Out of this world
Movie: The X-Files
Out of this world
Movie: The X-Files
Out of this world
Movie: The X-Files
Out of this world
Movie: The X-Files
Rolling up the red carpet
The second and final weekend of the Florida Film Festival commenced with a whimper, not a bang, last Friday night, with a screening of “Our God’s Brother,” the film adaptation of a stage play written by one Karol Wojtyla, now better known as Pope John Paul II. His Holiness, I’m sorry to report, makes a…
Time to focus
Thursday night’s Florida Film Festival program at the Enzian imparted a clear vision of where the medium has been and where it’s going — and the picture wasn’t always pretty. The evening began pleasantly enough, as I was able to collar Michael McNamara, director of Festival spotlight film “The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati,” for an…
‘Disco’ sparkles with wit and insight
Movie: The Last Days of Disco
Good and ‘Plenty’
Movie: Hav Plenty
‘Disco’ sparkles with wit and insight
Movie: The Last Days of Disco
Good and ‘Plenty’
Movie: Hav Plenty
Good and ‘Plenty’
Movie: Hav Plenty
‘Disco’ sparkles with wit and insight
Movie: The Last Days of Disco
‘Disco’ sparkles with wit and insight
Movie: The Last Days of Disco
Good and ‘Plenty’
Movie: Hav Plenty
A first-class abuse of power
If a welfare recipient is caught buying candy bars and sodas with foodstamps, you can bet that a member of Congress would be up on his hind legs about it, spewing spit and fulminating ferociously in pious outrage that tax money is being spent on “luxuries” for the poor. I find it fascinating that this…
Under artist’s spell, the mind travels
Margaret Ross Tolbert has transformed the small, quiet galleries of Maitland Art Center into a visual journey of change. It is a voyage that begins in a two-dimensional springs grotto and continues through the ancient doors of the Silk Road in Southeast Turkey. The Gainesville artist studied under the renown painter Hiram Williams while attending…
Under artist’s spell, the mind travels
Margaret Ross Tolbert has transformed the small, quiet galleries of Maitland Art Center into a visual journey of change. It is a voyage that begins in a two-dimensional springs grotto and continues through the ancient doors of the Silk Road in Southeast Turkey. The Gainesville artist studied under the renown painter Hiram Williams while attending…
Fresh sourdough: a primal aroma
The tangy aroma of fresh-baked sourdough bread — it’s a primal aroma that everyone should experience at least once in life. You’ll find it at Panera Bread, a new bakery and cafe at Fairbanks and Park avenues in Winter Park (645-3939). The ovens are fired up all day long, so any bagel, muffin or croissant…
Parallel dementias
I had come out of Tuesday’s documentary-heavy endurance test hungering for livelier fare, and I got it in spades Wednesday night at the Enzian, where I was treated to a three-ring circus of oddball visions that left me with a renewed appreciation of a world gone weird. A brief introduction by affable cartoon king Bill…
Mavericks play a dirty trick on Nashville
Country music has been good to the Mavericks. The former alternative rockers said adios to Miami’s languishing live-music scene in the late ’80s and headed toward Nashville to reinvent themselves. They rapidly worked their infectious mix of rockabilly and Roy Orbison into Music City hearts and onto the country charts. After the success of their…
‘Guilty’ pleasures
The fairy-tale success of industrial-rock quartet Gravity Kills began in 1994 when future lead voalist Jeff Scheel got an 11th hour phone call from his cousin Kurt Kerns. Kerns, Gravity Kill’s drummer and bassist, convinced Scheel to relocate from Texas to Missouri and join the band. Kerns, along with Matt Dudenhoeffer (guitar) and Doug Firley…
Girl power
Don’t rely on your sexuality, but don’t be afraid of it. — The Spice Girls Perhaps it was my new school coat, a lime-green plaid maxi, or my tie-dyed tights, or maybe it was the way my hair was parted in the middle, with two braids hanging down in the front. Whatever it was, on…
Gimme shelter or gimme cash
City officials anxious to turn over the 1,100-acre Naval Training Center property to a developer selected to transform the longtime base into a neo-traditional neighborhood seem to have neglected one important partner. The Homeless Network, a coalition of 29 homeless-services providers operating in Orlando, insists the city has so far failed to live up to…
David and Goliath
There seems little need here to rehash Pat Robertson’s goofy warnings of meteorological misfortune headed this way because of the Orlando City Council’s reluctant refusal to rally against gays and lesbians. (Curiously, the Sentinel first reported Robertson’s rant on June 10 by running a Washington Post account on page A-4; six days later, the televangelist’s…
Misfired missive
When we heard that our teddy bear of a mayor had entered a piece of his own art into a special competition just for county and city employees and their families, we naturally had to have a look. (And we admit to hoping for a good laugh, because we’re perverse like that.) We wanted to…
A kindler, gentler approach
More than 1,000 anti-abortion activists are due in Orlando this week — 10 times the number of Operation Rescue protesters who drew media and police attention with their recent antics outside abortion clinics and inside Gay Day at Disney. Organizers of the National Right to Life Committee’s 26th annual conference didn’t rule out “sidewalk counseling”…
For a warm glow, try sipping this
The Department of Energy announced in May, after reviewing records from the 1950s, that some inspectors at a uranium processing plant near Cincinnati used to measure the substance’s metallic strength by sprinkling some on their tongues to see if it tasted right. The inspectors feared that if they did not submit high-enough-grade samples, the government…
Indiana Jones meets Gilligan’s Island
Movie: Six Days, Seven Nights
Stinking mess
Movie: Dirty Work
Indiana Jones meets Gilligan’s Island
Movie: Six Days, Seven Nights
Indiana Jones meets Gilligan’s Island
Movie: Six Days, Seven Nights
Stinking mess
Movie: Dirty Work
Stinking mess
Movie: Dirty Work
Indiana Jones meets Gilligan’s Island
Movie: Six Days, Seven Nights
Stinking mess
Movie: Dirty Work
Rhythm of the night
I approached Tuesday night’s screening of “Tell About the South” with some trepidation. As an unabashed Yankee transplant, I was fearful that the film’s richer insights into my new home’s literary history would prove elusive. Efforts to persuade one of my dyed-in-the-wool Southern pals to tag along as an interpreter proved fruitless. I went alone,…
Investigative report earns top honors
A report detailing how a conservative Tallahassee think-tank shapes land-use politics in Florida has earned the Orlando Weekly and staff reporter Edward Ericson Jr. the top prize for investigative reporting among weeklies last year from the Florida Press Association. The honor, announced June 13, was among 14 state and national awards — including four for…
Driving off into the sunset
A few hours before boarding a flight at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., I visited the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, a place just aching with glamour, sleek and chilly as the decade that Reagan ran. I came of age in the ’80s, a simpler, meaner time, when the Russians were…
Time of your life
The special program devised to promote “Tango: The Obsession” was just finishing up as I walked up the front steps of the Enzian Monday night. The screening, I soon learned, had been sandwiched between a dance demonstration and a Q&A session with the film’s director. A Festival staffer of my acquaintance greeted me at the…
