Captive audience
Movie: Proof of Life
Halfway to the top
Movie: Vertical Limit
Dull swords
Movie: Dungeons & Dragons
Captive audience
Movie: Proof of Life
Halfway to the top
Movie: Vertical Limit
Dull swords
Movie: Dungeons & Dragons
Spice racked
Something about chasing celebrity appearances at Universal CityWalk ups the ante on the whole pursuit notion altogether. People movers — and worse, people — crowd the way as you shuffle impolitely towards Universal’s bloated attempt at overexposed urbanity, all to the tune of Ray Parker Jr.’s seminal theme song from “Ghostbusters.” “Who ya gonna call?”…
Review – Hoodoo: The Collection
Artist: Dr. John
Review – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Artist: U2
Review – Stories From the City, Strories From the Sea
Artist: PJ Harvey
Review – Sleep When I’m Dead
Artist: Dirty Barby
Review – Hoodoo: The Collection
Artist: Dr. John
A glimpse of gay’s L.A.’s good ‘Heart’
Movie: The Broken Hearts Club
Review – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Artist: U2
Review – Stories From the City, Strories From the Sea
Artist: PJ Harvey
Review – Sleep When I’m Dead
Artist: Dirty Barby
Review – Hoodoo: The Collection
Artist: Dr. John
A glimpse of gay’s L.A.’s good ‘Heart’
Movie: The Broken Hearts Club
Review – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Artist: U2
Review – Stories From the City, Strories From the Sea
Artist: PJ Harvey
Review – Sleep When I’m Dead
Artist: Dirty Barby
Juicy barbecue has staying power
Much hurrah and clapping of hands is heard when local restaurants reach their fifth or 10th anniversary, yet somehow an Altamonte Springs institution celebrated its 20th year in July without hardly a salute. Uncle Jones Bar-B-Que (1370 E. Altamonte Drive; 407-260-2425) has been serving what is arguably some of the best smoked ribs, beef, pork…
Jazz accounts for about 2…
Jazz accounts for about 2 percent of all recordings sold in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Jazz-related printed matter, it’s safe to assume, likewise isn’t exactly a market leader. Fans nevertheless faced little difficulty this year satisfying their appetites for jazz CDs — new releases, reissues, boxed sets –…
Art in the open
Forget the simple Costner-ism, “If you build it, they will come.” As the recent debut of the OVAL on Orange art gallery demonstrated, sometimes “they” will come even when “it” is still a work-in-progress. Located at Pine Street and Orange Avenue, the new space drew a reassuringly hefty crowd to its Nov. 28 ribbon-cutting ceremony.…
Out of the box
It’s been a banner year in TV land for those who are amorously inclined toward people of the same gender. To wit: NBC’s lavender-tinged odd couple “Will & Grace” have not only parked their butts in the Nielsen top 10 on a regular basis, but the show copped an unexpected statuette for Best Comedy at…
Counter proposal
The idea of a morning-after pill is not new. For years doctors have known that high doses of the hormones found in birth-control pills, taken within 72 hours after sex, can prevent pregnancy. By mixing and matching packages of birth-control pills, doctors created the appropriate dosage themselves. Now, two brand-name morning-after pills are available, marketed…
Cry uncle
Stop. Please. Now. Let it just be over. Yeah, admittedly, it was mildly interesting for a tiny brief moment about four weeks ago, and I’m sure the portfolios of a lot of graphic artist interns at television stations all over the world have been fattened like Wisconsin Provimi veal calves with the feed chute stuck…
Heading into a war zone
December 7, 1941. A date that — according to then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt — “will live in infamy.” Fifty-nine years ago this week, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched an aerial assault on a strategically important U.S. naval base in the Hawaiian Islands. That attack on “Pearl Harbor” finally compelled the American government to enter World…
A servant who served us all
This has been one of the loudest election seasons in memory — with most of the cacophony coming long after the actual election was over. The most irritating sounds arrive in two varieties: the blaring hypocrisy from party loyalists who trumpet the primacy of the “law” when it suits their purposes, then blast the same…
Luxury hounds
According to an August report in The Washington Post, the Birch K9 Health & Fitness Centre opened earlier this year in Heywood, England, to provide hydrotherapy, whirlpool baths, treadmills and magnetherapy to dogs (all under the direction of trainer Dave Burdon). The club boasts success in rehabilitating the natural muscles that have weakened due to…
Dumb founded
One of the problems with wearing black all the time is that no one can tell whether you’re in mourning or a state of protest. A black arm band just looks like some frayed threads. It doesn’t look like you’re socially conscious. It looks like you buy cheap shirts. I realized this when I heard…
I am a golden god!” howls…
I am a golden god!” howls a ’70s-tressed Billy Crudup in this year’s rock-journalist biopic Almost Famous, signaling a fall — as much from an LSD overload appropriate to that period’s gypsy-like rock-star posturing as from the rooftop on which he is standing. It’s the sort of fantasy that used to fuel an industry built…
