Review – The Surveillance
Artist: Trans Am
Review – Friends of Mine
Artist: Ramblin’ Jack Elliot
Review – Spread it All About
Artist: Foil
Review – Monster Breaks
Artist: DJ Mot
Review – The Surveillance
Artist: Trans Am
Review – Friends of Mine
Artist: Ramblin’ Jack Elliot
Review – Monster Breaks
Artist: DJ Mot
Review – Spread it All About
Artist: Foil
Review – The Surveillance
Artist: Trans Am
Review – Friends of Mine
Artist: Ramblin’ Jack Elliot
Review – Spread it All About
Artist: Foil
Review – Monster Breaks
Artist: DJ Mot
Review – The Surveillance
Artist: Trans Am
Review – Friends of Mine
Artist: Ramblin’ Jack Elliot
Review – Spread it All About
Artist: Foil
Review – Monster Breaks
Artist: DJ Mot
Ska bands unite behid anti-racist, 2-tone ethic
Ska Against Racism Tour, The Club, April 13, 1998 During the ’80s, the rise of ska music in England was strongly based on mutual respect between white and black musicians who emulated original ’60s Jamacian ska musicians. This “2-tone ethic” has been a strong factor in ska ever since, with most bands consisting of a…
Prodigy trucks into adulthood
Derek Trucks, with Government Mule, House of Blues, April 16, 1998 Back when Jonny Lang and “Monster” Mike Welch were still in elementary school, the adolescent Derek Trucks was sparring onstage with the Allman Brothers and trading licks with Joe Walsh, Tinsley Ellis and Jeff Healey. After seven years of frustration flirting with major labels…
Pussy Power
Nashville Pussy, with the Cows and W. Breakneck, Sapphire Supper CLub, April 13, 1998 Spring has sprung in Athens, Ga., where Nashville Pussy bassist Corey Parks is feeling the effects of the humidity. “It’s a tad sticky, a tad sticky,” she says. That description could apply to Nashville Pussy’s searing, sweaty concerts, which the 6-foot-3-inch…
Covering yourself
Almost the minute Judge Susan Webber Wright dropped Paula Jones’ suit against President Clinton, making it a moot point whether he dropped his pants, the stories of all the president’s women vanished from the papers. Like Disney cleaning up after a Main Street parade, you never would have known that the horses were there, much…
Online Connections
Intimacy witn anonymity — the allure of the Internet Jim is about as white-bread a guy as you’ll ever meet. His job is selling industrial supplies, and like most good salesmen, he knows how to put people at ease and make them laugh; he’s a walking encyclopedia of one-liners and off-color jokes. And although his…
All God’s lobbyists
The Christian Coalition spends more on Capitol Hill than any other citizen’s group Philip Morris and General Motors spend more money than God to lobby the federal government. But God — the God of the Christian Coalition, anyway — pours more cash into Washington lobbying than any other citizen group. And by joining forces with…
TWC stages play for the arts
It’s tempting to think that Orlando’s arts community has “arrived” when Bravo, pay-TV’s “film and arts” network, drops in to produce a short but sure-to-flatter profile. And that’s just what happened last week when a New York-based crew and a Los Angeles-based correspondent converged for two days of filming that will spotlight five of Central…
Eyes on the prize(s)
A report on unrest among Disney shareholders and another on Orlando’s worst landlords, both by Edward Ericson Jr., earned first place honors for Orlando Weekly in the Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards handed out last week by the Atlanta chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Also honored — for the third year running…
Recalculating Eisner’s big score
In December Disney CEO Michael Eisner cashed in stock options to boost his pay to more than $575 million. But what if the stock’s meteoric rise was tied to earnings statements that were based on Mickey Mouse accounting practices? In a March 23 story for Barron’s, accountant Abraham Briloff contends that Disney used creative accounting…
Protesters don’t get the picture
Animal-rights activists upset at Sea World’s treatment of dolphins and whales blame an Orlando Sentinel photographer for their arrest Sunday outside the theme-park. The activists, many fresh from an animal-rights conference at the University of Central Florida, had wrapped up their protest for the TV cameras and were walking back to their cars when they…
Big banks trying to hob business
Time again for Hightower Radio’s “Hog Report.” ; ; Hogs not only like to eat from the trough, but some want to hog the whole trough. That’s the case with these squealers — they’re America’s giant bankers, and they’re out to crush their small competitors so the giants can;then control all of our banking outlets.…
Dorks in space
Movie: Lost in Space
A mighty seduction
Movie: The Player’s Club
Dorks in space
Movie: Lost in Space
A mighty seduction
Movie: The Player’s Club
Dorks in space
Movie: Lost in Space
A mighty seduction
Movie: The Player’s Club
Dorks in space
Movie: Lost in Space
A mighty seduction
Movie: The Player’s Club
Melting the Cube
For better or for worse, the evolution of the hip-hop subculture — that vaguely defined manifestation of the creativity of black youth — never stops. As a part of that growth, Ice Cube, the rap icon who made his acting debut in John Singleton’s “Boyz N the Hood” (1991), has completed his own feature film,…
