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Monday, June 11, 2012
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Monday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, June 11, 2012 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* Matthew Weinstein exhibit at Mint Museum Uptown
* Blossoms, Seaboard + Ron Brendle, The Eastern Seaboard at Snug Harbor
* Bill Hanna's Vintage Dance Band at Grand Central
* Monday Funday at Dixie's Tavern
* Author Kevin Hearne to sign Tricked at Park Road Books
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Arts Hallelujah for Nunsense
Posted By Anita Overcash on Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:00 AM
It seems Broadway has a nun fetish. From The Sound of Music to Sister Act, audiences can't seem to get enough of singing and dancing holy women. Matthews Playhouse of Performing Arts brings us another cast of sisters in Nunsense, a critically acclaimed off-Broadway musical.
In the show, The Little Sisters of Hoboken must bury a whopping 52 deceased members from the convent after a accidental poisoning by the cook who is also a fellow nun. To raise money for the burials, the remaining sisters put on a variety show. Hallelujah for goofy dancers in habits! $15-$17. June 10, 2 p.m., June 15-16, 8 p.m., June 17, 2 p.m. Matthews Playhouse, 100 McDowell St. 704-846-8343. www.matthewsplayhouse.com.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Arts Collage mix at Jerald Melberg Gallery
Posted By Anita Overcash on Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Jerald Melberg Gallery is spotlighting the process of collage making in its latest showcase, opening today.
Exhibiting artists, both old and new to the craft, include Romare Bearden, Ernesto Berra, Felicia van Bork, Stanley Boxer, Thornton Dial, Raul Diaz, Mary Giehl, William Halsey, Rick Horton, Ida Kohlmeyer, Alfred Leslie, Loran Montgomery, Robert Motherwell, Manuel Reyna, Ramon Urban and Esteban Vicente.
Jerald Melberg Gallery, 625 S. Sharon Amity Road. 704-365-3000. www.jeraldmelberg.com.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Prometheus; The Intouchables
Posted By Matt Brunson on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:14 PM
Film / Arts Free screening of thought-provoking Gift
Posted By Anita Overcash on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:03 PM
After the murder of her brother, Steve Leone, on Feb. 12, 2003, local Charlottean Therese Bartholomew struggled with the grief of having lost a loved one. The intensity of that experience was penned in Coffee Shop God, an emotional memoir about her sibling's untimely death and restorative justice.
But that still wasn't enough to bring Bartholomew to closure. In her continued efforts to reach that point, she met with her brother's killer, Karl Staton, at the Kershaw Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Her purpose was to learn more about what happened at the scene of the crime (a strip club in Greenville), who Staton really was, why he shot her brother, and if she could forgive him of the life-altering damage he had inflicted on her and her family.
Bartholomew, now a member of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation (MVFR), took things a step further by filming the encounter for what resulted in a documentary titled The Final Gift.
The Final Gift screens at 7 p.m. tonight, June 8, at Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte. The event will be facilitated by Melissa Mummert with a special guest appearance by Bartholomew, who served as both director and executive producer on the film . Admission is free. Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, 234 N. Sharon Amity Road. 704-366-8623. www.uuccharlotte.org.
News / Opinion That which must not be spoken
Posted By Joanne Spataro on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:40 PM
When I'm playing Scrabble, I sweat over how to use my last three tiles and still get the triple letter score. I resort to dictionary words, even abbreviations if I'm playing by the rule that allows them. Yet there's one word I will never play, even if it cost me a game against my savvy Scrabble champion of a mom.
The owner of the Growers Retail Outlet in Pineville, who has worked in the nursery plants and equipment business for 60 years, wanted to spell out Japanese Maple, a woody shrub found in a variety of colors, on his store sign on North Polk Street. However, Bill Stamey didn't spell out "Japanese." Instead, he used an offensive abbreviation.
"We have Japanese customers here, and they're fine people," he tells me. "We just don't have enough letters to go on our sign. It doesn't mean a thing."
Arts CAST digs deeper
Posted By Anita Overcash on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Following previous productions, such as the recent Floyd Collins - a play about the real-life explorer who died after an avalanche left him trapped in a cave - Carolina Actors Studio Theatre continues to dig deep. Its newest production, The Edge of Our Bodies, is a one-woman show about a school girl in uniform on the verge of chaos - though you could say it's all in her head.
Written by playwright Adam Rapp, the coming-of-age narrative touches on the internal dangers that can erupt from relationships gone bad, vulnerability and self-conscious awakenings. $18-$25. June 8-9, 8 p.m.; June 14-16, 8 p.m.; June 21-23, 8 p.m. Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST), 2424 N. Davidson St., Charlotte. 704-455-8542. www.nccast.com.
News / Democratic National Convention 2012 DNC 2012 Notebook: Leaving an inclusive economic legacy
Posted By Mary C. Curtis on Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Conventions come and go, including the big blast that will be Charlotte's first. But what will be left for the communities that have struggled for jobs and adequate housing and education? What will they gain once the glitz, dollars and international spotlight have moved on?
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- Mayor Anthony Foxx
The first conversation in a series sponsored by the Charlotte in 2012 convention host committee explored those questions and more on Wednesday. The Access to America Dialogue series supports Mayor Anthony Foxx's convention legacy program to build a broader, more inclusive economy after the DNC, a challenging task in tough times. The three others fall into the categories of youth employment and civic education; healthy children and families, and energy, technology and sustainability. So far, there has been a youth fitness program at Piedmont Middle School, garden planting at the Charlotte Community Health Clinic, and the Kids Convention that the mayor attended with his family.
"The goal of our convention is to expose people to all parts of our city," Foxx told me, "and also to create economic opportunity for people who traditionally may not have been able to access something like this."
Thursday, June 7, 2012
News / Opinion Yet again, Republicans deny women their rights
Posted By Erin Tracy-Blackwood on Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Senate Republicans have asserted that if you have female reproductive organs, you should not expect to receive equal pay for equal work. How such simple concepts of fairness are up for debate, let alone a vote, in 2012 is beyond me.
On Tuesday, the Senate Minority blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act. Based on their political motivations, I see why they chose to filibuster.
News / Democratic National Convention 2012 Legislators could open liquor stores the Sunday before the DNC
Posted By Ryan Pitkin on Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:22 AM
With all of the bickering across the aisles in politics today, there is still one thing that can bridge even the deepest divides in this country: booze.
A bipartisan group of Charlotte-area lawmakers has proposed legislation to the General Assembly that would keep Alcoholic Beverage Control liquor stores in Mecklenburg County open on Labor Day, which falls on Sunday, Sept. 3, the day before the Democratic National Convention begins. The convention runs Sept. 4-6.
Restaurant owners have complained that they don't have the space to keep enough alcohol in their restaurants to handle the influx of visitors coming in for the weekend and the convention. They say they would need to restock that Sunday.
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