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Where have we been?
2007-05-06 22:04:00
Charlotte Critic has been going without updates and not getting alot of love this past 3 weeks. All the staff and contributors have ben off on other projects, vacation or jhust plain busy. As the premier blog in Charlotte for food, and things that men agree on, we will not be going extinct anytime soon. We ...
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Los Amigos Invisibles Charlotte
2007-05-06 21:47:00
They have returned out of loyalty or just a good solid welcome feeling. I had the honor to get to see the band Los Amigos Invisible s last night Sunday, April 1st, 2007 in Charlotte at the Neighborhood Theater. Los Amigos Invisibles is a one of a kind funk band from Venezuela, one of the most famous ...
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Pay the police more now
2007-04-08 01:50:00
We dont generally get away from the normal food and good times on the weekends but we feel it is called for this time. I admit that www.crimeincharlotte.com, good friends of ours on the web, put this story into the best detail and inspired us to break the normal genre of topics here at Charlottecritic. “Charlotte-Mecklenburg ...
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Jeff Katz Honors CMPD
2007-04-03 04:36:00
This is not about Jeff , this is not only about Sean Clark and Jeffrey Shelton, this is about letting your respect and feelings be know toward people who wake up everyday willing to make your neighborhod better and family safer. This is about being thankful for officers and their families for having the highest character ...
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How To Make Lasagna
2007-04-03 01:54:00
More from the mind of Dave to your plates and pots. Dave Scott from Davecancook.com is one our exclusive contributors and again hits a home run with how he, and now you, can make great Lasagna . Dave went overtime on this recipe and it has come out as a two part’er’. This first viedo keys on making ...
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Retire Rameses
2007-03-27 16:23:00
Such a sad story and in truth a loss that was in the line of duty in another sense. “Ray was walking to a convenience story to pick up a snack a few hours before UNC’s Sweet 16 game with USC in East Rutherford, NJ when he was struck by an SUV. The driver of ...
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Really Good BBQ Is
2007-03-27 16:02:00
Found this sweet little insight into the needs and important points in finding a true southern BBQ place to eat at. We added the 15 points from hillfamily.net and our gereral aggrement or comments to accompany eachimportant line if this culinary bible passage. 1. Pork. ‘Nuff said. (best meat, cooks the softest, tastes the best easy to ...
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My NCAA Picks
2007-03-24 21:06:00
This post was actually written before the tournament began. UNC, Florida, Oregon, Ohio State….nope nope nope and nope. I will not stray too far from what is expected but wont give the favortes a free ride to my best guess. As of this moment, I am likely picking Kansas VS Memphis in the NCAA finals. My pick isnt ...
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Lin?s Buffet
2007-03-18 17:06:00
Lin’s Buff et W WT Harris Blvd In The Furniture Plaza By RT77 Charlotte, NC 28269 All Photos Of Lins Buffet So I finally got invited out for a meal and treated. My food budget has been on the rocks lately, so ill take the free meal and free content for our site. This weekend past I had a chance to check ...

One More Winthrop Post
2007-03-18 05:54:00
Ok so I just got done editing and adding to this post about how Winthrop got it right, and settled the score with lady luck from last year by beating Notre Dame. I was completely disgusted having seen that the only NCAA clips I could get for that post was garbage CBS sports puts on youtube ...
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Winthrop Gets It Right
2007-03-17 06:18:00
Finally getting what they deserved last year, Withrop drops the bomb on a high seed. Last year as you remember Winthrop was a 15 seed that gave the scare of a lifetime and outplayed tennessee for all but 2 seconds of a first round game. Last year Tennessee was a surprised to be so high seeded, ...
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BBQ Chicken On The Grill
2007-03-16 18:27:00
How cool is BBQ web series of videos. A great series of cooking on the grill recipes and videos with great redneck background music and liberal use of beer as an ingredient. All cooking done on a natural burning grill of course. This is an exceptional looking recipe and the end result is clearly better ...
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VCU Later
2007-03-16 04:09:00
I picked this in my bracket. What a game, what a game, 1.8 seconds left in the game and the camera pans onto Christian Laettner. Not enough, no help for McRoberts, and Duke went out and played VCU’s game. First off this is an open letter to McRoberts whom in my mind and posts I have dissed ...
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Clean Restaurants In Charlotte
2007-03-15 05:50:00
Co I stumbled across a winner’s and loser’s list of inspection reports. I must say it’s refreshing to see a aomewhat efficient accountability system involved in government in some way. If only public officials had inspections into their daily lives, tax returns, private dealings, back records and the result of what was found made it ...
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Davidson In The Sweet 16
2007-03-15 04:41:00
Well thats a headline i would love to be able to write and really mean it. When I saw the draw, I had to feel for Davi d son catching a surging team like Maryland that has abused so many big name schools this year. If I have to make a retraction post at 3pm tomorrow having ...
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Niagra And Other 16s
2007-03-14 05:17:00
Just watched Niagra College beat a pretty pathetic Florida A&M team in the play in game of the NCAA. I can safely say that Kansas need not worry, and perhaps need not even dress their starters. Unless of course Niagra uses the strategy that the Florida A & M player used, which was an apparent ...
