Sep 12-18, 2018
Fall Guide 2018; SideNote, Bush Fest; Town Brewing; VisArt Video; Shannon Huneycutt, KonMari; Confidence (and the Speech)
Florence and the Media Machine
In a video posted to Twitter by Fox46’s Page Fehling on Monday, residents of the Carmel neighborhood in south Charlotte can be seen lifting their pets above the waist-high floodwater in order to evacuate their homes. Other posts showed flooding at multiple sites along Little Sugar Creek, a water main break in University City and…
The Predator: A Crying Shane
THE PREDATOR ** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Shane Black STARS Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn Far be it for me to engage in spoilers right off the bat, so let’s keep this vague and just state that a particular character in The Predator, the latest in the stop-start series that began back in 1987, dies.…
A Simple Favor: A (Blake) Lively Endeavor
A SIMPLE FAVOR *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Paul Feig STARS Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively Far from a cookie-cutter comedy that rolled straight off the Hollywood assembly line, A Simple Favor is basically Gone Girl if it had been played for laughs instead of thrills. Yet even that description doesn’t hint at the dark…
Deep Red, Ocean’s 8, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 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.) DEEP RED (1975). Arrow Video goes 3-for-3 with Dario Argento in 2018, as the label follows up its recent Blu-ray releases of the Italian filmmaker’s ‘70s gems The Bird with the Crystal Plumage…
How Charlotte Is Preparing for “The Storm of a Lifetime”
The weather this week has been extremely sunny. Giant, fluffy clouds are gracing bright blue skies, while the temperature has been hanging out in the upper 80s. While this typical North Carolinian weather could trick you into believing that there isn’t a giant hurricane racing toward the Carolinas this week, anyone not living under a…
Listen Up: Matt Hylom Gets in the Headspace on ‘Local Vibes’
In the lead up to Hurricane Florence, we hunkered down in the Hygge West podcast studio to talk to Matt Hylom about his new banger, “Headspace,” his new approach to releasing music and why you’ve definitely heard his music whether you know it or not. Be sure to check out the rest of the…
SideNote Continues to Progress with Upcoming Mixtape, Bush Fest Performance
As Autumn Millner and Summer Windham sit together in a Creative Loafing conference room on a Friday afternoon, it’s easy to imagine what it must have looked like in the Spanish class they met in during sophomore year at East Mecklenburg High School in 2006. The two have just finished a photo shoot for the…
Salome’s Stars
Aries (March 21 to April 19) The changing season brings new experiences as well as challenges for the ever-adventurous Aries. Your social life expands, as do the opportunities at your workplace. Taurus (April 20 to May 20) That recent period of uncertainty has passed. You now can now feel more confident about making decisions, especially…
Charlotte’s First Certified KonMari Consultant Was Made For This Job
Shannon Huneycutt came here to do two things: teach and organize. As a little girl growing up in West Virginia, Huneycutt created an entire classroom in the basement of her parents’ mountain home. There weren’t many other kids around to fill the seats, but that was fine with her. She just needed the room. “Instead…
Hunkering Down for a Hurricane With Some Furry Friends
Last year, when Hurricane Maria hit the East Coast, I had plans to be on a Trolley Pub Charlotte crawl. No joke. However, I went to IKEA first. I went to the retail rabbit hole for two reasons: to procrastinate on drinking and to eat some delectable Swedish meatballs. Throughout my stay at IKEA, multiple…
VisArt Video Focuses on the Future
Mickey Aberman paraphrases Mark Twain when he looks at the ups and downs of owning Charlotte’s most beloved and hip video store VisArt Video. “Reports of VisArt’s demise have been greatly exaggerated,” Aberman says with a chuckle. In fact, the independent video store, which stocks over 40,000 titles in categories including foreign, cult, documentary and…
New West Charlotte Brewery Starts Pouring This Month
Even if you don’t like beer, Town Brewing hopes to help you discover your palate. Operations manager Heather Wendrow and head brewer Brian Quinn are focused on educating the staff on beer styles and flavors to help those who come through the doors find a beer that they didn’t know they liked. “When someone comes…
