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Behind the seams of Charlotte’s fashion scene
When Raquel Novo moved to Charlotte for the first time in 2004 for her husband’s job, she had been traveling the world as a professional model and fashion television hostess. Over the years, her look has ranged from conservative to a little edgy. Currently, she sports a funky Mohawk and a sleeve on her right…
Local actor and activist issues ‘The Charlie Chaplin Challenge’
“That five minute speech should have changed the world in a way that makes where we are now feel shameful,” Walker says.
Hanging out in NoDa? Better not park at the Y
Come Oct. 1, you’ll need a parking permit to stow your car at the Johnston Y during operating hours.
Photos: Fresh Tide: Art + Music + Stuff at Neighborhood Theatre, 9/21/2014
Fresh Tide brings waves of art into Neighborhood Theatre.
The Dogs of War, Eraserhead, Meteor among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray and DVD.) THE DOGS OF WAR (1980). Two years removed from his Oscar-winning supporting turn in 1978’s The Deer Hunter, Christopher Walken landed his first starring role in this accomplished adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s bestselling novel. Walken plays Jamie Shannon, a…
#hashtaghungry: SABOR Latino, 4th annual University Taste, more
Each week, The Social Eater picks a handful of filter-friendly, tweetable, social media-shareable foodie events in and around the city.
First Notes (9/23/2014): Details on that Pink Floyd album, more
The latest in music happenings around the world.
Today’s Top 5: Tuesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
First Drip (9/23/14): City to stop paying for CMPD officer’s legal fees, challenges to climate change, more
The news you need to know today.
Theater review: 101 Dalmatians and Fuddy Meers
As Children’s Theatre of Charlotte was opening its 2014-15 season with a spanking new musical adaptation of 101 Dalmatians, it’s worth noting that Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte was concluding a four-weekend run of another season opener, River City. You could say this represents a milestone for our local theatre scene, two homegrown professional-grade world premieres…
Today’s Top 5: Monday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
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.
Theater review: Intro to LIT One-Act Festival
A new conspiracy in NoDa.
This is Where I Leave You: Gall in the Family
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU*1/2DIRECTED BY Shawn LevySTARS Jason Bateman, Tina Fey The new seriocomedy This Is Where I Leave You is packed to the rafters with insufferable characters, and the youngest of these offenders is a small tyke who’s always shown sitting on his portable toilet trying to poop. This leads to the…
Love Is Strange, and worthwhile
LOVE IS STRANGE***DIRECTED BY Ira SachsSTARS John Lithgow, Alfred Molina The title is something of a misnomer. The film may be called Love Is Strange, but what’s truly strange is that we still live in a world in which true love is downsized if it doesn’t meet with everyone’s societal standards. Take the case of…
A Walk Among the Tombstones: Neeson Central
A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES**1/2DIRECTED BY Scott FrankSTARS Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens Filmgoers interested in seeing a solid thriller in which a magnetic movie star plays a taciturn loner who excels at making life miserable for unrepentant scumbags — well, they’ll have to wait a few more days until The Equalizer opens. In the meantime,…
Today’s Top 5: Friday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
First Drip (9/19/14): Another charter school closes, the ‘Angelina effect,’ more
The news you need to know today.
Opening Friday
What’s new in theaters this weekend.
Cheap list: Spiked Punch, Tawba Fest, Oktoberfest Bar Olympics, International Fest, more
Check out this list of cheap things to do in the Q.C. this weekend.
Even small red flags need to be taken seriously
Those small instances that make you go “hmm” are very revealing.
Today’s Top 5: Thursday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
First Drip (9/18/14): Greg Hardy to sit out of games and practices, Australia thwarts ISIL plans, more
The news you need to know today.
Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Sept. 18)
Customer complaints: Here’s one way to solicit better customer service. A man allegedly called and harassed some staff of Carolinas Medical Center at Mercy because he “is not happy with the outcome of an incident that occurred in June,” so the police report states. Though he has been warned against it, the man continues to…
Weekly horoscope (Sept. 18-24)
For All Signs: There will be a lot of misinformation floating around in the media this week. Specific facts are unclear or misrepresented. We would all do well to double check any information that comes across the radar screen, especially so if it moves us to take some kind of action. This affects not only…
Art openings this week
Check out these new exhibits in Charlotte.
Today’s Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
First Drip (9/17/14): Pittenger thinks companies should be allowed to fire gay employees, more
The news you need to know today.
Theater reviews: NY shows Here Lies Love, Cabaret, more
Summer can be a fairly brutal time for theatre in New York. I’m not just talking about queuing up for discount tickets — for Broadway and off-Broadway shows — at the grand TKTS kiosk in Times Square and standing outside the theater, soaking in bonus UV rays long before the house is opened for seating.…
Astronautalis’ & the Dirty South
It was 2005 and Andy Bothwell, better known as Astronautalis was playing to a crowd of about 10 people at the Milestone — the staff, the opening bands and me and my husband. We were there because Andy and I share a hometown and I’d seen him open a show there the year before when…
Charlie Worsham goes under the big tent
Charlie Worsham played the Opry for the first time before he was even in high school. After witnessing Mike Snider play there, Worsham picked up a banjo and started to learn how to play it. After sending the bluegrass artist a video of himself playing, Snider invited Worsham to join him on stage the next…
Oh Captain, My Captain, wherefore art thou?
In late July, I asked your help in answering some questions that have been kicking around in my head since returning to Charlotte last year, after spending the prior 12 years in Washington, D.C.: Who leads Charlotte today — and, speaking more philosophically — what is Charlotte now? And what do we want it to…
Developers vs. the Environment
At the end of October, City Council will vote on a measure that has pitted the interests of the development industry against reducing pollution in Charlotte’s already-degraded streams and creeks, which flows into Charlotte’s drinking-water source. Polluted water from development and redevelopment sites that the ground doesn’t absorb — otherwise known as storm water —…
Zero Dark Thirty
My 30th birthday is just around the corner. I’m having a backyard party the day before, hosted by good friends. I’m going to serve sangria, bake neon-colored cupcakes, and have a raucous good time. On my actual birthday, I figure I’ll help tidy up, recover on my sofa, field well-wishing phone calls from family, and…
Pamela Hunt-Spradley’s generosity speaks volumes
If I hadn’t been up in New York spending time with family, I probably would have written about Pamela Hunt-Spradley a couple of weeks ago. While we were away, Citizens of the Universe presented a five-day run of that guilty pleasure of a play, Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana — one of those works…
Table for one
Dining out with friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures, but there’s something to be said for occasionally enjoying a good meal and one’s own company. Monte Smith, owner of Café Monte in SouthPark, says the single diner is a new phenomenon. He assured me he takes no pity on solo diners. In fact, he…
