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    <title>SPECIAL EVENT: UniverSoul Circus</title>
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        By Carlton Hargro
      
      
      Sick of the standard &quot;Ringling Bros. and yadda yadda&quot; circuses? Well, I&#39;d suggest you ease on down to see the UniverSoul Circus, which kicks off its run in Charlotte today. Unlike those other run-of-the-mill animal/clown-infested big-top events, UniverSoul delivers a truly international and multicultural brand of entertainment; be on the lookout for acts like the West African contortionists of Twisted Soul, the Chinese Foot Jugglers, and artists from the Dominican Republic jumping through the Wheel of Death, among many others.
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    <title>MUSIC: Skinny Puppy at Tremont Music Hall</title>
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        By Anita overcash
      
      
      Since their start in 1984, members of Skinny Puppy -- who go by the monikers of cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre -- have released a dozen albums, all of which dwell in the dark realm of electro-industrial. Of course, many of their discs -- beat-heavy with grim vocals and haunting melodies -- sound more like mood music for Halloween. It really could be the trick in stopping children (and adults too!) from setting foot on your door step. Oh well,
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    <title>THEATER: Actor&amp;#39;s Theatre of Charlotte presents Yankee Tavern</title>
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        By Anita overcash
      
      
      Actor&#39;s Theatre of Charlotte&#39;s latest production, Yankee Tavern, is a teasing mystery that will have your pulse racing&shy; -- and that&#39;s without alcohol in your system. The play centers around a young couple who work as proprietors at the Yankee Hotel; they face some serious scrutiny when a series of events begin to unravel, ultimately suggesting conspiracy theories in key events in American history. When a stranger pops into the picture, more doubts arise. To trust a stranger or not
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    <title>LITERATURE: Matt and Ted Lee at Park Road Books</title>
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        Sunday, Nov. 22...
       
      
        By Anita overcash
      
      
      The Women&#39;s National Book Association hosts this special evening at Park Road Books, featuring authors/journalists -- for a number of magazines, including Travel + Leisure and Food and Wine -- Matt and Ted Lee. During the event, the duo will discuss their new cookboo titled, The Lee Bros. Simple, Fresh, Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor. The event will also include a raffle to benefit First Book, a non-profit organization that gives new books to needy children. $5; Free for
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    <title>FILM: Alfred Hitchcock&amp;#39;s The 39 Steps</title>
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        Monday, Nov. 23...
       
      
        By Anita overcash
      
      
      The Main Library&#39;s Alfred Hitchcock fall film series, &quot;The Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Classics,&quot; continues this week with a screening of Hitchcock&#39;s 1935 thriller, The 39 Steps. In this flick -- which is based off of John Buchan&#39;s novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps -- adventure follows Englishman Richard Hannay (played by Robert Donat), who becomes involved in a conspiracy to capture British military secrets as he attends a &quot;Mr. Memory&quot; (played by Wylie Watson) demonstration. Forced to go on the
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    <title>COMEDY: James Sibley at Lake Norman Comedy Zone</title>
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        Tuesday, Nov. 24...
       
      
        By Anita overcash
      
      
      Comedian James Sibley is one heck of a storyteller. Whether he is talking about his four children or simple, daily observations, he twists in witty amounts of humor to give folks a laugh. The funny guy has even appeared on TV shows like My Name Is Earl and Gilmore Girls. Check him out when he visits Lake Norman Comedy Zone at Galway Hooker Pub for a performance on Nov. 24. For more information, visit www.lkncomedyzone.com. $10. Doors open at 7
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    <title>ART: Game Theory exhibition</title>
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        Wednesday, Nov. 25...
       
