Underarms/Sideways
Underarms/Sideways Label: 4AD Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Underarms/Sideways One of the most frustrating aspects of being a record collector is the hoarding of items you deem rare (only to find out a few years later that they were reissued … with bonus tracks!). Once, one of the crown jewels of my collection was a mail-order only,…
Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui
Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui Label: SYR Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui What’s nifty about Sonic Youth’s SYR series is how it’s completely unlike the work the band releases on Geffen. What isn’t so nifty is that the last SYR recording came out half a decade ago. Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui, a live 2003…
Remixes 2002-2005
Remixes 2002-2005 Label: Sonar Kollectiv Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Remixes 2002-2005 Even as record titles stay relatively similar within the German DJ/producer camp called Jazzanova, after 10 years of remixes, it’s imperative that the six individuals continue to generate new ideas and unconventional choices. On Remixes, the jazz-oriented interpretations of the dreary, country-tinged Calexico number, as…
CAT FANCY
Duma Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: PG Website: http://dumamovie.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2005-12-09 Cast: Hope Davis, Campbell Scott, Alex Michaeletos, Emonn Walker, Nthabiseng Kenoshi Director: Carroll Ballard Screenwriter: Mark St. Germain, Karen Janszen Music Score: John Debney, George Acogny WorkNameSort: Duma Our Rating: 3.00 To watch the boy-and-his-cheetah drama Duma is to witness a tug-of-war between ’70s-Disney…
OIL THINGS CONSIDERED
Syriana Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: R Website: http://syrianamovie.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2005-12-09 Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt Director: Stephen Gaghan Screenwriter: Stephen Gaghan, Robert Baer Music Score: Alexandre Desplat WorkNameSort: Syriana Our Rating: 3.00 Before the world at large had seen a frame of Syriana, it appeared that the film’s…
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Studio: Buena Vista Pictures Rated: PG Website: http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/narnia/index.html Release Date: 2005-12-09 Cast: Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, James Cosmo, Jim Broadbent, Elizabeth Hawthorne Director: Andrew Adamson Screenwriter: Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus, Ann Peacock, Stephen McFeely Music Score: Harry Gregson-Williams, Amy Lee WorkNameSort: Chronicles of Narnia:…
Aeon Flux
Aeon Flux Studio: Paramount Pictures Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.aeonflux.com/ Release Date: 2005-12-08 Cast: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo Director: Karyn Kusama Screenwriter: Matt Manfredi, Phil Hay, Peter Chung Music Score: Graeme Revell, Theodore Shapiro WorkNameSort: Aeon Flux Our Rating: 1.50 The seminal MTV cartoon becomes live-action proof that, come…
SOUP KITCHEN
Chef-owned joints are scarce in these parts. What a shame. The mark of a city’s cuisine, after careful consideration of ethnic places, often rests upon its neighborhood chefs. One such spot that’s been around for almost four years is Logan’s Bistro. I didn’t like Logan’s when they opened in 2002. Over the years, though, I…
A HUMBLE CLUB MED FOR EVERYDAY EATS
Mediterranean Deli tops my list of places to eat for $10 or less. Located in a 1950s-style strip mall on the western edge of Fairbanks Avenue in Winter Park, it sits like an oasis of authenticity. I’m not talking about the kind of quaint Mediterranean place that makes you feel as if you’re sipping Monacos…
SAVE UNCLE HENRY’S!
