Mixed-singles match has film chasing Ally
Movie: Kissing Jessica Stein
Review – Songbird Suite
Artist: Susie Ibarra Trio
Small payoff
Movie: Big Trouble
Review – Source Tags and Codes
Artist: . . . Trail of Dead
Mr. and Ms. Demeanor
Movie: High Crimes
Review – Geogaddi
Artist: Boards of Canada
Review – All Girl Summer Fun Band
Artist: All Girl Summer Fun Band
Secret’s out of the bottle
Just what you’ve been looking for — a new hangout. The Eola Wine Company opened its vintage-laden doors a few months ago, offering bottles from distinctive vintners like Royal Tokaji from Hungary and Firesteed from Oregon. As a true and very welcome wine bar, Eola Wine offers its wares by the glass or in 2-ounce…
Review – Songbird Suite
Artist: Susie Ibarra Trio
Room to grow
Have you been to the town of Celebration? It’s so … clean. And planned. And it has those “Neighborhood Electric Vehicles” (with reserved parking spots that you al-ways pull into before seeing the “NEV Parking” sign). The Celebration planning extends to food as well. If anyone can afford fabulous chefs, Disney can; yet the cuisine…
Review – Source Tags and Codes
Artist: . . . Trail of Dead
Review – Geogaddi
Artist: Boards of Canada
Mixed-singles match has film chasing Ally
Movie: Kissing Jessica Stein
Small payoff
Movie: Big Trouble
Mr. and Ms. Demeanor
Movie: High Crimes
Review – All Girl Summer Fun Band
Artist: All Girl Summer Fun Band
Review – Songbird Suite
Artist: Susie Ibarra Trio
Review – Source Tags and Codes
Artist: . . . Trail of Dead
Review – Geogaddi
Artist: Boards of Canada
Review – All Girl Summer Fun Band
Artist: All Girl Summer Fun Band
Friendly folk warms museum
‘Cool” and “austere” are words that often describe museum culture. A different kind of “cool” once fit the culture of American folk music in its “Positively 4th Street” heyday of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and an “austere” coffeehouse acoustic sound. When, in 1965, Dylan released the rough-edged but eloquent albums “Bringing It All Back Home”…
Red, white and Wilco
The film’s opening shots speak volumes. A camera records a rainy drive through Chicago as windshield wipers lazily lick away a light drizzle to reveal the downtown skyscrapers and traffic, and everything is doused in gray. Wilco’s iconic singer and songwriter Jeff Tweedy sings, “What was I thinking when I let go of you,” as…
Secret’s out of the bottle
Just what you’ve been looking for — a new hangout. The Eola Wine Company opened its vintage-laden doors a few months ago, offering bottles from distinctive vintners like Royal Tokaji from Hungary and Firesteed from Oregon. As a true and very welcome wine bar, Eola Wine offers its wares by the glass or in 2-ounce…
I hear the train a comin’
You’d think that after the last attempt to bring a $600 million light-rail transportation system to Central Florida failed three years ago only a masochist would want to broach the subject again. After the last light-rail battle, the head of the region’s transportation agency lost his job, governments sued each other, county and city officials…
Going with the flow
There is one thing worse than putting on a display of sorrow, frustration and anger that makes Disney fireworks look like an empty lighter and then having some man look at you and say, “Is your period due?” That one thing worse is eyeballing the calendar and realizing it is. You want to think your…
Ricky-boy’s rebirth
‘It’s loud as hell,” Ric Keller says of the heater in his Washington, D.C., apartment. The place has one bedroom, no central air, no dishwasher and just a radiator to keep him warm during the capital’s frigid winters. “Do I want the noise, or do I want to freeze?” he laughs, sitting in his Orlando…
Fire down below
Carl Franklin, 30, was reportedly inebriated and about to urinate by a fence when Tallahassee police called out to him. Startled and intending to run but needing to zip up quickly while holding a lit cigarette, he stuffed the smoke in his pants pocket and took off. A few seconds later, officers noticed that Franklin’s…
Animated hijinks
There’s an old joke in Hollywood: How do you know when a studio executive is lying? Their lips are moving. This might explain why the folks at Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) aren’t putting all that much faith in what Thomas Schumacher says. For months now, Schumacher — president of Walt Disney Studios Animation –…
At twit’s end
I am the weakest link. Here I am rattling in the “media feeding booth” of the Waterhouse Magic pregame shuffle, burger-and-dogging it with WKMG-TV6 media relations and mouthing superfluous journalistic credentials. They already know my game because they’re playing it too, you see. “I’m here to explain the process of celebrity,” I say to the…
Balancing the scales
Before the shark started grabbing all of his press, the alligator was Florida’s favorite misunderstood man-muncher. The fear of the mighty-jawed reptile — and conservationists’ fears for him — get a fresh airing in “Gator Wild,” a segment of the “National Geographic Explorer” series to be broadcast at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 6, on the…
