Review – Kalmopyrin
Artist: Gabor Csupo
Review – Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings
Artist: Rod Stewart
Review – Spirit of the Sun
Artist: Kyoto Jazz Massive
Review – Ryuku Underground
Artist: Ryuku Underground
Review – Eddie’s Archive
Artist: Iron Maiden
Review – Kalmopyrin
Artist: Gabor Csupo
Review – Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings
Artist: Rod Stewart
Review – Spirit of the Sun
Artist: Kyoto Jazz Massive
Review – Ryuku Underground
Artist: Ryuku Underground
Review – Eddie’s Archive
Artist: Iron Maiden
Review – Kalmopyrin
Artist: Gabor Csupo
Review – Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings
Artist: Rod Stewart
Review – Spirit of the Sun
Artist: Kyoto Jazz Massive
Review – Ryuku Underground
Artist: Ryuku Underground
Review – Eddie’s Archive
Artist: Iron Maiden
The best jobs ever
Another in the growing list of emo-gone-indie rock bands, Piebald has spent the last decade evolving into a clever catchall of smirks and winks. Bringing a sort of irreverence reminiscent of early Weezer or OK Go and a live show that has exponentially increased their fan base, this Boston quartet is giving a voice to…
Radio Free Orlando
Radio stations lose their audiences all the time. “Top 40” becomes “classic rock” becomes “adult contemporary” becomes “hot R&B” becomes “the rock alternative.” Listeners have become begrudgingly accustomed to format changes that are as frequent as the shifting winds of musical trends. And though many might see this as solely a function of large commercial…
Turning a heap into a help
With all the leftover food we’ll be generating between now and the New Year, this is probably the perfect time to hop on the latest kitchen fad: the countertop composter. That’s right, a little compost heap nestled by the sink, a handy place to scrape those unwanted potato peels and turn them into food for…
Black and white and gray all over
Monday mornings are tough enough, without being surrounded by a dozen Orlando Sentinel editors. They stood around the bridge, the raised work station hub at the center of the newsroom, while I sat in the middle with managing editor Elaine Kramer. She began the ritual 10:30 a.m. news meeting by introducing me as her guest.…
That slippery gay slope
It wasn’t difficult to determine what was bothering opponents of the gay-rights amendment passed by Orlando city commissioners Monday night, giving gays and lesbians protection from job and housing discrimination. Conservatives were afraid of the same thing that kept America in a bloody war in Vietnam and still keeps the country from enacting meaningful gun-control…
Getting Well falls ill
Fifteen years ago, a therapist noticed a strange thing while treating a young woman with multiple-personality disorder: One of her personalities displayed flu-like symptoms — fever, runny nose, aches and chills — but when another personality emerged, the symptoms disappeared. From that observation, Deidre Brigham began a small clinic dedicated to holistic healing. Using therapy,…
Legacy of shame
A workman in a small tractor breaks apart sidewalks leading to a vacant apartment complex littered with scraps of roof tiles that vandals have thrown at the building. Except for the sound of the tractor engine, the apartments are silent and ghostly. Inside the buildings, trespassers have smashed holes in the wall big enough to…
The politics of fear
There’s an ongoing debate among media experts, peace advocates and funders about what media messages and symbols could galvanize popular opinion against the seemingly imminent Bush Administration invasion of Iraq. A number of ads from peace advocates have recently appeared in the New York Times and in other newspapers, with more in the pipeline. Each…
Un-penetrating
Porno By Irvine Welsh (W.W. Norton & Company, 484 pages) Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power By Elisabeth Eaves (Knopf, 304 pages) Whenever you catch writers whacking off at a peep show, they’ll tell you one of two things. Either what they’re watching is an ironically detached performance or it’s a form of self-validation.…
Bus man’s holiday
Dear Valued Employee: As you know, it is the ongoing mission of LYNX to create and maintain a world-class public-transportation system, one that any recent immigrant would be proud to take to his or her minimum-wage job. And as you are a hard-working member of our team, your input is crucial in making that seemingly…
Cutting a deal
This October in Alberta, Canada, judge Shelagh Creagh ruled that prison inmate Shane Arthur Wilson could not be punished for carrying around a homemade plastic knife since Wilson said the knife was only for defending himself against prison gangs. This, and a similar decision currently being appealed by another Alberta judge, has predictably outraged prison…
My so-called adolescent life
“Why are you like that?” once begged a cloying Claire Danes, brushing her auspiciously red hair out of her “My So-Called Life” face. The object of her flannel flirtations was one Jordan Catalano — Jared Leto, really — who with equal parts intensity and stupidity, shuffled his feet in search of the great teen-age answer.…
