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5 places to squeeze in your daily requirement of fruits and veggies
There are more juice bars in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area than ever, and Creative Loafing samples a handful of the best ones.
Silence: Faith No More
SILENCE *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Martin Scorsese STARS Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver (For a look at the Best & Worst Films of 2016, go here). Beginning with his first picture, 1967’s Who’s That Knocking at My Door, Martin Scorsese has often employed cinema as a reflection on his own experiences and beliefs regarding…
Live by Night: Ben there, done that
LIVE BY NIGHT **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Ben Affleck STARS Ben Affleck, Zoe Saldana (For a look at the Best & Worst Films of 2016, go here). “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” That classic line is uttered by Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in 1990’s The…
CL catches Travis Phillips of Charlotte’s Modern Primitives in the act of imitating Yoda
Creative Loafing stumbled into Charlotte grit-rockers Modern Primitives — drummer Phillip Gripper, bassist Tim Nhu and front man Travis Phillips — on the back patio at Common Market in Plaza Midwood Thursday night. The guys were in mid-PBR consumption when we caught Phillips in the act of imitating Yoda from the Youtube clip “SEAGULLS! (Stop…
New Black Sheep and Nike SB collabo goes quick in nationwide release
“Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” spotted for short time, disappears into the mist
You won’t see Vic the Chili Man in Uptown this winter, but he’s staying busy
If you’ve walked by the corner of 4th and Tryon streets in Uptown during any season but winter, you’ve at least heard Victor Werany’s voice, and chances are, you’ve had a conversation with him. Werany, better known as Vic the Chili Man, has been peddling his dogs there coming up on 13 years. His customers…
A New Lens
Perspectives. We all have at least one of them. There was a time when I would have scoffed at the “big” snowstorm this past weekend. After moving back to Charlotte in 2002, having spent many years away in New York City, I would mindlessly jeer at all the trumpeting of the first winter storms here:…
Hungry Girl ready to party for upcoming EP release
When I received an email describing Charlotte band Hungry Girl’s new EP Cool Shots as “the kind of music that inspires you to bust out your sleeveless Van Halen t-shirt and American flag bandana from the back of the dresser, as you dream of surfing the hood of a cherry red Ferrari Daytona that’s driving…
Charlotte School of Law is not doing itself any favors
Charlotte’s only law school appears to be tanking, and it could take its students down with it. The American Bar Association’s November decision to put the Charlotte School of Law on probation for two years followed a two-year investigation and multiple warnings that the school did not disclose to students until November when it lost…
The Blotter: Escalation
That Escalated Quickly Police responded to a call at a 7-Eleven in north Charlotte last week about larceny, but soon realized that they would be adding all sorts of new charges. Officers responded to a larceny call and were originally told that a female suspect had been caught trying to steal from the store. When…
Was the first big snow all it was hyped up to be?
The “big” snowstorm of 2017. For some, it was a whimper. For others, it was hell. Creative Loafing took to the streets of Plaza Midwood, Noda, and spaces in between earlier this week to talk with Charlotteans about how they spent the year’s first snow. “It was pretty bad,” said Carl Hall. He was hanging…
New art installation will confront Catawba River coal ash issue
A critic visiting North Carolina native Greg Lindquist’s New York art studio recently referred to the colors mixing on his palette as having a “curdling sweetness,” and the same could be said for his recent works. The colors in Lindquist’s recent Smoke and Water series swirl on their respective canvasses like oil in vinegar giving…
How to make the best of an over-hyped snowstorm
It’s 7 o’clock on the dot. I’m on the light rail cruisin’ the streets [hums the tune of Usher’s “Nice and Slow”]. Seriously though, Monday morning at 7 a.m. I was riding the blue line into Uptown and the sun was just starting to rise over the QC. It would’ve been a beautiful picture but…
Charlotte music collective ‘Hip Hop Orchestrated’ obliterates boundaries
Octavia Moore was in fifth grade when she had her first major musical epiphany. Her class had taken a field trip to see the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, and the preteen’s mind was forever blown. “When I felt that wall of sound vibrating through my body and the beautiful melodies coming together, it really made a…
