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What to Do in Charlotte After a Day at the Links
Click here for cool things to do see and do — golf-related and non-golf-related — in the Charlotte area.
Wait ‘Til You See My Disc: Five Best CLT Disc Golf Courses
For many PGA fans, the sport of disc golf remains in a class with ultimate (frisbee) as a pastime only for tree hugger hippies with nothing better to do than tromp through the woods tossing a hard disc into baskets and smoking pot between holes. But disc golf’s popularity has been growing throughout the country,…
Drinking and Driving: A Night at Topgolf
At 32 years old, Craig Kessler looks more like the average millennial golf fan checking out Charlotte’s newest golf and entertainment center, Topgolf, than the COO of the company’s U.S. operations. Sitting in a Topgolf suite on Monday night, August 7, he glimpses around while eating prime rib made by the on-site executive chef. “The…
Done for the Day: Hangouts & Activities for Non-Golfers
[Image-1] You’re here with your bestie who just loves the golf. You, on the other hand, don’t know Jordan Spieth from Arnold Palmer (he’s the guy who invented that ice-tea mixture). No worries. While your friend, lover or whatever is following those little white balls around Quail Hollow, we have some ideas of stuff you…
10 Mini Golf, Ranges & Par 3 Courses
So you haven’t gottten enough golf even after a full day of PGA madness under the hot sun (or hot rain, depending on the weather) at Quail Hollow. Want to spend your evenings in Charlotte doing golf-related stuff, too? How about taking the kids out to the mini golf links? Or, take an afternoon off…
The Magpie Salute smashes expectations
Former Black Crowes members rock the roof off of NoDa’s Neighborhood Theatre.
Sidney Horton Tackles Race in the Arts With ‘The Submission’
We’re right to be suspicious of leaders who loudly spout their righteous certitudes. Thoughtful people know that moral rectitude, ethnic traditions, civil liberties, and political correctness can often crisscross into bewildering tangles and conundrums. Sidney Horton, who is directing Three Bone Theatre’s The Submission, puts it more bluntly: “We all are clumsy when we deal…
Step: All the right moves
STEP *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Amanda Lipitz STARS Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger The new documentary Step focuses on the members of an inner-city Baltimore high school step team, but what’s most surprising about the film is how comparatively little time is spent on the dancing. To be sure, there are numerous sequences in…
Listen Up: LeAnna Eden Strums, Sings and Chats Us Up on ‘Local Vibes’
For Episode 4 of Local Vibes, LeAnna Eden of LeAnna Eden and the Garden Of brought her guitar with her and blessed us with a couple of in-studio performances. Also, Mark and Ryan finally get to the bottom of how to say and spell her name, which has been bothering them for some time. Listen…
Fargo, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Teen Wolf 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 BREAKING POINT (1950). Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel To Have and Have Not had already been made into an excellent 1944 feature directed by Howard Hawks and offering the immortal first pairing…
Weekly Horoscope (Aug. 10-16)
For All Signs Guess what? Mercury turns retrograde once again, on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. During this upcoming week we may encounter obstacles and holes in previously made plans. Delays and revisions of schedule are likely with lots of “hurry up and wait.” The solution for most of the issues encountered will be waiting for…
The Blotter: Scammers
Barter Management at the Quail Valley on Carmel apartment complex in south Charlotte checked their night deposit box one morning last week to find that someone didn’t have the money to pay their rent but offered up something even better. The apartment manager called police and turned over a bag of marijuana, a bag of…
Goodbye, Goodyear; Hello, North End
Each weekend my friends and I attempt to find something new to do in the Queen City — or at least participate in something familiar without the same hangover. This past Friday our options were limited to the final art event at Goodyear Arts or the newly popular Fridays at Camp North End. Not too…
Popular Chinese Restaurant Ma Ma Wok Goes All-Veg
Not far from the sprawling Stonecrest shopping center, Ma Ma Wok is tucked into a small neighborhood center off Elm Lane where, at 7 p.m. on a Wednesday, you’ll find plenty of parking. Owner Jian Chen, a small woman with a large smile, greets us as we enter. For a moment, there’s a slight flicker…
JaggerMouth Fights the Clock to Put Out Second Album
Inside an unassuming two-story, ’70s-style brick house buried away in an east Charlotte residential neighborhood, where you’d more likely find some boring domestic scene playing out, the members of JaggerMouth are creating controlled chaos. Within seconds of entering, I am handed a light beer, which comes with an explanation. “It keeps us from getting too…
In ‘Things With Wings,’ Bree Stallings Ponders Taboo Conversations
Bree Stallings’ latest visual conversation started with a poem she wrote about her family. “The last couple of lines of the poem lead up to [the words], ‘We are things with wings,'” Stallings says. “The majority of the poem is just talking about growing older and understanding generational trauma between women. What has happened to…
Julia Preston Sheds Light on One-Sided Immigration Courts in Charlotte
In March 2016, Creative Loafing reported on the North Carolina 6, a story of six N.C. teenagers who had been snatched up by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers after having missed immigration hearings or been denied the asylum they sought in the United States. These six young men were a tiny fraction of the…
A Secret History of Hipsters on the Links
Everybody knows true jocks love football and basketball. Stoners and artists prefer to hike or camp or surf or skateboard. And we all like baseball. But what about golf? When the CL staff was putting together this week’s special section on stuff to do during the PGA Championship, some of the staffers in the office…
