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Best of The Blotter 2016
There is a reason the show Cops has been allowed to continue banging out seasons for nearly 28 years now. Sure, at first, before the days of reality TV, it was engrossing. But as the years went by, the show became predictable, a chase here and there but mostly just domestic violence cases and folks…
Live review: 95.1 Kissmas 2016, Spectrum Center (12/13/2016)
Pop stars cruise through short sets for annual concert.
Lunch Break (12/14/16): Teenager dead after SWAT raid in northwest Charlotte, family disputes CMPD version of events
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Lunch Break (12/12/16): Vi Lyles announces consideration of mayoral campaign; stabbing death in south Charlotte
The weekend already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Today’s Top 5: Sunday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
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.
Office Christmas Party: Kate Is Enough
OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY ** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Josh Gordon & Will Speck STARS Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn Kate McKinnon, who just this year won an Emmy Award for her role-playing on Saturday Night Live, was the breakout star of this summer’s Ghostbusters remake, but her subsequent roles are proving that filmmakers aren’t quite…
Nocturnal Animals: Built Ford Tough
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Tom Ford STARS Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal Tom Ford, the fabulously successful fashion designer who made a name for himself at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent before launching his own label, first tried his hand at filmmaking with 2009’s A Single Man, an art-house effort for which…
Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
VIDEO: House of Cards creator hosts “We’re Listening” event
A top Hollywood screenwriter and nearly 200 Charlotte-area residents convened at the Neighborhood Theatre Wednesday night to talk about concrete ways each local citizen can get involved in making the city a better, more inclusive place to live. The event, “We’re Listening: A Community Discussion to Activate Causes We Care About,” was one of a…
Muuy Biien’s Age of Uncertainty
Age of Uncertainty is the third album from Athens, GA band Muuy Biien. It was recorded by David Barbe, a producer, sound twister and legend among indie rockers. The dozen songs are a potent mix of punk, krautrock, post-punk and bluesy darkwave. In the opening track “Moral Compass” the band and singer Joshua Evans weave…
Weekly horoscope (Dec. 15-21)
For All Signs: Venus, ancient goddess of love, luxury, beauty and money, continues to fall into one pit or another this fall. At this time she is in a challenging mix with Saturn and Pluto. These two planets are not the best of companions. One demands work and effort, while the other creates dramas and…
Deep 6 Division duo releases bruising debut album
It was in the early morning hours of a recording session at Mike Astrea’s house in Plaza Midwood one night last winter that he and Rapper Shane watched a man and woman argue in the streets about how much the man was obligated to pay for the woman’s abortion. The fight almost came to blows…
What happened to coming together?
After the election ended, which took a little longer for us here in North Carolina, calls went out to “come together,” to put aside our differences and give Trump a chance (or unite against him). We were told that together we’re a powerful force, that we can change the world. Huzzah! Did that spirit of…
Bonjour, La Madeleine
On Monday morning, folks gathered in the parking lot of La Madeleine Country French Café in anticipation for the chain’s grand opening in Charlotte and … for bread. The restaurant gave cards out with monthly slots for free bread for a year to the first 100 people to walk through its doors. “Rompre le pain,”…
The Greens of Winter Markets
Ten years ago, winter was still a time of deprivation for those who aspired to follow a local, seasonal diet. With the passing of each summer, the farmers markets would shutter, and the range of produce would dwindle from plethora of plant parts to a precious few, mostly roots with dirt ground into their skins.…
12 Days of Theater
It’s the time of year when most of us start to get a little crazy. Our savage, cosumerism instincts have kicked in and we’re in dire need of downtime. Let this list serve as your reminder: don’t forget to take the time to kick back and relax as the holiday’s approach. And what better way…
