 22-Sept. 22): You have an eye for detail and an ability to speak with considerable tact. These skills will serve you well in the world this week. Don’t hesitate to bring up your observations because everyone will listen to you. Aspects are favorable in the departments of love, romance and creativity.…

Vivian Carol

Biting the Big Apple

After establishing himself as an enfant terrible on the New York theater scene with such risqué parodies as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party, it’s ironic that Charles Busch’s most vicious attack on the pomposity and smug pretentiousness of New Yorkers, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, was the first work by the…

Perry Tannenbaum

DNC: 1 Year Later: Big Brother’s watching

City Councilwoman Claire Fallon remembers the aftermath of 9/11: the heartbreaking flowers outside an empty fire station near her son’s Manhattan apartment, the white tents still erect a year later, the cousin she lost. That day, everything changed. “It’s never going back to the way it was,” she says. “We were such an innocent country.”…

Eric Ginsburg

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