Corkscrew
8TH ANNUAL BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU WINE TASTING AT BISTRO 100 100 N. Tryon St. November 15 at Founders Hall in the Bank of America Corporate Center from 5-8:30pm. Guests will taste six different Beaujolais wines while enjoying light hors d’oeuvres, music and drawings for door prizes in a traditional French ambience. Passports to the celebration are…
What’s the Catch?
Unflappable. Not a word you often hear from a football coach, but one that regularly rolls off the lips of Independence High’s Tom Knotts. That’s how the second-year Patriot coach describes 16-year-old junior Chris Leak, widely considered the best high school quarterback in North Carolina, and perhaps the best the state has ever produced. Last…
Good Eats
ALL AROUND TOWN ANNTONY’S CARIBBEAN 2001 E. 7th, 704-342-0749; 145 Brevard Court, 704-339-0303; 20910 Torrence Chapel Road, Cornelius, 704-894-0280. A fun, change-of-pace restaurant for a casual lunch or dinner. Limited menu features rotisserie-cooked barbecued meats, what else, Caribbean style. $ BRUEGGER’S BAGEL BAKERY All over town. Chewy bagels, crisp on the outside, and served with…
Letters
Loved Tourette’s Story To The Editors: I want to commend Sam Boykin on his Tourette’s Syndrome cover story (“Twitch and Shout,” October 10). I’m 23 years old and was diagnosed with TS in the sixth grade. I’m now a senior at Winthrop University in Rock Hill. I don’t know that many people with TS so…
Learning Never Ends
It seems like only yesterday that Wynton Marsalis burst upon the scene. Here was a precocious 18-year-old trumpeter who was not only a member of Art Blakey’s prestigious Jazz Messengers but also the group’s music director! More amazing revelations followed. The phenom was one of the top classical trumpeters on the planet. He was as…
The blotter
* My truck for your crack? Sure!: A man traded the use of his 1982 truck for the use of a 2001 crack rock on the condition that he have it back in one hour, but the suspect (not the crackhead, but the borrower of the truck) didn’t return the truck. At daylight, the crackhead…
Intune: Divine Inspiration
* Vocalist Jarrett Bury and keyboardist Stefan Huebner of Nute fame have formed a new band, The Superock Divine. Bury says he and Huebner decided on the new name after the band had undergone a couple of changes in their line-up which also brought about a change in their sound. With new members and a…
Music Menu
Audio Explorations The name is apt as this Florida duo cranks out subtle, moody pop. Whispered and mellow vocals mix with guitar, percussion and programming to create intensity through gentle waves, not mammoth squalls of sound. Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd sentiments abound while the sound rolls along at a jazzy pace. These nouveau…
Soundboard
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 BAILEY’S, PINEVILLE Wax Gurus BAYOU KITCHEN Bill Noonan CAJUN QUEEN 7th Street Gator Band CAJUN QUEEN, PINEVILLE 7th Street Gator Band II CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO Dashboard Confessional CHARLIE BROWN’S, CHARLOTTE Rob & Rob CHARLIE BROWN’S, MATTHEWS Without Annette CHARLIE BROWN’S, ROCK HILL Wizard’s Road Show COMEDY ZONE Brian Bradley & Cash Levy…
Off To See The Wizards
Contrary to popular belief, there are more than just two movies being released during the upcoming holiday film season. No, really: Between all the requisite hype and fever-pitch audience anticipation, it just seems like the first entry in the Harry Potter franchise and the first chapter in the Lord of the Rings trilogy are the…
Life As A Movie
NEW RELEASES K-PAX Watching two great actors on the order of Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges squander their talents on something as ghastly as K-PAX is akin to spending your savings on the purchase of a fondue restaurant and using its facilities to create nothing more than grilled cheese sandwiches. Offensively sanctimonious, flagrantly derivative and…
Metrobeat
Pat McCrory If Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory is anything, it’s a schmoozer. His favorite part of city council meetings, judging by the enthusiasm he displays, is the awards and recognition section, where he gets to recognize and chit-chat with everyone from volunteers to a seemingly endless number of Boy Scout troops that’ve made their way…
8 Days A Week
WEDNESDAY 31 Today is Halloween. You may have noticed the pumpkins. Give some candy to the kiddies and allow your subconscious, freaky desires to come to the fore in the guise of a “costume.” Oh, and have fun, too. The Charlotte Hornets kick off what could be their last season in the Queen City tonight…
Metrobeat
City Council At-large Patrick Cannon It’s now or never for Patrick Cannon. Cannon may only be 34, but he has sat around the council dais since the early 90s, near long enough to become a Queen City political institution. Cannon’s campaign may be about public safety, economic vitality and affordable housing, but his run for…
Stargazer
For All Signs I have written about the opposition of Saturn and Pluto in our zodiac in recent months. This is the symbol of forced change which began in late May, became exact in August, is now exact a second time and has one more pass in May. Tension between these two planets has been…
Winners Picked While You Wait!
