Nov 2-8, 2010

Nov 2-8, 2010 / Vol. 24 / No. 36

Local Leak: Clicks & Whistles’ “When I Feel”

Another Local Leak from Charlotte’s burgeoning bass scene. This one from the duo, Clicks & Whistles (Jorge Hernandez and Peter Evans). It’s low-key and soulful at the start then wakes up in a major way just before you were lulled into the subdued groove. Great stuff. It’s part of the Future Sounds of North America…

Mike McCray

Ticket giveaway — The AP Tour

On Sunday, Nov. 14, The AP Tour will roll into Amos’ Southend. We think you should go and check it out. If you’d like to win tickets, all you need to do is leave a comment on here with a valid e-mail address and let us know which of the bands you’re most interested in…

Jeff Hahne

Video: “Beatties Ford Boyz”

I don’t know how this video slipped under my radar for so long but here’s a video from Charlotte rappers J-Face, Wyl-Out Slim and Mr. F-150 for their song, “Beatties Ford Boyz.” Every hood has their anthem and for the Beatties Ford corridor, not the Hopewell High part but the real part that runs from…

Mike McCray

Solstice, 11/6/10

Saturday nights at Solstice Tavern draw the NoDa crowd in for the college football games. Here are photos from this past Saturday, Nov. 6.

Priscilla Tsai

Ben

hometown: Charlotte favorite part of me: “My mind.” i love: “Art and the act of creating it.” find me at: Premeauxstudio.com To see more photos by Jasiatic, visit jasiatic.com and  www.createtressphotography.blogspot.com and to see some of these portraits on the wall, visit Crave Dessert Bar

Jasiatic

Today’s Top 5: Friday

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Nov. 5, 2010 — as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing. • Steel Magnolias at Theatre Charlotte • Mike Birbiglia at Knight Theater • Hot Rize at McGlohon Theatre • MoveMint at Mint Museum Uptown • Mutzie at Fort…

Anita Overcash

A drama-filled weekend

The weekend’s best events: Friday, Nov. 5 The Elephant Man Carolina Actors Studio Theatre CAST’s latest performances of The Elephant Man are a good example of the old saying “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This drama by Bernard Pomerance tells the famous true story of the hideously deformed Joseph (John) Merrick who…

Priscilla Tsai

Fear the Skipper: Paul ‘Skip’ Stam

We mentioned yesterday that some results from Tuesday’s elections are pretty scary. No results, though, should frighten North Carolinians more than the GOP’s takeover of the state legislature. The reason? To be blunt, outside of Oklahoma, S.C. and Florida, it would be hard to find a group of legislators in America that is more dominated…

John Grooms

Ticket giveaway — Hanson

Whether you like to sing along to “Mmmm Bop” or not, Hanson has done its best to change the band’s style and put the pop stuff behind them. Check them out for yourself — let us know why you love Hanson and you can win a pair of tickets to their Nov. 12 show at…

Jeff Hahne

Concert announcement: JJ Grey

Last month, JJ Grey was forced to cancel his Visulite Theatre performance due to food poisoning. Well, it won’t take him too long to be back in Charlotte. His 2011 tour has just been announced, and he’ll perform at the Visulite on Jan. 20.

Jeff Hahne

Voters throw bums out, elect new bums

Some first impressions from yesterday’s elections: • The GOP takeover of the N.C. General Assembly could be a genuine disaster for our state, given the stated positions of the party’s leaders, their complete subservience to corporate interests at everything else’s expense, and their embrace of bigotry. Having the GOP take control of the state house…

John Grooms

J Cole previews Friday Night Lights

With the highly anticipated release of his next mixtape, Friday Night Lights, just nine days away, J Cole released a snippet late last night for the track, “Before I’m Gone.” Listen here.

Mike McCray

N.C. congressional candidate B.J. Lawson vs. Morgan Freeman

We don’t know B.J. Lawson, the GOP candidate running against Rep. David Price in N.C.’s 4th Congresisonal District. It’s pretty safe to say, though, that he’s either a lying sack or dumb as a sack (of hammers). Lawson ran a television ad, which his campaign paid a California company $4500 to produce, in which the…

John Grooms

Richest Americans got 5 times more pay last year

David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer-winning former New York Times reporter is, to put it mildly, one of the nation’s top financial journalists; he also teaches at Syracuse University and writes a column for Tax Analysts. Today, on the Tax.com website, Johnston examines recent wage data and comes to a mind-boggling, yet fully documented, conclusion: The…

John Grooms

Just remembering a singer named Maria

Jonathan’s Jazz Cellar, once an entertainment staple at the 7th Street corner near Spirit Square, is a distant memory. But the fans who once came weekly to see Maria Howell sing, before her career-making cameo in The Color Purple, came again – along with restauranteur Jonathan Gellman, performing a cameo of his own – as…

Perry Tannenbaum

Live review: 30 Seconds to Mars

30 Seconds to Mars The Fillmore Charlotte Nov. 1, 2010 The Deal: After two postponements, 30 Seconds to Mars finally performs its sold-out Charlotte concert. The Good: The show started off with a high-energy set by The New Politics that got the crowd worked up and ready to go. Of course, after two postponements, the…

