See & Do
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Coral Reef Adventure, the latest IMAX epic from the makers of Everest, opens tomorrow in Discovery Place’s OMNIMAX Theatre, but viewers interested in a sneak peek – as well as a chance to hobnob with the son of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau – are welcome to attend a special preview tonight.…
Arts Agenda
Classical Music Carolina Baroque Sun., Feb. 23, 5 p.m. Free. Saint James Lutheran Church, 104 Union Street South, Concord. 704-786-1063. Charleston Symphony Orchestra South Carolina’s only full-time professional orchestra. Held in Byrnes Auditorium. Tue., March 4, 7 p.m. $5 w/ Winthrop ID, $15 general admission. Tickets available at the Arts Council of Rock Hill and…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I finally got fed up with my sister-in-law’s lying, thieving ways. I sent her a really nasty, hateful e-mail telling her she is a bad mother, con artist, nasty to her own recently widowed mother, a loser who is a twice-convicted felon, etc. Well, I never would have dreamed that she would…
Soup’s On
Flu season is upon us. Time to ladle up a cup of soup.Soup, in one form or another, is the main meal event throughout much of the world. Soup fills the stomachs of the poor and was a solution to leftovers long before the development of food storage. Soup can be found on most restaurant…
Stargazer
For All Signs This is the second of a two week series of hard-hitting aspects that represent anger, potential for violence, and attacks of any type. I write these articles weeks in advance, so as I am composing this one I can’t help but wonder if there will be threats, skirmishes, or even breakout of…
Good Eats
All Around Town Anntony’s Caribbean, 400 S. Tryon St., 704-339-0303; 2001 E. 7th St., 704-342-0749. All locations have different owners. A hint of the tropics; rotisserie chicken with Jamaican jerk sauce, ribs, Paradise Island fish special, curries, and Caribbean styled greens. $$ Azteca, 116 Woodlawn Rd., 704-525-5110; 9709 Independence Blvd., 704-814-9877; 1863 W. Franklin Blvd.…
All In The Game
One night when I was in college, a girlfriend called me up and asked if I wanted to go to a Miss Hawaiian Tropic Contest at a local sports bar. I sat there, holding onto the telephone, dumbfounded. “Sure, Patrice, nothing turns me on more than seeing a cattle call of big-breasted women prancing around…
Liquid Soul
Have you ever wondered why soups, stews and pot roasts are so fabulously soothing when it’s crappy out? Winter seems to be the time when these dishes perform their best work, and heavier red wines share a similar calling. Why not combine them? When having a meal, try choosing your wine first, and then find…
A Sportin’ We Will Go
“It better be packed,” I kept telling myself. “It better be packed.” Friday night — St. Valentine’s Day — I went to a Carolina Cobras Arena Football game with my ladyfriend. “It’s all for the paper,” I kept telling myself (and her). “I’m doing this for them.” After also grabbing a cursory hot dog and…
Spirit in the Sky
“This song is Copyrighted in US, under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of our’n, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we…
Things Fall Apart, Take Two
Thirty-six years ago, when satiric cartoonist Jules Feiffer cast his jaundiced eye on his native New York, envisioning a city engulfed in anarchy and chaos, he wasn’t prophesying a civilization besieged by suicidal terrorists, shoe bombers and madmen who could whip up bombs from fertilizer. No, his 1967 Obie Award winner, Little Murders, conjured up…
Visionary Recordings
Like many Americans, my first exposure to Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn (pronounced Coe-burn) came in 1979, when “Wondering Where the Lions Are” hit the FM airwaves. What was this? Mystical Christian evocations on FM rock radio? Great guitar playing, stunning lyrics and beautiful song construction? Who was this guy?”Wondering Where the Lions Are” was a…
Here Before You Know It
…the victorious futurist is not a prophet. He or she does not defeat the future but predicts the present. Futurism doesn’t mean predicting an awesome wonder; rather it means recognizing and describing a small apparent oddity that is destined to become a great commonplace. Taken from the 17th page of the introduction, this sentence is…
Music Menu
WEDNESDAY 2.19 Carlos Washington & The Amazing Giant People — Washington, a former US Marine Corps Band trumpeter, created the Amazing Giant People ensemble a few years back, after touring with Karl Denson. Musically, it’s a horn-heavy take on Afro-beat, neo-Cuban jazz and R&B, with a few sparking wires of powerline funk to set everything…
The Blotter
Rubba Dubb Dubb: A vacant house was the target of a very unusual robbery. An unknown thief somehow unlocked the front door and decided to take a claw-foot bathtub from the bathroom. The crook then attempted to take the cast iron fireplace frame from the fireplace in the den. The robber didn’t get very far…
Soundboard
Wednesday, Feb. 19 Barone’s Wine Room, Huntersville Scott Johnson Cajun Queen 7th Street Gator Band Comet Grill Anamcara Double Door Inn Quasimojo The Evening Muse Billy Jonas w/ Greg Klyma The Meeting House Restaurant John Alexander Trio Midtown 51 Wayne Capps Mojo Restaurant & Spirits Perpetual Groove w/ Daniel Hutchens Old Pineville Cafe Open mic…
News of the Weird
Heads up: Marcos Martin Parra, 18, hit the basketball court again in January, only six months after having his head nearly severed from his body in a traffic collision caused by a drunken driver. Parra’s skull had been ripped from the cervical spine and neck ligaments, leaving the head fragilely attached, only by the spinal…
Far from heaving
In last year’s Oscar race, Sean Penn’s much maligned performance in I Am Sam stood out like an elephant in a hen house, a prominent yet wholly undeserved nomination embedded in a sea of otherwise notable achievements. This year, you’d have to go way, way down the list, all the way to the Best Animated…
Film Clips
NEW RELEASES DAREDEVIL In the introduction to the 1975 compendium Son of Origins of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee admitted that of all the superheroes he ever created (including Spider-Man and the X-Men), his favorite was the blind crimefighter who practiced law by day as attorney Matt Murdock and donned the red tights by night as…
Waking to a new World
Johnny is a big, bulky man who, despite his imposing size, evinces a gentle disposition with an easy-going laugh. After a lifetime of working with his hands and back, he radiates an effortless strength and power. He can tell you all about getting up at 4am and working in the fields until sunset. He can…
Transit Company Profited From Own Mistakes
In 1997, transportation engineer David Beck made a shocking discovery. The 19,600-seat Boston Fleet Center was missing. The arena was supposed to be accounted for in engineering plans for the Big Dig, Boston’s now-infamous effort to bury 7.5 miles of its central artery roadway underground.Instead, the plans for the spot where the building was supposed…
Abortion Sleight of Hand
Last month, as abortion supporters and protestors marched on the Capitol, I was reminded of a hypothetical situation a Republican campaign consultant once posed to me over a beer. Suppose the most liberal members of the US Supreme Court traveled in one car to a judicial symposium and along the way, they perished in a…
The Greatest Love
A few weeks ago the nation celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and, not knowing that Americans traditionally celebrate the birthdays of judicial decisions, I forgot to even get Roe v. Wade a gift. Boy, was I embarrassed. It was disheartening to discover, however, that the only people who actually celebrated the anniversary of…
Letters
What’s The Motivation? I doubt that Tara Servatius truly believes her biased, sensationalist articles will bring sweeping social change, but I still can’t understand her motivation for writing “Taken For A Ride” (January 29). What reaction are we supposed to have to her discovery? Fire the lead consultant team? This is a bit different than…
