Why the Sentinel is like Donald Rumsfeld
The Columbia Journalism Review called it: Time for the Tribune Co., owners of our beloved Orlando Sentinel, to step down, quit, get out of the newspaper business. Better to let a bunch of newbie billionaires take over the individual papers and take our chances then continue suffering the death from a thousand (job) cuts that…
R.I.P. Alice Coltrane
Less than a month after James Brown hit the heavens, the spiritual tidal wave known as Alice Coltrane also departed this plane. The 69-year-old widow of John Coltrane had recently become re-engaged in the music community, performing with son Ravi. She died of respiratory failure over the weekend. In honor of her work â?? and…
INDIAN EARTHMOVER
Author brilliantly weaves a story of crime and crushed dreams into the critical mass that is contemporary Bombay
INVENTING NOTHING
The Painted Veil is the latest dip into W. Somerset Maugham’s literary legacy
SICK AND SICKER
Notes on a Scandal Length: Single Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures Rated: R Website: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/NOAS/ Release Date: 2007-01-11 Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy Director: Richard Eyre Screenwriter: Patrick Marber, Zoe Heller WorkNameSort: Notes on a Scandal Our Rating: 4.00 Former Florida teacher Debra Lafave may have opened her legs to a horny and opportunistic…
Curse of the Golden Flower
Curse of the Golden Flower Length: Single Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Release Date: 2007-01-11 Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Liu Ye, Chen Jin, Jay Chou Director: Yimou Zhang Screenwriter: Yimou Zhang, Wu Nan, Bian Zhihong, Cao Yu Music Score: Shigeru Umebayashi WorkNameSort: Curse of the Golden Flower Our Rating: 4.00 What starts as…
Stomp the Yard
Stomp the Yard Length: Single Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/stomptheyard/ Release Date: 2007-01-12 Cast: Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-Yo , Courtney B. Vance, Darrin DeWitt Henson Director: Sylvain White Screenwriter: Robert Adetuyi Music Score: Ali Shaheed Muhammed WorkNameSort: Stomp the Yard Our Rating: 3.00 The makers of Stomp the Yard clearly had…
Meerkat Manor Season 1 and Walt Disney Legacy Collection â?? True Life Adventures Vols. 1,2,3 and 4
Meerkat Manor Season 1 and Walt Disney Legacy Collection Ã’ True Life Adventures Vols. 1,2,3 and 4 Studio: Animal Planet/Discovery Channel and Disney WorkNameSort: Meerkat Manor Season 1 and Walt Disney Legacy Collection Ã’ True Life Adventures Vols. 1,2,3 and 4 Serious ‘animal peopleâ?� ‘ zookeepers, researchers, conservationists and the like ‘ tend to have…
Moscow Elegy
Moscow Elegy Studio: Facets WorkNameSort: Moscow Elegy Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky was nothing if not unconventional, and he would no doubt approve of this deliberately paced, nonlinear document of his final years made by protégé/heir Aleksandr Sokurov. Sokurov feints at standard biography techniques ‘ still photographs of Tarkovsky as a child, clips from his filmography,…
The Descent
The Descent Studio: Lionsgate WorkNameSort: Descent , The A single-disc release that’s as packed as a double, Lionsgate’s unrated Descent DVD shouldn’t disappoint fans of one of the best horror films in recent memory. The inescapable terror of the six girls’ spiral into hell after a botched caving expedition works best in a cinema ‘…
NOT ENOUGH INDIAN
Chief among my Orlando restaurant crushes has been Woodlands, the vegetarian Indian restaurant on South OBT. It was the only alternative I knew to fighting the tourist hordes down on I-Drive when I need a masala fix. The atmosphere falls somewhere between fancy and casual ‘ no need to dress up, but you won’t be…
DJ Kicks
DJ Kicks Label: !K7 Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: DJ Kicks One of the longest-running series of DJ mix CDs ‘ somehow surviving the brief boom in electronic dance music when American frat boys made Paul Oakenfold a very rich man ‘ !K7’s DJ Kicks range is too broad to recommend…
Ed Rec Vol. 1
Ed Rec Vol. 1 Label: Ed Banger digital release Website: http://www.edbangerrecords.com/ WorkNameSort: Ed Rec Vol. 1 Recurring stateside approval for France’s Ed Banger Records might be off-putting to stuck-up indie elitist whiners, but Ed Rec Vol. 1 offers airtight evidence of the label’s exciting platform. A casual listen to this digital release ‘ from the…
PEOPLE WHO DIED
