One family’s story of death and life
Movie: The Hanging Garden
One family’s story of death and life
Movie: The Hanging Garden
One family’s story of death and life
Movie: The Hanging Garden
One family’s story of death and life
Movie: The Hanging Garden
Review – Adore Adore
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Review – Dead On the Heavy Funk 1975-1983
Artist: James Brown
Review – Version 2.0
Artist: Garbage
Review – Adore Adore
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Review – Body High
Artist: Forest Orange
Review – Dead On the Heavy Funk 1975-1983
Artist: James Brown
Review – Version 2.0
Artist: Garbage
Review – Body High
Artist: Forest Orange
Review – Adore Adore
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Review – Dead On the Heavy Funk 1975-1983
Artist: James Brown
Review – Version 2.0
Artist: Garbage
Review – Body High
Artist: Forest Orange
Review – Adore Adore
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Review – Dead On the Heavy Funk 1975-1983
Artist: James Brown
Review – Version 2.0
Artist: Garbage
Review – Body High
Artist: Forest Orange
Dance-floor roar
Today’s dance culture owes as much to the late-’80s acid-house scene of Manchester, England, as ’60s acid-rock and folk does to San Francisco. It was an era of innocence and ecstasy-fueled exploration, of inclusiveness and musical wanderlust. The diversity and willingness to experiment eventually took a back seat to the more hedonistic climate that carried…
The Genitorturers play for their sins
The Genitorturers are skilled in the art of shocking people. Their debut album, “120 Days of Genitorture” helped put the bands’ S&M obsession on the socio-musical map. Five years and one new recording contract later (for ’90s neo-goth, “Darkwave” progenitors Cleopatra Records), lead vocalist Gen and her band of submissives, dominatrixes and “jackin’ men” continue…
Journey to power-pop heaven
It’s Monday night at the House of Blues and VonRa is blazing through their opening set for GumWrapper Curb. Tonight is GumWrapper’s label-signing party, but the ample audience is cheering as if VonRa were the main attraction. The band moves freely about the stage, feeding off of each other’s energy as they toss a musical…
Lockheed, others arming China
There they were some of America’s proudest: Motorola, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, United Technologies and other manufacturing powerhouses, showing off their wares at a big trade fair. But this was no ordinary sale-a-thon of Made-in-the-USA products. It was China’s International Defense Electronics Exhibition, co-sponsored by the brutally repressive Chinese Army. Even as the Congress was in…
Smoke gets in their eyes
On June 6 Seminole Woods, in Flagler County, was a neighborhood of $130,000 homes. By June 8 it was a black stain studded with charred refrigerators and water heaters. Ted Jones told the Florida Times-Union that he and his wife, Rita, have no plans to rebuild. “We’ll never live here again,” he said, surveying the…
Bust gone to pot
State Attorney Lawson Lamar’s office has dropped the charge against Gregg Scott, the Fort Lauderdale marijuana-as-medicine advocate dragged by sheriff’s deputies from the “Marijuana Education Summit” on May 27. Scott, who uses marijuana to stimulate his appetite after he takes AIDS medications, was protesting the one-sidedness of the anti-pot message communicated during the gathering paid…
Nudists enlist Old Glory
Nudists battling for a place on Playalinda Beach plan to distribute more than 1,000 small American flags to beach visitors on July 4. The flags will be given to visitors who agree with the nudists that authorities should cease arrests and pressure tactics that threaten to end the longstanding tradition of clothing-optional sunbathing north of…
Stars not barred
The American flag flies over Orlando, thanks to a quick adjustment in Orlando’s flag ordinance. On Monday the city council passed a measure that allows flags to be flown from city light posts for any event that is hosted, sponsored or run by the city. Under the old rules, the city did not have to…
The Big Picture
It’s a Friday night at the Orlando Science Center, and there’s not a school group in sight. Instead, the line is queued up for tickets to “Everest,” the exhilarating 44-minute true tale of a climb and human crisis that is the record-breaker for all large-format films, having recently cracked the top 10 in weekly box…
Getting the dirt on frisky plants
Auckland, New Zealand, biologist Larry Jensen and computer animationist Andrew Chung announced in March that they had produced a video depicting the sex lives of moss plants. Said Jensen, “Plants may not walk around and hold hands the way humans do, but they have ways of bringing eggs and sperm together that are very clever.”…
Picking up the pace
When it comes to discerning cultural backgrounds, Americans aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer. We can’t even tell people apart who are from here. For example, we’re hard- pressed to differentiate between the Amish, the Shakers and the Quakers. But now we can, because we know the Amish are the ones with the coke.…
Recipe for disaster
Movie: Armageddon
Recipe for disaster
Movie: Armageddon
Recipe for disaster
Movie: Armageddon
Recipe for disaster
Movie: Armageddon
Radio concert festivals a…
Radio concert festivals abound this time of year throughout the country. The HFStival up north and its west-coast sister, the K-Rock Weenie Roast, typically leading the pack of rotation honoring, lawn-chair friendly revues. And while Orlando does welcome its share of rock & roll package deals in large-capacity environs, few have matched the momentous hype…
Passage to India via All Spices
Anyone who lives in Orlando and loves Indian cuisine has two options: Visit the same handful of local Indian restaurants over and over, or learn how to cook. The latter is more likely with the opening of All Spices of India (2319 Mount Vernon St., off Bumby Avenue; 896-5700). This Colonialtown market is nothing fancy,…
