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THE OTHER FAVORITES
“Rebel thrown from his nag/ Face down and drowned in the shallows/ Whose blood dyed your flag/ Whose hand paved the road to the gallows?” Joshua Lee Turner and Carson McKee sing on the title track to The Other Favorites’ latest album Unamericana. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters and acoustic guitarists, who met while both were attending grade school in Charlotte, craft indie-folk gems that boast virtuosic guitar work, mystic lyricism and tight yet airy harmonies. Their album’s songs, released as a series of live performance videos, project an air of magical melancholy laced with harrowing imagery and laid-back gravitas. More: $20; Feb. 10, 8 p.m.; Visulite Theatre, 1615 Elizabeth Ave.; visulite.com THE OTHER FAVORITES Photo by Kent Meister
SAT2/12
HARRIET TUBMAN SOLO PERFORMACE AND WORKSHOP
In1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and passed into legend. Tubman is brought to life by teaching artist and author Carlo L’Chelle Dawson for this workshop, which examines Tubman’s role with The Underground Railroad, through which she led enslaved people to freedom while carrying a bounty on her head. Activities include a journey on The Underground Railroad, which uses maps and riddles to illuminate Tubman’s role as a Union spy; a storytelling experience documenting Tubman’s life from young girl to women’s suffrage activist; and an interactive review incorporating story cloths and freedom quilts. More: $10; Feb. 12, 12 p.m.; Gantt Center, 551 S. Tryon St.; ganttcenter.org
HARRIET TUBMAN WORKSHOP Courtesy of Carlo L’Chelle Dawson
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SUN2/13
CUPID’S UNDIE RUN
CLASSIC BLACK CINEMA: ‘BUCK AND THE PREACHER’
A few days shy of Valentine’s Day, a pack of runners in their undies gather to support those affected by NF, a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body and affects one in every 3,000 births. Though underwear is the required garb for this quasi-athletic charity event, participants are advised to keep it PG-13, so nudists and those nostalgic for the 1970’s streaking craze should look elsewhere. The event kicks off with drinking and dancing, followed by a “brief” run, then a big party (more drinking and dancing, basically). More: $45; Feb. 12, 12 p.m.; The Union, 222 E. Bland St.; my.cupids.org/cur/city/charlotte
Buck and the Preacher is not the magnificent Sidney Poitier’s first western — that honor goes to the grim and gory 1966 Apache uprising oater Duel at Diablo — but it is Poitier’s directing debut. Like many westerns of its time, this 1972 release is revisionist, but it’s a revision long overdue. Instead of a lily-white Hollywood western, this amiable and frequently comic adventure pits Poitier’s former buffalo soldier against racist bounty hunters. As a profane and bogus preacher, Poitier’s friend Harry Belafonte steals the show, but that was probably the director’s intent all along. More: $7-$9; Feb. 13, 2 p.m.; Gantt Center, 551 S. Tryon St.; ganttcenter.org
WED 2/16
WED 2/16
VHS POTLUCK
MONACHOPSIS, KENMUJO, MOVING BOXES, JANUARYKNIFE
Ninjas, the covert and mercenary agents of feudal Japan, performed deadly duties beneath the honor of samurai warriors. Flash forward six centuries, and ninjas became a reliable action movie trope, blackclad assassins for justly forgotten ’80s stars like Michael Dudikoff to swat away like flies. Ninjas are also the theme for February’s VHS Potluck at VisArt Video. This is the drill: Everybody brings an actual VHS tape or two of a ninja movie to the party. Then they and their fellow attendees, all like-minded cinéastes (or newbs, that’s fine too), vote for a double feature comprised of ninja movies no one in the audience has already seen. More: $5 donation; Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m.; VisArt Video, 3104 Eastway Dr.; visartvideo.org/events
Founded in Myrtle Beach, Monachopsis now parlays it’s moody and pensive progressive indie rock from Charlotte. A one-man-band solo project by Rita’s Gift drummer Brian Gryder, Charlotte act Januaryknife makes rhythmic, hard-to-pigeonhole synth rock, incorporating live drumming, distorted vocoder and triggered loops. The evening of outsider music is capped with Tokyo rock god Kenmujo. As one half of Japanese-American duo Ken South Rock, Kenmujo supplies the demonic ululating wails that weave through that band’s galloping and grimy hard rock, a welcome throwback to 1960s Japanese monsters of psychedelia Flower Travelin’ Band. More: $8; February 16, 8 p.m.; The Milestone, 400 Tuckaseegee Rd.; themilestone.club
