Stargazer
CANCER The Crab (June 21 — July 21) Because you are moon ruled, the image of woman issue described in the lead paragraph will play a prominent role now. Overall, this is a dramatic week of highs and lows. Give attention to what your mind is doing. Concentrated thoughts can become manifest in our lives.…
Cheap Thrills
4TH SATURDAYS UPTOWN Billed as “A Cultural Exchange & Global Marketplace,” this free event boasts something for everyone. Shopping for the shopaholics, entertainment for the perpetually bored, food for everybody and peace for the single moms in the form of a children’s village (hallelujah!). It’s ongoing, on the fourth Saturday of every month from 10am-5pm…
Nonny’s Two Mommies
Book Review
Building Lust
Super creative architecture really rocks my world. I love Frank Gehry, but here are some others whose innovative work in China and elsewhere has me daydreaming of travel again. Beijing in 2008, anyone? PTW Architects www.arcspace.com/architects/ptw Steven Holl www.stevenholl.com Rem Koolhaas www.oma.nl Paul Andreu www.dupont.com/safetyglass/lgn/stories/3201.html Herzog & de Meuron www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3756
Film Clips
New Releases A SCANNER DARKLY Once again employing the rotoscoping process that he used in 2001’s Waking Life (basically, filming in live-action and then tracing over the images), writer-director Richard Linklater this time unleashes the technique on Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel — a match made in hallucinatory heaven. Seven years from now, 20 percent…
In the Bag
CORKSCREW
The Greatest Generation Lays an Egg
Arts Agenda 36Books 4036
Flavor Injection
Kitchen Witch
Surfing for Scripts
Rockingham hasn’t been known for much since NASCAR left town two years ago. To outsiders, the quiet town 70 miles east of Charlotte functions mostly as a pit stop on the way to Myrtle Beach. But two or three years ago, the residents had in their midst a medical record-setter. The 10,000-population town was home…
Big Mack Attack
It’s hard to say exactly when vintage funk/soul CD anthologies took off. Anybody remember that terrific Blaxploitation series out of the UK from the mid/late ’90s? Regardless, among archivally minded record labels, none has been more diligent and thorough of late than Chicago’s Numero label which, while dipping into areas other than R&B (notably compilations…
Pho Shizzle
“See how that one beer bottle has moved towards the end of the bar shelf?” our server — who turned out to restaurateur Lian Gabriel — pointed out. “For a long time we thought the place was haunted — you know, because of the cemetery being right beside the shopping center.” She laughed and added,…
Keep Texas Beautiful
“Mr. Bojangles,” Jerry Jeff Walker’s most famous song, is about a man waking up in a New Orleans jail in 1968 so “down and out” that a fellow inmate tries to cheer him up, by tap dancing. The old street performer tells his tattered story, in descending melodic lines that jump up and turn around,…
The Politics of Horror
Film Clips 32Films In A Flash 3432
Influence Peddlers
Playing the “influences” card in interviews with musicians rarely yield results. Not just because some artists aren’t willing to divulge who influenced their music but because when confronted with the question most feel overwhelmed. Trying to condense all the music that’s gone into making them who they are, let alone what specifically influenced their music-making,…
Rocking Charlotte, Latin Style
Music may be the universal language, but many in this country won’t listen if they can’t understand the lyrics. A group of Charlotte-based musicians are out to change all that with Carlotan Rock, an annual Latin rock festival that attempts to introduce a wide range of music in Spanish to Charlotte and beyond. The members…
Love’s Hangover
Thug-love duets of the recent decade’s summer seasons — the latest/hottest being Wyclef & Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” and “So What” from Ciara & Field Mob — just won’t cut it in dire times. But Outlaw country iterations of same will. So y’all know Kris Kristofferson’s Live From Austin TX (New West; ***1/2) is just…
Fight for Funding
Don’t Panic 22Citizen Servatius 23Boomer with Attitude 2424
Ninety-nine Percent Delusional
Boomer With Attitude
Potty Party
Urban Explorer
Knowing NoDa
Brother with a Pen
Idol Worship
It all started back in the early ’90s when a little group called Jodeci released Forever My Lady. From then on, Charlotte was put on the map as a place that was deep with talent. Since then, the city has had the pleasure of being home to Missy Elliott (back when she was part of…
Black List
North Carolina State House Speaker Jim Black is at it again, and so are his financial backers. Despite an ever expanding list of ethically shady scandals and legally murky moves attributed to Black, despite a grand jury that seems to be investigating and in some cases indicting everyone associated with him, Charlotte’s big money people…
See & Do
Friday, July 14 The founder of the Art of Living Foundation, HH Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, will be in Charlotte to teach his unique meditation and stress reduction techniques. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has taught his breathing techniques, derived from ancient elements of yoga and ayurveda, to people all over the globe. Sri Sri’s main…
School Daze
Citizen Servatius
What’s the status of the Taliban?
Like it still is for pimps, it used to be hard out there for a Taliban. After the United States’ Operation Enduring Freedom drove them from power in Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban appeared to be a spent force. Much of their leadership was killed or captured, while most of the rest were forced into…
The Blotter
Extreme Stalking: A 47-year-old woman reported that a man followed her from her home to her work on eight separate occasions. He has also followed her to the grocery store and the bank. The woman stated she moved to Charlotte in October of 2005 from Brooklyn, NY, where the same man stalked her. She does…
Honor System
Moodswing
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I live in a house with four roommates (college situation). We are all good friends even though there has been some drama in the past. Two of the housemates used to date, but they are both seeing other people now. We are all one big happy family — or so I thought.…
