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Democratic National Convention 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
News / Democratic National Convention 2012 A DNC blog, brought to you by Sweet Baby James
Posted By Ana McKenzie on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:08 PM
I was in a bad mood when I took an empty seat in Kansas’ delegation a couple of hours ago to watch Time Warner Cable Arena prepare for the last day of the Democratic National Convention. I was going to write about how glad I am that the DNC is finally — finally — coming to an end when I heard a familiar voice over the speaker system. A tall man in a newsboy cap approached the mic on stage and asked someone to give him “just a little more piano.” Then from his guitar came some all-too-familiar chords.
Democratic National Convention 2012 Video: Quasimodo Project at 7th Street Market, 9/5/2012
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM
The Quasimodo Project presented a variety of events on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, at the 7th Street Market including live music, spoken word, art and dance. The group's mission is "to create, enable and showcase the best, most innovative, challenging and accessible cultural offerings of the region during the DNC."
(Video by Jeaumane McIntosh)
Performers return today at 4 p.m. to 7th Street Public Market for more Quasimodo madness.
Schedule
4:00 - 4:15 WORD - Slam Charlotte
4:15 - 4:30 DANCE - Sarah Barnard Dance
4:30 - 5:15 BAND - Bart Lattimore & Alex Kastanas
5:15 - 5:30 THEATER - Rough Trade - Taste Test
5:30 - 5:45 WORD - On Q Productions
5:45 - 6:30 BAND - Mark Holland
Democratic National Convention 2012 Photos: Knife Fight screening at NASCAR Hall of Fame
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Rob Lowe may have chosen to not show up for the Democratic National Convention event centered around his latest film, the political yarn Knife Fight, but his name will nevertheless always be associated with the DNC. The former teen heartthrob achieved a measure of notoriety on the eve of the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, when he was caught on tape having sex with two young (in one case, very young) women.
- Jeaumane McIntosh
- Eric McCormack — the Will sans the Grace
There were no scandals at the local function held Wednesday at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, as Lowe's co-stars Eric McCormack (TV's Will & Grace) and Richard Schiff (TV's The West Wing) joined the film's creators, writer-director Bill Guttentag (an Oscar-winning documentarian for Twin Towers and You Don't Have to Die) and co-writer Chris Lehane, to host a screening of the picture. The show was accompanied by a Q&A session involving the gathered talent.
Democratic National Convention 2012 Spotted: Creative Loafing in DNC territory
Posted By Matt Brunson on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Creative Loafing: Suitable for framing. (And oh-so-presidential.)
(Photo by Natalie Joy Howard)
News / Democratic National Convention 2012 Democrats use star power to rally youth
Posted By Michael J. Solender on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Democrats are trying hard to re-energize the youth vote that put their leader into office four years ago, and they know they can’t do it without help from Hollywood.
Millenials outnumbered Boomers in a crowd at Discovery Place Wednesday afternoon, where the National Journal and The Atlantic hosted a grouping of politically minded movie stars during Conversations with the Next Generation. NBC’s senior White House correspondent and political analyst Chuck Todd co-moderated with former first daughter-turned NBC reporter Chelsea Clinton.
- Michael J. Solender
- From left, Penn, Ferrera, Woodard and Todd
News / Democratic National Convention 2012 In search of the heart and soul of the Democratic Party on Day 2
Posted By Mike Cooper on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:45 AM
I took a different approach to covering the convention on Wednesday, leaving the arena and venturing out to the streets. I even ditched my suit jacket for a blue Adidas track top. Of course I kept the tie.
I also avoided Time Warner Cable Arena and the EpiCentre until dark, opting instead to venture into the streets. I rode in back of a bicycle-driven carriage manned by a long-haired hippie from Plaza Midwood. We went in search of the heart and soul of the Democratic Party: the activist base advocating for justice.
We found our champions around packed halls of the Convention Center and on street corners.
The Disillusioned Environmentalist
Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was helped in no small part by the fundraising dollars of environmental activists from northern California all the way to southern Appalachia. They felt personally invested in his cause. Four years later, some feel betrayed. One of those activists is Ann League. Originally from Lancaster, S.C., she has spent much of her life in Tennessee's coal country.
League was exposed to the horrors of strip mining, and it changed her life.
Democratic National Convention 2012 Photo: Clinton and Obama feeling the love
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:34 AM
THIS. <3
President Obama and former President Bill Clinton after Clinton's rousing speech last night. Man.
- Kris Krüg
News / Democratic National Convention 2012 Protesters clash with evangelists and executives in Uptown
Posted By Ryan Pitkin on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Before President Bill Clinton made a rousing two hour speech, protesters outside of the Democratic National Convention were stealing headlines.
For the fifth day straight, activists took to the streets of Uptown to voice their distrust and disappointment with the two party system and the corporations that support it. A few different rallies and protests were planned for the day by groups including Greenpeace and Occupy. But as most have been doing this week, activists from different groups joined each other in solidarity.
Greenpeace, Energy Action Coalition and other environmental activist groups met in front of Knight Theater, where Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers was speaking at an invite-only forum, to call on the Charlotte-based utility to drop all ties to right-wing legislative think-tank American Legislative Exchange Council.
News / Democratic National Convention 2012 Five things you didn't know about the DNC: Day Two
Posted By Ana McKenzie on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:00 AM
1. As anyone who went to college knows, free pizza brings out the worst in humanity. A stampede almost broke out at the MSNBC camp in the EpiCentre when staffers carried slices into the crowd. At one point, a security guard turned to me and said, “I didn’t know people went this crazy over free pizza!” I later saw him fighting his way toward the exit, slice in hand.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Democratic National Convention 2012 Michelle Obama made us say the four-letter word
Posted By Joanne Spataro on Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:53 PM
On Tuesday night, first lady Michelle Obama made me feel what Ann Romney only said she wanted me to feel: Love.
That little four-letter word peppered Romney’s speech at the Republican National Convention, but I didn’t buy it. Her husband and his vice-presidential running mate Paul Ryan have worked hard to defund women’s healthcare resources and to tell us who we can and can’t marry. In all of her pro-women grandstanding, Ann never once told me I have the right to be the master of my own body or that I deserve equal pay for equal work. She just told us a story about eating tunafish off an ironing board.
Then there was Michelle. As I left the arena after her speech more than a little misty-eyed, I caught up with a few smitten ladies in the hallway. Here’s what they had to say.
- Wikipedia
- The lovely Michelle Obama