To be remembered: Once you get past the can’t-take-it-with-you trappings of life, it’s what everyone wants most in the end. That’s why, five years ago, we started taking time out when the days are at their shortest to pay tribute to those dearly and recently departed whose lives made a larger difference, whether most of…
BLISTER
;”I can’t believe my teeth and gums!” Doug Ba’aser Water-Piks as we splash ourselves up to Pom Pom’s Sandwicheria. “Billy Manes!” ;;Tony and I have just crawled out from under pre-show liquor rocks at the Peacock to make a feigned penance appearance at the art-drag, art-fag fabulousness that is this month’s “Seven Deadly Sins” art…
SAVAGE LOVE
I have some concerns about my cuckold fetish that you did not address in a recent column on the subject. Aspects of my particular fantasy are prevalent among people with this type of fetish, and they cause me guilt and shame. I am white and all of my fantasies involve my future wife having sex…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES Let’s get a few things straight. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Facts are in the eye of the beholder. Logic is the opiate of those who are afraid of their feelings. Sorry if that sounds anti-intellectual; I’m exaggerating slightly in hopes of encouraging the free flow of your naked intuition in 2007. I…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
All right, honey-pie, time to scrape the holiday sleep from your eyes. The days of entertainment privation are over and the concert calendars are finally beginning to thaw. So let’s get back to business. Wardrobe please! I have a unique relationship with local novelty band Killer Robots. I love their extravagantly costumed comedy but hate…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Are you wearing your adult underpants? Well, prepare for them to be soiled beyond recognition, because everyone’s favorite action/drama, 24, is returning to TV this week! All together now … EEEEEEEEE! (You may now change into dry undergarments.) All comfy in your new diaper? Good, because you’re about to be soiled again! Not only is…
TENSION MOUNTS FOR FESTIVAL MADNESS
;Once the pesky holidays are out of the way — and my multicultural calendar reflects the cutoff as Jan. 6 for the Festival of Kings — the momentum builds toward the cluster of festivals that starts with the sprawling ArtsFest in February and ends with the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival in May. To participate…
HAPPYTOWN
;Note to pro-choicers: You are boring. Someone had to say it. ;; Florida NOW types have long been pissed that the anti-choice crowd has its own state-sanctioned “Choose Life” license plate, the proceeds from which funnel money to a nonprofit that lies to women about abortion (see “Choose lies,” April 17, 2003). But when NOW…
POLICE BEAT
DEC. 27, 1:07 P.M.: Just because candy canes are now half-price at Target doesn’t mean the holiday spirit has to cease. But sadly, the holidays provided no real respite from crime in the City Beautiful. Example: the following act, reported just two days after Kris Kringle’s globewide expedition. The night was likely black when an…
LETTERS
;Fat chicks dodge bullet ;It was all I could do to contain myself from erupting into hysterics as I read your story “No fat chicks” [Jan. 4]. Wow, [Kurt Spath] is a piece of work! His quotes at the end of the article about corralling the women together so he can “go hunting” pretty much…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•11 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus The complaints against clowns are legion: They’re creepy, they’re willfully obnoxious, and if you fall asleep, one or more of them will eat you. We’re not entirely sure how so much animosity came to be visited upon a vocation that’s steeped in a tradition of pinpoint timing…
FEAR AND TREMBLING ON RADIO DISNEY
“What came first, the music or the misery?” Those were the words of Rob Gordon, Nick Hornby’s protagonist in the modern classic tale of arrested adolescence, High Fidelity. Say “teen pop” out loud and it tends to conjure airy images of hand-holding, cotton candy and puppy love. It’s to be sung by smiling, androgynous boys…
We Don’t Need Your Fascist Groove Thing
With any luck or sanity, you won’t care about this. But for those of us with fermented pop pasts and virtual vaginas, today is a sad day indeed. From the duranduran.com message board came this message last week: To Our Fans: The Message Board on Duranduran.com was originally developed as a place for our fans…
