Feb 3-9, 2016

Feb 3-9, 2016 / Vol. 29 / No. 50

Cover Stories

A day in one of Charlotte’s most popular sex boutiques

I walked into The Reddoor Store in Charlotte last week with no idea about what would come of spending an afternoon shadowing employees as they helped customers with all their sex-related needs or questions. I wasn’t dumb enough to think — as some apparently do — that I’d be walking into a sin bin, with…

Ryan Pitkin

Tales from the sex store

From doling out advice to scandalous situations, employees of local adult stores have just about seen and heard it all, and for the most part, they handle it all with the utmost professionalism. “We try to answer as many questions as frankly as we can,” Mandy Kimrey, manager at Just for Pleasure 2, says. “We…

Creative Loafing Staff

Hail, Caesar!: Roman Scandals

HAIL, CAESAR! *** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Joel & Ethan Coen STARS Josh Brolin, George Clooney While Woody Allen spent the midsection of his career wowing critics and audiences with the philosophical likes of Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors, there were many who already were feeling nostalgic for the comparatively…

Matt Brunson

Bizarre crime from Charlotte police files (Feb. 4)

Fatal Attraction A 46-year-old woman filed a police report after finding a wild rabbit’s body in her front yard. That wouldn’t be news itself, except for one detail: the rabbit was decapitated and the woman believes someone was trying to send her a message. Suburban Smackdown A 32-year old man was assaulted after a heated…

Madeline Lemieux

Weekly horoscope (Feb. 4-10)

For All Signs: This week begins a series of six challenging aspects between Saturn and Pluto. The last will occur in November of 2019. The effects of this aspect have been in the air for a few months already. This pair, as all planets, has both positive and negative sides. On the bright side we…

Vivian Carol

Salvation & Salivation

Twelve years ago, during an extended layover in Seoul, Korea, I discovered the ancestors of the packaged seaweed snacks that today’s hip kids have in their lunchboxes. In the duty-free shopping zone, I wandered into a seaweed shop. The store was stocked, floor to ceiling, with colorful boxes and shiny packets of seaweed, in myriad…

Ari LeVaux

Three questions for Cara Jorgensen of Gâteau Baking Company

For folks who don’t speak French, “gâteau” means cake. It’s the name of Cara Jorgensen’s new baking company and a name you should probably learn how to say if you like sweets. Jorgensen, 22, wants to provide desserts that suit both “outlandishly wild and the ‘normal’ palates.” Self-taught in the kitchen, she currently works at…

Anita Overcash

Theatre Charlotte embraces The Importance of Being Earnest

They were planning to open The Importance of Being Earnest on January 22 at Theatre Charlotte, where Oscar Wilde’s “Trivial Comedy for Serious People” hadn’t played since 2002. But the snow and sleet that were icing the roads hadn’t begun to melt away on the following evening, so opening night was transformed into an opening…

Perry Tannenbaum

JD Simo: Guitar hero

It was something between seeing the charisma of Elvis and the swaggering cool of the Blues Brothers on TV that hooked JD Simo on music. Growing up in Chicago, Simo found something he could not only relate to, but something he wanted to be — a musician and a performer. Only problem? Simo wasn’t even…

Jeff Hahne

Dispelling the myths of Charlotte’s non-discrimination ordinances

Charlotte City Council will resume the debate over a proposed LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance this month, nearly one year since they voted down the same proposal. You’re going to hear and see a lot of talk on public restrooms. Most of it is myth. I’m here to dispel them. The proposal would add sexual orientation, gender…

Matt Comer

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