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Millennial Candidates Aim to Take This Year’s City Council Election by Storm
It’s hard to get a grasp on the facts when it comes to politics these days, but one thing’s for certain: the youth are getting restless. Whether violently shaken from apathy by the election of President Donald Trump and his administration’s enactment of ridiculous policies, stirred by the stubborn refusal of the North Carolina legislature…
Abby Corrigan Comes Home with ‘Fun Home’
There’s an unforgettably wanton, lascivious and joyful song nearly halfway through Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning musical that rolls into town next week, in which Charlotte native Abby Corrigan’s character flips the script on her own life, and it’s in this moment that Corrigan’s talent shines brightest. Based on cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel,…
Dispatch serves up a stellar summer concert
Guster and Jake Shimabukuro open show at Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre.
Transformers: The Last Knight: Michael Bay’s latest bray
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT * (out of four) DIRECTED BY Michael Bay STARS Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins As a filmmaker, Michael Bay has never seemed particularly interested in coherency or linear thinking or anything else that carries an idea from Point A to Point B. With that in mind, here’s my own stream-of-consciousness look at…
Rain Can’t Stop the Vogue
Tear-away swim trunks, nonstop voguing and a little bit of rain. Those were the highlights of my Sunday a couple weeks ago. Why, you may ask? I went to this year’s first Takeover Friday’s LGBTQ and Ally Pool Party hosted by Craft City Social Club. For those of you in the Q.C. who don’t know,…
John Wick: Chapter 2, The Lawnmower Man, Life among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray, DVD and Streaming. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (1970). Following the highly controversial, highly influential, and extremely violent 1969 hit The Wild Bunch, director Sam Peckinpah opted for a change of pace with The Ballad…
Taking Control of A Reputation
I think it’s time we talked about “the M word.” Being born in 1986, I have been familiar with my label as a millennial for close to 15 years now. As a term that simply defines a group of people born between the early 1980s and mid-’90s, it doesn’t really mean much of anything, and…
The Rebirth of Shalini
No matter where she goes, Shalini keeps ending up back in North Carolina. Today, she’s sitting at a booth at Tip-Top Daily Market on the Plaza in a black dress, sunglasses and a floppy hat, talking about her new Charlotte-based power-pop band, Party Battleship. The group released its first full-length album, Cake + Flames, in…
Legion Brewing Brings Art Into the Taproom
An art curator walks into a bar. This isn’t the start of a dad joke, it’s how the exhibition Through the Retrospective Lens, which showcases the work of three Charlotte-based female photographers, found a home at Legion Brewing Company in Plaza Midwood. The show, which starts June 21st, is the first in a series of…
CL’s Resident Vegan Writer Dishes Out Suggestions on Finding Compromise
If you live in Charlotte, chances are you fall into one of two categories: You’re an omnivore with vegan, vegetarian, or reducetarian friends, or you’re a vegan, vegetarian, or reducetarian with omnivore friends. Which means you (or your friends) are frequently asking the question, “Where can we all go to eat that’ll make everyone happy?”…
The Blotter: Father’s Day
Family Matters A woman in north Charlotte filed a missing person report for her 3-year-old son last week, although it’s unclear that the person who has the child has any idea he is now considered a kidnapper. The woman told police that the boy was with a man who for three years has been “led…
Weekly Horoscope (June 22-28)
For All Signs We arrived at the point of the summer solstice at 12:24 a.m. EDT today on June 21, 2017. This is the point of the year at which the northern hemisphere is tilted closest to the sun. This is also theoretically the longest day of the year. For centuries, pagans (country people) celebrated…
