Cover Stories
Film 2015: The Best & Worst
Over the course of 12 months, I sat through 125 motion pictures with a stamp date of 2015. That’s certainly on the lower end of my annual odyssey into the city’s multiplexes — while that compares to the 130 last year and the 110 the year before that, it’s a far cry from the hallowed…
The year in music (photos)
From the small stage of Crown Station Pub to the main stages at Carolina Rebellion, I witnessed a wide range of music in the last 12 months. In the past, I tried to qualify it all, pointing out the best and worst of the year; the good, the bad and the ugly, etc. This year,…
Best of Charlotte Theatre in 2015
There really was a time when I could legitimately claim to have seen every theatre production that Charlotte had to offer. So when I tell you that I saw 67 comedies, dramas, and musicals during 1988 — the first full calendar year that the Loaf was dispensed in our ugly green boxes — well, that’s…
Recapping the best of beers
For anybody who predicted a Charlotte beer slowdown in 2015, you know by now how wrong you were. New outfits opened, existing ones grew out or over, national and international recognition was earned, and some damn good local beer was to be had. The Queen City’s beer scene is not a game, and I foresee…
A look back on some of Creative Loafing‘s most captivating news stories from 2015
Every year has its ups and downs, and for some of Charlotte’s more captivating stories from 2015, that can be taken quite literally. Take Bree Newsome, for example. The Charlotte activist risked her freedom to climb a flagpole on state property in Columbia, South Carolina, in June to bring down a flag that has been…
Something different in 2015
2015 was full of surprises. There were artsy shenanigans in various forms that took us out of our comfort zones and into an exciting new terrain. Back in April, UNC-Charlotte’s College of Art & Architecture and designers at Boxman Studios introduced us to MAX (Mobile Arts & Community Experience), a mobile performance space. This compact…
Lunch Break (1/6/15): Unlike city council, county commission votes against toll lanes
The morning has already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Own a piece of Tremont Music Hall history
Music venue is auctioning off its inventory.
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
25 going on 30
Is Charlotte nightlife ignoring a demographic?
[Untitled]: Episode 1, Part 1
Featuring The Mercury Dimes at Tommy’s Pub.
Lunch Break (1/5/15): Man found dead after shootout with police
The morning has already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Swamp Da Wamp singer Gig Michaels has died
Announcement came Sunday night via the band’s Facebook page.
Lunch Break (1/4/15): Officer shot, suspect killed while police serve warrant in west Charlotte last night
The weekend has already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Today’s Top 5: Saturday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Lunch Break (12/31/15): Anti-toll organizers to finally get their day in court
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Drosselmeyer spins a new Nutcracker
The Hip Hop Nutcracker’s twist on a classic tale.
The Year 2016: Overview, Part I
Uranus/Pluto square: The ten year archetypal battle in the sky is among power versus social justice and the sovereign rights of the individual. This is symbolic of the birth of the Aquarian Age. It is a quarrel that lasts for much of this decade at multiple levels. Uranus and Pluto are no longer tightly square,…
Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Dec. 31)
Greasy Neighbor: A 69-year-old woman living in the Honey Creek Senior Apartments filed a police report after someone in the complex refused to stop their odd and potentially dangerous behavior. The woman told officers the known suspect continuously sprinkles oil on the porch of the apartment complex, putting many of the fragile hips at the…
Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Dec. 31)
Greasy Neighbor: A 69-year-old woman living in the Honey Creek Senior Apartments filed a police report after someone in the complex refused to stop their odd and potentially dangerous behavior. The woman told officers the known suspect continuously sprinkles oil on the porch of the apartment complex, putting many of the fragile hips at the…
Three questions for Gabriel Dumitrescu, baker at Our Daily Bread
If eating fresh is one of the many New Year’s resolutions you plan to keep, then a visit to Our Daily Bread is in order. The bakery, located in a small shopping strip off of Catawba Avenue in Cornelius, is manned by Romanian-native Gabriel Dumitrescu. Though he opened the shop at Lake Norman four years…
A Gaston County group keeps tradition alive by busting their muskets
In last week’s issue, we told stories of some different objects (both inanimate and living) that are dropped from poles in small towns around North Carolina to countdown the last seconds into the new year. This week, Creative Loafing caught up with some folks residing a little closer to the Queen City who would rather…
Not your traditional holiday love story
Have you ever been in a relationship that you feel has run its course? I recently found myself in that situation. Typically you cannot identify what moment or thing that made you realize it’s time to call it quits, but in this case I could, and it was Donald Trump. Now I know what you…
A new holiday tradition
On the day before Christmas Eve, my husband and I drove nearly an hour in the rain to a butcher in Waxhaw in order to pick up a 60-pound pig I had ordered several weeks before. We brought it home and placed it, belly-up, on top of our kitchen counter where we proceeded to inject…
