Dec 2-8, 2015

Dec 2-8, 2015 / Vol. 29 / No. 41

Cover Stories

Local organizers fight back as heroin tears through their community

Maegan Severt found herself crying on the mattress yet again in an otherwise empty room at her grandmother’s house. The walls were already covered in expressions and lyrics scribbled during addiction-fueled manic episodes, but this time she jotted on a ripped up piece of paper. “Someone tell me how I got to this place and…

Ryan Pitkin

Chi-raq: Rhyme and reason

CHI-RAQ ***1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Spike Lee STARS Teyonah Parris, Nick Cannon “No peace, no pussy.” “No pussy, no power.” Those are the defining lines of the hour, In Spike Lee’s riveting motion picture Chi-raq, A film already subjected to ridiculous flack. Based on Aristophanes’ ancient Lysistrata, It instead examines today’s social strata.…

Matt Brunson

Weekly horoscope (Dec. 3-9)

For All Signs: Hanukkah, for those unfamiliar with the Jewish calendar, falls on Friday, Dec. 6 this year. Centuries ago, the Jews reclaimed religious freedom from the Assyrians in a battle won on the 25th day of Kislev, the third month of the Jewish calendar year. The people went immediately to rededicate their temple to…

Vivian Carol

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Dec. 3)

Thor’s angel: A woman was arrested trying to carry out a heavy load at a Home Depot in east Charlotte last week. Employees said the woman walked into the hardware store, placed five hammers into her purse and attempted to leave with them. She was stopped before being able to leave, and detained until police…

Ryan Pitkin

Children’s Theatre looks beyond Christmas

Scratch the wreath from a Starbuck’s cup design and you get an uproar: they’re defiling religion and steamrolling Christianity into oblivion! As usual, the silent majority is loud enough to drown out the opposing viewpoint — that the ever-expanding commercializing and mythologizing of Christmas is numbingly repetitive and downright offensive to those of us who…

Perry Tannenbaum

Hybrid of two successful Charlotte concepts emerges in Huntersville

Thai Sushi 101 looks, on first inspection, like many of the take-over out-parcels located in Charlotte-area neighborhoods. Beginning life as a Friendly’s, the real estate morphed into a now-defunct Japanese restaurant then to the modestly transformed Asian-styled eatery it is now. The menu is a cannily calibrated hybrid of two successful Charlotte enterprises: Sushi 101…

Tricia Childress

Three questions for Kathryn Alexander, owner of Sugar

The cupcake boom isn’t over but it does have some sweet competition. Kathryn Alexander, the creator of Sugar — first a food truck and now a new gourmet doughnut shop — has launched a product that will have your mouth watering the minute you walk into her shop in the heart of South Charlotte. Decisions…

Anita Overcash

Run River North starts over

Their friends probably thought they were millionaires. The band Monsters Calling Home had just performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, after all. Record labels were calling. Tours were booking up. But then it all slowed down to a crawl. The band needed to regroup. It needed new energy. It needed a new name. Monsters Calling Home…

Jeff Hahne

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