Katherine Harris has totally lost her mind.
I know, this has been discussed here before, but seriously…. “U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris said this week that the separation of church and state is “a lie,” that God did not intend for the United States to be a “nation of secular laws” and that a failure to elect Christians to political office will allow…
ABOUT A BOA
Can you love a snake and respect yourself in the morning?
Invincible
Invincible Studio: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Rated: PG Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kirk Acevedo, Lola Glaudini Director: Ericson Core WorkNameSort: Invincible Our Rating: 2.50 If you’ve seen two inspirational sports movies, then you’ve definitely seen this NFL biopic before. Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg), a lower-class bartender and amateur footballer, is watching his…
POST-POSTMODERNISM
Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside grows old gracefully
IN DIVINE STYLE
Word Power: Instrumentals Label: Domination Recordings Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Word Power: Instrumentals Seventeen years ago, two little-known members of Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate posse, Bilal Bashir and Divine Styler, teamed up to show the world what they could do. The world hardly noticed. With Bashir manning the boards to create a concoction…
Stitt’s Bits: The Bebop Recordings 1949-1952
Stitt’s Bits: The Bebop Recordings 1949-1952 Label: Prestige Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Stitt’s Bits: The Bebop Recordings 1949-1952 It’s right there in the first sentence of Harvey Pekar’s liner notes to this three-CD set: ‘When is Sonny Stitt going to get his props?â?� Pekar raises (and rants upon) a good point: Sonny…
Life’s So Hard
Life’s So Hard Label: self-released Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Life’s So Hard Slapping his wife, bitching out his ex-hippie mom (while on LSD), praying for the death of all those around him â?¦ and that’s just the first three songs. It sounds as if this is the natural next step…
Honey From the Tombs
Honey From the Tombs Label: Arts & Crafts Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Honey From the Tombs Those who hold dear the two adventurous full-lengths from Canada’s Stars might have envisioned an idealized prototype of what member Amy Millan’s solo debut should sound like. But Honey From the Tombs isn’t cloaked in Stars’…
1968
1968 Label: Drag City Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: 1968 1968, David Pajo’s sophomore solo excursion, acts as a mirror image to last year’s lush, darkly intimate Pajo. While the former Tortoise/Zwan guitarist again takes production matters into his own hands ‘ recording vocals and instrumental parts into his laptop, a technique that…
Post-War
Post-War Label: Merge Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Post-War Let’s get something straight here. These days it may be perfectly acceptable for Kris Kristofferson to sing on his own records and expect complimentary reviews and some satellite radio airplay, but in previous decades his songs became hits because better, more expressive singers such…
SQUEEZE PLAY
What’s stuck between two soft places is the draw at Java Lava’s
Gate of the Sun
Gate of the Sun Publishing House: Archipelego Books WorkNameSort: Gate of the Sun In ‘1001 Nights,â?� Scheherazade staved off death by telling her would-be executioner stories. The narrator of Elias Khoury’s profoundly moving American debut employs a similar strategy, but with a different goal in mind. Stuck in a run-down hospital in a refugee camp…
100 Ways America is Screwing Up the World
100 Ways America is Screwing Up the World Publishing House: Harper Perennial Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: 100 Ways America is Screwing Up the World Of course America is screwing up the world, and now we have the work of the executive director of MIT’s Center of International Studies to tell us exactly how. With a Howard…
The Inhabited World
The Inhabited World Publishing House: Houghton Mifflin WorkNameSort: Inhabited World, The Since the publication of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, many writers are adopting the viewpoints of dead people, inaugurating a new trend: Zombie Lit. In David Long’s new novel The Inhabited World, protagonist Evan Malloy is a ghost marooned in the house where he…
BLISTER
;Who the hell am I? No sooner had I completed the ritualistic rifling through the legal files, campaign leaflets and head shots of myself strewn about my desk-like area, mere seconds after I had resigned my life to clipping intellectual toenails while scrolling through the blogosphere, when there it was: the answer. ;;”I’m totally Back…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;This country is going to hell in a hand basket! In MY day, we didn’t have this MINORITY swooping in and stealing jobs from hard-working ‘MERICANS! And by “this minority” I clearly mean HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES. Tinseltown fancypants make up only 2 percent of this country’s population. AND YET? Take a gander at many of the…
