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Mad Monster Party serves up a high five
Yes, it’s that most wonderful time of the fear — err, year — when the Mad Monster Party returns to the Queen City to once again shock the citizenry with another superlative lineup of celebrities and events. It’s a testament to the hard work, business acumen and overwhelming love for cinema of co-creators Eben McGarr…
Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Live review: Bassh, Visulite Theatre (3/25/2016)
Bassh offers rock escape for Matrimony frontman.
Lunch Break (3/30/16): BofA joins more than 80 companies in denouncing House Bill 2
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Jennifer Roberts ranked as top-five tweeting mayor
She joins two other female mayors and nearby Columbia mayor as ‘Tweet Elite.’
The return of AA5
Uptown event quenches your thirsty Thursdays.
Lunch Break (3/29/16): Cooper announces he won’t defend House Bill 2
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
[Untitled] w/ Lara Americo, Episode 7, Part I
Checkers and rap with Maf Maddix.
Lunch Break (3/28/16): ACLU, other groups to challenge HB2 in court
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Batman v Superman: Doctoring Doom
BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Zack Snyder STARS Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill Frenzied fanboys hopped up on hype and hysteria obviously disagreed, but 2013’s Man of Steel proved to be one of the worst superhero films to ever swoop onto thousands of screens — not awful in the…
Lunch Break (3/24/16): NCGA shuts doors on municipalities that want to protect LGBT residents
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
The Black Sleep, Carol, The Trip among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) BANDITS (2001). This criminally overlong misfire from director Barry Levinson (who, let’s face it, hasn’t made a truly good film since the 20th century) tries hard to be a quirky comedy — God,…
Weekly horoscope (March 24-30)
For All Signs: The full moon on March 23rd is eclipsed with special focus on the signs of Aries and Libra. Eclipses always come in pairs, one at the new moon (for us, this was on March 7) and an answering eclipse at the full moon. The full moon eclipse brings anything brewing to boil.…
Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (March 24)
Faux Pot When an enterprising high school student filled a plastic baggy with herbs from his mom’s spice rack, he knew it would take a pretty big dope to be duped by the bad bud. Unfortunately, that dope happened to be a teacher at his north Charlotte high school, who found the bag and misidentified…
All you need is a Miracle Worker
With most dramas, I find that successive productions I review tend to exert less of a powerful tug on my emotions each time I see the same drama again. Yet I’ve found quite the opposite to be true of The Miracle Worker, William Gibson’s 1960 Tony Award winner for Best Play, the chronicle of young…
Getting your bug on, without buggin’ out
The next time you consider complaining to your waiter about a fly in your soup, consider the futility of that exercise. Insects are everywhere, and there is no way around eating them. Acknowledging this, the FDA maintains a list of Commodities and Defects Action Levels, which spells out just how much insect contamination is allowed…
Three questions for Chainey Kuykendall, winner of S&D Coffee & Tea’s 2016 Culinary Challenge at Johnson & Wales
Following the idiom “If at first you don’t succeed: try, try again,” was a wise decision for Chainey Kuykendall. Her second attempt in entering the S&D Coffee & Tea’s Culinary Challenge at Johnson & Wales University, where she’s a junior, amounted to her picking up the grand prize of $5,000 — which she’s kindly given…
Young new ownership at a local tree farm is going grassroots to keep their business
On Friday, March 18 — Arbor Day in North Carolina — hundreds of people streamed into Mr. Jack’s Tree Farm in Steele Creek, many of whom were previously unaware that the farm existed. Camille Heredia lives right down the street from the farm, but didn’t know it existed until she saw an Instagram post from…
The recent nice weather has brought out the bugs, bees and Bible thumpers
Let me preface this by sharing that I am open to whatever your belief system is or in some cases is not. Whatever gives you peace and direction is good with me, but what I abhor is when folks become sanctimonious and aggressive in assuming that I must share the same belief system as they…
Penny & Sparrow’s honest living
If you ask Andy Baxter about his band Penny & Sparrow’s success, he jokes that it’s all thanks to his grandmother sending checks to the right people. While the band has had its fair share of pinch-me moments in the last few months, Baxter and his bandmate Kyle Jahnke just want to stay focused on…
