Oct 21-27, 2015

Oct 21-27, 2015 / Vol. 29 / No. 35

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CL staffers taste test a variety of candy corn

Orange. Yellow. White. Candy corn is as much a symbol of the Halloween season as it is a tasty treat that’s remained consistent for years. Well, at least, until recently. These days, when you walk down the aisles of candy on any October afternoon, you’re as likely to find the traditional style of candy corn…

Jeff Hahne

Mulholland Dr., My Fair Lady, Pixels 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.) IMPROMPTU (1991). Pulitzer Prize winner and Broadway superstar James Lapine (Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George) made his motion picture directorial debut with this thoroughly engaging period piece scripted by…

Matt Brunson

Jem and the Holograms: Make it fade away

JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS * DIRECTED BY Jon M. Chu STARS Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott Jem and the Holograms runs a punishing 118 minutes — that’s the equivalent of watching Rebecca Black’s music video for “Friday” 31 times in a row. Forced to choose at gunpoint, I think I would rather place my chip on…

Matt Brunson

Steve Jobs: Apple core

STEVE JOBS *** DIRECTED BY Danny Boyle STARS Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet As a hardcore movie guy — someone who spends more hours awake in a darkened theater than asleep in a darkened bedroom (well, it feels that way sometimes) — it’s not often I suggest a property should have been sent to the boob…

Matt Brunson

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Oct. 22)

Clean Getaway: You have to get up pretty early in the morning to get one past a Dollar General employee. An employee at an east Charlotte location reportedly caught on to a shoplifter’s game after watching her walk into the store with a seemingly empty purse, leave the store with the purse bulging, then re-enter…

Ryan Pitkin

Weekly horoscope (Oct. 22-28)

For All Signs: Mercury, now traveling through Libra, will be caught up in challenging relationship to both Uranus and Pluto. Negotiations around the world may break down during this period. Symbols suggest problems with electronic and communications equipment. Traffic may be snarled or jammed in numerous places. Misunderstanding each other will be prominent. Don’t go…

Vivian Carol

Grasping at Fidelio; Listening for Coraline

The advantages for relying on readily recognized plays, novels, myths or historical events for operatic storylines become quickly apparent in conventional productions of Beethoven’s Fidelio. When the title character appears in a prison courtyard, we already know the jailer’s young daughter, Marzelline, is dizzily in love with Fidelio, having rejected Jaquino, the jailer’s assistant, as…

Perry Tannenbaum

Twin brothers eye new South End venture

It could be said that the Trierweiler brothers have come a long way since appearing on an MTV docuseries episode titled, True Life: I’m Preparing for the End of the World. Geographically, the statement is certainly true. The 27-year-old twins, Tyler and Vinny, have also spiritually moved past the idea that a chosen group of…

Ryan Pitkin

Lincoln Durham: One-string wonder

It’s a low rumble, akin to a bass guitar. There’s a rhythm to it that can quickly get feet tapping as Lincoln Durham starts singing about a girl named “Annie Departee.” It might take a moment, as you watch Durham tearing into the small guitar he’s holding, before you notice something strange — his guitar…

Jeff Hahne

Moving forward without the mainstream media

Riddle me this, what has thousands of legs and a man in the middle but goes virtually unseen? Are you stumped yet? You’re not alone, because many other folks were having trouble figuring out exactly why the anniversary of the Million Man March was virtually undocumented by any of the mainstream media outlets. But are…

Charles Easley

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