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Filtered: The Photography Issue
Last month, we launched our first photo contest, Filtered, in which we asked readers to submit original photographs adhering to the theme of Old Charlotte vs. New Charlotte. After filtering through plenty of entries, the CL staff narrowed down the list to the Top 20 and had readers vote online for their favorite. What follows…
Charlotte Talks about year-end movies
American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street among the films to be discussed.
Bob Rucho kind of reminds me of Kim Jong-il
And other comparisons between the senator and timeless dictators
Genealogy at Chop Shop (12/12/2013)
The Triptych Collective presented Genealogy, a Benefit for Charlotte Family Housing.
First Drip (12/17/13): Rucho stands by controversial tweet, $586 million Christmas present, more
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Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
12 Years for SEFCA
The Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA) yesterday named 12 Years a Slave the Best Picture of 2013 in its 22nd annual voting. Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup, a New York African-American who was born a free man but ended up getting kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South, the film earned a…
Bobcats-Hornets Week in Review: The Good, the Bad and the Kobe
115 points to begin the week certainly proved torturous
Today’s Top 5: Monday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Live review: Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas, Evening Muse (12/13/2013)
Band brings plenty of rock-chick sass and retro grooves to NoDa venue.
First Drip (12/16/13): Changes made at LGBT Center, Harvard evacuates, amnesty for Snowden, more
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Today’s Top 5: Saturday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Dec. 14, 2013 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing. * Exit Through the Gift Shop at Charlotte Art League * Santa Bar Crawl at various locations Uptown * Cabinet at Double Door Inn * Purgatory 55: Season’s Beatings…
Bizarre crimes from Charlotte police files (Dec. 12)
Quiet good bye: A 67-year-old CMS cafeteria worker became sick and lost consciousness on the job at James Martin Middle School about an hour before lunch time last week. Medics tried to revive the woman for 40 minutes before pronouncing her dead. In the report, police stated that the incident took place in the rear…
Lassiter creates enormous conflict of interest for McCrory administration
And it’d be nice if more media pointed it out
Live review: Antifolk Night, Roux (12/12/2013)
Matt Stache, Phoebe Novak, Cannonball Statman and Grey Revell’s Roman Candles play the NoDa venue.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: Middle-earth’s middle chapter
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG *** DIRECTED BY Peter Jackson STARS Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman The big news accompanying last December’s release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was writer-director Peter Jackson’s decision to offer the film in High Frame Rate (HFR). That innovation basically allowed it to be played at 48 frames per…
The year in capes: Ranking 2013’s biggest comic movies
After the massively successful films of 2012, this year’s crop stirs much more debate when it comes to the top spot.
Cowfish expands to Universal Studios
By next summer, you can find a little taste of Charlotte while vacationing in Florida.
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
First Drip (12/13/13): Legal bills piling up in airport fight, kill the apostrophe, more
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Beyonce releases a surprise new album
The self-titled album is currently available as an iTunes exclusive.
Sugar and spikes
There’s no shortage of homegrown Warhols peddling Britney Spears pop art on Etsy. You can easily find an American Apparel V-neck with “It’s Britney Bitch” emblazoned over a paparazzo shot of her sneaking a cig, or a primitive pipe cleaner stick figure topped with a photo of the pop star’s head. But scour the online…
CD review: Wooden Shjips’ Back to Land
Wooden Shjips, a San Fran/Portland band of minimalist space freaks, combines Velvet Underground’s drone with the noise of Ride and quiet, tranquil vocals akin to Mazzy Starr, Morcheeba or, for that matter, Ride. Many compare the band’s fuzzed-out guitar jams to Neil Young. Already one of my favorites, Back to Land kicks in where previous…
Where to find it: Anson Mills Rice Grits
In 1998, I toured a fallow rice field near a neglected, yet historic plantation-styled farm house near Charleston with host Glenn Roberts. At that time, he was on course to revive the long-grain rice — Carolina Gold — that had been the cash crop of South Carolina until the mid-1860s. Today, Roberts’ Anson Mills organic…
Opening Friday
What’s new in theaters this weekend.
Prude: lessons on love, sex and writing from memoirist Emily Southwood
A Q & A with the author on what she learned when her fiancé filmed porn.
First Drip (12/12/13): Panthers and the Super Bowl, bye, bye foreclosure crisis, more
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Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Thai one on at Bahn Thai
Ever since Thai cuisine migrated to North Carolina nearly 50 years ago — the culinary bonus of airmen from North Carolina bases stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam war — the manifestation of Thai dishes throughout the state has been wide-ranging: some good, some bad. Some focus on food while others on glamour. But most…
Cash and carry: New books about legendary musicians
Just in time for Christmas — of course — the end of 2013 has produced a big, surprising pile of quality biographies and memoirs detailing the lives of a slew of baby boomer musicians. We recently reviewed and recommended Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt, while other works from the latter part of…
Bargain brawlers aren’t blind
Like a lot of you, I watched the videos of Walmart shoppers fist-fighting in the aisles over Black Friday bargains. I chuckled a little and even laughed out loud at a couple of fights that turned into pretty good slapstick, until it hit me how damned sad the whole thing was. It’s not what the…
Weekly horoscope (Dec. 12-18)
For All Signs: Jupiter, planet of hope and expansion, makes a favorable aspect to Saturn, ruler of boundaries, reality and careers. This is the second of three, the last aspect occurring in May of 2014. The first one was in July of 2013. For the majority, this cycle is most readily visible in the career…
Carolina Chocolate Drops prepare for lineup change
The banjo was born black. It evolved from precursors in Africa and the West Indies before it became a cornerstone of bluegrass and Southern music at large. This fact is quoted frequently by the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a string band that rose from Durham roots to become one of today’s most visible old-time performers. Their…
Pass ENDA now
Imagine being fired for no other reason than simply being who you are. On Nov. 7, the U.S. Senate tried to outlaw that scenario by passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which makes it illegal to fire, to refuse to hire, or to otherwise discriminate against or harass someone based on their perceived sexual orientation or…
Reclaim your email sanity with Unroll.me
Spend more time with your friends and family, less time with your holiday sale emails.
Where he goes, the Super Bowl trophy follows
Harvey Lucore moved to Charlotte this year.
SEED20 selects 20 local nonprofits for cash-prize competition
The local nonprofits will spend the first seven weeks of 2014 honing their message for a chance to win some cash.
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
First Drip (12/11/13): CL’s photo contest winners, Pope Francis as Time’s Person of the Year, more
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Is frozen Tuna better than canned?
The inspiration for Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard to conjure up the third smallest town in Texas resulted in a madcap two-hander, Greater Tuna, that premiered in its home state in 1981, a year before beginning a 500-performance run off-Broadway. Although the original Tuna was among the most-produced comedies in America back in…
Greed seen as the church’s top problem — so why isn’t Elevation angrier at pastor’s excess?
In October 2012, the Pew Research Center released a study on religion that found that one-fifth of the United States did not identify with any religious faith or church. All faiths saw a significant drop, but the most dramatic change was for the Protestant (non-Catholic Christian) church. For the first time in the nation’s history,…
What’s happening with The Light Factory?
One crisp November day, members of The Light Factory united for a tedious task. They sifted through closets and cabinets of their offices at Spirit Square to purge and pack up 41 years of stuff, from old catalogs to camera equipment. In early October, the longtime Charlotte nonprofit arts organization specializing in photography exhibits, film…
