LIFELINE: 10 COOL THINGS TO DO IN TWO WEEKS

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The UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre presents an evening of new short plays, pairing three student-written, directed and designed works on the same bill as Youtopia, playwright Chaney Kwak’s parable about the social media age. In Wren Latham’s The Art of Showing Up, a mother and daughter deepen their relationship by encouraging each other’s creative endeavors. In Brianna Baker’s The Secret Life of Microaggressions, three Black friends move beyond aggressions and slights they encounter at a white school. In Amanda Sherrod’s Time – Wedding Edition, a bride and her best friend hash out past challenges. More: $18; Nov. 4–7, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Robinson Hall, 9027 Mary Alexander Road; campusevents.uncc.edu/event/gather

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT LIVE

Chicago-based lmmaker and McColl Center artistin-residence Cherrie Yu teams with Charlotte-based musician Corey Shipp to present a performance/ lecture on postmodern dance and classical music history. Yu’s Studies Series (2017–ongoing) depicts the lmmaker plus collaborator(s) pantomiming a wrestling match or a basketball game, then presents their choreography alongside the original footage. The pair’s presentation on the history of classical music and post-modern dance weaves together their respective interests and memories, and ts personal creations into a historical and archival context. More: Free; Nov. 3, 5 p.m.; Mint Museum Randolph, 2730 Randolph Road; mintmuseum.org

AMIGO THE DEVIL, TEJON STREET CORNER THIEVES, IV & THE STRANGE BAND

Amigo the Devil is Texas singer-songwriter Danny Kiranos, an artist with a style likened to bluegrass for goth rockers. Spinning dark folklore about serial killers with his debut EP Volume 1, his rst full-length album Everything Is Fine found dark humor in songs like “Hungover In Jonestown” and “Cocaine and Abel.” With his latest album Born Against, Kiranos assumes a series of personas from star-crossed romantic to bloodcrazed lunatic. He’s like a blood-spattered Tom Waits. More: $20-$25; Nov. 5, 7 p.m.; Visulite Theatre, 1615 Elizabeth Ave.; visulite.com

MOVEMENT MORNINGS

Morning movement tells your body that it’s time to be awake. Presented as a tie-in with Isaac Julien | Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, a tribute to legendary Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi by British artist and lmmaker Isaac Julien that runs at the Bechtler through February 2022, the museum hosts its new Movement Mornings program in the museum’s lobby. The session explores Afro-Brazilian dance and movement forms, taking inspiration from the esteemed Balé Folclórico company in Bahia and the Araká Performance Collective shown in the lm installation. More: Free; Nov. 6, 10 a.m.; Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, 420 South Tryon St.; bechtler.org

CAFÉ TACUBA

Formed in a Mexico City suburb in the 1980s, Café Tacuba was in uenced by outside forces — the political punk of The Clash and Violent Femmes, plus in uences closer to home like the Latin-American Tropicalia movement of the 1970s. Now with a ninealbum discography, the band intermingles rock, punk and pop with Mexican norteño and ranchera, plus boleros, son jarocho tunes, cumbias and more, ltering it all through an experimental sensibility and restless curiosity. The term “rock en Español” cannot contain the musical multitudes within Café Tacuba. They’re quite simply one of the best bands of all time. More: $47.50; Nov. 8, 8 p.m.; Fillmore, 820 Hamilton St.; llmorenc.com

NOV. 27, 2021 . KNIGHT Theater

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THE NEW CREATURES, CRY BABY, THE MINKS

McAdenville is best known for its annual Christmas light extravaganza that proves a tiny town can leave a huge carbon footprint. That’s a shame because the town should be christened “Home of The New Creatures.” The ve-piece draws from 1960s rock, Gram Parsons’s cosmic Americana, ’80s power pop, ’90s alternative and more to craft a distinctive sound that reverberates with echoes of Tom Petty, Big Star and The Dream Syndicate. The group goes well beyond their in uences, however, charting a hook- lled course that is all their own. More: $10; Nov. 11, 9:30 p.m.; Snug Harbor, 1228 Gordon St.; snugrock.com

THE SPOKE EASY 10TH ANNIVERSARY

In addition to picking a cyclist’s pun on ‘speakeasy’ for its name, custom bicycle shop/neighborhood bistro The Spoke Easy has combined bikes, booze and noshing for a full decade. To celebrate, the shop/bar/eatery (shartery?) has booked an impressive show topped by inscrutable musical Cuisinart combo Patois Counselors, purveyors of noisy, melodic gems that devour and subsume any pre- and post-rock genres you can think of. Also on the bill is Alan Charmer, the melodic and minimalist alter ego of Junior Astronomers’ frontman Terrence Richard; Bravo Pueblo; and DJ Taylor Knox. More: Free; Nov. 12, 5 p.m.; The Spoke Easy, 1530 Elizabeth Ave.; thespokeeasyclt.com SUN11_14

PROJECT FREEWAY

ArtPop Street Gallery’s roadside art goes haute-couture with a fashion show featuring upcycled billboard garments designed by nine artists from the greater Charlotte area. It turns out images on billboards are printed on giant swaths of a vinyl-like material. Who knew? ArtPop did. They kept the vinyl after it was torn down from their billboards to re-purpose it into swanky out ts . ArtPop partners with creative reuse organization Upcycle Arts for the fashionista fundraiser, and proceeds go to sustaining ArtPop’s mission to promote artists and support public art. More: $75; Nov. 13, 5 p.m.; Innovation Barn, 932 Seigle Ave.; artpopstreetgallery.com

CLASSIC BLACK CINEMA SERIES: ‘FOXY BROWN’

Blacksploitation goddess, Black female role model and inspiration to lmmakers from Jack Hill to Quentin Tarantino, Pam Grier rst made a splash in Hill’s women-in-prison lms The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972), action icks that paved the way for Foxy Brown (1975), arguably the most powerful (and violent) Blacksploitation movie ever made. Foxy Brown seeks revenge after her boyfriend, a government agent, is shot and killed by a drug gang. In the process, we get James Bond-style opening titles, Grier’s outrageous out ts and even more outrageous methods of dispatching the bad guys. More: $9; Nov. 14, 2 p.m.; Gantt Center, 551 S. Tryon St.; ganttcenter.org

STARGAZER MUSIC FEST

Charlotte New Music founder and artistic director Elizabeth Kowalski curates CNM’s second close encounter with out-of-this world music, celestial vibes and telescopes. Kowalski launched the rst Stargazer Fest in July and will make it a biannual event. She couples innovative music with astronomy, providing a battery of telescopes for perusing the heavens. The interstellar bill of hip-hop, electronic and contemporary classical features FLLS, Master Kie, Starlitmire, Deku, Half Caste, RoyalCity Life, and Your Neighborhood Orchestra. More: $18-$20; Nov. 13, 7 p.m.; Greenlife Family Farm, 281 Odell School Road, Concord; charlottenewmusic.org/stargazer

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