Arts Agenda
Classical Music Belmont Trombonist A concert by Nathan J. Siler, trombone, assisted by Dr. John Siler, organ, plus additional guest artists. The concert will be held at the Belmont Abbey Basilica and is free and open to the public. Sun., Oct. 27, 3 p.m. Belmont Abbey College, 100 Belmont-Mount Holly Rd., Belmont. 704-334-3468. Cabaret Night…
Run For Their Lives
On an overcast afternoon, nine elementary school girls are sitting cross-legged in a circle on the bright blue track at Hawthorne Middle School. Topic of the day: Spirituality.”How is it like electricity?” asks Girls on the Run (GOTR) instructor Dana Baker. “You can’t see it,” pipes up one girl. “It gives you energy,” offers another.…
Ba Da Bing
Over the course of a few years, many restaurant sites around Charlotte morph into another reality. Some spots always seem to be able to capture the whims of the eating habits of the times, others fail miserably. Now comes the 150-seat Dominick’s Little Italy, Lotta Food in SouthEnd, a restaurant similar to its predecessor only…
Letters No “Creative” Impact
No “Creative” Impact When I first read about Richard Florida’s “Creative Class” at salon.com, I emailed the link to the mayor and the entire city council (“Be Creative or Die,” October 9). I heard back from a few, but judging from their plans to go ahead with a new arena, the message didn’t make much…
Drinking Blindly
It’s sad to say, but our culture is polluted by marketing. When’s the last time you made a decision based solely on the quality or usefulness of a product? Whether we like it or not, we are programmed by advertisements on TV, radio, and yes, even the pages of the alternative newspaper you’re reading right…
The Urban Muse
Few things are more controversial in a community than high-density housing. In Charlotte, it’s often meant ugly apartment complexes near highways, badly designed and maintained. But the last few years have seen much better high-density developments in the center city and elsewhere, offering new lifestyle choices to our rapidly changing population. Density is no longer…
Good Eats
All Around Town Anntony’s Caribbean, 400 S. Tryon St., 704-339-0303; 2001 E. 7th, 704-342-0749. All locations have different owners. A hint of the tropics; rotisserie chicken with Jamaican jerk sauce, ribs, Paradise Island fish special, curries, and Caribbean styled greens. $$ Azteca, 116 Woodlawn Rd., 704-525-5110; 9709 Independence Blvd., 704-814-9877; 1863 W. Franklin Blvd. (Gastonia),…
Power For Sale
To this day, no one has any idea who Andrew Reyes really is, or was. But what’s clear is that once he got started, it took the former county Democratic Party chairman less than three years to buy himself a position of power in Charlotte politics. That’s quite a feat when you consider that this…
Still Rollin’
“The Beatles want to hold your hand but the Stones want to burn your town.” — Tom Wolfe”It’s good to see everybody tonight,” quips Keith Richards to fans at FedEx Field in Landover, MD, at a show earlier this month. “Hell, it’s great to see anybody really,” the jovial guitarist adds as he takes center…
The Blotter
Senior Suspects: It seems that a troublesome elderly couple caused a ruckus at a local superstore parking lot. They were witnessed hitting a parked car and then leaving the scene. The witness saw the elderly woman get out to check their dirty work and then get back in the car, at which point her accomplice…
CD Disc-overies
If you’ve been wondering about the big yellow freak playing guitar with Guns N’ Roses on the MTV VMAs, wearing a white mask and KFC bucket on his head, this CD will give you some idea. It showcases some of Buckethead’s trademark shredding and provides a glimpse into his crazy aesthetic. Don’t expect Guns N’…
Mi Tierra Latino Grill & Fritanga
Colombia On South World class continental Southern food BY TRICIA CHILDRESS RestauranteMi Tierrita5033-G South Blvd. Seneca Place Shopping Center. 704-525-5781. HoursMonday through Friday, 11am until 11pm and Saturday, 8am until 10pm. Application has been made for an ABC beer license. Visa, MC, Dis. Free delivery with the area. In a section of South Boulevard well…
A Little War Music
Each day the news grows darker: An invasion of Iraq seems inevitable. Witness the anticipation in the eyes of the anchors and correspondents; smell the impending slaughter in the newsprint of columnists banging their war drums. Steel yourself, because it’s almost midnight in the Garden of Evil Oil Interests.No amount of mental preparation will be…
Music Menu
THURSDAY 10.24 The Talk / Port Huron Statement — Nice pairing here, with Charlotte’s own Westerbergian Talk sharing the stage with The Port Huron Statement, a hi-fi band fond of lo-fi recording, a la Guided by Voices or any one of Lou Barlow’s various guises. Don’t be fooled by the looseness of either band –…
Sound Board
Wednesday, Oct. 23 Bankers Raw Bar 24-Jam-22 Cajun Queen 7th Street Gator Band Cajun Queen, Pineville 7th Street Gator Band II Charleston Chops, Cornelius Kent Steel Double Door Inn Bellglide The Evening Muse Jay Garrigan, Jennifer Marks & 63 Crayons Fat City Wojo Bragg & Low Brow JB’Z The Sweaty Head Band Lynn’s Jenny Farmer…
