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Emily Kinney’s balancing act
It sounded worse than the cable company. “Emily will call you between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.,” the publicist told me. “Sorry I can’t give you a smaller window.” While I resolved myself to sitting at my desk until the phone rang, I suddenly got hungry for the lunch that I had sitting across the…
Lunch Break (11/24/15): Car collides with CATS bus, hospitalizing nine
The morning already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Opening Wednesday
What’s new in theaters for Thanksgiving.
Live review: Emily Kinney, Visulite Theatre (11/24/2015)
Former ‘Walking Dead’ actress proves her worth as a musician.
7 things to be thankful for
There’s plenty to love when you’re living in the Q.C.
Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Lunch Break (11/23/15): Packed house for I-77 toll lane summit in Cornelius this morning
The morning has already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Today’s Top 5: Monday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
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.
Residents plan to mourn transgender murder victims to commemorate Transgender Remembrance Day
Candlelight vigil in front of city hall will mourn those lost to violence in 2015
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Spotlight: Fit to print
SPOTLIGHT ***1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Tom McCarthy STARS Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton There are two obvious reasons why Spotlight is earning near-unanimous raves from critics across the board. The first is a personal one: Like All the President’s Men, State of Play and Shattered Glass (once we move past Stephen Glass, of course),…
Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2: Sobering and satisfying
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2 *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Francis Lawrence STARS Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson As far as the cash-grabbing practice of splitting final books into two separate motion pictures goes, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, not at all surprisingly, ranks below the final Harry Potter but above…
It’s no Secret: The Eyes have it
SECRET IN THEIR EYES *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Billy Ray STARS Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman The Argentinian drama The Secret In Their Eyes earns my vote as the best non-English import of at least the past 10 years, deservedly taking the 2010 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. An American remake sounded like…
The Night Before: Bro Ho Ho
THE NIGHT BEFORE **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Jonathan Levine STARS Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen For over a dozen years, best buds Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have spent Christmas Eve in frantic search of the legendary Nutcracka Ball, a wild party whose location is even more guarded than…
Theater review: The Woolgatherer
COTU’s newest production is at the unleased site where Carolina Actors Studio Theatre once stood.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mr. Holmes, Sense and Sensibility 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.) THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (2014). In Peter Jackson’s third and final Hobbit yarn (following An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug), the dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch)…
It’s what’s inside that counts at Discovery Place’s Body Worlds
The all-too anatomically correct exhibit returns to Charlotte for first time in seven years.
Opening Friday
What’s new in theaters this weekend.
Lunch Break (11/18/15): Overnight rains lead to road closures south of Charlotte
The morning has already passed us by. What the hell happened?
Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Nov. 19)
Manscaping: A 25-year-old man called police after nearly being assaulted while walking his dog in his south Charlotte neighborhood. The victim said he was walking the dog down the street when his neighbor suddenly began chasing him with a garden rake, attempting to hit him with it. Off My Property: A man lost more than…
Weekly horoscope (Nov. 19-25)
For All Signs: The Saturn-Neptune square affects us on a personal level. It isn’t just about the world at large. There are those who have lied to themselves about reality who will find their denial tactics must come to an abrupt end. Something will be standing in the mirror that represents a cracked illusion. You…
Most of CPCC’s Phantom‘s tricks are treats
Celebrating its 10th anniversary at Halton Theater, CPCC has found the perfect way to outdo anything it’s attempted there before. With its current production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, CPCC Theatre — teaming up with CP’s Opera Theatre and Dance Theatre — has achieved one feat that even the original Broadway…
The music scene is a changin’
The Gets F* Weird concert held at the Chop Shop last weekend was sold out, as much for the EDM event itself as for the underlying celebration — it was the NoDa music venue’s last hurrah. The concrete and brick club is set to be bulldozed to make way for condos in the coming weeks.…
Oui, wine please
Not everyone is a wine snob. Some of us just like to drink a glass of wine without the gnosis of who the vintners were, how it was aged and what kinds of scents we should smell and taste as we shake and sip. That’s because there’s sometimes a certain pretentiousness that comes with vino.…
Planting the seed
If you ask Chef Shawn Harrison for advice on becoming a vegan, you probably won’t get much of a response. With some nudging he might share his story. He made the lifestyle change more than five years ago for reasons that go beyond health. In regards to spirituality, he puts an emphasis on the negative…
Plain red cups an affront to Christmas’ beginnings
Starbucks’ decision to strip its holiday cups of any element that alludes to the true meaning of Christmas is an attack on the faith of millions of Americans. I can not stand idly by as another multi-million dollar corporation perpetuates the war on Christmas and so, I invite you to reflect on the events surrounding…
Dr. Shannon Sullivan raises an uncomfortable truth
In the six years that UNC Charlotte has hosted its “Personally Speaking” series, in which published authors from the college’s faculty discuss topics from their respective books, never have organizers seen a crowd like they did on November 10. The estimated 400 people who showed up to hear Dr. Shannon Sullivan, chair of UNC Charlotte’s…
