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The Bull
Name of Kama Sutra Position: The Bull Getting into the position: The man lies flat on his back with his legs stretched out. The woman sits on him facing away and grasping his feet. Basically, this is a reverse cowgirl with grip handles. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate position…
Reconstruction proclamation
Hey, Grey Lady! Your beard is showing. My recent return to Yankeeland was heralded by two significant things: a misbegotten black rock article by Jessica Pressler in the Sunday Style section of the New York Times and myriad posters for “New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War,” part of a series of Northern slavery-related…
Black Light Magic
It’s a candy-colored, neon-bright cornucopia of comedy and magic — and for the first time, Omimeo Mime Theatre’s Black Light Magic is at ImaginOn. Performances begin tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the intimate Wachovia Playhouse. Lucky us. Everybody is close to the action as Hardin Minor, Eddie Williams, and Lazaro Memije reprise their 2001 Halloween…
Five o’clock eyeshadow
Advice Goddess
Homeey Montana’s top 10
Homeey Montana is a local hip-hop artist who’s had the opportunity to perform at the Atrium in Atlanta for the album release party of Tupac Shakur in 1997, at the Michael Jackson Dance Studio in Japan, and at Fire & Ice and Studio 74 here in Charlotte. “Right now I want to bring myself and…
Emergence-see!
If you thought poetry slammin’ was a tough workout for poet-gladiators competing for glory, wait till you see Daniel Beaty, winner of the 2004 National Redemption Slam as he performs at McGlohon Theatre. The Nuyorican Poets Café ace does it all solo, portraying a cast of 40 characters in Emergence-SEE! Beaty’s one-man slam poetry, multi-character…
Crunchy
Hot Linx
Black goes down
Citizen Servatius
Tamia
Remember back in 1995 when Tamia “Put A Move On [Your] Heart,” then declared that she was “So Into You” because she was looking to fill the vacancy left by the “Stranger In [Her] House”? I talked with Tamia recently about her new album Between Friends: What was the process like making this album compared…
The Blotter
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE: A man was arrested at a Johnston Road grocery store after police were told he attempted to steal a Valentine’s Day card, a pack of Orbit spearmint gum, a paring knife and a $6.95 box of Lifestyles condoms. AND (S)HE DIDN’T EVEN PAY FOR DINNER: A woman and another person…
Film Clips
New Releases BREACH Though lacking the breadth and complexity of this past winter’s The Good Shepherd, Breach is another dour cloak and dagger thriller set within the corridors of one of America’s omniscient law enforcement agencies. In this case, it’s the FBI, and the subject is the true-life saga of the apprehension of agent Robert…
CIAA 2007
It’s C-I time, ya’ll! That’s right. Uptown dwellers, beware, because that pride of South is back for its second installment of parties, reunions, and above all, steppin’. The CIAA 2007 Basketball Tournament rolls into town today beginning with the Women’s tourney at 3 p.m. The usual events will be in store once again. Coca-Cola presents…
Stargazer
Pisces The Fish: (Feb. 18 – March 19) It is important to give attention to where you may be undermining yourself. The consequences are showing, so it is probably already in your awareness. On another level you may be experiencing the desire to shock those who think they know you. Be careful. For All Signs:…
View From The Couch
BICYCLE THIEVES (1948). More commonly known in the United States under the title The Bicycle Thief, the Italian import Ladri di Biciclette is a masterpiece by any name. It’s not hyperbole to flatly state that this is one of the all-time greats in the annals of cinema; on my own list, only Ingmar Bergman’s The…
NODA Film Festival
One New Wave movement included Blondie and The Police. The earlier New Wave movement included, in the words of director Jean-Luc Godard, “a girl and a gun.” That would be the French New Wave, the explosive and influential cinematic movement that sprang forth as a direct rejection of the more tame and traditional motion pictures…
Word of the Week
Termagant: n. A scolding, shrewish woman. Example? Terminator’s got nothing on my mom; she’s a termagant.
Word play
Books
Lindsay Mac
Classically trained Bostonian cellist and singer/songwriter Lindsay Mac has set aside the traditional bow used to play a cello and now strums and plucks the behemoth as if it were a guitar, even strapping it around her torso with a sturdy guitar belt. She creates folk-pop laced with jazz played by a troubadour telling breathy…
Near-death experience
Moodswing
What’s the difference?
