`Cats and Dogs' Fight For Love of Humans
(07/12/01 4:00am)
By Russ Lane
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By Russ Lane
By Russ Lane
So after three albums of mixing Celtic strings, African rhythms, electronica, modern song structures and whatever else struck their fancy, the 10 musicians comprising the Afro Celt Sound System stop being clever and start sounding like a band on Volume 3: Further in Time.
Three of Five Stars Like writers, musicians are ultimately thieves.
Three of Five Stars Talking animals are fun. In the same way that talking babies were fun in the countless "Look Who's Talking" films, or Mel Gibson's ability to read women's thoughts was fun in "What Women Want." The list of novelties goes on indefinitely - would Paul Hogan even have a career if not for the "Oh look, an Australian! Say `mate,' say `mate!'" reaction evoked by the "Crocodile Dundee" films? All these films are one-trick ponies, and their success relies on the mass appeal of those tricks. So whether you enjoy "Dr.
4/5 Stars For someone who excels in tell-it-like-it-is storytelling, Lucinda Williams has certainly become a mystery. Williams follows her 1999 comeback/breakthrough, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, with Essence, a slow, tense album whose cup of spiritual imagery runneth over. But with all the album's references and metaphors, it's a little unclear whose word she's proclaiming. When she rips into "Get Right with God," which is a cross between a fundamentalist anthem and a snake-charmin', washboard-music-makin' revival, she gives both the serpents and God Almighty equal time.
It was like watching the end of the world. And on a symbolic level, it was. A crowd of 300 gathered at the Ackland Art Museum Friday to witness the dismantling of the Medicine Buddha sand mandala, which took four months to create. Sand mandalas represent the universe in a microcosm, effectively blueprinting Tibetan Buddhism's ideas on a two-dimensional surface.
The Carolina Union Performing Arts Series is relocating half of its 2001-02 season due to the beginning of Memorial Hall's renovations in 2002, while the music department is awaiting confirmation for its plans to relocate the deteriorating Hill Hall Music Library.
HILLSBOROUGH --
But the clippings weren't just positive reviews -- instead, the clips showed glances of the public life of a high society Texas family and its patriarch, Thomas Blake Jr., known as "Blakey" to his family.
Located at 523 S. Elm St. -- a part of downtown Greensboro's arts and antiques district -- the Artistika's decor is a far cry from the concrete floors of Go! Rehearsal Studios or Cat's Cradle, making smokers a little self-conscious to light up in a building that exudes class.
Time slows around alt-country singer-songwriter Tift Merritt.
In conversation, Hughes is at times outrageous, at others direct and articulate, and it seems she has an opinion on nearly everything. For example --
Before, the festival usually totaled about 10 events, but, by its 24th year, the festival has almost doubled. It includes a steady stream of events that began in January and will conclude with an eclectic schedule of performances, intellectual discussions and events running through March 3.
It's a gratitude for the ability to breathe, a basic and often-taken-for-granted function UNC Hospitals doctors restored when Tolchin underwent a double lung transplant on April 13, 1997, after spending four years on the waiting list.
