The Rough Guide to Planet Rock
The Rough Guide to Planet Rock Label: World Music Network Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Rough Guide to Planet Rock, The You haven’t heard music until you’ve heard the Tuvan throat-singing punk band Yat-Kha tackle ‘In-a-Gadda-da-Vida.â?� Seriously. This disc pushes the definition of ‘rockâ?� in a few instances, but the combination of a…
Fast Man Raider Man
Fast Man Raider Man Label: Back Porch Length: EP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Fast Man Raider Man Two CDs, 27 songs. Overkill, perhaps? Yes. Somewhere there’s a bootlegger crying over his CD burner. These days, everyone is Ryan Adams. No more outtakes ‘ just release everything and let the listener sort it out. On…
Tráfico
Tráfico Label: Crammed Discs Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Tráfico Thoroughly steeped in a variety of global musical styles, the pan-ethnic Antwerp collective Think of One has been puzzling pundits in Europe and beyond for the past five years. Their propensity for recording and performing under different names, their prodigious and…
La Ghriba: La Kahena Remixed
La Ghriba: La Kahena Remixed Label: Six Degrees Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: La Ghriba: La Kahena Remixed As a DJ himself, Cheb i Sabbah is familiar with what makes for an effective remix. And, for the second time, he’s allowed the source material of one of his stunning, evocative studio…
STARS IN HER EYES
But Enough About Me … : A Jersey Girl’s Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous Publishing House: Harper Collins Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: But Enough About Me … : A Jersey Girl’s Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous ‘I’ve plucked my eyebrows while I’ve talked on the phone to people,â?� offers writer Jancee Dunn on the…
Grief: A Novel
Grief: A Novel Publishing House: Hyperion WorkNameSort: Grief: A Novel No one grieved quite like Mary Todd Lincoln. In the wake of her husband’s assassination, the first lady donned black garb and never again appeared in anything else. ‘She was not just any widow,â?� wrote Todd’s biographer, Jean H. Baker, ‘she was Abraham Lincoln’s survivor.â?�…
Mexico in Mind
Mexico in Mind Publishing House: Vintage Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Mexico in Mind Mexico in Mind is the ninth in Vintage’s excellent series of nation-oriented anthologies. Like the other unimaginatively titled entries (India in Mind, Cuba in Mind, etc.), this collection is less interested in being a comprehensive representation of the region’s literature than it is…
Everyman
Everyman Publishing House: Houghton Mifflin WorkNameSort: Everyman ‘Old age is not a battle,â?� Philip Roth writes. ‘Old age is a massacre.â?� Everyman is classic Roth: full of passion, anger, vivid details of lives well-lived and those profoundly screwed up by the book’s unnamed protagonist, a 70-something career adman married three times and now facing his…
What To Eat: An Aisle-byAisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating
What To Eat: An Aisle-byAisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating Publishing House: North Point Press WorkNameSort: What To Eat: An Aisle-byAisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating Is there anything more stressful in American life than shopping for food? First it was fat you had to watch out for. Then…
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism Publishing House: Norton WorkNameSort: Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism Kingdom Coming grew out of Salon reporter Michelle Goldberg’s fear of the ascendant political machine of the Christian right, one she saw from the confines of her Brooklyn perch as hostile to cosmopolitanism in particular and democracy…
WARM WEATHER THREAT
Al Gore’s personal pledge to the global issue
The Lake House
The Lake House Length: Single Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Rated: PG Website: http://thelakehousemovie.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2006-06-16 Cast: Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Plummer Director: Alejandro Agresti Screenwriter: David Auburn Music Score: Rachel Portman WorkNameSort: Lake House, The Our Rating: 2.00 There are signs of intelligent and suspenseful filmmaking in The Lake…
SUPERBOY RETURNS
Adventures of Superboy: The Complete First Season Studio: Warner Home Video WorkNameSort: Adventures of Superboy: The Complete First Season Among the most highly anticipated films of the summer is the one about an illegal alien who comes to this country and sets about doing the sort of jobs that Americans will not or cannot. I’m…
DON’T FORGET PARIS
Remember the soulful food at Le Bon Appetit in Ocoee? It’s back in Winter Park
TUESDAY’S GONE
Girlfriend (Legacy Edition) Label: Legacy-Volcano Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Girlfriend (Legacy Edition) Matthew Sweet had already released two mediocre pop albums by the time he recorded Girlfriend. It isn’t surprising to learn that the album was dismissed by several record labels before finding a home at Zoo Records through BMG. Though it’s…
Figur 5
Figur 5 Label: Morr Music Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Figur 5 Michael Heilrath isn’t just the bassist for Couch ‘ he’s also the group’s sole songwriter. This explains why the German quartet’s instrumental forays are so commandingly stout and why Figur 5 sounds so stunning blasting from your car speakers…
