Sep 14-21, 2016

Sep 14-21, 2016 / Vol. 30 / No. 30

Blair Witch: Into the woods … again

BLAIR WITCH ** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Adam Wingard STARS James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez To quote B.B. King, “The thrill is gone.” When The Blair Witch Project debuted in 1999, it created quite a sensation on a number of fronts. It brilliantly used the Internet to promote itself in unique ways. It exposed…

Matt Brunson

Snowden: Stone cold storytelling

SNOWDEN *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Oliver Stone STARS Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley It’s no match for 2014’s Citizenfour, the Edward Snowden confessional that nabbed the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, but let’s say this about Snowden: It’s the best movie Oliver Stone has helmed since the 20th century. While it lacks the emotional…

Matt Brunson

Bridget Jones’s Baby: Pregnant with possibilities

BRIDGET JONES’S BABY *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Sharon Maguire STARS Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth It’s been 12 years since we’ve last seen Bridget Jones, and while that comes close to the 16 years since we last spotted the Blair Witch, it must be noted that the plucky Brit has certainly held up better.…

Matt Brunson

Southern Culture on the Skids’ The Electric Pinecones

Anyone who ever had the chance to see Southern Culture on the Skids’ alter ego, The Pinecones, perform will get their memory jogged on SCOTS’ new album, The Electric Pinecones. In the past, the band opened sets for themsevles under the moniker, delivering a swampy, and more ’60s surf pop rock feel. That’s become a…

Anita Overcash

Reviews of Saturday Night Fever and 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche

John Travolta at his peak: has there ever been anyone like him? The ruggedness, the grace, the strut, the conceit, and the boyish charisma — all of these studmuffin assets uniquely tinged with a robust Brooklynese vulgarity that took America by storm from the moment Welcome Back, Kotter hit the airwaves in 1975. But the…

Perry Tannenbaum

10 String Symphony creates a world of sound

Former Illinois State Old Time Fiddle Champion Rachel Baiman knew she wasn’t cut out to be a classical violinist. “When I went to college (as an anthropology major at Vanderbilt), I took a secondary degree in music,” says Baiman, one half of alternative folk duo 10 String Symphony. “They had core requirements, one of which…

Pat Moran

Three Questions For Jamarr Shular, chef at NoCA Uptown

Before leaving California, Jamarr Shular was on top of the world: he was a regaled chef at Apple’s Cupertino campus, and he had a resume that would leave any foodie drooling. So why did the Le Cordon Bleu-educated chef decide to leave it all and take a gamble on the Queen City? For Shular, it…

Madeline Lemieux

Kitchen Scholars of the Q.C.

Buses rumble down the street, backpacks overflow with books and papers, last-minute morning scrambles have begun. School’s back in session, but there’s more than Spanish verb conjugations and Important Historical Trends on the syllabus. In this foodie town of ours, plenty of eager learners are gobbling up knowledge about what’s on their plates. Now, we…

Alison Leininger

Weekly horoscope (Sept. 15-21)

For All Signs: On Sept. 16 we will experience the eclipsed full moon in Pisces. It imparts the message of the Pisces/Virgo axis of the zodiac: Have we sewn enough of the right seeds, watered at the right time, and cleared enough weeds from our gardens (lives) to produce a good crop for the winter?…

Vivian Carol

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