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JAZZ HOPS A free-improv on local beer, music, poetry, and the arts BY MARK KEMP
THIS ISSUE IS about two great American ago (which is still going), appreciates local pastimes that are as Creative Loafing as it gets: musicians and artists who work hard in drinking local beer and experiencing local art. Charlotte to make livings from their crafts, In our annual special section on beer, which but he says he too often comes away from begins on page 14, we offer up a little bit of nightclub performances unsatiated. “I just feel like, in general, when I go both by spotlighting seven new craft beer places to see jazz, it’s just really toothless,” he breweries and taprooms. “Brewing is comprised of lots of science, tells me in the piece. Bagwell’s remedy is the Antidote, which which we love, but it is also art in the truest sense of the word,” Ben Dolphens his wife says brings the arts of jazz and tells us. He’s one of three co-owners of the poetry back to the streets, where they belong. “For me, poetry is blood and guts and forthcoming Divine Barrel Brewing, which opens early next year, and says NoDa was the real,” Amy Bagwell tells me. “It’s a people’s obvious choice for the business because of the expression that’s been somehow criminally neighborhood’s association with art. “We just made exclusive for the elite and the academic.” The music section isn’t the only place in felt it was the perfect fit for who we are and this week’s issue where you’ll hear Amy what we’re trying to do.” Bagwell proselytizing about art for Dolphens is not the only new the people. brewmeister in Charlotte who Staff writer Pat Moran’s emphasizes the art in the piece on Wet Paint, the craft of brewing a great mug newest event from the of suds. So does Dan Hyde, Goodyear Arts program, who chose the arty South includes viewpoints from End neighborhood for the program’s founders, his new establishments, one of whom is . . . Amy Hyde Brewing and The Bagwell. Wet Paint is Suffolk Punch. Goodyear’s first happening “I started homein its new digs at Camp brewing a little over 10 MARK KEMP North End, and Bagwell tells years ago, immersing myself Moran in his story on page 30 in the art, science and nuances that she’s excited about it. of the craft,” Hyde tells us. “All of the art has been created Art, science and nuance. Those three things certainly apply to free-improvised this year, and some of it has been created jazz, something we don’t get enough of in and finished just for this show,” Bagwell Charlotte’s music venues. For nearly 15 years, says, explaining that Goodyear, which was Brent Bagwell has been preaching the joys launched to help street-level artists make a and ecstasy of free jazz via his saxophone, living from their art by gaining more access the same instrument that the late North to local art lovers, has risen above the status Carolina-born jazz legend John Coltrane of a mere “program” and is now a strong and magically transformed into sounds that vital Charlottte arts organization. “We’re not an experiment anymore,” resemble, by turns, a gospel singer, a cantor’s Bagwell says. “We believe artists should be incantation, and a muezzin’s call to prayer. Bagwell, who moved to Charlotte paid for their work. It’s not a ton of money, from New York City in the early 2000s, but [enough so that] artists can use it to buy has performed with the most out jazz and supplies, or to take time off from their jobs avant-garde ensembles in town, as well as to produce art.” Which brings us back to beer. the most adventurous experimental rock If beer is part of the fuel that inspires an bands, including Project Bluebird, Tenspeed, Pyramid and his current free-jazz duo Ghost artist’s work — and I should point out that Trees. And now, Bagwell has put together this certainly is not the case for all artists — a new jazz-and-poetry night with his wife then they, of course, would want to be able to Amy, a local poet and visual artist. The series afford to support the local craftspeople who is slated to run the first three Fridays of brew the stuff. Art, science and nuance — it all comes October at Petra’s in Plaza Midwood. I sat down with Bagwell to talk about the full circle, and Creative Loafing is here to tie series — which he’s dubbed the Antidote, as all those parts together. So grab a mug and a in, an antidote to tepid music and arts — for book of poetry, sit down in your art room, put this week’s music feature on page 24. Bagwell, on some Ghost Trees, and read this week’s who helped launch the McColl Center’s issue cover to cover. The stories herein just terrific “New Frequencies” series a few years may inspire you to create. CLCLT.COM | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | 9
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NOT OUT OF THE ‘WOODS’. . . YET More Charlotte residents face displacement RYAN PITKIN
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T WAS LIKE patching a hole and watching the dam break. On September 17, the deadline passed for 18 people who were forced out of the Twin Oaks apartments in NoDa to leave. Thanks to the help of neighbors, volunteers and the residents themselves banding together to help each other, 16 were able to find permanent housing, while two others are living in motels, supported by local nonprofits while they continue their search for a home. One day later, on September 18, as the doors and windows at Twin Oaks were being boarded up, a letter was delivered to each of the 80 units of Brittany Woods apartments in east Charlotte informing residents they had until October 31 to find new homes, after having been told three days earlier that ownership had changed but that the new property management company, Rivergate KW Residential, “looks forward to providing you an outstanding experience.” The two incidents were technically unrelated, but both are part of a pattern of gentrification that is displacing hundreds of people in Charlotte on a monthly basis and jarring communities that find themselves disbanded as they become more “desirable.” The Oakhurst neighborhood, where the Brittany Woods apartments sits, is ripe for redevelopment; it’s close to Uptown, rubs up against hip neighborhoods like Chantilly and has recently become home to a new Common Market, which was forced out of South End after gentrification took over there. Residents at Brittany Woods live on monthto-month leases, leaving them vulnerable to short-notice evictions. Robert Forquer, a real estate attorney in Charlotte, said this has become commonplace in a city experiencing rapid growth and redevelopment. “It’s something that’s becoming more normal, where people are just given 30 days notice,” Forquer said. “What I’m seeing, especially with a lot of lower-end rentals, is that landlords are happy to let them go to a monthly lease, because it gives them that ability to be able to empty everything and sell.” Rent at the Brittany Woods complex is lower than residents would find at most Charlotte complexes, ranging from $625 to the $800s for a two-bedroom unit. There are many handicap-accessible units, which adds to the difficulty faced by those residents 10 | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | CLCLT.COM
Brittany Woods residents Tanya Burns [far left] and Troy Graham [middle] discuss options with concerned neighbors [from left] Molly Barker, Robert Forquer and Allyson Siegle.
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“You’re treating people unfairly. You want to be in this community and you want to build apartments, then you need to step back and treat people with dignity when you’re relocating them. And if you don’t, we’re not going to forget it. We’re going to stand out in front and we’re going to let people know what you’re doing.” -ROBERT FORQUER, REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY who now have fewer than 40 days to find new homes. Charlotte’s lack of affordable housing gives vulnerable residents little to no options. “It’s not enough time if there’s plenty of housing out there that you can move into. But when there’s no place to go. . .” Forquer trailed off, the rest of his thought implicit.
TROY GRAHAM HAS lived at Brittany Woods for 10 years. As his neighbors did, Graham signed a one-year lease when he first
moved in and has lived on a month-to-month agreement since then. He’s disabled, and gets by on the small amount of income he gets from the limited work he can do from home. When I met with him, he was standing outside of the Brittany Woods leasing office with a few neighbors and a couple of the folks who helped find housing for Twin Oaks residents and had heard about the situation Brittany Woods residents now face. Graham said he and his neighbors became suspicious after seeing different types of
companies show up on a regular basis to survey the property and carry out inspections, which hadn’t been done in the decade Graham lived there. He asked each company that showed up what they were doing, but was never given an answer. At first, Graham said he was “all talked out,” as he had spent the week trying desperately to find a new place to move to, arguing about application fees with complex managers and discussing his situation with neighbors who were in the same boat. But
it soon became clear that Graham, known around the neighborhood for his outgoing nature, does not get talked out. He had plenty to say. “Sell the place, that’s fine, that’s your business, we don’t own the place, so we can’t control that,” Graham said. “But not once did they give us any lead-up. It was just a whole bunch of evasiveness. They’re displacing us with no courtesy, with not a modicum of any sort of decency.” Paperwork shows that Gvest Capital, a real estate investment company based in Pineville, bought the property. A deed filed on September 18 shows that the property has switched titles from Brittany Woods to Oakhurst Apartments. Calls to Raymond Gee, who signed the files to buy the property, were not returned in time for this article, although he is reportedly meeting with someone representing Brittany Woods residents on September 28. Tanya Burns, who lives with her 16-yearold daughter in Brittany Woods, said she hopes the company will at least give residents a month or two longer to find new homes. She’s worried about her many disabled neighbors, and those without family and friends in the area. “We have people who don’t have cars, people who live here because they can walk up to the bus and get to wherever they need to go,” Burns said. “We all know that, legally, [Gvest Capital has] done what they’re supposed to do. But that’s just not enough time for [residents] to figure out where they’re going to live and then figure out how they’re going to get there.”
