SMACK DOWN
Heroin Town Studio: Won Ton Productions Rated: NONE Website: http://www.herointownmovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-08-12 Director: Josh Goldbloom WorkNameSort: Heroin Town Our Rating: 2.50 In the first scene of the documentary Heroin Town, two residents of a notorious Connecticut hotel discuss which movie stars put them into the swooniest states. Matt Damon and Julia Roberts come in…
BOON AGAIN
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen Studio: Rocket Fuel Films Rated: NOT RATED Website: http://www.theminutemen.com/home.html Release Date: 2005-08-16 Cast: D. Boon, Mike Watt, George Hurley, Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore Director: Tim Irwin Music Score: Minutemen WorkNameSort: We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen Our Rating: 4.00 The idea that punk rock is…
Four Brothers
Four Brothers Studio: Paramount Pictures Rated: R Website: http://www.fourbrothersmovie.com/home.html Release Date: 2005-08-12 Cast: Mark Wahlberg, André Benjamin, Tyrese Gibson, Garrett Hedlund, SofÃa Vergara Director: John Singleton Screenwriter: David Elliot, Paul Lovett Music Score: David Arnold WorkNameSort: Four Brothers Our Rating: 3.00 John Singleton directed this urban vigilante drama, in which four adoptees (two black, two…
The Great Raid
The Great Raid Studio: Miramax Rated: R Website: http://www.miramax.com/the_great_raid/ Release Date: 2005-08-12 Cast: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Fiennes, Mark Consuelos Director: John Dahl Screenwriter: Douglas Miro, Carlo Bernard WorkNameSort: Great Raid, The Our Rating: 3.00 It’s a little-discussed element of World War II lore that the Japanese maintained POW camps in the…
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Rated: PG-13 Website: http://promo.warnerbros.com/dukesofhazzard/index.html Release Date: 2005-08-05 Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson Director: Jay Chandrasekhar Screenwriter: John O’Brien Music Score: Nathan Barr WorkNameSort: Dukes of Hazzard, The Our Rating: 1.00 Believe it or not, a fella has to be in…
JUST ANOTHER SUSHI JOINT
The first time I remember being aware of sushi as a phenomenon was in the mid-’80s, when Molly Ringwald unpacked her Saturday-detention lunch in The Breakfast Club. Sushi has been eaten in Japan since the 7th century and was originally a way to preserve (by fermentation) two of Japan’s prime culinary commodities: fish and rice.…
Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles/A Whisper and a Sigh
Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles/A Whisper and a Sigh Label: V2 Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles/A Whisper and a Sigh Elegant and elegiac, the double-album overload of Syd Matters’ U.S. debut comes close to being too much of a good thing … close, but not quite. As it is, the 23 songs…
Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute
Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute Label: Drive Thru Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute Take this album’s instructions to heart: Listen to Bob Dylan. Not to this two-CD collection of misguided covers. Bob Dylan is a genius. These folks are musically impaired. They over-emote, over-sing, over-play, over-produce and over-suck. They didn’t…
The Lick on the Tip of an Envelope Yet To Be Sent
The Lick on the Tip of an Envelope Yet To Be Sent Label: Rise Above Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Lick on the Tip of an Envelope Yet To Be Sent , The It was bound to happen sooner or later: The progressive folk movement of weirdo, underground freaks like Animal Collective and Devendra Banhart was doomed…
PICK UP THE PIECES
Scattered aimlessly before me on a dirty kitchen table are some of the jigsaw pieces of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s past. Love letters. Baby pictures. It’s a sundry pile of memorabilia that looks lost, confused and disjointed. There is no evident beginning, no apparent end. You might compare it to the subject himself. All of this is…
30 QUEER YEARS
There are lines that you cross, and lines that you either ignore or discreetly inhale. For me, turning 30 involved a healthy dose of both of the latter, and then a tail-tucked, drawn-faced shuffle through the former, only because time wouldn’t listen to the primal screams my aging gut threw forth. Maybe because they were…
LEFT-FIELD LATE NIGHT
One of my fondest early memories is a night spent at a Howard Johnson’s off Interstate 95. I was 5 or 6 years old, and a long day of traveling with my parents meant I got to stay up late, eating Krystal burgers and watching TV. Of course, I had to watch what my parents…
CAVITY CREEPS
Even though India now has 80,000 licensed dentists, nearly 100 “street dentists” continue to operate in dusty, open-air “offices,” performing extractions and fitting used dentures for, typically, 1 percent to 2 percent of what a licensed dentist would charge. One patient of practitioner Mahender Singh, observed for a June dispatch from Jaipur in The New…