Entrepreneurs, the city of Orlando needs your help. It needs you to invest in Parramore, the long-blighted neighborhood on downtown’s west side that, if you believe city officials, is on the cusp of booming once again. If you’re interested, there are a myriad of loans and grants you can apply for, and the city will…
GLUE IT TO ME ONE MORE TIME
In November, a jury in Westmoreland County, Pa., awarded Ken Slaby $46,200 for genital injuries inflicted by his vengeful ex-girlfriend, Gail O’Toole, in 2000. While Slaby was napping (according to a report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), O’Toole glued Slaby’s buttocks cheeks together, his penis to his abdomen and his scrotum to his leg, all as…
DECEPTION
The city of Orlando’s November 2004 acquisition of a 16-unit Parramore apartment building looked like a sweet deal for taxpayers. The building, at 628 W. South St., sits on the cusp of ongoing revitalization efforts. A year earlier the building sold for $370,000, but taxpayers apparently got a bargain. The city paid $10. Why had…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Science writer Carl Sagan liked to say that “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” He often invoked that idea in his crusade to debunk theories he considered outlandish, like the proposition that extraterrestrials are visiting our planet. While I think Sagan’s measuring stick is usually quite useful, you should be careful about…
GIVE FILMS A CHANCE
Every year, the Global Peace Film Festival appears almost Brigadoon-like on the Orlando event calendar, presenting a loosely themed schedule of humanistic flicks to attendees who can’t be certain what to expect. Yet in some ways, the hazy focus of the GPFF is its very strength. Where else can you see a documentary about an…
WASH YOUR HANDS
On Dec. 9, the Orange County Health Department will host a media event (to be attended by Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty) at its Lake Ellenor administrative offices in an effort to reposition itself on the public perception radar. This is a time when public health seems to be on the tip of everybody’s tongue.…
Happytown
Making good on their word, the Orlando Sentinel axed 54 jobs last week by eliminating 33 open slots and firing 21 people. This rolling of heads has become something of a nasty holiday tradition, it would seem; last year, on Nov. 8, Sentinel publisher Kathy Waltz sent a memo to employees outlining the elimination of…
BAH, HUMDINGER
Cruising up highly commercial Highway 17-92 last Sunday to catch the matinee of Orlando Theatre Project’s A Christmas Carol, I felt a lot of bah-humbug blowing in the air. It was still hot and sunny 21 days before Christmas, and the tickets were 22 bucks apiece. But the theater building at Seminole Community College is…
FULL WASSAIL
What’s a theater company to do when December rolls around? Well, you could always trot out A Christmas Carol again. It sure puts butts in seats, which may be why some troupes opt to run their productions of the Dickens perennial through July – or so a veteran scene-watcher lies in the hilarious, scorched-earth-and-mistletoe introduction…
TOO MANY CANDLES FOR CAKE
Next year will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and it’s likely that by the end of 2006 classical music fans will have heard the words “prodigy” and “genius” quite enough, thank you very much. However, at this early stage, it’s refreshing to be treated to comprehensive looks at various…
JET GENERATION
Through more than 15 years of garage-rocking, Japan’s Guitar Wolf has never seen much need to screw with their formula. After all, when you’ve boiled rock & roll down to its basic essentials – leather jackets, sunglasses and two-minute garage tantrums that are as high-velocity as they are high-volume – why try to improve perfection?…
GOD IS DUMB
Boo-hoo-hoo! OHHHHHH, boo- hoo-hoo-hoo-hooooo!! Why, God, why? Why have You cruelly taken that which was closest to my heart? You knew it was my greatest love, and yet, without (much) warning, You’ve stolen the only thing that made my miserable life worth living, and … huh? What do You mean, “I have no idea what…
ENTRY-LEVEL LABOR
NOV. 29, 2 P.M.: A roving man entered an unlocked apartment in the 1620 block of Mercy Drive. Moments later, one of the apartment’s residents walked inside and observed the man “taking approximately 84 pills of muscle relaxers and other medications,” police reports state. Then the suspect walked back outside, hopped onboard his bicycle and…
HANDY CHAPS
I’m a 23-year-old straight male. Due to a rare autoimmune attack three years ago, I have been indefinitely confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. Now I’m left to face my sexual future from a significantly altered perspective. The important thing is that I can still engage in sex. I think a common…
Letters
No Funbalaya No thank you, for the feature article dealing with Funbalaya incest [“Love your neighbors,” Dec. 1]. Nicole [Prezioso], have you no time in the day to actually write meaningful observations about leaves falling rather than spend any amount of time with the jambalaya crew? The idea of a collective is cultish to say…
THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON FIBBING
As any massage therapist or crystal meth dealer will tell you, this is the time of year when folks tend to put personal luxury on the back burner. The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and it seems inconsiderate to blow one’s discretionary income on petty extravagances – like pedicures or a mail-order bride…
HELLO DOLLY!
Now I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not exactly growing old gracefully, and if I for some reason skip the chance at admission, surely the hairline and the crow’s-feet will scream it for me. But despite the fact that I’m set to be skewered from both ends by a gastroenterologist next week, unattractively…
Notable Noise
I took my 11-year-old to see Walk the Line over the weekend because he’s a huge Johnny Cash fan and also because my morbid curiosity had gotten the better of me. How on earth, I wondered, could all these professional film critics be giving this film the fabulous reviews it’s been getting? We’re talking about…
Phosphorescent, Richard Vission, Radio City Christmas Spectacular and more
Friday • 9 PHOSPHORESCENT How much do we love the new album by Phosphorescent? Well, let’s just put it this way: All of our friends – OK, former friends – have begun to question our sanity. Not because we’ve gone all OCD or anything; sure, we play Aw Come Aw Wry a lot, but it’s…
