Review – Waiting for the Moon
Artist: Tindersticks
Thing of booty
Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Review – Music of Laos: The Buddhist Tradition
Artist: Various Artists
Hommes sweet hommes
Movie: The Man On The Train
Review – Loneliness Knows My Name
Artist: Patrick Park
Lit’s end
Movie: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Review – Not in My Name
Artist: Saul Williams
Flight club
Movie: Winged Migration
Getting it right
There’s a phrase used by jazz musicians when referring to someone who plays well. “He has good chops,” it’s said. The only place Joe Duen doesn’t have chops is on the menu of his family-run restaurant, Jade Bistro, a new addition to the eclectic food scene in College Park. He earned his proficiency during 21…
Review – Comets on Fire
Artist: Comets on Fire
Review – Comets on Fire
Artist: Comets on Fire
Review – Waiting for the Moon
Artist: Tindersticks
Review – Waiting for the Moon
Artist: Tindersticks
Review – Music of Laos: The Buddhist Tradition
Artist: Various Artists
Review – Music of Laos: The Buddhist Tradition
Artist: Various Artists
Review – Loneliness Knows My Name
Artist: Patrick Park
Review – Loneliness Knows My Name
Artist: Patrick Park
Review – Not in My Name
Artist: Saul Williams
Review – Not in My Name
Artist: Saul Williams
How about a pizza that just works?
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a pizzeria in Orlando. OK, so maybe there are quite a few pizza joints. Doesn’t mean a person can’t keep hoping for perfection. Dom’s Pizza (5075 Edgewater Drive, 407-298-8998; www.domspizza.com) isn’t quite perfection. Biting into a slice of their classic thin crust, I thought the sauce was a…
Thing of booty
Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Hommes sweet hommes
Movie: The Man On The Train
Lit’s end
Movie: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Flight club
Movie: Winged Migration
Review – Comets on Fire
Artist: Comets on Fire
Me meet big green man
I’ve never been very big on being big. Sure, there were the obligatory peer-fueled vanity attempts at eschewing the “wimp” and “sissy” tags I naturally grew across my delts, pumping mild iron while attempting a gander up an unsuspecting spotter’s shorts (once a sissy, always a sissy). But, in general, the fruity protein shakes that…
How about a pizza that just works?
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a pizzeria in Orlando. OK, so maybe there are quite a few pizza joints. Doesn’t mean a person can’t keep hoping for perfection. Dom’s Pizza (5075 Edgewater Drive, 407-298-8998; www.domspizza.com) isn’t quite perfection. Biting into a slice of their classic thin crust, I thought the sauce was a…
Higher gears
Pendulous drones of downcast Stratocasters, stop-start rhythmic embellishments and face-to-the-corner lyrics of mop-haired disassociation: all familiar territory for those prone to indie-style alienation. But for Virginia’s Engine Down — once a head-rattling sonic attack and now more sedately intellectual — the tried-and-true components pale in the face of their combined effect. There, nervous orchestrations meet…
Death of Dismemberment
When bass player Eric Axelson announced that Dismemberment Plan was breaking up, it was like telling 25,000 indie rockers that Christmas was canceled. Internet boards and web journals filled with postings of distress, rage and confusion. “Joe Strummer just died, for fuck’s sake! You can’t split up now,” Nick S. begs on a Stylusmagazine.com forum.…
Why Metallica sucks
The results are in and boy does Metallica suck. When we first announced our “Why Metallica Sucks” contest, I was worried that nobody would respond and that my suspicions about this once great band falling into a pit of mediocrity would be unfounded. I also had somewhat grave trepidations about turning over a page in…
What do you want on your tombstone?
“Strom was a man of integrity and honor, and he helped many people.”— South Carolina State Sen. Kay Patterson, eulogizing former Senator Strom Thurmond, July 1, 2003 “If a guy’s a cocksucker in his life, when he dies he don’t become a saint.”— Morris Levy, music-business pioneer and convicted felon, date unknown Chicago Tribune, Nov.…
Pretty boys
Retailers in Los Angeles, New York and Miami say more and more young, urban, heterosexual men are choosing to dress in women’s tight, low-slung jeans and to use stylish lotions, fragrances and hair-care colors and products, according to June reports in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Some marketers call men who are…
Up yours, Ashcroft
There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither. — Ramsey Clark Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. — Samuel Johnson Minneapolis did it. So did Baltimore, Albany, Taos, Sausalito, Santa Monica, Fairbanks, Montpelier, Cambridge and Missoula. The whole of Alachua County did it, as did Broward County. And…
Another fine mess in South Apopka?
Almost monthly for the past year, investigators monitoring the Keene Road landfill in South Apopka have found garbage that wasn’t supposed to be there. In September they found tires, batteries and a drum of paint. In October they spotted household items, mostly bags of clothes and an old rug. In December they found more tires,…
Lynum vs. Sheehan, round one
Of the seven members of the Orlando City Commission, two of the closest in terms of ideology and personality are commissioners Patty Sheehan and Daisy Lynum. Sheehan, 42, is the city’s first openly gay commissioner. Lynum, 57, is the second black female council member. Together they form a liberal voting block, especially on issues involving…
Voting on growth
In environmental circles, there’s a defeatist attitude when it comes to growth management. Sure, activists can march down to county commission chambers and rail against whatever development is destroying wetlands this week, but they’re unlikely to change anything. If they’re lucky, they’ll eke out a concession. Enviros believe the cards are stacked against them, and…
Seeing double
The sunny glow from a copper-mesh skeleton catches the eye in a small room that houses an otherwise unsensational collection of art at Cornell Fine Arts Museum. The shimmering bones are the work of a woman who spends her professional life studying skeletons, and is one of 12 artists invited to take part in a…
