Looks like our sometimes-shirtless FBI agent has a face and a name.
Frederick W. Humphries II is the bald, blue-eyed 47-year-old terrorism investigator who started the case that uncovered the affair between Gen. David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell in late summer. Law enforcement colleagues revealed his identity on Wednesday, according to The New York Times.
Tampa military socialite Jill Kelley was friends with Humphries. She told him she was receiving threatening emails from an anonymous sender only known as "kelleypatrol." The sender accused Kelley of having an affair with Petraeus. The FBI began an investigation that revealed Broadwell as the sender of the emails. This led to their discovery of flirtatious emails between her and Petraeus and uncovered their extramarital affair.
A Late Quartet - Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lincoln - Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field
Smashed - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 - Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Nov. 15, 2012 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* Madonna at Time Warner Cable Arena
* Red at Actor's Theatre of Charlotte
* Lucy Wainwright Roche at Evening Muse
* Tim Meadows at The Comedy Zone
* Schoolboy Q at The Fillmore
Paula Broadwell's neighbors in Dilworth probably had a hard time sleeping this week. On Monday night, the FBI raided her home in the middle of the night, seizing computers and boxes of classified information and military documents. Since then, television news reporters have been camping out on people's lawns waiting to see Broadwell, the biographer who had an affair with her subject, Gen. David Petraeus. But since she hasn't been home, reporters have settled for interviews with her neighbors.
One told me Broadwell is a "dreadful" person.
Openly gay city councilwoman LaWana Mayfield has been at the center of a heated controversy. On Oct. 13, she went to Little Rock AME Zion Church to see Louis Farrakhan, head minister of the Nation of Islam, speak during the 17th anniversary of the MillIon Man March. Farrakhan, who has led the group since 1977, was speaking about African-American leadership to mark the anniversary of a march on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where he and the Nation empowered black men to serve their communities.
When Matt Comer, editor of the local LGBT publication QNotes, found out Mayfield attended the anniversary celebration, he asked the District 3 representative to publicly denounce Farrakhan and his history of making anti-LGBT and anti-Semitic statements.
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Nov. 14, 2012 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* Almost Homeless Comedy Tour at McGlohon Theatre
* The Pride at Davidson College
* Hectagons at Snug Harbor
* And the Bead Goes On at Mint Museum Randolph
* Kent L. Brintnall at UNC Charlotte
I've generally taken for granted that I would be the palest person in any given audience. That was based on the now-mistaken assumption that I would never go to a neo-Nazi rally.
Creative Loafing asked me to go and watch a rally by the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi party, and the counter-protest organized by the Latin American Coalition.
I headed over to the rally at the Old City Hall downtown on Saturday afternoon and found it sparsely populated. Sweet, I'd arrived early.
Listed below is a roundup of CL's top picks for comedy shows in Charlotte this week. Hopefully, they keep you entertained and, more importantly, laughing out loud.
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Nov. 13, 2012 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* Reflections: Portraits by Beverly McIver at Mint Museum Uptown
* Yellowcard at The Fillmore
* Trivia at Big Ben British Pub & Restaurant
* Dorothy Allison at Davidson College
* Women, Work and Wine at FABO Cafe
The end of the year means we start cleaning out our desks, shelves - even the refrigerator.
Pictured below is a set of random, never-before-read books we've put together, focusing on American history. (We've since added to the set since the photo was taken.)
If you're interested in entering to take these home, drop us a comment below: We'd love to hear what your favorite piece of Charlotte history is. The Penguin before 2010? The Hornets before they were sold? Downtown before it became uptown?
(P.S. - Don't know much about Charlotte's history? Ask a question instead, and we'll get our resident history buff David Aaron Moore to look into it.)
One winner will be picked randomly at the end of the day Wednesday and notified later this week.
**Must be able to come by CL's offices at the N.C. Music Factory to pick up books between the hours of 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Please make sure to leave correct email when commenting.