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Tori Amos Here’s another righteous babe doing musical things right. The chanteuse takes a decidedly feminist twist and throws her loyal fans a curve ball on the new record Strange Little Girls (Atlantic). She covers tunes written and performed by males and reinterprets them from the femme perspective. The Beatles, Lloyd Cole and Velvet Underground…
Wise Guy
2001-09-15 With a number of Charlotte restaurants shutting their doors, a smart move is to have a group of restaurants that offer recession-ready pricing. “The menu is price point perfect,” notes co-owner Guy Ciccone. “With this economy this way, Phil & Tony’s is a big hit.” Ciccone, co-owner of all locations, is opening the third…
Soundboard
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 BAYOU KITCHEN Bill Noonan CAJUN QUEEN 7th Street Gator Band CAJUN QUEEN, PINEVILLE 7th Street Gator Band II CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO Burning Spear CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE, SOUTH CAMPUS Hipshack (11:15am) COMEDY ZONE Russ Nagel DILWORTH COFFEE HOUSE Open Mic w/ Bert Wray DOUBLE DOOR Reggae Cowboys GRADUATE, LAKE NORMAN Andy Seets…
Wrap Around
2001-09-01 You might be tempted to make assumptions about the 60-seat Salsarita’s Fresh Burrito. Just another fast food burrito joint, you may think. But Salsarita’s is the inspired offspring of Bruce Willette and Thang Nguyen. They opened their first store in the Carolinas Place Mall in November 1999 and now have shops in Cotswold, Huntersville…
Rebel Without A PauseTeen satire
Joe Berlinger may have established himself as an important filmmaker with his widely praised documentaries Brother’s Keeper and Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, but he blew it when he made his fictional film debut with the heavily hyped, but ultimately numbing, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Terry Zwigoff has elected…
Wrap Around
2001-09-01 Does Charlotte’s culinary future include a Spoon’s Eastern Styled Barbecue Burrito wrapped in a slightly sweet white tortilla? Or perhaps a Price’s Chicken Coop fried chicken wrap with tater rounds and cole slaw on a sundried tomato tortilla? I don’t see why not, if pastrami can be served with pinto beans and rice in…
Film Clips
NEW RELEASES DON’T SAY A WORD Gary Fleder directed the 1997 Morgan Freeman thriller Kiss the Girls, but for whatever reason, he wasn’t involved with last spring’s follow-up Along Came a Spider, about the search for a kidnapped girl. Perhaps suffering from franchise envy, Fleder opted to put his name on Don’t Say a Word,…
That’s Entertainment?
When hijacked planes collided with the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on September 11, the impacts weren’t felt just in the foundations and on the neighboring streets. The shock waves also traveled on the air, through printing presses and along modems and cable hook-ups, with tremors continuing to reverberate through the mass media.…
8 Days A Week
WEDNESDAY 3 Symphony on the Square takes place today at noon on the corner of Trade and Tryon St. The event is free and open to the public. Be sure to bring your lunch and enjoy the outdoors and the Symphony. For more information call 704-972-2000. Rapper Snoop Dogg will bring his infamous bark to…
No Longer Taken For Granted
You could call it payback for old wounds. Or you could call it a new day in the politics of race in Charlotte. But whatever you call it, say some of Charlotte’s African-American political leaders, last Tuesday’s election should serve as a warning to white Democrats. We are at the lowest end of the totem…
Stargazer
For week of October 4-10, 2001 For All Signs It is imperative that we be mindful of this Mercury retrograde period. This is a time in which we may not be thinking clearly, or our conclusions may be drawn from a faulty basis. Given the grim events of September, we must take precautions to insure…
One More Death
Convicted murderer Robert Bacon is scheduled to be executed this Friday at Central Prison in Raleigh. Advocates of a death penalty moratorium say Bacon’s case is one of the most glaring examples of all that’s wrong with the capital punishment system. Bacon was convicted and sentenced to death in 1987 by an all-white jury for…
Talk of the Town
RADICAL REDUX Former Black Panther leader, member of the Chicago 8, and barbecue sauce magnate Bobby Seale spoke about his life and his career at Johnson C. Smith University on Thursday as part of their Lyceum Series. I CAN’T HEAR YOU! The Black Eyed Peas played Tremont on Sunday, winning the crowd with their hip-hop…
McCrory Nixes CHA/CL Investigation
For now, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory plans to stay out of squabbles among Charlotte Housing Authority(CHA) board members. CHA board member Eric Douglas wrote McCrory a letter two weeks ago requesting an investigation into how Creative Loafing obtained a draft of a controversial report by a consulting group which detailed a lot of problems at…
The Comforts of Blood and Gore
