Sep 21-28, 2016

Sep 21-28, 2016 / Vol. 30 / No. 31

The Magnificent Seven: Sagebrush Suicide Squad

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN **1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY Antoine Fuqua STARS Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt The 1960 Western classic The Magnificent Seven (itself an Americanized version of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Seven Samurai) found its septet of gunslingers pooling their resources to protect the residents of a small village against the boastful, greedy and downright…

Matt Brunson

The Hollars should be silenced

THE HOLLARS *1/2 (out of four) DIRECTED BY John Krasinski STARS John Krasinski, Anna Kendrick An agonizing exercise in indie quirk, The Hollars suggests that director John Krasinski and writer James C. Strause watched Garden State and then simultaneously muttered, “Well, if Zach Braff can pull it off, then by God, so can we!” Yet…

Matt Brunson

Weekly horoscope (Sept. 22-28)

For All Signs: Although Mercury turns direct tomorrow, it is remaining in what is called “stationary” position this week. That means that we will continue to have effects of the September retrograde until Oct. 6. It is still a challenge to get things off the ground. The closer we are to mid-October, the easier it…

Vivian Carol

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Sept. 22)

Open Up A 34-year-old man in east Charlotte called police after an unwanted houseguest made a mess of things on his porch. The man told officers that a woman knocked on the door of his apartment at around 11 p.m. and when he opened the door she walked right in and asked to use the…

Ryan Pitkin

Shakespeare Pens a Sitcom

Up on North Tryon Street at NoDa Brewing Company, Chickspeare is flipping the script again. Founded upon the principle that Shakespeare’s works, originally performed by all-male companies in Merrie Olde England, can also be performed by all-female companies in Modern America, Chickspeare now propounds a new heresy. Although the Bard’s first great work, The Comedy…

Perry Tannenbaum

Fly on over to Wing King Café

Football and wings is a classic combination; just like peanut butter and jelly, milk and cookies, spaghetti and meatballs, Muggsy Bogues and Space Jam. You always need to have some extra paper towels on hand during football season as you chow down on some spicy, saucy goodness while cheering on your team So with the…

Chrissie Nelson Rotko

Three questions for Chef Corey Siegel OF Team USA

If there’s one thing last month’s Rio Olympics drove home, it’s that athletes can spend years training for their brief moment in the spotlight. (That, and the fact that Usain Bolt might actually be a superhero). The upcoming Culinary Olympics, taking place next month in Germany, are no different. For Chef Corey Siegel, one of…

Madeline Lemieux

Kishi Bashi and his history of violins

A strange thing happeed to Kaoru Ishibashi as he sat down to write his latest album Sonderlust. His personal life blew up. 2015 had been a whirlwind year for Ishibashi, who has released three studio albums of shimmering layered pop under the name Kishi Bashi. He was touring with a string quartet, playing acoustic arrangements…

Pat Moran

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