RELEARNING TO FLY
Five years in wait, Superman Returns as our coping mechanism in a cape
The Devil Wears Prada
The Devil Wears Prada Studio: 20th Century Fox Rated: PG-13 Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Tracie Thoms, Adrian Grenier Director: David Frankel Screenwriter: Aline Brosh McKenna Music Score: Theodore Shapiro WorkNameSort: Devil Wears Prada, The Our Rating: 3.50 In its portrayal of a fresh-out-of-college, plainly dressed journalism student (Anne Hathaway) who takes a…
Click
Click Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing International Rated: PG-13 Release Date: 2006-06-23 Cast: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff, Sean Astin Director: Frank Coraci WorkNameSort: Click Our Rating: 2.00 He may be guilty of a million other sins, but Adam Sandler sure knows his target audience: aging man-children who have inherited the responsibilities of…
HAND AND GLOVE
Gradius Collection & MLB Slugfest 2006 Publishing House: Konami, Midway Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Gradius Collection & MLB Slugfest 2006 With its wide, horizontal screen, the PSP is a pitch-perfect platform for side-scrollers. Which is why the inherent lack of said games in the PSP library ‘ when is that PSP port of Ghosts n’ Goblins…
BOYS KEEP SWINGING
Fundamental/Fundamentalism Label: Rhino Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Fundamental/Fundamentalism Sixteen years ago, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe packed up their two-finger synthesizer tracks and their pinched-nose musings on the pop idiom and potentially singed their hit-making career with a match and a wagging finger, blindly throwing open the art-house doors (and,…
Yellow Fever!
Yellow Fever! Label: Essay Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Yellow Fever! In the late ’70s, music nearly had a postmodern heart attack when Yellow Magic Orchestra emerged from Tokyo with a blend of electronic futurism, mindless pop, disco bump and lush exotica that either sounded completely ridiculous or completely revolutionary. Their…
My Republic
My Republic Label: Fat Wreck Chords Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: My Republic Conventional wisdom suggests that political punk groups release prime material during Republican regimes. By contrast, Good Riddance peaked with its eloquently angry Clinton-era (1995) debut For God and Country. In the past decade, the Santa Cruz-based quartet experimented with metallic…
I Stand Alone
I Stand Alone Label: Anti/Epitaph Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: I Stand Alone If you’re reading this, chances are you’re either an Elliott fan who wants to learn if this is worth buying, or you’ve already purchased it and wonder what the buzz on it might be. First of all, there…
The Legendary Prestige Quintet
The Legendary Prestige Quintet Label: Prestige Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Legendary Prestige Quintet, The While Columbia merrily continues its well-curated boxed-set pillaging of recordings Miles made during his 20 prime years at the label, it’s taken the folks over at Prestige quite some time to realize that taking a precise approach might…
Jahir & the Experiment
Jahir & the Experiment Label: Cherry Bomb Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Jahir & the Experiment New York’s factory-new Jahir & the Experiment boast a little of everything for a lot of demographics. Essentially a hip-hop garage band high on their passion for melody, production and A-B rhymes, their unironic earnestness is infectious…
SUGAR AND SHADOWS
The sound of the Heathens — a wistful, vaguely elegiac blend of melodic twang and rough-edged, rural pop — is immediately striking. It’s the sort of sound that comes off as well-planned and thoughtfully belabored. It’s the sort of sound that comes from bands who have been making music together for years. It’s not the…
MURDER IN THE CITY BEAUTIFUL
;Recent statistics from the FBI show that violent crime is up nationwide, ending a five-year decrease. Murder and manslaughter rates went up nearly 5 percent nationwide, the largest percentage increase since 1991. ; ;Orlando appears to be following, even beating, that trend. As of June 26, we’ve had 30 homicides (the definition of “homicide” is…
TEMPEST IN A TRAFFIC STOP
“I’ve respected you as the Chief of the Orlando police department until this moment,” commissioner Daisy Lynum told police chief Michael McCoy in a June 20 letter. “I do not work for you and will not respond to the issues you so inappropriately sent to me. I am a defender of all that is fair…
THE LAST LAUGH?
It’s one of the oldest, most enduring refrains in local entertainment: SAK Comedy Lab is in trouble. At regular intervals throughout the influential improv operation’s 15-year history, a rumor surfaces that the end may be nigh. Operations are streamlined. Promotional campaigns are launched. And alumni in town for weekend visits pull current cast members aside…
BROTHER, WHERE YOU BOUND?
; ;Let he who is without sin blast the first e-mail.; ;Last week, Newsweek published the results of a survey the web site Beliefnet had conducted, in which 10,000 people were asked to rate the chances that they’ll be going to hell after they die. Surprise, surprise … the conservatives who participated in the poll…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES A Malaysian woman survived a showdown with a tiger. Kaliyama was working as a rubber tapper when the big cat slinked up behind her and wrapped its jaws around her leg. “Amma! Amma!” she cried out, invoking the name of the mother goddess. The tiger let go, backed off a step and glared at…
SAVAGE LOVE
;I am a straight female and have been in a loving relationship with my boyfriend for three years. I’m also a politically connected woman, a very “in control” type, and when I say “no” I mean “no.” A little more about me: I was born in Alabama, I play the piano, and I was a…
BLISTER
My lips are not like sugar right now. Just this afternoon, my friend and date-to-be, Jessica, called and canceled on me with an amorphous cry of “issues” (which I hear as “tissues” and immediately assume diarrhea, poor thing), and now I’m left scrolling through my cell for somebody else over the age of 30 who…
NOTABLE NOISE
;People often ask me about the worst part of my job. The benefits are obvious — free music, legions of fans, awareness that I’m changing the world — so there must be a downside, right? There certainly is: the Amateur Show Promoter. ;;Any musical venture that takes momentum away from pro players is one I…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;[TO MY READERS: One thing that used to really annoy me about the Dear Abby advice column was her penchant for running the same columns over and over again — especially on holidays. However, now that I’m a columnist myself, I realize why she did it. Turns out you can repeat a particularly successful column…
HAPPYTOWN
; ;Tired of those damned (and we mean that literally) secular humanists trying to take the Christ out of CHRISTmas? Us too, brothers and sisters, us too. Finally, someone in Orlando is doing something about it: making money.; ;;The Keep Christ in Christmas Alignment, backed by a local company called Pillars of Heaven Inc., sent…
POLICE BEAT
June 17, 2:32 a.m.: Heroes come in various shapes, sizes and forms. Officer Nguyen was dispatched to the 4700 block of Old Winter Garden Road in reference to a Sonitrol Alarm notification that “a white male was seen inside the business’ fenced yard,” reports state. Police surrounded the perimeter and a canine unit responded to…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
;; ;; ;;;; ;noblesse oblige; ;; Britain’s Prince Philip has for at least 30 years accommodated a “cargo cult” of 400 people on the South Sea island of Tanna, who revere him as the human face of an ancestral spirit, according to London’s Daily Mail in June. Both sides have been discreet, but the prince…
LETTERS
Feed the homeless Although my theoretical opinions of “reality manifestations” keeps me from supporting Food Not Bombs more directly than by leaving a paper sack of canned food out by the tree where the Wednesday feedings have taken place in Lake Eola Park, what has happened to squeeze this humanitarian benefit out, I believe to…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•29 The Band of the Name At the pinnacle of the band’s popularity, everyone is going their separate ways. The release of Please Step Off the Miracle and Turn to Your Left is the end of the road for the peculiar, theatrical indie-pop of the Band of the Name, but they’re going out with style…
