Jan 7-13, 2015

Jan 7-13, 2015 / Vol. 28 / No. 46

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Dan Clodfelter: The Gentleman’s Radical

For three days in September 2012, the basketball arena on East Trade Street was the most important building in the U.S. As drone strikes killed terrorists in Somalia and Syria’s civil war raged through an ancient city, America’s oldest political party was in Charlotte to re-nominate the nation’s first black president. Brought to the Queen…

Michael A. Cooper Jr.

The night they missed

The truth is that when the bullet whizzed probably millimeters by my left ear, I had no idea that someone had just taken a shot at me. I’m a city boy, born in Philadelphia. My parents moved down to Charlotte when I was young. Guns (or the sound of one barely missing blowing my head…

Jerry Klein

Selma: The march of time

SELMA***1/2DIRECTED BY Ava DuVernaySTARS David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson There were better movies released during 2014 than Selma — though all could be counted on just one hand with the thumb neatly tucked underneath — but were there any that were more topical, more important, more monumental? That’s up for debate and open to discussion; still,…

Matt Brunson

Inherent Vice provides a contact high

INHERENT VICE***DIRECTED BY Paul Thomas AndersonSTARS Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s sprawling 2009 novel, Inherent Vice locates a mystery worthy of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe and basically sends in Cheech and Chong to crack the case. Joaquin Phoenix, an actor who often leaves me cold, does…

Matt Brunson

2015 Annual Horoscope Part II

For All Signs: The ongoing tense relationship between Uranus, planet of the people and Pluto, planet of mega-powers, represents the dramatic changes and shifts in our relationship to governments, economics, politics and the countries of the world. It remains a backdrop to everything else that is happening as we go about our personal lives. We…

Vivian Carol

Something blue

I’m driving in circles around the park just past dusk. It’s dark outside, but I can make out the familiar figure in the distance. He is waiting, and he is waiting for me. It’s cold tonight. If I open my car door, perhaps the bitter air will cripple me or jolt me back to my…

Abby White

The top albums of 2014

It’s never easy to whittle down a year’s worth of music to a list of just 10 albums. Oftentimes, writers will try to expand their lists, declare ties or just not put them in order. Then there’s the fact that no two people will listen to exactly the same stacks of records, so rarely is…

Friendship Trays is expanding

Just outside the gentrified area of South End, a nondescript brick warehouse on Distribution Street hides a whirlwind of activity. Inside the offices of Friendship Trays, bright lights glint off a row of grocery-store style coolers. Instead of soft drinks or pizzas, however, these glass doors reveal neat stacks of plastic-sealed trays filled with nutritionally…

Alison Leininger

Get fit: Hit up a Charlotte brewery

It’s the New Year, when most of us gluttons express remorse over the gorging we’ve been doing since Thanksgiving, and make resolutions to become a little less round. Many diet gurus won’t be promoting craft beer as weight-loss tools, but that doesn’t mean you should eschew your friendly local brewery for a sweat-smelling gym. That’s…

Jonathan Wells

Women’s Showcase gives female choreographers chance to shine

Think of modern dance and its forbear, traditional ballet, and chances are you picture a woman in a leotard, limbs stretched, gliding effortlessly through the air. Women do make up the majority of professional dancers. Still, a lopsided picture emerges when one looks at the choreographers, artistic directors and celebrated enfants terribles of the dance…

Emiene Wright

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