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Thursday, February 26, 2009
News Coal is bad
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM
What principles are you willing to to go to jail for?
It may seem odd timing that many of us are heading to the nation’s capital early next month for a major act of civil disobedience at a coal-fired power plant, the first big protest of its kind against global warming in this country.After all, Barack Obama’s in power. He’s appointed scientific advisers who actually believe in… science, and he’s done more in a few weeks to deal with climate change than all the presidents of the last 20 years combined. Stalwarts like John Kerry, Henry Waxman, and Ed Markey are chairing the relevant congressional committees. The auto companies, humbled, are promising to build rational vehicles if only we give them some cash. What’s to protest? Why not just give the good guys a break?
If you think about it a little longer, though, you realize this is just the moment to up the ante.
Read the rest of this Yale Environment 360 Op-Ed piece here.
News The Wack List: Feb. 26
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Five people, places and things we really ain't digging today.
• Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
• More cuts at CMS
• New anti-gay resolutions
• The fact that G.M. may need more money
News Funding increase for homeless
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:52 AM
After too many months of lay off, foreclosure and other uh-oh-our-economy-is-in-the-gutter news, it's nice to know a helping hand is being offered to some of the community services looking after those who need a helping hand the most:
In these tough economic times, the need for homeless supports only continues to rise. Mecklenburg County Area Mental Health officials are pleased to announce that not only has federal funding that supports homeless services been renewed, but that new funding has also been awarded. Every year the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awards funding to communities to assist homeless and disabled citizens with housing. This year, Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte were awarded recurring and new HUD funding totaling $3,415,231. Most of the funding is recurring and will be disbursed to maintain existing Continuum of Care programs and services through partnering agencies that assist the homeless like the Salvation Army, Hope Haven and Community Link.
Read the rest of the County's press release here.
Today's Top Five / News Today's Top 5: Thursday
Posted By Anita Overcash on Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Feb. 26, 2009 — as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• T.I. and Young Jeezy at Bojangles Coliseum
• Suite Dreams aka Tournament Tip-Off at Suite
• Poetry Slam, featuring Concrete Generation Poets and art by Hasaan Kirkland, Antoine Williams and John Hairston Jr. at Mint Museum of Craft + Design
• Talent Show with MC-Angelo Geter at Winthrop University
• Killer Joe at Carolina Actors Studio Theatre
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Scene / News Hometown team wins quarterfinal game
Posted By Cheris Hodges on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:48 PM
The Lady Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith beat the defending CIAA women's champions today.
The two squads met in the finals last year, but this time, the outcome was different.
One thing was obvious about this game, Shaw wasn't the same team they were last year. The hard playing, girls are gone as the Golden Bulls had their way with the defending champions. With 9:47 left in first half JCSU was up 18 to 7.
Shaw’s cheerleaders, like their offense, showed up late in the first half. With 6:25 to go, the score was 23 to 11. Shaw cut the lead to five with 4:20 to go in the first half, showing signs of the team that beat the Golden Bulls in the finals last year. As a part of the CIAA urge to keep fans in their seats during halftime, there were performances by unknown singers and rappers. But the highlight of halftime was the “Let’s Make a Deal” game where fans won tee shirts, Amtrak tickets and a Food Lion gift card.
In the postgame interview, Shaw head coach Jacques Curtis said, he didn't want to take anything away from JC Smith, but "we never practiced playing eight on five."
"There were a lot of calls that went their way," he said.
While Shaw goes home, the Golden Bulls will move on to the semi-finals on Friday.
Film / News Trouble the Water screening tonight
Posted By Matt Brunson on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Trouble the Water, the major Sundance winner that also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature, will be screened at 7 p.m. tonight at the Afro-American Cultural Center. This nonfiction piece is at once a powerful look at the damage and division caused by Hurricane Katrina, the efforts of ordinary people to put their lives back together, and a condemnation of the incompetence of the Bush Administration in its inept handling of this national tragedy.
Admission is $8 ($6 for AACC members). For more info on the film, go to www.troublethewaterfilm.com.
News Poetry slam tomorrow
Posted By Anita Overcash on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Mint Museum of Craft + Design is the place to be tomorrow (Thurs., Feb. 26) night for the CIAA Mixin' It @ the Mint Poetry Slam. The free event will feature Concrete Generation Poets and art by Hasaan Kirkland, Antoine Williams and John Hairston Jr. Check out the flyer (below), for more details.
Film / News Box Office Top 10
Posted By Matt Brunson on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:38 PM
1. Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail - $41.0 million ($41 million)
2. Coraline - $11.4 million ($53.7 million)
3. Taken - $11.2 million ($95.0 million)
4. He's Just Not That Into You - $8.5 million ($70.1 million)
5. Slumdog Millionaire - $8.3 million ($98.3 million)
6. Friday the 13th - $7.9 million ($55.1 million)
7. Paul Blart: Mall Cop - $6.8 million ($121.2 million)
8. Confessions of a Shopaholic - $6.7 million ($27.3 million)
9. Fired Up - $5.4 million ($5.4 million)
10. The International - $4.4 million ($17.0 million)
(Gross for weekend of Feb. 20-22. Figure in parentheses is total gross to date. Source: www.boxofficemojo.com.)
Food / News Food News: Feb. 25
Posted By Tricia Childress on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM
* ZINK: American Kitchen, 201 N. Tryon St., will host a five-course Highland Brewery Beer dinner on Thursday, March 5, at 6:30 p.m. On the menu will be crispy polenta salmon with Gaelic Ale; horseradish-crusted Niman Ranch strip loin with Kashmir IPA; charred bacon-wrapped Carr Valley cheddar with local honeycomb and braised endive with St. Terese Pale Ale; and bittersweet chocolate torte with caramel corn ice cream and caramel sauce with Mocha Stout. $48, plus tax and gratuity. 704-444-9001.
* Noted on the Crêpe Cellar Kitchen & Pub website is the countdown – including the seconds – to their opening. Owners are Paul Manley and Jeff Tonidandel, a Davidson alum. Crêpe Cellar will open in late March at 3116 N. Davidson St., NoDa.
News Ken Lewis spins the news
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:08 PM
And, now, Beck's song, "Where It's At" will be stuck in my head all day... I got two turn tables and a microphone...
First up, Ken Lewis via another internal memo nabbed by Bloomberg all but telling the feds to shoot Citi, not Bank of America. C’mon, who else but C is Lewis talking about when he says “our consumer and commercial customer base, and earnings power give us a great advantage over banks that have been more badly damaged in the current crisis.”And, uh, what do you know, here’s Hugh McColl and Thomas Storrs making the same forward-looking “earnings power” argument on the op-ed pages of the Uptown paper. Can you say concerted strategic communication effort?
Read the rest of this Meck Deck article here.
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