Filthy godless whores
If you heard me screaming yesterday, I apologize. It’s just a habit I have when a spider lands on my head and tries to bite my brain. The screaming part is an involuntary primal call I make to anyone within earshot so they can rush over and start swatting. Not that I can’t kill spiders…
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…
Food In The Nude
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Letters to the editor
Gone To Pot While I understand that your paper publishes views of all interest, I am appalled at your survey “Poll Results Censored” (Boomer With Attitude, John Grooms, Aug. 23). From a global perspective, people tend to read articles, surveys, etc., and form an opinion. In forming their opinion, they tend to influence others. As…
View From the Couch
FRIENDS WITH MONEY (2006). Movies like Friends With Money are often termed “slice of life” films, but when they’re as tasty as this one, a slice won’t suffice: We end up longing for the whole pie. Set in LA, this rich seriocomic gem centers on the daily activities of four close female friends. Three of…
It’s Curtains for Curtain Calls
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Will it come back to bite you?
Dear Karma Cleanser: If I could have just one wish come true in life, it would be to become a monk at a small Catholic monastery that is on top of a mountain in Big Sur, CA. The only thing is, I’m a woman and the convent thing just isn’t my style. Do you think…
Arab Alienation, Five Years Later
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The Blotter
SWALLOW THE EVIDENCE: A man purchased items at Wal-Mart with a counterfeit 100 dollar bill a few months ago. His lady friend, who worked at Belk, exchanged fake 100s with real ones at her store on three documented occasions. Police officers caught on to the couple and showed up one day to search the man’s…
Multiplex nights
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That’s Different
Sorry, more text than pics this time, but religion is for readers. Check out some of the fascinating things people believe in. This book, that book, aliens and gerbils. Who’s your imaginary friend? Jews for Allah www.jews-for-allah.com Urantia www.urantia.org Raelians www.rael.org Operation Clambake www.xenu.net Church of the Gerbil www.corg.org
Food, glorious food
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Wine Typecasting
Corkscrew
Feeling Red
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Mannish boyz
Sho’nuff these mack daddies and rebels without a pause are some kinda men — but they ain’t always reliable narrators: Honky-tonk badonkadonk put slow-burn country baritone Trace Adkins permanently on the map; now they call him Toby Keith-lite. Well, Adkins supported Bush’s re-election, but, “Fightin’ Words” aside, his latest disc’s messages hew to the pleasure…
Parrots of Doom
Boomer With Attitude
Y? Why Not?
The YMCA of Charlotte has quietly revised its membership policies, ushering in changes that, intended or not, allow same-sex households to join at what had before been rates reserved for husbands and wives. Many gays and lesbians have applauded the changes, announced in May. “It does say we recognize your family as valid,” said Laura…
The Food Issue
For CL’s Food Issue, we decided to bypass the posh nosh and look at humbler cuisine. First, food critic Tricia Childress goes on a search for Charlotte’s indigenous foods. (Hint: It’s not lobster or chateaubriand.) Then, intrepid reporter Jared Neumark risks his life (or at least his liver) to explore the city’s notable dive bars.…
Parties with a purpose
Think of Charlotte nightlife as a bookstore, broken up into genres. You have your basic sections, such as dance, sports, strip, comedy, billiards and biker. But I think we need to add a new section: altruism. I happily support a venue that supports a cause. I don’t mind giving my hard earned beer money to…
Calle Cinco Festival
As ya’ll know, Jennifer Lopez is now referring to herself as a Nuyorican, which is basically short for a New York native of Puerto Rican descent. But for all you straight up Latinos who don’t need any fancy title to show love for your culture, there’s the Calle Cinco Festival Latino. This daylong fiesta highlights…
Sun Rising for pride Jazzfest
For a state whose musical pedigree includes the birthplaces of jazz giants John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk, North Carolina’s current jazz scene could use some sprucing up. That’s the goal of Torrey Feimster, publisher of Charlotte’s Pride magazine and the event organizer for the 15th annual Sunset Jazz Festival. The event runs Friday, Sept. 8…
See & Do
Wednesday, September 06 As Charlotte is about to discover from the true-life example of one of its own — Charlotte von Mahlsdorf — it takes a certain amount of balls to live in Berlin without apologies as a transvestite. Doing it in Nazi Germany and then under the Communists of the German Democratic Republic requires…
Straight out of the headlines
“It is ‘Anchorman,’ not ‘Anchorlady’ — and that is a scientific fact.” — Champ Kind (David Koechner) We must really have issues. This week, Katie Couric takes over as the anchor for CBS News — and how exactly is that a big deal? Every popular cooking show is hosted by an increasingly unfashionable metrosexual dude,…
Dem franchise boyz
In the hip-hop game, venturing out of your genre ‘hood can be a dangerous business. If you’re snappin’ where you’re supposed to be crunkin,’ you’re inviting a drive-by. Dem Franchise Boyz have taken a fusillade of bullets in print for their attempts to replace fast-paced crunk with more laid-back snap. Though both forms are considered…
Tipsy tips
So last week you got a little crazy, buying Jäger bombs for you and your friends at some overpriced club. It felt good at the time (never mind the next morning), but now you’re a few days from payday and those “friends” ain’t reciprocating. But just because you need cheap beer doesn’t mean you want…
Can you update us on Israel’s war in Gaza?
The war in Lebanon has pushed several important news stories out of the headlines this summer. For example, I didn’t find out until today that July 31 was the 40th birthday of “Lois & Clark” hunk Dean Cain. America’s fifth most popular Superman of all-time hits the big 4-0 and I miss it! Screw you,…
Charlotte All the Way
Order a dog “all the way” at downtown’s Green’s Lunch, established 1926, and you’ll get a hot dog smeared with a beanless chili and a mayonnaise-based, finely chopped cole slaw. But is that Charlotte’s signature dish? Slaw on dogs — and burgers — is not unique to Charlotte (Green’s started the slaw in 1975). However,…
Mother Goosed
The Advice Goddess
Dive On In
What is a dive bar? When I offend the owner of the establishment that this article on laid-back drinking holes was inspired by, the question of definition was an oversight. “A dive,” said Tommy’s Pub and Club owner Jim Mack, “is a place for bikers, no-good doers and prostitutes, and we don’t want to be…
Sept. 7 – Sept. 13, 2006
VIRGO The Virgin: (Aug. 22 — Sept. 22) The eclipses of this 18 month series focus attention upon your partnerships. What is your pattern in significant relationships? How might you contribute to a fuller, richer life for yourself and the important persons in your life? Search out solutions that favor everyone involved in the relationship.…
Film Clips
New Releases BROKEN BRIDGES The first theatrical film produced by CMT (Country Music Television), Broken Bridges has no business playing in multiplexes, given that it basically warbles “made-for-TV” throughout its entire running time. In his feature film debut, country music star Toby Keith plays Bo Price, a — you guessed it — country music star…
Marx as a Mummy
Book Review
The Mothers’ War
My People
