QUITE A CATCH
Bygone-era seafood house offers a bounty of unparalleled freshness
SANFORD’S SIT AND SIP
A chance to sit under the stars on a warm December night is worth the tolls and endless construction. The Sanford Wine Company, located in the severely underrated historic district, boasts an international wine list that includes classics from Spain, Italy, France and the western United States, and more obscure vintages from Canada and Eastern…
MOODY HOLIDAY CLASSIC
Midnight Clear carries on the tradition
Feed
Feed Studio: First Run Features Rated: NOT RATED WorkNameSort: Feed This hilarious “documentary” of the run-up to the 1992 New Hampshire presidential primaries is an incisive political film. Not because directors Kevin Rafferty and James Ridgeway deftly communicate partisan points, but because this film exposes silly and shallow television-age campaigning. Compiled from behind-the-scenes recording of…
Driftwood
Driftwood Studio: Dark Horse Indie Rated: R WorkNameSort: Driftwood A horror movie based on the abuse at a prison-like “attitude-adjustment camp for troubled youths” starring Diamond Dallas Page (The Devil’s Rejects) and directed/co-written by Tim Sullivan (2001 Maniacs) holds a modicum of promise. Weaving supernatural elements into the already surreal and hostile environment engendered by…
Tofutopia
Tofutopia Label: Black Market Activities Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Tofutopia While Orlando-based Khann hasn’t (yet) taken to playing Wolves in the Throne Room–style shows out in forest clearings, the crustcore outfit’s path to acclaim has been decidedly different than that of other bands that share its ZIP code. Thanks to…
Mutantes Ao Vivo – Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006
Mutantes Ao Vivo – Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006 Label: Luaka Bop Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Mutantes Ao Vivo – Barbican Theatre, Londres 2006 For Brazil’s greatest psych-rock combo Os Mutantes, nothing can compare to the early days of counterculture debauchery; but the band’s brief reunion tour last year, which began at the…
Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis
Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis Label: Warner Bros. Media: CD Format: Compilation WorkNameSort: Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis The first thought that comes to mind with this two-DVD/one-CD summary of the Live Earth concerts is, “Something’s missing.” After all, this event took place on 12 stages in…
Free at Last
Free at Last Label: Roc-a-Fella Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Free at Last On the surface, Freeway is a scary dude. His sore-throated growl peaks somewhere near terrifying and hits its stride at punching you in the face. Physically, his extra layer of East Coast “winter coat” blubber is fiercely intimidating. When he…
RUBBISH
Even on a dreary, sunless day, Orange County’s recycling center is easily spotted by its mountain of brightly colored aluminum cans, as high as the roof of a two-story building. An open-air warehouse at the east Orlando facility hums with the noise of hulking, methodical machines. Dozens of workers wearing fluorescent orange vests and hard…
SANFORD’S SIT AND SIP
A chance to sit under the stars on a warm December night is worth the tolls and endless construction. The Sanford Wine Company, located in the severely underrated historic district, boasts an international wine list that includes classics from Spain, Italy, France and the western United States, and more obscure vintages from Canada and Eastern…
THE SEASONAL ‘C’ WORD
A Christmas Carol Through Dec. 22 Theatre Downtown $18; (407) 841-0083 www.theatredowntown.net On the big list of terrifying things that start with “C,” somewhere between “carcinoma” and “clogging,” falls the bane of every cynic’s holiday season: A Christmas Carol. Why, we exclaim, from the bitter bowels of our two-sizes-too-small hearts, must we endure another slog…
BLISTER
“When are people going to realize,” Tony lights a mind match in between anti-social grunts from the love seat to my right, “that we’re just making up stories to have something to talk about?” Well, now, I guess. We’ve been throwing back tipsy tumblers for about a half-hour whilst simultaneously attempting to conjure a post-Thanksgiving…
SAVAGE LOVE
