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Lara Americo’s Chrysalis is an in-your-body experience
There was one brief moment in which Jordan Hoban began to panic, when he felt the wet alginate slowly dripping down his face and eventually clogging his nostrils. The rapidly drying, rubbery mold material already covered his mouth, so the nostrils were all he had left. Right on cue, artist Lara Americo and her partner…
Hidden Figures: The Final Frontier
HIDDEN FIGURES *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Theodore Melfi STARS Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer (For a look at the Best & Worst Films of 2016, go here). While the white men at NASA were busy figuring out the challenges of managing outer space, there were a few black women assisting them with that…
A Monster Calls: Answer if you like
A MONSTER CALLS **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY J.A. Bayona STARS Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson (For a look at the Best & Worst Films of 2016, go here). Superior to The BFG but inferior to Pete’s Dragon, A Monster Calls is the latest release to detail the relationship between a young child and a…
Last Night at the Double Door Inn: One Less Worthy Spot for Derrick Worthy’s Delicious Dogs
Creative Loafing is celebrating the Last Night at the Double Door Inn all week this week with clips of folks who attended the final night bash on Monday. Derrick Worthy is a different kind of Double Door regular. He’s been selling hot dogs outside the blues club — which closed its doors Monday after 43…
Jerry Maguire, Porky’s sequels, Stardust Memories among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954). Hollywood has seen better directors than Joseph L. Mankiewicz, but it’s arguable whether it’s ever seen better writers. His Oscar-winning script for All About Eve is just one of…
Last Night at the Double Door Inn: Jackie’s Been a Regular Since the Early ’80s
Creative Loafing is celebrating the Last Night at the Double Door Inn all week this week with clips of folks who attended the final night bash on Monday. We caught up with Jackie, a Double Door regular since the early 1980s, in the pool room area at back with a group of friends. “At one…
CORRECTION: New crossword puzzle for Jan. 5 issue
We have failed you, puzzlers. Accept our repentance.
The Year 2017
Aries Mars, the god of war and your avatar in the zodiac, begins this year in the laidback sign of Pisces. The pace is slow until it moves into your personal sign on Jan. 28. At that point you will sense a new surge of power and self-confidence. You will have a strong urge to…
New Year’s Eve celebrations brought back some of my fave memories
The year 2017 is finally upon us, Queen City. Is it just me or did 2016 fly by? Then again, I guess it feels like that every year. And just like every other year, preparing for New Year’s Eve celebrations brought back some of my most hilarious memories made in the city. The first being…
Third time’s the charm
This editor’s note is not going to fall into frothy nostalgia. We don’t have time for that in this city and state in 2017. There’s too much reporting to be done on Charlotte’s police and city government, on the wacky political shenanigans that pop up like that annoying critter in Caddyshack, on crime and poverty…
As Charlotte institutions fell by the wayside in 2016, Open Kitchen remains… well, open
Longtime Charlotteans are in collective mourning over the closings of so many QC institutions. In the past year alone, the doors shut at Tommy’s Pub in Plaza-Midwood, the Double Door Inn in Elizabeth and Amos’ Southend will soon follow suit. But one modest establishment that predates all of them, and likely will outlive more recent…
After 43 years, the Double Door Inn threw down for one final jam session
The folks at Double Door Inn closed those namesake gateways for the last time Monday night after one more show from the Monday Night Allstars, who have been performing there on Mondays for decades. Last night’s farewell party was sold out, yet many long-time attendees braved the rain for a chance to gain entry as…
Local rapper Erick Lottary released his first new material in two years on New Year’s Eve
Erick Lottary’s new EP Hold Please was a buzzer beater of a release, dropping on the last day of 2016 and ending a two-year drought during which the Charlotte-based rapper hadn’t even released a single. Lottary’s new-and-improved style has people drawing comparisons to another rapper from his hometown of Fayetteville, as his trap music style…
A recent surge in violent crime has Plaza Midwood residents asking what can be done
For Bruce and Joanne Parker, Dec. 17 had been a night out in Plaza Midwood with friends like many others the group had enjoyed in the past. They had left Legion Brewing and were walking to their car in the parking lot of Bistro La Bon, where they had eaten dinner earlier in the night,…
