Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2005

Jul 27 - Aug 2, 2005 / Vol. 19 / No. 21

Hot Linxan unamerican girl

I’ve got subversive political actions and cultural resistance on the brain this week, but I’m talkin’ Adbusters, not Watergate. Guerrilla tactics, by the people, for the people. Check out these hot linx: Adbusters www.adbusters.org Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping www.revbilly.com Guerrilla Girls www.guerrillagirls.com The Yes Men www.theyesmen.org Unamerican www.unamerican.com

Little Shiva

Real Life Top 5: Andy Kastanas

Real Life Top 5 Andy Kastanas Andy Kastanas is a DJ, Billboard Dance Chart reporter, club owner and restaurateur. When he’s not spinning records he’s watching silent movies and cooking. He thinks Sergio Leone is a god. Andy wouldn’t make a big deal of it here, but we will: If it weren’t for his creative…

My Toxic Life: Part II

Chemo affects every individual in slightly different ways. Some lose their appetite. Others do not. For me, food has recently become a replacement for chain-smoking. I eat constantly now. The first week of treatment suppressed my hunger but that quickly changed. Since my treatment began I have gained ten pounds. What’s more is that not…

Jason Hatcher

Sit & SpinDuchess of Coolsville: An AnthologyRústicoLa ForêtThere’s a Fire

She burst onto the scene in the late 70s with a beret and a new, Beat-inspired jazzy take on the singer/songwriter idiom. In the years hence, Rickie Lee Jones has ranged from brilliant to misguided. She’s been unable to either entrench herself in stardom or, like Joni Mitchell, carve out a niche as an influential…

CL Recommends

The Secret Man by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster hardback). Although Woodward rushed to complete this book after the revelation that Mark Felt, former No. 2 man at the FBI, was Deep Throat, it doesn’t have the feel of a thrown-together work. Woodward does a great job describing his troubled relationship with Felt which he…

Iraq War Vets Still Underserved

The story below is a follow-up to “Soldier’s Heart,” an article by freelance reporter Dan Frosch, which CL published in January. That story cast a critical eye on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ ability to properly treat Iraq War veterans with serious psychological problems, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. More than any other war in US…

Dan Frosch

A Purr-fect Ending

CP Summer Theatre certainly wasn’t waxing nostalgic when it tabbed Cats for its final mainstage musical at Pease Auditorium. In its 32 seasons on Elizabeth Avenue, the company had never performed Andrew Lloyd Webber’s megahit. And Charlotte’s first homegrown production of Cats would have seemed like an obvious choice for unveiling CPCC’s new theater facility…

Perry Tannenbaum

Redford, the Rockies and All Expenses Paid? I’m there

When you think of Robert Redford, Al Gore and global warming, what other public figure naturally comes to mind? Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, maybe? Unlikely as it may seem, McCrory was a speaker earlier this month at Redford’s Sundance Summit on combating global warming. McCrory says he was one of only a few Republicans invited…

Charlotte Knights in mid-season

The Charlotte Knights continue their 2005 season this week as they take on the Richmond Braves on July 30, 7:15pm and July 31, 2:15pm. They battle the Columbus Clippers on August 2-3, 7:15pm. The games take place at Knights Stadium in Fort Mill, SC. It’s just south of the border from Charlotte. Pull the kids…

Hollywood gets zapped

By nick gillespie How to explain the stench of impending doom emanating from Hollywood? It’s not the release of The Dukes of Hazzard. It’s Tinseltown’s bad B.O. and Shrek-ugly DVD sales. Recent ticket sales might have finally broken a 19-week slump every bit as uncomfortable as the phallic antenna display at the heart of the…

Girls Get Techno-boost

The Girl Scouts Hornets’ Nest Council of Charlotte, NC, received a research grant from the National Science Foundation and used the money to create a new program called Girls Are I.T. The heart of the project is a big purple school schoolbus that’s been turned into a mobile technology classroom. It’s outfitted with 12 stations…

Sam Boykin

The Blotter

was it something he said?: A man asked an acquaintance for a ride. As he was being dropped off, he reached into his wallet and offered his acquaintance $20 for the nice gesture. Before he could hand over the money, though, the driver punched him in the face, took his $20 and kicked him out…

Sam Boykin

Top Charlotte Urban Myths:

1. John Boy once lost a finger while cooking but went ahead and deep fried it and served it anyway. 2. Mayor McCrory has a dog that has killed three mailmen in the past three years. 3. The folks who work at Price’s Chicken Coop all live and work together there 24 hours a day.…

Karma Cleanser

Karma Cleanser Dear Karma Cleanser: It’s been raining all summer and I am sick of it. Two of my dear friends moved away in the springtime and I have been depressed ever since. I sometimes think that my depression is affecting the weather. I am sick of my job and sick of the people who…

--Rain Man

WINDOW DRESSING & working girls

City government has been making a lot of noise and patting itself on the back for its anti-prostitution campaign in an area off Wilkinson Boulevard. In May the police dramatically declared the area a Prostitution Exclusion Zone, meaning that since June 1, prostitutes and johns arrested in the PEZ are barred from re-entering the neighborhood.…

Stargazer

Leo The Lion (July 22 — Aug. 22) It may be hard to move forward this week, due to challenges concerning career, reputation, and damage done by a not-so-real friend. Use special caution and listen to your body. If it says “don’t,” then pay attention and stop immediately. For All Signs The cosmos presents several…

Vivian Carol

WHO LIKES EASLEY’s LICENSE POLICY?

I just can’t write it enough times. Last fall, during the election debates, North Carolina Governor Mike Easley looked straight into the camera and flat out lied. It was the biggest whopper I’ve ever heard a politician tell, and the sheer audacity of it hit me like a wet dish rag across the face. When…

Film Clips

Film ClipsNew Releases BAD NEWS BEARS Hollywood’s penchant for recycling continues with Bad News Bears, an update whose most surprising feature is that it’s directed by Richard Linklater. Linklater, coming off an Oscar nomination for co-writing Before Sunset and a box office hit with School of Rock, has basically fashioned an offshoot of Bad Santa…

Matt Brunson

LettersLand of the Free

Seven Days Later I LOVED LOVED LOVED your cover story “28 Months Later” (by John Grooms, July 20). I am so tired of incoherent right-wingers blindly towing the party line. Thank you for bitch-slapping Pat McCrory, Sue Myrick and Sean Hannity. — David Moore, Charlotte “28 Months Later” was one of the funniest, in a…

View From The Couch

THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY (1954) / ISLAND IN THE SKY (1953). Wow, what a treat for movie lovers — the long-awaited rediscovery of a decades-old classic. The High and the Mighty was a huge hit in its day, yet after a few TV airings and an extremely limited home video release (both more than…

All Your Lovely Crap

I’m thinking about breaking into Lary’s place again today, maybe this time through the roof, which I hear has a gaping hole in it. I actually have a key, but old habits die hard. Also, I’m pretty sure he promised not to shoot at me anymore, or at least he seemed kind of quasi-sorry for…

Chew on ThisThe World According to GORP

Although a camping vacation would be a fate worse than death for those who prefer to spend their leisure time within walking distance of indoor plumbing, many Americans do enjoy roughing it out in the wild. The USACamping.com website lists 599 US campsites in its directory (six in North Carolina), and KOA (Kampgrounds of America)…

Linda Vespa

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