This week’s new releases (10/17)
A quick list of some of the albums being released this week: Jimmy Eat World “Chase This Light” Toby Keith “A Classic Christmas” Santana “Ultimate Santana” Umphrey’s McGee “Live at Murat”
Sen. Craig’s Appeal Factor
Cartoon by Jim Hunt
Echo Project – Sunday
It’s the day three – the last day – here at Echo Project. The day started off with Man Man. Now, I couldn’t tell you anything about the band before Sunday, but now I’ll say this – energy. The band members play a plethora of instruments while jumping up and down, hitting objects with drumsticks…it’s…
Echo Project – Saturday
Another long day at the Echo Project on Saturday. The first act I caught was Futureman & his Black Mozart Ensemble. It basically infused classical music with hip-hop. While there was some rapping later in the set, the part I caught focused mostly around Futureman’s direction of the instrumentalists. I caught Hope for Agoldensummer on…
Echo Project – Day 1
Greetings from Atlanta! The first-ever Echo Project kicked off on Friday on a farm just outside of Atlanta. I can’t say things went off without a hitch, but so far, so good. After being told to wait for a shuttle to get from the daily parking lot to the festival, a 25-minute wait yielded no…
The Svastika
Name of Kama Sutra Position: The Svastika Position: The woman begins this position sitting erect on the floor. She then extends her left leg to the side as the man scoots his loins between her lovely legs. Wrapping her right leg around his waist, she pulls him in as close as she can and crosses…
The Echo Project blogs
Coming this weekend – blogs and photos from Atlanta’s Echo Project!
The Shield Bill Will Resurrect My Career
By Jayson Blair Yes! Finally us journalists can report without fear of facing jail time for protecting our sources. Like for instance, if there was a story about a wounded soldier who isn’t granted leave. Through some meticulous fact-finding, a certain sleuth discovers that in addition to a superficial wound in the soldier’s arm, he…
Somebody, Alert Michael Moore Please!
The end is near. How do I know this? Because Tribune Co., one of the largest media chains in the United States, has announced plans to charge smokers a $100 monthly surcharge for health insurance. I wonder how they’ll determine who’s a smoker? I know lots of people who smoke occasionally (really occasionally, not half-a-pack-a-day…
CD Review: Radiohead
Radiohead In Rainbows Release date: Oct. 10, 2007 The Deal: Radiohead releases new album online for whatever you want to pay for it — nothing or more. The Good: It’s about what you’d expect from a Radiohead album if you’re familiar with past efforts. It’s kind of early to do a review, since most of…
Will Floyd Brown Get To Cash In On 14 Years Of Incarceration?
So Floyd Brown, the man with an IQ of 50, is free after years in a state mental hospital for a crime it doesn’t look like he committed. His confession, the only evidence linking him to the crime, was likely falsified (in it, he used words he wouldn’t have known), the detectives in the case…
Minor League
In last week’s blog, we looked at the upcoming, big-budget Justice League of America movie. But fans might be interested to know that a JLA TV movie was filmed back in 1997. Created as the pilot for a prospective TV series, it never aired in this country, although it did play in Europe a few…
Talking the talk, walking the walk
Betta Listen
Clash Of Generations
Books
Charlotte folk society celebrates 25 years
La Vida Local
III – Over The Under
The Deal: Heavy metal heavyweights return with their third album and first in five years. The Good: After the 2004 shooting death of former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott, some worried Phil Anselmo may not return to music for many years. It may have taken three years, but Anselmo, backed by Pepper Keenan of Corrosion…
Film Clips
Current Releases EASTERN PROMISES In a sense, Eastern Promises is a bookend to the last film made by director David Cronenberg and star Viggo Mortensen: 2005’s excellent A History of Violence, about an ordinary cafe owner who may or may not have been a vicious mobster in his earlier years. Both films run along parallel…
Music Menu
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10 Corinne West West’s voice is sweetly somber and gets inside your head and stays there till her tale is told. Her music gathers all sorts of roots and berries of American music but is foundationally tucked into acoustic folk and bluegrass. West apparently hit the road in her mid-teens with a traveling…
Goodbye Blue Monday
The Deal: Canadian recording solo-artist Jeremy Fisher releases latest effort. The Good: Fisher creates an assortment of acoustic-ridden folkish rock tunes with a burst of playfulness that is rich in guitar, harmonica, accordion, piano and bass. Fisher describes his version of the pros and cons of love on tracks like “Scar that Never Heals” and…
Comic Proportions
Streets of Glory No. 1 Published by Avatar. Plot and script by Garth Ennis. Pencils and inks by Mike Wolfer. The Deal: Garth Ennis, the guy known for really gross and violent comics like Preacher and The Boys, is back with his take on a Western. And he’s doing it for gross-out indie publisher Avatar.…
Buzz building with these locals
TURN ON, TUNE IN
Amos’ Southend, Oct. 3, 2007
The Deal: Alt-rock vets return to the Queen City for the first time in more than 10 years. The Good: Every bit of it – from the strong opening set by Raleigh’s Birds of Avalon to the final notes of the encore, “She Don’t Use Jelly.” In a scaled-down version of their festival show –…
Cheveron’s Pipeline Is The Burmese Regime’s Lifeline
Breaking the Sound Barrier
The Blotter
SELECTIVE MEMORY: A 28-year-old woman said she was swindled out of $216 when a man she thought knew her spouse approached her and said, “If you give me the money, I will make sure your husband gets it.” The woman gave the man the money, but when she asked her husband about it, he said…
Gettin’ the Last Word
The Delaney Sisters may not have had the moves or the pipes to fill Bobcats Arena. But 103-year-old Sadie and her 101-year-old kid sister Bessie have the memories to spark a historic collaboration between Theatre Charlotte, celebrating its 80th anniversary, and the Afro-American Cultural Center. TC’s first Stage 501 show for the 2007-08 season, Having…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I am an attractive 54-year-old male. My first love (who I also call my soul mate) and I met when we were 20. We conceived a child and then we were separated for 27 years. We reunited and found the love still burning. After three years together, we got married. She died…
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Culture Surfing
High Society
The Charlotte Film Society’s Second Week Series continues today with two more acclaimed foreign titles. The French feature The Page Turner is a revenge yarn about a gifted young piano player who plots to get back at the famous concert pianist who inadvertently derailed her promising career. And 12:08 East of Bucharest, a Romanian import…
Unbalanced
Moodswing
Extreme Mercenary Makeover
Private security firm Blackwater retained a top public relations firm to prepare for Congressional testimony, the Associated Press reported last week. It’s gotta be a tough job, spinning the guns-for-hire company’s alleged misdeeds into gold. And one thing any PR campaign needs is a good slogan. Think any of these might work? 1.) At least…
Avant-garde
A major art event is happening not far from the offices of Creative Loafing. The homeless, many talented artists, are being given a platform to showcase their work while giving back to a place that both supports and nurtures their souls. Art Works 945 is the annual reception, sale, and auction featuring over 200 paintings,…
Daddy Daycare?