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just a week after the earlier complex, Twin Oaks, had been boarded up, Molly Barker got emotional when asked what it was like to look over at Twin Oaks next door and see the complex all boarded up. Barker had spent every day of the previous two months fighting to find each of the 18 Twin Oaks residents a home. In the end, she said the experience had changed her forever. “I went over there the day the whole thing ended,” she said, and then paused to look down and gather her thoughts. “As painful as
the process might have appeared at the get-go, it was a bridge for both sides. I learned a lot; I got to bear witness to racism in our town, I got to bear witness to classism, I got to bear witness to the narratives around all that I hadn’t really experienced, which is good. “And this process, having borne witness to what it’s like to be in poverty for one’s whole life, it’s disrupting everything in me, everything I ever learned,” she added. Barker plans to meet with Gvest’s Raymond Gee on Thursday, and said she remains optimistic that she can work something out with the company, as she did when she helped work out a deal with the developer that bought Twin Oaks to give residents more money and more time before they were pushed out. If it doesn’t work out at Brittany Woods, the residents, and those who have gathered to defend them, want developers to know that they will not go quietly. “You’re treating people unfairly,” Forquer said of Gvest when discussing with residents what message needs to be sent to the developer. “You want to be in this community and you want to build apartments, then you need to step back and treat people with dignity when you’re relocating them. And if you don’t, we’re not going to forget it. We’re going to stand out in front and we’re going to let people know what you’re doing.” Sitting with Molly Barker, it was clear the last two months had taken their toll on her. She was tired. She compared the awakening experience she had at Twin Oaks to a near-death experience she once had on an airplane. Although that incident affected her in a positive way, she said, it took months to assimilate that lived experience into her daily life. She believes she will need months to put her Twin Oaks experience into perspective. But she doesn’t have months. The people of Brittany Woods are in an urgent situation, and at the mere mention of their struggle she perked up. Barker had never met this new group of people, but she said she wanted to tag along on my interview the next day. She swore she just wants to be a fly on the wall — just meet the people there — but it was clear she had just found herself another plane.
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RUMBLE IN THE JUMBA A 38-year-old man filed a police report last week after bumping into somebody and deciding that he may have been in enough danger to need police help. The man told officers he was walking out of Jumba Juice in the Bank of America Corporate Center when he bumped into the suspect. The two then got into an argument over which of them should apologize, although it seems nobody did. The suspect then walked away, but the victim decided he wasn’t done, so he went to police and filed a report stating that he would like to take the man to court. FINDERS KEEPERS If there’s one thing
I’ve learned in my years writing The Blotter, it’s that people will do crazy shit for some Oxycodone. They will pull off complex prescription fraud schemes, commit armed robbery and steal from homes they were hired to work in. One person in west Charlotte, however, did not have to work too hard for their bottle of dope, as they just happened to be in the right place at the right time. A careless victim filed a report last week stating that he had placed a bag containing his full prescription of Oxycodone down on the ground outside of A to Z Convenience Store on Beatties Ford Road while he went inside to shop, and — surprise — the bag was gone when he came back out.
GROSS CMPD’s Crime Scene Investigations unit responded to a home in southwest Charlotte last week after a man made what might be a gruesome discovery, or might just be a spill. The man told police that he took the sheets off of a bed at the home he lived at — it’s unclear whether it was his bed or not — and found a large red stain caused by some unknown substance that he thought looked like blood. CSI collected the outer layer of the mattress for further testing, and the man hopefully threw the bed out … like way out. GETTING OUTTA DODGE A 21-year-old
man finally decided to file a police report last week regarding something he lost late one night more than four years ago. The man told police that he was in a bar in Uptown Charlotte on March 5, 2013, when he lost his passport, which identified him as a citizen of the Republic of Palau, an island country in the western Pacific Ocean. It’s unclear in the report why the man waited so long to report his passport missing, but as I take a look at the daily actions of our current presidential administration, I can’t help but wonder whether I should tell them I lost mine, too. Palau sounds nice this time of year.
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household full of upset adults, but far more upset children. Police spoke with the victim, a 47-year-old man, who told officers that the suspect broke in through the rear window of the house and then went through the kids’ bedrooms, stealing $110 total, while leaving everything else in the house untouched.
WINTER IS COMING While last week we reported on a man who got caught shoplifting in the Kate Spade store in SouthPark because he was conspicuously shoving purses down his pants, another man in the mall was a lot smoother with his attempt the following week, but was still caught. Police responded to the Neiman Marcus store one afternoon and talked to employees who told them a man walked in and went directly to a $2,500 black jacket with fur trim that he had apparently already scoped out, then quietly walked out with it. He underestimated store security, however, and was quickly caught. NEW GEAR While weed smokers have long
had their apples and water bottle bongs, you rarely get to see crack addicts getting creative with their smoking gadgets — until recently, that is. Multiple reports popped up last week about officers confiscating tire pressure gauges that had been emptied out and turned into crack pipes, including one officer who took one away from a man during a traffic stop on Dalton Avenue just because an orange piece had been taken off of the gauge, even though it had not been used to smoke any drugs whatsoever.
TURN UP Police responded to a loitering
call in front of a church near Garinger High School last week and found a high school student who must’ve had a rough day at school. Police arrived at the scene at 2:15 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon and found a 15-year-old girl who admitted she had consumed an alcoholic beverage.
CARROT AND STICK A 28-year-old man finally went to the police after he was given the run around by a pair of people who had found his wallet in west Charlotte recently and didn’t turn out to be the good Samaritans they claimed to be. The man told police that he dropped his wallet at Soul Junction Music Festival on the Johnson C. Smith University campus, and later got a message on Facebook from someone claiming to have found it. The man then contacted this person, who later claimed that he didn’t actually have the wallet, but gave him the name of someone who did. The man has spoken to both suspects, who have claimed to both have and not have the wallet at different times, but they have now apparently rethought their good will, as they have stopped answering calls from the victim.
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INTERESTING CHOICE OF WORDS The
People’s Liberation Army Daily, a Chinese staterun military newspaper, has declared on its WeChat account that fewer Chinese youth are passing fitness tests to join the army because they are too fat and masturbate too much, resulting in abnormally large testicular veins. The web article cited one town’s statistics, where 56.9 percent of candidates were rejected for failing to meet physical requirements. China’s military quickly beat down the article’s assertion, saying: “The quality of our recruits is guaranteed, and the headwaters of our military will flow long and strong.”
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT Police in Osnabruck, Germany, stopped a vehicle on Aug. 19 and found an unusual trove of drugs inside: Plastic bags filled with about 5,000 ecstasy pills, with a street value of about $46,000 — all in the shape of Donald Trump’s head. The orange tablets depicted Trump’s signature sweep of hair and his rosebud mouth. An unnamed 51-year-old man and his son, 17, also had a large sum of cash and were taken into custody. DYING NEWS The Japanese funeral industry demonstrated its forward thinking on Aug. 23 when practitioners gathered for the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo. Among the displays was a humanoid robot named Pepper who can conduct a Buddhist funeral, complete with chanting and tapping a drum. Pepper is a collaboration between SoftBank and Nissei Eco Co., which wrote the chanting software. Michio Inamura, Nissei’s executive adviser, said the robot could step in when priests are not available. MORE NEWS OF DEATH Also at the
Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, four undertakers competed on stage as funeral music played to see who could best display the ancient skills of ritually dressing the dead. The Shinto religion in Japan believes that the dead are impure just after death and that dressing the body purifies the spirit. The contestants dressed live human volunteers and were observed by three judges. Rino Terai, who won the contest, said, “I practiced every day to prepare for this competition.”
FRESH FACES In Iran, the education
department has banned people who are considered “ugly” from being teachers. The list of conditions and features that prevent one from being a teacher includes facial moles, acne, eczema, scars and crossed eyes. Also on the list of unsavory conditions are cancer, bladder stones or color-blindness, none of which can be observed by others.
the officer pulled over Kevin M. Cholousky, 39, of Van Buren, Arkansas, he took off and led police on a chase along I-530, where his vehicle was eventually stopped by road spikes. Although the casket was empty, Cholousky was charged in Pulaski County with fictitious tags, reckless driving and fleeing.
asked him to refrain from using obscene language, Wills said, “Who are you to tell me what to do?” James replied: “Well, I am the judge ... and I need to make it clear to you and others that such behavior is not going to be tolerated.” Wills was found in contempt of court and sentenced to two weeks in jail.
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YOUR COLD, COLD HEART A police officer on maternity leave was ticketed and fined 110 pounds after she pulled her car into a bus stop in west London to help her newborn baby, who was choking in the back seat. Rebecca Moore, 31, of Aylesbury, said her son, Riley, was “going a deep shade of red in the face, his eyes were bulging and watering, and he was trying to cough but was struggling.” Moore appealed the fine, but the Harrow Council rejected her appeal, as did the London Tribunals. “The law about stopping in bus stops is exactly the same everywhere in London,” a council spokeswoman said. “You can’t do it.”
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Sonogram photos are notoriously difficult to decipher, but one couple in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, are sure theirs shows a man watching over their unborn daughter. “When they gave it to us ... Umm, to me, it’s Jesus. And it looks like Jesus,” said mom Alicia Zeek. She and father Zac Smith have two older children, both born with birth defects, and the image is putting them at ease about their third child. “Once ... we looked at the picture, I was like — look, babe, we have nothing to worry about,” Smith said.
BRIGHT IDEAS Tuffy Tuffington, 45, of
San Francisco was walking his dogs, Bob and Chuck, when he came up with a way to respond non-violently to a right-wing rally at Crissy Field on Aug. 26. So he launched a Facebook page asking San Franciscans to bring dog poop to spread in the park in advance of the event. “It seemed like a little bit of civil disobedience where we didn’t have to engage with them face to face,” Tuffington said. Contributors to the project also planned to show up on Aug. 27 to “clean up the mess and hug each other.”
