The Peacock
Name of Kama Sutra Position: The Peacock Getting into the position: This position is performed with the woman seated. She then raises one of her feet to a point vertically overhead and steadies it with her hand while offering up her yoni for the man’s delight. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would…
We Heart …
Polished Nailbar. Mr. Lee is the best and funniest pedicurist in Charlotte! Also, Polished (across from Southend Brewery) is a great way to unwind after a hard day at the Loaf! — Amanda Williams, ad coordinator Freedom Park. I grew up playing there and it’s still virtually the same, except they took away My ROCKET!…
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Word of the Week
polyglot: adj. Speaking, reading or writing several languages Example: The most skilled teenagers are polyglot, for they communicate with their parents, their teachers, their friends and their siblings all in different languages.
Stargazer
Pisces The Fish: (Feb. 18 — March 19) The eclipsed new moon is in your sign this week. That marks a clear turning point of self-definition. Do you like the direction of everything in your life as it stands right now? Use your intuition and think it over carefully. There is at least one factor…
Cultural Crossings
Fusion as a culinary term should be buried alongside crispy, the popular 1990 menu euphemism for fried. What is gastronomic fusion? A creative union of disparate foods? But then what cuisine has not blatantly copied or borrowed from another cuisine? All food dishes are, in a sense, a fusion, unless they are raw. Asian cuisines,…
Faith and Inspiration
The following are questions John E. Roos, Inspiration Networks senior vice president for communications, answered via e-mail. Creative Loafing: Fox News reported that Inspiration Networks donated nearly $20 million in supplies to help victims of Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Katrina. Is that the most accurate, up-to-date number? Are there any other recent charitable examples that…
Eastern State of Mind
Writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck says that the idea for The Lives of Others (currently playing in Charlotte) began with a single image of a man sitting in a room, eavesdropping through headphones. But the journey of the first feature by the 33-year-old filmmaker, in which the notorious East German secret police known as the…
Praying for Prosperity
The answer to my finances came to me when I turned on my TV in the early a.m. A man with over-gelled hair speaks from the screen: “You have so much potential, if somehow you could just get your candle lit … This candle is fantastic, but without a light it’s not really fulfilling its…
The war of art
“Artists need to make great art, and in order to do that they must find truth — truth in social issues, and in political issues.” Thus speaks Michael Franti, one of the most dedicated and sentient musicians in the business. At a time in American history when the nation is both politically polarized and incredibly…
The Blotter
SICK AND TIRE-D: Maybe you’ve felt like throttling an employee at the DMV, post office, florist or candy store. Add a tire shop to that list, and you’ve got a recent report. A customer at a tire shop took issue with the price of a tire and threatened to assault the employee. The employee called…
Nightlife with Novelty
In the midst of CIAA week, perhaps Charlotte’s biggest event, considering it’s a giant, weeklong party that monopolizes the Q.C. nightlife, there were some outside-the-box events that took center court. Last Tuesday Michelob was celebrating the redesign of their bottles with a distribution party at the Levine Museum of the New South. I thought the…
Hit & Run review stew
Here at CL headquarters, we get inundated with an ass-load of music. In fact, we’re mailed so many CDs every week, we don’t have room to review even 10 percent of the stuff. But that won’t stop us from trying! To that end, we’re devoting extra space this issue to offer our highly regarded opinion…
Pressure cooker
Moodswing
DJ Fat Mike’s Top 10
Mike Raedy, aka DJ Fat Mike, is a true electro and Miami bass pusher in the Carolinas. He has been DJing for the past four years and does so frequently at Eden. With the perfect blend of South Florida sounds, Mike pushes the bass bins and the people on the dance floor to the limit…
On the road
Brooklyn’s Jaggery, led by the multi-hued vocal modulations of Bostonian, by way of London, Mali Sastri, compose a layered fusion of ethereal rock, jazz, pop and world music. This is the band’s first tour outside of the NYC metro area. They are on the road in support of their superb debut release Polyhymnia. They perform…
Beer me
Corkscrew
‘Corridors of crap’
You have to admit, Mayor Pat McCrory’s description of decades-old lousy zoning decisions and ill-thought commercial development — “corridors of crap” — has a certain ring to it. It’s also a lot more honest and real than the jargon of developers and urban planners. When was the last time you said, “Hey, let’s go to…
“It’s called survival”
The Brazilian cat pounces as Jose Sena brings his Nego Gato Music and Dance Ensemble to McGlohon Theatre for a carnival celebration of Afro-Brazilian culture. Sena’s band plays the full panorama of Braziliana, ranging from samba and meringue to pagoda, and Jose can definitely move to the beat — that’s how earned his catty gato…
