Perpetual Place
Objective journalism be damned; The Thai Place is a great restaurant. Not perhaps in the same way that Ducasse in New York or Le Cinq in Paris is great, but if consistently good food and service is your earmark of greatness, then let’s throw the dictionary away and go eat. It’s difficult to find any…
Outback in the saddle
Movie: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Movie: Freddy Got Fingered
Freddy Got Fingered Length: 1 hour, 33 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Website: http://www.foxmovies.com/freddy_pop.html Release Date: 2001-04-20 Cast: Eddie Kaye Thomas, Tom Green, Drew Barrymore Director: Tom Green Screenwriter: Tom Green, Derek Harvie Music Score: Mike Simpson WorkNameSort: Freddy Got Fingered Our Rating: 3.00 Dudes! Terrible Tom Green, like, trips out in this flick. He’s…
Time marches backward for forgetful protagonist
Movie: Memento
Details show more than words can say
Movie: In the Mood for Love
Spy games
Movie: The Tailor of Panama
Outback in the saddle
Movie: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Movie: Freddy Got Fingered
Our Rating: 3.00 Dudes! Terrible Tom Green, like, trips out in this flick. He’s this guy, Gord, and he’s so cool. He’s, like, a skateboarder, and draws his own toons. And then there’s this babe, Betty (Marisa Coughlan), who’s like an amateur rocket scientist who’s hot (even though she’s, like, in a wheelchair) and all…
Time marches backward for forgetful protagonist
Movie: Memento
Details show more than words can say
Movie: In the Mood for Love
Spy games
Movie: The Tailor of Panama
Review – Fashionably Late
Artist: Choke
Review – Re-Members Only
Artist: King Britt Presents Sylk 130
Review – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Artist: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Review – Liquored Up and Laquered Down
Artist: Southern Culture on the Skids
Review – Fashionably Late
Artist: Choke
Review – Re-Members Only
Artist: King Britt Presents Sylk 130
Review – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Artist: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Review – Liquored Up and Laquered Down
Artist: Southern Culture on the Skids
Review – Fashionably Late
Artist: Choke
Review – Re-Members Only
Artist: King Britt Presents Sylk 130
Review – Liquored Up and Laquered Down
Artist: Southern Culture on the Skids
Review – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Artist: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Two for the road
In this corner, we have the Walt Disney World. With its four theme parks, three water parks, scores of shops, restaurants and 19,000 on-site hotel rooms, there’s no denying Disney is the king of Central Florida tourism. And then we have the challenger: Universal Orlando. With only two theme parks, a single water park (Wet…
Fit for a queen
If ghosts exist, why do you suppose they’re so damn shy? If I had the chance to diddle with people’s heads without them knowing it was me, if I could gaslight the helpless living by making mysterious noises and causing objects to fly across the room unaided, I’d do it all the time. I’d hang…
‘God . . . will destroy you’
“MTV called me this afternoon,” Chris Vasquez tells friends who greet him inside the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center on Mills Avenue. To say the wiry 17-year-old is a sudden celebrity is understatement: Prior to April 9, his media profile was limited to running the Edgewater High School newspaper. On this day, however,…
Film students bring home the bacon
The life of a film student holds few tangible rewards. When you’re not hitting up the proprietor of the corner sports bar to allow a gratis location shoot for your next shot-on-video statement, you’re lining up for your seventh viewing of Crouching Tiger and scanning the crowd for anyone who looks capable of supporting a…
Second helpings
Well, I thought it was a big deal, anyway. O-Town: two parts “Larger Than Life,” three parts “Bye Bye Bye” and not a hint of that pesky “artistic freedom,” resurrected for Easter weekend with the return last Friday of “Making the Band!” Send in the clowns! ; ; Naturally, I got on the horn with…
Californial power crisis: foiled again!
Taking advantage of the California electricity crisis, aluminum producers Kaiser, Columbia Falls and Golden Northwest have suspended production in their plants along the Columbia River and are now in the business of merely reselling their plants’ electricity to California (for 18 times what it cost them), according to a February Business Week report. Kaiser says…
Lessons to learn
The fight to temporarily house a Parramore charter school in a city-owned recreation center has come to an anticlimactic halt. Because of restrictions from a state agency, the Nap Ford Community School won’t be able to use the John J. Jackson Center until at least October — well after the school year begins in August.…
Grinding to a halt
The Orlando Rage playoff game versus the San Francisco Demons is set to kick off in half an hour, and it’s hard to tell just what all the Rage is about. Nobody’s here. Sure, it’s the Saturday night before Easter Sunday, and a fair amount of Rage is probably being squelched in honor of divine…
The overlooked drug problem
Toward the end of last week’s county commission meeting, a tearful Homer Hartage fretted that the rave-club ordinance was wrong-headed. The county, he said, focused on the drug problems at raves — populated by white kids with disposable income — while ignoring street crime in poorer neighborhoods. In fact, the 10 “hot spots” singled out…
Housing the ex-housing chief
Who knew running a small public housing agency could be so lucrative? Probably not the FBI, which raided the offices of the Sanford Housing Authority last week, seizing documents and computers by the truckload. Their target was Timothy D. Hudson, the agency’s outgoing executive director, who is being investigated for mismanaging hundreds of thousands of…
It’s long past ‘3 A.M.’
On Saturday, April 21, matchbox twenty, touring behind its second full-length, “Mad Season” by matchbox twenty, returns to its birthplace a little bit older, a whole lot wiser and as headliners at the biggest venue in town: the TD Waterhouse Centre. It certainly has been a remarkable rocket ride for Orlando’s first true rock success…
Preaching to the subverted
On his recently released second album, “No Such Place,” Jim White takes his clangy, backwoods swamp-billy pop and launches it into an otherworldly mist, courtesy of moody-dance-music producers such as Morcheeba and Q-Burns Abstract Message. The resulting banjo-plus-downtempo hybrid CD has caused a hip-factor buzz to swirl around this Pensacola native. Unfazed, White says that…
College Park goes to market
A drive down Edgewater Drive on a Thursday evening might reveal a nice addition to local nightlife: the College Park Grower’s Market (2440 Edgewater Drive; 649-3148). Admire a Phalaenopsis at the Our Kids Orchids table, or pick up a jewel-like basket of organic strawberries from Adams Berry Farm. Homemade breads sit alongside bunches of locally…
