Mar 11-17, 2015

Mar 11-17, 2015 / Vol. 29 / No. 3

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Is there such a thing as ‘too much’ craft beer?

You might think me mad, but I purposefully set out to get stuck in rush hour traffic, an exercise in article inspiration. While the finer points of toll lanes on I-77 are discussed elsewhere, I was quite literally stuck in the present-day land of “too many cars.” As I absently stared at brake lights ahead…

Jonathan Wells

Cinderella: It’s the Great Pumpkin

CINDERELLA***1/2DIRECTED BY Kenneth BranaghSTARS Cate Blanchett, Lily James Filmgoers need another fairy tale flick about as much as they need another Pirates of the Caribbean sequel (oops, too late), yet Cinderella swiftly casts aside all doubts and derision to reveal itself as a particularly enchanting piece of cinema. What’s perhaps most startling about the film…

Matt Brunson

Run All Night: Sleep all movie

RUN ALL NIGHT**DIRECTED BY Jaume Collet-SerraSTARS Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman Back in 2002, a few years before she nabbed an Oscar for The Hurt Locker and additional kudos for Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow directed the leaden submarine drama K-19: The Widowmaker. The box office flop starred Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, and I can’t…

Matt Brunson

Force Majeure offers an avalanche of issues

FORCE MAJEURE***DIRECTED BY Ruben ÖstlundSTARS Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli Say this about Force Majeure: No one will be leaving the theater without plenty of food for thought and topics for conversation. Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund’s film centers on a happy family and the conflicts that arise while dad Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke), mom…

Matt Brunson

The 100 Pies Project aims to help folks experiencing homelessness

What if we lived in a world where pie solved the world’s toughest problems? Citizens of this utopian pie-dom could use the confection to end world hunger, eliminate war and stop human suffering. What if, right? Despite how idealistic that may sound, Nate Cerbelli is a Charlottean on a mission to help the homeless with,…

Keia Mastrianni

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (March 12)

What Kind Of DJ Is He?: While loading up DJ equipment into his vehicle, a 37-year-old northeast Charlotte man placed his .40 caliber Glock 23 handgun on the roof of his car. Probably not a big deal, until he drove off without retrieving it. It wasn’t until he returned home that he realized it was…

Jeff Hahne

Weekly horoscope (March 12-18)

For All Signs: We have arrived at the seventh (and last) crossing of Uranus and Pluto. It so happens there is a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on March 17-18. When these occur there is usually fallout in the markets and multiple reactions globally. The Feds have no new tricks in their sleeves. This may…

Vivian Carol

Those Three Words

We were sitting across the table from each other in a fake Irish restaurant just outside Nashville when he said three words I never expected to hear from him. His recent hot and cold behavior had prepped me to face the fact that, after a decade of on-and-off-ness, our affair had finally run its course.…

Abby White

Theater reviews: Shiloh Rules and Unfinished Women Cry

American philosopher George Santayana famously wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” To which legions of Civil War reenactors presumably respond, “Glory, glory, hallelujah!” What might be a grim punishment for some progressive folk is sheer bliss for enthusiasts who flock to ancient battlefields, don vintage Civil War uniforms, rough…

Perry Tannenbaum

CD Review: Swell Friends’ Dizzy

There’s a splash of feedback as drums roll in and guitars scramble to find their way. Twelve seconds later, singer Robby Hartis chimes, his vocals building from singing to screaming, a hardcore cacophony charges forward behind him. Less than a minute and a half later, the song, “So Deep,” crashes to a close. It’s a…

Jeff Hahne

Three questions with the husband-and-wife team of Kindred Restaurant

In late November, Katy Kindred walked me through a gutted space, once an old pharmacy, in Davidson. The basement of the building revealed unearthed red clay. The walls were stripped, exposing the original red brick. Katy, one half of the husband and wife partnership that make up Kindred Restaurant (131 N. Main St.), explained in…

Keia Mastrianni

Rachel Platten’s fighting words

Rachel Platten was at a crossroads. For as long as she could remember, she dreamed of having a career in music, but it seemed to be getting tougher every day. She started to lose faith in her abilities, in her music, in her voice. Perhaps she should resolve herself to a life of playing small…

Jeff Hahne

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