COURT REPORT Jordan Wills, 22, of Dover, England, provoked the ire of Judge Simon James of the Canterbury Crown Court in Kent when he appeared before the court. Wills called the judge a prick, and when James
YOU KILLED BUTTERCUP One reveler
at an Aug. 19 street festival in Worcester, Massachusetts, caused a dust-up when he aggressively confronted a police horse. Donald Pagan, 59, was cutting through a column of mounted police when an officer asked him to stop. Instead, Pagan raised his fist “in an attempt to punch the horse in the face,” a police statement said. The horse jumped backward, away from Pagan, which officers noted could have injured Pagan, the horse or the mounted officer. Pagan was charged with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and interfering with a police horse.
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A BOLD ENDEAVOR Carole Waggener jumps from the corporate world to the craft beer scene RYAN PITKIN
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first corporate gig, with Tropicana, her boss would often peek over the cubicle as she entered the building and announce to the office, “Here comes the Bold Missy!” It was a playful ribbing — especially compared to the blatant harassment many women faced in the corporate world at the time — that was based on Waggener’s take-no-shit approach at work, and eventually the nickname stuck, following her from Tropicana to a decadelong stint with Anheuser-Busch, before she was pushed out during the 2008 merger that made the company AB Inbev. Waggener has been happily employed by Snyder’s Lance ever since, but three years ago, she had an epiphany while drinking a beer at Triple C Brewery during a brewery crawl in South End: the craft beer world was where she belonged. She then embarked on her boldest mission yet, attending a three-day “Start Your Own Brewery” seminar at Siebel Institute in Chicago, completing a 24-week craft beer program at Portland State University and visiting around 200 breweries around the country before acquiring a loan, cashing out most of her retirement fund and opening Bold Missy Brewery in NoDa in May of this year. “I haven’t really slowed down,” Waggener said, looking back on that day at Triple C. “I sort of went all in, and here we are.” 14 | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | CLCLT.COM
Brew queen Carol Waggener is a Bold Missy. Bold Missy is Charlotte’s first femaleowned brewery, and the pride runs deep within the business, with each beer paying homage to different heroic women of history. Beers currently on tap include Rocket Ride IPA, which honors astronaut Sally Ride; and Git Yer Gun Golden Ale, named for sharpshooter Annie Oakley. On September 16, Waggener hosted an event with Alison Levine, who has completed the Adventure Grand Slam, climbing to the highest peak on each continent and skiing to both the North and South poles. To complete the slam, she led the first all-woman team to the peak of Mount Everest in 2010. Levine was on hand for the release of Conquer the Route Chocolate Stout, a beer
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named in her honor. She poured the first glass and addressed the crowd of about 70 people who showed up. Seasonal beers coming this fall include a pumpkin beer named after Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and Self Portrait (With a Hop), a fresh hop beer named after Frida Kahlo. Each beer at Bold Missy includes a pulp magazine, dime novel graphic design, with posters featuring each one looking down on drinkers in the brewery. The marketing plan has been effective, and hasn’t turned any men away, as was an early concern. “One of our concerns was, will we have men in here or are they going to say, ‘It’s a chick bar,’” said Lybbi Roth, tap room
manager and Waggener’s niece. “But that’s one thing that’s drawn in a lot of men. They’re like, ‘I’m a huge history buff, I love that you’ve done this.’ One of our bartenders is a history teacher and he’s got a list of nine other women that he’d like to name beers after. So people really identify with it regardless of their gender.” Although the women of Bold Missy are more than happy to wear their pride on their sleeves — or graphics — they downplay the difficulty of breaking into the boys’ club of brewing. “We go to events that are more industry focused and it’s like we’re the only girls there,” said Roth. “But I don’t feel like anyone’s necessarily discriminating against us. We’ve had some people who have come in and are snotty, and they’re like, ‘Well you just think because you’re a woman with a brewery and blah, blah, blah.’ But apart from the obvious — and I know Legion has a female brewer [Alexa Long] — that there’s not a lot of women in the industry, I don’t feel like we’re being excluded or that we’re sticking out like a sore thumb.” Waggener agrees, and doesn’t put much thought into her role as Charlotte’s first female to own a brewery straight up (Sarah Brigham co-owns Sycamore Brewing with her husband, and Suzie Ford co-owns NoDa Brewing Company with hers). “My entire career I’ve always worked with great men and great women, so I’ve never felt like, ‘Oh the man’s held me down. This is my chance to get back at the man,’” Waggener said. “I’ve always been really supported by great people. It’s more about a celebration, a celebration of women’s accomplishments.” It’s not men, per se, that Waggener has to worry about now as a small brewery owner. The biggest threats to her business are the megabrewers, corporations like the one she was booted from when it was turned into AB Inbev in 2008. Companies like AB InBev have stepped up tactics in recent years to buy out craft beer brewers and confuse consumers about
Tap room manager Lybbi Roth poses under Missy’s bold logo. what’s craft and what’s locally owned. “I really embrace the craft beer culture because now, with 20/20 hindsight, you see what the AB wholesalers have done to try to squash the craft beer business for so long,” Waggener said. “That’s why I’m thrilled that in North Carolina you can self-distribute. You don’t have to get into those relationships with wholesalers if you don’t want to.” The former Anheuser-Busch-employeeturned-craft-brewer said she supports the Craft Freedom movement, which fights locally against laws that make it hard for local brewers to grow their business, and plans to look into ways she can help them. In the short term, though, her battle is simply finding ways to let people know where she is. Bold Missy is located on Anderson Street, tucked behind the Renaissance townhomes at the northern tip of the NoDa neighborhood. Shortly before the opening, the city closed Sugar Creek Road, which was a popular way to enter NoDa from the north and would have brought plenty of traffic by the brewery. Then, after the opening, the city also shut down E. Craighead Road, another popular way of getting into the northern part of the
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neighborhood. Waggener said the construction, brought about by the Blue Line extension that will eventually make Bold Missy more accessible, has hurt business, but recent openings across the street make her optimistic. “It’s definitely impacted our business, because as soon as Craighead closed, you could see a significant dip in the traffic,” Waggener said. “But what has helped is that they’ve opened the Sherwin Williams, and the Crown Station [Coffeehouse & Pub], so that has helped bring some more traffic back this way.” Divine Brewery will also open across the street in early 2018 (see page 20). For now, Waggener is enjoying learning the business firsthand and serving the neighborhood folks while playing a waiting game with the nearby construction. Waiting, however, is not how she got the nickname Bold Missy. “We knew we’d be out here on an island for a while, but I think everything is moving this way, which is great. It’s just waiting it out,” Waggener said, before busting out in laughter. “But patience is not one of my strong suits.” RPITKIN@CLCLT.COM
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GOODROAD CIDERWORKS Apples to Apples PHOTO BY LUNAHZON
A refreshing cider from Goodroad.
THERE WERE obviously a lot of breweries in town,” says GoodRoad Ciderworks founder Brian Beauchemin. “We decided to do something different.” GoodRoad, which opened its doors last St. Patrick’s Day, specializes in dry ciders made from fresh-pressed juices — the dryer, the better. Beauchemin also shuns adding sugars or artificial sweeteners to his ciders, and 90 percent of the apples he uses are local, from Perry Lowe Orchards in Taylorsville. Currently, the cidery offers four single-varietal dry ciders. In much the way a varietal wine uses just one grape, these ciders use just one apple. But there are plenty more ciders to choose from.
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Flavors at GoodRoad include hops, ginger, blueberry, peach and a general-blend cider. “Technically we are a winery,” Beauchemin says, “because we make cider, which is a fruit wine, and mead, which is honey wine.” Ah, mead. For many, it is a brew sloshing around in Thor’s flagon at Asgard. But the honeyed elixir is growing in popularity in Charlotte. “Once we decided to do ciders, I felt the meads were a natural compliment,” Beauchemin says, citing the compatibility between apple and honey flavors. Right now, one of the more popular meads is one made with avocado honey. “People ask if it’s going to taste funky or like guacamole,” Beauchemin says, laughing. “It gives the mead a unique flavor profile. It has the sweetness of honey along with some earthiness.” For the more adventurous imbibers, there are even cysers, which blend cider and mead, on tap. GoodRoad boasts a full tasting room, two outdoor patios and a mezzanine. A private event room is right off the taproom, set off by two large barn doors that can swing open to allow people to flow through the facility. “I grew up in Vermont surrounded by barns and apple orchards,” says Beauchemin, who has lived in Charlotte since 1990. “We’ve tried to add some of that New England feel to the décor.” So, for a break from plain old craft beer, Good Road may be the new path for you. — Pat Moran Where: 17 Southside Dr. More: 980-237-7225, goodroadciderworks.com Hours: Wednesday 4 p.m.–9 p.m. Thursday 4 p.m.–10 p.m. Friday 3 p.m.–11 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m.–11 p.m. Sunday 12 p.m.-7 p. m.
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Salud Cerveceria owners Jason and Dairelyn Glunt.
