The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millenium General Assembly
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millenium General Assembly Label: Hardly Art Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millenium General Assembly, The As if there weren’t enough bands spilling forth with the English word ‘wolfâ?� in their name, along it comes in French…
Bluefinger
Bluefinger Label: Cooking Vinyl Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Bluefinger When he finally makes an album under his real name, Charles Thompson, we’ll know he’s thrown in the towel. For now, Frank Black has gone back to his original Pixies stage name, Black Francis, and recorded an album that gets its shriek on.…
Our Ill Will
Our Ill Will Label: Merge Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Our Ill Will Carrying dismal verses that beg to be hollered from apartment windows, Our Ill Wills rises and falls brilliantly over a turbulent 48 minutes. The sophomore outing from Swedish popsters the Shout Out Louds is Cure-esque and sophisticated, with danceable rhythms…
GALLIC FINESSE
Winter Park boîte shuns trends in favor of tradition
B&S Daily Market
B&S Daily Market is a combination coffee stop, newsstand, convenience store and gift shop that would not be out of place in any urban center. I first went in lured by the promise of sandwiches from Lola’s Gourmet to Go, but I found out you’ve got to be quick: They go fast. Still, not having…
THE END TIMES
Leonardo DiCaprio schools you on the collapse of the environment
No End in Sight
No End in Sight Rated: NOT RATED WorkNameSort: No End in Sight Our Rating: 5.00 The only suitable expression one can have after a viewing of No End in Sight is one of speechless horror. Even those who have studied the Iraq quagmire in detail from day one will find reasons to be shocked in…
Molière
Molière Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: PG-13 Cast: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini Director: Laurent Tirard WorkNameSort: Molière Our Rating: 1.50 The time depicted in this film about the life of Jean-Baptiste Molière ‘ the several months between his imprisonment in a debtor’s jail and the return of his Illustrious Theatre Troupe ‘ is, by the…
Mr. Woodcock
Mr. Woodcock Studio: New Line Cinema Rated: PG-13 Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Seann William Scott Director: Craig Gillespie WorkNameSort: Mr. Woodcock Our Rating: 1.00 It’s School for Scoundrels redux, only this time with an even more annoying Hollywood brat (Seann William Scott) as the milquetoast girlie-man who squares off against an increasingly typecast Billy Bob…
Stranger Than Paradise / Night On Earth
Stranger Than Paradise / Night On Earth Studio: Criterion WorkNameSort: Stranger Than Paradise / Night On Earth The arrival of Jim Jarmusch’s groundbreaking masterpiece Stranger Than Paradise in a crisp new Criterion transfer isn’t a big deal ‘ the film has been readily available on a quality MGM disc for some time. What is a…
House of Games
House of Games Studio: Criterion Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: House of Games What is the deal with David Mamet? Why do critics roll on the floor in drooling paroxysms over his belching dialogue with its tough-guy affectations and the robotic direction he gives his mannequin actors? The first few minutes of House of Games don’t promise…
Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy
Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy Label: Fat Cat Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy Iceland’s Múm hiked to a music school in a countryside fishing town called Ã�safjörður to record some of Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy, and managed to keep their electronic/live pop masterpieces petite…
HAPPYTOWN
;In case you missed it, the city’s venues plan has hit a snag. On Sept. 6, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that cities can’t use property tax revenues to finance long-term bond packages without first holding a referendum: some crap about people having a say about how their money is spent, blah blah blah. ;;…
POLICE BEAT
AUG. 28, 9:19 A.M.: Some burglars like hard cash. Some like expensive jewelry. Some like frozen alligator heads. A suspect or suspects broke into a peculiar three-sided building in the 1000 block of West Church Street on this morning. According to police reports, the rear of the building is “completely open,” sealed only by a…
MAIL SACK
; ;No utopia ;Deanna Sheffield: You did a nice job with the article on Cassadaga [“Paradise lost,” Sept. 6]. I’m glad you didn’t let anyone back you down.; ;This is not a situation about a disgruntled church member, it’s much more criminal in nature. They are using the church as a means for covering up.…
BLACK IS REALLY WHITE
As a phrase, “heaven and hell” covers more ground than any other dichotomy, spanning from the spiritual playground that lofts nebulously above the cosmos to the torture pit buried beneath the earth’s molten core. As such, it’s an apt moniker for a band fronted by Ronnie James Dio, whose polarities-based lyrical approach — the Diochotomy…
AMERICA-BASHING OR GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE?
In the six years since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Western world has been through a crash course on terrorism and radical Islam at its bookstores. And it’s not just journalists or historians doing the teaching. A growing number of novels have addressed the fallout of terrorism, from John Updike’s Terrorist to Jonathan…
iBULLIES
;It used to be simple to identify a bully: He was the rough kid that demanded your lunch money on the playground, or the girl who encouraged her friends to pick on you for your fashion sense.; ;But times change, and so does bullying. It’s gone online. Cyber-bullies – kids who use cell-phone cameras and…
CENSORED
There are a handful of freedoms that have almost always been a part of American democracy. Even when they didn’t exactly apply to everyone or weren’t always protected by the people in charge, a few simple but significant rights have been patently clear in the Constitution: You can’t be nabbed by the cops and tossed…
DOWNTOWN CONVENIENCES
Choices, we’ve got choices … In the spate of development cropping up downtown, office lunchers in a hurry have two tasteful new spots to try out. • B&S Daily Market is a combination coffee stop, newsstand, convenience store and gift shop that would not be out of place in any urban center. I first went…
BLISTER
I think I just dropped my property value. Genius of all geniuses, I took my labor pains of Labor Day all the way down to the Apple Store to remedy the Great Toshiba MP3 Player Incident of 2007 — meaning I dropped it and it broke — with a little bit of upper-crust, 80-gig iPod…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I foresee glacier ice melting and molten rock flowing in your immediate future. I expect that hard solids will become fluid; permanent fixtures will be in flux. This is a good thing. Though it may unnerve you at first, you will have the power to change things you never thought could…
SAVAGE LOVE
A close friend of ours is a gay male in his 40s. About seven years ago, our friend met and briefly dated a not-too-bright, conniving guy about 10 years younger. Our friend threw himself into this relationship with his new “trophy husband” and did everything he could for his new boyfriend. He financed his apartment,…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Zzzz … zzz … z … (snort) … (slurp) Huh? What? Oh, is it over? Geez, finally. I know it happens every year but the summer concert drought always feels like it’ll never end. But wake up, twinkle those eyes and bush that pretty little tail of yours, baby, ’cause we are back in action.…
CULTURE TO GO
Not so dark, but rich Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Through Oct. 7 at Orlando Repertory Theatre $15; 407-896-7365 www.orlandorep.com The television news vans at Loch Haven Park on Friday night were there for Trinity Prep’s controversial production of La Cage aux Folles, whose precipitous near-cancellation made blogs buzz nationwide. But it wasn’t the only…
COUNCIL WATCH
“National Preparedness Months,” read a tripod foamboard up against the dais. “Preparing makes sense.” This reporter could only be described as unprepared when typically cheery District 3 commissioner Robert Stuart walked by and slapped him on the head with a stack of papers because of something “tacky” that was written in this very column a…
