Live photos: Run the Jewels, The Fillmore (3/14/2017)
Charlotte rapper Well$ offers short opening set.
VIDEO: Watch The Menders Unveil a New Song, “Pass It On”
CL caught up with the Menders during the band’s rehearsal last week.
Live photos: New Charlotte Band Chosovi Debuts at The Evening Muse (3/11/2017)
Brooklyn glam-punk quartet J and the 9s opened.
RiverRun’s Rich Vein
The usual embarrassment of riches will once again make itself known at the RiverRun International Film Festival, kicking off this year on Thursday, March 30, and running through Sunday, April 9, at various venues in Winston-Salem. Over 150 features and short films will be shown as part of the event, which marks the festival’s 19th…
Kong: Skull Island: Gorilla Warfare
KONG: SKULL ISLAND *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Jordan Vogt-Roberts STARS Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson For those who don’t keep up on such matters, the new Kong: Skull Island is part of a so-called “shared universe” of movies. Just as the Marvel movies share a universe and the DC flicks operate in similar…
Jackie, The Klansman, Moana 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.) ALLIED (2016). Once the bread and butter of the movie industry, the World War II film has become a rarity in today’s Hollywood, tragically going the way of the dodo and the…
The Blotter: Invasive Marketing
Genius A 21-year-old man in southwest Charlotte called police after falling victim to perhaps the most clever marketing ploy ever pulled off in The Blotter. The man told police that he returned home from work one day to find that his house had been broken into. Nothing was stolen or damaged, and the man told…
Ordinary Folks Are Helping Those Who Fall Through the Cracks of Charlotte’s Mental Health System
Robert Jones, Jr., has struggled with depression and anxiety since childhood. His obesity makes it hard for him to work, which adds to his despair. He has attended countless vocational and psychosocial rehabilitation programs over the past 30 years. None have had much effect, he says. In the past six months, Jones has regularly attended…
Awamary Khan of Carolina Small Business Development Fund Talks #BLKTECHCLT
It was like a match made in start-up heaven. Awamary Khan, CFO at Raleigh-based Carolina Small Business Development Fund, became aware of the work being done in Charlotte by Sherrell Dorsey and #BLKTECHCLT shortly after opening CSBDF’s new Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. It was clear that the two could benefit from a partnership. CSBDF’s statewide…
Julia Simon’s Nourish Charlotte Turns Five and Looks to Expand
I met Julia Simon in her company kitchen in southeast Charlotte on a Saturday morning, just as she finished getting a group of about four employees prepped for the day’s work. What’s the work, you ask? Just to cook about 50 pounds of casserole, for one. Simon i s the founder of Nourish Charlotte, a…
Jah-Monte Is a Flashback to How Rap Used to Be
Jah-Monte is sprawled on a reclining sofa in his buddy Sage’s studio, one of many that line the halls of NoDa Studios in its namesake neighborhood. Graffiti is scrawled across the walls with chalk. No space is left uncovered. The slew of unrelated images above Jah-Monte’s head is symbolic, as his mind can sometimes wander…
Gwen Square of Mae’s Creole Kitchen Spices Up the Food Truck Scene
Through the cool, spring breeze and the slow stream of traffic heading Uptown for lunch, the scent of cayenne pepper, flour and special Creole seasonings fills the air. It’s Food Truck Friday in Charlotte and Gwen Square and her three sons — Montero, Darrel and Derrick — are gearing up for yet another busy shift…
Collette Ellis Bends Flames, Dances in the Sky and Swims Like a Fish
Eating fire is easier than swimming with a giant fish tail. Just ask Collette Ellis, an aerialist and firebender who recently added mermaid to her list of unconventional talents. She was in the deep end of a pool not long ago, making one final attempt to glide though the water — arms by her sides,…
How to Keep Sane in an Insane World
One of the final frontiers of intolerance in our society is mental health. We don’t know how to deal with our sons and daughters and mothers and fathers and friends and neighbors who suffer from diseases ranging from bipolar disorder to addiction. We ignore the man walking down the street talking to himself, or the…
Carson McCullers events
List of events in Charlotte related to Carson McCullers 100th birthday anniversary.
Charlotte Lit Celebrates the Late Novelist Carson McCullers
McCullers, who wrote much of her 1940 classic The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in Charlotte, is recognized throughout 2017.
Weekly Horoscope (March 8-14)
For All Signs Venus turned retrograde on Mar. 4, 2017. It will remain so until it turns direct on April 15, 2017. There is a pre-shadow before the retrograde and a post shadow following Venus’ change back to direct on April 15. The time frame affected by Venus retrograde began on Jan. 31, 2017 and…
Busing Through the Queen City — But Not on CATS
“Meet us at Piedmont Social House,” my co-worker said as I attempted to chug an off-brand version of Pedialyte. Sighs. The last time I’d gone to PSH was for a random after-house party. Before that? I’d gone to meet with the marketing manager about the grand opening. Both times? I was either working on a…
Charlotte Singer-Songwriter Jason Jet Loves Pop & Soul
Jason Jet strolls into Nova’s Bakery in Plaza-Midwood on a sunny and oddly warm early March afternoon. His straight posture is perfect showmanship and his gaze is confident as he makes his way to the counter to inspect a smorgasbord of baked treats. The winter sunrays flood the bakery floor in various rectangular shapes, a…
