Blogaroo – Sunday/Wrapup
I’m back in the Charlotte area the day after the final shows of Bonnaroo. It feels like I was there for weeks, but in some ways I miss it. Being able to see so many incredible bands in one location and get concert photography experience in so many different kinds of venues was a great…
Blogaroo – Saturday
With photo editing software on the fritz, pictures will have to wait until later — or they’ll show up in print on June 27 for a special photo page from the festival. First, I’d like to send thoughts to the family of Cody Conover of Kentucky. The 25-year-old died at the festival — no cause…
Blogaroo – Friday
We were told early on Friday that, once again, Bonnaroo is sold out – 80,000 people. Therefore, on this weekend, Manchester becomes the sixth largest city in Tennessee. While the numbers don’t compute as you wander around the site during the day, it was clearly evident at last night’s main stage. The day started off…
Well, Hello Dolly
The Deal: The Davidson Community Players presents Hello Dolly! in the Duke Performance Hall at Davidson College. A musical theater performance about matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, who travels one day from Yonkers to New York back to Yonkers again on a journey filled with harmonious songs, disruption of the peace, and finally, new found love.…
Blogaroo – Thursday
Helicopters, portajohns, sunburns, beer, water, pot, tents, bad cell phone service – they all go hand-in-hand with Bonnaroo, it seems. The first day started at around 5 p.m. for me as I pulled in to my camping site – in the middle of a field – and pitched a tent. After a celebratory beer after…
Gary’s Anatomy
The Deal: Real human bodies on display at Body Worlds, the new anatomy exhibit at Discovery Place. This is intense. It’s like Biology class, except way more hardcore. Basically, picture a body without its skin, with all (yes, ALL) of its inside parts expertly preserved. Oh, I should mention there’s a horse, too. The Good:…
It’s A MAD World
As a diehard fan of MAD magazine during its heyday, I was elated to see that one of the extra features included in the new two-disc special edition DVD of the 1966 epic The Sand Pebbles was a reproduction of the MAD satire (“The Sam Pebbles”) that the venerable rag printed after the film’s original…
The Lovely Lady in Control
Name of Kama Sutra Position: Lovely Lady in Control Getting into the position: The woman begins resting, bending forward and laying her forehead upon her partner’s. Without disturbing their connection the woman hold this pose until desire stirs and she cannot withhold any longer. Catching his penis, the woman then guides his penis into her…
Flights of fancy
Books
Peguele Al Trifasico Con Azpero Sumbein
Self-released; Release date: June 15, 2007 The Deal: Charlotte’s Spanish rockers release their latest CD. The Good: I’ll be honest and say I wasn’t expecting high production quality when I read it was recorded at Evening Muse — I expected a typical, hazy live album. However, there are no complaints on production or sound –…
Back in time
Hit & Run Reviews 76Music Menu / Soundboard 81On MySpace:myspace.com/clcharlottemusicOnline: Jeff Hahne blogs from Bonnaroo (June 14-17) at theclogblog.com
A hypocritical oath
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Hip Hop Lives
KOCH; Release date: May 22, 2007 The Deal: Maybe hip-hop isn’t dead after all. The Good: The infighting with hip-hop over whether it is alive or dead is like arguing over whether Tupac is alive or dead. In step hip-hop legends KRS-ONE and Marley Marl, like schoolteachers breaking up a fight between children during recess.…
Bootylicious
Now, this is a great way to get heinies in gear. Listen to music, fight cancer … no brainer. “Booty Benefit — an intimate evening with the cancer community” is a musical concert supporting 24 Hours of Booty, a local non-profit that throws the nation’s only 24-hour road cycling charity event. The all-acoustic showcase will…
Question mark
Moodswing
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
Hyena; Release date: May 8, 2007 The Deal: Lead-footed guitar peddler lightens up for some low-down blues. The Good: James Blood Ulmer is not easy-listening music. Full of unexpected twists and turns, dominated by Ulmer’s wah-wah pedal, his blues treatments often dissolve into dissonance. His take on blues is generally in the acid jazz/funk arena,…
Juneteenth Jubilee
Just like America, the Juneteenth Festival is an eclectic mixture of cultures and traditions. For some, the attraction lies within the Education Village, which promises lectures by prominent educators and historians. Laden with community-building events, art vendors and entertainment, attendees will find the mingled fragrances of culture and edification mix quite nicely with food and…
Stargazer
Gemini The Twins: (May 20 — June 21) The probability is high that you will discover some error made in the past that must be rectified fairly soon. It may be as simple as finding a bill that was forgotten and left unpaid. You may need to review your financial picture now, but it is…
CL previews upcoming shows
WEDNESDAY 6.13 The Stills This Montreal outfit began life in the early 2000s as yet another post-punk band inspired by The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen and Joy Division, earning it comparisons and shared bills with the likes of Interpol and the Rapture. Then came its sophomore effort, 2006’s Without Feathers, which seemed more inspired…
Hey, Papa!
