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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Music Live review: Shivering Timbers, Evening Muse (4/15/2014)
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:56 AM
Shivering Timbers
Evening Muse
April 15, 2014
- Photo by Jeff Hahne
- Shivering Timbers
Attendees of the Find Your Muse Open Mic night at the Evening Muse are used to the mix of amateurs and professionals that comes along with the event. For quite some time, touring artists have been worked into the mix as featured performers. Those acts are given a 30-minute set to showcase their music instead of the usual two-song mix by open mic participants.
On this particular Monday, Shivering Timbers from Akron, Ohio, was the featured act, and they didn't disappoint.
News First Drip (4/15/14): Smuggie drops out of the 12th race, US Airways apologizes for nude-photo tweet, more
Posted By Ana McKenzie on Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:05 AM
Citing money problems, former City Councilman James "Smuggie" Mitchell has withdrawn from the race for the 12th District two months after announcing he'd run. Mitchell wanted Council to appoint him mayor to fill Patrick Cannon's seat, but members chose Dan Clodfelter instead.
A hearty congratulations to the Charlotte Observer's Kevin Siers for winning a Pulitzer, journalism's highest honor, in the editorial cartoon category. He is the fifth Observer staffer to win the award and the third cartoonist. Siers has been at the paper since 1987.
Six days before the start of this year's race, more than 3,000 people gathered in Boston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the marathon bombings that killed three spectators and injured 260 others. This year's race is expected to draw about 36,000 runners, 10,000 more than last year.
US Airways is apologizing for a tweet it sent to a customer who complained about her delayed flight. The company says it was trying to flag the photo, which featured a naked woman and a toy airplane, and instead accidentally tweeted it. Hundreds had retweeted the message before it was deleted.
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Tuesday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, April 15, 2014 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* Blue Man Group at Belk Theater
* People's Blues of Richmond at Roux
* Craft Cocktail Series at Bubble
* Bill Hanna Jazz Jam at Double Door Inn
* $3 Craft Beer Night at VBGB
Monday, April 14, 2014
Music First notes (4/14/14): Get schooled by 9th Wonder, Ed Sheeran debuts new song, more
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:22 PM
Editor's Note: First Notes is a weekly update of recent, cool happenings in the world of music.
* Patrick Douthit - also known as 9th Wonder, the Grammy-winning producer - will teach a course on hip-hop context and culture at North Carolina Central University in the fall of 2014. Douthit served as an adjunct professor at NCCU from 2006-2009 and recently taught courses at Duke and Harvard.
* Ed Sheeran will perform at Time Warner Cable Arena on Sept. 11. The pop-folk Grammy nominee was on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, where he debuted a new song, "Sing."
Film / Film Reviews RiverRun Wrap 2014: Part 4
Posted By Matt Brunson on Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:40 PM
With the 16th annual RiverRun International Film Festival now in the books, we look back at all the films reviewed for Creative Loafing (listed below in preferential order). Click on the title to be taken directly to the review.
- A24
- Autumn Rose Productions
Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Monday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:47 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, April 14, 2014 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* Sustain Me Baby at UNC Charlotte Center City
* The Monday Night All Stars at Double Door Inn
* All You Can Bowl at Strike City
* Find Your Muse Open Mic at The Evening Muse
* Trivia at Sir Edmond Halley's
Music Remembering Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
Posted By Daniel Coston on Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:20 AM
The house band for Arthur Smith's memorial had just finished a rousing version of Smith's "Dueling Banjos" when the Avett Brothers' Scott and Seth Avett took to the stage. They were there to perform "Amazing Grace," but as they stepped to the microphone, they also began to pick out the notes to "Dueling Banjos." The brothers smiled at each other, and the audience laughed. It was another acknowledgement of just how much the influence of Arthur Smith had spanned across multiple generations.
