Nov 2-8, 2016

Nov 2-8, 2016 / Vol. 30 / No. 37

Doctor Strange: Cloak and Stagger

DOCTOR STRANGE **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Scott Derrickson STARS Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor It’s the R2-D2 of the MCU. It’s Wilson the volleyball in fabric form. It’s the rampaging refrigerator from Requiem for a Dream, if the fridge had only been cuddly and cute instead of monstrous and menacing. It’s the Cloak of…

Matt Brunson

The protest vote

Nearly 300 people showed up to hear Rep. John Lewis, a congressman out of Georgia, speak yesterday at a park in west Charlotte named after Martin Luther King, Jr., with whom Lewis once marched as he did following yesterday’s speech. Lewis was in town to hold a “March to the Polls” campaign event in support…

Ryan Pitkin

The nerd who terrorized New Jersey

I’m not sure how or when such epithets as “Armpit of the East” or “Scrotum of the Nation” rained down on New Jersey, but they were certainly commonplace before the onset of The Sopranos or Chris Christie. It’s also clear that when Lloyd Kaufman and Joe Ritter cooked up their 1984 screenplay for The Toxic…

Perry Tannenbaum

Japanese band, Kikagaku Moyo, hits the East Coast

Members of the Tokyo-based psychedelic rock band Kikagaku Moyo — the name is Japanese for “geometric patterns” — have just finished playing their 20th show on their current North American Tour when I ring them to chat while they’re in transit to their next gig. Go Kurosawa, the band’s drummer, is disoriented, at first stating…

Anita Overcash

Weekly horoscope (Nov. 4-9)

For All Signs: This is it — election time is finally here. I, for one, will be relieved to see it come and go. I have already written that I think Hillary Clinton’s horoscope is the winner. Donald Trump has nowhere to go in an astrological sense. I hasten to add that I am not…

Vivian Carol

Will Human Rights Campaign learn new lesson with Kirk endorsement?

With less than a week before Election Day, we’re finally coming to the conclusion of a long and historic, if frustrating election season. This particular election has taught us a lot about ourselves and our friends, families, neighbors and communities. Even in the waning days of the campaign, lessons continued to be dished out, as…

Matt Comer

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Nov. 3)

Tracked Police last week arrested four males, two of them juveniles, for a string of robberies that occurred over the course of nine days. Reports of the arrest leave one to wonder not how they were caught, but how they were not caught sooner. According to a release following the arrests, the group had called…

Ryan Pitkin

Vivian Howard’s labor of love

Chef Vivian Howard and her husband Ben Knight like to say they had their first child in 2006. That first child was the restaurant, Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, North Carolina. Then their family grew from a wife-husband operated restaurant with 18 employees to a family with two kids, two restaurants with approximately 80…

Courtney Mihocik

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