May 16-22, 2018
#MeToo Comes Home, sexual harassment in the arts scene; Behailu Academy NoDa mural; Poor Blue, The Troubles with Mickey; Jim Herrington
St. Vincent drops jaws at The Fillmore
90-minute set was worth the wait after March show was postponed.
5 memorable moments from Carolina Rebellion 2018
From the fury of The Fever 333 to the friendliness of fans, the 8th annual rock and metal festival didn’t disappoint.
Everybody into the Deadpool 2
DEADPOOL 2 *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY David Leitch STARS Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin The best part of Deadpool 2 is what occurs during the closing credits. Additional moments inserted during (and after) the final text scroll are par for the course in superhero movies, yet the gag here is especially ingenious and absolutely…
Book Club: Paging ace actresses
BOOK CLUB **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Bill Holderman STARS Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda Diane Keaton will forever remain one of my favorite actresses, thanks primarily to her superb performances in Annie Hall (for which she won an Oscar) and Reds (for which she should have won a second Oscar). Jane Fonda is another…
The Blotter: Snooze Button
I’m Loving It Police responded to a McDonald’s on South Boulevard last week after a car in the drive thru refused to pull up to the second window. Responding officers found a man passed out at the wheel of his car, and when they searched him they found two grams of heroin, to nobody’s surprise.…
Black Panther, Die Hard, It’s Alive Trilogy 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.) THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION (1984) / BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989). Two titles previously released by Shout! Factory are now being reissued by the company as…
VIDEO PREMIERE: JaH Monte Releases New Clip For “Thornton Avenue Lords”
JaH Monte’s latest video offers two songs in one.
Listen Up: Mickey Stephens Relives The Troubles on ‘Local Vibes’
Mickey Stephens has been through a lot, but we can proudly say it was a first for him when he came through to speak on our podcast. “I’ve never done a podcast before,” Stephens said, as he settled into his chair in the Hygge West studio. He may not have done podcasts, but as front…
A Black Girl at a Country Concert
“Oh I see you, country girl.” “Are you telling me he’s gotten you to like country music?????? #truelove” “Ummmm you know I’m excited about this! #countrygirlnow?” Those were the comments that appeared underneath a picture of my boo and me after we went to the PNC Music Pavilion to see Old Dominion and Kenny Chesney.…
News of the Weird: Gold Rush
Dreams Do Come True A janitor at Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, may have hit the jackpot on April 26 when he discovered $325,000 worth of gold bars in a garbage bin. Investigators told The Korea Times they believe two men were transporting the gold, wrapped in newspapers, from Hong Kong to Japan,…
Charlotte-Raised Photographer Documents a Vanishing Breed
[Image-2] Jim Herrington has been on what he calls an endless book tour for The Climbers, his photographic collection of the icons of mountaineering. So it’s somehow fitting that when Creative Loafing reaches Herrington by phone, he’s in the mountains of North Carolina, trying to get a signal. “I seem to be in a good…
Remember When We Scorned Royalty?
The royal wedding hasn’t even taken place yet and already I feel as though I’ve been browbeaten by it, like if I don’t pay attention I’ll be a cultural moron. The media’s ads for 4 a.m. coverage of the May 19 wedding have been on repeat for weeks. The pre-coverage is so pervasive that without…
Behailu Academy Brings Discussion Series to the Streets with New NoDa Mural
Early on a recent Saturday morning in NoDa, a group of about 20 students and volunteers from nearby Behailu Academy made their way to the edge of the neighborhood to begin a project that they hope will spark dialogue, even if they don’t know how it will end. The students started what will eventually be…
Local Singer Revisits the ‘Wasteground’ of His Northern Ireland Youth
The singer and guitarist for the Mighty Shamrocks was packing up his gear one night after an early-’80s pub gig in the Bogside neighborhood of Derry, in Northern Ireland. Most of the crowd had left, but a small group of men still sat drinking at a table up front. One pointed to the black scarf…
Let’s Talk About Oppression
The Charlotte singer featured in this week’s music section grew up with bombs falling and cars exploding all around him. He grew up around people who were put up against walls and executed, got nailed to doors, had their arms sawed off with daggers. Michael Stephens didn’t grow up in the Middle East or in…
