Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Lunch Break (5/18/16): Young man killed in Rock Hill in early morning hours, two arrests made
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.
Lunch Break (5/17/16): Shooting in Uptown, Medic wrecks near Queens, snakes are out
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Lunch Break (5/16/16): Roads closing down, airport lines opening up
The weekend already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Today’s Top 5: Sunday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top 5: Saturday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Money Monster: Save your dough
MONEY MONSTER ** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Jodie Foster STARS George Clooney, Julia Roberts Director Jodie Foster’s topical thriller Money Monster certainly has its heart in the right place. Its brain, though, is another matter. What promises to be a ripped-from-the-headlines drama with comic undertones, a throwback to such 70s gems as Dog Day…
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
The Dirty Dozen visits the Queen City
Believe it or not, I kept it low-key this past weekend. The work week consisted of a schedule adjustment consisting of early mornings and late nights in order to accommodate my boyfriend who needed to borrow my car. That meant only a few after work excursions — obviously — which included a couple margaritas on…
Lunch Break (5/13/16): Obama administration to issue decree to country’s public schools regarding transgender discrimination
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Live review: Silversun Pickups, The Fillmore (5/12/2016)
Trio of bands rocks Charlotte for 106.5 The End’s birthday bash.
Lunch Break (5/12/16): Three shot after argument at strip club, school’s out after Denver car wreck
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Deadpool, In a Lonely Place, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 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.) DEADPOOL (2016). A superhero romp that threatened to be smug, smarmy and self-satisfied is — well, yes, it’s occasionally all those things. But it’s also fresh, funny and absolutely kick-ass. Ryan Reynolds previously…
Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (May 12)
Rock and Roll Getting stoned Uptown took on a new meaning for a 37-year old man, who was exiting a 6th Street grocery store when a stranger began pelting him with rocks. The shopper managed to miss most of the unpredictable projectiles, but was struck by one of the flying stones without serious injury. Police…
Weekly horoscope (May 12-18)
For All Signs: The message in the zodiac calls us to break from living out the tired old dramas. If we are to save our world we need to change paradigms. Taking revenge for past wrongs is not a cool thing to do. Neither is acting out the same old creaking stories between men and…
Reviews of Heathers: The Musical and Motherhood Out Loud
Then the movie first came out in 1989, Heathers was already raunchy enough for an R rating. But after the musical revels of Bat Boy, Spring Awakening, Reefer Madness, and Evil Dead have already pushed the envelope, raunchy in 2016 is an altogether different proposition. Three of the first six songs in the new Queen…
Charlotte-based startup YoDish puts vegan options on yo’ fork
When Taylor Slaughter first met Justin Cunningham, founder of YoDish, she knew he was on to something good. Cunningham began developing YoDish, a website that helps users quickly find vegan food options in their area, in 2013. He originally experimented with just releasing an app but brought it back to the drawing board after hitting…
Beloved Binge of connectivity
To say that Eleni Vlachos and Rob Gilbride, a husband-and-wife duo out of Durham, North Carolina, are thick-skinned isn’t all that far-fetched. For one, their DIY-approach to music and self-proclaimed “misfit pop” warrants the mindset, but their latest side project, #Comments, a film where the couple acts out harsh online comments written about things that…
One of Charlotte’s most historical music venues is in need of help
Ke$ha told me she’d take her top off if I served her a drink after 2 a.m. and I said ‘Darlin’, I appreciate that and I know you’re not used to hearing this… but no.’ She told me she respected that.” It’s late on a Thursday night and Jonathan Hughes, co-owner of The Milestone Club,…
Some west Charlotte families fear delaying a CMS bond any longer will dig their hole deeper
On a recent Thursday night, more than 100 people gathered in a church off Beatties Ford Road for a presentation on a proposed $805 million bond approved by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education (BOE) on April 26. City and CMS leaders were in the crowd, but one group was conspicuously missing: those responsible for…
Explore Evoke
Let’s be honest; Second Ward seems like a culinary desert (to put it kindly). What was once Brooklyn, a thriving African-American community in Charlotte, is now home to the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, City Hall, other government offices, the county jail, Marshall Park, the aquatic center and food wise, a Cluck-n-Cup and Quizno’s, only open on…
