Did you hear the one about the deli worker who thought "gblt" was a gay bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich? You will at the Flynn's first-ever evening of all-queer, stand-up comedy. The laugh fest, which kicks off Pride Weekend, features a trinity of local comics who are anything but holy.... Read more

John Douglas describes his profession as "truth activist." The Charlotte multimedia artist creates animations, documentaries and photographs that question the heightened polarity in contemporary American politics and social attitudes. While other peace advocates might take a more distant and critical approach, Douglas does the opposite: using himself -- posed and exposed -- at the subject of his compositions.... Read more

Louise Pittman, the librarian behind the wheel of the Adams County bookmobile, was a hippie. So was everyone who had anything to do with books, as far as I could tell growing up in rural Pennsylvania. I was 13 and starved for something I'd been told in no uncertain terms was not good for me. My father was a Red Scare kind of guy and Louise was, well, something else. I suspected that "something" was subversive. In my opinion, the books-and-hippies connection had everything to do with the Question Authority thing I'd been direly warned against.... Read more

by SUSAN MOUL
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