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Girls will be boys in The Androgynous Model
The first time Sarah “Supa” Stephens wore pants outside of a basketball court, she was 16 years old. The gangly, brown-skinned girl who wore dresses every day furtively jammed a pair of her older brother’s jeans into her bookbag and changed clothes at school, in the girls’ bathroom. “My style was completely boyish: throwback jerseys,…
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
James Dean box set, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, The Right Stuff among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD.) BEFORE MIDNIGHT (2013). The project began with 1995’s Before Sunrise: Written by director Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan, it tells of a chance encounter between a young American named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and a young Frenchwoman named Celine (Julie…
Survey Results: Who do you think would be a good mayor?
Here are some of the responses we received.
Happening today: William Grant and Sons Best Bartender Competition
All contestants’ samples of cocktails will be offered with limited availability, so you might want to get there on time.
Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Initial 2014 MerleFest lineup announced
Alan Jackson named as one of the headliners.
NBC Charlotte obtains confidential information about Elevation Church
The news outlet obtained a 34-page confidential document that shows the church’s expansion plans and how much it gathers in a week from offerings.
First Drip (11/5/13): Election Day information
Where to vote, what to wear (a coat), where to find results, more
Bobcats Week in Review: Rough first week still leaves promise
Being angry that last year’s team still sucks would be counterproductive to watching this year’s team.
Kryptonite Halloween Bash at Neighborhood Theatre (11/2/2013)
Photos from the Glitterati Ball’s Halloween party.
Today’s Top 5: Monday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Live review: Drake, Time Warner Cable Arena (Nov. 2, 2013)
Artist shows of his humility and hits at packed Charlotte concert.
Today’s Top 5: Sunday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Today’s Top 5: Saturday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Bizarre crimes from Charlotte police files (Oct. 31)
Beer tasting: Employees at a local Food Lion called police last week after a man began helping himself to the store’s inventory. Witnesses brought the man to an employee’s attention after they watched him pour two 24-ounce cans of Bud Light he hadn’t bought into a paper cup he brought. The man continued to walk…
12 Years a Slave: Roots writ large
12 YEARS A SLAVE ***1/2 DIRECTED BY Steve McQueen STARS Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender At the risk of sounding flippant, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave will make an excellent bookend piece to Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, once it hits DVD early next year. After all, cinema’s twin purpose is to educate and entertain, and…
Last Vegas: A modest night on the town
LAST VEGAS **1/2 DIRECTED BY Jon Turteltaub STARS Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro The bad news concerning Last Vegas is that it contains a guest appearance by a Viagra pill. It seems that often when a comedy includes an elderly man about to engage in sex, there’s gotta be some sequence in which he proudly…
Exhibit to raise awareness of human trafficking
Human trafficking can happen anywhere – even right here in the Q.C. That’s why Infusion, a women’s ministry of Citylight Charlotte, is taking a stand against the horrific crimes. The organization’s Artist Against Trafficking is an event targeted at raising awareness of sex trafficking. For one-night-only it’s bringing survivors together to showcase artwork of various…
Ender’s Game: Kid stuff
ENDER’S GAME ** DIRECTED BY Gavin Hood STARS Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield It’s been a long time coming, but best-selling author, Brigham Young descendant, former Rhinoceros Times columnist and all-around tool Orson Scott Card has finally decided to let someone make his popular 1985 novel Ender’s Game into a motion picture. Card had held out…
Theater reviews: A Guide to the Newly Dead, Hansel & Gretel, and The Amish Project
No fewer than three companies were offering quickie plays last weekend, all clocking in at 55-67 minutes and richly deserving praise – though some also merited a modicum of caution. The most eagerly awaited was the return of Machine Theatre to Duke Energy Theater with Matt Cosper’s newest foray into the comically surreal, A Guide…
Live review: Cults, Visulite Theatre (10/31/2013)
Band adds to spooky atmosphere of Halloween night.
Sex and pregnancy
We answer all your questions.
Mel Watt, the latest victim of unprecedented Washington gridlock
For the first time in 170 years, Congress denied a member a cabinet-level position
This week’s BNR Weekly (10/31/13): Accessory Gardin’s relaunch, JCSU homecoming and more
It’s the season finale, y’all.