Jeff Hahne

The Elephant Man fit for a princess

Over the years, I’ve been given a driver’s license and a bullet casing, among many oddities, instead of the usual ticket to gain admission to shows at the Carolina Actors Studio Theatre. The latest legal tender on Clement Avenue, a dead rat tagged with your seat number for The Elephant Man, ranks right up there…

Perry Tannenbaum

Nightlife profile: J-Pragmatic

  J-Pragmatic is not just a radio personality — he’s “a business man.” As CEO, founder and first official talent of Tiger Eye Management Group, the burgeoning entrepreneur is quickly gaining a rep around the nightlife scene for hosting hot events and managing hotter talent. When the street-savvy native of Charleston, S.C., isn’t lighting up…

Lecture/Exhibit: Janet Biggs

Janet Biggs makes videos, video installations and performance works that address numerous issues, including athletic obsession and perfection, danger and gender roles. She will talk about her work in conjunction with the exhibition VantagePoint IX — Janet Biggs: Going to Extremes, at the Mint Museum Uptown. The exhibition includes “Duet,” a work about NASCAR commissioned…

Barbara Schreiber

Milestone modification

For many in the Charlotte music community, Neal “MF” Harper goes along with The Milestone as much as the graffiti that covers the walls inside it. Hearing that Harper is getting ready to hand the keys over is going to come as a shock. But Harper knows he’s leaving the club in capable hands —…

Jeff Hahne

Exhibit: Rust in Peace

Unimportant objects past their prime usually end up in landfills. This includes means of transportation like old airplanes, boats, motorcycles and trains. With that in mind, artist Bethany Hadden is giving life to the disregarded slabs of metal through her latest collection of paintings. You can see them all, including “Deserted” (pictured), starting Nov. 5…

Anita Overcash

CMS’ final forum: A Creative Loafing fantasy

School board Chair Eric Davis: Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention, please? Hel-lo! People!? We’d like to get started; we want to have time to hear your comments, and we don’t want to have to throw people out or have them arrested like we’ve been doing. Voice from back of the room: This…

Bizarre crimes from Charlotte police files

Target Practice: A 50-year-old woman called police after she was assaulted while jogging. She told officers that she was running down Providence Road when her ex-husband pulled up beside her in his car and spit on her before driving off. I guess this is what you call a drive-by in Myers Park. Love the Game:…

Ryan Pitkin

Rev. Robin Tanner hopes to reframe religion in the Bible Belt

  The Rev. Robin Tanner, the new leader of Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church, defies the stereotype of the standard minister. She’s young (26), grew up learning as much about Buddha as Jesus — and she’s openly gay. And her path to preaching wasn’t conventional, either. “I was working in a trauma center with children who…

Cheris Hodges

N.C. kids have never been safer

It was tradition. Every year, a week or so before Halloween, the media would start speculating about what the wackos might put in kids’ candy this year. Dangerous poisons? Needles? Sometimes it was razor blades. It even became fashionable for a while for Charlotte’s hospitals to offer to X-ray our Halloween loot as a public…

Weekly horoscope (Nov. 3-9)

Scorpio The Phoenix Whatever the circumstances of your life at present, it is all coming together for the purpose of your transformation. It may not be at all easy. Scorpio rarely takes the simple route. You can choose denial for a long time, but ultimately the Scorpio must develop and practice psychological honesty. For All…

Vivian Carol

Adults to blame in Zahra Baker case

The more I read about the case of 10-year-old Caldwell County girl Zahra Baker, the more woefully saddened I become. The young girl, who is a bone cancer survivor and wears a prosthetic leg, is missing and believed to be dead. She was reported missing in early October by her father Adam Baker and stepmother…

Nsenga Burton

Where to find it: Crème Fraîche

A reader, and new Charlotte resident, writes looking for crème fraîche and locally produced clotted cream. Although crème fraîche is somewhat difficult to find across the U.S., Charlotte has had a constant source for it for at least 25 years. Crème fraîche is what becomes of fresh cream if set aside and natural lactic acid…

Tricia Childress

War should be an election issue

Just days away from crucial midterm elections, WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, unveiled the largest classified military leak in history. Almost 400,000 secret Pentagon documents relating to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq were made available online. The documents, in excruciating detail, portray the daily torrent of violence, murder, rape and torture to which Iraqis…

Amy Goodman

Couple finds musical happiness within local band Matrimony

When musician Jimmy Brown first proposed to his girlfriend and fellow musician, Ashlee Hardee, the couple knew it would be difficult to have any kind of relationship if the singer-songwriters were both trying to have successful tours. They’d never see each other — an idea they didn’t like the thought of. So, it made sense…

Jeff Hahne

THEATER: Incorruptible at Duke Energy Theatre

Laughter is definitely in store for you when you check out Collaborative Arts’ latest farce, Incorruptible at Duke Energy Theatre. In the play — described as a “dark comedy about the dark ages” — a one-eyed con man, a mercenary monk, a singing prostitute, a ruthless peasant and a nun from hell must join forces…

