Hybrid Culture
Whether they mix musical genres, gender, art and science, language or spork fashion, hybrids are the bomb. Follow these hot linx to some silver and gold, baby, silver and gold. Lester Bowie http://aacmchicago.org/members/Bowie.html Glorya Wholesome www.glowgirl.com Karl Blossfeldt www.vintagesmith.com/images/Blossfeldt/BlossAlbum Esperanto www.esperanto.net Sporks www.yourpsychogirlfriend.com/gallery/sporkdress
It’s A (Sick) Man’s World
How well do you really know your neighbors? Your youth group supervisor? The guy who just seems to be really great with kids? An analysis of the North Carolina sex offender registry system shows that convicted sex offenders live in almost every zip code in Mecklenburg County. As the county expands, so does its list…
CL Recommends
Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season by Matt Taibbi (New Press hardback). Not one of the “popular kids” on the high school-esque Democratic campaign trail, muckraking Taibbi felt free to take acid during debates, don a gorilla costume to question John Kerry, and seek out real people instead of scripted photo-ops. The result…
Real Life Top 5
The Talk of the town — That’s Justin Williams, lead singer of Charlotte rockers the Talk, whose pristine sound we won’t water down by using that silly “pop-punk” tag. Justin and company are destined for greatness — that is, if Justin’s Real Life Top 5 list doesn’t kill him first. One thing’s for sure: This…
Wes Is More
Red Eye (HH 1/2 out of four) qualifies as the best movie director Wes Craven has ever made, and if that sounds like damning him with faint praise, so be it. But unlike the junk that has come to define his inexplicably lengthy career (The Last House On the Left, The People Under the Stairs,…
W Cowers, A Mom Stands Tall
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Knitters Gather in Charlotte
I still recall my scrawny fingers excitedly tearing the shrink-wrap off the cover of my vinyl copy of the Knitters’ 1985 classic Poor Little Critter on the Road. The feeling was no less palpable two decades later as I popped open the CD of the recent Modern Sounds of the Knitters. The Knitters’ more popular…
Hecho en el sur
Sit & Spin 84Hot Linx/Real Life Top 5 85The Knitters 87
No way out but up
Performing Arts 44Book Reviews 46Arts Agenda 41
On A Role
RPGs, or Role Playing Games, started with paper, pen and dice when Dungeons & Dragons was king. With the rise of videogames, the pen, paper and dice were tossed aside for electronically designed worlds and computer-based random number selection. RPGs are now a huge part of the videogame world, with thousands available due to the…
That Guy Next Door
New rules for new lobbyists 17Air quality: more to do 24Jim Hunt cartoon 18
Charlotte Registered Sex Offenders 2005
The following list of registered Charlotte area sex offenders was compiled by excerpting Charlotte residents who are on the NC sex offender registry and arranging the names, addresses and crimes by zip code. 28226 Charles Nathan Berman, 11801 Rock Canyon Dr., Indecent liberties with a minor. Ted Raby Bost Sr., 7745 Little Ave., Indecent liberties…
Blogged Down…But Not Out
Pseudonymous writer “Ace” takes on subjects such as gay rights and beer on her blog site Acepryhill.com with a viewpoint she felt was scarcely expressed when she began blogging in 2003. “I’d seen a lot of voices that were really great out there, but there weren’t that many voices saying what I wanted to say,”…
Raleigh SLOWS REVOLVING DOOR
When six-term state Rep. Connie Wilson resigned last year to become a lobbyist for the very industry that benefited from the Charlotte Republican’s legislation, the move raised ethical eyebrows but didn’t break any laws. But it looks like such moves may not be allowed much longer. At last, after the state House of Representatives passed…
Welcome to the Fishbowl
It happens about once a year, sometimes twice. Someone sees Gene’s name and address on the North Carolina sex offender registry and anonymously mails all his neighbors, informing them that Gene was charged with indecent liberties with a minor. Sometimes they take it a step further. One time he found an anonymous letter on his…
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From the Editor