Last night, you got home late from spending Saturday in the usual fashion, shutting down some bar or the like. But, wait … as you roll out of bed around noon and look at the calendar hanging on the refrigerator door, you notice that today’s date is circled in red ink. You try to come…
The Blotter
AH, LOVE: A woman called police after she caught a suspicious man looking in her purse for money. The suspicious man? Her husband. She wound up with bruises and scratches. LOVE REDUX: A woman told police her husband slapped her at 2 a.m. after an argument about money and why she came home late. MAKE…
What’s old is new again
Sky Blue Sky That’s the title of Wilco’s new album, and if it suggests a more pastoral vibe than it conjured on its last few discs, well, that is indeed the case. The band’s previous two studio discs, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born were definite breakthroughs. On those discs, it expanded the…
Sweet summer soul
Word Up! Get your two-step ready to party like it’s 1986 again as Cameo hits Charlotte with their unique mix of electric funk and flair that started in the 70s, blossomed in the 80s and influenced artist in the ’90’s. Angela Winbush and R&B group Loose Ends round out this Summer Soul Music Festival that…
Louis Gurgitano’s top five
CULTURE SURFING
It’s a good weekend for festivals
If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, and have a desire to check out some of the talent in the local music scene, you won’t have to travel far — or spend much money. On Saturday, June 16, the inaugural Fat Tire Music Festival will be held at Infinity’s End East, 3704 E.…
High drama
Workshops, seminars, and exhibits — spread-eagled across the Center City — are just part of the excitement as members of the American Association of Community Theatres gather for AACTFest ’07. Beginning on Wednesday and continuing through Saturday, a dozen prize-winning productions from 10 regions across the United States and overseas will parade across the Belk…
Things to do in Charlotte for $5 or less
LEARN TO MEDITATE Take it from loyal practitioners of meditation: There’s nothing like it to take the stress of your workday off your shoulders. That’s why the Pain & Rehab Institute is offering a free class in the breathing techniques and imagery used in ancient qi gong meditation (betcha didn’t know there was more than…
By popular demand?
Citizen Servatius
Talking SmackDown
Twenty years too late to see my ex-marine gym teacher thrown out of the ring for beating down Jake the Snake in a wrestling audition, but just in time to see a new generation of beefed up madmen duke it out to the dramatic end. WWE presents Smackdown and the ECW featuring Kane, Edge, Batista,…
Word of the Week
Wooly bear: n. The hairy caterpillar of a tiger moth. Example: And here we have the wooly bear, a ferocious little caterpillar that longs to be held and needs to pay a visit to the barber shop. Caterpillars, tigers and bears, oh my!
Ready or not, the godfather returns
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Lowloaf
Wilco may be headlining, but many will be just as jacked to see indie rock veterans Low make their first appearance at Ovens Auditorium. Low formed in 1993 in Duluth, M.N. and made their name via slow-burn intensity and the incomparable harmonies of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker. They put the slow in slo-core for…
Trail of cheers
As lovers of vino surely know by now, wineries are popping up across the United States faster than whack-a-moles. North Carolina is no exception, but this isn’t surprising. After all, North Carolina was the largest wine producing state prior to Prohibition. Not one of the largest — THE largest. It was also the first colony…
Letters to the Editor
Mislead me not into abandonment I read your article (“Gangs of Charlotte” by Karen Shugart, May 23) and found it quite informative; however, I am rather disappointed at the misleading caption under the photo of the Honest Thrifty Grocery. The building is not abandoned — there is a restaurant there that fronts the street and…
Salsa without the immigrants
Boomer With Attitude
Film Clips
New Releases NANCY DREW Unless I miss my call, Nancy Drew is the sort of kids’ movie that will be treated with kid gloves by most critics, who will at worst dismiss it as a mere mediocrity. Don’t you believe it. Nancy Drew is a glorious achievement of the so-bad-it’s-brilliantly-bad variety — I won’t go…
The budget effect
Mecklenburg County recently passed a $1.46 billion budget (which goes into effect July 1); here’s a look at some of the dollars-and-cents results. • The property tax rate was raised 1.98 cents, to 83.87 cents per $100 of the property’s value. Basically, a home with a tax value of $200,000 will have a $39.60 higher…
View From the Couch
COLUMBO: MYSTERY MOVIE COLLECTION 1989 (1989). The original run of the classic Columbo episodes (one of the rotating series on the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie) ended in the late 1970s, but roughly a decade later, Peter Falk again donned the trenchcoat and cigar stubs, this time for another network and under the moniker The ABC…
Bringing the heat
Corkscrew
The O.C.T. crew
Profile
Gapes of wrath
Advice Goddess
‘Ready to be extraordinary’
When people think of Mandy Moore, they usually picture the happy-go-lucky former teen-pop starlet who has found new life with a respectable movie career. With her new release Wild Hope, Moore, now 23, will shift her focus on a new start to her music career. “Everybody has a label placed on them, so I’m not…
The anti-sex symbol
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Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I am a 21-year-old female who only began driving at 18. Since getting my license three years ago, I have gone through three cars. Now, I’m driving my fourth — or maybe fifth? Anyway, I seem to be accident-prone. As hard as I try to avoid accidents it seems I have a…
Very thierry
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Picture box
Hot Linx
Getting lubed up at local bar
My roommates and I recently decided to celebrate our new townhouse and drink off the pain in the ass we got from the tedious moving process. As we checked out our new ‘hood, we opted to follow the direction of the arrow that told us to “EAT,” which pointed us to Quaker Steak & Lube…
Tropical tastes
Mouthful