Call it a Creative Loafing exclusive. Our competitors may produce reams of useless stuff on how the Charlotte City Council and mayor’s races might turn out, but only here can you read the guaranteed results of the elections a week before they take place. That’s right. We rounded up a psychic duo to scour the…
Golden Apples
…And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.” One hundred years ago, when W.B. Yeats wrote these evocative lines in The Song of Wandering Aengus, the poet was not referring to painting in the 21st century, yet his idea of enjoying nature’s ephemeral…
Homefront Adviser: Terror Takings
With the Christmas shopping season almost upon us, you better know I’ve already started making out my wish list. And what’s at the top? DVD player? Mountain bike? Nope. What I really want — Santa, I hope you’re listening — is my very own anthrax home testing kit. As luck would have it, Vital Living,…
Perick Silences the Moneyed Morons
Up in the grand tier, well-heeled Charlotte Symphony subscribers in Rows F and H must have thought that last week’s concert had ended at intermission. True, Stephen Hough, in his fourth guest appearance with the orchestra, had turned Mozart’s Piano Concerto #24 into a gleaming sacrament. There have been times in the past when the…
Heard this one?
It took years for word to spread, one junior-high lunchroom at a time, about Richard Gere’s ill-fated gerbil colonic. But it took only two shakes of a mouse’s tail for the entire wired Western hemisphere to learn about the girl with the Afghani boyfriend who skipped town, leaving a note warning her not to fly…
Their Boots Were Made For Walking
The subtitle says it all: “A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World.” This is the kind of book you wish you could thrust into the hands of waiting 16 or 17-year-olds, with the command to “Read this!” Women of Discovery is also one of those books in which you can skip around and…
Where The Grapes Of Wrath Are Stored
The government’s choice of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” to close the National Prayer Service, the first Friday after the WTC attack, shocked me. I was more shocked when it closed the peace-mongers’ Mass we attended that Sunday. Could I have been the only one who heard that stirring melody and sang in my…
Arts Agenda
ARTS/RELATED AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER 401 N. Myers St. Ongoing through December 9: “HBCU Football: North Carolina Legacies.” Returning for an indefinite run: “Juke Joint,” Willie Little’s exhibition of childhood memories. For more information, call 704-374-1565. APPLEWOOD GALLERY 3920 Park Rd. On display through November 30: the works of Terry Thirlon, mixed media paintings; the works…
Citizen Servatius: Tweedledum and Tweedledumber
This was supposed to be a column about why you should vote in the city council races on November 6. But though I tried, I couldn’t write it. I’ve never lied to readers before, and I’m not about to start now. So here’s the truth: When it comes right down to it, your vote won’t…
Something Old, Something New
* Owner Brent Murphy reopened Providence Sundries, 1522 Providence Road, a Myers Park neighborhood establishment since the 1970s. The building, which also houses Pasta and Provisions, has been given an exterior facelift and Murphy has brightened the inside of Sundries, too. The original Sundries opened in 1933 dispensing prescriptions and root beet floats. The latter…
Lucy Perkins
For some reason, the things that everyone deals with are the things that become taboo in our culture. Farts, boogers, burps, bowel movements, these are the things polite people aren’t supposed to talk about, despite the fact that they are ubiquitous. This has always seemed an amazing irony to me. Bodily functions are obviously a…