First Drip (11/1/13): food stamp cuts, appliance tax-free weekend, anti-rape garments, more
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Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Paella perfected
Many diners associate paella with the summer months, since this dish is traditionally cooked outside over an open fire in Spain. However, in the U.S., the more popular cooking method is inside over gas burners, thus making paella a perfect dinner choice for cooler autumn evenings. Cooking over a fire or burners allows the rice…
CD Review: The Avett Brothers’ Magpie and the Dandelion
The 11 songs on the Avett Brothers’ eighth studio album were recorded during the same sessions as The Carpenter, which was released in September 2012. Many times, bands will go into the studio with a couple dozen songs and narrow it down to the best of the bunch for an album, so it’s no surprise…
CD Review: Reeve Coobs’ What Love Is All About
It’s well known in certain Charlotte music circles that one of the best voices in town belongs to Reeve Coobs, familiar to most from her work with the folk oufit the Near Misses. Throughout her Misses’ tenure, and as a part-time member of the indie outfit gogoPilot, Coobs’ alto stood out for its clarity, power…
Despite what Kraft says, Food Babe scores victory against company
Kraft will remove artificial dyes from three of its products.
Upcoming: Dining With Friends
The annual event raises money for RAIN.
Live review: Pearl Jam, Time Warner Cable Arena (10/30/2013)
’90s rockers perform nearly three-hour set for sold-out crowd.
Opening Friday
What’s new in theaters this weekend.
First Drip (10/31/13): Sox beat Cards, national intelligence director testifies, Banksy, more
The news you need to know today.
Five comic book films for your Halloween fix
Suggestions include movies starring Johnny Depp, Wesley Snipes and the late Brandon Lee.
Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
Moving Poets back
When the Loaf was still a toddler in 1989, Charlotte Repertory Theatre brought us a Dracula to delight those of us who love Bram Stoker’s novel. Eight years later, Moving Poets Theatre of Dance brought us a Dracula fashioned out of movie memories steeped in the nightmare visions and choreography of Till Schmidt-Rimpler, who had…
October country 1963, pt. 2
In Part 1, 13-year-old John Grooms, two years after his parents’ divorce, is gripped by the 1963 World Series between his beloved Yankees and the Dodgers. The Yanks lose the first two games, and his anxiety ratchets up, but he can’t watch the third game as he’s agreed to attend the Cleveland County Fair with…
The Hot at Nights jump beyond jazz
The Hot at Nights — a Raleigh trio tripping the space between rock, pop and jazz — are one of the area’s most far-flung musical groups. This reality is hammered home by ¡Try This!, their bustling sophomore effort, which pulls a sly 180 with its first two cuts. The opening title track is dogged and…
St. Paul quits his day job
He looks like the bespectacled bank teller/accountant-in-training he was up until March. But when Paul Janeway climbs onstage and opens his mouth, a ’70s soulman comes tumbling out. The Birmingham, Ala., native (nicknamed St. Paul by his bandmates for his tee-totaling habits) is carrying on a tradition that began at Alabama’s Muscle Shoals Sound Studios…
The griddle and the grind behind Wafflez and Wingz
Forty. That’s the number of jobs Rashawn Shivers has worked in his life. He started off at McDonald’s, then Burger King and Pizza Hut. He graduated fast food for skilled trades, going to cosmetology school as a barber, and even the seminary to spread the good word. And he hasn’t limited himself to working for…
Weekly horoscope (Oct. 31-Nov. 6)
Scorpio The Phoenix (Oct. 23-Nov. 20): You have more freedom of motion than you realize. Be careful of what you say and to whom, lest you anger the wrong people. Arrogance is not allowable now. For All Signs: There is a series of seven clashes between Uranus and Pluto which began in 2012. The fourth…
The Official CL Hornets-Bobcats Season Preview
While this team might not be season-ticket worthy just yet, they do warrant attention.
High Plains Drifter, Monsters University, Vincent Price box set among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD.) FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966). With such titles as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, the 1960s proved to be a particularly rich decade for science fiction cinema, and Fantastic Voyage stands as one of the period’s most…
Chris Cornell, Jason Isbell and more headed to Charlotte
A quick rundown of recent concert announcements.
The Pull List (10/30/13): Shop helps famed horror scribe
Comic fans asked to “pay it forward.”
2013 Halloween events in Charlotte
It’s never too early to start thinking about Halloween. After all, it’s only September and many of the haunted attractions in Charlotte and the surrounding area are already starting up. For details on Halloween events – including parties, haunted houses and seasonal activities – check out our big, growing list below. Not on the list?…
First Drip (10/30/13): guns and drugs galore in Hickory, Sebelius apologizes, The Androgynous Model show, more
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Is the local gay rights movement over?
On a recent Tuesday evening, dozens of LGBT community members and leaders gathered at a private home to meet with elected officials and candidates running for City Council. Over wine and hors d’oeuvres, leaders of the Mecklenburg LGBT Political Action Committee announced the results of their annual candidate questionnaire — which asks candidates to weigh…
Some Kind of Monsters
My kids are insane, brilliant manipulators. And the more I teach them, the better they are at destroying my household and my sanity. Now that my oldest son can read, he’s like a tiny blonde dictator, issuing orders to his subordinates and leaving cryptic notes around the house like, “The spoon is in the bathroom.”…
