Wicked sold out…
If you were hoping to get tickets for Wicked in Charlotte, you’re out of luck. As of 2 p.m. today, the shows sold out. Now, here’s my question – Tickets were supposed to go on sale at 8 a.m. at the venue and at 10 a.m. online. At 10:30 a.m., when I checked, tickets weren’t…
Patfish
– Cartoon by Jim Hunt
Live Review: Blind Melon
Blind Melon w/ S.O.Stereo Tremont Music Hall Nov. 30, 2007 The Deal: Blind Melon returns to the stage with new singer. The Good: The night started out with locals S.O.Stereo winning over a lot of the crowd. I was asked numerous times – “Who is this?” “Where do they play?” “Where can you usually see…
The Boss – confirmed!
It’s official, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be performing at Charlotte Bobcats Arena on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale on Friday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster, the arena box office and www.aeglive.com
Somnolence
This position begins with the woman and man both laying on their sides, both facing in the same direction (as in spooning). The man enters the woman’s yoni from behind, taking his upper leg and directing it between her legs, so that she can then wrap her top leg around his hip behind her, opening…
Purely Platonic
By Hillary Clinton What, just because Huma Abedin is a gorgeous babe who manages to smell like fresh lilacs even on a sweltering campaign bus in the middle of a summer, means I’m having a secret, sweaty sex fest with her? This is beyond absurd. If I were a lesbian, why would you assume that…
Free Condoms Lead To Amorous Union With Rhino
By Pat Robertson Recently I’ve been going through old 700 Club footage in preparation for our “Best Of” holiday season DVD. Here’s a classic quote from an early season: “Planned Parenthood is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism-everything that the Bible condemns.” – Pat Robertson, The…
Live Review: Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder Charlotte Bobcats Arena Nov. 28, 2007 A review and photos can be found in the Dec. 5 edition of Creative Loafing. Here’s the setlist: Love’s In Need of Love Today Visions Living for the City Instrumental jam My Girl> Aint No Stopping Us> Tear the Roof Off the Sucker> Higher Ground Golden Lady…
All About All About Us
 The romantic drama All About Us opens this Friday, but it’s Thursday night that’s all about the celebrities. All About Us, in which two novice filmmakers head to Mississippi to ask Morgan Freeman to appear in their movie, arrives courtesy of the Charlotte-based husband-and-wife team of Michael and Christine Swanson. Christine wrote and directed the…
Give Fleece A Chance
Advice Goddess
Childers to call it quits
QC Inferno
Comicopera
The Deal: Luscious concept record from eccentric Brit. The Good: Robert Wyatt records have always been worlds unto themselves. Now 62, the former Soft Machine drummer has spent his musical life beyond the pull of pop trends or flavor-of-the-month movements. Free to do indulge his imagination, that’s precisely what he’s done. Loosely built around three…
Republicans Are Scared Stupid
Boomer With Attitude
Letters To The Editor
Takes one to know one I enjoy Tara Servatius’ kind of investigative journalism, the kind that peels away the surface headlines and shows what you really believe to be going on. She did this type of thing very well with her coverage of the light rail expenses and she’s done it again on the Myers…
Holly George Warren
The Deal: Punk chronicled in rare images, deft text. The Good: An unpolished look at punk in its prime in the ’70s and ’80s, Punk 365 captures in text and photos the essence of the scruffy, sweaty, jagged-edged sound that was rebelling against everything. The words are sparse, but dead-on, and the photos, all 365…
Rick Pearson’s Top Five
Culture Surfing
Scraping By
On average, a person seeking help from Crisis Assistance Ministry earned $1,043 in the last 30 days. The agency helps people pay basic bills and food costs. The agency served 81,060 people last year with financial assistance, counseling and other aid; 6,982 of those people were seeking help for the first time. Fewer than 23,000…
The Black and White Album
The Deal: Swedish quintet of retro rockers releases an album that’s longer than their 30-minute standard. The Good: In the past, the band has fit into the whole Strokes-White Stripes genre of retro rockers with a modern twist. For their third U.S. release, the band is exploring a little more of the boundaries. They lean…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I went on a long vacation this summer with a group of seven friends. We rented a house on a secluded beach and had what I consider to be one of the best trips of my life. There was lots of drinking, a little smoking, some snogging in the dunes and just…
Holiday Hangover
Got the Life Jonathan Davis, singer for Korn, belted out a 20-song set at Tremont Music Hall on Nov. 21 during a stop on his first-ever solo tour. The almost-acoustic “Alone I Play Tour” is taking place during off-dates of the Korn tour. For a review, setlist and more photos, log on to qcvibes.com.…
Roadtrip
In writer/director Christine Swanson’s new movie All About Us, Boris Kodjoe is a man on a mission. Edward Brown (Kodjoe’s character) and his wife Stacey Brown (played by Ryan Michelle Bathé) want superstar Morgan Freeman to star in their next movie. One small problem — he’s kinda indisposed in Mississippi. Faith Filmworks will bring this…
Space Between Friends
Moodswing
Coming Attractions
thursday, dec. 6 The holiday season is upon us. And the folks over at the James H. Lynn Planetarium were wondering about all the traditions. How did they start and why do so many involving setting things ablaze? A new program entitled Season of Light will answer all these questions and more. Covering subjects as…
Putting on the Doll
First, she tackled Junie B. Jones and Miss Nelson. Now, playwright Joan Cushing has traveled to Victorian London in this warming adaptation of Elvira Woodruff’s book The Christmas Doll. In this Children’s Theatre of Charlotte production, Glory and Lucy are orphaned sisters who leave behind one bad situation for another — the workhouse for the…
35 Going on 36
The N Word
Are We Ready to Rhumba?
