Oct 13-19, 2016

Oct 13-19, 2016 / Vol. 30 / No. 34

Today’s Top 5: Tuesday

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Oct. 18, 2016 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing. • Henry Rollins at McGlohon Theatre • Slinging Mud: Bumper Stickers as Political Weapons at The Charlotte Museum of History • Bingo at Killington’s • Open Mic at Puckett’s Farm…

Anita Overcash

The Accountant doesn’t always add up

THE ACCOUNTANT **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Gavin O’Connor STARS Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick Smart movies tend to offer intriguing setups, unique central characters and tantalizing plot pirouettes. By those standards, The Accountant is a smart movie. But smart movies also tend to avoid offering obvious patterns, imbecilic narrative coincidences, and imploding third acts.…

Matt Brunson

Weekly horoscope (Oct. 13-19)

For All Signs: Venus, the goddess of love, is caught between the crosshairs of Saturn and Pluto. Venus rules romance, loving relationships, available money supply, beauty, and luxuries. Saturn and Pluto add lack of tolerance and manipulation in relationships. This suggests a time for serious game playing and lack of authenticity among us. It can…

Vivian Carol

Time to Bassh

When Jimmy Brown and CJ Hardee started writing more aggressive alt-rock tunes, they weren’t sure what to do with them. They didn’t fit with the folk/pop rock sounds of Matrimony (fronted by Brown and wife, Ashlee Hardee), the band they were both currently in. And yet Brown, a Belfast, Ireland native, kept writing them on…

Anita Overcash

Elevator Jay’s Slurred in Mecklenburg

In the summer of 2015, Charlotte rapper Elevator Jay made waves in the local hip-hop scene by dropping Sum’na Say, a bouncing and colorful album marked by syruppy Southern production and razor-sharp delivery, both courtesy of Elevator himself. About two months ago — yes, we’re late, a lot’s been happening in our fair city —…

Andy Goh

Getting crabby

Though fall Has finally arrived in the Queen City, some of us aren’t quite ready to dive head first into the pumpkin spice latte and blanket scarf season. For those folks who are dragging behind, I highly recommend feasting on all-you-can-eat crab legs. While a crab leg feast is reminiscent of summer’s long, sunny days,…

Chrissie Nelson Rotko

A moment of recognition from one of the privileged

Let me tell you about the day I understood my white privilege. It wasn’t even in the States. It was in Paris, 20 years ago. On December 3rd, 1996, a bomb went off in the Metro. The state responded with the usual actions, including bringing in the army. This meant that major metro and train…

Alison Leininger

Day of the Almost Dead

Many Americans would rather not think or talk about death, even though it’s the only certainty in life. (I used to think taxes were the other — that is, until Donald Trump proved that theory wrong.) Charlotte artist Julio Gonzalez, 38, wants us to “look at life through the lens of death.” Carpe diem, everybody.…

Page Leggett

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Oct. 13)

Out of Time A 66-year-old woman returned to her southeast Charlotte home last week to find that she had been robbed … sort of. The woman’s 32-inch flat-screen television was nowhere to be found when she came home, but there was no evidence of any break-in. Later, a family member admitted that he had pawned…

Ryan Pitkin

Larkin Duran is keeping the reins at Lupie’s Cafe

When Lupie Duran, owner of Lupie’s Café in east Charlotte, broke both ankles in an accident early in 2015, it was time for her daughter Larkin Duran to step up and run things for a while. In the following months, as Lupie recovered, she realized that her daughter was handling things well enough on her…

Ryan Pitkin

Art Chansky discusses Game Changers

At a basketball game in February 1969 in Columbia, South Carolina, now-legendary University of North Carolina coach Dean Smith lost his cool completely. It had been a tight game, but Smith could handle that. It was the racial abuse from the crowd that he couldn’t take. They’d been cursing and shouting the n-word the whole…

Corbie Hill

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