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Charlotte’s all-time greatest sex scandals
It’s astonishing to hear so many Charlotteans react to the Gen. Petraeus/Paula Broadwell revelations by repeating the same old theme: Who’d-a thought buttoned-down Charlotte could be entangled in such a high-profile sex scandal? To which I say, “You haven’t been here long, have you?” Conservative Southerners often tout this area as a bedrock of religion,…
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Super sexy solar all over the place!
How can we get our own Ivanpah Solar Power Facility?
Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Review: The Coup’s Sorry to Bother You
When Public Enemy sounded its dire alarms in the late ’80s, the group’s political messages came over dense layers of air-raid sirens, screeching subway-station noise, clashing samples and booming bass. It wasn’t exactly dance music; it was more the kind of music you stood in awe of. You could chant along to “Don’t Believe the…
Latin American Coalition honors immigrants through fundraiser
Do it for your grandmother, your sister, your dad – or yourself
Red Pump/Red Tie Gala, 12/1/12
Photos from the annual benefit gala.
Local Discovery: That’s my jam!
This & That Jam is putting a new twist on the CSA concept with artisan, small batch preserves delivered monthly to your doorstep.
Today’s Top 5: Monday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Forum on fiscal cliff a flop
The Charlotte Observer held a public forum Friday night where former and current members of Congress addressed the impending fiscal cliff of doom and lack of bipartisanship in Washington. While I was not expecting to leave feeling like all our nation’s problems had been or would be solved, I thought I’d at least be provided…
IMO, AZN iz GR8T
Nothing brings the present into a conversation like texting. When Raymond and Anna Hsu were looking for a name for their new restaurant concept, their son offered AZN, the text lingo for Asian. This past October, the Hsus opened their second AZN Azian Cuisine, in SouthPark. The first is in Naples, Fla. There’s no mistaking…
Five tips for introducing friends to craft beer
Someone once told me that you can’t convert every beer drinker into a craft beer drinker. The more I’ve thought about that statement, the more I’ve come to realize it’s one of those dangerous half-truths. Can I convert every beer drinker into a craft beer hobbyist? Absolutely not. But saying that beer drinkers, for some…
Amortegui debuts new artwork
The Beauty of the Beast opens at Cosmos Cafe on Dec. 1.
Israeli film focuses on healing
Charlotte Film Society presents Seven Minutes in Heaven.
Weekend Film Review: Anna Karenina; plus, film gift guide
Leo Tolstoy at the theaters; Mel Brooks, Alfred Hitchcock and James Bond at home
Greenpeace reacts to Jim Rogers’ retirement from Duke Energy
“It is in the interest of ratepayers, shareholders and our environment that Rogers and the next CEO chart a course away from coal, nuclear and gas-fired electricity”
Anna Karenina: From Russia with love
ANNA KARENINA *** DIRECTED BY Joe Wright STARS Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson The decision by director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard to add experimental artifice to their screen version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina will strike open-minded viewers as a harmless exercise in gilding the lily. Those less charitable, however, will see it as…
5Church does brunch right
Uptown restaurant begins serving brunch on Saturdays.
Question the Queen City: What remains of PTL?
Heritage USA’s infrastructure – some in use, the rest in ruins – stands as a creepy reminder of one of Charlotte’s biggest scandals
Theater review: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
On Q presents vividly imagined, meticulously produced show.
Three chances to see Black Nativity
Tomorrow’s R.O.A.D. (Roots Of the African Diaspora) performs the holiday show at McGlohon Theater.
Barbie visits Women Centered Art
Focused exhibit will feature a variety of women-related works.
Upcoming: Sparkling wine tasting at Vin Master
Just in time for end-of-the-year celebrations: Bubble Bonanza.
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Rodney King and the Twilight zone
Every day, there’s some new video going viral, receiving millions of views on the Internet because something about it — a humorous display, an outrageous feat or gratuitous violence — draws in viewers who can’t turn away. Yet long before there were websites like YouTube or Vimeo, and years before there was the ability to…
Is it hot in here?
Three years ago, my employer politely forced all the workers to undergo a mandatory, eight-hour diversity training session. When I got there, I found a room full of multicolored faces listening intently to the facilitators discussing the importance of cultural unity within the work place. Everyone was über pleasant and adamantly denied the capability of…
Holiday Cookie Recipe: Gingersnaps
Dairy-free and amazing.
Opening Friday
What’s new in theaters this weekend.
Some N.C. legislators willing to compromise to avoid fiscal cliff
Otherwise taxes will increase for every American. Merry Christmas!
Label, 11/28/12
Photos from S.I.N.
Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
This week’s concert listings (Nov. 29-Dec. 5)
** Bullet points indicate CL’s critics’ picks** Thursday, Nov. 29 Blues/Roots/International El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (Label) Latin Thursdays (Dream Nightclub, Matthews) Classical/Jazz/Smooth Beats and Keys (Encore Bistro and Bar) Charlotte Symphony Pops: Magic of Christmas (Belk Theater) John Alexander (Blue Restaurant & Bar) Country/Folk * Bank Cormorants, Barbed Wires (Evening Muse) Open Mic…
Weekly horoscope (Nov. 29-Dec. 5)
Sagittarius The Archer (Nov. 22-Dec. 20)Your personal identity is the subject under consideration. Who are you becoming and who do you need to be? How do you wish to define yourself before the world? How can you develop an individual identity that is workable while simultaneously maintaining a personally rewarding relationship? For All Signs: Eclipses…
Big Gigantic offers saxual healing
Synth riffs splash across the soundscape and a low drone builds toward a steady beat that gets heavier as the bass drum kicks in and cymbals crash. Just as the electronic layers fully form, it happens — a saxophone brings a new dimension to the song … Yes, a saxophone. Boulder, Colo., duo Big Gigantic,…
Review: Bank Cormorants’ Madonna and Rose
Madonna and Rose is not what you’d expect as a Christmas present from David Childers. His previous work has been so rough and bleak that this turnaround is like David Allen Coe releasing a holiday disc of his own. Childers’ new band The Bank Cormorants — named for a Namibian bird on the endangered species…
Republican National Committee coming to Charlotte
Here we go again
North Carolina renewable-energy standards under attack
Conservative lobbyists and think tanks, including ALEC, are teaming up to draft legislation that would reverse such standards
Sets appeal: Gift guide for the movie lover
Let me start with an apology. In these cash-strapped times, the point of these so-called holiday gift guides is often to showcase quality items offered at low prices, thus allowing consumers to blanket friends and family members with affordable presents while retaining a few bills in the wallet. That’s not the case here. Sorry. The…
Fort Mill man arrested for being the Willy Wonka of drugs
Travis John Nelson, you got some ‘splainin’ to do
An open letter to Suzanne Venker
The Fox News columnist and author of a controversial blog called “The War on Men” really ruffled my lady feathers
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