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Traditional Southern Breakfast
2007-03-13 18:04:00
This post is a contribution of cooking and great food ideas from the World’s Greatest Chef David Scott of Charleston, South Carolina. Dave shows us how to cook up dishes that men love to eat in a way that is so easy no man can mess it up. Stop back often to get the latest ...
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VCU looked awful happy
2007-03-12 06:59:00
Carefule Duke you are the recipe for upset. First you need a hungry talented team that looks like they never get a chance, and to this you add a team with a spotless reputation (elbows aside) but lacks inside depth and presence on the glass and you get the chnace of a nasty upset. The look ...
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North Carolinas Rough Road
2007-03-12 06:48:00
Well UNC looked like champions today holding off a surging NC State team. I want to say great game to any NC State player that reads this line and say you looked great today and were very close to to climbing a huge hill in your run late in the game. NC State should be ...
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White Trash Chowder
2007-03-11 05:01:00
Now thats an interesting name? and since its a headline of sorts, anyone still reading at this point is apparently a victim of its hook and edge. White trash Chow der is yet another mutant stew recipe we made while daydreaming at the supermarket. Our goal here was a “white colored” hearty stew, based on the main ...
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West Virginia In And Duke Out
2007-03-10 05:44:02
Well what a great day in the ACC tourney and beyond. The main story of interest in the state of North Carolina is the NC state Duke game going into OT, where as I stated in an earlier post Duke just didnt have the depth to match their reputations. I had pointed out that every long grinding game this year against physical opponants has had the same toll on Duke with fouls and lack of inside depth. NC State moves on, Duke puts its mind back on the big dance to save some face. Duke would sure make a nasty 6 or 7 seed for some unlucky at large team, but the formula to beat them seems clear, go inside all day, play physical and get to the foul line against their lack of team depth. The more interesting vertime game for me was the West Virgin ia vs. Louisville game. I am the sixth man of the year and I apparently play for West Virginia. The moment I tuned into the game West Virginia began an 18 point run to take the lead. I have made it clear that with no Charlotte in the dance I would be ...

Carolina NCAA teams Part 1
2007-03-08 11:41:01
Davidson College/Stephan Curry videos from this year. Davidson gets in, once again winning the Southern conference. The last 3 times there they dropped their opening game so we won?t dance the victory dance yet. While participating in the big dance is nice, a realist must consider that the company of great teams does not make a great team. Davidson has played well, much thanks to son of ex-NBA star Dell Curry; Stephen Curry for Davidson dropped 20, 30 and 29 in the conference tournament to power Davidson over the other wanna-be George Mason’s of the world. Davidson College makes one, UNC is a lock of course for a one or two seed, Duke should be around a 5-7 seed which is sure to haunt so poor at large bid in the 9-11 slot that has to play them first. Duke may be a tough win for anybody drawing them at such a low spot as perhaps a 5,6 or 7 seed but they can be beat by the right team. There is a reason they sit that low and its not just a bad run of luck. In all Duke losses I ha...
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UNC Blue Blood
2007-03-08 11:41:01
Obviously I need a post about this shot between the eyes, and also to comment on the back and forth about the intention of the play. I will first interject my opinion which is this was an accident. Here me out, he meant to make contact but Gerald Henderson’s clearly did a double take when he saw what had happened. We have all been kidding around with a friend or perhaps a person much smaller than you and realized too late that your fun “push or poke” made way too much contact. After this happens you are left to apologize or let pride force you to walk away and pretend you don’t care. I am NOT saying this was an “accident” or that the hit wasn’t viscous and violent but he clearly made a move which is very unconscious to a player when the game is lost. At this stage of a heated game a person goes through the motions, and the motions is dont let the player make a layup. Gerald Henderson was doing what equates to “insert foul here”,...
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Chuck E Cheese is Classic
2007-03-07 17:39:06
Memories of playing Joust and bank shots into the 50 slot of skeeball. Childhood memories of the robot band and the big purple Elvis bear robot in the side room. Dig dug, Defender, Rastan, Operation Wolf, Firefox (from the movie with Clint Eastwood), Burgertime, Galaga and the thousands of other choices to spend our precious tokens. The pizza coming in the room with the long tables, the ball crawl, the hidden area under the stage and more and more cool things that Chuck E Cheese brought to me when those things were like finding $20 to me is now. All photos from Chuck E Chese in Concord here. Now later in life this feeling isn’t completely lost, and neither is the huge choices with little money spent. Now this is the option that parents need to remember on a Saturday of Sunday afternoon located in Concord. For the past month this has been the $2 getaway for my 2 year old and a getaway from spending any amount of money to enjoy ‘watching her enjoy”. The games are dif...
