Lust List 2018
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Lust List 2018
We’ve brought back an old, sexy staple of ours: the annual Lust List. We asked you beautiful readers on social media and took your suggestions to heart before choosing a dozen of the hottest Charlotteans in six different fields. But we’re not here to objectify folks. We reached out to each Lust Listee to discuss…
Mad Monster Party: Claws and Effect
It’s lucky number seven for the Carolinas’ legion of horror, sci-fi and fantasy aficionados, as the Mad Monster Party is returning to Charlotte this weekend for its seventh shindig. Co-created by Eben McGarr and Joe Moe, the annual event has become a local mainstay since 2012, offering film buffs the opportunity to meet celebrities, shop…
George Clinton’s still funking things up
The Godfather of Funk still going strong at 76 years old.
Fifty Shades Freed: The final blow
FIFTY SHADES FREED *1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY James Foley STARS Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan The third and final movie based on the international bestselling series by E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed is the best film in the trilogy that began with 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey and continued with 2017’s Fifty Shades Darker.…
The Blotter: Swamp Thing
Nature Walk A man tried to leave the scene after a recent car accident on Rea Road in south Charlotte, only to decide that returning to face the consequences was a better move than dealing with the great unknown. According to the report, police responded to a hit-and-run call in which the suspect hit two…
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Suburbicon, The Way West 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.) ANGIE (1994). Geena Davis delivers a sensational performance in this vibrant seriocomedy that unfortunately (if predictably) turned out to be a sizable box office bomb. Adapted from Avra Wing’s novel Angie, I…
Listen Up: Hope Nicholls Retraces Her Steps on ‘Local Vibes’
Ryan wanted to be in her family, Mark just wanted to be in her band. Only one of them succeeded. The guys spoke with CLT legend Hope Nicholls about her journey from Fetchin’ Bones to Sugarsmack to Snagglepuss to It’s Snakes and all the craziness — good and bad — that came in between. We…
News of the Weird: Paint It Black
News That Sounds Like a Joke In Turkmenistan’s capital, Ashgabat, drivers of black cars are facing high costs to repaint their cars white or silver after President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov banned black vehicles because he thinks the color white brings good luck. Police began seizing dark-colored vehicles in late December, and owners have to apply for…
Salome’s Stars
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Stop being the wool-gathering Lamb, and start turning that dream project into reality. You have the ideas, the drive and the charisma to persuade others to follow your lead. So do it. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) You’ve scored some big successes. But remember that all hardworking Ferdinands…
Charlotteans Come Together to Fight Mass Incarceration
Imagine being sentenced to four years in prison just for stealing clamps. It’s a case that will stick with Toussaint Romain for years to come, and has only gone to further his belief that, as he told me during a recent chat, “There is no justice in the criminal justice system.” Romain, a public defender…
Whither Sex, Romance, Gender I.D. and Body Image?
“My calling is to empower people to radically and unapologetically express themselves, and to push people to rethink their ideas surrounding gender and sexuality.” — Jack Dahlia. Yes, folks, Lust List is back, and it carries more weight today than ever before. About a decade ago, CL introduced its anti-Valentine’s Day Lust List issue as…
Hardcore Lounge’s House Party has Become a Valentine’s Tradition
The annual February throwdown didn’t start out as a Valentine’s Day party. “I just decided to have a house party that weekend,” Chris Johnson says of the casual get-together he and his brother Wes started more than a quarter-century ago. The Johnson Valentine Bash has since become a rousing success beyond the brothers’ wildest dreams.…
Charlotte Resident Leaves the ER to Write Medical Fiction
Kimmery Martin will always remember the time during her general surgery internship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte when she was doing her rounds in the trauma intensive care unit and realized that each patient in the unit was an adolescent male who had suffered through a car crash. “There was a whole row of…
Family Business Forced To Shut Down After a Half Century on Kings Drive
Driving by, it’s easy to miss the little white deli on South Kings Drive. The nondescript building doesn’t stand out compared to the city’s skyline or the towering buildings of the Carolinas Medical Center campus across the street. However, if you’ve ever stopped to take a look inside, you know that this little white building…
Operatic Abuse in ‘Rigoletto’ Confronts the #MeToo Generation
Poor Gilda. In Giuseppe Verdi’s masterful Rigoletto, the teenager is so jealously guarded by her overprotective father that, except for churchgoing, she is totally isolated from the outside world. The evil Duke of Mantua, who poaches on other men’s wives, has noticed Gilda at Mass, finds out where she lives, and poses as an impoverished…
Bakalao Stars Are the Last Band Standing Among Charlotte’s Original Wave of Rock en Español
When Bakalao Stars release their fourth full-length album this August, founding member Christian Anzola will be celebrating 16 years of making rock en Español with his pioneering reggae-based outfit. That’s more than half his life. Anzola was just 15 when he and older brother Javier formed the group. Bakalao Stars, which performs at the Evening…
Some Ideas To Heat Things Up for V-Day in CLT
I’d completely forgotten about Valentine’s Day until I came across my first meme of the year: Valentine’s Day approaching! What y’all gettin’? The response: A snap from team Snapchat. Yep, it’s that time of year again. Bring on the memes from the bitter single folk and those obsessed with their significant others. Thankfully, I’ve got…