SALUD CERVECERIA
A Mom ’n’ Pop Cerveza Shop WHEN JASON Scott Glunt and his wife, Dairelyn, opened Salud Beer Shop in NoDa in March 2012, the plan didn’t involved expanding past their humble little beer shop with four taps. But it wasn’t long before their success led to growth. In 2015, they opened Fud @ Salud in the building next door, and eventually began brewing beer in a small one-barrel system. Opportunity presented itself again when UpStage closed in the space above them, and the couple decided that if they were going to expand out, they might as well expand up. In June, the Glunts opened Salud Cerveceria, a brewery, tap room and coffee shop. The space is a step up from the beer shop below, figuratively and literally. “They are two very different places and vibes
and that’s what we wanted,” Glunt says from his seat in the beer shop downstairs. “This is a basement feel, laid back. Upstairs is a little more fancy.” In Cerveceria, the Glunts keep two taps dedicated to coffee and tea from Trade & Lore, one tap for cider and another for house soda. The other 10 are reserved for beer brewed in-house. Or, at least that’s the idea. Demand has been outweighing supply in the brewery’s first few months. “We’re trying to keep up,” Glunt says. “Right now it’s been a struggle. It’s a good thing.” The team has been brewing a lot
of fruit-based beers, inspired by Dairelyn’s Dominican heritage. The Chinola (Spanish for passionfruit) has been their No. 1 seller. They’ve recently begun a sour program they hope to have ready by mid-December. Despite the high demand, Glunt plans to keep all his beer in house. “We want to sell our beer here,” Glunt says. “Fighting with the huge breweries here and trying to get a tap at Mac’s Speed Shop, that’s not our business model. We just can’t do that, we don’t have the longing to do that. It’s a fruitless venture for us to go that route.” Between the rapid growth and the Dominican flavor combinations, fruitless seems like the wrong word. — Ryan Pitkin Where: 3306 N. Davidson St., Suite C (above Salud and Fud @ Salud) More: (980) 495-6612, saludcerveceria.com Hours: Monday-Thursday 7 a.m.– 10 p.m. Friday 7 a.m.–Midnight Saturday 9 a.m.–Midnight Sunday 11 a.m.-7 p. m. (Beer never pours until 11 a.m.)
POP THE TOP CRAFT BEER SHOP Serving the South End KETAN PATEL was still working as a project manager for Bank of America when he started doing research for his new career as owner of the Pop the Top Craft Beer Shop in South End. Patel just didn’t know it yet. “I think that job forced me to drink a little bit more, so it caused a little bit of studying for the future,” Petan says, laughing. “It was definitely a dramatic shift.” Patel and his wife, Kathy, opened the beer shop and tap room in a cozy spot tucked into the Camden Gallery Apartments about a block from the East/West Blue Line station on West Boulevard in June 2017. The brew drinkers of South End have welcomed him with open arms. “South End’s been very supportive. Our first three months projection, we blew those projections out of the water, so we’re hoping to continue that trend, especially as it gets cooler,” Patel says. As temperatures cool, he says, customers will be moving in from the wrap-around patio to the livingroom-style set-up on the inside of Pop the Top, where the coffee table turns into a foosball table, just like that. There, folks will be able to continue enjoying beers from all around the region. Patel estimates that about 90 percent of the beer in his shop is brewed in the Carolinas, with a few exceptions coming out of places like Hershey, Pennsylvania, or San Diego, California.
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Pop the Top is doggie-friendly. A large map above the glass refrigerator doors marks spots around North and South Carolina where he gets his supply. “My mission is to get people more exposed to what we have, not just within Charlotte, but all throughout North Carolina and South Carolina — because sometimes South Carolina gets lost in the shuffle,” Patel says. “We have become a little bit spoiled in Charlotte,” he adds, “because we do have a lot of craft breweries, but there are craft breweries in Greensboro, in Clayton, Raleigh, Wilmington, Boone.” Besides the homey atmosphere, complete with comfy-cushioned seats inside the shop and a wrap-around patio outside, Pop the Top is also canine-friendly, with a bevy of doggie toys waiting to get chewed on by any pup that comes along. It’s all a part of Patel’s dedication to customer service, no matter what breed the customer is.
“We pride ourselves on customer service to the 1,000th degree,” Patel says. “In some industries, customer service has taken a back seat to the product, but we’re here for the customer.” — R.P. Where: 116 West Blvd. More: (704) 960-2859, popthetopclt.com
Hours: Monday-Thursday 2–10 p.m. Friday-Saturday 12-11 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m.-7 p. m.
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HYDE BREWING & SUFFOLK PUNCH The One-Two Punch I STARTED home-brewing a little over 10 years ago, immersing myself in the art, science and nuances of the craft” Dan Hyde says. After friends and family quaffed and praised his brew, the native of Suffolk County, England started thinking about going commercial with his beer. That chain of events culminated in the opening of Hyde Brewing and The Suffolk Punch in South End last July. Hyde is part owner and chief brewing officer of the twin establishments, and true to its founder’s roots, the brewery features plenty of English-style beer on tap. Hyde adds they’ve recently brewed German and American styles and have a Belgian on deck. “At the end of the day, we just want to brew good beer,” says Hyde, “and good beer certainly isn’t limited to one specific style.” But you can’t get that beer at the brewery. Hyde Brewing and The Suffolk Punch share the same address, but they serve different purposes. Hyde Brewing is not open to the public. Instead, it focuses on B2B brewing and perfecting its namesake beverage. That brew can be sampled at The Suffolk Punch, which which takes the step beyond a mere tasting room to full-on dining establishment. “We don’t just serve Hyde Brewing’s beer [there],” says Hyde, noting that The Suffolk Punch also carries wine, cocktails and a rotating assortment of beers from North Carolina and beyond. With a coffee bar and a kitchen focused on sustainable and ethical ingredients from local and regional family farms, The 20 | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | CLCLT.COM
A fresh pull from Suffolk Punch. Suffolk Punch could be the go-to eatery for both the casual and fine dining crowds. The restaurant’s coolness quotient is upped considerably by its enchanted English forest vibe. Exposed brick, warm lighting and rustic, handcrafted leather booths are all well and good, but they play second fiddle to an explosion of plant life sufficient to cloak an entire troupe of woodland elves. “We get quite a few compliments on our design and atmosphere,” Hyde says, “but the coolest thing about Suffolk Punch and Hyde Brewing is the people. There’s a lot of passion COURTESY OF HYDE BREWING
Hyde loves his brew.
and a creativity between these walls, and that fosters excellent collaboration between the brewery, the coffee bar and the kitchen.” — P.M.
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Where: 2911 Griffith St. More: (704) 319-8650, hydebrewing.com thesuffolkpunch.com Hours: Monday-Thursday 6:30 a.m.–10 p.m. Friday-Saturday 6:30 a.m.–Midnight. Sunday 6:30 a.m.–9 p.m.
DIVINE BARREL BREWING More Beer Art in NoDa WHAT’S SO GREAT about NoDa to Ben Dolphens, one of three owners of the forthcoming Divine Barrel Brewing? “Brewing is comprised of lots of science, which we love, but it is also art in the truest sense of the word,” Dolphens says. “With NoDa being the arts district of Charlotte, we just felt it was the perfect fit for who we are and what we’re trying to do. NoDa has changed so much in the past 10 years and we love what it has become. We can’t wait to be a part of it.” Be that as it may, Dolphens, a graduate of Appalachian State University, along with his partners Scott Davis (who “currently works for Wells Fargo and does things with numbers and money that boggle the mind,” according to Dolphens) and Gavin Toth, a veteran of the restaurant biz, are looking forward to opening the doors of the new brewery in early 2018. And what will be so divine about Divine Barrel Brewing? “Our long-term focus is on wood
The art of brewing in a simple logo. fermentation and barrel-aging,” Dolphens says. “However, it’s extremely difficult to come out of the gates with a large number of barrelaged beers, so that is something that will take some time to get rolling. We have capacity for around 100 oak barrels and we plan on getting beer into those as quickly as we can. “As much as we love wilds and sours, those are just a small subset of all the amazing beer that is being brewed today,” he adds. “We are going to brew a ton of other beers, in addition to what spends time in oak, and plan to have an ever-changing lineup of beers in our taproom. “One, in particular, that we look forward to sharing is our Gratzer. It’s an old-world style that originated in Poland and is just kind of a weird and contradictory little beer. We’ll have two 30-barrel foeders, one of which will be used for Brett beers, and we plan to do a foeder-aged Brett saison. We also love hops, so you can expect a number of IPAs, including some dank and resinous West Coast varieties.” Finally, why is Charlotte such a special place for beer lovers? Diversity, Dolphens insists. “It
has quickly become an amazing beer city,” he says. “We are super-stoked to be a part of the diverse brewing scene here and are humbled to be a part of the amazing group of brewers and beer folk we have the pleasure of being neighbors with.” — Mark Kemp
Where: 3701 N. Davidson St. More: (704) 350-5067, divinebarrel.com Hours: Wednesday-Thursday noon-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday noon-11 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Tuesday closed PHOTO BY MARK KEMP
the Charlotte brewing world: 1) beer tapped straight from the tank, and 2) a coolship that captures wild yeast in the air to make spontaneously fermented beer. “It’s the first in Charlotte and will allow us to make truly local beers using our local yeast,” says Tropeano, who goes by Tropes. Tropes and the McLambs say there isn’t a better neighborhood for a brewery than Plaza Midwood. “This area of Central Avenue is home and that is definitely what I love the most,” Phillip McLamb says. “I love seeing our neighborhood come out with their bikes or walk over to enjoy great beer. The people of Plaza Midwood and the folks who live all around us have helped create our sense of purpose as a community space to gather.” And gathering around beers just makes it that much sweeter, says Tropes, who grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Wake Forest University, and then moved to Austin, Texas, only to come back to the Carolinas because he likes it here so much. “I think there’s a super well-informed beerdrinking community here that has great taste and knows great beer and loves to support
local breweries,” Tropes says. Especially in Plaza Midwood. “It’s a very open and accepting community where everyone is welcome and unique and creative people are embraced.” So what kinds of beers do Plaza Midwoodites like the best? “So far, I’d say our hoppy beers are a standout because we’re doing a wide breadth of styles, both east and west, hazy and bright,” Tropes says. “We’ve used seven different types of yeast on our hoppy beers and a number of different hops. Over the next year I think people should be excited for can releases, crowlers, sour bottle releases and our first spontaneous batches this winter.” — M.K. Where: 2101 Central Ave. More: 704-333-1862, residentculture.com Hours: Tuesday-Wednesday 3–10 p.m. Thursday-Friday 3–11 p.m. Saturday noon–11 p.m. Sunday noon–8 p.m. Monday (closed)
Resident Culture vultures Tropes (left) and Phillip McLamb.
