Channel 6 blew it
This just in: Channel 6’s motion to dissolve the injunction against them reporting on the much-hyped “Guetzloe files” has been denied. In other words, they are still not legally allowed to report on the documents. Which is stupid on many, many levels. No court should be telling a news organization what they can and can’t…
Catholic League: stamping out that pesky truth
… so you don’t have to! The New York Times reports that the Catholic League is demanding that John Edwards dismiss two bloggers working on his campaign “for expressing anti-Catholic opinions.” In a statement released Tuesday, the president of the Catholic League said, â??John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished…
BITTER SWEETNESS
Stories by North Carolina writer deliver a heartfelt punch in the gut
AGE BEFORE BEAUTY
Peter O’Toole’s lovely, cretinous turn in Venus
The Last Sin Eater
The Last Sin Eater Studio: FoxFaith Rated: PG-13 Release Date: 2007-02-09 Cast: Henry Thomas, Liana Liberato, Peter Wingfield, Elizabeth Lackey Director: Michael Landon, Jr. WorkNameSort: Last Sin Eater, The Our Rating: 1.00 This almost-unwatchable film pokes a holier-than-thou finger at nutty superstitions like bread-and-wine rituals that, thanks to the suffering of one man, allow people…
Eddie Murphy Delirious
Eddie Murphy Delirious Studio: Entertainment Studio Rated: R Release Date: 2007-02-06 Cast: Eddie Murphy Director: Bruce Gowers WorkNameSort: Eddie Murphy Delirious Does Eddie Murphy now cringe when he hears his younger self bark, ‘Faggots aren’t allowed to look at my ass while I’m on stageâ?�? Maybe that mortification kept his raunchy 1983 concert film Eddie…
Paul Mooney: Know Your History – Jesus Was Black… So Was Cleopatra
Paul Mooney: Know Your History – Jesus Was Black… So Was Cleopatra Studio: Image Entertainment Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2007-02-06 Cast: Paul Mooney Director: Johnathan X WorkNameSort: Paul Mooney: Know Your History – Jesus Was Black… So Was Cleopatra His Chappelle’s Show character Negrodamus may have seen the future, but Paul Mooney seems steadfastly…
Caprice
Caprice Studio: 20th Century Fox Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2007-01-30 Cast: Doris Day, Richard Harris, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edward Mulhare Director: Frank Tashlin WorkNameSort: Caprice It’s easy to see why an awkward curiosity like 1967’s Caprice would be relegated to an asterisk at best in film-history textbooks. It’s too arty and self-referential to…
New Magnetic Wonder
New Magnetic Wonder Label: New West Records Length: LP Rated: NONE Website: http://www.applesinstereo.com/ Release Date: 2007-02-06 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: New Magnetic Wonder Recorded over a year in five studios, the Apples in Stereo’s first album in five years is the most ambitious to date. Which is to say it’s the most musically elaborate…
My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go Away
My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go Away Label: Chemikal Underground Length: LP Rated: NONE Website: http://www.aereogramme.co.uk/ Release Date: 2007-02-13 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go Away Like its Glasgow neighbor Mogwai, Aereogramme traditionally alternates between placid spells and billowing noise. On last…
8-Bit Operators – An 8-bit Tribute to Kraftwerk
8-Bit Operators – An 8-bit Tribute to Kraftwerk Label: Astralwerks Length: LP Rated: NONE Release Date: 2007-02-06 Media: CD Format: Compilation WorkNameSort: 8-Bit Operators – An 8-bit Tribute to Kraftwerk This collection of 15 Kraftwerk covers immerses the listener in a strange, swirling temporal vortex of music written by a futuristic electronic band in the…
The Sermon On Exposition Blvd.
