ARTS à la Mode

Oscar Nominations were announced this week. Read our ARTS à la Mode 2011 Best & Worst Movie List. .....Agree/Disagree? What do you like? look here
Children's Theatre of Charlotte presents The Borrowers, in the McColl Family Theatre, January 20 - February 5, 2012. .....two-acts for ages 7+/Grades 2+, more here
NBC's America's Got Talent, will be in Charlotte February 3 & 4 at the Charlotte Convention Center. .....if you think you have the goods, sign up here
Discovery Place presents Mummies of the World through April 8, 2012. ..... Charlotte is the fourth stop on a two-year tour, more
The Light Factory presents Exciting News. .....more here
Esteemed Charlotte musician Rodney Lanier was recently diagnosed with esophageal cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. A trust has been established to help with living expenses and future medical costs. All donations go directly to The Rodney Lanier Support Trust. Donations can be sent to The Rodney Lanier Support Trust, 4242 Folkston Drive, Charlotte, NC 28205.

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A HOMEMADE LIFE
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009

"Melancholia" at Carolinas Cinemas Crownpoint January 26 - 29. "You Caught Me Dancing" presented by The Storefront Theatre at the Museum of the Waxhaws January 27 - 29. Gaelic Storm at the Neighborhood Theatre January 27. Tinsley Ellis at the Double Door Inn January 27. The Light Factory presents Cult Movie Monday with Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" at Actor's Theatre of Charlotte January 30 at 8pm. FREE! The Levine Museum of the New South presents "New COURAGE" through February 5. "Women on the Verge" at Warehouse PAC January 27 - February 4. Tosco Music Party at the Halton Theater at CPCC January 28. Bravissimo! on Broadway at the Booth Playhouse January 28. Boombox at the Neighborhood Theatre January 28. "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" at the Chop Shop in NoDa through January 28. UNC Clef Hangers at the Knight Theater January 28. "The Best of Omimeo" at Children's Theatre of Charlotte January 28 - 29. Lelia Broussard at the Evening Muse January 29. "Madama Butterfly" at the Belk Theater through January 29. Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) presents "Jack Goes Boating" through February 11. On Q Productions presents "The Amen Corner" at the Duke Energy Theater through January 28. Nature at Night Open House at the McDowell Nature Center & Preserve January 27 at 6pm. Look under Latest News for information on some of the best, most interesting local arts events.

ALBERT NOBBS Life in Ireland was harsh in the early 1900s. Jobs were hard to get and harder to hold on to; unemployment was high with widespread poverty. It is in this environment that writer George Moore introduced the character of Albert Nobbs (Glen Close) in a short story. Yet, this is no simple chronicle of the time or uncomplicated cross-dressing tale even when the pace of the film is slow and deliberate. The character of Albert Nobbs, a woman whose real name we never learn .....more

LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a polished piece of theatre with a superb five-women cast that grabs the audience from the moment everyone sits down and Loretta Swit, playing Gingy, a grandmother recalling her life through the clothes she wore, starts talking. We even get visuals of the dresses Gingy wore to various events, along with her sly commentary. Yet this is no exposition on haute couture. Every woman can relate to the riotously funny/poignant/traumatic moments .....more

Weekend Box Office Estimates
January 22, 2012

1.    Underworld: Awakening    $25.4M
2.    Red Tails    $19M
3.    Contraband    $12.2M
4.    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close    $10.5M
5.    Haywire    $9M
6.    Beauty and the Beast    $8.5M
7.    Joyful Noise    $6M
8.    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
   $5.5M
9.   Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
   $4.8M
10.    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo   $3.7M

The new #1 Underworld: Awakening has a built in fan base. Red Tails comes in at #2 with $19M, and the other new release #5 Haywire is under $10M, but may have more strength in foreign markets. Oscar nominations come out this week and may help the more prestigious but lesser known movies that score nominations.

New York Times - January 22, 2012
Top Ten Print & E-Books

1.    THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing)
2.    THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett.
(Penguin Group)
3.   BELIEVING THE LIE by by Elizabeth George.
(Penguin Group)
4.    THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing)
5.    EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foer.
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing)
6.    #1 SUSPECT by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Grand Central)
7.    LOTHAIRE by Kresley Cole.
(Simon & Schuster)
8.    11/22/63 by Stephen King. (Scribner)
9.    THE 7TH MONTH by Lisa Gardner. (Dutton)
10.    THE WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday Publishing)