Sep 18-24, 2013

Sep 18-24, 2013 / Vol. 27 / No. 30

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Upcoming: Friendship Trays 5th Annual Garden Party

Photo courtesy of Friendship Gardens Charlotte offers a bazillion and one ways to celebrate the fall season with festivals, football games and celebrations for just about everything. Coming up this weekend, Friendship Trays and Slow Food Charlotte are joining forces to present the 5th Annual Friendship Trays Garden Party, a harvest celebration for the nonprofit…

Keia Mastrianni

CD Review: Stranger Day’s You’re Welcome

No need to say “thank you” to Charlotte-based rapper Stranger Day. This boisterously confident, ballin’-on-a-budget party rapper seems to assume listeners will appreciate his latest project You’re Welcome. From the DJ voice-over intro to the screwed and chopped rapper outro, Stranger Day and his mixtape DJ, Famous Jason, turn the misfit attitude all the way…

Kia Moore

3 questions with Ashlee Cuddy, co-owner of Bond Street Wines

Ashlee Cuddy says that she was born with a love for wine in her blood. She moved to North Carolina from California when she was a child and considers herself a native Charlottean. Three years ago, after graduating from college, Cuddy began working at Bond Street Wines, a hand-imported business that bought and distributed wine…

Lauren Blake

A fine mezze at Kabab-Je Rotisserie & Grill

Perhaps the most misunderstood cuisines in Charlotte are those from the Middle East. Last winter, in the Introduction to Food Writing course I teach at Johnson & Wales University, I brought in hummus made by my in-laws, who were visiting from Lebanon. I did this after lengthy discussions about the permutations of hummus in Charlotte…

Tricia Childress

Mikeflo of Dead Prez at Dharma Lounge tonight (9/21/13)

We don’t often recommend a DJ set as a must-check-out event in Charlotte, but this is mikeflo of Dead Prez we’re talking about. In an era when radio hip-hop puts the beat on the pedestal and casts conscious lyrical content to the side – “Shake it like a red nose”? Really? – MC, DJ and producer…

Kimberly Lawson

Bizarre crimes from Charlotte’s police files (Sept. 19)

Cheap Shot: While most golfers hit on the pretty girls serving drinks from golf carts, one man at Tradition Golf Club decided he would try his luck in another way. A 22-year-old woman called police after catching a golfer allegedly stealing $3 out of her tip jar when he thought she wasn’t looking. Class dunce:…

Ryan Pitkin

Prisoners: Captive audience

PRISONERS ***1/2 DIRECTED BY Denis Villeneuve STARS Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal It’s not every week we get a thriller as atmospheric as David Fincher’s Seven. It’s not every month we see a police procedural as meticulously crafted as Fincher’s Zodiac. And it’s not every year we witness a family melodrama as squirm-inducing as Fincher’s The…

Matt Brunson

Theater review: Recent Tragic Events

Incredible good fortune collides with incredible misfortune in Craig Wright’s Recent Tragic Events, now playing at Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in a provocative Metrolina premiere. Or perhaps, since this playwright is nothing if not playful, fortune and misfortune are two sides of the same coin. Andrew is a bookstore manager at the Twin Cities Airport,…

Perry Tannenbaum

Poly Primer

“I’d like to see you with another woman.” My husband and I had just spent an exhilarating and sweaty hour tangled in the bedsheets when I first brought up the idea. I’ll never forget the look on his face: His eyes widened, his lips opened a little. The smile that crept across his face could…

Molly Bordo

Weekly horoscope (Sept. 19-25)

Virgo The Virgin (Aug. 22-Sept. 22): The topic at hand is devotion. The Vestal Virgins of Roman times began a lifetime of service to the sacred flame around the age of 6. They were celibate forever. You have been devoted to something or someone powerful all your life. This may be barely conscious. It is…

Vivian Carol

Care about Syria

One of my best and oldest friends was born in Syria. She doesn’t really like to talk about what’s happening in her homeland right now because, to her, it’s more than an abstract political conflict or a metaphorical redline. It’s her uncle waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of fighter…

Ailen Arreaza

Ask Boomer With Attitude

Welcome to another episode of Ask Boomer With Attitude. This time around, one of the questions below is actually from a CL reader, and not made up in order to allow me to write about a subject I want to address. Send in your questions, gripes and love offerings to john.grooms@creativeloafing.com. Dear BWA: So, how…

John Grooms

Mudhoney goes beyond grunge

At this juncture, it’s likely that you’ve heard of Mudhoney, but it’s less likely that you’ve actually heard the music. The Seattle-based quartet currently celebrating its 25th anniversary helped spark the grunge movement that overtook popular music in the ’90s, serving as a key inspiration to bands like Nirvana. You can hear it in Mudhoney’s…

Jordan Lawrence

Upcoming: Mid-Autumn Festival

Photo by Keia Mastrianni If I hear one more person mention the pumpkin spice latte as the ultimate fall “treat,” I am going to freak out. Let’s open our minds for a second, people. Relinquish the corporate brainwashing of seasons and let’s celebrate something a little more expansive. Instead of Pinterest-y pumpkin overload, get thee…

Keia Mastrianni

Q&A with Republican mayoral candidate Edwin Peacock III

Editor’s Note: This is the first part in a series of Q&As with the two mayoral candidates, Republican Edwin Peacock III and Democrat Patrick Cannon. Cannon’s Q&A will publish next week. His father was a county commissioner and city councilman who lost against Harvey Gantt when he ran for mayor in 1983. Now, at 43,…

Michael A. Cooper Jr.

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