Creative Loafing Charlotte

Performance anxiety has gripped every soul who has ever been assigned the wine list. Tension builds as one guest wants salmon, another chooses steak, still another tofu, and nervous sweat beads form on your forehead. The eager party awaits your choice of the perfect bottle of wine; the wine to end all wines -- the one that lovingly marries every dish together.

For Low Wage Earners Like Temika Black, Finding Success Is One Step Up and Two Steps Back

By the time Bobby (Colin Farrell) is a teenager, his entire family is dead, and he spends the rest of his life trying to rebuild his broken home in the film A Home at the End of the World.

People sometimes ask me why I give developers such a hard time. The answer is: they usually deserve it. Much of what they build is poorly planned and badly designed. Although there are several thoughtful, conscientious and careful developers in our region who build good projects that will stand the test of time, they're outnumbered by their colleagues who give their industry a bad name.

The Deal: Charlotte quartet Brandon Kirkley & The Firecrackers independently releases six-song EP, What We Thought We Knew.

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Colombian rocker Andrea Echeverri has a host of reasons to put on airs. Her band, Aterciopelados, has won two Latin Grammys, been honored by the United Nations for denouncing violence, and was named one of the top three global bands by Time Magazine. And yet, she'd like to be perceived by her millions of fans across the globe as a female musician who is, "simple, domestic, without all that glitter."

The Importance of Reliable Roadside Assistance in Durham Region

We were fast friends, Terrence and I. A perfect fit: he was outgoing with enough feminine brashness for the both of us, while I was the sarcastic tomboy who didn't quite know what I had to offer. Over the course of the next few years, he became one of my best friends.

THE GUARDIAN Isn't it too soon to be subjected to another showing of Flyboys all over again? At least that's the sense of deja vu that settled in after viewing the two films in consecutive weeks. Here we have the same running time (an overextended 135 minutes), the same degree of quality in the CGI work (impressive), and the same fortune-cookie-level pontificating about the need for sacrifice, bravery and personal responsibility. Even more than