The Undressed Q & A
Fiona Zedde Fiona Zedde�s got a knack for making folks horny. February 2005, Zedde, a former employee of Charis Books in Atlanta, made Creative Loafing readers drool when she was featured on our annual Lust List of sexy service industry workers. And in August, the Jamaican-born, Atlanta-based author got the literary world all hot-and-bothered with…
The World Can’t Wait
Brother with a Pen 18 Citizen Servatius 23Boomer with Attitude 2423
A Whole New World
Boomer With Attitude
He Ain’t No Bartender
Moodswing
Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, 2006
A West Mecklenburg graduate and East Carolina University attendee, Arizona Diamondback 3B Chad Tracy is one of the more quietly productive third sackers (heck, players period) in Major League Baseball. His season RBI has floated around .300, and as of press time, he had 13 home runs, 52 RBIs and four stolen bases. However, all…
Tribute to Filmmaker Steve Crump
After all, the hippest people are drawn to the area’s hottest martini list. A tiramisu martini? Heck, yeah. On Wednesdays, martinis are half-price, so you can go every week and not break your budget. And did we mention said martinis are huge? Perfect for lingering at the bar, or on one of the cushy couches,…
Africa’s Struggles Bigger Than ‘Brangelina’
Brother with a Pen
See & Do
Located in the Catawba River Basin watershed, with shoreline touching Gaston, Lincoln and Mecklenburg Counties, Mountain Island Lake has been a well-kept secret of sorts — more laid-back than its flashier cousin Lake Norman — with lake access and coves perfect for kayaking, hiking, biking and picnicking. The North Carolina Forest Service is in the…
Reality 101
Citizen Servatius
Karma Cleanser
In just over a two-hour drive, you can be transported back in time more than 100 years. George Vanderbilt’s estate, constructed over six years and opened on Christmas Eve 1895, is situated among gardens, park land and forests. It was modeled after three French chateaus and includes 250 rooms, 34 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms and 65…
Enduring Crackpots
Book Review
Letters to the Editor
DOUBLE STANDARD? As usual, I enjoyed Tara Servatius’ article in CL (“Arab Alienation,” Sept. 6). I realize that you are trying to objectively report the experience of Arab citizens in these troubled times. However, I find it interesting that none of these people have ever encountered a direct threat from anyone while in our country.…
Global Positioning
Thanx to the net, you can be anywhere. Visit public housing in China, hang out with a weirdo in Glasgow or visit a medical museum in Philly. Don’t eat meat? Check out banana steak (psst: they’re local). 100 x 100 www.photomichaelwolf.com/100×100 Banana Steak www.dougcobbsince1967.com/bananasteak.html Lords of Acid www.lordsofacid.com Limmy www.limmy.com Mütter Museum www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp
Cheap Thrills
ELIZABETH BILLIARDS If you haven’t discovered the coolest watering hole south of the Square, it’s time for a trip to EB’s (hip, regional lingo). Voted best pool hall as well as best first date place, it’s also dirt cheap. Pool is free. Darts are free. Card tables can be set up to start a poker…
The Blotter
Rain or shine: A man presented his truck for sale by parking it in an empty parking lot. He got a call from an interested party who said he wanted to be shown the vehicle right away. It was raining, and the owner said he wouldn’t show it in the rain. The caller said if…
View From The Couch
INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES: THE COMPLETE MOVIE COLLECTION (1943-1945). An offshoot of the popular radio series Inner Sanctum (which also led to a string of books as well as a TV show), this film franchise found Universal Pictures committing Lon Chaney Jr. to a run of six quickie “B” flicks that each barely ran over an…
Which Are You?
ARE YOU A CAT HOARDER? Cat hoarders usually display some combination of these symptoms: • More than the typical number of companion animals • Inability to provide even minimal standards of nutrition, sanitation, shelter and veterinary care (often resulting in starvation, illness or death) • Denial of the inability to provide this minimum care and…
Short list
Breaking news
Film Clips
New Releases THE GUARDIAN Isn’t it too soon to be subjected to another showing of Flyboys all over again? At least that’s the sense of deja vu that settled in after viewing the two films in consecutive weeks. Here we have the same running time (an overextended 135 minutes), the same degree of quality in…
I Am Cat Lady, Hear Me Meow
Animal control officer Shannon Corkwell once spent an eight-hour shift emptying a South Charlotte home of cats. More than 30 starving and inbred feral cats clawed and leapt wildly to get away from officers in the squalid home on Providence Road. They were half-starved, wild-eyed inbreds “living in this house in filth, in their own…
Disaster in the Kitchen
In less than a year, Geddings went from being a nationally acclaimed political strategist and newcomer to Charlotte to being the Democrats’ best hope for a mayoral victory against Republican Mayor Pat McCrory to a being indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of fraud. When Geddings was appointed to the state’s lottery commission,…
Unidentified Rolling Objects
See & Do 10Moodswing 1210Urban Explorer
Spinach Plan B Begins With a “C”
Kitchen Witch
Broadway Lights: B-e-e There!
Books 44Hot Linx 46Savage Love 4840
Freak Out!
Here’s where folkie meets freaky-deke: Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. really trip out on “Asimo’s Naked Breakfast: Rice & Shrine” from the Japanese psych-rockers new Have You Seen the Other Side Of the Sky? (Ace Fu). The curiously titled song certainly reaches for the cosmos, with howling lyrics, chants fading in and…
Miscasting Calls
Film Clips 34View From The Couch 36Films In A Flash 3834
Lacking Evil?
Somewhere in the backwoods of Louisiana, there was an orgy involving Black Sabbath, Molly Hatchet, and Rush (with their original drummer, John Rutsey). Those who doubt such a mythical meshing of badass rock ‘n’ roll need only come and pay tribute to Blackfire Revelation at the Milestone Club on Thursday, Sept. 28. If you’ve been…
Lessons in Bad Service
Disaster in the Kitchen 64Kitchen Witch 66Good Eats 6866
Panic at the Amphitheater
New Grooves
Talking Hip-hop with God
Burn Baby Burn 80Widespread Panic 82Anoushka Shankar 82Blackfire Revelation 8585
Local Awards Get Rolling
When Mecklenburg County manager Jones announced his intentions to fund a tax cut with lottery proceeds meant for school construction, Easley was apoplectic. Never mind that he’d urged passage of lottery legislation that allowed just what Jones was planning to do. (Language that prohibited lottery money from supplanting local funds had been removed from the…
