Republicans. The Fair Tax. A condom.
Yep, at the Republican debate in Columbia. Word is Duncan Hunter has been the only candidate to enter the media tent so far tonight. We’re mostly confined to a tent outside the Koger Center, where the action’s actually going to happen. Even during the debate, we’ll be watching it on TV inside this tent. So…
Odds and ends
A few miscellaneous items: A bill that would make North Carolina a comprehensive sex-ed state may actually make it to a full House vote. Advocates say it would greatly improve the current abstinence-only curriculum that’s offered in most counties; opponents say it would lead to more risky behavior among teens. Last November, Creative Loafing wrote…
Homicide: By the Numbers
Homicide in Charlotte is no equal opportunity offender. Race and sex plays a big part in who will be a victim. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police just released this data on this year’s 26 homicide victims so far: Black Males, 14, 53.8% Black Females 3, 11.5% White Males, 3, 11.5% White Females, 1, 3.8% Hispanic Males, 4,…
Reversed
Name of Kama Sutra Position: Reversed Getting into the position: It is performed with the man lying flat on his back and the woman straddled over the top of him. The womanÕs feet are positioned with one going directly overtop his heart (chest) and the other clasped in the palm of his hand. On a…
UTIOG Cancel Tremont Show
A note posted on the Tremont Web site this morning states: Due to circumstance beyond their/our control, Under The Influence of Giants, and Young Love have canceled their performance here at Tremont Music Hall. The show will go on with the bands listed above. If you have already purchased tickets through Etix.com, and would like…
Stargazer
Taurus The Bull: (Apr 20-May 19) You may be somewhat disappointed with the development of a work or career project at this time, particularly if it began during January 2007. Creative work has a way of taking on a life of its own, and sometimes it does not match the original vision of the artist.…
Old School
Alligator; Release date: April 3, 2007 The Deal: Blustery blueswoman Koko Taylor roars back to life in top form. The Good: “This is hard core blues,” Koko Taylor proclaims in the liner notes for her latest Alligator release, Old School. It’s what Taylor’s been up to her entire career. She’s never backed off her bombastic,…
Flipping birds for cancer
Time for the second annual Birdies for Breast Cancer Golf Tournament. (Is there a joke somewhere in there?) At any rate, it’s a $75 chance to feel good about raising money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Charlotte affiliate and possibly win high-dollar goodies. Prizes include a Men’s ROLEX watch, a 2007 Toyota…
Healer on the radio
Books
One Man Revolution
Epic; Release date: April 24, 2007 The Deal: Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello goes acoustic for activist album. The Good: Musically, this is a different side of Morello. Hearing the unique guitarist move to the opposite side of the familiar spectrum is a surprise on first listen. The music is simple but straightforward…
Playhouse rock
Remember when vinyl records ruled and Elvis impersonators didn’t exist? Yeah, I don’t either. Director and choreographer Ron Chisolm helps bring us back to the early days of rock & roll with the musical Smokey Joe’s Café. With classic songs by writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller — like “Hound Dog,” “Stand By Me,” “On…
Soothing / delicious
Hot Linx
Ifé Moore
Profile
More than just Mrs. Johnny Cash
You won’t be surprised to hear that Wildwood Flowers: The June Carter Cash Musical was first presented in Nashville at a theater named for Roy Acuff next to the Grand Ole Opry. What you may not know is that there was plenty of Charlotte talent involved in that original 2005 production — two former CL…
Wordbox
Bubo: n. An inflamed swelling of a lymph gland. Example: When tiny Tina fell, she got a booboo; when Grandma fell, she got a bubo.
CL‘s 2007 Summer Movie Preview
Will 13 prove to be a lucky number for Hollywood? That’s the staggering amount of sequels being released this summer season, a hefty amount of in-demand titles that could make this the most lucrative hot-weather period ever. That baker’s dozen includes Spider-Man 3, which unofficially kicked off the three-month relay race last weekend, as well…
Things CL loves about the QC
The BBQ plate at Bubba’s Barbecue on Sunset Road — and I heart my mom. Happy Mother’s Day! — Adam Saunders, IT guy The abundance of groups devoted to helping others in Charlotte. Whatever the cause, there are so many organizations (Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, the Urban Ministry Center, Homeless Helping Homeless, etc.) in Charlotte…
CL on the Web
The Plug
Learning from our elders
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Dark inspiration
There’s no telling who the real Lawless Soirez was. For Gill Landry, he’s a down-on-his-luck traveler who’s sharing his story of loves lost and the dark alleys he’s wandered. In reality, Lawless Soirez is just the name on a tombstone. Singer/songwriter/storyteller Landry saw the name and wrote a song about him. “It’s a man who’s…
The guns of May
Boomer With Attitude
Searching for America
QC Inferno 76Hit & Run Reviews 78Music Menu / Soundboard 81On MySpace:myspace.com/clcharlottemusic
Rose Hawley’s Top Five
Culture Surfing
Smoke in the auditorium
Arts Agenda 40Books 43Savage Love 46
Horse sense
Wild horses found friends in Congress on April 26, when the U.S. House of Representatives voted 277-137 to reinstate protections aimed at keeping wild free-roaming horses and burros from being sold, slaughtered and served to restaurant patrons overseas. Some folks say the ban unduly limits federal authority to manage the herds. And it’s bad for…
My Name is Buddy
Nonesuch; Release date: March 6, 2007 The Deal: Ry Cooder returns to his roots The Good: An album of newly penned Depression-era narratives done in audio shades of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly would seem at best anachronistic, and at worst a calculated cash-in on the tail-end of the No Dep gravy train. But Ry Cooder’s…
Mother’s little helper
Corkscrew
What suburban boom?
