Mar 12-18, 2014

Mar 12-18, 2014 / Vol. 28 / No. 3

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Food Issue 2014: Throwback dishes

In today’s age of the selfie, the term “throwback” is often associated with one specific day of the week (for the social media illiterate, that would be Thursday) when we post pictures of ourselves “back in the day,” lounging in our diapers or chilling with the homies drinking Miller High Life. Yes, the good ol’…

Keia Mastrianni

American Hustle, Frozen among new home entertainment titles

(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD.) AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013). Second only to Inside Llewyn Davis as the best film of 2013, writer-director David O. Russell’s American Hustle is a movie that in its best moments recalls Martin Scorsese’s gangster classic GoodFellas, with a bit of…

Matt Brunson

Country catering goes chic

During the chaos of planning my own wedding, food was of the utmost importance. So much so that my fiancé and I backed out of a formal commitment with a venue when we discovered the food, prepared by the site’s exclusive caterer, left much to be desired. When I say formal commitment, I mean a…

Keia Mastrianni

Spend less on a budget-friendly “pre-honeymoon.”

You’re probably not having your mother’s wedding. So why have your mother’s honeymoon? (Sorry for putting the image of your parents doing “it” into your head. I’m sure they, like my folks, had sex only to procreate.) Many couples these days are footing the bill for all or part of their weddings. And funding The…

Page Leggett

Need for Speed: Braking bad

NEED FOR SPEED *1/2 DIRECTED BY Scott Waugh STARS Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper Based on the best-selling video game series, Need for Speed isn’t fast and furious as much as it’s hyperactive and mildly ticked off. The Vin Diesel-Paul Walker (RIP) F&F franchise may not be high art, but in its best moments, it’s high…

Matt Brunson

Tim’s Vermeer: Paint by numbers

TIM’S VERMEER ** DIRECTED BY Teller STARS Tim Jenison, Penn Jillette The word “bloated” is often used to describe movies that run a punishing three hours when a mere two would have sufficed. Hence, it may seem odd to use it to describe a film that clocks in at 80 minutes — even less than…

Matt Brunson

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (March 13)

Strapped: A man was arrested last week for taking a firearm onto school property in February. The man, a parent of a student at Lincoln Heights, allegedly entered a bus to settle a dispute. He did not threaten anyone, and another parent reported seeing that he had a holstered gun only after he was told…

Ryan Pitkin

Weekly horoscope (March 13-19)

For All Signs: On March 16 we will experience the full moon in Virgo. The full moon calls for an assessment of the products accomplished so far this year. The sign of Virgo can be critical of flaws and also represents our need for mental, physical and emotional healing. This full moon is next to…

Vivian Carol

Forging forward with the Loudermilks

In their previous music lives leading Lou Ford, Alan and Chad Edwards won praise for their music’s capacity to cut to the emotional chase. In a typical critical response, The New York Times’ Jon Pareles raved about the brothers’ “surly, neatly phrased breakup song[s]” that turned “accusations into aphorisms.” The three Lou Ford LPs were…

John Schacht

I’m not Jova

While some of my friends have been traveling lately, I have been watching their home and taking care of their menagerie of pets, which includes three dogs and two African parrots. They have a beautiful home in Dilworth, with a grand Southern porch and pool in the back. During one of my first stays as…

Charles Easley

3 questions with The Levine’s Tom Hanchett

If you want to find cultural gems in Charlotte, follow Tom Hanchett’s lead. The eternally curious and wildly observant historian for the Levine Museum of the New South believes that one of the best ways to explore cultures is to do so with food. Hanchett is interested in what makes up a New South city,…

Keia Mastrianni

Facing off for Iron Fork

On March 19, five of Charlotte’s top chefs will compete in Creative Loafing’s second annual culinary competition Iron Fork. Our readers voted for their favorite local chefs during a nomination period, and the five with the most votes made the cut to participate in the fight for the prestigious Golden Fork. Guests of the event…

Maria Dominguez

Wide-open spaces

If Dorothy had been a hipster and come to Charlotte instead of Oz, she might have hoped to see more beer gardens, farmers markets and unicorns. Such amenities could soon show up in the real world, along the Blue Line light rail. (Minus the unicorns. Sorry.) In the next 10 or 15 years, land designers…

Ana McKenzie

CL theater critic finds shelter Off-Broadway

King Lear (***1/2) — Reviewing a play or an opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been on my New York bucket list for quite a few years, so I was quite excited when I was able to score two bookings this year, both of them final performances of distinguished British imports. The Glyndebourne…

Perry Tannenbaum

Arts review: Mario Botta: Architecture and Memory

“Memory is very important in contemporary expression,” Swiss architect Mario Botta passionately stressed in an opening reception at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. A woman stood at his side, translating his Italian to English. At the Bechtler’s Mario Botta: Architecture and Memory exhibit, Botta’s mantra is expressed through more than 30 black and white…

Anita Overcash

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