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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals Ocean of Plastic
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Here's yet another reason to get one of those canvas grocery bags:
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals Legally Blonde: The Musical opens tonight
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Legally Blonde movie fans will surely be happy with the stage production Legally Blonde: The Musical, which opens tonight at Ovens Auditorium and runs through April 26. The musical follows a sometimes ditsy, yet underestimated blonde - who hits the books and gets accepted into Harvard Law - named Elle Woods. Check out the video below for a preview of what you can expect at a performance.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals Should President Obama speak at the University of Notre Dame?
Posted By Ciara Lilly on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Recently, the White House announced that President Obama would be the commencement speaker at three universities this spring. One of these universities so happens to be the "University of Notre Dame," a prestigious Catholic university located in Indiana. Notre Dame will award President Obama with an honorary doctor of laws degree.
What an honor, right? Well not according to "The Cardinal Newman Society," a group dedicated to renewing the Catholic identity throughout many Catholic institutions. They argue that this is a huge insult to the Catholic community, because President Obama supports many things (i.e. abortion) that go against Catholic beliefs. The Cardinal Newman Society has started an online petition that has collected over 300,000 signatures calling for the University to stop President Obama from speaking at the commencement ceremony.
This is an interesting issue, people. Why would the University of Notre Dame invite President Obama? Could it be that President Obama encourages a nation to not only believe, but cultivate change? Or maybe it's his exemplification of leadership? And if so, I would argue that is what matters most. In my opinion, if we simply embraced each other's differences, the world would be a merrier place. It's cliche, but it's true.
Listen as Randall Terry, a long-time anti-abortion activist, speaks about why President Obama should not be the commencement speaker for Notre Dame.
Found video / CL-TV Originals Obama doesn't worry about the politics
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
"The American people didn't buy it," Obama said. "And there's a good reason the American people didn't buy it - because it doesn't make sense."'
Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer article here.
Watch President Obama respond to the media:
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals DJ Complete's 'I Love Charlotte'
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:32 PM
If you haven't heard DJ Complete's remix of Asher Roth's "I Love College," here's your chance. This song has been played on 96.1 The Beat, Kiss 95.1 & Power 98.
I have to admit, I like the guy's voice. (He's not too bad-looking either. Haha.)
Found video / CL-TV Originals The Foreign Exchange, featuring Yazarah: 'Sincere'
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Don't know if you heard, but the Durham-based hip-hop/soul band The Foreign Exchange is coming to Charlotte this Sunday for a free show at the Double Door Inn. We wrote about the band this week and interviewed one its members, Yazarah, too.
Now, in case you've never heard the group's music, I found a video of them in action. This song, "Sincere," is from The Foreign Exchange's first album. Check it out:
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals Are you a teabagger?
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:19 PM
What is teabagging? Well, it's not what today's Tea Party organizers think it is.
The Charlotte Observer reports 1,000 people are expected to participate in today's protest (of ... what exactly, no one knows). That's impressive; that's roughly 0.1 percent of the population of the Q.C. (notice the zero and the dot).
Duke University political scientist Mike Munger calls it a groundswell.“It's absolutely incredible,” says Munger, a Libertarian who ran for governor last year. “The thing that's odd about it is it's almost exclusively people who otherwise have not participated in politics before.”
But critics such as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman say the protests represent less “a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment” than a movement manufactured by conservative groups and fanned by Fox News.
John Hood, president of the conservative John Locke Foundation, says many of those attending today's rallies will be newcomers to politics.
“They make a point of bashing Bush at least as much as Obama,” he says. “This is ‘a pox on both your houses' kind of message.”
Although Charlotte's Ridenhour recently got active in the Young Republicans, he says he's not particularly happy with GOP leadership.
“When Bush shoved that (bailout) program down our throats, I was really upset,” he says. “It's certainly not about President Obama's administration. The problem we're facing now is an American problem, not a party problem.”
Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer article here.
We like Rachel Maddow's take on Conservative Teabagging best:
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Aged vets goose The Golden Boys
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM
By Matt Brunson
Between them, veteran actors David Carradine, Rip Torn and Bruce Dern have racked up 147 years of screen time, and The Golden Boys capitalizes on that vast pool of experience by allowing these three performers full rein to work their movie mojo. It's impossible to recommend this piffle to anyone who doesn't possess an ounce of interest in these accomplished thespians or the filmic heritage from which they draw, but seniors and cinema buffs might derive some modest measure of pleasure from the end result.
Working from a 1904 novel by Joseph C. Lincoln titled Cap'n Eri: A Story of the Coast, The Golden Boys centers on three septuagenarian sea captains sharing a Cape Cod home. Deciding that they need a woman to look after them -- but unwilling to pay for a housekeeper -- the crusty trio decides that one of them must immediately find a wife. Captain Zeb (Carradine) and Captain Perez (Dern) are let off the hook when Captain Jerry (Torn) loses the coin toss, but once the chosen woman -- the sensible, middle-aged Martha (Mariel Hemingway) -- enters their lives and the twice-married Jerry continues to balk at the idea of getting hitched yet again, the other two men find themselves captivated by her charm and intelligence.
Read the rest of Matt's review here.
Watch the trailer here:
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals The Great Buck Howard: Quite the act
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:13 PM
By Matt Brunson
John Malkovich's greatest performance will probably always remain his turn as, well, John Malkovich in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich, but that's not to say this versatile actor isn't always adding memorable bits to an increasingly impressive portfolio. Thanks to writer-director Sean McGinly, Malkovich triumphs again, this time portraying the title role in The Great Buck Howard.
A slight yet satisfying show-biz tale that occasionally recalls such similar works as Broadway Danny Rose and My Favorite Year, this focuses on Troy (Colin Hanks), a young man who quits law school in order to find out what he really wants to do with his life. As he tries to figure it out, he takes a job as the road manager for Buck Howard, a temperamental mentalist who's convinced that his comeback rests just around the corner. As portrayed by Malkovich, Buck (loosely based on The Amazing Kreskin) is a man who's by turns sympathetic, cruel, charming and egotistical. It's a socko piece of acting, and while the likable Hanks is rarely more than adequate, Emily Blunt comes along (playing a no-nonsense publicist) and more than holds her own with a sly, charming performance.
Read the rest of Matt's review here.
Watch the trailer here:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Beyoncé's new movie Obsessed: This is gonna suck ...
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Yeah, the new movie Obsessed, starring Beyoncé, is probably gonna be bad ... but like in a Showgirls-bad kind of way (which is kind of entertaining). Check out the trailer and tell me what you think:
