The two-day African American Cultural Festival centered at City Plaza features music, food and art that highlights the essence of African American culture.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of downtown Matthews for a parade on Saturday morning starting day two of the annual Matthews alive festival. It is known as the Southeast's largest labor day parade.

"Machete" really is out of such a fantasy, as the film, a gory, pulpy wink of an action thriller, was spun out of a parody trailer that Rodriguez directed for "Grindhouse." That trailer was sublime. As a feature, "Machete" is more fun than it isn't, but its deadpan mockery of exploitation clichés often slips a bit too close to being the real, schlocky thing.