The N Word
Hey DJs
Lofty Goals DJ Larmarrous, straight outta the ATL, spins records at last Sunday’s “Grown and Sexy is Dead” party at Loft 1523. The Art of Ass Shaking Charlotte-based DJ That Guy Smitty pumps up the crowd at the Plaza Central Art Crawl, which went down on Oct. 6. Wanna hear Smitty live? Check out…
Daytime Terror
Remember being a kid and afraid of all the things that go bump in the night? Well, get over it already! Just kidding. For all you wussies that still jump when the lights go out during lightning storms, there’s a Halloween event just for you. Or if need be, use your kids as an excuse…
No Scrubs
Citizen Servatius
Rolling Out the Yellow Brick Road
Time to celebrate, my pretties. Children’s Theatre of Charlotte is launching its 60th season in epic MGM style with The Wizard of Oz. Local theater legend Alan Poindexter directs and cross-dresses as the Wicked Witch of the West — and the venerable Jill Bloede cross-dresses right back as The Cowardly Lion. Yes, this is the…
Stargazer
Libra The Scales (Sept. 22 – Oct. 22): During this retrograde you will discover some error of recording concerning finances must be rectified fairly soon. It may be as simple as finding a bill that was forgotten and left unpaid. You prefer to remain in the background and tend to your business during this period. For All…
Coming Attractions
thursday, OcT. 18 It’s a tale as old as time: boy meets girl, they fall in love, hitch despite their families’ hate for each other, boy and girl die in the name of love. Now, doesn’t that sound just like a Hallmark card? Jokes aside, if you got through ninth grade English (wait, that’s aiming…
Carolina On My Mind
For sixteen years, the Novello Festival of Reading has been bringing authors and readers together in celebration of the written word. Tonight’s Carolina Writers Night highlights Charlotte Observer associate editor and author Fannie Flono, author Judy Goldman and 2007 Novello Literary Award winner Miriam Herin. Mood music courtesy of blues pianist the Rev. Billy C.…
NASCAR Fan Profiles
Bob Morgan Stats: 43-year-old white male currently serving as president of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Resides: Charlotte Bio: Bob moved to Charlotte from Rome, N.Y. at the age of six. His dad had grown up in Cabarrus County so he become familiar with racing at a very young age … especially once his uncle…
A Den of Identity Thieves
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Claim To Fame
In the always popular Julia Roberts yarn Pretty Woman, a man walks down Hollywood Boulevard and proclaims: “Welcome to Hollywood! What’s your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don’t; but keep on dreamin’ — this is Hollywood.” The contestants on FOX’s So You Think You Can…
NASCAR 101
Terms and interesting tidbits CL thought you should know if you’re thinking about going to a race. Banking: This has absolutely nothing to do with Wachovia or Bank of America when you’re at the racetrack. The track banking refers to the steepness built into the track. The steeper the banking, the faster the cars are…
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View From The Couch
EATEN ALIVE (1976). Director Tobe Hooper’s first picture following his 1974 horror masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a crushing disappointment, less reminiscent of his classic earlier film than of the senseless slasher flicks that would eventually flood the marketplace (Friday the 13th, the Halloween sequels, etc.). Released under a slew of different titles…
NASCAR … It’s Not Just For Good Ol’ Boys Anymore
Pretend you’re playing a word association game and you’re given the word NASCAR. Say the first thing that comes to mind and fast cars might be a typical response; action or excitement might be another. For obvious reasons, these kinds of associations would most likely come top of mind for people with a bit of…
Four Out of Five Sommeliers Recommend …
CORKSCREW
Book Smart
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Summer’s Last Stew
Kitchen Witch
Something Old, Something New
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Q-Skee welcomes new league
QC After Dark
pUnK ON
Ask any punk about his influences and it’s a safe bet that Jay and The Americans and Paul Anka won’t be on the short list. But The Misfits are not your average punks. “The first album my Dad had that I listened to was by Jay and The Americans,” Misfits front man/resurrecter Jerry Only said…
