Jan 17-23, 2018
Tiny Stage Concerts, Domestic Violence, Susan Brenner, Savory Spice Shop
Cover Story
Louis Beeler Documents Charlotte Songwriters in His Living Room Studio
The singer-songwriter cracks a few gallows jokes while tuning his guitar between songs on a tiny stage near the Northlake Mall. He’s in the middle of a set of intense tunes with titles like “Let the Burning Yell,” “The Funeral Blues” and “Sometimes It Falls Apart.” I ask if it’s OK to live-stream. “We should…
Women’s March Returns to the Streets
On January 20, the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, thousands of people took to the streets of Charlotte — joined by countless others across the country — to protest the president’s policies and stand up for women’s rights and other intersectional issues during the second annual Women’s March. #WomensMarch2018 in #CLT https://t.co/cnNss0gyEm —…
Listen Up: Rob Lind of The Sonics Tells ‘Local Vibes’ How His Band Invented Punk
Before heading to eastern Europe for a five-week tour, proto-punk and garage-rock pioneer Rob Lind of The Sonics came by the studio to talk about making music with his friends as a naive teen in the mid-’60s, with no idea of how iconic his band would become. Don’t forget to catch up on our past…
Bloody Business
I’m a professional dominatrix, and I thought I’d seen everything in the last five years. But this situation completely baffled the entire dungeon. This middle-aged guy, seemingly in fine health, booked an appointment with me and my colleague for one hour of some very light play and a golden shower to finish off with. We…
New Year, Same Me, New Bar
It’s the worst time of the year for us Queen City nightlife rabble rousers. Panthers season is officially over, meaning no more Sunday Funday Game Days for us. Hell, we might even walk into the office on Monday bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready to be productive. OK, let’s be honest, that’s not going to…
Call Me by Your Name: That’s Amore
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME ***1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Luca Guadagnino STARS Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer (Call Me by Your Name is one of the 10 Best Films of 2017. To see the complete 10 Best & 10 Worst article, click here.) Repeat performers appear to have been all the rage in 2017,…
Leading on Opportunity Council Names New Executive Director
It’s been a long road from an Indian orphanage to the Carolinas for Stephanie Kripa Cooper-Lewter, but now that she’s here, she’s ready to join the fight against economic immobility and help disadvantaged children like she once was. As a baby, Cooper-Lewter was left on the doorstep of Mother Teresa’s orphanage in India. Later, she…
VIDEO Louis Beeler Talks About Tiny Stage Concerts
Charlotte singer-songwriter talks about why he started a video series that documents local musicians.
Come to the dukkah side
Growing up, I remember thinking it rather odd that the spice traders of yesteryear would subject themselves to such danger and hardship in search of cooking supplies. But life experience, such as when I recently found myself trapped in a kitchen with a glut of tomato sauce and cauliflower, has helped me to understand. It…
The Blotter: Lottery Strike
Winner Winner Police responded to a call from the manager of a Circle K on The Plaza after they recently found that one of their employees had gotten lucky … too lucky. The manager told police they had watched surveillance video from the suspect’s shift in which the employee took lottery tickets from the drawer…
Susan Brenner Examines Upheaval While Celebrating Trees
Crisis. It’s on everybody’s minds these days. It’s certainly on Susan Brenner’s mind. She’s a painter and retired UNC Charlotte art professor whose new exhibit, The State of Things, grapples with society as it lurches to the brink. “I want to talk about our tendency towards chaos,” Brenner says of the show, which opens January…
Craig Bove Composes Psychological Narratives
The first thing Craig Bove asks his students when they show him something they’ve written is, “What is it?'” “I make them define it,” says Bove, who’s taught music theory, music history and composition at Central Piedmont Community College since 1998. Bove is a performer and composer of “new music,” contemporary compositions that challenge audiences…
Alison Leininger of Savory Spice Shop Breaks Down the Flavor
So you’re looking to cook up our dukkah recipe from this week’s food feature by Ari LeVaux, but you need to go shopping for the ingredients. We have you covered — at least in terms of getting the freshest flavors. Savory Spice Shop at Atherton Mill in South End has been the go-to spot for…
We Can No Longer Hide Behind Illusions of Domestic Bliss
When I began my journalism career as a police reporter in Burlington in the early 1980s, I was extraordinarily naive. Each morning I’d go to the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office and Burlington Police Department to collect arrest reports from the previous day. And each morning I’d see the same warrants over and over: assault on…
