Jun 12-18, 2013

Jun 12-18, 2013 / Vol. 27 / No. 16

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Artists in residence

Forget the corny mantra about home being “where the heart is.” Home is where you get to kick off your sneakers and bury your hot, smelly toes into a cool, plush carpet after a long day at work. It’s where most people feel comfortable undoing the top button of their pants after a filling dinner.…

Kimberly Lawson

David Byrne & St. Vincent at Belk Theater tonight (6/18/13)

DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENTIn the years since the dissolution of the Talking Heads, David Byrne has been a prolific collaborator, cashing in on his well-deserved respect by pairing up with the likes of everyone from Brian Eno to Sharon Jones to Fatboy Slim. His 2012 release with St. Vincent, Love This Giant, was one…

Rachel Bailey

Book reviews: Beautiful Ruins, Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Beautiful Ruinsby Jess Walter(Harper Perennial, 368 pages, $15.99) During the time of the filming of Cleopatra in Italy in 1962, a beautiful, mysterious American actress named Dee Moray arrives in a boat at Porto Vergogna, a tiny fishing village huddled in the cracks of massive rock formations on the Italian Riviera. Pasquale, a sensitive young…

John Grooms

3 questions with Hannah Carr, Fern’s pastry chef

Usually the decisions we make are small, like choosing Daft Punk over deadmau5 (obviously the right choice), or agonizing between stuffed French toast and eggs Benedict at brunch. Hannah Carr made a decision a couple of years ago that turned out to be pretty important. After toiling at a Tennessee university as a political science…

Scott Greenberg

The rise of the pop-up dinner

I had been chasing the white rabbit, an elusive caravan of dinner gatherings that I happened upon in my Facebook feed, for a few months. Every so often, photographs of mysterious dinners surfaced, filled with beautiful, eclectic and fashionably inked attendees. The only information I could glean came from a curious crest bearing a rabbit…

Keia Mastrianni

Today’s Top 5: Saturday

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, June 15, 2013 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing. * Brew Stash Bash at U.S. National Whitewater Center * Grizzly Bear at Uptown Amphitheater * 2013 Connolly Cup at Elon Park * Charlotte Speed Demons at Metrolina Tradeshow…

Anita Overcash

Bizarre crimes from Charlotte’s police files (June 13)

Touchy, Touchy: A woman came into the police department last week trying to file a police report against her husband for damaging her property. The woman told police that her husband continuously stuck his hands down his pants, both in the front and back, and then would touch her furniture and everything else around the…

Ryan Pitkin

Man of Steel: It’s a bore! It’s a pain! It’s Stuporman!

MAN OF STEEL *1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Zack Snyder STARS Henry Cavill, Amy Adams Who could possibly have imagined that Man of Steel, the latest attempt to reboot the Superman franchise, would be an even less satisfying superhero saga than such critically dismissed efforts as Daredevil, Green Lantern and (yikes!) The Green Hornet?…

Matt Brunson

Before Midnight: Wonderful any time of the day

BEFORE MIDNIGHT ***1/2 DIRECTED BY Richard Linklater STARS Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy Director Richard Linklater’s life-affirming Before trilogy is the Lord of the Rings of the art-house experience, the Toy Story of the American indie movement (I say American because we can’t exclude Krzysztof Kieslowski’s wonderful Three Colors trilogy). In another way, it’s the fictional…

Matt Brunson

Charlotte Squawks is ruffling feathers

Oh, sensitive reader. Don’t be offended by the latest installment of Charlotte Squawks. Sure, it picks at the absurdities of our lovely city via parody, but it does so with humor — and who doesn’t like a good laugh? In its 9th year, this musical revue is brought to you by writer/lyricist/producer Brian Kahn and…

Anita Overcash

NYC ‘Ghetto’ tours dehumanize poor

You ever get the feeling that you are being watched? Well, depending on where you live, it could be more than just a feeling. A New York company had the “genius” idea to offer, of all things, a “ghetto tour.” Real Bronx Tours took tourists through a unique experience to see a real-live ghetto, up…

Charles Easley

Weekly horoscope (June 13-19)

Gemini The Twins (May 20-June 21): A cycle which has been with you for one year comes to a successful end. The positive results will continue through time. Financial resources are improving. This is a good time to study, speak or write because your thoughts are flowing rapidly. For All Signs: The ongoing tension between…

Vivian Carol

Beach House bucks modern trends

If you were seeking a poster-band primer on how to navigate the amorphous landscape of today’s music industry without losing your aesthetic way, you could do a lot worse than Baltimore’s Beach House. The duo of singer/keyboardist Victoria Legrand and multi-instrumentalist Alex Scally released its eponymous debut in 2006, and its fourth and best-selling full-length,…

John Schacht

Psychopathic Indians and killer clowns

On June 14, when Anybody Killa plays Tremont Music Hall, the venue will likely fill with fans in demented clown paint – yes, Juggalos – excited to see a Psychopathic Records fixture play Charlotte. The Detroit rapper was born James Lowery to Lumbee parents – legit native North Carolinians – and draws on a strong…

Corbie Hill

Video Game Preview: The toys of summer

For fans of big-budget summer blockbusters like Star Trek Into Darkness and Man of Steel, this is the absolute best time of year, but for hardcore gamers, the summer months are a sweltering wasteland as most studios and publishers hold their big releases for the holiday shopping season. This fall, we’ll see anticipated titles like…

Adam Frazier

Wesley Mancini leaves gay advocacy to next generation

Veteran textile designer Wesley Mancini began to see the world differently when he turned 60 this past Christmas Day. He says his time here seems more finite now. The self-professed ruminator wonders if he’s done enough as we chat in his South End studio surrounded by creations from his 30-plus-year career and projects still in…

Joanne Spataro

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