See & Do
OCTOBER23-WEDNESDAYYou can get some exercise while helping a worthy cause at the Carolina Tennis Network Breast Cancer Championship. The single elimination, USTA-sanctioned tournament will include various skill levels, with men’s and women’s singles, as well as doubles and mixed doubles divisions. The tournament is scheduled for October 31 through November 3 and will be held…
London Calling
Although the American Film Institute has taken a populist turn of late with its endless series of “100 Best…” TV specials, one of the great things about that organization has always been its commitment to preserving our cinematic heritage by any means necessary. Along those lines, back in 1980 the group issued its list of…
Holiday Dating
Early fall is the most difficult time to start something new. Especially if it’s two people at the beginning of a budding relationship, sexfest, or whatever it turns out to be. It’s the one time of year that’s jam-packed with holidays that are family and couple-oriented, and if the relationship is new, you never know…
The Six Cents
In the animation field, the word “in-betweener” refers to those artists who fill in the frames that come between the ones already created by the project’s principal animators. On the live-action side of cinema, there’s no such term, though it’s the perfect word to describe those movies that seem to balance between capturing the attention…
Stargazer
For All Signs Jupiter is in favorable relationship to Pluto from now through next summer. This is a very good time to use whatever power you are given for contribution to the greater good. Offer your talents in service of any group whose values you support and the reward will be multiplied. Persons or nations…
Film Clips
NEW RELEASES JANE GOODALL’S WILD CHIMPANZEES Over the years, Discovery Place has shown numerous IMAX titles in its OMNIMAX Theatre, but Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees has personal ties with the museum: Not only is the venue cited as one of the production companies behind this endeavor, but former DP head Freda Nicholson served as an…
Karma Cleanser
Dear Karma Cleanser: Please advise on this situation. My father does not believe in tipping for food delivery orders. I have spoken to him about this on several occasions but he seems to think it’s not necessary. I’ve taken to telling him an order costs more than what it really does so I can give…
We See Dead People
Halloween.When you get to the emotional core of our big National Dress Up Day and Kids’ Candy-&-Horror Fest, it’s all about finding creative ways to deal with our fears — our fear of the unknown, of horror, our fear of death. Especially death.Face it: it’s not witches and ghosts and ogres and deformed freaks and…
Flesh For Fantasy
Seeing Willem de Kooning’s work up close and personal is primarily a visceral experience. The difference between scanning reduced reproductions and seeing his drawings live is the difference between another’s description of eating raw oysters and eating one yourself. Textbook dollops of his paintings will rouse interest for anyone with eyes in his head, but…
Here Come the Buns
Just a few years ago it was considered in bad taste to reveal your butt crack. Getting cheeky was an icky faux pas reserved for plumbers and the odd teenage boy with unresolved pant-to-boxer issues. Now, however, the tender cleft is in your face. Girls in low-slung jeans sit insouciantly on bar stools, “presenting” their…
Here Comes Hwang
Two of the most important artists involved in Charlotte Rep’s presentation of David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly won’t be in the Queen City for the entire run of the show. Stage director Robert Moss, who directed the co-production at Syracuse Stage (where Butterfly fluttered through October 12), came down to Booth Playhouse last week before…
Suite Proposition
The true test of how much Charlotte, in particular corporate Charlotte, wants a new NBA arena is yet to come. To make the new arena a financially healthy reality, corporate leaders will have to find buyers for about 70 luxury suites, 2,500 club seats, as well as regular seats. The relative difficulty of this task…
Reports From The Front
For Salman Rushdie, a death sentence liberates the tongue and the pen, eliciting verses upon verses, satanic and otherwise. Consider his opinion of organized religions. “They may,” he writes, “at some point cease to feel like the texts in which human beings have tried to solve a great mystery and feel, instead, like the pretexts…
Police Dept. Turmoil
A family squabble broke out last week in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department between police chief Darrel Stephens and a number of the department’s officers. By Friday, it appeared to have ended with the chief saying uncle — for now. The brawl centered on how much control the department should have over officers’ off-duty security work.…
