Honorable community service
If you’ve ever lived south of the East-West Expressway, in the vicinity of Lake Davis, you probably remember El Rincon, a beer-in-a-bag kind of market at the corner of Mills Avenue and Gore Street. If your timing was good and you caught the place when it was open, which was frustratingly rare, you might find…
Wordy adversaries
Movie: The Ladykillers
Movie: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Studio: Warner Bros. Website: http://www.scoobydoo2movie.com Release Date: 2004-03-26 Cast: Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Freddie Prinze Jr., Alicia Silverstone Director: Raja Gosnell WorkNameSort: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Our Rating: 0.00 Before there was “The Cat in the Hat,” the first “Scooby-Doo” was the premier movie that nobody on Earth…
Movie: The Reckoning
Our Rating: 2.50 Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox … what are they doing in this thing? Having a good time dressing like waiters at Medieval Times and not taking any of it too seriously, one hopes. Bettany’s a disgraced 1300s priest on the run from his flock after a fleshy indiscretion (and a “mysterious”…
Review – The Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends
Artist: Mohammed Rafi
Movie: Never Die Alone
Our Rating: 2.00 So is it somehow better to die in the company of a whole mess of people? Arriving at a satisfying answer may be easier than divining just whom this meandering street fable is supposed to be about. At various times, the movie fancies itself the personal odyssey of: King David (rapper DMX),…
Review – Sleep No More
Artist: DJ Signify
Review – The Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends
Artist: Mohammed Rafi
From here to paternity
Movie: Jersey Girl
Review – In Absentia
Artist: Porcupine Tree
Review – Sleep No More
Artist: DJ Signify
Movie: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Our Rating: 0.00 Before there was “The Cat in the Hat,” the first “Scooby-Doo” was the premier movie that nobody on Earth seemed to especially like, but which made a whole buttload of money anyway. And in movie logic, that equals more! (Not reviewed)
Review – In Absentia
Artist: Porcupine Tree
Review – The Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends
Artist: Mohammed Rafi
Review – Sleep No More
Artist: DJ Signify
Review – In Absentia
Artist: Porcupine Tree
Wordy adversaries
Movie: The Ladykillers
Movie: The Reckoning
The Reckoning Studio: Paramount Classics Website: http://www.paramountclassics.com/reckoning Release Date: 2004-03-26 Cast: Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Ewen Bremner, Vincent Cassel, Brian Cox Director: Paul McGuigan WorkNameSort: The Reckoning Our Rating: 2.50 Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox … what are they doing in this thing? Having a good time dressing like waiters at Medieval Times and…
Movie: Never Die Alone
Never Die Alone Studio: Fox Searchlight Website: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/neverdiealone Release Date: 2004-03-26 Cast: Reagan Preston-Gomez, Drew Sidora, Jennifer Sky, David Arquette, DMX Director: Ernest R. Dickerson WorkNameSort: Never Die Alone Our Rating: 2.00 So is it somehow better to die in the company of a whole mess of people? Arriving at a satisfying answer may be…
From here to paternity
Movie: Jersey Girl
What’s with all the BLIMPS!
Before shipping out on a one-year tour of duty in Iraq, U.S. Navy Seabee Angel Seaz wanted to arrange a romantic outing with his fiancée, Karen Alvarez. So Seaz contacted a local Saturn dealer and finagled a ride for the couple on the company’s blimp. “She loved it,” says a smiling Seaz after exiting the…
PlayStations of the ‘cross
This spring, go back to the Holy Land ready to kick donkey and take names. But don’t let go of your joystick! Straight from the screen of your local multiplex comes a hot new video game that lets you fight alongside Jesus — or maybe even in his sandals. The heat is on and the…
That’s using your head
Among recent U.S. patents, according to a January story in the East Bay Express, Emeryville, Calif.: 1) a penile prosthesis with a magnet, from Deborah Knoll-Ewers, Hercules, Calif. (to overcome erectile dysfunction with new-age magnet therapy); 2) a plastic liner for men to use beneath their underwear, from Wesley Johnson, Burbank, Calif. (to keep the…
Monday-night quarterbacking
“Tell me why, I don’t like Mondays?” once quizzed Bob Geldof, his teeth rotting in his Ratty Boomtown. For me, the answer always came quite quickly — even in those halcyon days of locker pinups with Lisa Whelchel on them — Mondays are for assholes. Assholes be damned (although they should sometimes be coddled), the…
Bush campaign kickoff and Winter Music Conference
George Bush’s re-election campaign kickoff March 20 brought a predictable mix of dirt-under-their-fingernails blue-collar types (sporting “I’m Not Fonda Kerry” shirts) and pant-suited, middle-class suburban Christians to the Orange County Convention Center, all of whom were waving plastic American flags, made in China and distributed free at the door courtesy of the Republican Party of…
Honorable community service
If you’ve ever lived south of the East-West Expressway, in the vicinity of Lake Davis, you probably remember El Rincon, a beer-in-a-bag kind of market at the corner of Mills Avenue and Gore Street. If your timing was good and you caught the place when it was open, which was frustratingly rare, you might find…
Canadian violinist Ang&ea…
Canadian violinist Angéle Dubeau is going to great pains to ensure that nobody thinks she and La Pietá, her all-female concert ensemble, are in league with Satan. Such refutations are usually the purview of Norwegian metal bands, not Vivaldi-inspired talents, but it’s an explanation she’s nonetheless compelled to make. “It’s not an apology for the…
Mainstream radio will nev…
Mainstream radio will never be ready for a hot black chick that hyperbolizes sex more than America hyperbolizes war. OK, maybe that’s exactly what mainstream radio depends upon, but Kelis is another story altogether. Exploding with hypersexed mumbo jumbo and lollipop-sucking flamboyance, Kelis also just happens to be filled to the brim with the smoke-voiced…
Listen carefully to the sound of loneliness
The primary thing that made Fleetwood Mac such a great band was their down-to-earth, could-be-living-next-door life-style. The average, ordinary existence the principals in the group lived not only resonated with the hoi polloi, but also gave the music of the Mac its rustic, blue-collar appeal. OK, maybe not. But if nonstop relationship turmoil, excessive amounts…
Binary colors
Come this Friday, March 26, downtown Orlando will finally have its long-promised focal point for thoroughly modern media. The good Lord willing. A certain vagueness has surrounded D.MAC, the Downtown Media Arts Center, which was originally announced to open by the end of 2003 in the historic Rogers Building (home of the Guinevere’s coffeehouse). That…
Task force failure
“I’ve never seen a more flawed process,” says Bill Segal, real-estate developer and member of the mayor’s Parramore Task Force. “It was like I looked through the looking glass.” He’s right. The task force, convened in November by Mayor Dyer to fix the blighted Parramore neighborhood, looks to be producing a whole lot of nothing.…