Arthur Smith, who passed away on April 3, 2014, at the age of 93, was a creative force who reached far beyond his Carolina roots. Songwriter, producer, performer. He hosted the syndicated TV program The Arthur Smith Show for 32 years. In the 1960s, his Arthur Smith Studios became the recording studio of choice for many throughout the Southeast. In working on a book on the rock 'n' roll scene of North Carolina, I was surprised to learn how much of a hand Smith had in documenting that genre. Many of the records from that time were either recorded at Arthur's studio, or were released via one of his many ventures, Pyramid Records. And oh yes, he wrote "Dueling Banjos," and "Guitar Boogie," recognized as one of the first records of the sound that would evolve into what we now call Rock 'n' Roll.
News Cleaning the voter rolls in North Carolina
Posted By Andria Krewson on Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:00 AM
It had all the markings of a classic diversion.
Charlotte was reeling from the resignation of its mayor after bribery allegations. An FBI affidavit hinted at more unearthing to come. Questions about the coziness of Gov. Pat McCrory and his former company, Duke Energy, had emerged after the coal-ash spill into the Dan River. Clay Aiken was making a go of it against an incumbent Republican congresswoman.
Then came a legislative oversight hearing in Raleigh April 2, with a report from the N.C. elections board on its efforts to clean up the voter rolls. The state's new Byzantine voter-ID law - really, more of an elections omnibus bill - requires "diligent" efforts to get ineligible voters off the rolls, instead of the earlier "reasonable" effort. Most big-city elections board in North Carolina do such cleanup routinely, but the state hadn't readily shared its rolls with other states until recently.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Film / Film Reviews RiverRun Wrap 2014: Part 3
Posted By Matt Brunson on Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:20 PM
The 16th annual RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem may have ended its 10-day run this evening, but we still have four fest titles to wade through. Let's begin, shall we?
- Les Films Séville
- Sophie Desmarais in Sarah Prefers to Run
SARAH PREFERS TO RUN - Canadian actress Sophie Desmarais earned a special award at RiverRun for her performance in this film, and she's certainly the best thing about it. She delivers a quietly commanding turn as Sarah Lepage, a young woman who's only interested in life on the track. Unable to afford to continue her athletic endeavors at a university due to financial struggles, she reluctantly agrees with her friend Antoine (Jean-Sebastien Courchesne) that they should get hitched in order to secure available scholarship funds to those who are married. Writer-director Chloe Robichaud has taken a real chance by creating a protagonist more passive than most, yet while this makes Desmarais' character mysterious much of the time, it too often also renders her as simply an uninteresting individual, with very little access to her inner life and what makes her tick, let alone run.
- Image Entertainment
- Brooke Butler in All Cheerleaders Die
ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE - Screened last month at the Mad Monster Party in Charlotte, this is actually a remake of a 2001 film of the same name. Writer-directors Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson are responsible for both versions, electing to update their straight-to-video original with this new version that's been making the film festival and convention rounds. I haven't seen the 2001 cut, but based on the evidence here, the movie could stand being filmed a third time. What sounds like a can't-miss premise - Mean Girls as filtered through horror-flick sensibilities - proves to be a disappointment, with a sloppy narrative drive and heavy-handed attempts at humor. Caitlin Stasey stars as Maddy, an alt-grrl who joins the cheerleader squad for mysterious reasons. When an altercation with a star football player (Tom Williamson) and his sycophants ends with the deaths of Maddy and three other girls, it's up to Maddy's wiccan-dabbling friend Leena (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) to bring them all back from the other side to take their revenge - and attend senior year.
- Autumn Rose Productions
- Dick Miller on the set of Gremlins 2, as seen in That Guy Dick Miller
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Sunday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, April 13, 2014 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
* Demetri Martin at The Fillmore
* Capital Cities at UNC Charlotte's Halton Arena
* Jillian Michaels at Knight Theater
* Scottish Festival and Loch Norman Highland Games at Rural Hill
* North Mecklenburg Animal Rescue Music Fest at NoDa Brewing Company
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