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The Great Queen City Oral Sex Survey
If you build it, they will come. We at Creative Loafing built an oral sex survey; they came. And then they took the survey. As with anything on the internet, some respondents took it seriously and others didn’t. What resulted was a mishmash of numbers and anecdotes, which is interesting more for the pinhole lens…
Murder on the Orient Express: The Plot Curdles
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS ** (out of four) DIRECTED BY Kenneth Branagh STARS Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Pfeiffer Although Peter Ustinov and David Suchet would repeatedly portray Belgian detective Hercule Poirot on screens both big and small, it was Albert Finney who headlined one of the most popular and enduring of all filmic properties based…
News of the Weird: The Pooping Menace
What’s Old Is Weird Again You may have seen the widely distributed weird news story about the Mad Pooper, a woman who has been seen defecating on lawns in Colorado Springs, Colorado. According to KRDO.com, on Sept. 25, an unidentified man claiming to be a spokesman for the Pooper posted — and has since removed…
Imagine Dragons remind fans of the power of music
Grouplove leaves lasting impression with opening set.
Listen Up: Yung Citizen and Modest Jon Spread the Love on ‘Local Vibes’
With his latest album, Alive Sessions, Yung Citizen was able not only to showcase his own ability as a rapper/producer, but he brought some friends along. So it’s only right that he brought Modest Jon with him to the studio to talk about recording together and why it’s important to shine a light on the…
The Blotter: Halloween Night
Mrs. Butterworth’s A 36-year-old man living in the SouthPark area filed a police report after some Halloween vandals served his car breakfast in bed. The man said he parked his 2012 Audi A7 outside of his condo at around 7:30 on Halloween night, then came out on the morning of November 1 to find that…
What Happens When You Bring Pumpkin Spices to Hunting Camp?
There are some traditions at elk camp that are not to be broken. There will be snoring, booze, dirty dishes, gratuitous belching, and profane utterances never to leave the sacred wall tent. There may or may not be animals taken, but there will be a party of hunters hitting it hard by day, looking to…
The Devil’s Rain, The Miracle Worker, War for the Planet of the Apes among new home entertainment titles
(View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what’s new on Blu-ray, DVD and Streaming. Ratings are on a four-star scale.) CARS 3 (2017). The previous pictures in Pixar’s NASCAR-approved franchise are perhaps the studio’s most underrated offerings — 2006’s Cars provided a lovely look at Route 66 mythology while 2011’s Cars 2…
Young, Progressive Wave Rolls Over Charlotte City Council Elections
It’s official. Braxton Winston, Larken Egleston, Matt Newton and Justin Harlow, all Democrats under the age of 40, will join Dimple Ajmera on the city council to make it one of the youngest, most progressive councils the city has seen in decades. While Ajmera has already been serving on council as a District 5 representative,…
Advocates Aim to Resume Push to Save Historic Siloam School
Tucked away into a corner of University City in northeast Charlotte, off an unassuming side road that connects to the busy Mallard Creek Church Road, sits a building nearing its 100th birthday. Its rich history is unbeknownst to almost all of the thousands of people who drive near it every day. The appearance of the…
How We Got You to Pick Up ‘CL’ This Week
Sex. Just the word all by itself is an attention-grabber. Oral sex. Even more so. Some of you may have picked up this week’s Creative Loafing solely because you saw “oral sex” on the cover. You may not regularly pick up CL (which would be your loss), but you did this week because you saw…
Life Gets ‘Weird’ for Charlotte Indies Late Bloomer
When Scott Wishart decided to open a record shop in Plaza Midwood the day after Thanksgiving 12 years ago, he already had the name, the logo and the credibility. His older brother Steve had operated an indie label in Atlanta called Lunchbox Records, which put out music by several regional punk bands of the mid-’90s…
