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Saturday, September 28, 2013
Film / Film Reviews Weekend Film Reviews: Rush; Don Jon; Enough Said; and more
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 2:11 PM
News First Drip (9/28/13): Guns, Iran, same-sex marriage in New Jersey, more
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 9:38 AM
Charlotte says hello to new Historic South End director Tobe Holmes, who replaces former director Ted Boyd.
President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke on the phone yesterday - the first direct conversation between the U.S. and Iran since 1979. The 15-minute talk makes us wonder - will we see another "Call Me Maybe" parody?
Same-sex marriage is now allowed in New Jersey. Oct. 21 is set to become the anniversary date for a plenty of gay couples in the state.
And yesterday, the New York Times issued a correction to longtime Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi's obituary: They incorrectly identified Mario and Luigi as janitors instead of plumbers.
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Saturday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Sept. 28, 2013 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* Reception for Mad Hatters to Pixel Pushers at UNC-Charlotte Center City
* 2013 International Festival at UNC-Charlotte
* Charlotte Roller Girls at Grady Cole Center
* Charlotte Oktoberfest Beer Festival at N.C. Music Festival
Friday, September 27, 2013
Arts Theater review: Tarzan the Stage Musical
Posted By Perry Tannenbaum on Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:23 PM
Even as a kid, I was prejudiced against literature's greatest vine swinger. Though they saturated TV for a long time, I don't think I ever watched a single Johnny Weissmuller flick from start to finish. When Greystoke and Disney's animated Tarzan attempted to revive the Edgar Rice Burroughs legend decades later, I passed. When David Henry Hwang adapted the animated feature for the stage, and Phil Collins added new songs, New York critics sufficiently savaged Tarzan the Stage Musical in 2006 for me to keep my distance.
Well, now it's here, opening Children's Theatre of Charlotte's 66th season, and you know what? It's a wonderful production of a wonderful, meaningful story.
There are vines everywhere in Ryan Wineinger's bosky set design, including out over the audience in McColl Family Theatre, sending ImaginOn into yet another tech overdrive - and parents and kiddies into paroxysms of awe and delight. We follow the story from Tarzan's infancy, starting with a fairly spectacular shipwreck that casts his parents ashore into the hostile jungle, so our point-of-view looks outwards from inside the apeman's habitat when Jane, her kindly father, and a predatory poacher-guide invade their territory.
Culture Question the Queen City: The story of Nellie Freeman, aka 'Razor Girl'
Posted By David Aaron Moore on Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:42 AM
Editor's note: In this series, local author David Aaron Moore answers reader-submitted questions about unusual, noteworthy or historic people, places and things in Charlotte. Submit inquires to davidaaronmoore@gmail.com.
When I was a very young child, my grandfather always enjoyed telling me and my brothers and sisters frightening stories about things that happened in Charlotte when he was a child. One particularly gruesome tale involved a teenage girl who decapitated her husband - and got away with it! Do you know anything about the case he was referring to? - Beatrice Beam, Salisbury
News First Drip (9/27/13): Airport remains in Charlotte control, UN report on climate change, more
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:42 AM
A fatal shooting early this morning has been linked to the West Charlotte nightclub 935, which is known to bring hip-hop celebrities like Yo Gotti, Young Jeezy and others to Charlotte. This isn't the first time trouble has been associated with the nightspot, and Wesley Heights residents want the club shut down.
A United Nations report published today says that at least half of climate change is your fault. And our fault.
Celebrate Google's 15th anniversary by visiting its homepage to check out its interactive doodle. Or, type "Google in 1998" into the search box and see how the site looked 15 years ago.
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Friday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Sept. 27, 2013 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* The Second City at Community Performance Center
* Charlotte Symphony Orchestra: The Planets at Belk Theater
* ZZ Ward at Visulite Theatre
* Fall Food Truck Rally at Rural Hill
* Art as Activism at Packard Place
