Nov 12-18, 2014

Nov 12-18, 2014 / Vol. 28 / No. 38

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Project Censored: The news that didn’t make the news

Our oceans are acidifying — even if the nightly news hasn’t told you yet. As humanity continues to fill the atmosphere with harmful gases, the planet is becoming less hospitable to life as we know it. The vast oceans absorb much of the carbon dioxide we have produced, from the industrial revolution through the rise…

Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

Dumb and Dumber To: I’m With Stupid

DUMB AND DUMBER TO*1/2DIRECTED BY Bobby & Peter FarrellySTARS Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels It’s amusing to glance over the early reviews stating that Dumb and Dumber To is no comedy gem like its 1994 predecessor. Reading over those words, one might get the impression that the original Dumb & Dumber compares favorably to cinematic masterpieces…

Matt Brunson

Beyond the Lights and Behind the Scenes

BEYOND THE LIGHTS**1/2DIRECTED BY Gina Prince-BythewoodSTARS Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker Ever since the news broke that a female director might be sought to helm the long-awaited Wonder Woman movie, practically every filmmaker with a Miss, Ms. or Mrs. before her name has been dragged into the conversation. Kathryn Bigelow (sure!), Catherine Hardwicke (why not?), Sofia…

Matt Brunson

Perceptions Project flips the script

What brings you peace? It’s something we all strive for, yet we arrive at vastly different answers, from fasting and meditation to first person shooter games and medical marijuana. The Perceptions Project, a series of five 5-minute film shorts written by homegrown auteur Stacey Rose, takes a look at Peace, Love, Hate, Fun and Freedom…

Emiene Wright

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Nov. 13)

Game on: A 36-year-old woman reported a burglary from her East Charlotte home. The thief, who smashed a rear bedroom window to gain access, stole a Nintendo Wii, an XBox, two PS3s, a Nintendo 3DS, a PSP, Wii games, XBox games, PS3 games, two laptops and a man’s watch. Presumably, the watch will be used…

Jeff Hahne

Weekly horoscope (Nov. 13-19)

For All Signs: Since the beginning of November, Mars has been conjunct Pluto and also square Uranus. When these strong energies are working in combination they are known by astrologers as very powerful, toward the good or ill. These are hard on the physical body. Mars increases adrenaline and cortisol, resulting from the stress of…

Vivian Carol

On concealing one’s TV addiction from a lover

Growing up, I spent weekends and vacations plopped down in front of the television. In the summer, I’d kick off the day around 9 a.m. with various back-to-back sitcoms like Saved by the Bell, Who’s the Boss, The Facts of Life. That led into the 10 o’clock hour with The Price Is Right, followed by…

Melanie Vare

Theater reviews: Rapture, Blister, Burn and more

Goofs, gossips and glamorous femmes fatales are often the women who charm us most onstage, while feminists — good or bad — are shown to be relatively humorless, principled and asexual. If Wendy Wasserstein’s Heidi Chronicles was more pertinent and to the point than Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart, it seemed to come at…

Perry Tannenbaum

Cameron Floyd’s Dancing debut

They say Absence makes the heart grow fonder. For Charlotte singer/songwriter Cameron Floyd, absence fuels an entire album of material. Floyd and his girlfriend had only been dating for about half a year when she went to Spain for two months. Ahh, young love. The 21-year-old musician rode a roller coaster of emotions during that…

Jeff Hahne

CD Review: Floating Action’s Body Questions

“People in the know can always turn their heads away,” Seth Kauffman sings on “Taking Me a Little While,” the melodic fuzz-bomb that opens the fourth — and best — Floating Action LP, Body Questions. Once, that might’ve read like a lament at hipster ambivalence, but the Black Mountain native just keeps doing his outlier…

John Schacht

CD review: Bo White’s Millennial Tombs

Quietly released just nine months after his last mini-LP, October’s Adornment, Bo White’s new quickie, Millennial Tombs — only three of its 11 tracks top three minutes — finds the ever-restless White again flitting about various styles, indulging in playful, but potent, fuck-arounds. The bouncy “Matinee” channels classic power-pop with its driving guitar and staccato…

Patrick Wall

Elections bring same ol,’ same ol’

Did you hear that loud, “whooshing” sound that just went by? It sounded almost like a hurricane or tornado-force wind, sucking you into a vortex from which you might not be able to escape. Well, relax. What you heard was a few hundred million Americans all exhaling at once in a big sigh of relief:…

Jerry Klein

JCSU hosts its first-ever PRIDE Day

Warren Radebe is a talkative guy. The slim college student with baby locs sprouting from his crown calls out to several people, from the university’s president to jocks and artist types, as he crosses Johnson C. Smith University’s campus. “I have lots of friends,” he says, stating the obvious. But it wasn’t always this way.…

Emiene Wright

Its name is Earl … Grocery

It’s Saturday morning, and Bonnie Warford is checking the shelves and greeting customers in her creatively furnished food emporium, Earl’s Grocery and Urban Provisions. Warford and her co-owner and sister Tricia Maddrey opened Earl’s, named for their late father, last July, only a stone’s throw from their iconic 25-year-old Carpe Diem on the ill-fated Elizabeth…

Tricia Childress

Three questions with Alex Toska of Toska Truffles

Just off of Route 51 on the Pineville/Charlotte line, 10617 Kettering Drive to be exact, sits a nondescript office building. Down a spartan hallway, a musty odor wafts through the door of Suite 110 to tease the nostrils. Behind that door lie thousands of dollars worth of knobby black truffles (a type of fungus most…

Alison Leininger

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