Top 5 essential Ramones Songs
Can’t afford the box set? Download these: 1. Blitzkrieg Bop 2. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker 3. Teenage Lobotomy 4. Cretin Hop 5. I Wanna Be Sedated
Things to Do Before I Die
There’s nothing like jumping out of a plane at 14,000 feet and plummeting to earth at 120 mph to make you pause for a little introspection. That’s what happened when I went skydiving a few years ago. It’s a stretch to call it a near-death experience — I landed safe and sound, although my underwear…
HOMEMADE ART
HOT LINX
Head Games
Film Clips 46View From The Couch 48Films In A Flash 4946
Five Things That Rock Redmond’s World
Originally from Flint, Michigan, this Charlotte-based electronic musician was influenced by the more abstract and independent sounds of electronic music early in life. After moving to Charlotte, Redmond started producing and performing minimal techno in what’s now known as a “live PA” method of performing his own music without records. “What I want to focus…
The Chef Is Inn
Table Dancing 61Chew On This 62Kitchen Witch 6262
loud, fast AND HIPPER THAN homer
Sit & Spin 76Hot Linx/Real Life Top 5 77Comix 78Smog 7979
Comedy or pathos?
Some people prefer their humor grim and dry, delivered with deadpan intensity. Mining the fine line between comedy and tragedy, Bill Callahan’s musical elegies and vignettes (performed under his moniker Smog) often turn on unreliable narrators whose misanthropy and misfortune may be more than a little self-induced. Take, for example, “Your New Friend,” from his…
Scientologists Walk Among Us
Citizen Servatius 23Short List 18Boomer With Attitude 2419
Not the Usual Beach Books
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.” In that spirit, we asked several local authors what they’ve been reading this summer. Here’s what they said. Dr. Sandra Govan Dr. Govan is a professor of English at UNCC and the author of…
WHAT’S A RHINO?
Then-City Council candidate Doug Hanks never mentioned he was researching a novel when he was defending more than 4,200 posts on a white supremacist website to a Rhinoceros Times editor. Nor did he mention his acting ability, editor Mark Pellin told Creative Loafing. Instead, as Hanks was quoted in the Aug. 4 Rhino Times, his…
Sit & SpinUnited States of AtlantaMore ShineSala Santa CeciliaPower to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits
They rode in on the Deep South crunk train, settled in to the booty-music bottom end and spoke their collective mind, which was mostly in the titty bars. Call Ying Yang Twins a 2 Live Crew for the new millennium, delivering nasty on the Penthouse-worthy “Pull My Hair” and the one everybody knows by now,…
Things to Do Before I Die
This is page two of three. To visit page one, click here. Dorne Pentes, independent filmmaker, co-director of WonderWorld Film/Video • Visit Patmos, Greece, the island from whence my ancestors came. • Buy a shack by a river somewhere in deep south Mississippi or Georgia and live for a year, reading, writing, drinking, and eating…
Hotter’n Hell
The sun is beating down so hard you swear you could fry bologna on the sidewalk; the air conditioning in your car is proving a weak opponent for humidity that you believe would rival a South American rainforest — Charlotte’s seen some hot days recently. Then there are the air quality warnings, code reds and…
See & Do
Wednesday, August 10 If you haven’t caught it yet, there’s a fascinating exhibit at the Mint Museum of Art called Ancient Egyptian Art for the Afterlife. Talk about old school! The exhibit features more than 90 artifacts on loan from a local collector, including a rare mummified falcon as well as vases, figurines, daggers and…
Things to Do Before I DieWHAT’S ON YOUR TO-DO LIST FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?
This is page three of three. To visit page one, click here. Michael J. Smith, President of Charlotte Center City Partners • Live to love my children’s children — know the next generation. • Travel in the Holy Land. • Camp and hike through the major national parks with my wife and children. • Golf…
women’s hoops
Nearly a century ago, a women’s basketball game between Elizabeth and Presbyterian Colleges was considered so unsuitable for men’s prying eyes that anyone with a Y-chromosome was forbidden to watch. Several binocular-toting men scaled a roof anyway, determined to catch a glimpse of women playing such an “unfeminine” sport. Today, the Charlotte Sting is one…
Charlotte Folk Society Gathering Concert & Jams
The Charlotte Folk Society opens its 2005-2006 Gathering season with a concert by The Briarhoppers, the longest performing group of bluegrass and country musicians still active today. Their career began in 1935 at radio station WBT in Charlotte. Charlotte Folk Society Gatherings are family-friendly and feature an hour-long concert, followed by a refreshment break and…
The BLotter
Ungrateful Hitchhiker: A young man picked up a man who had asked for a ride. At some point the driver stopped off at a convenience store to buy a few things. Once inside the store, the driver realized he’d left his wallet in the car. When he returned, the passenger was gone — and so…
Every Guzzler For Himself
Boomer With Attitude
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: A true story: Maybe six months back, I met a guy, “Mac.” He knew some other friends of mine and we hung around with him at the beach one weekend. Later, I mentioned to another friend that I’d been talking to Mac. This person, who I won’t name, just about lost his…
BREAKING NEWS
Short List
Stargazer
Leo The Lion (July 22 — Aug. 22) An authority figure may be in the mood to critique you this week, and the cause may be erroneous. If you cannot immediately counter the accusation, leave it alone. The right information will turn up soon and you will be absolved. Love and romance are favored now.…
Back to the Dark Ages
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Film Clips
Current Releases BAD NEWS BEARS Hollywood’s penchant for recycling continues with this update of the 1976 film about a beer-guzzling guy (Walter Matthau) who turns a team of Little League misfits into contenders. The original Bears was notable for milking the underdog formula for all it was worth and sweetening the pot with its decidedly…
Watch Sue Spin
Citizen Servatius
View From The Couch
DOWNFALL (2004). With apologies to Spain, there’s no way that country’s quadriplegic weepie The Sea Inside deserved to best this German production for the Foreign-Language Film Oscar. A powerful telescoping of a few crucial days in world history, Downfall centers on the final moments in the life of Adolf Hitler as he huddled in his…
Letters
Don’t Kill the Messenger It’s really disappointing to see Creative Loafing resort to childish mudslinging in its assessment of “Best Hatchet Job” by the Observer, throwing fuel on an already unjust fire (“Best of Charlotte,” Aug. 3). I thought the only folks blaming a single review for shutting down an entire theater company were the…
Chew on ThisThe Worst Of . . .
In last week’s issue of Creative Loafing, we celebrated the best of what Charlotte has to offer. Just to be contrary, this week’s Chew On This column will list the worst of food-related stuff. No readers were polled, and the opinions here are mine alone. WORST WASTE OF KITCHEN COUNTER SPACE The Electric Can Opener…
Show your ass
Moodswing
the New Bastard Stepchild
CORKSCREW
Not your Soccer Mom’s Soccer
See & Do 10Moodswing 1210Urban Explorer
TV Dinners
Table Dancing
Sexcitement In Winston-Salem
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