RESIDENT CULTURE Plaza Midwood brewery keeps it in the fam TURNS OUT the old Central Avenue property in Phillip McLamb’s family was the perfect spot for a brewery. McLamb, who worked in real estate finance before deciding to convert an old warehouse that once housed his dad’s printing business into a beer-making hotspot, tapped head brewer Chris Tropeano to move across the country and team up to open Resident Culture.
“I grew up in this building,” McLamb says. “I watched my father support his family through his business on Central Avenue.” And McLamb wanted to keep things in the family. His wife, Amanda, handles the marketing duties. the whole vibe of the place is famliial. Resident Culture, which opened Labor Day weekend, also brings a couple of new things to CLCLT.COM | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | 21
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28 COLLEGE NIGHT AT MCCOLL What: Everyone’s aware by now that CL is a fan of Charlotte-based indie rockers Blame the Youth — we put them on the cover of the Pride Guide and had them on the ‘Local Vibes’ podcast — but their appearance at this McColl event only scratches the surface of the cool shit happening. You’ve got hip-hop dance classes from Dina Badawy, paper-flower making with artist-in-residence Julio Gonzalez and something called a food surprise from artist-in-residence Leah Rosenberg. We wish we were still in college. When: 6-9 p.m. Where: McColl Center for Art + Innovation, 721 N. Tryon St. More: Free. mccollcenter.org
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Malafacha plays ‘Calibre Rock’ SATURDAY PHOTO COURTESY OF CALIBRE ROCK
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LARRY KEEL
DOC HOLIDAY
What: Larry Keel is considered a king among acoustic flatpickers and master of bluegrass pyrotechnics, but he draws musical sustenance from all styles. Born in Virginia and revered in western N.C., Keel was raised on traditional mountain music, but embraces country, progressive, Gypsy jazz — you name it. The only constant is his gymnastic and fluid precision on guitar, and an uncanny knack to put together an endless stream of musical ideas.
What: Not to be confused with the ’80s Southern rock band of the same name (they used two L’s), this Doc Holiday consists of four Carolina kids who came up together as orphan brothers and now play a high-energy mix of garage rock, post-punk and blues. The guys are known around the way for their on-stage antics, from throwing guitars to smashing pianos, so maybe step back a little as you enjoy the music. Or you could get close, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.
When: 8 p.m. Where: Rabbit Hole, 1801 Commonwealth Ave. More: $10. facebook.com/ rabbitholemidwood
When: 9 p.m. Where: The Milestone, 3400 Tuckaseegee Road. More: $5-7. themilestone.club
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SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS
What: Imagine being the only living human in a world of hollowshelled, virus-infected, man-eating zombies that are after your blood, brains and guts. Or, worse, in Gastonia at night, dodging holloweyed, hepatitis-infected meth addicts. Live out both of those nightmares on opening night at the 4th annual Zombie Hollow Trail on Lewis Farm. Seriously, we’ve all occasionally asked ourselves if we’d survive the zombie apocalypse. So go ahead, test your luck.
What: Why did it take last year’s The Electric Pinecones, an unconventional tribute to folk, acidrock and moody ’60s psych-pop, to make folks realize Southern Culture on the Skids is more than a doublewide, chicken-fried joke? Maybe it was SCOTS’ reckless but goodnatured boogie, or that the band’s satirical barbs belied a genuine love for the lifestyles and obsessions the members parody. Whatever. N.C. fans have known SCOTS is an awesome band all along. Best of all, Charlotte’s own It’s Snakes opens.
When: 8 p.m., runs through Oct. 31 Where: Lewis Farm, 330 Lewis Road, Gastonia More: $5-10. zombiehollownc.com
When: 8 p.m. Where: Visulite, 1615 Elizabeth Ave. More: $14-18. visulite.com
Southern Culture on the Skids FRIDAY
NEWS ARTS FOOD MUSIC ODDS
Rhiannon Giddens SATURDAY
Finding Neverland TUESDAY PHOTO BY JEREMYDANIEL
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RHIANNON GIDDENS
CALIBRE ROCK FEST
FINDING NEVERLAND
TASTE OF THE WORLD
What: This Carolina songbird can do it all: pick, fiddle and twang it up as frontwoman of Carolina Chocolate Drops, sing jaw-dropping opera, and belt out gospel-tinged songs of social justice like Mahalia Jackson reincarnated. Want to give a middle finger to those who brought us Donald Trump? Go sing along as Giddens performs songs like the Pops Staples-penned title track of her LP Freedom Highway, and her own stunning response to the 2015 Charleston massacre, “Cry No More.”
What: It’s been too long since Charlotte has seen a great festival of rock en español bands. Last ones we remember were back when Tony Arreaza — organizer of this Calibre Rock event along with Francisco Ibarra Rodriguez and Chocala’s Davey Blackburn — put on the Carlotan Rock fests of the late aughts, which featured local bands like Bakalao Stars and Eva Fina. Bakalao will be on tap for Calibre Rock, along with Chocala, locals Jahlistic, a tribute to Los Faboloos Cadillacs, and more.
What: In a world where reality crushes most of our dreams, Neverland will always be a fantasy we wish were true. What’s better than staying young forever where nothing is impossible? Luckily, Tonywinning director Diane Paulus brings us J.M. Barrie’s magical musical. The classic, heart-warming musical is an inspiration for everyone. Plus, the last girl we dated said we were a Peter Pan when she broke up with us, so we guess we’ll have to go now and see what the hell that’s all about.
What: A melting pot, a salad bowl, a mixture of the two, a gumbo? Whatever you want to call America’s array of cultures under one roof, it’s safe to say the best part of the diversity here is the food. OK, sure, we like people, too, but what are people without food? Nowhere is Charlotte’s diversity on display like it is in east Charlotte, where Taste of the World has picked out 25 restaurants that rep different cultures, and they want to bring you on a bus tour to check out three of them.
When: 8 p.m. Where: The Neighborhood Theatre, 511 E. 36th St. More: $30-$35. neighborhoodtheatre.com
When: 9 p.m. Where: Snug Harbor, 1228 Gordon St. More: $10. snugrock.com
When: 7:30 p.m.; through Oct. 8 Where: Belk Theater, 130 N. Tryon St. More: $25 and up. blumenthalarts. org
When: 4:30-9:30 p.m. Where: Charlotte Museum of History, 3500 Shamrock Drive More: $49. charlotteeast.com
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HIP-HOP WEDNESDAY What: Singer-songwriter LeAnna Eden continues the ‘Session’ vibe she started at Petra’s — showcasing Charlotte’s explosion of hip-hop, rock and soul talent — but she’s now teamed up with WeAreStereoTypez and taken the party over to Common Market, where it’s now an exclusively hip-hop event. Previous weeks have featured favorites like La La Specific, Sidenote, Th3 Higher, Ahmir the King, Yung Citizen and others. This week continues the good vibes as Nige Hood and Black Linen take the mic. When: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Where: Common Market, 2007 Commmonwealth Ave. More: Free. commonmarketisgood. com
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FREE JAZZ NOW! ‘The Antidote’ aims to release music and poetry from the confines of academia BY MARK KEMP
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MADE THIS joke the other night,” Brent Bagwell begins. The Charlotte saxophonist is sitting at a table on the patio of Common Market’s Monroe Road location, wearing a purple T-shirt with the one-word question “WHAT?” scrawled across the front in bold white letters. “If jazz guys are Democrats,” he continues, “then free-jazz guys are Marxists.” He laughs, then points to the other end of the patio: “Like, ‘Sorry everybody, we’re waaaay over there.’” Bagwell, who performs with percussionist Seth Nanaa in the free-improv jazz duo Ghost Trees, is here to talk about his upcoming jazz-and-poetry mini-series the Antidote, which runs the first three Fridays of October at Petra’s in Plaza Midwood. For the inaugural installment, on Oct. 6, Ghost Trees will open for the terrific freejazz ensemble Ballister, featuring noted Norwegian percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love, saxophonist Dave Rempis and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm. In between Ghost Trees and Ballister will be a reading by local poet Justin Evans, then a solo performance from Mexico City trumpeter Jacob Wick, and then another reading by Durham poet Nathaniel Mackey. “Each Friday will have the same structure,” Bagwell says. “Ghost Trees will open with a brief set, and then a local poet will read, and then there’s a solo performer, followed by a visiting poet and then a visiting band to close out each night.” The idea for the series came when Bagwell and his poet wife Amy decided it was high time to release jazz and poetry from their ivory towers and plop them back down on earth and into a seedy bar, where both art forms got their start. “People on the streets today are like, ‘Poetry? Jazz? That’s not for me.’ But it’s not true,” Bagwell says. “These are living, breathing folk traditions that arose naturally and belong to the people. It’s just that now, they’ve been marginalized and taken over by an academic mindset.” Amy Bagwell is equally passionate about academics not hoarding jazz and poetry. “Both forms came from the people and have been stolen from the people,” she says. “And both could save your life, or at least root you to the earth when you might otherwise feel unmoored and unconnected.” 24 | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | CLCLT.COM
Ghost Trees are: Saxophonist Brent Bagwell (left) and drummer Seth Naana.