SAYS YOU
Editor’s note: The following, written by members of Orlando Food Not Bombs, is in response to “Activism 101” `Aug. 10`. Orlando Food Not Bombs has been sharing food in downtown Orlando regularly since January 2005. OFNB is one of hundreds of autonomous chapters of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which began in 1980. OFNB…
HAPPYTOWN
Orlando city commissioners got a nasty postcard two weeks ago from an anonymous source. On one side, there was Mayor Buddy Dyer’s police mug shot from more than a year ago, along with this screed: “Mayor Buddy Dyer Arrested & Charged with FELONY if it were you … 10 years in JAIL! Put integrity back…
POLICE BEAT
;Aug. 5, 6:40 P.M.: Perhaps you read the Orlando Sentinel story Aug. 10 about the squirrel that terrorized Winter Park. Here’s an incident involving squirrels that was overlooked, yet may somehow be related.; ; Officer Ogburn responded to the 3900 block of South Lake Orlando Parkway in reference to “a squirrel being in a mailbox.”…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Ally McBoy A former police official and current aggressive, respected Wellington, New Zealand, litigator, Rob Moodie, 67, said in July that he is tired of the old-boy network of male lawyers and judges, and that henceforth he will show his disdain by dressing in women’s clothes in court. The worse the “corruption” he senses, the…
LETTERS
;Beauty ;As a diehard Rush fan, I must hate you [“Rush to judgment,” Dog Playing Poker, Aug. 17]. As a fan of good satirical writing, I must commend you. Fight the good fight every moment. ;;Robert Riegger, via the Internet ;;Eh ;As a longtime fan of Rush and also a Canadian, eh, that article was…
A HERO IN HIS OWN MIND
; The owls gathered in the trees around the silos because of the mice, which came because of the loose grain scattered on the ground. There were five silos, each 30 feet tall, standing together in the valley next to the Snowbird Mountain range. Nestled halfway between Murphy and Andrews in the very western corner…
WHAT’S WITH ALL THE SHOPPING CARTS?
At the corner of Rosedale Street and Primrose Drive, three shopping carts of varying corporate origins have apparently outlived their purpose. The trio rests now in a still-life tangle of plastic, metal and adjacent debris atop a storm water grate. It’s a mess, and it runs deeper than this street-corner blemish. Orlando commissioner Patty Sheehan…
SELECTIONS
;Friday•25 ;Aap Kaa Surroor At the moment, Himesh Reshamiya is one of the biggest pop stars in India, thanks to the massive success of his debut album, Aap Kaa Surroor, a two-disc set of syrupy pop tunes so pliable and well-constructed that the set’s bonus disc contains both “unplugged” and remixed versions of the exact…
NOTABLE NOISE
Why is the closing of Will’s Pub such a big deal? It’s a question I’ve been wrestling with, and the answer is both simple and depressing. There are lots of other bars in this city — bars with more elbow room, more high-tech sound systems, cleaner bathrooms and liquor at the bar. So we’re down…
IN POLITICS, COMEDY IS CENTRAL
Lewis Black is irate. “The last year and a half is by far the toughest time I’ve ever spent as a comedian,” he confides to the audience in his HBO special, Red, White and Screwed. “It used to be easy — one or two things might happen in a week. And now, something will happen,…
I CONFESS
Whatever else you might think of me, it’s really important that you understand two things. I loved Bob Dance’s beautiful granddaughter. And what happened was completely an accident. Yes, it’s true: I was there with her when her number came up. All the other theories, you can officially discard. The anguished months of not knowing,…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES “Baksheesh” is a term derived from the Persian word for “gift.” In the Third World, it has several meanings, among which are these: 1) bribes paid to authorities to get them to stop hassling you, and 2) tips given to strangers who insist on being of assistance even if you don’t want them to.…
SAVAGE LOVE
My 34-year-old sister, call her “Carrie,” came out to the family a week ago and is looking for us all to support the decisions she’s making surrounding her coming out. My sister has been somewhat happily married for 14 years and has four children, all under the age of 12. She wants to move her…
Morning Roundup
I’m a couple days behind the bell curve on this one. But, did you see the piece the Sentinel ran last week on time-share gazillionaire David Siegel’s wife, and her private jet-and-caviar-and babymaking lifestyle? (Especially, check out the part where David, modern man that he is, says he admires her for “popping out babies” and,…
I’m seizing the opportunity!
From Charlie Stuart’s web site: Charlie Stuart also participated in a WMFE-TV Candidate Forum which will air at 12:30pm on Sunday, August 20th on PBS. He was interviewed by Jeff Billman of The Orlando Weekly who was poised to seize an opportunity to interview Charlie for a feature on the race to run next week.
