Lou Pearlman item No. 2
I saw this on Craigslist, where I totally wasn’t browsing the “Casual Encounters” section: “Whomever is doing the aution today STOLE personal items belonging to former employees and is auctioning them off right now! Beware, if you make a purchase, you’ll hear from attorneys to get those items back. If someone else’s name is on…
The Bridge
The Bridge Studio: Koch Lorber WorkNameSort: Bridge, The Director Eric Steel parked himself and a film crew on the Golden Gate Bridge for a year to make a documentary. Yet this documentary was not to be about the bridge, the bay or even the city; Steel wanted to document the numerous suicides that are attempted…
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Extra Frills Edition
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Extra Frills Edition Studio: MGM WorkNameSort: Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Extra Frills Edition, The The Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert may be the greatest drag-queen comedy ever, but really, what’s it up against? To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!…
Heavy Petting
Heavy Petting Studio: Docurama WorkNameSort: Heavy Petting Sex in the 1950s, as we all know, did not happen. The anodyne nostalgia that’s defined the era has deemed it a neat and tidy time of suburban sterility; Heavy Petting takes that mythology and uses it as a (fairly obvious) backdrop to reveal that, yes, people were…
Pages
Pages Label: self-released Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Pages Remember your deadbeat uncle’s â?¦ And Justice for All cassette and the way you wished that you could match that caliber of bone-crushing doom? On their 5-track debut EP Pages, Orlando teens There for Tomorrow show a similar desire. The group has the requisite…
Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square
Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square Label: Empyrean Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square These prodigal indie-pop pioneers return nearly four years after their disastrous major-label flirtation. While they may have learned a lesson…
Golden Pollen
Golden Pollen Label: Anti- Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Golden Pollen Familiarity with Guillermo Scott Herren is usually linked to the head-splitting electronica/hip-hop compositions he’s cranked out under the guise of Prefuse 73 ‘ the onslaught of persistently creaking, squealing beats out there stamped with his name shouldn’t go overlooked. As Savath &…
Cendre
Cendre Label: Touch Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Cendre It’s ironic that it took a minimal-minded musician like Christian Fennesz to wake the mighty Ryuichi Sakamoto from his creative slumber. With Cendre, the Japanese composer finds considerable inspiration from the Austrian laptronicist, escaping from the familiar orchestral themes and circular, regressive beats that…
Roxy Nightclub
This beautiful dance club is a beast to be tamed. The bevy of coeds is followed by the predictable onslaught of fauxhawks. It’s a fun spot for a ladies night, though costly, with $5 parking plus covers.
Savoy Orlando
What started out as an Antique Row piano bar for antique homosexuals with Garland fixations has blossomed into its own cruise-y beast of multi-aged variety. Shirtless bartenders beam and pour (heavily!) while box dancers attempt legal nudity to match what fills up the flat-screens.
Place:Club K.O.H.A.
The former and infamous Heroes has danced itself back into the late-night spotlight, with down-and-dirty nights dedicated to serious dance-floor action. Music in different rooms brings reggae, hip-hop and other integrations.
Paris, Je T’aime
Paris, Je T’aime Studio: First Look Rated: R Cast: Steve Buscemi, Juliette Binoche Director: Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven, others WorkNameSort: Paris, Je T’aime Our Rating: 4.00 It’s hard to imagine a city more intimately and inextricably bound to the cinema than Paris, even if it’s New York City’s skyline that has become the world’s…
DIM SUM YUM
Small plates of genuine Chinese fare at Ming’s, a dynasty in the making
NOT JUST PRETTY GOOD
Six Katherine Hepburn movies, all new to DVD, mark the star’s 100th birthday
Day Watch
Day Watch Studio: Fox Searchlight Rated: R Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina Director: Timur Bekmambetov WorkNameSort: Day Watch Our Rating: 3.50 The second installment in this Russian epic fantasy trilogy, Day Watch, finally makes its way to American shores. Three years after the original Night Watch, this new film barely takes a breath before thrusting…
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: PG Cast: Emma Roberts, Tate Donovan Director: Andrew Fleming WorkNameSort: Nancy Drew Our Rating: 2.50 Nancy Drew is frothy, innocuous, unambitious filmmaking in every way, and yet an entirely effective family movie. Its only real handicap is how limited its audience will be, since there’s little chance anyone but…
Fay Grim
