Oct 25-31, 2017
Halloween Guide 2017
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Halloween Guide 2017
We’ve got a comprehensive list of the coolest shit happening for halloween weekend, and it ranges from family fun to not safe for work. Abari Movie Nights If you’re reading this, it’s already too late … to catch Abari Movie Night #1. Lucky for you, there’s still two more. Everyone’s favorite arcade bar will be…
Suburbicon: Awful, By George
SUBURBICON * (out of four) DIRECTED BY George Clooney STARS Matt Damon, Julianne Moore The original script for Suburbicon was written by Joel and Ethan Coen back in 1986, shortly after the dynamic duo flashed their calling card in the form of their debut beauty, 1985’s Blood Simple. Shelving the script, the siblings instead moved…
Goodbye Christopher Robin: And Tigger, Too
GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Simon Curtis STARS Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie Goodbye Christopher Robin is a film of several stories and many moods. It’s a biopic of author A.A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson), best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh. It’s a story of PTSD, as Milne suffers from…
VIDEO PREMIERE: Charlotte’s Th3 Higher Share “Lessons” in Their New #1SongAWeekChallenge
Charlotte rap duo Th3 Higher have released a video centering on the life lessons the two have learned, not just as musicians, but as friends and fellow human beings, during their time together honing their craft from their teens to early adulthood. Produced by Shane Hush, the video for “Lessons” — which begins with the words…
Barry Lyndon, The Beguiled, The Green Slime among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray, DVD and Streaming. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) BARRY LYNDON (1975). Stanley Kubrick made his fair share of controversial conversation starters – everything from Lolita and 2001: A Space Oddity to A Clockwork Orange and Eyes Wide Shut – but…
VIDEO: The Eyebrows Set to Perform in Conjunction with Birdsong Beer Release
Charlotte rock trio The Eyebrows are now the latest local musicians to be honored by Birdsong Brewing Company with a brew of their own: Red Dress, an ESB Hemp style beer. The brewery will tap Red Dress this evening in the lead-up to a 7 p.m. Eyebrows performance that will surely include the song the…
Listen Up: Nic Robinson Gets Down to Business on ‘Local Vibes’
We took a week off to bring you the Best of Charlotte issue, but we’re back for a great conversation with Nic Robinson, frontman of The Business People, about his bromance with former TBP guitarist Will Schoonmaker, getting on stage with Delta Spirt and — our favorite topic on Local Vibes — the CLT music…
Salome’s Stars
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Your honesty continues to impress everyone who needs reassurance about a project. But be careful you don’t lose patience with those who are still not ready to act. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Pushing others too hard to do things your way could cause resentment and raise more…
Pissed Off Panthers Fans Want to Fly Mike Shula Out of Town
Following Sunday’s debacle of a Carolina Panthers game against the Chicago Bears, in which the Panthers failed to score a touchdown and lost to a team that only managed five first downs the entire game, Carolina fans are heated. Ogi “David” Davidovich is one fan who has since decided to put his (and everyone else’s)…
The Time is Right for Local Twists on Witch Hunts and Migrant Indignities
We can’t explain this curious phenomenon, but the Queen City’s performing arts companies seem to have outgrown their customary October fixations with vampires and spooks. Instead, this coming Halloween weekend, if not entirely witch-free, will be more haunted by a swarm of classics. At Central Piedmont Community College, CPCC Theatre presents The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s…
Best of Charlotte and Bla/Alt Fest Showed What Charlotte Could Be
The weekend of October 20 was a big one, both for Creative Loafing and for some of our more avid readers, followers and subjects of stories. On Friday, our Best of Charlotte issue was on the stands and our annual BOC party was in full effect. The winners of some of our favorite categories —…
‘Impossible Burger’ Will Give You an Authentic Hamburgasm
I have tasted the future of fake meat, and it did not suck. It’s been a year since the Impossible Burger made its debut, after five years of buzz. From the beginning, Impossible Foods, which makes the plant-based burger, had vowed to do what many considered to be impossible: create a faux paddy that was…
How Erykah Badu Inspired Ali Steele’s Musical Journey
“My parents never introduced me to African history or African pride,” Ali Steele says. “So as a young black male, I grew up really depressed and had low self-esteem.” Steele, a Charlotte R&B and neosoul singer who has appeared on recordings by numerous local artists including rapper Black Linen, is perched on a folding chair…
The Blotter: Ghoulish Behavior
Deflated The Halloween season is upon us, and that means vandals terrorizing Charlotte suburbs, running around stealing and destroying all the crazy and spooky yard decorations they can find. In the Wildwoods neighborhood of east Charlotte, a 47-year-old woman reported that her Mickey and Minnie Mouse blow up decoration, along with her puppy dog skeleton…
Charlotte Uprising Protesters Prepare for Upcoming Trials
On a sunny but chilly October morning in 2016, Glo Merriweather stood on E. 4th Street in Uptown Charlotte wearing a black hoodie over a black shirt that read “Stop Killing Black People” and camouflage pants. Merriweather’s militant attire and afroed hairstyle was reminiscent of the Black Panthers, but speaking to Creative Loafing in the…
Be Careful with your Main Squeeze
In a frank exchange early in our courtship, I told my girlfriend that I have no kinks. As a faithful reader of Savage Love, I’m obviously not opposed to kinks — but I’ve never had any inclinations in that direction and am probably a typical hetero vanilla. As a result, I’m damn near clueless in…
Dating Horror Stories from the Queen City
Usually this week’s column is dedicated to discussing all the Halloween festivities going on in the Q.C. I’ve talked up Rich & Bennett’s Halloween Pub Crawl. I’ve reminisced on dressing up in a multitude of costumes in a single weekend with the P.I.C. and described costume malfunctions that make Janet Jackson look like Tami Fitzgerald.…
