Letters to the Editor
An Article for Awareness Bravo on your article “Inside the World of White Supremacy” (Nov. 1)! As an African-American woman, I thought John Sugg’s article was provocative and well-written! I laughed (Joseph and Carrie Frieda and their “wedding” — which included their 6-year-old daughter. Proud of that Carrie?), I cried (poor Doug Hanks and his…
The Bloc Party Is On
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Nov. 8 – Nov. 14, 2006
Scorpio The Phoenix: (Oct. 23 — Nov. 20) You may be the pivotal force for good or ill in a drama of several people. How you handle yourself, what you say, and the expression on your face will help or hinder an important situation. Maintain calm and do not overreact, lest others expand the disturbance.…
The A-Team
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A Crappy Turkey
Moodswing
Singing with Bubba’s Mama
This month’s Gallery Talk at the Afro-American Cultural Center explores the South Carolina plantation culture and roots music. Gullah Sea Islands & Beyond, the current exhibit at AACC, is the visual depiction of plantation life out of which sprang jazz. Marlena Smalls, who portrayed Bubba’s mama in Forrest Gump, is the founding member of the…
Mail Bonding
Corkscrew
See & Do picks
Wednesday, November 08 Bimbos? Why, hush your filthy mouth! The aging ladies of the evening in Paula Vogel’s The Oldest Profession can remember their salad days back in New Orleans when Mae’s parlor was a classy joint — frequented by gentlemen. Now it’s the dawn of the Reagan administration, miladies have relocated to New York…
Something Beautiful
These sites all had me hooked until I’d clicked on every last link … OK, I confess, I still visit Fluffy Lychees daily. See if you can find those octopus pics … House of Balls www.houseofballs.com Max Haynes www.maxhaynes.com Sergio Baradat www.baradat.com Luaka Bop www.luakabop.com Fluffy Lychees http://fluffylychees.blogspot.com
Why is the Bush administration so worked up about Nicaragua’s presidential elections?
Tuesday’s midterm elections weren’t the only elections this week in which the majority of Americans didn’t vote. On Sunday, the people of Nicaragua voted for a new president. According to an early report, voter turnout in the Central American nation was about 70 percent. The full results are not available as I write this, but…
View From The Couch
CARS (2006). Ever since Pixar Animation Studios began its incredible run with Toy Story back in 1995, haven’t most observers been wondering when the company would hit a critical and/or commercial roadblock and watch its latest effort crash and burn? It certainly didn’t happen with the acclaimed Cars, which trails only the Pirates of the…
Film Clips
Current Releases BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN Originally conceived as a character on HBO’s Da Ali G Show, Borat Sagdiyev is a Kazakh journalist who comes to America to make a documentary — and there’s your plot in a nutshell. Yet what makes Borat different is that creator-star…
The Blotter
Stiletto To The Face: At a certain Morehead Street bar, a 22-year old Chapel Hill man sustained an injury from an employee of the establishment. But it wasn’t a bouncer or bartender that clocked him upside the head. According to the report, “The man received an injury to his tooth while watching a female dance…
Whipping Boy Beaten
Citizen Servatius
Trick Or Treat
Halloween is a holiday where we can revert back to our childhood and play dress-up, then eat enough candy to cause a cavity without feeling guilty. As adults, we still eat the candy, but the only trick-or-treating we do is at bars. And in a city where every bar claimed to have the wildest dress-up…
Full Of Hot Air
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Under the influence
People as opiates … and opiates personified: THE REISSUE OF GUITARS, CADILLACS ETC. ETC. certainly makes one want to get next to iconic ’80s singing cowboy Dwight Yoakam. This Reprise/Rhino release includes Yoakam’s 1981 demos, the Guitars, Cadillacs LP, a second disc of music live from LA’s Roxy club in 1986 and liner notes by…
Hell of a Ride
Book ReviewS
Global Warming
From somewhere inside the winding labyrinth of shelves at a local bookstore, and in a soft voice that barely climbs out from a whisper’s shadow, Matt Friction, lead singer and guitarist for the Pink Spiders, is quick to correct an assertion about his band. “We never said we wanted to be the best band in…
Stepping it up at NCDT
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Mash Media
Although technically a “mash up” is the remixing of the vocals from one song with the instrumental elements from another song, I really think of the concept as a broader genre of songs — like Lil’ Wayne’s rendition of “Shooter” featuring Robin Thicke (yes, the son of TV mainstay Alan Thicke and husband of Idlewild…
Family Matters
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QCI Books Out of Charlotte
You can’t say Brian McKinney didn’t try. The head of Queen City Independent promotions is leaving town after nearly two years spent booking some of the best new rock acts to appear in Charlotte in recent years. McKinney, 25, started QCI with Brice Griffin in March of 2005 when they noticed a paucity of new…
November Rain
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The Idiot In The Next Booth
Boomer With Attitude
Street Stories
You ever drive down Sharon Road and ask yourself, “Who the hell is Sharon anyway?” No? Well, we — the editors and writers at Creative Loafing — asked ourselves that very question. We wondered about the secret identity of Sharon … and of Elizabeth, Wilkinson, Mint and a host of Charlotte’s other city streets. Call…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I’m male, 24 years old, OK looking and in good physical shape. However, I can’t seem to bag myself a nice girl. Whenever I pull a nice one, she always ends up getting bored, and now I’ve been single for a little over six months. In my youth I had sweet tooth…
Pumpkin Pie with a Secret
Kitchen Witch