Last week, I was in New York speaking on a panel at the Latin Alternative Music Conference at the Puck building in SoHo. LAMC is a growing annual music-industry shindig much like the dance/DJ-related Winter Music Conference in Miami, the college radio-oriented CMJ Music Marathon, also in New York, and the Big Daddy of music…
The Blotter
Now That’s Teamwork: Three vagrants accosted a man and his friend while they were parked at a gas station. One of the vagrants grabbed the driver’s wallet, and another robbed the passenger at gunpoint. One of the troublesome trio then hopped into the car and drove the vehicle behind the gas station. The three thieves…
Don’t Choke Now
Boomer With Attitude
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: My favorite Chinese restaurant is a real dive, not the kind of place you’d expect to serve some of the best Hot ‘n’ Sour Soup. I took a group of friends there recently on a Saturday night, and before our meal was served I excused myself for the restroom. In the ladies…
Judge Manning Unglued, Part 2
Citizen Servatius
Stargazer
Virgo The Virgin (Aug. 22 — Sept. 22) The sun returns “home” to your sign on the 22nd. You may find it to be energizing. Now is the time to focus on new plans for this next year of your life. Take a fresh look at where you want to direct your energy for the…
Letters
Gas-guzzling gluttons I agree with John Grooms’ thoughts on our failure to reduce our dependence on oil and the resulting poor air quality (“Every Guzzler for Himself,” Aug. 10). The thing that frustrates me and pisses me off is the Bush administration’s failure to “demand” that we sacrifice. Our men and women in Iraq are…
Film Clips
New Releases FOUR BROTHERS Say this for Spike Lee: Nobody can ever accuse the man of being a sellout. Even as his movies continue to draw tiny audiences and (presumably) lose money for their studios, he steadfastly remains true to himself, making pictures that matter to him personally. The same, alas, can’t be said for…
Nothing
Moodswing
Columbo, Muppet Show seasons among new home entertainment releases
COLUMBO: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON (1973-1974) / THE MUPPET SHOW: SEASON ONE (1976-1977). The popularity of TV shows on DVD may have caught the industry by surprise, but the decision makers have since regained their composure and are presently flooding the marketplace with all manner of boob tube fare. Still, it’s the classics that will…
Looking Sharp
See & Do 10Moodswing 12Urban Explorer
Eye On The Prize
Broken Flowers 53Film Clips 54View From The Couch 55
Tommy Boy Presents Hip Hop Roots
Razor & TieTommy Boy RecordsMerge RecordsNacional Records
See & Do Picks
Wednesday, August 17 Writer, international flight attendant, translator, NPR commentator and foul-mouthed CL columnist Hollis Gillespie was named Writer’s Digest Breakout Author of the Year for her debut collection of essays, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch (HarperCollins). Her new book, Confessions of a Recovering Slut, is another collection of edgy, insightful and hilarious essays and vignettes, mainly…
Memories on the Vine
CORKSCREW
Mooresville/South Iredell Exchange Club Art Festival
The festival features an art show of jewelry, sculptures, watercolors and pottery. Proceeds will benefit programs dedicated to the prevention of child abuse. A “Meet the Artists” preview gala will be held on August 19 from 7-11pm. Featured at the gala will be a live and silent auction hosted by Joey Popp. A buffet dinner…
Big Enchilada
Mouthful 69Corkscrew 70Good Eats 73
Celebrity Culture’s Birth
The Colonel and Little Missie William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was known internationally as a former scout, hunting guide and Pony Express courier in the West, but the majority of his life revolved around show business. A man who built his legend, in part, on Indian scalping actually killed few Native Americans and hired hundreds…
Sunday, Sunday
Much as we all suspected, brunch came about in the 1800s in England as a way to provide nourishment to those just getting up after Saturday night’s revelry. Brunch didn’t catch on in the US until the 1930s, which is interesting since that time period coincides with the end of Prohibition. A coincidence? I think…
Snarky To The Stars
Performing Arts