Dan! I can’t believe you wrote that response to Hawt And Royally Depressed! He wrote because his wife of 10 years had “let herself go.” And you told this asshole to “be honest with her.” Your version of honesty was the verbal equivalent of hitting her with a sledgehammer! Distressed & Disgusted I didn’t write…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) This would be an excellent time for you to visit terminally ill patients in a hospice or go on a tour of a maximum-security prison. You might also travel to the Slum Theme Park in Americus, Ga., where Habitat for Humanity has built replicas of the leaky-roofed, dirt-floored, bug-infested huts that…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Are you a last-minute holiday shopper like me? Well, stop it. Didn’t your mother warn you that chronic procrastination gives you hairy palms? To help you avoid that unsightly fate, here’s a worthwhile gift idea for that music aficionado in your life (though, if you’re a regular reader of this impossibly fashionable column, it’s probably…
I LOVE TELEVISION
So I’ve got this problem, and my problem is that my father isn’t Snoop Dogg. (At least I think he’s not. No … he’s definitely not.) Now, I don’t openly despise my biological father – but C’MON! He’s certainly no Snoop Dogg! For example, does Snoop Dogg wear a belt from JCPenney? No, he does…
CULTURE TO GO
Roped in! The Roping Show 11 p.m. Thursday RFD-TV www.rfdtv.com RFD-TV, in case you don’t know, is “Rural America’s Most Important Network” (at least according to RFD-TV). I’ve watched RFD-TV in puzzled awe as the Big Joe Polka Show spilled out into my living room. Other RFD highlights, just to give you a flavor, include…
HAPPYTOWN
So it’s finally official: Alan Grayson has a better than snowball’s chance in hell of becoming our next congressman! Why? Because the largest impediment to his failed campaign in 2006 for this very same seat is no longer a problem! Alan Grayson is ditching the goatee! Be afraid, Ric Keller, be very afraid. On Nov.…
COUNCIL WATCH
There would be no devil-horned salutes set to Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law” at this week’s dais dalliance; the chambers were littered with black-clad officers, each with a lethal weapon attached to his or her side. A law-enforcement theme pervaded the proceedings, with might making right, if only for the sake of appearance. First up,…
POLICE BEAT
NOV. 21, 9:28 A.M.: There was a time when it seemed air-conditioner parts were to burglars what Twinkies are to fatties. This column chronicles such thievery all the damn time, but apparently those days have passed. (Perhaps it’s the bone-chilling winter we’re currently enduring.) Take, for example, the plundering of a sporting goods store in…
MAIL SACK
In the middle Somewhere between the big picture and a wild conspiracy plot lies important insight on what really makes things tick; this is such a piece and thanks for printing [“The coming attack,” Nov. 29]. Dan Parker, via the Internet Another monstrosity What are a bunch of college kids going to accomplish if not…
LOCALS ONLY
Atlanta looks up, finds us We raved about Orlando rapper Wes Fif’s distinct mishmash of raver-thump and street flow earlier this year (“Day-glo flow,” April 5). The music biz heard our plea and agreed. Atlantic sister label Slip-N-Slide Records, which shepherded Rick Ross’s rotund self into Billboard’s Top Ten charts last year, announced this week…
TALK TO HER
LaShonda Barnett is a very smart woman. Raised in Illinois by her music scholar mother, Barnett was a professor of history and Africana studies at Sarah Lawrence College from 2003 to 2006 (she now teaches in the SLC Writing Institute), lectures worldwide, and in conversation is prone to long, academic pauses so that she never…
REHABILITATING MCCARTHY
Some politicians are simply untouchable. For instance, you never hear a Democrat extolling the virtues of Lester Maddox, the late segregationist governor of Georgia. And when was the last time you heard a Republican laud the Depression-era economic policies of Herbert Hoover? But no American political figure of the last century has approached the kryptonite…
THE ALPS NEEDS A VERTIGO ALERT
If you have a yen to yodel, sample Swiss chocolate, wind a cuckoo clock or climb a mountain throughout the month, you should get yourself over to the Orlando Science Center, where your passions for all things Switzerland will be more than satisfied by The Alps, screening through spring. Part breathtakingly beautiful travelogue, part thrilling…
