Bleachers rocks The Fillmore for a good cause
Jack Antonoff and company perform as part of the first night of 1065 The End’s Not So Acoustic Christmas.
Listen Up: Deion Reverie Goes From Hardcore to Smooth on ‘Local Vibes’
For episode 18, Deion Reverie came through to talk about growing up in tiny Pageland, South Carolina, and how that inspired him to be proactive in his DIY music style. We also touch on his transition from folk to screamo to R&B and his progress from the hometown watermelon festival to being a regular on…
News of the Weird: Roll a Turkey
Traditions The 72nd annual Yellville (Arkansas) Turkey Trot, which took place on Oct. 14, is famous for its Turkey Drop, in which live turkeys are dropped from a low-flying airplane and then chased by festivalgoers. This year, KY3.com reports, several turkeys were dropped during the afternoon despite animal-rights activists having filed a formal complaint with…
Last Flag Flying: Soldiering On
LAST FLAG FLYING *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Richard Linklater STARS Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston With such titles as Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! and the masterful Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy, writer-director Richard Linklater has spent the majority of his career focusing on the experiences of the young and the restless. Last Flag Flying…
Desert Hearts, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, final MST3K set among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray, DVD and Streaming. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) DESERT HEARTS (1985). Back in the 1980s, movies that centered on lesbians were even more alien to the cinematic landscape than movies that centered on actual aliens. As nothing has really changed…
The Blotter: Catching a Ride
Fill Her Up A 47-year-old woman fell victim to a patient car thief last week in northwest Charlotte after pumping her gas. The woman told police that she had just finished filling her car up with gas at a Shell gas station on Brookshire Boulevard when a man ran up and hopped into the front…
A Little Pre-Thanksgiving Family Turn-up Time
Did you know Fantasia Barrino, the winner American Idol season 3, lives in the Queen City? Well, anyone who kept up with her or who’s a Charlottean probably does, and that includes my mom. A few weeks ago, she sent me a link to an event and asked me if I wanted to go. I…
There’s More to Iz-Real the Poet’s Erotic Burlesque Show Than Meets the Eye
“What I’ve learned is, sex sells,” Courtney Longmire says. The 27-year-old Charlotte writer, who performs as Iz-Real the Poet, may be making an understatement. Hot on the heels of his sold out, standing-room-only erotic burlesque show in Baltimore, the self-styled Sexy Life Style Specialist is promoting a series of Queen City performances he calls Sensual…
5 Turkey Day Options That Don’t Involve Your Racist Uncle
You really do want to give thanks, but you don’t want to give it along with that racist, homophobic uncle who will surely find a way to thank Trump along with God when saying grace. Don’t worry: Creative Loafing has your back. There are plenty of places to go and things to do on Thanksgiving…
Common Market Offers Up a Haven for the Wayward on Thanksgiving
When Blake Barnes opened Common Market on December 8, 2002, he didn’t expect it to eventually become the go-to Thanksgiving hangout spot for folks with no family plans. But he couldn’t afford for it not to be. Barnes never closes up his little beer shop and deli on Commonwealth Avenue in Plaza Midwood, and that…
Charlotteans Work to Address Startling Gap in Childhood Literacy
It’s a recent Friday night in the Power 98 studios and Nikki Davis, known on the radio as Ya Girl Nikki, is keeping her energy levels high against all odds. The previous night, Davis had worked her normal shift from 7 p.m. to midnight, and then headed straight to an afterparty for the Jay-Z concert…
What’s Up with Miami Dice?
When singers Dexter Jordan and Deion Reverie open this week for Charlotte’s Miami Dice and Boston’s Smoota — the Harvard-educated trombonist and groove merchant who’s been likened to Serge Gainsbourg, Barry White, Bryan Ferry, Peaches and Beck — you can expect a Love Boat-load of sexy and sensual R&B, self-consciously playful disco, and lots of…
A Mother’s Love Gently Guides R&B Singer Dexter Jordan to the Next Level
The 13-year-old singer had heard all the mythic tales. Of Mahalia Jackson. Of Michael Jackson. And now it was his turn — Dexter Jordan’s — to hit the storied stage of the Apollo Theater, the legendary music hall at 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in New York’s Harlem.…
Yes, You Can be Grateful on Thanksgiving 2017
“Just wait till you have bills to pay and a family to support!” my dad would shout over his turkey and dressing during the Thanksgiving dinners of my youth. Dad, a forty-something fiscal conservative, and I, a twenty-something leftist English major, would spend entire Thanksgiving holidays arguing about Reaganomics, the Iran-Contra scandal and welfare. My…
LeAnna Eden & The Garden Of Rocks the Bla/Alt Fest
LeAnna Eden debuted a new lineup of her band The Garden Of at the Bla/Alt Black Alternative Music Festival on Oct. 21, 2017. Watch two songs from that performance featuring Deion Funderbuk (aka Deion Revere) on bass and Kynadi Hankins (of Blame the Youth) on drums. Related Stories