Back in 1985, Rupert Holmes had the audacity to write a Broadway musical that had no fewer than eight possible endings for his cast to memorize. Based on an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood wound up capturing five Tony Awards for Holmes, including individual triumphs in the Best Book and…
Citizen Servatius
My sister didn’t tell us what happened to her in the first grade until many years later. We were sitting around the dinner table, talking about school, when she casually mentioned her coaching sessions with her first grade teacher, a Catholic nun we’ll call Sister Helen. Though she was well behaved, Sister Helen would often…
Say It Ain’t So, SalRushdie or no Rushdie, this novel stinks
Professor Malik Solly Solanka, protagonist of Salman Rushdie’s newest novel, is in his mid-50s, grew up in Bombay, was educated in England and now, alas, has fled to New York’s teeming metropolis, leaving behind a wife and young child. He is also wealthy and able to live in an aristocratic manner while looking down his…
We Gotta Stand For Something…
In light of recent national events, most schools are adopting a patriotic theme that can be seen on the marquees in front of the schools, not to mention posters, banners, artwork and writing. Some schools apparently have other ideas. A patriotic theme seems like a healthy response to the terrorist attack tragedy; after all, people,…
Arts Agenda
United We Stand In light of recent events, focus has been shifted to the strength of American society, American unity as a people, and American resolve as a collective of communities. Ironically enough, the newest exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh addresses just that, a look into what makes communities work,…
Building Young Lives
Garinger High School Tennis Coach Brenda Slade is into the construction of lives. Through her summer program, she seeks out kids from some of the lowest-income neighborhoods in Charlotte to teach them the game. To expose them to more opportunities, to help shape their lives in a positive way. And she’s good at it. In…
Celebrate Fall With Oktoberfests
Rheinland Haus, 2418 Park Road, is celebrating its 35th year with Oktoberfest 2001. Nightly specials will include eight German draft beers on tap including Spaten Oktoberfest and a combo platter of Jaeger schnitzel and knockwurst served with sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, and a garden salad for $10.95. Jerry Goodman and the Gootman Sauerkraut Band will perform…
The Blotter
A thief stole an air compressor and a fax/phone machine from a trucking company, but had such a rough time breaking in through the garage door that the first thing he did was use a cutting torch found on the scene to break into the vending machine for a refreshing drink. Shoplifting, Cajun Style: The…
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 to the Editor
Good Job, Guys To The Editors: I feel like this past issue was really CL at its best (Best of Charlotte 2001 and Terror’s Aftermath, September 5). I found it comforting to hear voices of sanity and reason amongst the madness of Bloodthirsty America. Thank you for revealing truths that are otherwise buried or disguised.…
Strange Little Girl
Tori Amos’ new album is not quite what you’d expect from the ivory-tinkling, Kate Bush-esque chanteuse who recorded the emotionally stripped, piano-heavy favorites Little Earthquakes, Under The Pink and Boys For Pele. Titled Strange Little Girls, the album features Amos performing 12 songs written by male artists, told through the perspectives of a female character…
Cascade of Comfort
2001-06-09 The single word “Chicken” screams out from the brick and glass facade of a tiny space within a South Boulevard strip mall. But you would have to drive or walk by La Cascada — Chicken To Go to read the actual name of the restaurant which is painted on the store front glass. Cascada…
Raw Power and Poetry Too
Nostalgia doesn’t get much sweeter than this: It’s a hotter than usual Arizona night in a jammed-to-the-gills, all-ages Tucson venue and local legend Giant Sand is whipping up a storm when a surprise guest suddenly appears onstage. As the band slams into the Chuck Berry-in-the-jungle throb of the classic X song Johny Hit And Run…
Deja Vu Again
2001-08-25 The space in a small strip shopping center near Exit 28 off I-77 that’s home to Fuzion Bistro has had more than its share of identities since it was built a few years ago. The space began life as Fuzion Cafe, which had moved from their original 42-seat space across the parking lot into…
In Tune
Lodestar has decided to call it quits. Singer Jeff Williams says there were several circumstances that contributed to his decision and that it just felt like the right thing to do at this time. The band performed their final gig last week at Tremont Music Hall. Williams says it’s likely he’ll put something new together…
The Rising Sun
2001-08-04 Here in Charlotte, sushi is as hot as the tropics at the moment. You know this is true when you see grocery shoppers toss a six pack or two into their carts as readily as they do packaged lettuce. Residents of Huntersville, though, have a new sushi option. Last April ASAHI Japanese Restaurant and…