Citizen Servatius
CL previews upcoming shows
Thursday 5.10 Lipbone Redding Jazzy folk singer/songwriter from NYC is a troubadour with a heart clearly attached to hearth and home. Redding’s bluesy, soulful voice and guitar strumming lie somewhere between Jack Johnson and a New Orleans jazz band. Redding uses his voice, something he calls a voicestrumentalist, and throat to make jazzy sounds. The…
Blackout!
Table Dancing
Fonda rule
Film Clips 32View From The Couch 34Films In A Flash 36
Ronnie Matthews’ Top Ten
As the owner and director of Starfleet Music Pool, a local pool for DJs and record labels, Ronnie Matthews has been involved in the music industry for 33 years. He has spun the turntables at various venues throughout the area, and his playlist consists totally of remixes. • “With Love” by Hilary Duff • “Change”…
Film Clips
New Releases LUCKY YOU Director Curtis Hanson has spent the last decade delivering nothing but winning hands, so it’s not without a measure of irony that his luck has run out with Lucky You. After the incredible run of the critical darlings L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys, the box office hit 8 Mile and the…
Perhaps it’s Fra-talian?
Table Dancing 60Corkscrew 62Good Eats 65
Things to do 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…
Letters to the Editor
Yay for Double-coupon Day Tricia Childress’ article “Check It Out” (April 25) is far from comprehensive, as it does not present a thorough survey of Charlotte area grocers. It also assumes that your all of your readers desire international foods, gourmet seafood items normally found in restaurants, the top grade of beef, and organic produce…
A smashing performance
Comedy legend Gallagher (yep, he’s still alive), with his Sledge-O-Matic in tow, is sure to cover the Queen City with a variety of produce. The watermelon-smashing comedian who often makes jokes about observations of everyday life is also working on a music CD featuring a song entitled, “My Pet Peevage? Butt Cleavage.” We suggest you…
The Blotter
HAND SIGNALS: A man standing in a downtown parking lot unzipped his pants and began masturbating between cars as a woman was getting into her car nearby. The suspect got near the front of the car and continued masturbating. He was last seen walking toward South Tryon Street. AUTO AFFRAY: A customer at an auto…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: My bad thoughts are causing me to have bad karma. It all has to do with my good friend Mikey. We call him “Teeth” behind his back, because he has this really big smile that looks like it’s fake, even though it is not. I have been friends with Teeth for 10…
‘And Now Ella, Ella’
Jazz and R&B vocalist Patti Austin last performed with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra about a decade ago. She returns for a two-night engagement in tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald. Austin’s new recording, her 17th, is Avant-Gershwin, but she recorded the wonderful For Ella a few years back. Austin will perform songs from that recording…
Straight face
Moodswing
Daley’s Beartrap catching on
Chuck Daley, as they say in this business, gives good press. The 31-year-old Charlotte native began his one-man music publicity machine, Beartrap PR, last year. In that short time, he’s picked up 14 clients across the country from Oregon to Florida, including two — Philly’s Jena Berlin (playing the Milestone May 13) and Tallahassee’s Look…
The heels are alive
Pop sweetie Gwen Stefani has found her solo niche in new wave dance and club music that’s teased with hip-hop. OK, so her previous band, the ska-pop outfit No Doubt, was musically much more interesting, but Stefani’s solo stuff is reliably quirky and catchy. Her sophomore release, Sweet Escape, swirls her pop around electronica, with…
View From The Couch
DELIVER US FROM EVIL (2006). A film with the power to affect even the most jaded of moviegoers, this Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary centers on Oliver O’Grady, a priest who over the course of three decades sexually molested countless children throughout the state of California. In a perfect world, a bullet would have…
Sex games & an alley cat
Yes, it was ladies’ night … My invitation to Dixie Tavern’s Frost Yourself party promised me the ultimate girl’s night with a decadent buffet, massages, salon samples, makeovers, palm readings, a chocolate fountain and free tiaras for the first fifty ladies. The party started at 6 p.m. — I got there at 7 and was…
Hey, Mama!
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…
