Oct 17-23, 2018
Halloween Guide 2018, Black Wednesday, Corri Smith; Lady Go-Go’s; Tattoo & Arts Festival; Dirty South Revolutionaries
Listen Up: Cuzo Key and FLLS Go ‘Universal’ on ‘Local Vibes’
Local rapper Cuzo Key (second from right) and producer FLLS (second from left) have been kicking it for a while, but once they started making music together, they knew there was something special there. Fast forward to the October release of their new album, Universal Player, on which both of them share the mic, and…
Halloween: The Shape of Things Too Dumb
HALLOWEEN ** (out of four) DIRECTED BY David Gordon Green STARS Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer Well, I guess this is what happens when a valuable franchise is entrusted to the guys who foisted Your Highness upon an unsuspecting world. Despite brandishing the same title, the new Halloween isn’t a remake or a reboot or…
Ant-Man and the Wasp, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Three Identical Strangers among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (2018). With Ant-Man and the Wasp, the Marvel-Disney moneymaking machine doesn’t quite pull off the cinematic hat trick of 2018, instead coming up a few stitches short. Not only…
Listen Up: KANG is Back and Bla/Alt on ‘Local Vibes’
The next Bla/Alt Festival is almost upon us, so we brought on Stephen Tekola and TJ Banks of KANG, who will be continuing their reunion-tour-of-sorts at the festival at Camp North End on Sat., Oct. 20. We talked to the pair about Bla/Alt, how every negative in Charlotte comes with a positive and the growing…
Dirty South Revolutionaries’ Johnny Moss Keeps the Music Coming
It shouldn’t be this way, Johnny Moss thought. It was April 2004, and Moss, founder and front man of veteran punk outfit Dirty South Revolutionaries, was dismayed by what he saw going down at the Punk Strikes Back festival at Tremont Music Hall. The event was meant to celebrate D.I.Y. attitude and music in Charlotte,…
New Tattoo and Arts Festival Looks to Include Everyone, Ink or Not
It’s time to go down the rabbit hole of tattoos and art. The inaugural Queen City Tattoo & Arts Festival Oct. 26-28 is not just for those who took a tattoo machine to their skin to permanently ink themselves forever. United Ink Productions, which organized the festival, moved to the Charlotte area from New York…
Salome’s Stars
Aries (March 21 to April 19) The high standards you set for yourself don’t always translate into the behavior you expect of others. That relationship problem can be resolved if you’re more flexible and less judgmental. Taurus (April 20 to May 20) Not enough party bids to satisfy the Bovine’s fun-loving side this week? Go…
Black Wednesday’s Corri Smith Knows How to Build a Brand… and Throw a Party
Corri Smith is great at a lot of things, but being goth is not one of them. She’s got the style down pat, and has even built her business around the goth aesthetic. But as far as personality goes, she’s far from the stereotypical introvert you might expect of a woman who’s built a brand…
Charlotte’s First Vegan Mexican Food Truck Gets It Just Right
It was a Friday night at Camp North End when another unsuspecting customer fell into Lady Go-Go’s trap. Josh Padgett ordered the Macho Nachos from Yvette Gomez’s food truck, which she runs with the help of her husband, Eric Garcia. He was reluctant to choose Lady Go-Go’s, which prides itself as Charlotte’s only vegan Mexican…
Halloween Guide 2018
We brought you our annual Halloween Guide a little early this year, so you’ve got plenty of time and plenty of options to go get spooked, whether that means going on a bender, taking the kiddos to a family-friendly event or participating in an orgy in a hotel … just try to keep the three…
Simple Rules How Not to Be That Person at a Show
It was a busy week in this nightlife writer’s career. Why, you ask? Live music overload. Wednesday night was Goo Goo Dolls, Saturday night was Breakaway Festival and Sunday was Chris Stapleton. Yeah, my musical flavor has diversified, to say the least. But when I sat down to recap the week/weekend and decide what I…
