Oct 15-21, 2014

Oct 15-21, 2014 / Vol. 28 / No. 34

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Marriage equality comes to North Carolina

The small crowd of couples and reporters outside the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds persistently checked their phones, anxiously awaiting the news. Some thought for sure it would come Thursday. When nothing had happened by Friday morning, people started throwing out unofficial deadlines. Certainly the federal judge who, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to…

Ana McKenzie

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: A Cut Above The Rest

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974)***1/2DIRECTED BY Tobe HooperSTARS Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen When the horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was initially released in 1974, it caught audiences completely off guard. Even coming on the heels of 1973’s The Exorcist, which did its own share of seat-clearing, this one emerged as a lightning…

Matt Brunson

Fury: A Direct Hit

FURY***DIRECTED BY David AyerSTARS Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman There are several moments in writer-director David Ayer’s World War II drama Fury that prove to be so brutal, direct and uncompromising, they make Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan seem as mirthful as the Abbott and Costello romp Buck Privates by comparison. And if that sounds like…

Matt Brunson

Weekly horoscope (Oct. 16-22)

For All Signs: Mercury, ancient messenger god, is unusually busy throughout this week. This suggests that many of us will be preoccupied with communication of one form or another. There may be many phone calls, messages, letters, quick conversations, rapid conclusions, and/or papers to write. The period is favorable for probing into causes and researching…

Vivian Carol

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Oct. 16)

Rain, rain go away: A man presumably seeking shelter from the elements decided a regular ol’ umbrella wasn’t going to cut it. While reviewing video surveillance footage, a local realty management company found out he rode up to the business in a mountain bike and rode off with an umbrella that had been protecting a…

Ana McKenzie

Nano’s Dominican Cuisine pushes NoDa’s culinary boundaries

Then restaurateur and Dominican native Dalton Espaillat bought a failing Mexican restaurant and turned it into the successful Three Amigos in 2010 he successfully coaxed, psychologically if not technically, the boundaries of Plaza Midwood to encompass his restaurant. Now, he is trying to extend the NoDa mindset to “annex” Nano’s Dominican Cuisine, a restaurant he…

Tricia Childress

Sons of Bill’s sibling rivalries

Sibling rivalries may wreak havoc in countless households, but for some bands those tensions grow tenfold on stage, in tour busses and at recording studios. Sons of Bill rhythm guitarist James Wilson found himself mired in such spats while with not one but two of his brotherly bandmates as the Americana troop recorded their latest…

Kyle Mullin

For the Good Times

Psychological research suggests that the first five years of your life are the most influential in your development as a person. So it probably doesn’t bode well for me that I spent mine living in a bar. The bar was called Bud’s Tavern, and it sat on a residential street in a part of Cleveland…

Nancy Floyd

Judah & The Lion’s simple feel-good folk

The collective journey for the three members of Judah and the Lion started in three different sides of the country, but truly began when they came together through mutual friends while attending Belmont University in Nashville back in 2011. For a month now, the road has been the bandmate’s office, their playground and their home…

David Aurelius

Monday Night Mic Fights fades away

There was a time when Monday Night Mic Fights seemed unstoppable. No matter how many venues kicked the weekly event out, no matter how much Charlotte tried to make hip-hop a dirty word, no matter how much the press ignored it, it rose like a phoenix and pressed on for more than 10 years. This…

Erin Tracy-Blackwood

CD review: You + Me’s Rose Ave.

Early last year, Pink (Alecia Moore) brought her acrobatic tour to Time Warner Cable Arena with opening act City and Colour (Dallas Green). It seemed like a bit of an odd fit — Top 40 pop songstress with folk singer-songwriter — but most people didn’t give it a second thought. Now, though, it makes a…

Jeff Hahne

Q’s Harlem dream remains deferred

When On Q Performing Arts premiered For the Love of Harlem three years ago, the new musical had nearly everything. Start with the scintillating choreography by LaTanya Johnson and the rousing music by Tyrone Jefferson and his Sign of the Times Band, with lyrics by Jermaine Nakia Lee. They all came together spectacularly in the…

Perry Tannenbaum

Nothing alarming about British Invasion

There are no rebellious youths or angry protesting mobs in this British Invasion at Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. Instead, the exhibit — which opened in September — gives viewers a glimpse at 11 influential post-World War II artists. It’s a tame collection of 56 works, spanning from the 1950s through 1970s, that includes prints,…

Anita Overcash

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