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Talking Turkeys
It has begun. Every week, grocery store ads push holiday turkey prices ever lower; 99 cents a pound here, 89 cents a pound there. Walmart has had whole birds selling for 69 cents a pound since the beginning of the month. Eventually some stores will just give birds away as a promotion. The next logical…
Friendsgiving: The Ultimate Excuse to Give Thanks and Turn Up
Where are you and your friends celebrating the holiday this year?
Itching for Something New in the Queen City
The search for a different weekend routine.
From Eritrean cuisine in Elizabeth to slot machines in South Carolina
I didn’t get lucky, but it was still worth it.
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
The Goodbye Girl, Hell or High Water, To Live and Die in L.A. 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.) AKIRA KUROSAWA’S DREAMS (1990). One of Akira Kurosawa’s first loves was painting, and his affinity for art has arguably never been more apparent than in this late-career entry he helmed at the age…
Lunch Break (11/21/16): Anti-Trump protesters march through Uptown; man killed in west Charlotte home invasion
The weekend 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.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Creature comforts
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY David Yates STARS Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston It’s tempting to warily eye this entity known as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and see nothing more than a blatant cash-grab, an impersonal product designed to separate fans of all things Harry…
The Edge of Seventeen: Smells like teen spirit
THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN ***1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Kelly Fremon Craig STARS Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson A sparkling gem that joins The Fault in Our Stars and An Education as one of the brightest coming-of-age films of recent vintage, The Edge of Seventeen finds True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld delivering a powerhouse performance as…
Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Nov. 17)
Must See TV Police responded to a shoplifting call at a Walmart in north Charlotte last week after the suspect decided he had to get his TV turned on by any means necessary. Employees of the store first noticed the man when he approached the cashier lines with a television remote and a pack of…
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, Finding Dory, Punch-Drunk Love 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.) BURIAL GROUND (1980) / THE TRAIL OF DRACULA (2013). Halloween may be over, but why wait until next October to cover these two late arrivals? Burial Ground, aka The Nights of Terror aka…
Local organizations work to ease fears of those in crosshairs of new president-elect and his followers
On the afternoon of November 9, 2016, a group of Charlotte-area refugee and immigrant kids came streaming through the door of the ourBRIDGE for Kids offices, just as they do every afternoon. While the afternoon was off to a relatively normal start, Sil Ganzo sensed a different mood among the children compared to the countless…
The weight of four years of fear
The day after the election, I woke up with new eyes. Apologetic to the decades of marches, protests and movements my great grandmothers and fathers retold in church houses so that their future generations wouldn’t have to see such waste of human intellect and appetite. Like many that covered their voting record with hashtags and…
Well$; The Way I’m Living Makes My Mom Nervous
It would be easy to jump to assumptions about what Charlotte rapper Well$ meant when he titled his newest album The Way I’m Living Makes My Mom Nervous, especially with a quick glance at the CD cover. Might his mom be made nervous by the underdressed woman with eyes on her son? Or perhaps by…
Three questions for Stephen Deutsch of Teriyaki Madness
Move over Panda Express, there’s another customizable and fresh-rolling Asian spot in town. The new Teriyaki Madness, opened by Stephen Deutsch on Mallard Creek Church Road, just a mile off I-85, boasts fresh food and sauces made in-house. The bowls and plates are customizable with white or brown rice, chicken thighs or breasts, fresh sauces…
Sloan offers democracy in music
All four members of the Canadian rock combo Sloan are singers and songwriters. It’s a collaborative effort that’s democratic and creative. Andrew Scott (drums), Chris Murphy (bass, vocals), Patrick Pentland (guitar, vocals), and Jay Ferguson (guitar, vocals) formed Sloan in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1991. These musicians have made fab records over the past 25…
Theater review: Three Bone Theatre’s Grand Concourse
Most people, particularly the homeless and the poor, don’t need to be told that soup kitchens are all about feeding the hungry who are beaten down — temporarily or permanently — by the harsh realities of our teeming cities. But to an unexpected degree, Heidi Schreck’s Grand Concourse, set in one of these missions of…
Weekly horoscope (Nov. 17-23)
For All Signs: The planet Neptune, original god of the sea, was known as Poseidon in ancient lore. At this time Neptune’s position is like that of a bathtub drain, drawing everyone’s energy into a hole. The political situation is post-election, after a long and arduous 1.5 years of campaign rhetoric. Many of us feel…
Lambchop; FLOTUS
This album kicks off with “In Case of 8675309,” — surely a nod to the infectious ’80s hit — a classic sounding Lambchop tune with slow and steady twang. The tune runs long at 12 minutes, matching “The Hustle,” the album’s 18-minute final track in timely accordance. But the latter strays from traditional Lambchop, venturing…
