The Stride
Name of Kama Sutra Position: The Stride Getting into the position: The woman gets into position by either getting down on her hands and knees or hands and feet, whichever catches your fancy! The man then approaches from behind, lifts one of her ankles behind her and places it onto his shoulder. From this point,…
Word of the Week
Nincompoop: n. A stupid or silly person. Example? The most often used form of this word is “You nincompoop!” following an outrageous sentence, such as “Stop it, you’re getting the water wet.”
Judges gone wild
Lawrence “Big Red” Brooks did what any rational person would do when he heard a rumor that his girlfriend was cheating on him — he picked up a gun and went on a shooting spree. Over the course of two days in October 2005, Brooks, 25, and two friends drove the streets of his Charlotte…
Jan. 31 – Feb. 6, 2007
Aquarius The Waterbearer: (Jan. 20 — Feb 18) Your long history of rescuing behavior may have driven your personal energy into the ground at this point. You are simply running on fumes. The reality is that you cannot continue to carry another in a basket, lest you break your own back. An event is soon…
Snagglepuss turn in its Report
“Time is not a relevant factor in the world of Snagglepuss.” So says Snagglepuss member Scott Weaver, discussing the three-year wait for the Charlotte septet’s third record, The Sound Report. The same can be said for the band’s sound, a mix of 1980s new wave, Pylon-meets-the-B-52s’ southern rock, and jazz and punk. The band’s MySpace…
Barking at the Shins
The Shins’ Wincing the Night Away — deal, or no deal? Even before it was out, the latest from Sub Pop’s crown jewel was getting whacked around like a shuttlecock between warring factions of über-fans and their bullish expectations, lock-step traditionalists insisting on rock’s 1960s and ’70s zenith, and hipsters who wrote the Shins off…
Warming reds
Corkscrew
Sunshine rising
The last five years have been tough for Sunshine Anderson. Anderson’s the vocalist behind the newly released CD, Sunshine at Midnight, but you may remember her 2001 hit R&B anthem of women scorned “Heard it All Before” from her gold debut album, Your Woman. Despite the success of Your Woman, her record company (Atlantic) put…
The Other Soulsville
This is my love letter to Lewis Taylor, yes — a necessary parting shot on the eve of Black History Month. It’s also a prime opportunity to give his Stateside counterpart — N. Cack’s own great soul brer Greg Humphreys — some dap, too. Per Nas: Hip-Hop is dead. And with the passing of Soul…
Art is dangerous
Moodswing
Portrait in black & white
On March 13, 1960s’ classic girl group the Ronettes will be inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. While the Ronettes had its share of hits, including “Be My Baby,” “Walking in the Rain,” “Baby I Love You,” “The Best Part of Breaking Up,” and “I Can Hear Music,” unlike other the quintessential…
Circus maximus
Come one, come all! The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is coming to town! More than 100 human and animal performers will flip, swing, roll and herd into Cricket Arena tonight. They’ll be up to their tricks until Feb. 11. Audience members will have an amazing view of the acrobats, clowns, and creatures…
The Blotter
YOU MIGHT BE A DRUNK IF … : You have to steal a Breathalyzer. A person’s $70 Breathalyzer was stolen from his Volkswagen Jetta while it was parked outside a Freedom Drive club. ALERT DOUG HANKS: A $3,000 wrought-iron gate to the Confederate Veteran’s Memorial at Elmwood Cemetery was reported stolen on Martin Luther King…
Cheap Thrills
WINTER FILM SERIES This latest batch of classic films centers on breakthrough efforts by world-famous directors. The remainder of the schedule consists of Ridley Scott’s The Duellists (Feb. 5), 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…
Soulive returns
With their most recent drop, Breakout (Concord), retronuevo organ trio Soulive permanently left the jammy okey-doke in their stardust wake. The Brothers Evans and their ax compadre Eric Krasno have finally reconstructed a groove-heavy blend of jazz for post-soul, post-hip audiences. Be sure to bring your shake and boogie shoes when these youngbloods (and hopefully,…
Circus ruckus
The Humane Society of the United States wants people to avoid circuses that use wild animals in their performances — such as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, according to a press release. Their suit, filed six years ago with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Animal Welfare Institute,…
Clouds of heaven
You’d never know it, but Charlotte is a musical hotbed of great historical and cultural significance. First off, Charlotte’s been a major musical recording center since the 1920s when the first bluegrass recordings were made here. Another area of our pre-eminence is in Gospel recordings. Back in the 1930s, vocal groups like the Heavenly Gospel…
New kid
Eem hayita bimdeenah zarah … If you were ever transplanted into a strange land, trying to acclimate yourself among the people who were born there, everything they tried to tell you would sound like gibberish. Children’s Theatre of Charlotte will be introducing its audiences to that same queasy feeling of disorientation with New Kid at…
Dee Grano’s Top Five
Culture Surfing
A tortured logic
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Bravo! Brahms