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“[JAZZ AND POETRY] COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE, OR AT LEAST ROOT YOU TO THE EARTH WHEN YOU MIGHT OTHERWISE FEEL UNMOORED AND UNCONNECTED.” -AMY BAGWELL The Bagwells would like for Charlotteans to understand that real, gritty jazz and poetry are not only accessible, but they remain very much alive and bleeding. “People should be able to come into a club and really feel the power of great poetry and jazz, instead of having some professor tell them that it’s great art,” Brent Bagwell says.
IT HAS BECOME almost a cliché to talk about how bad jazz in Charlotte is. The festivals here usually feature either museumstyle nods to bop, or the contemporary,
so-called smooth jazz played by artists in the Quiet Storm vein — that mellow, easy-listening blend of pop and R&B with mellifluous horn lines that vaguely resemble the more melodic side of Miles Davis and John Coltrane on classic albums like Kind of Blue, but without the wild improvisation that is the lifeblood of both artists’ music. My girlfriend Kia and I have come up with a distinction: jazz in America is like peanut butter — there’s the smooth, blanched-out variety, and then there’s the “crunchy” stuff. But it’s not really fair to say that all
Charlotte jazz is blanched-out and nutrientfree. Bagwell has been on the warpath for more than a decade, blowing the roof off local venues with Ghost Trees, Pyramid and other ensembles that mix sweet or haunting melodies with wild improvisation. And other players, from veteran pianist Bill Hanna to young saxophonist Adrian Crutchfield, have been doing similar work, though not often enough, or free enough, in local clubs. “A lot of jazz musicians in Charlotte, in order to survive, have to do cover material that’s familiar — it has to veer into being
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neosoul or pop,” Bagwell says. “And I can appreciate that kind of stuff. I just feel like, in general, when I go places to see jazz, it’s just really toothless.” Bagwell understands why some folks have a problem with the more adventurous strains of jazz. It’s because people may not have been exposed to the music in a proper context. “There are a lot of bands that I’ve enjoyed seeing in a live context that play really out jazz,” Bagwell says, speaking of the more extreme abstract free-improvised jazz pioneered by artists like Coltrane and Ornette Coleman and brought into more contemporary muscial forms by the blurting, noisy music of artists such as saxophonist John Zorn’s Naked City. “I may not listen to recordings of the more abstract stuff every day,” Bagwell continues, “but the live shows are really transformative — like 35 minutes of pure improvisation to just bask in. That makes me a better person, even if what I listen to in the car on a road trip will more likely be [the Rolling Stones’] Exile on Main St. or something like that.”
into jazz. In 1997, the couple moved to the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, which at the time was not yet overrun with wannabe hipsters and still fairly cheap — “only about $750 for 1,000 square feet and junkies in the hallway,” he remembers. Both Bagwells got jobs in publishing, Brent working at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Amy working for the Pocket Books division of Simon & Schuster publishing, as well as for various literary agents. In New York, Bagwell studied jazz with some legendary musicians, including saxophonist Bob Feldman, a fixture at the Birdland in the ’50s and ’60s who had actually played with jazz greats such as Mingus and Sonny Simmons, as well as with poet Allen Ginsberg well into the 1980s. Bagwell soon met Nanaa, a former skate punk from Florida whose jazz tastes were even farther out than his own. The two formed the trio Eastern Seaboard along with bassist Jordon Schranz. The Eastern Seaboard cut two albums — Nonfiction, in 2004, and The Sound Power, SEE
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Bagwell, 41, grew up in a family that listened to a wide range of music. His father, who worked in the textile industry, liked Roy Orbison, and his mother, whose brothers played bluegrass with Bill Monroe, preferred the southern soul of Stax/Volt artists like Percy Sledge and Otis Redding. When he was in high school in the early ’90s, Bagwell’s friends gravitated to the typical rock of the times, and he even played guitar in a few cover bands. But Bagwell fell for jazz early on. “I was in a record store and bought a Coltrane CD,” he remembers. “It was a twodisc sampler that Rhino Records had put out, and when I took it home and listened to it, I was like, ‘Oh, wow.’” He would return to the record store often to peruse the jazz section for more such gems. “I would just flip through the records and go, ‘OK, Dizzy Gillespie — I’ve heard of him,’ and then I’d buy one based on the cover art or the year it came out.’” Bagwell eventually bought himself a copy of the jazz lover’s bible, The Penguin Guide to Jazz, and became more discriminating. “When I found [Charles] Mingus’ The Black Saint and Sinner Lady album [of 1963], I was like, ‘OK, all other music is stupid.’” He laughs. “I remember listening to that and then gathering up all the records and CDs that I had that were not jazz and taking them to the record store and selling them. Of course, later on, I ended up re-buying a lot of them. I was like, ‘Actually, I think I do want a copy of [David Bowie’s] Ziggy Stardust, after all.” Shortly after graduating from high school, Bagwell took off for the University of Georgia in Athens, where he majored in English, met Amy, and delved more deeply CLCLT.COM | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | 25
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Poet Nathaniel Mackey released in 2010 — for the avant-garde label Black Saint Records, which also released music by such legends of free jazz as David Murray, Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, William Parker and Charles Gayle. Respected British music magazine The Wire described The Eastern Seaboard as “raised on Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation and wooed by John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.” In the late ’90s and early aughts, The Eastern Seaboard performed often at NYC venues like the BQE Lounge, a club at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, and also toured nationally. Bagwell soon realized that while New York City was a great place to be from as a jazz musician, it wasn’t such a great place to live as a jazz musician. “That’s a paradox, I know,” he says with a laugh. “But the shows there really aren’t that great. Even if, on any given night, there may be 10 things happening just in jazz, if you go to a show to see someone like John Zorn, there will only be about 25 people there. But when we would go on the road to some place like Champagne, Illinois, there would be 150 people there. So it’s good to be able to say that you’re a New York jazz group — as long as you’re not actually playing in New York.” Two years after 9/11 changed New York City forever, Brent and Amy Bagwell decided to move back to the South, to the Charlotte area, where he knew a group of experimental musicians who had formed the indie band Pyramid. The Bagwells rented a farmhouse in Anson County — “about as opposite from Brooklyn as you can get” — and settled down. Both entrenched themselves into the Charlotte music and arts scenes.
TO AMY BAGWELL, the Antidote series at Petra’s is exactly what the name suggests — an antidote to the over-intellectualizing of both jazz and poetry. “For me, poetry is blood and guts and real,” she says. “It’s a people’s expression that’s been somehow criminally made exclusive for the elite and the academic. It’s taught badly and matters to almost no one 26 | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | CLCLT.COM
now. But I think that’s an issue of access and not of interest, so I aim to evangelize.” She points to a quote by New York poet Yusef Komonyakaa: “Poetry is an action.” Amy, whom you can also read about in this week’s arts feature on page 30, is as much a fixture on the local visual and literary arts scenes as Brent is on the music scene. And she is thrilled to finally be able to share a music-and-poetry event with her husband. “There have been many people who have worked collaboratively on poetry and jazz, but Brent and I never have, despite being together 20-plus years,” she says. When people hear poetry and jazz together, she says, they may think of older events like the Cellar jazz club readings poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti did in San Francisco in the late 1950s. But the Antidote won’t be in that tradition, Amy Bagwell insists. “We aren’t performing them in tandem, doing any ‘jazzing’ in accompaniment to verse,” she says. “We want to present them in a set, alternating — brief and hot and live.” The poets scheduled to perform at the Oct. 6 edition of the Antidote, she says, are both stellar performers. “Justin Evans happens to be a magnificent reader who lives here and does this great sound-collage podcast with his partner Annabelle Prince called Mystery Meat,” Bagwell says. And Mackey, she adds, is “famous and should be” for his award-winning book Splay Anthem, not to mention that he’s the Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University with degrees from both Stanford and Princeton universities. “As a poet, [Mackey] is a fiery statesman who writes musically and is profoundly interested and influenced by jazz,” Bagwell says. “He and Brent share heroes, especially in Coltrane. One of the things Mackey says that the Poetry Foundation quotes him on is, ‘I try to cultivate the music of language, which is not just sounds. It’s also meaning and implication. It’s also nuance. It’s also a kind of angular suggestion.’” Subsequent weeks of the Antidote will feature more such fiery sets of poetry and jazz. On October 13, local poet Kate Claesson and visiting poet Morri Creech will read, Kent O’Doherty will do a solo saxophone performance, and the visiting Norwegian quartet Cortex (tenor saxist Kristoffer Berre Alberts, trumpet player Thomas Johansson, bassist Ola Høyer, and drummer Gard Nilssen) will close the night. Then, on October 20, Amy Bagwell will read her material, as will visiting poet Jon Pineda; solo pianist Burton Greene (a legendary ’60s musician who recorded for the out-jazz label ESP Records) will perform, and visiting Chicago trio Hearts and Minds (keyboardist Paul Giallorenzo, bass clarinet player Jason Stein, and drummer Chad Taylor) will close. Brent Bagwell gets increasingly passionate as he talks about the series. “When I first moved to Charlotte,” he says, “I really wanted to get across the idea that if you like seeing jazz bands play Bird and standards and stuff like that, there’s no reason you wouldn’t also want to come out and see these fiery new musicians. But I’ve never been able to make that happen.” He leans back, realizing he’s now proselytizing, and smiles. “I’m just really hoping we’ll be able to do it with the Antidote.”
