Sep 6-12, 2017
Eat the Runt Cover Story. CAL leaves South End. Nige Hood is folk rap.
Cover Story
In ‘Eat the Runt,’ the Audience Picks the Players
Forget what you’ve heard about the casting couch. Theatrical productions are costly and risky to mount, so the notion that producers hire actors solely on their willingness to sleep with the boss is mostly a myth. [Image-2] But a casting voting booth? That’s definitely a thing. For audiences at the September 7 opening night of…
Brad Paisley brings the guitar slingers to Charlotte
Chase Bryant, Lindsay Ell show off their rock sides at PNC Music Pavilion.
It should be seen
IT *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Andy Muschietti STARS Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis In its original hardcover incarnation, Stephen King’s It ran 1,138 pages, second only to The Stand’s 1,153 pages in terms of finding the prolific author at his wordiest. Given that generous length, it’s not surprising that It (and The Stand, for…
Maurice, Mr. Mom, Night Moves among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray, DVD and Streaming. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS (1983) / MY BLUE HEAVEN (1990). That wild and crazy guy – Steve Martin, natch – headlines a pair of comedies that have just been released on…
Listen Up: Mason Parker Returns to the Queen City for ‘Local Vibes’
We last spoke with Charlotte rapper Mason Parker in May, as he prepared to fly out to Los Angeles and start building his brand on a national level. He recently came back to Charlotte to see his kids and send them off to school for a new year, but we couldn’t let him go without…
The Blotter: Landscathing
Nevergreen Last week we reported on a man who called police because his neighbor was spreading mulch and got some in his yard, but a woman in northwest Charlotte was a bit more justified in turning to police when her neighbor’s landscaping efforts actually did real damage. The 50-year-old woman filed a police report stating…
Four-Day Weekends Make For More Recovery Time
By now, if you’ve perused social media or watched the news you’ve probably seen the meme featuring a collection of pictures of Tiger Woods face leading up to his latest “portrait” – a mug shot. Above each picture, represents a day of the weekend. On Friday, he’s smiling and looks happy, and naturally, on Monday…
The Great Queen City Oral Sex Survey
About a year ago, a woman posted a now-infamous video demonstrating her favorite tip for giving good blowjobs. In it, she sliced the ends off of a grapefruit, cut a hole in the center of the remaining section, and demonstrated how she used the fruit in combination with her mouth on a lucky fellatio recipient.…
Charlotte Art League Is Being Forced out of South End, and Only the Neighborhood Stands to Lose
On a recent Thursday afternoon, the scene outside Charlotte Art League was glum. Rain clouds promised to spoil the Panthers’ last preseason game later that night, but for now were content to dump a steady drizzle on the Camden Road construction site across from the building, creating a pit of mud where Common Market and…
Hundreds Show Up for #DefendDACA Rally
More than 400 people showed up to Marshall Park on Tuesday night to protest the Trump administration’s announcement that they would be doing away with President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, putting hundreds of thousands of immigrants — many of whom have been in the country for well over a decade and have…
Chinese Lantern Festival kicks with multicolored art
The Chinese Lantern Festival got off to a multicolored start September 7, hosted this year for the first time by Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens. CL sent intern Tate Roberts out to shoot some photos of the animals, made from rayon fabric and metal frames, and shipped all the way from China, which is about a…
Rapper Nige Hood Borrows From Music’s Storytelling Tradition
He calls his music “folk rap,” but don’t expect Nigel Hood to be dropping knowledge over strummed acoustic guitars, bongos or pristine, three-part harmonies. To Hood, folk is a philosophy. “At its purest form, folk rap is music about day-to-day life — everyday life in the pursuit of happiness,” Hood says. “Sonically, folk rap is…
Killer Tomatoes Fight Back
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hollywood produced four movies about zombie tomatoes. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! spawned the sequels Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!, and my personal favorite, Killer Tomatoes Eat France. The plots of these movies were thinly veiled attempts to tap-dance around the idea that, deep…
Oddboy Collective Brings Another Month of DIY Variety
Snug Harbor is known for its excellent month-long Wednesday residencies featuring mostly local acts, and this month’s residency is no exception. Well, aside from the fact that the Oddboy Collective is not a band, per se. The collective — Jarrod Hayslette, 28, Mike Rice, 27, and Michael Kuhn, 24 — initially formed to launch a…
