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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Tuesday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Sept. 23, 2014 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Imagine 2025: Share the Vision at Booth Playhouse
• Mintview's Sex & Sensibility at D'Vine Wine Cafe
• Silent Movie Night and Swing Dance Revue at Petra's Piano Bar & Cabaret
• Almost Famous Comedy Show at The Comedy Zone
• Country Tuesday at Snug Harbor
First Drip First Drip (9/23/14): City to stop paying for CMPD officer's legal fees, challenges to climate change, more
Posted By Ana McKenzie on Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:10 AM
The city has agreed to stop paying for the legal fees of the officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man last year. The family of Jonathan Ferrell is suing Randall Kerrick, who was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the case.
Make sure you and your kids are washing your hands. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services confirms that six children, all under the age of 10, tested positive for Enterovirus. While not generally life threatening, the disease does cause cold- and flu-like symptoms
The U.S. and several countries in the Middle East began an aggressive airstrike against the Islamic State in Syria. "…Fourteen airstrikes damaged or destroyed Islamic State training compounds, storage facilities, a finance center, supply trucks and several armed vehicles."
The Obama administration is deporting the children of parents who were allowed to stay in the U.S. after fleeing their homes in Central America in 2012. One example cited in the Boston Globe story is of a man who was told it was too dangerous to return to El Salvador in 2012 after some earthquakes. Now, the U.S. government is deporting his son.
The Treasury Department is cracking down on U.S. companies that list their addresses in foreign countries to avoid paying American taxes, a practice known as inversions.
A new study shows naturally occurring changes, not human-caused climate change, have led to warmer land and sea along the West Coast.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Arts Theater review: 101 Dalmatians and Fuddy Meers
Posted By Perry Tannenbaum on Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:45 PM
As Children's Theatre of Charlotte was opening its 2014-15 season with a spanking new musical adaptation of 101 Dalmatians, it's worth noting that Actor's Theatre of Charlotte was concluding a four-weekend run of another season opener, River City. You could say this represents a milestone for our local theatre scene, two homegrown professional-grade world premieres running at the same time. Not so very long ago, one such event was unusual — a rarity even when the playwright hailed from the near vicinity.
Although one of these premieres has run its course, both were excellent. The technical polish at ImaginOn is very much what we've come to expect when Children's Theatre launches its new seasons at their bigger McColl Family Theatre space. Whether you're eyeing the set designs of Milagros Ponce de Leon, the costumes by Connie Furr Soloman, or the puppets by Soloman and Matthew Pauli, the wow factor is definitely there for the entire family.
Yet I'm more satisfied with the purposefulness of the puppetry here than I was in another Joan Cushing musical early this year, Petite Rouge, or even the work done more recently on the title creature in The Reluctant Dragon. Our narrators and protagonists, Missis and Pongo, ostensibly belong to Mr. and Mrs. Dearly, but this is merely what the dalmatians allow the duller humans to think. Underscoring this viewpoint, it's the human Londoners who don the puppet suits and papier-mâché heads, straitjacketing their facial expressions and looming a preternatural eight feet tall.
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Monday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Sept. 22, 2014 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Keb' Mo' at Knight Theater
- Photo credit: Andrea Lucero
• Bingo at Tyber Creek Pub
• Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte Open Rehearsal at St. Martin's Episcopal Church
• Find Your Muse Open Mic featuring Rachel Van Slyke at Evening Muse
• Knocturnal at Snug Harbor
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Sunday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Sept. 21, 2014 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Lydia Loveless at Double Door Inn
• An Evening with Jason Alexander & His Hair at Belk Theater
• Carolina Panthers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers at Bank of America Stadium
• Concert on the Green featuring Davidson College Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble at Davidson Village Green
• Joshua James at Stage Door Theater
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Saturday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Sept. 20, 2014 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Matrimony at U.S. National Whitewater Center
• International Festival at UNC-Charlotte
• Tawba Fest at Riverwalk
• Charlotte Beerfest at BB&T Ballpark
• Mike Epps at Bojangles' Coliseum
Friday, September 19, 2014
Arts Theater review: Intro to LIT One-Act Festival
Posted By Perry Tannenbaum on Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:51 PM
With so many guerilla theatre groups now regularly presenting at UpStage, perhaps it was inevitable that through cooperating and conspiring, a League of Independent Theatres of Charlotte would form. It’s not a new idea in NoDa, for once upon a time, when the millennium was young, Charlotte’s Off Broadway bloomed in a now-demolished quonset on Cullman Avenue. Of course, nothing ever came of the idealistic project — except Chickspeare, Queen City Theatre Company, BareBones Theatre Group, and Carolina Actors Studio Theatre.
