The Orisson
Position: The Orisson On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate position (1 as horrible, 10 as sexual nirvana)?Yes! At long last we finally have a solid 10. Did you have difficulty getting into the position?No difficulty getting into position, but the building of the contraption to raise my partner safely was…
Flim Clips
BABEL An award winner at Cannes, Babel arrives courtesy of director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga, the same team that gave us 21 Grams and Amores Perros. Like their past efforts, Babel is a gloom-and-doom dissection of society, whipping between various characters and their interconnected storylines. Certainly, this is the duo’s most ambitious…
A Grape Big Meal
Corkscrew
A special, extra-sized edition of sad, but true, crime …
See & Do 10Moodswing 1212
Wow, Talent!
Music for horror films, kinetic urban art for tiger awareness, weird photography, art theatre and a tour of somebody’s obscure and kinky mind … pick a hot link and get clickin’. Simon Boswell www.simonboswell.com Karolina Sobecka www.flightphase.com Les Krims www.leskrims.com Jan Fabre www.troubleyn.be Biblioteca Prohibida www.periferico.org/duivelsite/3_19_4.html
Slow & Steady wins the race
Table Dancing 60Corkscrew 61Good Eats 6260
It’s Hard Out Here for a Wimp
The Advice Goddess
Sibling Revelry
Burn Baby Burn 74Tom Waits 75Gov’t Mule 7775
Letters to the Editor
Supremacy or just stupidity? Thanks CL for opening the eyes of our soon-to-be racists cohabitants of this region (“Inside the Secret World of White Supremacy,” Nov. 1). It was great to show how truly ignorant and elementary these racists were during their ho-down — I mean, convention. There is truly a lesson for those wanting…
State of Grace
F. Scott Fitzgerald said there were no second acts in American life. I think it’s safe to say his pronouncement would particularly apply to rock stars. Grace Slick begs to differ. As high priestess of the psychedelic ’60s magical merry-go-round, Slick lived the tawdry Tinkerbelle lifestyle guided by the instructive signposts of sex, drugs and…
Fresh Versus Frozen
Moodswing
Southern Discomfort
Performing Arts 40Arts Agenda 4242
Nov. 15 – Nov. 21, 2006
Scorpio The Phoenix: (Oct. 23 – Nov. 20) It is possible you will be feeling angry or disappointed over a situation with a loved one. No matter how much you want someone to listen to you, sometimes they just have to do what they will. Mechanical objects are not cooperative right now either. This is…
CL‘s picks for the week
Wednesday, November 15 The Salt Lake City siblings Meg & Dia teeter between alterna-rock where the guitars get turned up and sugary pop that would be right at home on the Disney Channel. The young duo knocks out a few ditties that are laced with confessional and literate word play, which, in the end, is…
View From The Couch
THE DEVIL’S RAIN (1975). Let’s get something straight: There’s simply no mistaking The Devil’s Rain for a good movie. But in the annals of cinema, has any other motion picture boasted a cast eclectic enough to hold Ernest Borgnine, William Shatner, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt and John Travolta? I think not. Borgnine actually…
Christmas Comes Early
Well … opportunities to shop at least. The Southern Christmas Show, that fabled event that women 50 and over dream of (in lieu of Sugarplum fairies and all that gobbledy-gook) all year-round is HERE. Almost half of Charlotte’s population will giddily descend on the Charlotte Merchandise Mart for that little piece of Christmas that’s yours…
The hype man cometh
As time goes on, the cacophony of political voices becomes more shrill and the nation’s political leaders become increasingly unable to express themselves. Meanwhile, the fortunes of the once lowly hype man have become more robust. Comedian Alex Thomas says Lil Jon isn’t a rapper — he’s the first hype man to make it big.…
Hollywood for the Holidays
Film Clips 34View From The Couch 35Films In A Flash 3634
Mighty Mighty
As the name implies, Gov’t Mule is a band that reliably keeps on trudging, perhaps even stubbornly so. Packing their gritty, southern power rock, Gov’t Mule comes to the Neighborhood Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Formed by then-Allman Brothers band members Warren Haynes (guitar) and Allen Woody (bass) in 1995 as a side-project for touring…
Under the covers
North Cackalack’s own Nina Simone is commemorated yet again with Remixed & Re-Imagined (Sony Legacy), a project featuring not straight covers of the late hybrid chanteuse’s oeuvre but new digital age revisions. Simone standards (and her own cover versions) that you’d expect appear: “Ain’t Got No-I Got Life,” “Here Comes The Sun” and “O-O-H Child.”…
Orphans For Hire
In Tom Waits’ vast cast of musical personalities, three familiar ones dominate: the swamp-stomping bluesman, the world-weary romantic, and the Carney barker from hell’s carnival. Those voices are the loose organizing principle behind Waits’ Orphans, a must-own three-disc set comprised of 24 rarities and 30 never-before-released songs. The collection is culled mostly from the 1990s…
Thank God and hallelujah
Boomer With Attitude
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: I am 49 years old and I have worked for the same company just shy of 20 years. I do not have a college degree but I have advanced up the “company ladder” and now hold a junior-level supervisory role in a company that has about 200 employees. I have raised two…
So Blue …
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Of Prodigies and Prostitutes
Performing Arts
What’s the latest on the military coup in Thailand?
In the summer of 2006, two major news stories originated in Thailand. One of them is still being discussed on news shows and in tabloids. The other disappeared from the American news media faster than you can say Phuket. Guess which is which. Story No. 1: On Aug. 16, American John Mark Karr was arrested…
Lick It Up
Table Dancing
Queer City After Dark
This week, I decided to step outside the box. Actually, it was more like taking a long jump out of it. Instead of going to the regular nightlife entities in the QC, I infiltrated the gay nightlife scene. A gay club is a genre in itself, like pool halls or discos. Still I was surprised…
So Servatius …
Citizen Servatius
