Cass Morgan, Let Down Your Hair!
There’s an undeniable charm about the simple way True Home goes about making its music and telling its story. Three singer/actors sitting on three stools, joined onstage by three intrepid musicians. Few props and no scenery.Cass Morgan’s new “concert musical” is a breed apart, and Charlotte Rep is putting the newborn on its feet for…
Beer 2day, Deadline 2morrow
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil My trip to Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for Jane’s Addiction was an adventure in “wonderland.” At the gates and basically everywhere you turned, people were trying to give away tickets and shortly after entering, a friend of a friend even asked if I wanted a backstage pass. As…
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…
The Rookie In Boot Camp
On Charlotte Hornets’ Media Day, Kirk Haston looked the part he will be playing this season: The Rookie. The team’s top 2001 draft pick (16th overall) stood quietly as everyone moved in place for team photos. Jamal Mashburn, Baron Davis, Eldridge Recasner and other veterans laughed and cut up. Not Haston (pronounced HASTE-ton). He didn’t…
The British Are Here
Hey Mom, what’s a treacle and can you make some treacle fudge?” “What’s a jacket potato?” These are some of the questions I fielded from my youngest child as he read the magical and very British Harry Potter books. The translation for a jacket potato is a baked potato. Treacle is a syrupy by-product created…
The Homefront Adviser
Dear Homefront Guy: I just opened a package at my office with a note inside telling me that the package has anthrax in it and that I am now infected. What should I do? Don’t panic. Easy for me to say, I know, but the overwhelming majority of threats like that are hoaxes. The US…
Do Vintages Matter?
In the world of California wine public relations, there is no such thing as a “bad vintage year.” It may have flooded for weeks and hailed on the grapes during harvest, but the harvest report headline still inevitably reads, “California Vintners Predict Excellent (insert year) Vintage.” It wasn’t until I began working for a French…
The Blotter
*One fine morning, a man went into work to find this message on his answering machine: “Look, you dumb son of a bitch, I don’t want you to get back to me. I don’t want your goddamn stupid ass customers getting back to me and if you think I can’t track your motherfucking ass down,…
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…
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Don’t let her sweet looks and petite frame deceive you. Mary Prankster, leader of the Baltimore-based trio that also bears her name, lives and breathes rock & roll. Despite her cute, animated expressions which can even conjure images of Betty Boop, this girl is loud and rowdy, and, man, does she have a foul mouth.…
Striking When Cast Iron Is Hot
Cast Iron Filter have completed their third album and will celebrate its release on Saturday, November 3, at the Visulite Theatre. This Ugly Town was recorded with engineer/producer Mark Williams at The Kudzu Ranch in Mebane, NC (it’s Southern Culture On The Skids’ recording studio). Mixing and mastering was done in town at Reflection Sound…
Music Menu
Bel Air Saints / Mary Prankster Whew, I sure hope the stage at Mojo can handle this much attitude in one night! We all know the Saints like to strut their stuff loud and aggressively, as does the trio from Baltimore. But while the Saints tend to stick to more straight-ahead rock, the Pranksters mix…
Soundboard
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 BAYOU KITCHEN Bill Noonan CAJUN QUEEN 7th Street Gator Band CAJUN QUEEN, PINEVILLE 7th Street Gator Band II CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO Cursive w/ Sorry About Dresden CHARLIE BROWN’S, CHARLOTTE Rob & Rob CHARLIE BROWN’S, MATTHEWS Without Annette CHARLIE BROWN’S, ROCK HILL Wizard’s Road Show COMEDY ZONE Michael Reed DILWORTH COFFEE HOUSE Open…
Eyes Wide Shut
David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive is like a jigsaw puzzle in which all the pieces are identically cut: You can arrange them any number of ways, and you probably still won’t see the clear picture. Audacious, infuriating, and the sort of movie we’ve come to expect from one of America’s most idiosyncratic filmmakers (clearly, 1999’s lovely,…
Fall Books
Now in its 11th year, the Public Library of Mecklenburg County’s Novello Festival of Reading has become one of the most anticipated festivals of its kind in the United States. Over the years, Novello has become known for drawing big-name authors like Toni Morrison, Tom Clancy, Pat Conroy, Norman Mailer and Frank McCourt. Not so…
Was Daniels Canned For CL Letter?
Was Ahmad Daniels fired from his county job for expressing his opinion? The official version of this story is that Daniels, the county director of minority affairs and a longtime black activist, resigned from his job last week to pursue other opportunities. What’s odd about that explanation is that Daniels’ resignation came 24 hours after…
8 Days A Week
WEDNESDAY 17 Blast! continues its run at Ovens Auditorium tonight. The musical celebration of 45 brass, percussion, and visual performers will run through October 21 with shows Tuesday-Thursday at 8pm, Friday at 8:15pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8:15pm and Sunday at 2pm and 7:30pm. Tickets range from $18-$55. For more information, call 704-522-6500 or visit…
Letters to the editor
Where’s Giuliani When You Need Him? To The Editors: Re: “No Longer Taken For Granted” by Tara Servatius (October 3), Ella Scarborough seems to be the “I told you” candidate for Democrats via the Black Political Caucus. McCrory continues to demonstrate he has no vision for the city, only to remain as the front-man for…
Stargazer
For All Signs Mercury, planet of communications, decisions and everyday business, will turn direct on October 22. When Mercury is direct, it is usually easier to proceed with the affairs of daily life, but we are not altogether into free space yet. The effects from events which have occurred while it has traversed its retrograding…
Citizen Servatius
This is a story about 16 men, a concrete mixer and a miracle. Before the guys with the bulldozers and backhoes showed up to put in new curbature, Logie Avenue, the street that I call home, didn’t exactly look like the rest of Plaza Midwood. I doubt it’s a coincidence that the Plaza Midwood Neighborhood…
Art
I dropped into the Mint Museum the previous Sunday, the day of the Latin American Festival. The place was packed. Inside, someone was everywhere, even the galleries with the boring stuff, the stuff that can make you feel like you’ve dropped into a sensory deprivation chamber if you stare too long. The festival goers were…
The ABCs of Oppression
Although overshadowed by world events, perhaps thereby proving a point about their importance in the greater scheme of things, North Carolina’s state ABC goals were released recently. These showed everyone quantitatively how well CMS schools are doing. We would all very much like for education to be so easily quantifiable a couple of bubble-in…