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SEPTEMBER 28 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH John Alexander Jazz Trio (Blue Restaurant & Bar)
COUNTRY/FOLK Strung Like A Horse (U.S. National Whitewater Center)
DJ/ELECTRONIC Karaoke Live with Stacey Blackman (Morehead Tavern, Charlotte) Le Bang : SLAY (Snug Harbor)
POP/ROCK Crashbox (Mac’s Speed Shop Steele Creek) Open Mic at Studio 13 (Studio 13, Cornelius) Dial Up Radio (Mac’s Speed Shop Lake Norman) Doc Holiday, Rita’s Gift (Milestone) Issues, Volumes, Too Close To Touch and Sylar (The Fillmore) Jack Johnson (PNC Music Pavilion) Karaoke with DJ ShayNanigans (Hattie’s Tap & Tavern) Larry Keel Experience, Mark Schimick, Jack Lawrence (The Rabbit Hole) Natty Boh Duo (RiRa Irish Pub) PigPen Theatre Co., David Luning (The Evening Muse) Pluto for Planet (Mac’s Speed Shop Matthews) Smoke Rings (Comet Grille) Throwback Thursdays: 80s and 90s Music (Morehead Street Tavern) Wye Oak, Luke Temple (Neighborhood Theatre)
SEPTEMBER 29 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH Jazzy Fridays (Freshwaters Restaurant)
BLUES/ROOTS/INTERNATIONAL Pure Fiyah Reggae Band (Hattie’s Tap & Tavern) Steven Engler Band (Blue Restaurant & Bar)
COUNTRY/FOLK Bobby Rand Band with Mellissa Lee (Don Gibson Theatre, Shelby) The Lenny Federal Band (Comet Grill)
DJ/ELECTRONIC 3Lau (World) DJ Method (RiRa Irish Pub) Mirror Moves (Petra’s)
POP/ROCK Alison Krauss, David Gray (PNC Music Pavilion) Wolves and Wolves and Wolves and Wolves, Counterpunch, Karbomb, Shehehe, Minimums, Weary Legs (Milestone) The Brevet, Crane (The Evening Muse) Dave Desmelik (Birdsong Brewing Co.) 28 | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | CLCLT.COM
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SEPTEMBER 30 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH Charlotte Symphony Lollipops: The Musical World of Harry Potter (Knight Theater)
DJ/ELECTRONIC DJ Complete (RiRa Irish Pub) Space Jesus, Thriftworks (The Underground)
HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B Kil Ripkin: The Return of the Godian (Stage Door Theater) Kosi, Derek Evry, The Whiskey Predicament, and Tommy Trull (The Station)
BLUES/ROOTS/INTERNATIONAL Soda Stereo Live Tribute Band (Visulite Theatre)
POP/ROCK Armory (Tin Roof) Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway Tour (Neighborhood Theatre) Bassel & The Supernaturals (The Rabbit Hole) Candyrat Guitar Night featuring Peter Ciluzzi and Spencer Elliott (The Evening Muse) Carolinacation: Red Hot Chili Peppers Tribute (Sylvia Theatre, York) Dash Grass (Mac’s Speed Shop Steele Creek) Glow-Glow Party! (Hattie’s Tap & Tavern) Hard to Explain – 2000’s Indie Night w/ Operation Hotmother (Birdsong Brewing Co.) Heroes at Last (RiRa Irish Pub) Ian Thomas (U.S. National Whitewater Center) Jesse Cook: Beyond Borders Tour (McGlohon Theater) Kesha (The Fillmore) Latin Night In Plaza Midwood presents Calibre Rock Festival: Malafacha, Zakke, Chócala, Jahlistic, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Tribute, Bakalao Stars (Snug Harbor) LeAnna Eden & The Garden Of, Jordan Igoe, Chosovi (Petra’s) Little Stranger, SondorBlue (The Evening Muse) Poor Blue (Comet Grill) Underground Detour (Reid’s Fine Foods SouthPark) Woodie and the String Pullers (Mac’s Speed Shop Matthews)
Rapid Fire Fest: Old Scratch, All Hell, Written in Gray (Milestone)
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POP/ROCK Jake Miller (The Underground) Omari and The Hellhounds (Comet Grill) Roadcase Royale: Nancy Wilson of Heart and Liv Warfield (Neighborhood Theatre) The Simon & Garfunkel Story (Knight Theater)
OCTOBER 2 HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B Knocturnal (Snug Harbor) Foster the People (The Fillmore) Stone Soul Mic Love (Freedom Factory @ Seeds) #MFGD Open Mic (Apostrophe Lounge)
POP/ROCK Find Your Muse Open Mic with special guest Travers Geoffray (The Evening Muse) Locals Live: The Best in Local Live Music & Local Craft Beers (Tin Roof) The Monday Night Allstars (Visulite Theatre) Music Trivia (Hattie’s Tap & Tavern) Open Mic with Jade Moore (Primal Brewery, Huntersville) Open Mic with Lisa De Novo (Legion Brewing)
OCTOBER 3 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH Bill Hanna Jazz Jam (Morehead Tavern)
COUNTRY/FOLK Red Rockin’ Chair (Comet Grill) Open Mic hosted by Jarrid and Allen of Pursey Kerns (The Kilted Buffalo, Huntersville) Tuesday Night Jam w/ The Smokin’ Js (Smokey Joe’s Cafe)
HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B Haybaby With Sic Tic (Snug Harbor)
POP/ROCK Nothing Feels Good - Emo Night (Noda 101, Charlotte) The Script (The Fillmore, Charlotte) Seu Jorge (The Underground, Charlotte)
OCTOBER 4 CLASSICAL/JAZZ/SMOOTH The Clarence Palmer Trio (Morehead Tavern)
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HIP-HOP/SOUL/R&B Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Hipgnostic (Neighborhood Theatre)
POP/ROCK Beats Antique, Asadi (Neighborhood Theatre) Jettison Five (RiRa Irish Pub) Mastodon, Eagles of Death Metal, Russian Circles (The Fillmore) Morgan James (Stage Door Theater) October Residency: Paperback, Ol’ Sport, Tigerdog, Never I (Snug Harbor) Tender Mercy, JPH, The Whiskey Predicament (Milestone) The Tosco Music Open Mic (The Evening Muse) Trivia & Karaoke Wednesdays (Tin Roof) The Wonder Years, The Obsessives (The Underground)
COMING SOON Zac Brown Band (October 5, PNC Music Pavilion) Cuzco, Dempsey, Blame the Youth (October 6, Snug Harbor) Caleb Caudle (October 6, Evening Muse) Cafe Tacuba (October 6, The Fillmore) Dead Horses (October 8, Evening Muse) Mandolin Orange (October 12, Neighborhood Theatre) Antiseen, Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre, The Beatdowns (Milestone, October 13)
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GOODYEAR ARTS GETS NEW COAT OF ‘WET PAINT’ Inaugural exhibition at Camp North End encourages artists and audiences to take risks BY PAT MORAN PHOTO BY ELISA SANCHEZ
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OW WE CAN put down roots, and dream bigger dreams,” Graham Carew says. He is talking about Goodyear Arts, the freeflowing program he heads along with fellow artists Amy Bagwell and Amy Herman, which has provided creative people in Charlotte with space, time, money and community in a succession of temporary homes — two Uptown buildings, both slated for demolition — since 2015. Goodyear Arts is now moving to another venue, at Camp North End on Statesville Avenue. It will be the program’s permanent home, or so they hope. For now, they’ll call it home for at least the duration of a threeyear lease. On September 29, Goodyear rings up the curtain on its third act with a celebratory inaugural show, Wet Paint, its biggest and boldest yet. “All of the art has been created this year, and some of it has been created and finished just for this show,” Bagwell says. She and Carew say the work will be raw and unsettled, art that the creators are not yet comfortable with. Hence the title, Wet Paint. “Everyone wants a theme or guiding principal [for a show], and ours is risk,” Bagwell says. That risk extends from the contributing artists to the curators. Though Carew, Bagwell and Herman for two years have fostered street-level art that’s by the people and for the people, this will be the first art show the trio has curated. “We’re splashed with a little wet paint ourselves,” Bagwell says. This unsettled feeling is not new for Goodyear Arts. The program began as an experiment and has been on the move since day one. “We wanted to prove that artists can use spaces responsibly to create remarkable work, and that people will come to see it,” Bagwell says. That’s when the project, then called Skyline Artists in Residence, occupied an abandoned Goodyear Tire building on Stonewall Street in July 2015. The everevolving, nomadic collective exited that 30 | SEPT. 28 - OCT. 4, 2017 | CLCLT.COM
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“ANYONE WHO WORKS WITH GOODYEAR OR COMES INTO A GOODYEAR RESIDENCY KNOWS WE WANT TO SEE CHALLENGING ART.” -GRAHAM CAREW
Bryan Olson-Atmospheric venue seven months later, just ahead of the wrecking ball. Renamed Goodyear Arts, the program landed in another building slated for demolition, a former nightclub space on North College Street, to plant further seeds of challenging, experimental art. Concurrent with its focus on local artists, the byword for Goodyear has always been accessibility. While many perceived that Charlotte art was “banktown art,” work that catered strictly to the elite, Carew says he came to see art as the great leveler. “Our doors were always open to everybody,” Carew adds. Success at the two Uptown locations
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strengthened Goodyear Arts’ conviction that art should be street level work for everyday consumption by everyone. Bagwell considers that point proved. “We’re not an experiment anymore,” she says. A stable location at Camp North End, plus twice as much space, means that the program can lay groundwork for expansion. “It means we can make plans,” says Carew, who hopes to add art classes and a future exchange and cross-pollination program between area artists and out-ofstate collectives. The Camp North End plans include a
designated performance area for actors and dancers, designated rehearsal areas, studio space for alumni artists, and two month residencies that come with free studio space, a gallery show and a $1,500 stipend. “We believe artists should be paid for their work,” Bagwell says. “It’s not a ton of money,” she adds, “but artists can use it to buy supplies, or to take time off from their jobs to produce art.” The work on display at Wet Paint comes from 31 contributors, a mix of display and performance pieces from artists new to Goodyear who have accepted the gauntlet thrown down by Bagwell, Carew and Herman to show the new and untested. Carlos Alexis Cruz’s Cirque du Soleilstyle acrobatic troupe Nouveau Sud is slated to perform as a stripped down eight-to-ten person ensemble, spoken word artist Patrice Williams will perform a piece that Bagwell and Carew have not yet seen, and Bryan Olsen, whose psych rock band Shadowgraphs is playing, will also show his collage work. And that just scratches the surface of Wet Paint. Performance artist Rebecca Henderson will debut an interactive piece about the relationship between social media, selfrepresentation, performance, and activism. “It is a humorous hypothesis designed to