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Dave Makes Better Eggrolls
2007-03-07 17:39:06
This post is a contribution of cooking and great food ideas from the World’s Greatest Chef David Scott of Charleston, South Carolina. Dave shows us how to cook up dishes that men love to eat in a way that is so easy no man can mess it up. Stop back often to get the latest recipes every week. You can view all Dave’s recipe contributions here. So Dave has outdone himself this time, he refused to make an eggroll and instead made the modern man-version of this classic with the meatroll. Take your traditional eggroll spice it with strong garlic, onion and italian seasoning add a pound of beef and sausage and your getting close to what Davecreates with his spin on the classic eggroll, the Southern meatroll. This latest installation in the Carolina Cooking with Dave series on Charlottecritic.com features some semi-sweet singing int he kitchen and a celebrity guest appearence by Dave Jr. If you have read this far and appreciate the time that goes into Dave’s excellent coo...
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Five Guys Concord
2007-03-07 17:39:06
Five Guys Concord 7741 Gateway Lane NW Concord, NC, 28207 704-979-1283 All Five Guys Concord Photos So I was reading letters to the editor of the Charlotte Observer food and entertainment section Kathleen Purvis. In one question to the editor was a comment about Five Guys franchise in Concord. The letter proclaimed this place to be fantastic and hearty, and the editor replied with saying she had heard this same rumor and was going to give it a try soon. Well I am happy to say i beat her to it. I was on my way to writing a piece on Chuck E Cheese being a classic part of childhood and a cheap escape for parents when I passed this place in Concord. After fighting the Saturday traffic in Concord, NC I managed to find a parking spot for Five Guys around 6pm on a Saturday. This location is side by side with a drive through Starbucks location so the parking lot is taking a life risk to drive in. Walking up Five Guys struck me as the stepchild of a old favorite restaurant of mine called S...
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Ishi Japanese Restaurant
2007-03-07 17:39:06
Ishi Japan ese Restaurant 8109 University City Blvd Charlotte, NC 28213 704-921-9219 Ishi Photos In The Gallery Finally got to Ishi Japanese Restaurant And Sushi bar after hearing second hand rave reviews from a few people including our own prior review here from one of our readers. I have also since sat with a family member who is a freshman at UNCC and her father both who raved that we must try Ishi as soon as possible. The rumors of the incredible value at Ishi along with the great food made this possible as I am pretty broke lately for restaurant money. unlike reviews of fancy uptown “bistros” and “4 star affairs” mine are dictated by what’s in my wallet this week and not checks being picked up by “the man”. This is envy talking I know, I admit that much, I am only jealous of larger dining budgets than my own. This location is not what I excpeted as it is very tucked away in the back of the Home Depot plaza right next to Peak Fitness. Th...
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UNCC Reverse Video
2007-03-07 17:39:06
I didnt even know people still gave respect to 311, but this reverse video shot by UNCC student is just too cool when mixed ith the underrated smooth style of 3/11. I had the great honor of seeing 311 live at the Metropole in Pittsburgh, PA many years ago in my youth. The funny twist to this story is that 311 was the headline band that night and rocked us almost deaf the next day, but the opening band was more of the story now that we look back. The opening act for 311 that day was a smalltime somewhat unknown band called KORN. Without having to say more, we got our money’s worth that night. We later had to stay the night in Pittsburgh because 14 inches of snow fell while in the concert and it was more than our Miata could handle. What makes this news on our site? I am gonna keep plugging away till we get some on the scene students to take over covering UNCC stories for us or sending whatever is cool and a worthy read for other students. Enjoy this. Enjoy.
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UNCC Football Coming
2007-03-07 17:39:06
Well that vote went well as expected. 78% of students in the largest student vote turnout to date said yes they want the Niners to have football in Charlotte. I am not surprised, when it was asking college students if they want football games. I think much of the counter arguument would fall on deaf ears covered up by big green foam fingers that say “we’re #1″ on them. “Through an online poll, 78 percent of the student body voted to support the fees increase. Now a new advisory committee will look at the feasibility of adding a team. One of the main issues is if there’s enough interest citywide to warrant and pay for another sports team. “It’s pretty fun for me to be able to stand here today and say that this may be the start of something really big,? said Ben Comstock, the student body president at UNCC.” The plan for football brings with it the challenge of student body interest to build and maintain ticket sales. In this writers op...
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Tonys Pizza On Harris
2007-03-07 17:39:06
Tony’s Pizza WT Harris Blvd 1530 Overland Park Lane Suite 1/104 Charlotte, NC 28262 All Tony’s Photos Here Well it was about time to expand upon the very limited exposure to Pizza in Charlotte I have had. The goal of any pizza mission and the aspects of a good pizza “joint” are as follows. Keep in mind the goal is to find a great affordable weekly place that you can reward yourself and the kids with. A Pizza “joint” of choice will become familiar like a glove to you as you are a part of a neighborhood and a good pizza place is a important part as well. 1. Should be affordable with good coupons to be found regularly. 2. Should make great Pizza the way you like it. 3. Should have friendly Italian or New York accented staff or owners. 4. Should have the smell and feel of flour on the floor, red vinyl booths, red pepper shakes and the bell behind the door when you walk in. If you have a pizza joint you love then you understand this feeling that is ex...
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