Harry Belafonte, the lion at 80
Harry Belafonte just turned 80. The “King of Calypso” was the first person to have a million-selling album, the first African-American to win an Emmy, and is perhaps the most recognizable entertainer in the world. On Saturday, March 3, I attended his birthday party at a restaurant adjoining the New York Public Library. The setting…
The kids are all right
Young children’s exposure to music usually occurs haphazardly, while Daddy blasts his classic rock records at the backyard BBQ or Barney does the cheesy sing-along thing on TV. The 4th annual Tosco Music Party for Kids provides a live alternative, an interactive show tailor-made for children from preschool to 2nd grade age. This year’s event…
Bonding with the reds
Laden with prodigious piano-playing chops and a passionate Slavic style, Vassily Primakov comes to Halton Theater as guest soloist in Charlotte Philharmonic’s From Russia With Love. Nothing silly about Primakov’s showpiece, Chopin’s Piano Concerto #1 in E Minor. And as Charlotte Symphony’s neighborhood concert earlier this season confirmed, there is nothing shabby about the acoustics…
Kevin Starr’s Top Five
Culture Surfing
Film Clips: 300, Miss Potter, more
New Releases MISS POTTER Just as the current Amazing Grace let it be known that its subject, politician William Wilberforce, not only fought to end slavery but also championed animal rights on the side, Miss Potter takes great pains to reveal that Beatrix Potter, in addition to being a beloved children’s book author, also made…
A song for daddy
This year’s theme for the Black History Concert, presented annually by noted jazz musician Tyrone Jefferson and A Sign of the Times, is Suite: Songs for Our Fathers. Jazz and R&B are on tap with other highlights including an appearance by Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets and Gary Munford and the Senior African Drum…
Cruisin’ for an impeachment
Boomer With Attitude
View From the Couch
BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (2006). Snakes On a Plane was supposed to be the movie that showed Hollywood how incessant Internet hype could single-handedly turn a dubious project into a box office smash, but after that film rightly tanked, it was up to this even greater longshot…
What’s in your air?
Does it usually take an outbreak to occur before you question the safety of your home and environment? Or are you the proactive sort that makes sure problems don’t arise in the first place? Either way, the Environmental Information Association (formerly known as the National Asbestos Council) Annual Conference & Exposition might be of interest.…
Hey teachers!
Citizen Servatius
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 Woody Allen’s Take the Money and Run (March 19). All films will be screened at 7 p.m. in the Wachovia Theater at ImaginOn; admission is free. For more info, call 704-336-6217. WHERE…
Diary surfing
First, a sprightly Midsummer Night’s Dream on The Green, and then an equally satisfying Bad Dates at a Dilworth condo. Now Collaborative Arts is straying beyond their comedy comfort zone with their first suspense drama, Steven Dietz’s FICTION. Two happily married writers make the mistake of getting a wee bit too curious about the secrets…
Formal
Hot Linx
Monsters of the night
Books
Crazed excitement
Charlotte, prepare yourself for the mind-blowing antics of Cirque du Soleil’s Delirium, This is the Cirque’s first attempt at a musical remix performed on stage. Five different languages have been amalgamated to create a unique new form of conveying the joy and mystique that only these skilled performers could. Music will be the main focus…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I recently bought a couch on Craigslist. The person who sold it to me was asking $150 plus a $30 delivery fee. When I went to see the couch, I offered her $100. She accepted, saying she’d rather get rid of it quickly than wait for someone to pay more. I took…
Two Dire Diaries
Maybe if I’d sat further back at Duke Power Theatre, I would have noticed sooner that Collaborative Arts’ entire production of Fiction is performed by three actors on a way-oversized stack of three books. Not to worry. The give-and-take between books and real life gets fairly constant play as we explore the suspenseful love triangle…
‘Hustle & Show’
If you plan to be in the Raleigh area this Friday (March 16), check out the opening ceremonies for the cool art event “Hustle & Show” — featuring the art of famed “neo-pop” painter Fahamu Pecou. Here’s how Pecou describes the show (hosted at Flanders Art Gallery until April 12) and his work: “An exhibit…
The Revelation Will Be Televised
“Now it is required for those that have been given a trust must prove faithful.” — 1 Corinthians 4:2 NIV “Facing a mountain in your life? Nowhere else to turn? Do you need a miracle? David Cerullo’s powerful new book reveals the keys you need to unlock your miracle! Call now to sow a seed…
Letters to the Editor
Cheap Don’t I just finished reading your article titled “Cheap Thrills” (by Karen Shugart, Feb. 28) and would like to comment on your addition of “Crash an AA Meeting.” Just because Golden Girls made it sound amusing doesn’t make it an acceptable thing for people to do. And you even state that you didn’t know…
Improvising chili
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