FULL METAL REVIVAL
Into Abaddon Label: Kemado Length: EP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Into Abaddon Into Abaddon picks up where Metallica left off – in 1985. That’s not to say this Oakland quartet is strictly emulating Hetfield & Co. Still, the unabashedly retro stylings on Saviours’ second album evoke the feeling of listening to some…
A SAD DAY IN U.S.-CUBAN HISTORY
Since there’s been so much talk about the documentary film Shoot Down (which dropped into Orlando theaters last week and hopefully will be held over) and what it does contain and what it does not contain, I thought I’d reach out to Cristina Khuly, the filmmaker, to ask her a few questions. Why did you…
SLUG
Here’s how it could all fall apart: The good people of Peoria, Poughkeepsie, Pittsburgh and other American burgs that aren’t alliterative but are flattened by the recession decide that, seeing as they’ve lost their jobs, they are going to have to cut out that vacation to Orlando this year. They promised the kids they could…
THE LAST TABOO
With white walls covered by student work, stacks of lesson plans and a collection of books, the classroom at the BETA Center in Orlando looks like any other. It’s the smattering of baby toys atop shelves, and an infant wailing somewhere down the hall, that sets the room apart. “When you’re struggling and feeling like…
POLICE BEAT
JAN. 17, 9:53 A.M.: This we get: Under-construction homes are easy targets for thieves. They’re generally unprotected, and have lots of appliance-type things lying about, ripe for the taking. And sometimes, as this Robin Road home site did, the construction crew leaves not-very-concealed spare keys in electrical outlets. Thus, we weren’t terribly surprised to read…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The Onion reported on a South Carolina man who was so grateful for what God had done in the previous week that he put an extra $5 in the collection plate at church on Sunday. Brad Thaden was pleased with the nice weather and how well his kids had behaved. By…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a 20-year-old bi girl and I’ve been with my boyfriend a little over a year. We’ve talked about having an FFM threesome, but the first time we talked about it, we realized that we were not on the same page, and now every time I try to bring up the possibilities of a threesome,…
MAIL SACK
Shame On Us You should be ashamed of yourself, Mr. Billman `“I didn’t vote,” Jan. 24`. I know that you enjoy writing sensational and inflammatory articles (the manatee-eating hoax of 2003), but encouraging people not to vote? Look at where apathy has gotten us thus far: seven years of the Bush administration, the Iraq war,…
BLISTER
I’m hoping for a happy ending tonight. Not necessarily the sort of happy ending that involves a smear of baby batter and occasionally makes “massage” a dirty word in the publishing world, but more likely one that climaxes with a fall on my ass, the resulting pain in my spinal column and then the sense…
I LOVE TELEVISION
There are only three programs you need to be concerned about this week: the return of Lost, the Super Bowl and “Super Tuesday.” Actually … scratch those last two. While watching homoerotic meatbags feel each other up on a football field and viewing ineffectual politicians intellectually masturbate may be of interest to some people, most…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
Welcome to the first installment of your weekly dose of arts-acidophilus and culture-l. casei. Think of me as a friendly flora to help you digest whatever Orlando’s scene serves up. I know any disruption to your reading material can cause distress (the Villages riot whenever the Sentinel reformats “TV Time”), so here is a friendly…
HAPPYTOWN
Do you worry about the direction in which this country is headed? Do you fear that an ungodly heathen may soon inhabit the White House? Would you like to lose a few extra pounds? Do we have an event for you! On Feb. 2, the Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee will host TheCall, a group…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Earlier this week, I did an inspection of the new Will’s Pub and it looks like it’s really gonna happen this time, barflies. The place is coming along nicely, with walls painted, coolers in place and the bar framed out. A hard opening date is yet to be set but it’s nigh. The Beat On…
MEDIA AND MADNESS
Media oversaturation: It’s enough to drive you mad. Bored into our brains by 24-hour news and abetted by a billion bloggers, the fodder of Faux News and TMZ titillation threatens the mental moorings of our society’s most vulnerable: celebrities and children. The wages of sin may be death, but the wages of fame seem to…
FAT POWER!
Marianne Kirby is fat. Not a bit chunky, not pleasantly plump, but fat. Or, to use a more precise term, morbidly obese. Her five-foot, four-inch frame tips the scales at 319 pounds. And she’s OK with that. Last year she posed nude as a calendar pinup to benefit a cancer charity. That experience further convinced…
MAN ON FIRE
Matt Pike – guitarist, vocalist and founder of Bay Area metal heavyweights High on Fire – is attempting to navigate his vehicle toward a guitar shop in order to pick up some freshly repaired gear. “All of ’em blew up all at once,” he says of his tour-damaged amplifiers. “We have to do this between…
FORGED BY FIRE
There isn’t much that’s confusing about Hannibal Square in Winter Park. Tucked in cozily behind Fairbanks and Pennsylvania avenues, the area is home to day spas, hair salons and upscale restaurants; it’s a small nod to simple luxury, and the adjoining beer bar, Redlight Redlight, is no different. Within two years of opening their doors,…
THE PEOPLE GET IT
Adlai Stevenson, who had reason to be skeptical of voters, said the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact was so unequal that the truth was apt to be unpopular, especially in economic matters. Americans in 2008 would prove the thinking person’s politician from the 1950s wrong. Most people get it, and every week it…