Viviane Hagner makes her Charlotte debut as the guest soloist in tonight’s Bravo Brahms with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. The Munich native leads off the musicmaking at Belk Theater as we hear Johannes’ Violin Concerto for the first time in nearly seven years. Then after intermission, maestro Christof Perick returns to the podium with Brahms’…
Pass it on
Hot Linx
Capsule reviews of recently released movies
Current Releases BABEL Babel arrives courtesy of director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga, the same team that gave us 21 Grams and Amores Perros. Like their past efforts, this is a gloom-and-doom dissection of society, whipping between various characters and their interconnected storylines. Certainly, this is the duo’s most ambitious undertaking, yet for…
HOI’s swan song
Ice skating is really harder than it looks. Not everyone can aspire to be Michelle Kwan. But of course, you’re going to be stubborn and try to do it anyway. In that case, check out WBT Holiday on Ice at the Green Uptown, Charlotte’s only outdoor ice-skating rink. Today is the last day it’s open…
Hawking’s warning
Guest Column
View From The Couch
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (2006). Michel Gondry previously helmed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, yet his latest picture (which he both wrote and directed) is so out there that it makes that Charlie Kaufman-penned movie seem as streamlined as Bambi by comparison. With its dialogue alternately spoken in English, French and Spanish, this oddity…
Happy Feet + Mozart = Classical Savion
In Classical Savion, Savion Glover unites the improvisational elements of the jazz tap tradition with the structured themes of classical music. Backed by a string ensemble, Glover taps through pieces ranging from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to Bach’s Brandenburg concertos. He concludes the performance with a piece that features his jazz quartet, The Otherz, redefining what…
Do you have any idea who I am?
It’s normally not my policy to piss off drunk people, but at Sundance everyone is drunk so it’s not like I could help it. That, coupled with the fact that I’m a former waitress myself, which makes me think I can relate to the labors of the Park City service industry during the insufferable invasion…
Hannah Dennis
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Take Action! Tour
The best way to get someone’s attention is to turn up the music as loud as possible, and the Take Action Tour — A Hardcore Good Cause does just that. In its sixth year, this hardcore and pop punk concert, complete with artists like Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Emery and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, is…
Liver for dinner
The great issues of modern life don’t get an intense workout in Neil Simon’s coming-of-age comedy, Brighton Beach Memoirs. Yet unlike the bulk of Simon’s earlier work, whose First Commandment seems to be “Thou shalt keep them laughing,” real-world problems and serious personal dilemmas frequently intermingle with the deft situational set-ups and Doc’s sleek one-liners.…
Mind your own business
Boomer With Attitude
Why is Pakistan’s government ticked off at the Bush administration?
A couple of weeks ago, John Negroponte caused a major diplomatic stink between the United States and Pakistan. He did it by doing the most undiplomatic thing an American government official could do to Pakistan, short of opening a HoneyBaked Ham franchise in Islamabad or spray-painting “cricket is 4 fags” on the presidential palace. John…
We Heart …
Things CL loves about the Q.C. Latta Plantation. Sure, there’s the farmhouse (open for tours), but we’re more interested in the outdoor offerings: hiking, horseback riding, picnicking, and just plain ol’ scenery-gazing. (5226 Sample Road, Huntersville) — Matt Brunson, film editor Creation Restaurant. Great food! The folks there are so friendly when you walk in…
Super Bowl chaat
Kitchen Witch
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I am a student at a culinary school. I live on campus and work at the front desk as a work study. During the day, a school staff member sits at the desk and security officers come in at night. Last week I overheard the front desk worker complaining about the night…
Changes in latitude
By 7 p.m. on a Saturday night, the 140-seat Lempira Restaurant was rocking. A server selected another song on the jukebox: Out poured the melodious voice of a woman declaring her heart for, um, I am not sure for whom. No one was speaking — or singing — English. Tables were crowded with families, couples,…
Mic check
Maybe hip-hop is dead. By the time I got over my New Year’s Eve hangover, “Hip Hop is Dead,” the title track to Nas’ December release had already dropped from 41 to 78 on the Billboard Hot 100. By the time you read this, it may have dropped all the way off of the charts.…
Talking ‘Ish’ with …
Talking Ish
Letters to the Editor
Content on this page is in response to Tara Servatius’ story “Pimps Slapped!” published Jan. 24. No Escape Clause Let’s not pretend in this era of women’s rights that these women had no other choice in life, despite the fact that they may have been limited and not as financially rewarding. Pimps don’t go knocking…
We are the world
When did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences turn into the United Nations? The folks who hand out those golden Oscars have always been fairly friendly to the world that exists outside U.S. borders, sometimes to a fault (just ask Roberto Benigni). But this year, perhaps in a subconscious repudiation of all the…
