The Charlotte-based style show Speaking Fashionese, hosted by Style Mayvin, is back for the second of two new episodes. (Watch last week’s new episode here.) This time around, the show visits Lavish Hair Spa & Boutique. Enjoy!
Presenting, the first of two new episodes of the Charlotte-based style show Speaking Fashionese, hosted by Style Mayvin. This week the show stops by the retail spot Revolution at EpiCentre in Uptown.
Coming Aug. 16, Creative Loafing will debut brand-new episodes of the local style-centric Web TV show Speaking Fashionese, hosted by T. Strong — aka Style Mayvin. Here’s a quick look at what’s on tap for the next few weeks:
Special Ed, you know the rapper on the song “I Got It Made”?!? Well, the classic MC resides in Charlotte these days. Check out this interview by “The Fresh” held at the Sheraton Hotel.
Scotty Reid films an unidentified floating object in Gaston County. It appears to be a planet or star, but Reid argues that it is not … nor is it a plane.
In this week’s cover story, Creative Loafing is offering you the opportunity to peer into some of your neighbors’ rental homes, as we present to you a tour of eclectically decorated living spaces in Charlotte.
Here are the places we checked out, MTV Cribs-style.
Meet Kymm McLean … if you’re fast enough. Here’s her home.
If you love shoes or you love going out, chances are, you know Dan Mauney.
Danielle Taylor is originally from New York, and that’s why living in Tryon House Apartments suits her just fine.
Good things come in small packages, and Scooter Arnold, a makeup artist for Mac Cosmetics, subscribes to that credo.
From the outside, Lore Emelio’s home looks like any other house in Dilworth — but inside you’ll find the inner workings of her small business.
Bizarre South Carolina candidate for the U.S. Senate Alvin Greene believes that he can stimulate S.C.’s economy by creating action figures of himself. Seriously. I wonder if the action figures will be wearing the green shirt he seems to wear in all his interviews?
Here are three interviews of Greene showing how he plans on helping his state out if he is elected.
Sunday, in a five-page spread in the paper’s weekly magazine, The New York Times declared S.C. Sen. Lindsey Graham “This Year’s Maverick.” (Read the article, by Robert Draper, here.)
In the profile, Graham, a Republican member of the U.S. Senate for only seven years, is portrayed as someone who views being disliked by both political extremes as an opportunity to seize the position of “deal-maker-in-chief.”
Why do the extremes hate him?
Graham preaches bipartisanship when Tea Partiers want blood. He dropped his support of the very climate legislation (the article quotes him as preferring to call it “energy independence” legislation) he once co-sponsored after Sen. Harry Reid bumped immigration reform to the top of the Senate’s to-do list. He has, according to his own count and the chagrin of the “Party of No,” visited the West Wing of the White House nearly 20 times since Barack Obama became president. And, he admits he’s told the Obama administration he’ll likely vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, but first he aims to out her as a liberal.
That’s why far-right talking heads and bloggers pick on him like schoolyard bullies and liberals find him irritating, though he doesn’t seem to care. (Conservative bullhorns accuse him of being gay, he responds by cracking jokes.)
In the article, the life-long bachelor and policy wonk admits he doesn’t have a life. Though that’s fine by him, crafting policies that will shape America’s future is his idea of a fun time anyway. What does matter to him is that the White House and the GOP respect his role as a deal maker.
“I offer myself as a bridge, and I take a beating for that,” the senator says in the article when energy and climate legislation came up, “and I get rewarded for that.”
Unfortunately for him, however, the author points out his bipartisan bend has produced no “legislative triumph.”
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In this three-year-old video, Sen. Graham discusses immigration and what it means to be an American, saying, “… we’re going to tell the bigots to shut up.” Some folks on the far-right claimed his comments are “insane” and that the event was “racist.”
Further reading: N.C. Sen. Richard Burr’s energy bill backs nuclear — The Charlotte Observer
After a long hiatus, Creative Loafing is bringing back its annual Theater Awards (aka the “Perry Awards.”) Here’s CL’s resident theater critic Perry Tannenbaum (hence the “aka”) with all the details (Be sure to stick around to the end of the video for a surprise climax!):
(Video produced by John Merrick and Big Shot Film. Find them at: bigshotfilm.com. Thanks to CAST for use of the space.)
