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Saturday, May 23, 2015
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Saturday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, May 23, 2015 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Lake Norman Beer Fest at Galway Hooker
• Speed Street Fest in Uptown Charlotte
• Jesus Christ Superstar at Theatre Charlotte
• TechNo You Didn't at Crown Station Pub
Friday, May 22, 2015
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Friday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:29 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, May 22, 2015 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Snug 600 at Snug Harbor
• Friday Live at the Factory w/ Cracker and Temperence League at N.C. Music Factory
• Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You at UpStage
• Mint Hill Madness at Mint Hill Veteran Memorial Park
• Open Mic Night at McGlohon Theatre
First Drip (5/22/15): Jim Rogers shames state legislators more
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:40 AM
Republican state Sen. Bob Rucho proves he's no friend to the solar power industry when he pushed through legislation "that would freeze state mandates for renewable energy production at the current 6 percent level, changing an existing law that raises that requirement in steps to 12.5 percent in 2021." Former Duke CEO Jim Rogers practically wagged his finger at the annual Energy Inc. Conference in Charlotte when he shamed the legislature for taking steps backward.
Google and the Nonprofit Technology Network are coming together to launch the Digital Inclusion Fellowship. In Charlotte, two people will with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and the Urban League of Central Carolinas.
The six Baltimore police officers charged with being responsible for the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray were indicted yesterday.
When the secrets of conservative, anti-gay reality TV stars come to light: Josh Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting quit his job yesterday at the Family Research Council as it came to light he molested underage girls when he was a teenager. He was never charged.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Film / Film Reviews Opening Friday
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:16 PM
- Fox & MGM
- Poltergeist
Good Kill - Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood
In the Name of My Daughter - Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet
Poltergeist - Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt
Tomorrowland - George Clooney, Britt Robertson
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Thursday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Thu, May 21, 2015 at 5:14 PM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, May 21, 2015 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Bruce Bruce at The Comedy Zone
• Tommy Castro & The Painkillers at Double Door Inn
• Call Me Crazy screening at LifeSkills Counseling & Consulting Group
• Coal Ash Stories at St. Peter's Catholic Church
• Buyer & Cellar at Duke Energy Theater
First Drip First Drip (5/21/15): MS-13 gang sweep, Peacock for mayor again, more
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:00 AM
Yesterday, federal law enforcement officials charged 37 alleged MS-13 gang members with racketeering. Of the 37, 22 were also charged with murder, attempted murder, assault and other violent crimes. The sweep comes a few days after that big shootout in Waco, Texas, between rival gangs that left eight people dead and at least 18 injured.
Edwin Peacock still wants to be mayor. He's thrown his name in the hat for the next election. He's the guy who lost to Patrick Cannon. The Business Journal has a good survey of the mayoral race so far.
Clearly this guy needed a vacation. Yesterday at Charlotte-Douglas airport, a man decided to protest his flight to Jamaica being overbooked by stripping completely naked. Another traveler said he stood there in the buff for nearly 40 minutes before police came and took him away.
Pizza became the unknowing break in the case of four people, including a 10-year-old boy, who were killed in D.C. earlier this week. Police have issued an arrest warrant for a suspect based on DNA found on pizza crust.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Wednesday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:31 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, May 20, 2015 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Mary Ann-Prack: Body Language exhibit at New Gallery of Modern Art
• Puddles Pity Party at Amos' Southend
• Taste of the Mint at Mint Museum Uptown
• Rocky Horror Show at 100 Gardens
• Zipline & Dine at U.S. National Whitewater Center
First Drip FIrst Drip (5/20/15): County commissioners say slow your roll, NCDOT, with toll lanes, more
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:30 AM
Despite the recent drama over prayer between Vilma Leake and Pat Cotham, the Mecklenburg County Commission did some work last night and approved a resolution asking Gov. McCrory to delay the I-77 toll lane project by 90 days. Local lawmakers and others are concerned about the transparency of the contract. The city of Charlotte is staying out of it.
Environmentalists are happy with this news. Duke Energy plans to replace its coal-fired Asheville plant with a natural gas plant, set to open by 2019. The price tag on that new plant is approximately $750 million. A solar project will come later, and with it, Duke will ask for a rate increase.
Los Angeles became one of the biggest cities to agree to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour. The change will be instituted by 2020, and now I have Snoop Dogg's "California Love" in my head.
A Japanese air bag manufacturer will announce what's likely the biggest auto recall campaign in U.S. history, thanks to defective airbags that explode with metal shrapnel. "The massive air bag recall covers more than 13 percent of all cars and trucks on the roads in the U.S. today. It would easily surpass the largest automotive recall — 23 million vehicles by Ford Motor Co. in 1980 for a transmission issue that only required the addition of a warning sticker."
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Inside CL Woohoo! CL gets named finalist for an AAN award
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:20 PM
We've said it over and over again -- coal ash is bad. It does the environment no good and it makes people sick.
Which is why when Rhiannon Fionn, the Coal Ash Queen, pitched writing a cover story last year about how Duke Energy is polluting our water with it, we said hell yes. Fionn has been covering coal ash for a long time -- so long, in fact, that she's producing a documentary about it. (You can see clips of it at this screening.)
This afternoon we got word that her CL story, titled "Charlotte is ground zero for coal ash", was named a finalist in the Environmental Reporting category of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia annual contest.
The association received over 920 entries. Judging was conducted by the all-knowing professionals in the Georgetown University Master's in Professional Studies Program in Journalism.
The winner will be announced in July. Until then, we'll dance a happy dance, and send out a hearty cheers to the other altweeklies that were nominated.
First Drip First Drip (5/19/15): Plaza Midwood shows up to rezoning meeting, Rodney Monroe to retire, more
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:20 AM
Last night, several dozen Plaza Midwood residents showed up to the public hearing for the rezoning petition that would put an apartment building on the land home to Tommy's Pub and Backstage Vintage. Six were scheduled to speak against the request, but only three were able to do so in the time allotted, including one gentleman who reminded Council that Plaza Midwood is "the last neighborhood in this city that cares about artists.” On the side for development, Plaza Midwood Neighborhood Association president Phillip Gusman stepped up in support of the 97-unit complex, saying it was one of the most collaborative projects he's been a part of. City staff has recommended approving the request, and during the meeting, only one councilmember asked a question pertaining to the historical value of Tommy's Pub. A vote takes place next month.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe is retiring July 1. His seven-year tenure had its ups (swiftly charging Officer Randall Kerrick in the shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell, handling the DNC so smoothly) and downs (his department's hiring practices were questioned after an officer was arrested and found to have assaulted several women while on duty). Officials have not commented on how they'll choose the city's first black police chief's successor. Good luck to that guy/gal.
The proposed $22 billion N.C. House budget gets debated today. In it are $361 million in salary increases for the next fiscal year, an increase in teacher pay and a 50-percent increase in fees at the DMV.
Sad but true: A new study has found the suicide rate among black children aged 5 to 11 has nearly doubled since the 1990s, while the rate for white children has decreased. “I was shocked, I’ll be honest with you,” Jeffrey Bridge, an epidemiologist at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told the New York Times. “I looked at it and I thought, ‘Did we do the analysis correctly?’ I thought we had made a mistake.”
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Today's Top 5: Wednesday
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
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Question the Queen City: The unsolved death of Delette Nycum 2
The trial that followed was nothing short of a Charlotte version of the O.J. Simpson spectacle.
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Question the Queen City: The historic Wearn House can still be saved 2
Though it's been on the chopping block for years, there's still hope for the historic structure.