Ask Adrian
We love how you write about food and we love how you share your special recipes. You obviously have good taste. But how about us vegans? How about throwing some ideas our way? I can see how you might feel starved for recipes and information. We are no longer a meat-and-potatoes society, but we are…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) You wouldn’t plant a rosebush in a spot where a geyser erupts periodically, would you? You wouldn’t build a romantic hideaway on the bank of a river that floods every year, right? So please say you won’t be careless as you track down the best place to express your love and…
Happytown
Last week, Happytown™ got word that spandex shorts-wearing bike cops were out in force on Orange Avenue, ordering bar owners to shut down their outdoor patios – known in city parlance as “sidewalk cafes” – which in many cases had been operating for years. At least one bar owner was under the impression that the…
A LAST GASP
To Richard Nehrling, the tiny town of Gotha, in west Orange County, is “a diamond in the rough,” repository of a treasure of unimaginable value to the entire state of Florida. The old German settlement is home to his great-grandfather Henry Nehrling’s legacy: six acres of rare trees and plants – Southern cedars and magnolias,…
DEFENDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Where are people who rate public-school educators as even less trustworthy than, say, real estate agents. Such people send their kids to schools with names that sound like country clubs: Park Maitland, Orangewood, Masters. When I tell such people that my daughter goes to public school they don’t say, “Right on,” or “Good for her!”…
BEN AFFLECK’S SEED
BLECCHHH! Oh my God … my stomach is churning. And you know the saliva that builds up in your mouth when you’re overcome by nausea? Well, I’ve got that saliva! Ooohhhh … I just want to lay my throbbing head down on the cool, cool tile of the bathroom floor. Ahhhh … that’s better. BLECCHHH!…
WHEN CRIME DROPS IN
JULY 31, 9 A.M.: A man thirsty for some morning adventure hopped on to a bar’s roof in the 200 block of North Lee Avenue and crafted a hole to slip into. If he thought no one would see a man smashing through the roof, he was sadly mistaken. A police officer and her K-9…
FRESH HORSES
I have been seeing this great guy for about two years now. A few months back I stumbled upon some she-male photos on our computer. When I confronted him, he said that it was in response to a “nightmare” he had from watching HBO late at night or something. I asked him to be honest…
LITTLE ORPHAN ANY
Ms. Mia Farrow 311 Central Park West New York, NY 10025 Dear Ms. Farrow: I am contacting you in my capacity as legal counsel for the Internationally Famous And In No Way Crazy Film Star Angelina Jolie (hereinafter referred to as the IFAINWCFSAJ). It has come to our attention that you have recently made overtures…
Notable Noise
Suffice it to say, I don’t often make it out to Matrix, one of the dance clubs out at Pointe Orlando. One, it’s on International Drive, an area worth avoiding in the best of times, much less on a Friday night. Two, it’s a dance club. Not my native environment. Yet there I was, on…
Books
Begun as an academic project, this book is continually distracted by its author’s struggle between first-person narrative and research report. The first hundred or so pages are a clutter of multiple stories, characters, foreign phrases and claustrophobic geography; however, this sense of disorientation is likely the same feeling that Brown had while staying in the…
Books
In Garbage Land, Elizabeth Royte tackles a subject that’s as complex as it is fetid. What drives her story is finding the answer to a seemingly simple question: Where does her trash go? This leads to a potentially endless investigation involving waste-treatment and trash-compacting centers in the metro New York area, and into western Pennsylvania,…
KILL US NOW
Born of an assignment from Spin magazine, Chuck Kloster-man’s third book, Killing Yourself To Live, is as gimmicky as any “Greatest Albums of All Time” story. And yet it speaks to the heart of rock folklore. The gist? Writer rents car to visit the places where the music died. That is, the way music usually…
FASCISM FOR CHILDREN
Most fiction writers regard genocide as the ultimate taboo subject. They fear trivializing survivors’ stories, they don’t dare to inject humor and they forfeit young readership because kid-friendly plotlines could disrupt the requisite solemnity. Such restraint seems sage compared to the concentration-camp-as-comedy-club cinematic features that surfaced in the late 1990s. But George Saunders’ daring satire…
Letters
We’ll do the nominating We appreciate that your publication has recently noted the existence of anarchists in Central Florida, and we would like to nominate another component of our movement, Orlando Food Not Bombs, for Best Activist Group [“Best of Orlando,” July 15]. OFNB is one of hundreds of autonomous FNB chapters in the United…
