Awaken the Guardian
Awaken the Guardian Label: Metal Blade Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Awaken the Guardian This 1986 album from Fates Warning was the band’s third, coming after two albums steeped in the influence of mid-period Iron Maiden. Though Guardian didn’t do a lot to dispel the nagging Maiden comparisons, it did show that Fates Warning was nonetheless possessed…
Slow Globes
Slow Globes Label: Troubleman Unlimited Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Slow Globes You would be forgiven for mistakenly ascribing Mouthus Finnish citizenship, based on the free-folk fog present on Slow Globes. Though they roll like the Finns in Avarus, Mouthus (actually from Brooklyn) has boiled that Scandinavian collective’s sound down to indistinct percussion, indifferently-tuned guitars and haunted,…
CHEESEBURGER IN PURGATORY
McLibel Studio: Cinema Libre Distribution Rated: NOT RATED Website: http://www.cinemalibrestudio.com/mclibel/ Release Date: 2005-07-08 Cast: Helen Steel, Dave Morris Director: Franny Armstrong WorkNameSort: McLibel Our Rating: 5.00 Maybe you can’t fight city hall and maybe you can, but the rousing documentary McLibel proves that you can at least stand up to Mayor McCheese and live to…
Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender Studio: Roadside Attractions Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.iconmovies.com.au/ladiesinlavender/ Release Date: 2005-07-08 Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes Director: Charles Dance Screenwriter: Charles Dance, William J. Locke Music Score: Nigel Hess WorkNameSort: Ladies in Lavender When Polish refugee and violin prodigy Andrea (Daniel Brühl) washes ashore in the British…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Professional basketball player Tim Duncan has a nickname that I invite you to take on for the next two weeks: The Big Fundamental. To live up to the daunting yet fun responsibility of that title, you’ll have to put on your game face and get waaayyy down to basics. Banish distractions,…
News of the Weird
VAGINA DENTATA Sonette Ehlers of Kleinmond, South Africa, recently invented a tamponlike sheath that she says will reduce the disturbing number of rapes that plague that country, but local anti-violence leaders are skeptical, as well as alarmed. The device folds around the penis with microscopic hooks and, once engaged, requires medical intervention to remove. (It…
THE DISSECTION OF THE PICNIC BASKET
I’m a fan of The Little Rascals and ever since I saw that the solidarity of the He-Man Woman-Haters Club couldn’t keep Alfalfa from being lured into a picnic with Darla, I’ve been a fan of the picnic too. The meal Darla laid out (although heisted by Spanky and replaced with soap) was so simple…
REVIEW TO GO
Remember the old adage about making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear? The UCF Conservatory Theatre’s 6 Women With Brain Death tries to fashion luxurious silk stockings out of an old, stretched-out pair of support hose … and gets pretty close at times. A musical revue that sees a sextet of pissed-off ladies…
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, has long been considered a classic American play. It was originally produced in 1938 and continues to be performed in countless regional, community and school productions across the country. Its idealized view of a typical, small New England town at the turn of the last century – a town where…
VISUAL OVERLOAD
How much would you pay for a poster advertising a recent rock show? Not an original Hendrix at Fillmore screen print, but a poster for, say, a Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco or Mudhoney show? Ten bucks? Twenty? Think again. A new era of rock poster appreciation has arrived, and with it, an entirely bizarre…
Happytown
Your friends at Happytown™ are a patriotic bunch, that’s for sure. If you cut us, we bleed red. Most of us are white. And sometimes, when we’re cold, our lips turn blue. How’s that for bona fides? So you can well imagine that we spent the July 4 holiday in a celebratory mood. Between the…
KIDS DO THE DARNDEST THINGS!
What’s the matter with kids today? Nowadays it seems like you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a mixed-up teen listening to crazy rap music or playing with his Pokey-man cards! What ever happened to the simple pleasures of youth I experienced as a teen, such as cigarettes, unprotected sexual intercourse and drinking ass-flavored…
HEAVY METAL HOLIDAY
When Ozzfest first started in 1996, the touring festival was hailed as a breath of fresh air for metal fans looking for an alternative to more mainstream rock festivals. But as time progressed, the stench of $80-plus admission, overpriced watered-down beer and a roster of bands (typically, nearly identical-sounding nü-metal bands) who paid to play…
BREAKING AND ENTERING
JUNE 26, 2:49 A.M.: A 15-year-old boy and his buddy, 13, were out strolling the 900 block of South Kirkman Road. It was well past their bedtime, but the team of late-night lads had sneaky schemes in mind. Sleep would have to wait. They chose a pharmacy/convenience store nestled in a corner lot as their…
POLITICS AS USUAL
Ah, the political season. Swaying chandeliers casting crystalline glares across the movers and shakers of sound-bite polemics. Crested, folded napkins wedged into snifters, wilting in the drunken haze of chortled exchanges more revealing than they ought to be. Knowing gazes and frowning throat-clearings punctuating perfectly orchestrated gala affairs full of couples waltzing the networking-mingle waltz…
Letters
Not racist I just read your review of Head-On `”Tough love,” Film, June 30` and wanted to point out a small (but significant) misunderstanding in your recap of the plot. The bus driver who throws the couple off the bus is not a racist German but rather a (devout) Turkish bus driver who is offended…
PRAY, CANST THOU HEAR ME NOW?
`The scene is the orchard of the Capulet family. A boy dressed in tights clambers over the wall and into view. Landing on the ground with a thud, he looks upward at a balcony on the second floor. A light appears in the window; it is followed by a girl of roughly the same age.…