Anita Overcash

Capsule reviews of films playing the week of Nov. 3

CASE 39 Case 39 is one of those unwanted Hollywood bastards, a production that was completed years ago and has even been released in other territories but is only now making its stateside debut. Just how old is this picture? Let’s just say that when filming began, David O. Selznick was still combing the country…

Matt Brunson

COMEDY: Mike Birbiglia at Knight Theater

Stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia has some pretty funny stories to tell. He’s shared them on Comedy Central and numerous stages, but only recently has he taken to penning them to paper with his debut book, Sleepwalk With Me And Other Painfully True Stories. Currently on tour in support of his recent work, he’ll stop into…

Anita Overcash

Bunker, Hill and Chaplin box sets among new DVD releases

ALL IN THE FAMILY: THE COMPLETE SEVENTH SEASON (1976-1977). The first six seasons of TV’s all-time greatest sitcom were released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment between March 2002 and February 2007, and then … nothing. Now, finally, comes the long-awaited release of Season Seven, presented not by Sony but by Shout! Factory. (The outfit has…

Matt Brunson

FILM: “The Faces of Afghanistan” film series

The United States has entered the 10th year of its “war on terror” in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden is still on the loose and soldiers and innocent civilians keep getting killed. There’s really no other way to describe the situation than grim. Keeping all this in mind, the Canadian Consul has teamed up with the…

Anita Overcash

Conviction: Far from arresting

The title of the new movie Conviction surely refers more to the actors than to those who toiled on the other side of the camera. Whereas the performers like Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell inhabit their roles with impressive dedication, folks like director Tony Goldwyn and screenwriter Pamela Gray merely seem to be going through…

Matt Brunson

THEATER: Women Who Steal at The Warehouse

With a title like Women Who Steal, you might think that this play — at The Warehouse up at Lake Norman — by Carter W. Lewis is going to involve some hair-pulling. You’ll be surprised to learn that it actually involves two women, Peggy and Karen — the latter who recently committed adultery with the…

Anita Overcash

Murkiness etched in Stone

Has Robert De Niro been replaced by a pod person straight out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Once a national treasure, the workaholic actor hasn’t delivered a truly noteworthy performance since Clinton was in the Oval Office. Instead, aside from the occasional jokey turn (e.g. Machete, Stardust), he’s basically relegated himself to somnambular, paycheck-cashing…

Matt Brunson

MUSIC: Vonnegutt at Tremont Music Hall

Alternative is just a lazy way to describe this hip-hop/electronic band but Vonnegutt is working its way into becoming a household name. After rocking alongside Big Boi on “Follow Us” from his album, Sir Lucious Left Foot…Son of Chico Dusty, the group is proving to be more than just the white guys on his Purple…

Mike McCray

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger one of Woody’s worst

Easily Woody Allen’s raunchiest film, 1972’s hilarious Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) features such outrageous — and outrageously original — gags as a gigantic, Kafka-by-way-of-Roth female breast terrorizing the countryside and a sperm (played by Allen) afraid that his host body’s masturbatory ways might result in his…

Matt Brunson

FILM: Eraserhead at The Light Factory

The Light Factory’s “Dreams in Motion” film series continues this week with a screening of the 1976 film, Eraserhead. Directed by David Lynch, the surrealistic flick follows a man’s bizarre dream — or better said, nightmare. From strange sinful creatures to worlds within worlds, it’s a little confusing and scary, too. Not rated, but includes…

Anita Overcash

The Situation: Diner

While a recent episode of South Park focused on a possible Jersey (Shore) takeover of the U.S., Charlotte got a piece of Jersey when owners Matt King and Steve Estes opened Mattie’s Diner in the NC Music Factory area last summer. Charlotte has had eateries open 24/7 and has also had places with the “diner”…

Tricia Childress

THEATER: Dreamgirls at Belk Theater

Someone had better call the soul patrol, because Belk Theater is about to be invaded. When Broadway’s Dreamgirls arrives in Charlotte you’ll hear catchy, heart-felt tunes (like “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” “One Night Only” and “Listen”) in addition to drama (and lots of it!). The production tells the story of a…

Anita Overcash

3 questions with Teresa Chelko, food stylist

If only more moms had known that their green bean styling prodigy could one day get paid to play with their food, then maybe more of us wouldn’t have been scolded for tampering with our mashed potatoes. As adults, playing with your food for funds is better known as food styling. Food and beverage presentation…

Nicole Pietrantonio

Comic review: Incognito: Bad Influences No. 1

The Deal: Writer Ed Brubaker’s and artist Sean Phillips’ creator-owned, pulp-inspired crime/superhero title Incognito returns for another story arc. The series picks up with reformed villain Zack out of the witness protection program and officially (but hesitantly) working with the good guys. The tale quickly changes course, however, placing our anti-hero back behind “enemy lines.”…

Carlton Hargro

CL previews upcoming concerts

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3 VISART BENEFIT Great Architect is ostensibly fronted by Charlotte’s patron saint of the avant-awesome, Brent Bagwell, but the music here isn’t the circle-skronk you might envision from the group’s bio sheet. There’s plenty of quiet to go along with the storm here — Casey Malone’s delicate, assured angle-sketching is a perfect foil…

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