WET PAINT Goodyear Arts 1776 Statesville Ave. Opening night: Friday, September 29, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Show runs through September 10. Live music by Shadowgraphs. Beer from Petty Thieves Brewing Co. and Birdsong Brewing Co. Tamales for sale from Masa Casa Pops for sale from King of Pops Charlotte
Amy Bagwell, Amy Herman and Graham Carew be tested by people,” Henderson says, “part of a series I call ‘Social Sculpture.’” “My piece is called ‘A(e)nthromology,’” Elisa Sanchez says, adding that the title is a mash-up of anthropomorphic and entomology. “[It’s] a collection of insects made from layers of hand painted paper. [They are] combined with human features and organs to create not-so-typical creatures that live in my imagination,” she continues. “They definitely elicit strong reactions. [People should] feel free to let me know which one grosses them out the most.” Jason Watson is showing his largeformat mixed media drawing “The Ballad of the Anonymous Scribes,” which was begun in 2013 and finished last January. Suggesting daydreams or nightmares, the piece seems appropriate for Wet Paint, Watson says, “because it lives in an indeterminate place within my own body of work. I don’t quite know how I feel about it yet.” Carew welcomes the unsettled quality of these and other Wet Paint pieces and performances. It ties in with Goodyear’s aesthetic and communal open door policy to all art, he says. “Anyone who works with Goodyear or comes into a Goodyear residency knows we want to see challenging art,” he continues. “They also know we want to challenge the artist.” Many in the arts community embrace Goodyear’s brief and find inspiration in the program’s invitation to accept risk. Henderson sees Goodyear Arts as Charlotte’s “cultural physician.” “[Goodyear] allows for a discussion and connection about the struggle for creative time, space, and resources in a city of rapid growth,” she says. “Goodyear is consistently opening up a space for new voices, exciting art, and hard conversations,” Sanchez says. “That’s why it’s important.” “Goodyear Arts is important for the Charlotte’s cultural landscape because it’s not fixed or tied to one particular idea of what it should be,” Watson says. “It seems to
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be in a continual state of becoming.” So does Goodyear Art’s move from Uptown mean it’s no longer an alternative to the corporate-sponsored art that proliferates along Trade and Tryon streets? Is Wet Paint and the program’s newly stable digs a declaration that Carew, Bagwell and Herman’s mission has changed? Bagwell says no. Goodyear’s mission has not so much changed as expanded at Camp Rebecca Henderson
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North End. “We’re still working to dispel the myth that there’s not great art happening in Charlotte — because of course there is.” “We need the institutions that we have, and they do really good work,” she says, “but we also need something that is street level. It’s great to be that.”
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SPYFALL Sequel bungles its assignment BY MATT BRUNSON
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F KINGSMAN: The Secret Service turned out to be the biggest cinematic surprise of 2015, then Kingsman: The Golden Circle (*1/2 out of four) might turn out to be the biggest celluloid disappointment of 2017. It’s certainly the most depressing. And infuriating. Hitting stateside theaters in February of ’15, Kingsman: The Secret Service proved to be an utter delight — a brainy, brawny, spy-game endeavor packed with memorable characters and nifty plot pirouettes. A sequel was guaranteed, but while Kingsman: The Golden Circle is bigger, it most assuredly isn’t better. Such a precipitous drop in quality would suggest that other hands assembled this follow-up, but that shockingly isn’t the case; instead, this one finds writerdirector Matthew Vaughn and co-scripter Jane Goldman again at the controls. Kingsman agents Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and Merlin (Mark Strong) are back, this time using their smarts to attempt to foil the nefarious plans of Poppy (Julianne Moore, sorry to say), a drug kingpin who’s basically a cross between a ruthless CEO and June Cleaver. Not unlike Spectre in the Daniel Craig 007 entries, Poppy has managed to cripple the entire Kingsman operation, thereby forcing the dapper Brits to seek help from their American counterparts. These would be the Statesman, whose members include head honcho Champ (Jeff Bridges), bad boy Tequila (Channing Tatum), mousy Ginger (Halle Berry) and cocky Whiskey (Pedro Pascal). Serving up an American counterpart to the veddy British Kingsman sounds like a great idea that can’t miss, but with the possible exception of Tatum (who, despite the prominent billing, is barely in this thing), these characters prove to be so underdeveloped and uninteresting that it becomes clear they were added not out of inspiration but out of a scheme to garner more merchandising tie-ins on this side of the Atlantic. Given his top billing and prominence in the ads, it’s no spoiler to reveal that Colin Firth is back, even though his character of Harry Hart was apparently killed in the first picture. But Harry is so ill-utilized in this new film that it barely seems like it was worth the effort to bring him back. As for the fates of select other characters — well, I want to avoid any giveaways, but let’s just say that this enterprise has the taint of Hicks and Newt about it. These bits are jarring, disruptive, ill-advised and more
than a little distasteful. To be clear, there are bright moments to be found throughout Kingsman: The Golden Circle, including the appearance of Elton John as himself. But even Elton’s participation eventually suffers from overkill, a condition endemic of the entire project. Clever moments from the first film are restaged here, to diminishing returns. The employment of CGI is suffocating, from the snarling mechanical dogs (is this an unofficial sequel to C.H.O.M.P.S.?) to fembots that seem to be distant cousins of the ones from the 70s debacle Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. And while Kingsman: The Secret Service managed to tame its mean-spiritedness with its empathy toward its characters, no such failsafes are in place here, resulting in a motion picture that’s often as ugly as it is excessive. IN THE MANNER of the classic Hoop Dreams, director Jonathan Olshefski’s Quest (***1/2 out of four) looks at the triumphs and travails of a lower-class black family over the course of several years. And like many other documentaries (The Queen of Versailles springs to mind), it’s a nonfiction piece that began as one sort of project before the real world shaped it into something different. Quest, screening as part of the Charlotte Film Festival, was initially conceived as a look at the neighborhood music studio created by Christopher “Quest” Rainey, who lives in North Philly with his wife Christine’a “Ma Quest” Rainey and their bright daughter Patricia “PJ” Rainey. Filmed over the course of approximately a decade, this powerful and poignant picture moves well beyond its original niche to examine a family that eventually has to contend with the tragic specter of violence as it directly impacts them and ensures that nothing will ever quite be the same again. Other characters — family members, neighbors, supportive cops — float in and out of the narrative, but the focus is never far removed from the formidable trio at its center. Quest primarily unfolds throughout the Obama years — indeed, the elections occasionally pop up in the story — but with the dawning of Trump’s AmeriKKKa (the tyrant even pops up briefly, imploring African-Americans to vote for him), its importance as a document of the marginalized and the victimized looms larger than ever.
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(August 23 to September 22) Congratulations. Your handling of a delicate family matter rates kudos. But no resting on your laurels just yet. You still have to resolve that on-the-job problem.
LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) You might surprise everyone by being unusually impulsive this week. But even levelheaded Libras need to do the unexpected now and then. SCORPIO (October 23 to
November 21) A period of turmoil gives way to a calmer, more settled environment. Use this quieter time to patch
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up neglected personal and/or professional relationships.
SAGITTARIUS
(November 22 to December 21) A new relationship could create resentment among family and friends who feel left out of your life. them you care by time for them.
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CAPRICORN
(December 22 to January 19) Concentrate on completing all your unfinished tasks before deadline. You’ll then be able to use this freed-up time to research new career opportunities.
AQUARIUS
(January 20 to February 18) You’re right to try to help colleagues resolve their heated differences. But keep your objectivity and avoid showing any favoritism ‘twixt the two sides.
PISCES (February 19 to
obligations.
March 20) Your personal life continues to show positive changes. Enjoy this happy turn of events, by all means. But be careful not to neglect your workplace
BORN THIS WEEK: People of all ages look
to you for advice and encouragement. You would make an excellent counselor.
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