TV Tunes
Local food enthusiasts also into local music would do well to check out Food Nation with Bobby Flay February 1 at 7pm and February 2 at 5pm. The Robin Rogers Band is featured on the program, shot in and around Charlotte last fall. For more information, check out www.robinrogers.com or foodnetwork.com. The Chad Lawson Trio…
Music Menu
THURSDAY 1.30 Brian Doyle Band — Charlotte rocker lays out a blues-tinged mellow and acoustic jam. His latest record, Falling Forward, is rocking in places and reflective in others, all the while spinning straight up rock & roll. The Southern edge comes across in a couple of tracks, while the blues come on thick in…
Soundboard
Wednesday, Jan. 29 Barone’s Wine Room, Huntersville Amy Broome Cajun Queen 7th Street Gator Band Double Door Inn Filmschool w/ The Houston Brothers The Meeting House Restaurant John Alexander Trio Midtown 51 Dialed-In Mojo Restaurant & Spirits Soul Station Neighborhood Theatre Buckwheat Zydeco w/ Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas Old Pineville Cafe Open mic…
The Scene At Sundance
The weather was unusually warm, which was unfortunate for the skiers but perfect for navigating one’s way through the multiple screenings and parties at the 17th annual Sundance Film Festival. More than 20,000 people flocked to Park City, Utah, for the 11-day event. It wasn’t unusual to hear about simultaneous films, panels, parties and other…
Lights Out
DARKNESS FALLS DIRECTED BY Jonathan Liebesman STARS Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield Isn’t it high time that moviegoing misdemeanors were treated like federal crimes? Talking incessantly during a feature would result in a $200 fine. Folks who fail to turn off their cell phones before the picture begins would be imprisoned for up to three years…
See & Do
JAN 29, WEDNESDAY Opening tonight at Spirit Square is Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte’s production of The Waiting Room. This off-Broadway award winner is a contemporary comedy set in a doctor’s, uh, waiting room. Showtimes are 7:30pm on Wednesday and Thursday and 8pm on Friday and Saturday. There’ll be a matinee at 2pm on February 16,…
Film Clips
NEW RELEASES MAX A terrific premise receives only so-so treatment in this fictional yarn that details the strained relationship between a young Adolph Hitler and a Jewish art dealer. John Cusack stars as Max Rothman, a one-armed World War I vet running a successful art gallery in Munich right after the close of the war.…
Stargazer
For All Signs The Chinese New Year begins its two week celebration on February 1. In China, astrology has always been moon oriented. The New Year always begins on the second new moon following the winter solstice. The coming year is the Chinese year of the Goat, which emphasizes security and suggests economic improvements. Aries…
Taken For A Ride?
The last time two of the consultants overseeing Mecklenburg County’s light rail and mass transit plan worked on a large-scale project together, they were responsible for an 80-foot sinkhole, thousands of lawsuits totaling over $1 billion, and a trail of fraud and corruption so long that even the FBI couldn’t untangle it. Now they’re advising…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I have been using these address labels that the Humane Society sent me, even though I’ve never made a donation. A co-worker and I started talking about it, and he thinks this is a major karmic no-no. I disagreed at first because they were sent to me unsolicited. But now I’m worried…
Days of Hope and Courage
On January 31 and February 1, the Levine Museum of the New South will sponsor a Charlotte and Rock Hill Sit-in Reunion, commemorating the civil rights protests of 1960 and “61. Many historians say the demonstrations in Charlotte and Rock Hill played important roles in the evolution of the movement, part of a dramatic escalation…
CL’s 16th Annual Charlotte Theater Award Nominations
Amid the swirling snows, there came a voice. There was a midnight journey halfway around the world to the Desert of Sin, best known for its sacred peak, Mount Sinai.Then the yearly bone-chilling climb to the top of the mountain. Two huge tablets were hewn from the mountain’s granite. Thunder crashed down from the heavens…
Door Hanger Program Won’t Flush
Humpy Wheeler and his wife didn’t find out about the 2.5 million gallon raw sewage spill that passed by their front yard last Saturday until they read about it in the paper. The Lowe’s Motor Speedway president and his family live on a 37-acre property that fronts on the mouth of Mountain Island Lake cove.”He…
The Pleasure Principle
Not all art is meant to challenge us with symbolism, political metaphor or complicated narrative. Works of art play many roles, and one of those is simply to provide pleasure — pleasure for the viewer and, I might add, pleasure for the artist.Pleasure Places, a new exhibit at Center of the Earth Gallery, is no…
Letters
Such Nonsense I read with utter disbelief at the article “Out of the Water” (January 22). I don’t know who I’m more upset at, the misinformed “Christian” group, or Creative Loafing for actually printing such a backward story. But, since you did publish it I must say it’s been a long time since I’ve heard…
Selfishly Selfless
The Samaritan By Richard Price (Walker & Co., 304 pages, $28) Richard Price’s new novel, Samaritan, succeeds in bringing fresh meaning to the phrase “give till it hurts.” In this story, every gift comes with strings attached. And when the main protagonist gives, everybody hurts — sadly, that includes the reader, who suffers the unbearable…
What? A Sewage Problem?
I’ve never been one to say “I told you so,” but this time I just can’t resist. It now appears that the sewage spill problem that Mecklenburg County officially doesn’t have — the one Creative Loafing was publicly vilified by county officials for writing about last year — is not only real, but getting worse.According…
Arts Agenda
Classical Music Antares Quartet Formed in 1996 in New Haven (CT), as the Elm City Ensemble, Antares draws on a vast and colorful repertoire for the piano-clarinet quartet formation, as well as various trio permutations. Their programs span the traditional eras of classical music from the early 18th through the 19th and 20th centuries. Sat.,…
Gridiron Gyrations
Ah, January. Snow is on the ground, and it’s time for the beginning of the pro football season. What’s that? You say that January signals the end of the pro football season? Why, then you have yet to check out the Carolina Cobras, Charlotte’s newest pro sports franchise. Saturday, the Arena Football Cobras held their…
Kissing Cousins
Cousin James Café 3900 Wilkinson Blvd. 704-399-9947. Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11:30am – 11pm. Same menu all day. Lunch specials served until 3pm. MC, Visa. Catering. Take out. Baked, fried, smothered or barbecued are cooking terms used in the Southern Country kitchen. Depending upon where you have lived, you might label this cuisine as either “Soul Food”…
The Blotter
Oranges, Not From Concentrate: A local business was the target the other night of a vandalistic fruiting. A business worker stated that oranges had been thrown at the establishment, smashing two conference room windows in the process. Penny For Your Thoughts: A local woman returned home early one evening to find that her apartment had…
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.…
News of the Weird
PERSONALITY PLUS: A Montana district judge ruled in January that for a homicide suspect with apparent multiple personalities, exercise of a Miranda right by one of them carries over to all the others. Tessa Haley lawyered up when police sought to question her about the stabbing death of her roommate, and though police questioning ceased,…
That’s Amore
This time of year blooms with romance. And those Italians guys across the pond sure do have a handle on that topic. Their beautiful, rolling hills of vineyards, relaxed way of life and certainly their fabulous wines reflect the natural dedication Italians have to amore. It starts with the cool names that roll off the…
Ready For Liftoff
The name’s a bit of a misnomer. One instinctively thinks two things when a band has “pop” in their name. Either said band is a prefab construction made by some fatcat svengali like Lou Pearlman, or else a collection of import-only vinyl fetishists with hooks-a-plenty and a skewed-older fanbase.Neither of which really explains Poprocket’s sound.…
