Wrong house, wrong time
Movie: The Glass House
Wrong house, wrong time
Movie: The Glass House
Review – Toxicity
Artist: System of a Down
Review – Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance
Artist: Rafael Toral
Review – TNT
Artist: Steve Turre
Review – Long Distance
Artist: Ivy
Joyous Italian
With all the exotic choices surrounding us that have become familiar, it sounds really old-fashioned to say, “I have a favorite Italian restaurant.” And pizza doesn’t count. I mean the foods of Abruzzi and Naples, Sorrento and Milan. Dishes like fried alici (anchovies that are fresh silvery fish, not shriveled salt-sticks), whole grilled artichokes and…
Review – Toxicity
Artist: System of a Down
Review – Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance
Artist: Rafael Toral
Review – TNT
Artist: Steve Turre
Teen drama strikes the reality zone
Movie: Our Song
Review – Long Distance
Artist: Ivy
Review – Toxicity
Artist: System of a Down
Review – Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance
Artist: Rafael Toral
Review – TNT
Artist: Steve Turre
Review – Long Distance
Artist: Ivy
Teen drama strikes the reality zone
Movie: Our Song
Public service … at a price
How much would you pay to have the likes of Mayor Glenda Hood or Chairman Rich Crotty be your waiter-for-a-day? Or, better yet, Sheriff Kevin Beary? In fact, according to the invitation Crotty sent Orlando Weekly last week, just about every elected official in the Central Florida area will become “server” at the Oct. 5…
A vote for dignity?
The firestorm that erupted after Republican state Rep. Allen Trovillion told four gay teen-agers they were, essentially, going to burn in hell has died down [“God…will destroy you,” April 19]. The rocky political terrain his tirade left for fellow Republicans, who seemed stuck between condoning hatred or homosexuality, also has subsided. But the vitriol of…
The price of plastic
Once the privileged possession of the credit-worthy and the gamefully employed, charge cards now jut out of the wallets of unemployed college students, Social Security-dependent elderly persons and almost everybody in between. No fewer than 158 million Americans now walk around with 1.5 billion credit cards. These shiny pieces of embossed plastic have become the…
Pulling Strings
On June 4, Mike Hattaway, who is chairman of a small but powerful group in Seminole County that calls itself the Development Advisory Board, put the panel’s influence to the test. Board members did not like the county government’s policy for allowing homes to be built on rural lands. They felt the policy, which aimed…
Tween dreams
You probably saw the headlines last week. The Walt Disney Co. signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar marketing pact with the Kellogg Co. This far-reaching deal calls for the corporation, based in Battle Creek, Mich., to develop and market a series of new cereals that will feature the likenesses of various Disney characters. In exchange for landing…
The year of living dangerously
In the gift business, the first-year milestone is designated as the “paper anniversary.” So after 12 months in operation, how does iMPACTE! Productions look on paper? It looks all right, says founder Tod Kimbro, the gifted playwright who opened the iMPACTE! theater one year ago this week as an outlet for his young company’s creative…
Legal briefs get foiled
In July, Colorado House Bill 01-1221 became the state’s law, banning aluminum underpants. The purpose of the law is to discourage shoplifters from using their metal undies to get past electronic theft detectors at the doorways of stores. The new regulation does provide an exception that allows people to don aluminum briefs and bras if…
Milian dollar baby a Milian
“It’s Mili-an,” rolls the Latino boy prepping the interview. “Mili-ahn?” quizzes the very white boy about to conduct the interview. Millions of (hooked on) ethnic phonics later, and I’m pretty sure there should be a rolled “r” in there somewhere. Or maybe that’s just my mouth. It’s an early 8 a.m., and the new Christina…
Relief pitcher
I don’t have the money yet. But I do have the notice informing me of the “status and amount of (my) immediate tax relief.” Sometime this week I “will be receiving a check in the amount of $600.” (Hopefully, the government won’t send it by way of Pittsburgh, where the Mellon Bank, a former subcontractor…
Stop and smell the lemongrass
You just can’t avoid Asian food. With the amazing number of Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai and Korean restaurants and markets around, you can’t turn a corner without smelling basil or lemongrass. And, frankly, why would you want to? But if you’re not familiar with the ingredients on your plate or in the aisles, it may be…
Victims of change
Though it’s based in large measure on their true-life story, “Rock Star” is hardly the gospel according to Judas Priest. The venerable British metalers have taken pains to distance themselves from Warner Bros. Pictures’ rags-to-riches drama (which opened last week), in which a Pennsylvania copy-machine repairman and cover-band vocalist (Mark Wahlberg) receives the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…
Substance and style: the latest from Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart By Haruki Murakami Knopf, 210 pages, $23 Underground By Haruki Murakami Paperback; Vintage Books, 366 pages, $14 Perhaps the most typically “Western” of a modern, fecund batch of Japanese writers, Haruki Murakami has jury-rigged a style from the subterranean preoccupations of Don DeLillo: the geography of catastrophic relationships laid bare by Raymond Carver,…
