Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven
If you found yourself saying, â??Who the fuck cares about Don Imus anyway?â?�, you are more likely than one of the people that is pissed at the fact that the media is still nattering on about that cowboy-hat wearing fossil and largely ignoring Kurt Vonnegutâ??s death. I was going to say â??So it goes,â?� but…
LONG LIVE LOG LADY
The second season of Twin Peaks arrives on DVD
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres Studio: First Look Rated: R Cast: Dave Snyder, Dave Willis, Matt Maiellero, Andy Merrill, Carey Means, Chris Ward Director: Matt Maiellero, Dave Willis WorkNameSort: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres Our Rating: 3.00 If it’s possible for a movie to be almost unwatchable…
Disturbia
Disturbia Studio: Paramount Rated: PG-13 Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer Director: D.J. Caruso WorkNameSort: Disturbia Our Rating: 1.00 Director D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives, Two for the Money) is quickly becoming the next Brett Ratner, a compliant go-to guy for uninspired and mildly offensive projects whose sole purpose is to provide tasteless escapism for alpha males.…
Hubert Selby, Jr.: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
Hubert Selby, Jr.: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow Studio: Eclectic Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Hubert Selby, Jr.: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow It/ll Be Better Tomorrow, Michael W. Dean and Kenneth Shiffrin’s loving tribute to cult author Hubert Selby Jr., suffers from a frustrating tendency common in cinematic biographies: It takes the unpredictable, unusual life of an American…
Mile High: The Complete First Season
Mile High: The Complete First Season Studio: Koch Vision WorkNameSort: Mile High: The Complete First Season Viewers of BBC America: Please get over yourself. There’s no point in acting as if the Beeb is a haven for those weary of the tawdriness of U.S. television. As series like Mile High have shown, those Brits like…
Le Petit Lieutenant
Le Petit Lieutenant Studio: Koch Lorber WorkNameSort: Le Petit Lieutenant Xavier Beauvois’ Le Petit Lieutenant is a stunning work of documentary-like realism that deserves a larger audience. Jalil Lespert plays an aspiring plainclothes cop who forges a relationship with his older supervisor (Nathalie Baye), a recovering alcoholic, while they investigate a series of beatings along…
TASTER’S CHOICE
Slick downtown cafeteria presents office-dwellers vast range of options
Grinderman
Grinderman Label: Anti- Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Grinderman If Neil Young’s career has been schizophrenic, with its shifts from acoustic to electric, Nick Cave’s career is acutely bipolar. Cave shuttles back and forth between piano-based torch ballads in which he performs as a pitch-challenged Frank Sinatra and the guitar-led tribal…
Open Day and Night
Open Day and Night Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Open Day and Night One of the only bar bands whose lead singer will name-drop Langston Hughes as part of a soul-vamp, the J.C.’s have thrived in the smoky, college-bar milieu that they’ve chosen; they’ve also slyly subverted that milieu into an…
1/0
1/0 Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: 1/0 Crouching behind the stylings of Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin, you can find Trayer Tryon with his sketchbook and voice recorder. In the course of this gonzo composition are tracks that have samples from a patchwork of instruments and mechanisms rearranged by Tryon in a…
Because of the Times
Because of the Times Label: RCA Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Because of the Times Is it possible to boogie and sing about the need for love from a good woman without turning to parody? Is there a rock riff you can hammer down without being derivative? Can you wear your hair shaggy…
COME ON, GET HAPPY
Episcopal Academy sits on 32 acres of unfettered green in Merion, Pa., its pristine classrooms surrounded by serenity and splendor reminiscent of a college campus, which is where 100 percent of its graduates will be headed next year. It’s a place that nurtures the minds and souls of the gifted and affluent; a great place…
A WHOLE NEW WORLD
The last time the Flaming Lips played a show in Orlando, it was as a last-minute substitute for the Poster Children, opening for Lush at the Beacham Theater. That was 15 years ago. The last time the Flaming Lips were supposed to play a show in Orlando, it was opening for Candlebox at the Edge.…
