Insane Christians have infiltrated local government.
Apparently, rationality and civility are not necessary to serve on the Edgewater City Counil. This crazy insane woman and her crazy insane husband, operating under the delusion that their 18-year-old daughter was possessed by invisible “demons”, decided to perform an exorcism on her. The girl, apparently, swore at her sister, and this convinced these wackjobs…
Most people are at work at 2 pm on a Wednesday afternoon. Not this Republican, though.
Normally, I would be the last person to support a pay raise for politicians. In this case, I’ll make an exception. It seems that State Representative Bob Allen (R.-Merritt Island) didn’t have anything to do at the office, or oh, I dunno, on behalf of his constituents yesterday, because he decided to spend the afternoon…
IN-DELI-BLE EDIBLES
It’s a two-fisted affair at Jason’s Deli
HEY, YOU DOWN THERE
The Mystery Science guys get a new job as the Film Crew
Angel-A
Angel-A Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Cast: Jamel Debbouze, Rie Rasmussen Director: Luc Besson WorkNameSort: Angel-A Our Rating: 3.00 Since it’s just a rehashed amalgam of It’s a Wonderful Life and Wings of Desire (with a little Girl on the Bridge thrown in), it’s surprising Luc Besson’s heavenly love story Angel-A works at all.…
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Studio: Warner Bros. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint Director: David Yates WorkNameSort: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Our Rating: 3.50 Tossing the fifth part of this series into the hands of a director (David Yates) whose thin résumé consists primarily of television work seems…
Joshua
Joshua Studio: Fox Searchlight Rated: R Cast: Jacob Kogan, Sam Rockwell Director: George Ratliff WorkNameSort: Joshua Our Rating: 3.50 The trailer for Joshua makes it look like some Hitchcockian take on The Omen. It’s not. It’s creepier than that, thanks mainly to the unexpected resolution that explains the odd behavior of the young, gifted and…
You Kill Me
You Kill Me Studio: IFC Rated: R Cast: Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni Director: John Dahl WorkNameSort: You Kill Me Our Rating: 2.50 This film’s fantastic premise ‘ a dedicated hit man begrudgingly undergoes rehab for his alcoholism ‘ is unfortunately derailed by its obsession with recovery culture and its constant proselytizing on behalf of 12-step…
Tears of the Black Tiger
Tears of the Black Tiger Studio: Magnolia WorkNameSort: Tears of the Black Tiger Gay cowboys are so passé. What the world needs now is Thai cowboys, rootin’-tootin’ desperadoes with pencil-thin mustaches who pledge their blood oaths to Buddha in Technicolor so saturated the hues threaten to bleed off the edge of the screen. Tears of…
Kansas City Confidential
Kansas City Confidential Studio: MGM WorkNameSort: Kansas City Confidential Phil Karlson’s Kansas City Confidential is a veritable wax museum of film noir heavies, faces etched in the B-movie lexicon but rarely attaining A-list status. Look, there’s Preston Foster as an ex-cop turned criminal mastermind who’s rallying together three deadbeats with nothing to left to live…
Showgirls: Fully Exposed Edition
Showgirls: Fully Exposed Edition Studio: MGM WorkNameSort: Showgirls: Fully Exposed Edition Paul Verhoeven’s sullied reputation has now been semi-restored by the arthouse success of Black Book, but who are we kidding? He’ll never shake Showgirls. Nomi the stripper (Elizabeth Berkley) spasmodically lurches out of her lingerie up the ladder of Vegas success while dethroning topless…
Time on Earth
Time on Earth Label: ATO Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Time on Earth Farewell to the World, Crowded House proclaimed to 250,000 Aussies outside Sydney Opera House in 1996 (the DVD was released January 2007), but the dream was apparently not over. Reportedly, drummer Paul Hester’s suicide in 2005 drew original members Nick…
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â? Label: Ed Banger/Because/Vice Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: â? Evidently there are dairy celebrations in Europe; Ed Banger Records head honcho/Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter met his future signees Justice at a French cheese party, and probably had little idea that the DJ/production duo would soon garner more stateside face…
The Inspiring Sounds of Rio de Janeiro
The Inspiring Sounds of Rio de Janeiro Label: Verge Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Inspiring Sounds of Rio de Janeiro, The There’s nothing like a socially committed label delivering a potent brew of soulful hip-hop fusion spiked with lyrical verve to stir up the dormant activist in anyone. This urban blend of cutting-edge…
Orchestra of Wolves
Orchestra of Wolves Label: Epitaph Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Orchestra of Wolves What’s not to love about the debut by these tough young lads from Watford, England? Fans of hard music, kneel before your god because he’s decided to bless you. From the full-bore slash of opener ‘Kill the Rhythmâ?� to the…