      
        By Anita overcash
      
      
      Local artist Antoine Williams is one creative dude. If you haven&#39;t seen his mixed media paintings around Charlotte, frequently displayed in exhibitions around town, you&#39;ve missed out. Williams has also contributed his designs to past issues of Creative Loafing ... and we just know you saw that and thought they were awesome. Either way, show him some support by visiting his new solo exhibition, Game Theory at Dialect Gallery. Paintings in the exhibition explore ideas related to different perspectives of
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    <title>Book review: Bill Streever&amp;#39;s Cold: Adventures in the World&amp;#39;s Frozen Places</title>
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        By John Grooms
      
      
      Early in his captivating book, Cold: Adventures in the World&#39;s Frozen Places, author Bill Streever is describing how various animals deal with winter in the far northern climes within the Arctic Circle. There&#39;s hibernation, of course, a state used by bears, ground squirrels and surprisingly, some bird species. OK, normal enough. Streever then describes creatures that can survive being frozen solid, such as types of northern frogs, which &quot;overwinter in a frozen state, amphibian Popsicles,&quot; living in a suspended state
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        By Carlton Hargro
      
      
      Astonishing X-Men No. 32 Published by Marvel Comics. Written by Warren Ellis. Pencils by Phil Jimenez. Inks by Andy Lanning. If -- like me -- you weren&#39;t blown away by Warren Ellis&#39; first arc on Astonishing X-Men, then you&#39;ll probably love his brand-new story line, which marches on in issue 32. Last go-round, Ellis populated his scripts with tons of exposition and dialogue about outlandish pseudo-science crap. Fortunately, for this latest X-adventure, he&#39;s chucked a good portion of that babbling
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    <title>Bizarre crimes from Charlotte police files</title>
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        By Ryan Pitkin
      
      
      Doin&#39; Work: A 35-year-old woman called police after she was burglarized by her own son. She told officers that she always keeps her door locked when she goes to work, and her son is the only one there. When she returned on this day, the &quot;home invader in training&quot; had kicked the bedroom door off the hinges and stolen $80 in cash and change. That&#39;s what happens when you are a day late with my allowance, woman! Geek Squad: A
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    <title>Are these guys more than just best friends?</title>
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        By Dan Savage
      
      
      My boyfriend and his best friend are close. Last summer, I noticed that when my boyfriend gets drunk he tries to grab his friend&#39;s ass, throws his arm around him, and sits close to him. Then one day I found a pair of underwear in our bedroom that belonged to my boyfriend&#39;s best friend. My boyfriend said he didn&#39;t know how they got there. I figured he and his pal messed around and he didn&#39;t know how to talk about
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    <title>Horoscope Nov. 18-24, 2009</title>
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        By Vivian Carol
      
      
      Sagittarius The Archer (Nov. 22-Dec. 20): The sun returns &quot;home&quot; to your sign this week. You likely will find it to be energizing. Now is the time to focus on new plans for this next year of your life. This week may be challenging for those on a diet or other self-improvement program. You are prone to self-indulgence right now. For All Signs: Venus, goddess of love, and Mars, the warrior, are squared off for battle at this time. Many
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    <title>Bruno, North By Northwest among DVD reviews</title>
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      BRUNO (2009). To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen&#39;s smackdown of Dan Quayle during the 1988 Vice Presidential Debate: &quot;Bruno, I screened Borat; I knew Borat; Borat was a review of mine. Bruno, you&#39;re no Borat.&quot; At the same time, there&#39;s still plenty of laughs to be found in Borat, which finds creator Sacha Baron Cohen employing the same guerilla tactics and faux-documentary style that made Borat such an unlikely box office winner back in 2006. This time, the uncompromising comedian adopts the
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      The perfect follow-up for those moviegoers who were simply crushed when Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen wrapped up at a too-brief 142 minutes, 2012 contributes another 158 minutes to the cause of wham-bam-thank-you-man cinema. No effect is too preposterous, no sound too deafening, and no clich&eacute; too enormous to be left out of the latest end-of-the-world effort from director Roland Emmerich, who there but for the grace of God goes Michael Bay. On balance, I can handle Emmerich&#39;s output better
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        By Matt Brunson
      
      
      The Box is the latest picture from writer-director Richard Kelly, who with the cult fave Donnie Darko proved that he&#39;s one filmmaker able to think outside the box (ouch). Adapting Richard Matheson&#39;s short story &quot;Button, Button,&quot; Kelly has fashioned a complex tale out of a simple premise: A solemn stranger (Frank Langella) hands a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) a box and informs them that if they press the button on top, someone they don&#39;t know will die
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