Comic Proportions 40Books 41Arts Agenda 4242
What Doesn’t Kill You …
Citizen Servatius
Mark Adams
Profile
Stargazer
Sagittarius The Archer: (Nov. 22 – Dec. 20) A new plan that began to manifest in August to September is arriving at a turning point. This is a time in which you are challenged to pour more resources into the plan or let it go. You have fantasies about returning to safety, but you know…
Best of The Blotter 2007
Welcome to the 2nd Annual Best of The Blotter. Most of you know what The Blotter is, but for those of you who don’t, it’s Creative Loafing’s weekly account of the most unusual and bizarre crimes in Charlotte pulled straight from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police reports. Basically, this stuff is so crazy that it can’t be made…
Film Clips
Current Releases AMERICAN GANGSTER American Gangster is yet one more tale about a confident crime figure who rises to the top before taking that inevitable plunge down the elevator shaft. Yet for all its familiar trappings, director Ridley Scott and writer Steven Zaillian invest their tale with plenty of verve, even if they frequently soft-pedal…
Play Mist For Me
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View From The Couch: Chinatown, Close Encounters, Help!, more
CHINATOWN (1974) / THE TWO JAKES (1990). “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” This immortal line is enough to make any movie lover swoon, yet it’s just one of the countless classic bits of dialogue in director Roman Polanski’s film noir homage, an enduring masterpiece that has moved beyond being regarded as one of the best…
Brand Anew
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Gifts for Winos
Corkscrew
Wound up for success
It sounds like a component of Link Wray’s guitar, a product any rockabilly god would be proud to endorse. But Silversun Pickups has nothing to do with fuzz tones or billy of any sort. The name adopted by the L.A. quartet comes from a local liquor store, and the sound comes from a melting pot…
Have Your Pie And Celiac, Too
Kitchen Witch
A Little Sumthin, Sumthin
If you like your poetry hot and naughty, if you want words poured over you like warm chocolate honey and you want to hear some bass voiced Barry White brother “do it until you’re satisfied” — then you’re at the wrong show. But Little Concepts presents Tamika “GA.ME” Harper, an alum of Def Poetry Jam…
Always better to be safe …
QC After Dark
Cracking Sugar Plums
Welcoming dancers ages eight to eighteen for the opportunity of a lifetime has been the goal of the Charlotte Youth Ballet. Their mission of “introduc[ing] ballet to diverse audiences fostering a lifelong support of the arts” is the driving force. They celebrate 25 years with this production: Charlotte Youth Ballet Nutcracker. You remember the story…
Coming to America
Betta Listen
Through the Microscopic Lens
Ever wanted to go “through the looking glass,” or in this case through the microscopic lens to find out just what it is that makes us tick? No, of course, you didn’t and neither did Alice. All she wanted to do was play with the cute, little white rabbit. But, as we’ve all learned from…
Comic Proportions
Justice League of America No. 14 Published by DC Comics. Plot and script by Dwayne McDuffie. Pencils by Ed Benes. Inks by Sandra Hope. The Deal: Dwayne McDuffie is still writing Justice League of America and he’s currently immersed the team in a fight against the Injustice League. The Good: McDuffie’s dialogue is quite snappy…
Local composer to hold master class, performance
La Vida Local
Festivus Christmakus
Finally getting into the holiday spirit is hard. Let’s face it. Without holiday spirit, you wouldn’t even know it was Christmas time in the South because the weather doesn’t change. Not a lick. That’s why it’s so “cooling” to know that it’s time for the Second String Santa 18th Annual Holiday Party again. Young professionals…
What Would Jesus Buy?
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Music Menu
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28 Stevie Wonder I don’t know which is harder to believe – that Stevie Wonder has been performing for more than 40 years, or that he’s only 57 years old. His last studio album was ’05s A Time to Love. He’s touring for the first time in more than 10 years, so catch…
Skating on Thin Ice
Ice skating is really harder than it looks. Not everyone can aspire to be Michelle Kwan. But of course, you’re going to be stubborn and try to do it anyway. In that case, check out WBT Holiday on Ice at the Green Uptown, Charlotte’s only outdoor ice-skating rink. January 6 is the last day it’s…