COLD-BREWED COMFORT: ICED COFFEE MAKES SUMMER BEARABLE
The steamy months are upon us. Two symptoms of the Central Florida summer are a general and profound sluggishness and an aversion to ingesting hot food or drinks. No doubt this is why iced tea is the official beverage of the South, combining cool hydration with rocket-fuel caffeine levels. But what if, gasp, you don’t…
BLISTER
“Oh my gawd!” comes the clacking of gums from just outside the Parliament House’s Footlight Theater. “Have you traaahd the green Jell-O mold?” Well, I’ll be a shit-ass at the wrong end of the beaver stick — no, I have not! It’s here, though, wiggling in a fruit-filled rhythm peculiar to the coming and going…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m pro-sex, bisexual and GGG. I’m also a mother. I have a 14-year-old son, and when I type a website address into our home computer, a million porn sites pop up. I’ve had lots of lovers, watched my share of porn, I masturbate, blah blah blah. But something about my baby looking at Asian sluts…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Among the Yanyuwa Aboriginal people, the word for “fat” is nalu-ngiliny. It doesn’t merely refer to the greasy stuff that grows naturally under the skin of animal bodies. It’s also a metaphysical term for vitality. Anything that’s rich in nalu-ngiliny is healthy. A landscape may be considered fat, for instance, which…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
As a child raised on oldies radio, I’m calling a moment of silence for Bill Pinkney. On July 5, I heard on AM 810, the only oldies station in the area, that the last surviving original member of the Drifters died the previous day hours before a scheduled Independence Day performance in Daytona Beach. Not…
I LOVE TELEVISION
I’m usually not a fan of the “old-timey ways.” In fact, I’m so “new-timey” that I’ve already returned my iPhone and am currently researching “telepathy” as my new-timey mode of communication. However! Sometimes “old-timey” people get it right. Like those Puritans from the Salem witch trials? Now, I’m not saying they were morally “right” —…
CULTURE TO GO
That’s entertainment Amy Steinberg 6 p.m. Sunday, July 15 The Parliament House $10; (407) 425-7571 www.amysteinberg.net The Wanzie-coded promotion for Amy Steinberg’s June 24 date at the Parliament House sold the show as a last chance to see her before she headed back to the hills of North Carolina — but that turned out to…
COUNCIL WATCH
Since Billy Manes is sunning himself somewhere in Costa Rica, Orlando Weekly saw fit to send me, an intern, to the Orlando City Council meeting. Either I’ve thus far impressed them with my steadfast commitment to getting the job done, or no one else wanted to do it. I’m pretty sure this will be clear…
HAPPYTOWN
;The Orlando Food Not Bombs kids would like to clear something up: At the June 27 protest we told you about last week, during which six of their own got arrested for beating drums, they claim they did not use profanity-laced chants. Nor did they use the very lame taunt “Fuck you, Cruddy Dyer.” ;;Rather,…
POLICE BEAT
JUNE 29, 6:57 P.M.: A 28-year-old man chose to spend his Tuesday evening cashing a fat check from his hotel job at a store in the 500 block of West South Street. Unfortunately, those hard-earned clams wouldn’t rest in his pocket for long. While cashing the dough, our man said “he felt a little uneasy,”…
MAIL SACK
;Poser ;I love your paper and read it weekly, but your cover article about the neophyte “climber” who crawls on buildings made me cringe [“Urban assault,” July 5]. I was so embarrassed for him, and for all of you. ; ;I’m from Colorado and I’ve climbed for 25 years all around the U.S. and in…
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
On a damp bench and profiled by the overcast light of dusk, Jason Smith stares down the bottom of a Guinness and permits himself the weariest grin in the history of facial expressions. “Sometimes things just don’t work out as easily as other bands,” he says, diplomatically tying together the lessons of a long couple…
SHIT-TALKER
It’s one of those ideas that probably sounded great at a party: a book about poop that pinches off puns but contains an overview of where the stuff actually sits in pop culture. Dave Praeger, author of the new Poop Culture: How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product is no novice to such…
JESUS TV
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord. — Ezekiel 36:38 — Ezekiel 36:38 A Bible propped open to Ezekiel sits on an end table in the Holy Land Experience’s…
THE GATHERING STORM
;If there is a method to the madness of politics, local Democratic pollster Jim Kitchens knows it. Having assisted Orange County commissioner Bill Segal, Orlando commissioner Phil Diamond and state Rep. Scott Randolph, among numerous national congressional clients, to win, Kitchens – via his Maitland firm, the Kitchen Group – has the ebb and flow…