GOING SILENT
In January 2005, 91.5-FM WPRK radio host Dave Plotkin tried to set a world record for the longest radio broadcast by a single DJ. For 110 consecutive hours, Plotkin stayed behind the Rollins College station’s microphone. He didn’t get the record — unbeknownst to Plotkin, a Canadian DJ had broadcast 120 straight hours in 2003…
SMOKING YAHOO!’S PIPES
I’ve been playing around with Yahoo!’s latest technological experiment on the Web. It’s called Pipes, and it’s a system designed to help web-savvy people write simple programs without ever having to read a book about Java. If you visit pipes.yahoo.com, you can take a peek. Visitors to the site are presented with a sheet of…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES “‘Don’t look before you leap!’ is a Zen saying that contrasts with what many in the West consider wise counsel,” writes Christopher Moors in his article “Magical Buddha Nature.” “If everything is premeditated, we never have the naked brilliance of a truly new experience. Though we might be able to temper fear in this…
BLISTER
When I was prepubescent twig with hair issues, the term “buddy” was typically reserved for less-likable rerun comic foils named “Boner,” “Clyde” or, worse still, “Buddy.” These days it’s most commonly heard in the chipper parlance of Midwesterners with Christian rock collections, and not usually as a term of endearment (e.g., “I’ll tell you what,…
SAVAGE LOVE
;My roommate is into BDSM. Fine. I couldn’t care less about his sex life. He met two women at a BDSM club whom he regularly “plays” with. They enjoy being subjected to what he calls “erotic torments.” Fine. But he also watches BDSM pornography. Since he has no way of knowing if the women in…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
As a part of this year’s selection committee for the Florida Music Festival, I recently perused hundreds of submissions from hopeful artists. Amid all the night soil that’s to be expected from any cattle call, I happened upon something special. Now, everyone knows about Orlando’s platinum lineage of pop stars. It’s a source of pride…
DROPPING THE SMOKE SCREEN
The wide selection of imported and microbrewed beers has made Redlight Redlight a hit with local beer geeks and also earned the bar a prestigious fourth-place slot in www.ratebeer.com’s worldwide rankings of 2007’s “Best Beer Bars.” But, as anyone who’s been present on a crowded night can attest, Redlight’s pint-sized upstairs location has given “smoky…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;As you know, I am totally EXTREME. And not that half-assed kind of EXTREME you see on Jackass, either! I’m like, EXTREME to the MAX — because I’m EXTREME even when I’m doing normal, everyday things. For example: eating. I’ve stopped ingesting fruits, meats and vegetables, and only eat EXTREME foods (primarily those that have…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
The Merry Wives of Windsor To TV network suits, the spinoff is a slam dunk: Take a beloved secondary character, drop them in a new environment with wacky sidekicks and watch the advertising revenue roll in. Unfortunately, for every Maude or Good Times, there are a dozen Glorias. But before you lay all the blame…
COUNCIL WATCH
It was a very auspicious beginning to a typically tedious affair. Mayor Buddy Dyer’s microphone was in heavy feedback mode, forcing Dyer into a fit of slow-motion introduction. “We … would … like …” he mouthed, waiting for a technical correction. It would come soon enough, as would your standard litany of proclamations and niceties…
HAPPYTOWN
;You read it here first: Crime ;in Orlando is no longer an issue. We have proof: On March 4, the Orlando Police Department sent a ton of cops, at least one of whom was wearing a hood and at least four of whom were undercover, to arrest 21-year-old Eric Montanez for violating the city’s ordinance…
POLICE BEAT
MARCH 28, 1:28 P.M.: Today, officers responded to the 1200 block of West Church Street, where an unknown suspect or suspects had raided an appliance store and relieved themselves while doing so. Reports state the perpetrator(s) gained entry to the gated appliance shop by scaling the chain-link fence circling the property. There, an unlocked, white…
LETTERS
;Home sweet Hibiscus ;I lived at 215 Hibiscus Court for four years. I have fond memories of that street, also not-so-fond ones. When I saw the article in your paper [“Road to nowhere,” April 5], I cried. When I lived there I was single and 45 years old. I didn’t own a car, but every…