WATCHING RADIO
;Radio has often been called the “theater of the mind.” That’s because its concentration is strictly aural. Its lifeblood is the spoken word — fueled by the expressive human voice and underscored with sound effects and musical atmospherics. It really does take place inside one’s own gray matter. One could argue that radio is at…
COUNCIL WATCH
; ;Editor’s note: Orlando City Council meetings are boring. They’re long. They’re tedious. They’re packed with acronyms and motions and yeas and nays and other crap you don’t have time for. That’s where we come in. Council Watch goes to City Council meetings so you don’t have to. We peel away the layers of bureaucratese…
ARMAGEDDON FOR THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
Joel Hunter isn’t looking for a fight. But the senior pastor at Northland Church in Longwood is in the middle of a conflict whose impact — intended or not — could shatter the base of the religious right in America. That could spell disaster for the Republican Party, ferociously dominant in national and state politics…
MORE MONEY, LESS SCRUTINY
Remember when Buddy Dyer returned to office last year after his indictment collapsed and he promised to run a new and improved administration totally committed to open government? He’d been accused of secret dealings before — like the incentive deal he cut with developer Cameron Kuhn for the Premiere Trade Plaza now under construction on…
MELLOW PERIL
;Hi, everybody. Steve here. You know, I don’t normally use this space as a soapbox for my personal opinions. Long ago, I decided that the power of the printed word was better expended on wild, potentially libelous fantasies about local high schools and on one-act plays that could subject religious minorities to merciless ridicule. But…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES You will have valid reasons for unleashing vigorous critiques in the coming week. For best results, however, I suggest that you dress them up in fine language. Your complaints will be more likely to have a cathartic effect if you make them witty and even a bit florid. To get in the right mood,…
SAVAGE LOVE
;Tons of doctors, medical students and women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) wrote in after I advised Frigid Frustrated Fool — a woman suffering from weight gain, hair growth on her face and chest and an irrational fear of pregnancy — to hit the gym, see an electrologist and get over herself already. While I’m…
BLISTER
Some jokes are only funny told once. Given its 16 years snowballing toward hell, Orlando’s treacherous Gay Days confab can hardly punch out a burp anymore from this particular gastric bypass, so I’m content to skirt the guest-list periphery of its surrounding affairs, take an Ambien and pretend it never happened. This comic minefield is…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Almost every single week I’m inundated with letters much like this one: “Dear Wm.™ Steven Hump-Me: Who do I have to orally gratify in order to see David Hasselhoff in a new television show? O! I do adore David Hasselhoff, and often imagine my weary head resting in his soft, silky back hair. In my…
HAPPYTOWN
;Remember a time when our country wasn’t at war? When we ran surpluses instead of deficits? When the biggest scandals involved not multimillion-dollar bribery schemes, but who got a hummer and where? Those were the days, when the Oval Office had a veneer of competence and some interesting stains that would pop up under a…
POLICE BEAT
June 3, 6:53 a.m.: What would you do with $5,000 worth of electrical cable? Find someone who will give you $5,000 for it, of course. Officer Cooney reported to the 10 block of Lake Avenue in reference to a “grand theft” and met with a 29-year-old complainant. Sometime during the night someone had infiltrated the…
LETTERS
;Cover boy ;;Jeff Billman: You’re on the cover of Orlando Weekly [“I’m going to Jasper,” June 8]. Is this the launch of your modeling career?; ;;Will Richey, Orlando ;; ;;One tourist, coming up ;;I just finished reading your article [“I’m going to Jasper,” June 8] in this week’s Orlando Weekly, and I really enjoyed it!…
SELECTIONS
;Friday•16; ;;Psycho Beach Party Like a bracing slap from a freak wave, inside of which hides a shark carrying a grudge over bad PR, the slasher surf spoof Psycho Beach Party will be chillingly served like the summer theater refreshment that it is, starting this weekend. Written by Charles Busch (Lesbian Vampires of Sodom), PBP…
NOTABLE NOISE
After nearly four years of doing this job, I should be jaded or, at the very least, nonplussed by certain things. But once again, I was wandering around town on a Friday night (June 9), muttering to myself “Who are these people?” It’s very likely that I could have been overheard muttering that same phrase…
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL
;From behind a wall of electro-geek recording gear, with a microphone close enough to cover his face, the U.K.’s Jamie Lidell busies himself so as not to seem too interested in the anxious crowd before him, but it’s not working. Sitting on a stool and shaking his leg nervously, his eyes darting through sweat from…
