Jun 3-9, 2015

Jun 3-9, 2015 / Vol. 29 / No. 15

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106.5 things you should know about 106.5 The End

For 20 years, WEND 106.5 The End has been putting new music on the Charlotte map. From in-studio performances with national acts to Divakar’s Sunday night local music showcase “90 Minutes”; from the annual Weenie Roast to the Not-So-Acoustic Christmas events, WEND has been an outlet for music of all kinds. Other area stations have…

Jeff Hahne

First Drip (6/8/15): Cowfish reopens after closing for illness

Popular SouthPark restaurant Cowfish Burger Sushi Bar closed temporarily this weekend after several employees reportedly came down with flu-like symptoms. The eatery was closed on Saturday but is now opened after consulting with the Mecklenburg County Health Department and giving the building a thorough cleaning and sanitizing.  Hasan Harnett of Harrisburg has been named the…

Ryan Pitkin

Spy: Agent for change

SPY ***1/2 DIRECTED BY Paul Feig STARS Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham Here’s the extraordinary thing about Spy, the latest comedy from director and hitmaker Paul Feig: It somehow manages to feel like both a star vehicle and an ensemble piece even though those classifications generally belong on opposite ends of the spectrum. At its center…

Matt Brunson

Lose this Entourage

ENTOURAGE *1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Doug Ellin STARS Jeremy Piven, Adrian Grenier There’s always a perverse pleasure to be gained when a character in a fictional movie writes a book, or sings a song, or delivers a performance, and while everyone else on screen is declaring its brilliance, we in the audience, treated…

Matt Brunson

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (June 4)

Digging A Hole: A woman in southeast Charlotte threw a fit that will cost her after throwing a man out of her apartment. The woman would not let the man or a police officer back into the apartment to receive the man’s keys. She then attempted to leave the scene but was pulled over and…

Ryan Pitkin

Weekly horoscope (June 4-10)

For All Signs: Saturn will be retrograding back to Scorpio for the summer after a five month spring trial in Sagittarius. Saturn will remain in the last degrees of Scorpio until it moves forward into a two year transit through Sagittarius. This planet is the taskmaster, the judge, or the teacher. He was in Scorpio…

Vivian Carol

Room for rent

I recently posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a roommate. The prospect of having to share my charming Victorian house with a complete stranger was not something that particularly excited me, but my cash flow hadn’t exactly been… flowing lately, and in this state of ebbing cash, I had to find someone to rent…

Rachel Gladstone

Guitar exhibit at Discovery Place strums through time

Randy Rhoads inspired me when I was in sixth grade. I don’t even recall the brand or model of my first guitar, but I can remember it was bright red and shaped like a Fender Telecaster with its single cutaway body. I wanted to play “Crazy Train.” I took lessons for years, later buying a…

Jeff Hahne

A win for whistleblowers?

Animal and workers’ rights groups applauded Gov. Pat McCrory’s decision to veto House Bill 405, also known as the “Ag-Gag bill,” on Friday, but the relief may be short-lived, as a rewrite of the same bill looks to be all the Governor wants from legislators. In a statement from McCrory following the veto on Friday,…

Ryan Pitkin

Drive Free Or Die

The fight continues for Widen I77, a group of citizens who have been fighting the toll road project for more than two years and, despite the recent deal between the state and Spanish-owned firm Cintra, are still trying to put an end to the project. The state moved ahead with the contract despite the passing…

Ryan Pitkin

Pho Cali is a cultural exchange

California has given us more than In-N-Out Burger and the farm-to-fork movement of Alice Waters’ 44-year-old Chez Panisse (if you thought farm-to-fork is new, it is not): this state has also effectively put a spin on a variety of ethnic cuisines from Chinese to Mexican. Since California is a gateway from Asia into the U.S.,…

Tricia Childress

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