Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2014

Feb 26 - Mar 4, 2014 / Vol. 28 / No. 1

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CIAA 2014 Checklist: The best events

When tackling a big project, it’s always important to have a plan in place. That’s why this year, for our annual CIAA guide, we offer you a thorough checklist to make sure you don’t miss out on anything. Since this may be the last year the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association hosts the annual basketball tournament…

Kimberly Lawson

Can I have your baby?

I’m open to new opportunities, and I tend to believe that things happen for a reason. This is how I found myself sitting at an O’Charley’s in rural Indiana, asking a teenage girl to give me her baby. My husband and I weren’t actively — or even passively — seeking to adopt, even though we…

Nancy Floyd

Exploring the Caribbean with @dbirdy

Well, we all knew this day would come. It’s time for this gal to get back on the road and, in true Wayfaring Tech Nomad form, y’all are coming with! I’ll be posting stories with photography, 3D panoramas, sounds, videos, and more from some of the most epic places in the Caribbean! Places to look…

Desiree Kane

Theater review: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

As the yearly Oscar hullabaloo sets slowly in the West, Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark is lingering at Actor’s Theatre to remind us — notwithstanding the Academy’s 12 Years a Slave atonement — of the corrupting, dehumanizing effects of Hollywood. It’s a tricky script, with a gallery of outsized characters and egos…

Perry Tannenbaum

My childhood encounter with Steve Winwood

When I was a child, I use to think rockstars were mythical. Like the heroes who performed brave acts in Norse legends or Ted Nugent’s noble and unselfish behavior in the Armed Forces. OK, that was mythical. I didn’t know my rock heroes actually existed. And, if they were on the same plane I was,…

Peter Gerstenzang

Bizarre crimes from Charlotte police files (Feb. 27)

True Detective: A woman called police last week when she concluded, after an informal investigation, that the law firm where she works had been broken into. She told officers she was the first one at the office and when she walked in she noticed that the door was unlocked. After searching the office, she realized…

Ryan Pitkin

Non-Stop: First in flight

NON-STOP *** DIRECTED BY Jaume Collet-Serra STARS Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore While most moviegoers might now find it impossible to imagine anyone other than Daniel Day-Lewis portraying Honest Abe in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, the first choice for the role was actually Liam Neeson. The Schindler’s List star had spent countless hours over the years researching…

Matt Brunson

The Wind Rises: Jiro dreams of aviation

THE WIND RISES *** DIRECTED BY Hayao Miyazaki STARS Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt When Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, The Wind Rises, opened in Japan last July, the writer-director was blasted by many of his fellow countrymen as being “anti-Japanese” and “a traitor.” Then in January, at the annual awards meeting of the Boston Film Critics…

Matt Brunson

CD review: Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Small Town Heroes

From the opening moments of Small Town Heroes, the latest collection from the New Orleans-based Hurray for the Riff Raff, it is a little too easy to dismiss Alynda Lee Segarra, the group’s primary creative force and sometimes sole member, as a songwriter. The first song, “Blue Ridge Mountain,” glides by on an effortless old-timey…

Kyle Petersen

CD Review: Time Sawyer’s Disguise the Limits

The “Sawyer” in Time Sawyer’s name harkens to the rustic, rocking alt-folk outfit’s origins in the bluegrass-haunted Yadkin Valley. “Time” nods to all music’s tether to the metronome, and the notion that memories can turn so tangible that they seem present. Disguise the Limits examines how self-image can misdirect and blindside our lives. The LP’s…

Pat Moran

‘Tis the (beer) season

Another round of #snOMG notwithstanding, the weather is definitely warming here in the Queen City, and people are longing to get outside again. For many, this means baseball games, sunbathing or long walks, but for the beer world, it means that festival season is back. Along with the annual favorites, there seem to be countless…

Cam Heiliger

Lake Street Dive breaks big and Bad

Just before releasing its latest set of swinging soul gems, Bad Self Portraits, earlier this month, Lake Street Dive scored an impressive trifecta. European audiences embraced the combo enthusiastically on its first overseas tour. LSD stole the spotlight from heavy hitters like Patti Smith and Joan Baez at Another Day, Another Time, a live New…

Pat Moran

A civil debate on GMOs

In case you missed it, there has been an interesting discussion about genetically modified food over at Grist.org. It began with a series of posts by Nathanael Johnson, in which he dissected, in impressively neutral and skeptical fashion, most of the arguments for or against GM food that you’ve ever heard. Johnson’s posts managed to…

Ari LeVaux

Oscar’s Hollywood shuffle

(See details about our Oscar contest at the bottom of this story.) Forget heads or tails: In this year’s Oscar race, choosing a winner seems like a choice between head and heart. Sunday, March 2, is when the 86th Annual Academy Awards ceremony takes place, and whereas the vast majority of prognosticators have in the…

Matt Brunson

CIAA 2014: The basketball

We’ve all had to nod and smile politely when someone drags you down a wormhole on a subject you know nothing about. In the off-chance you run into someone who actually came to CI for the basketball, this should help you play along: MEN’S Headliner: About that … With no clear-cut favorite, we’d roll with…

Mike McCray

CIAA 2014: The must-see DJs

We don’t need to tell you how important the DJ is for a good time. Here are some of the best scheduled in the booth this week. DJ YASMIN YOUNG Day Job: Co-host on Power 98’s Nolimit Larry and the Morning Maddhouse Formerly Known As: DJ Storm, when she lived in Florida. Cool Points because:…

CIAA 2014: The Playlist

Keep it real — age and income are what really dictate your CI experience. But the music blaring wherever you are is a solid indicator of how your night is shaping up. Here are six songs to have in rotation for however your CI nights turn out. • “Drunk In Love” remixes: Everyone from Kanye…

Mike McCray

How to audition your creative team

Fifty years after your special day, there’s probably very little you’re going to remember about your wedding that wasn’t captured by a photographer or videographer — unless, in your old age, you turn out to have a freakishly amazing memory. That’s why the person you choose to document your day is so important. We’ve compiled…

Kimberly Lawson

Build-a-bond

It’s not easy to come up with personalized vows, so we thought we’d help you out. Simply plug in the appropriate part of speech into the blank space and create your own custom vows in a matter of minutes. 1. Your Name: ____________________ 2. Partner’s Name: ________________ 3. Adjective: _____________________ 4. Spouse Title: ___________________ 5.…

Weekly horoscope (Feb. 27-March 5)

For All Signs: This week there are three planets changing directions. Mercury will be direct on Feb. 28, after which it pulls back into its normal orbital pattern. On March 1, the planet Mars shifts into reverse after a long, slow deceleration. Aries, Libras and Scorpios are called to the past. Then on March 2,…

Vivian Carol

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