AFRICAN, PLAIN
Movie: In My Country
AFRICAN, PLAIN
Movie: In My Country
AFRICAN, PLAIN
Movie: In My Country
WEALTHY AND WISE
Movie: Millions
Review – Bleed Like Me
Artist: Garbage
Review – Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
Artist: Stereophonics
POETIC CORNER SPOT FOR PIZZA
When I hear a place mentioned a couple of times in one week, it causes me to stop and listen – especially when the restaurant is neither new nor fancy. Having recently moved back from New York City, I’ve been lamenting the dearth of decent pizza in Orlando, and people keep confidently mentioning Cornerstone Pizza,…
Movie: Downfall
Downfall Length: 2 hours, 34 minutes Studio: Newmarket Films Website: http://www.deruntergang-special.film.de/ Release Date: 2005-04-08 Cast: Juliane Köhler, Thomas Kretschmann, Ulrich Matthes, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel Screenwriter: Bernd Eichinger Music Score: Stephan Zacharias WorkNameSort: Downfall Our Rating: 5.00 Adolf Hitler had to be charming in private and charismatic in public; he was a…
Review – Prince of Darkness
Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
WEALTHY AND WISE
Movie: Millions
Review – 13 & God
Artist: 13 & God
Review – Bleed Like Me
Artist: Garbage
Review – Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
Artist: Stereophonics
Movie: Downfall
Our Rating: 5.00 Adolf Hitler had to be charming in private and charismatic in public; he was a politician. How else would he have won such loyalty from his inner circle and the German population? Downfall provides a much-needed reminder that a leader given “a mandate” by the voters, as Joseph Goebbels says in the…
WEALTHY AND WISE
Movie: Millions
NOT BAD BUT IT AIN’T CALIFORNIA
A friend from Los Angeles had barely settled into his temporary home here when we called to see if he wanted to have dinner. But as soon as we pulled up at Los Charros in Altamonte Springs, I started to second-guess my decision. What was I thinking, taking a Pacific Coaster to eat Mexican on…
Review – Prince of Darkness
Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
Review – Bleed Like Me
Artist: Garbage
Review – Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
Artist: Stereophonics
Review – Prince of Darkness
Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
Movie: Downfall
Our Rating: 5.00 Adolf Hitler had to be charming in private and charismatic in public; he was a politician. How else would he have won such loyalty from his inner circle and the German population? Downfall provides a much-needed reminder that a leader given “a mandate” by the voters, as Joseph Goebbels says in the…
Review – 13 & God
Artist: 13 & God
POETIC CORNER SPOT FOR PIZZA
When I hear a place mentioned a couple of times in one week, it causes me to stop and listen – especially when the restaurant is neither new nor fancy. Having recently moved back from New York City, I’ve been lamenting the dearth of decent pizza in Orlando, and people keep confidently mentioning Cornerstone Pizza,…
All hail King Bill Frederick and Sentinel cuts back on coverage
The ink was hardly dry on Buddy Dyer’s suspension from office when the powers that be – from the Sentinel on down to the bigs of both political parties – anointed Bill Frederick his successor. Frederick, the city’s mayor from 1980 to 1992, stoked the fire with a suggestion that he and he alone run…
LAUGH IT OFF
A journo friend who works for one of those moronic “men’s magazines” is always pressured by his editors to stuff his articles with jokes and yuckety-yucks. That directive works for modern hip-hop too: It’s often at its best when full of knee slaps and belly laughs. While Lyrics Born’s latest album, Same !@#$ Different Day…
“Give ’em enough pope”
Well, that’s it. I’m outta here. Done. Finito. Gone in 60 seconds. Fare thee well, my friends and foes, ’cause it’s blue skies ahead and hard times in the rear-view. Much as I love this job, I’ve always said I’d vacate it in a crack fiend’s heartbeat if the right offer came along. After this…
A GOLDEN RULE
How refreshing to witness the austere honesty of a king such as Oedipus. When the oracle at Delphi commands him to rid ancient Thebes of the miscreant who is poisoning the body politic, Oedipus leaves no stone unturned in order to unmask the guilty party. Then, when he finds out that the evildoer is none…
Robbers on High Street, Demon’s Claws, Ashlee Simpson, TSOL and more
Thursday • 7 FLORIDA ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL Sadly, for many people in Central Florida, electronic music comes down to a “breaks vs. trance” dichotomy. Those people would likely not be interested in the goings-on at the 14th Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, as this event is rooted in the theory-rich academia that is electronic avant-garde…
ME, THE PAINTING
If art indeed imitates life, I’m not exactly sure where I fit in. Sure, there are your splashes of Pollack disinterest, your undergrowth of Monet foliage, and even a bit of Da Vinci in the creative coding of my finances. But for the most part, I’m sort of a poster of a photograph of a…
Culture
The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space By Azby Brown (Kodansha, 111 pages) For most Americans, the concept of “the very small home” means a house with only two bathrooms and yard big enough for a dog, but too small for a pool. Space is a luxury in Japan, where…
Culture
I Got Somebody in Staunton By William Henry Lewis (Amistad, 202 pages) This collection of 10 tightly written stories is the second such collection from Lewis, and it absolutely seals his reputation as one of the best modern American storytellers around. It’s difficult to assess how well the intense humidity of “Kudzu” or the poetic…
Culture
Bono: In Conversation By Michka Assayas (Riverhead, 336 pages) Oh, how you want to hate this book. You want to believe that Bono consists solely of the pompous hot air that issues forth so freely from his mouth, but, after only a few pages of these conversations with journalist and longtime friend Michka Assayas, it’s…
DO THE RIGHT THING
A Changed Man By Francine Prose (HarperCollins, 416 pages) Inspired by a hit of Ecstasy, a 32-year-old white supremacist walks into the offices of the World Brotherhood Watch foundation and declares himself an ex-pièce de Aryan résistance. Vincent Nolan, the eponymous “changed man” of Francine Prose’s new novel, could go about his life change in…
DEAD PRESIDENTS
ASSASSINATION VACATION By Sarah Vowell (Simon & Schuster, 272 pages) For those unfamiliar with Sarah Vowell’s dry observations from the waxy fringes of the highbrow in her role as a wispy-voiced contributing editor to NPR’s “This American Life,” Assassination Vacation may come as a macabre surprise. Always a sort of Wednesday Addams for the Sunday…
FRAMED AGAIN
INTRODUCTION Though you can never be sure in what month it’s going to land, the Florida Film Festival nonetheless arrives with the hardy bearing of a survivor. This weekend’s 14th annual edition take its place amid a landscape glutted with Sunshine State festivals – including the distressingly similar-sounding Orlando Film Festival, planned for downtown as…
A FAIR SHAKE
In a story nauseatingly saccharine enough for The Family Circus, a group of kids at Merriam School in Acton, Mass., have requested that the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees shake hands before their season opener April 11 at Fenway Park. See, these kids with too much time on their hands found themselves in…