The Sermon On Exposition Blvd. Label: New West Records Length: LP Release Date: 2007-02-06 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Sermon On Exposition Blvd., The Oh, the high weirdness: a 13-song cycle based on the words and ideas of Jesus Christ, written and performed by Rickie Lee Jones. The recording began with visual artist Lee Cantelon,…
Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
Atlantis: Hymns for Disco Label: Virgin Records Length: LP Rated: NONE Website: http://www.k-osmusic.com/ Release Date: 2007-02-20 Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Atlantis: Hymns for Disco Transforming an overused drum break into a hit is no small feat. Toronto-based Trinidadian MC/producer/singer K-Os commences play on his third full-length, Atlantis: Hymns for Disco, with a much-trafficked B-boy…
INNOCENCE AND MALICE
She opens cough medicines in the store and tastes them, once used mascara to make it look like she had extra pubic hair and thinks that old black women are wise beyond their years but young black women are prostitutes. She’s Sarah Silverman, the main character in The Sarah Silverman Program, a bizarre, gross, stupid…
BLISTER
“You look like somebody,” Miss Sammy of the Singhauses purses cracks into her lipstick. “Hmmm, somebody famous. Is it Monica Lewinsky?” “Teri,” I scrape at my love spots and feign an aneurysm. “Teri Garr.” If it’s to be a night of artifice, then it ought to be a night of humble artifice (with added affliction),…
SAVAGE LOVE
;I’ve been married to my husband for two years, with him for four. I’m a little dominant, but beyond that nothing too out there. My husband, on the other hand, is a diaper-loving, transvestite adult baby.; ;I’ve done everything I can to make him realize that while I’m not into his kink, I’m not against…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES Happy Valentine Daze! On this lover’s holiday, let’s purge some of your old romantic karma. With a cleaner slate, you’ll be freer to create the kind of love you want in the future. To begin, write a list of the worst sins you’ve committed against your ex-intimates. Include behavior that was ignorant, cruel or…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
;Hey, what’s that in your eye? Awww, it’s a twinkle. Looks like Cupid’s arrow found somebody’s hole. Well, I’m feeling it too, but it’s probably because the motherfucking Jesus and Mary Chain are reuniting — at least for one Friday at the gluttonously hip Coachella Music Festival. Playing with the brothers Reid will be Phil…
LOVIN’ SPOONFULS
; Forget about that tired old heart-shaped box of chocolates from the drugstore. If your beloved (or whoever you’re trying to get with on Valentine’s Day) has any taste, those stale-ass nuggets of wax and preservatives won’t score you points (and if you’re single at the moment, you should treat yourself to the quality goods).…
I LOVE TELEVISION
I give a lot of advice, as you know, and it’s usually in your best interest to TAKE this advice. For example: tricking people into sleeping with you. This may be an offensive suggestion to some. Perhaps you believe you don’t need to “trick people” into a sexual relationship, and that your looks and sparkling…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
;‘Bermuda Schwartz’ ;; The charming Winter Park–based ;mystery/crime writer Bob Morris has just unleashed the third novel in his promised islands trilogy, published by St. Martin’s Minotaur: Bermuda Schwartz — following Bahamarama (2004) and Jamaica Me Dead (2005). ;; Bermuda Schwartz continues the adventures of former pro football player, former inmate and all-around trouble-magnet Zack…
COUNCIL WATCH
;”We realize that we are not perfect,” pastor Greg Riggs invoked the forgiving spirit of the Lord himself. “And we need your help.”; ;To that end, the Feb. 5 installment of Orlando’s finest at work took on the topsy-turvy feel of last things first and first things last; the typically early mayor’s update came a…
HAPPYTOWN
In honor of Valentine’s Day — which is a made-up holiday that we’d rather ignore but can’t, because we feel obliged to do something, the guilt is just that thick — we bring you the first-ever edition of Happytown™’s People We’d Like to Get With. Think of it as the Sentinel’s “most powerful white guys”…
POLICE BEAT
;JAN. 26, 12:49 P.M.: What happens when you leave ladders in the back yard? Strangers climb them.; ;The owner of an unoccupied residence in the 1000 block of West Yale Street learned this lesson the hard way. Upon eyeballing the gateway to heaven, a suspect or suspects hopped on and ascended, step by step, to…
LETTERS
Screwing things up It was brought to my attention today that in the Aug. 31 issue of your paper, under something called Happytown™, a very insulting article was written about my tribe and myself. I was told, by you, that no article was going to be done. Instead, you give the assignment to someone who…
SELECTIONS
;Thursday•8 ;;Rent Critics have preached the gospel of Broadway’s Rent since it first blessed the stage in 1996. To be impervious to such adoration, you’d have to have been under quite the impressive rock for longer than the 525,600 minutes that make up a year. Even then, 2005’s feature film adaptation served as a gateway…
MIX TAPE MISTAKES
We’ve all done it at some embarrassing point in our past. Dreamily ensconced in the rapture of a new romance, we set about crafting the perfect mix tape (or CD or playlist) to let our new love know not only how we feel, but, more importantly, how great our taste in music is. Yet we’ve…
POP CULTURE FACTORY
;Pittsfield Township sits just on the outskirts of Ann Arbor, Mich. It’s a standard sort of middle-American sprawlburb, filled with strip malls and business parks. Valley Ranch is one such park, home to companies called Essen Instruments and Humantech Workplace Ergonomics Consultants.; ;Here, in this soulless part of town, sits a soulless-looking edifice that appears…
HOW TO BANKRUPT LOCAL GOVERNMENT
It’s a perfect storm: Home insurance rates are too high. Property taxes are too high. The citizenry wants relief. The politicians in Tallahassee want to give it to them. Last month, in a special session, the Florida Legislature dealt with the insurance crisis. Lawmakers responded with a plan they say will cut insurance premiums by…
Pop ’em out or else
Well, here’s a fresh approach. The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance is a ballot measure that proposes the following: If passed by Washington voters, the Defense of Marriage Initiative would: add the phrase, “who are capable of having children with one another” to the legal definition of marriage; require that couples married in Washington file…