Last week, the new group held its coming-out party with an Intro to LIT One-Act Festival. Four fledgling outfits took turns jabbing at the form, including Stephen Seay Productions, Quixotic Theatre, Appalachian Creative Theatre, and Taproot. Except for introductions given by company founders, paltry compared to the mighty epics of Tom Hollis and Chip Decker and none of groups cheated themselves. It was as long a you’d expect four acts and three intermissions, so the restaurant and bar offerings from impresario Michael Ford and crew were welcome indeed.
The two heavyweights on the card, Christopher Durang and Theresa Rebeck, were bunched in the middle, framed by the two lighter-weight pieces by Jordan Crittenden and Taproot, which tends to roll their own behind closed doors. But if Taproot’s This Message Must Be Consumed was hardly more than an agreeable after-dinner cordial, emceed by Chris Herring with a high-strung gameshow glibness, Seay’s Thursday Is My Day for Cleaning — with an even bumpier ride from Vivian (née Jay, I suspect) Russell — was frothier and more substantial than a mere aperitif.
Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Friday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:46 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Sept. 19, 2014 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Meet and Greet Stoplight Social Mixer Party at Whisky River
• Reception for Arctic Utopia at McColl Center for Art + Innovation
• Charlotte Symphony: Beethoven's "Eroica" at Belk Theater
• Spiked Punch at Dupp&Swat
First Drip First Drip (9/19/14): Another charter school closes, the 'Angelina effect,' more
Posted By Ana McKenzie on Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:23 AM
Levine Properties will develop a 3.2-acre park along Brevard Street, between ImaginOn and UNC Charlotte’s center city building. The first new project for the company in years, it is expected to be completed by 2016. Read about Levine's plans for that old Treloar House.
Yet another charter school has unexpectedly closed for good.All of Concrete Roses STEM Academy's 126 students will have to find alternatives. The school is located on McAlpine Park Drive in east Charlotte.
A resounding 87 percent of voting-age Scots went to the polls yesterday to decide whether to remain with the U.K. The results? A vast majority decided to stay. British Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to give Edinburgh more autonomy.
A man in Florida shot and killed his daughter and six grandchildren before shooting himself. Don Charles Spirit, 51, called police after he killed his family, but turned the gun on himself before police could arrive.
Here's on instance in which a celebrity did some serious good. After Angelina Jolie penned an op-ed in the New York Times describing her decision to get tested for the breast cancer gene, more woman have gone to their doctors for screenings. "Dubbed the 'Angelina Effect,' the numbers undergoing screening increased by two and a half times compared to the same period last year, after the star revealed she underwent a double mastectomy after testing positive for a BRCA1 gene mutation."
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Film / Film News Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Love Is Strange
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them - James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain
Love Is Strange - John Lithgow, Alfred Molina
The Maze Runner - Dylan O'Brien, Will Poulter
My Old Lady - Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith
This Is Where I Leave You - Jason Bateman, Tina Fey
Tusk - Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment
A Walk Among the Tombstones - Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens
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Marilyn Chambers found dead
Porn star Marilyn Chambers found dead at age 56.
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Question the Queen City: The story of Nellie Freeman, aka 'Razor Girl' 2
She decapitated her husband, was declared innocent, and never hurt another soul.
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Question the Queen City: The story of Mabel Rea 4
The Charlotte native went Hollywood, returned home and met a tragic demise.