Fay Grim Studio: Magnolia WorkNameSort: Fay Grim Move over, Before Sunset: Fay Grim is the latest decade-later sequel to a seemingly un-sequel-able ’90s indie sensation. And, like Before Sunset, it may just be superior to its predecessor. It’s undoubtedly more demanding. Filmmaker Hal Hartley takes the central unknown of 1997’s Henry Fool ‘ what exactly…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Though it sometimes seems like it, not everybody in this scene is a kvetching do-nothing. Take Justin Bean, for example. This is one dude who gives a shit. A local musician with a marketing background, this enterprising young man started a grass-roots project called the Orlando Indie Awareness Initiative (www.myspace.com/orlandoscene) in response to what he…
NOT OVER THE EDGE
The chewy corner pieces are the most popular pieces of any pan-baked delicacy, especially the classics: brownies and lasagna. That’s partly because the contrast between the crisped edge and the soft center delights discerning eaters, but also, sometimes an inexperienced baker or a wonky oven results in a raw middle or burnt edges. Enter the…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Oh, boy! Have I mentioned that I love gambling? Well, I do! I love gambling! In fact, I’m just like one of those people you see on posters in casinos who’ve lost their home and families thanks to their addiction — except in my case, I’m smiling and haven’t lost anything, because I’m making an…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
Lil’ Bush When a friend of mine laughs at something inappropriate, he punctuates his howls by saying, “That is so wrong.” Allow me: Lil’ Bush is SO wrong. Lil’ Bush is a cartoon by Donick Cary (The Simpsons) that imagines little George W. as a grade-schooler in tie, jacket and short pants, palling around with…
HAPPYTOWN
It was a bit like pawing through your dead father’s estate sale, post-funeral, if your dead father happened to be a crazy fat man who ate Orlando and then wiped his mouth with shirtless young boys. Still, the June 11 pre-auction viewing of Lou Pearlman’s personal effects down at Trans Continental headquarters on Church Street…
POLICE BEAT
MAY 29, 7:52 P.M.: A leisurely boyfriend/girlfriend stroll in the 700 block of Bentley Street this evening turned into a brutal bully-fest. The victim, 37, and his gal pal, 26, were walking the block when four strangers between the ages of 18 and 26 came charging toward them — full speed — on bicycles. They…
MAIL SACK
The least among us As I was reading the review of the movie Deliver Us From evil `May 3` about a pedophile Roman Catholic priest, one of the things that struck me was the observation, “Worse is the relevant church view that pedophilia isn’t all that big a deal; a big deal would be homosexual…
CORPORATE RETREAT
Sometimes I’ll read a particularly interesting story out loud to my girlfriend, only to find the person who piqued my curiosity is an absolute nobody to her. This mostly applies to anything regarding hip-hop. She’s not a fan, and it’s an opportunity for me to drop some knowledge and feel like a professor at whatever…
ON CHESIL BEACH SPECIAL
Not long ago, Ian McEwan was reading to an audience from his new novel On Chesil Beach, a short, finely observed fable about a couple’s ill-begotten wedding night on the English coast in 1962. After McEwan finished, a man stood up from the audience to offer his own story. His yarn also concerned a wedding…
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS
You’re being sold a lie. The $1 billion community venues project is a bill of goods pushed on an ambivalent public by an ambitious mayor, a cowed city council, a self-interested chamber of commerce, a sanctimonious Orlando Sentinel editorial board and a greedy pyramid-scheme magnate. For more than a year, these powers-that-be have orchestrated a…
ADIOS, OVIEDO
A stroll through downtown Oviedo is like taking a tiny step back in time. Blink and you could miss an array of mom-and-pop shops, many of which are still doing business in old buildings reminiscent of a bygone era. There’s Girda’s Sewing Shop, a small alterations shop housed in a 90-year-old building that resembles an…
BLISTER
There’s a filthy carnal mist emanating from greater Orlando’s gay pavement this week, and I’m determined not to inhale. But even my designer nose clamps and innate redneck tendencies — kept cleverly tucked behind my left eyebrow “in case of emergency” — may not be enough to counteract the pervasiveness of implied penetration, drawing genitalia…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am a 24-year-old male somnophiliac — that is, I’m turned on by the idea of having sex with a woman while she sleeps. So long as we have a healthy awake sex life, my wife says I can do whatever I like when she sleeps. The problem is that when I try to touch…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Don’t take your time. Move double-fast and strategize from many angles, always thinking 10 steps ahead. Please don’t keep your hands clean, either. Play with the muck and roll in the mud and learn from the dirt. And don’t you dare be measured and balanced. Instead, be an intense and relentless…
