Anti climax
Movie: 40 Days and 40 Nights
Duress of a salesman
Movie: Diamond Men
Aiming high
Movie: We Were Soldiers
Anti climax
Movie: 40 Days and 40 Nights
Duress of a salesman
Movie: Diamond Men
Aiming high
Movie: We Were Soldiers
Guarded optimism
You can hear the frustration in Peter Siegel’s voice. It’s almost as if the prison-reform attorney has been kicked in the gut. In a way, he was. On Feb. 15, a Brad-ford County jury of five men and one woman acquitted three former prison guards charged in the brutal 1999 killing of death-row inmate Frank…
The homeless class goes to college
When it comes to people without a place to live, the city has for years walked a precarious tight rope. On the one hand, it funnels more than a million dollars to organizations such as Coalition for the Homeless. On the other, it enforces hard-line rules to keep the vagrants off downtown streets. Indeed, the…
Divine intervention
Long before I was an overweight cross-dressing movie star, a certain misunderstood Divine one (née Harris Glenn Milstead) walked the earth in cha-cha heels and parlayed loud-mouthed audacity into a permanent role as director John Waters’ beefy, tragic muse. You know, back when Ricki Lake was FAT, and not just big-boned and smart-suited. Back when…
Good grief
Perhaps the greatest miracle of “Six Feet Under” lies in realizing how wretched it should logically be. The major attributes of creator/ executive producer Alan Ball’s acclaimed HBO comedy/drama read like a laundry list of bad-sitcom conceits. Start with the black-comic premise that the Fishers, the California family whose travails the show documents, own and…
Kober charge
Here’s one for the record books: A Disney entertainer of several years’ standing is leaving the company voluntarily, with a bright future ahead of her and nothing but good things to say about her time on rodent-infested property. “I’ve been so blessed through this entire process,” says Jen Kober, whose tenure as a popular improv…
Governor admits to laundering
Last August, Shane Hedges, a member of the staff of Montana Gov. Judy Martz, was involved in a fatal auto accident while presumptively drunk, and later resigned and pled guilty to vehicular homicide. However, just after the crash, with police still seeking evidence from the accident, Hedges went to see the governor while still wearing…
Celebrating a true victory
I don’t want to write about Afghanistan. Whether or not we have scored a momentary victory against the forces of terrorism and “evil” is moot — it’s merely a mote of dust within the sands of time. For hundreds of years, the conflicts in this barren, mountainous backwater have seen power shift back and forth…
Industrious Kosher kitchen
The back end of an industrial park in Winter Springs is a most unlikely place to get kosher groceries and meat, but that’s exactly where you’ll find the office of Kosher Kats. I say “office” because this isn’t exactly a deli counter. It’s a place where you can order baked goods, roasts and more, all…
Pure fabrication
In one of his monologues, Garrison Keillor describes the sudden efforts of his family, when confronted with unexpected guests, to give “the appearance of a neat home” by shoveling junk under beds and into closets before the door is opened. “I believe in that,” he says, “I believe in pretense. … I believe there are…
The almighty Lynum
You might say Daisy Lynum’s career on the Orlando City Council was baptized in controversy. She took office on June 1, 1998, which happened to be the day commissioners heard one of the most divisive issues in recent memory. A gay-pride group wanted to fly rainbow-colored flags throughout downtown Orlando, as other groups had done…
Review – For the Sake of the Song
Artist: Townes Van Zandt
Review – For the Sake of the Song
Artist: Townes Van Zandt
Review – For the Sake of the Song
Artist: Townes Van Zandt