A reader named Melissa, who moved to Charlotte about a year ago, e-mailed us recently about something that puzzled her: “What’s the difference between the City Council and the County Commission? Why isn’t there just one local group of lawmakers?” I wrote back, explaining that in the past, various attempts have been made to unify…
Fill the Heart Shaped Cup
Alpha Pup Musician and producer Carlos Niño hails from Los Angeles’ fertile alternative scene, which often treats hip-hop and soul as a new form of free jazz. His projects (Hu Vibrational, the Life Force Trio, Ammoncontact and Build an Ark) escape easy genre classification. Fill the Heart Shaped Cup, made with composer Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, celebrates…
We Heart
Movies at the Mint. In the summer, you can watch old movies in the evening on the lawn of the Mint Museum of Art and have a picnic. Such a cute date! (730 Randolph Road) — Maria Fisichello, intern If you’re looking for great taste in a cute place, try Shane’s Rib Shack, located at…
What’s going down at CIAA
You really want to know what the CIAA is? Officially, it’s the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association. But around the way, C-I is, in all actuality, “Party Central” — emphasized by its association with historically black colleges and universities (aka HBCUs). From Sunday, Feb. 25, through Sunday, March 4, Charlotte will be the place to see…
Countrypolitan Favorites
Yep Roc After celebrating 20 years of chicken flingin,’ toe-suckin’ geek rock, Chapel Hills’ Southern Culture on the Skids has forsaken original music for a cover album. Countrypolitan Favorites is the band’s twisted take on rock and country classics. It’s strange to hear a female lead on the gritty CCR/Fogarty classic “Tombstone Shadow”, stranger still…
Ketch
Profile
Wolf as underdog
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Make History
French Kiss On the group’s second full-length, Detroit area’s Thunderbirds are Now! is guitarist/vocalist Ryan Allen, keyboardist/sample-triggerist/vocalist Scott Allen, drummer Matt Rickle and bassist Julian Wettlin. And the Thunderbirds are … now surprisingly more paced. Toned down are the spazztastic banshee blurts as the band has replaced some strident angularities for vaguely politico agendas. Taking…
Things to do in Charlotte for $5
WINTER FILM SERIES This latest batch of classic films centers on breakthrough efforts by world-famous directors. The remainder of the schedule consists of Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express (Feb. 26), Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (March 5) and Woody Allen’s Take the Money and Run (March 19). All films will be screened at 7 p.m. in…
Pig pickings
Mouthful
Going postal
Local Theater Upstaged I can appreciate Perry Tannenbaum’s review of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s productions in Davidson and even his review for the symphony (“The Prom’s The Thing,” Feb. 14), but I can’t believe he devoted a measly square inch of print to reviewing local theater productions in Charlotte — specifically less than six sentences…
Blown away
For much of his life, Alexander “Sasha” Ehrenburg dodged bullets and dreaded the knock of the police at his door. When he was just 4, Ehrenburg, his mother and his baby brother ran from the Nazis, pressing their bodies flat against the grass on the side of the road as German planes attacked from above.…
The Plug: Shocking real-life writing seminar
Make 2007 your year of writing dangerously! Enroll in the “Shocking Real-Life Writing Seminar” hosted by CL columnist, Tonight Show guest and author of two top-selling memoirs Hollis Gillespie. That’s right, now is the time to write your book and turn your dirt into dough. Go to www.hollisgillespie.com/seminar.htm to book your reservation — and check…
Saxin’ bluegrass
Somewhere in the high and lonesome range, carved in stone on of the side of bluegrass mountain is the commandment, “Thou shalt have no horns in Bluegrass.” For saxophonist Bill Evans, that commandment was made to be broken. “I’ve never had boundaries on anything I’ve ever played,” the former Miles Davis sideman says. Bluegrass boundaries…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I read with great interest the letter from “All Mixed Up,” the husband who was thinking about leaving his wife and wanted to know how to avoid bad karma for doing so. I was in a similar situation myself just last year. My husband of six years started seeing a woman in…
Plethora of plays
As the Royal Shakespeare Company finished its amazing promenades at Davidson College, the march of theater continued its winter surge in the Queen City. The Belk and the McGlohon hosted touring actors and Star Wars freaks, CP and Theatre Charlotte opened new homegrown fare, and two of the season’s most intriguing productions lingered on at…
Pappas and Daddy’s
Last week I opted to watch the big game … as in the Super Bowl of Carolina basketball — Duke vs. UNC — at Daddy’s Sports Bar, the newest edition to uptown’s nightlife roster (as if Charlotte needs another sports bar). Daddy’s, conveniently located a block away from Stool Pigeons (their competitor), was formerly Twist,…
Chow baby
Sizing up this decade of O’s thus far, Charlotte has traded mac and cheese for pasta, please. Recruiting Italian restaurants must be the new edict among strip mall leasing agents. Not that this is a bad idea, mind you. Charlotte has already gone Euro with neighborhoods throughout the town suddenly Francofied. Why shouldn’t our stomachs…
Power to the people
Corkscrew
Marty’s moment
When it comes to the Oscars, we can handle a two-way race. Brokeback Mountain vs. Crash. Saving Private Ryan vs. Shakespeare In Love. The Aviator vs. Million Dollar Baby. But this notion of a three-way race — that’s a tough one to grasp. Yet that’s the scenario that has unfolded in this year’s contest, a…
Blue-eyed soul man
Maybe you’ve misdialed. The voice on the phone sounds like Delbert McClinton’s hoarse rasp, honed during a lifetime of working through sweaty sets of soul and R&B. Eric Lindell has heard it before. “Yeah, you get all that stuff. I get Delbert stuff, and Chris (Black Crowes’ Robinson). I guess it just boils down to…
Gettin’ MADD about HIV/AIDS
No Limit Larry & The Morning Madhouse College Tour will kick off at the Ratskellar on the campus of UNC-Charlotte today from 5:30-7:30 p.m.; lots of awareness boosting entertainment to help college students gain knowledge about HIV/AIDS and promote abstinence and the importance of safe sex. The show will include a step-show, games, music, and…
