Review – Insect Song
Artist: Beyond the Embrace
SUDAN IMPACT
Movie: Lost Boys of Sudan
Eco gratification
Movie: The Day After Tomorrow
Movie: Spring, Summer, Summer, Winter … and Spring
Our Rating: 4.00 For a Buddhist meditation on the cyclical nature of life, this Korean film has a lot of old-fashioned entertainment value. Written, directed and edited by Kim Ki-duk, it’s divided into five sections (hence the title). The seasonal references reflect the age of our protagonist as he grows from child monk (spring) to…
Review – Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
Artist: Chris Potter Quartet
Review – The Art of Leaving
Artist: Pleasant Grove
Review – Taking Things Apart
Artist: Decomposure
Review – Insect Song
Artist: Beyond the Embrace
Twenty Years and Counting
Some of my greatest meal memories are from the original Dexter’s in Winter Park. It was there that I discovered my love of sitting around a table for hours with friends, eating, drinking and conversing. The original Dexter’s on Fairbanks Avenue was magnificent for this discovery, an absolutely pleasurable spot where you could linger and…
Eco gratification
Movie: The Day After Tomorrow
Movie: Spring, Summer, Summer, Winter … and Spring
Spring, Summer, Summer, Winter … and Spring Length: 1 hour 43 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/spring/ Release Date: 2004-06-04 Cast: Oh Yeoung-su, Young-min Kim, Jae-Kyung Seo, Jong Ho Kim, Kim Ki-Duk Director: Kim Ki-Duk Screenwriter: Kim Ki-Duk WorkNameSort: Spring, Summer, Summer, Winter … and Spring Our Rating: 4.00 For a Buddhist meditation on…
Review – Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
Artist: Chris Potter Quartet
Review – The Art of Leaving
Artist: Pleasant Grove
Review – Taking Things Apart
Artist: Decomposure
Review – Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
Artist: Chris Potter Quartet
Review – Insect Song
Artist: Beyond the Embrace
Review – The Art of Leaving
Artist: Pleasant Grove
Review – Taking Things Apart
Artist: Decomposure
Lifting the Snoot Out of the Wine Experience
I appreciate our relationship with fermented grape juice from the standpoint that it is slightly hedonistic and brings us together. The evenings when I sit down to enjoy a slow dinner with a bottle of wine and stimulating conversation are my most luxurious. A 2-liter bottle of Coke just doesn’t have the same charm. But…
Gay Days and (blank) is the new (blank)
Here’s a rumor that nobody (or everybody) saw coming: Buddy Dyer is gay! Well, not really, we can heartily (if not hopefully) assume. But similarities to Bill Clinton’s winsome bloat do make the mayor something of a sex symbol for the chubby-chasing set, and Dyer only fueled the fabulous fire by synchronizing his oath of…
MISSION REVIVED
Mission of Burma’s first new album in 22 years sounds like the postpunk cult fave never stopped writing Burma material. If anything, On Off On showboats a songwriting trio – guitarist/vocalist Roger Miller, bassist/ vocalist Clint Conley and drummer/vocalist Peter Prescott – whose vocal cords rattle with middle age, but whose skills with the three-to-four-minute…
MOLTO MENEFREGHISTA
Though his iconoclastic swagger is no secret, Dean Martin’s ability as a performer is too often overshadowed by his role in the Rat Pack. Sure, Dino is a helluva singer; but he can’t touch The Chairman. Yeah, Dino is good for a laugh; but he’s got nothin’ on Sammy. It’s difficult to paint Dean Martin,…
DYER’S BEST SHOT?
Two weeks ago, I broke the story that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was pursuing an investigation into allegations of absentee-ballot fraud in the March mayoral elections, despite contrary reports in the Orlando Sentinel. A few days later, the FDLE took boxes of records from the Supervisor of Elections Office; by last week, press…
WHO WOULD JESUS SUE?
From the outside, you’d never guess that 210 E. Palmetto Ave. is home to a powerhouse law firm. Located adjacent to an upholstery shop in an industrial area of Longwood, close to railroad tracks and not far from a dirt road, is one of the most muscular defenders of social conservatism in the country. But…
“Regrets, I’ve had a slew”
IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME • H. Ross Perot • Jonathan Livingston Seagull • Enchilada wedding buffet • Dating your roommate’s cousin • Dating your roommate • Dating • My Two Dads • Ethnic cleansing • Edie Brickell • Swapping dental dams • Strip air hockey • Drowning offspring in perfectly…
Culture
Lies, Inc. By Philip K. Dick (Vintage, 208 pages, $12) Started in 1964 as a for-hire novella titled The Unteleported Man, this story of a fantastic outer-space colony established to ease an overcrowded Earth is finally receiving U.S. publication in its Dick-revised edition. (Several other expanded editions had gaps filled in by other writers; this…
Culture
Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame (Fourth Estate, 288 pages, $17.95) Apparently, writers have massive egos. Who’d have thunk it? Poet Robin Robertson has collected this amusing – if wholly unnecessary – compendium of writers sharing tales of egos bruised and bloodied by public reaction (and nonreaction) to their work. More than a dozen…
Culture
Animal Crackers: Stories By Hannah Tinti (Dial Press; 208 pages; $22.95) Linked, sometimes tenuously, by the presence or prescience of animals – whether a friendly elephant, a peripatetic retired fighting cock, a dead rabbit – Tinti’s stories are less about the beasts than the people who surround them. The people in these stories are either…
BREAKUP SONG
How excited can you get about the prospect of watching a cute but troubled couple unravel on stage – and to the strains of some belt-it-out off-Broadway songsmithing, no less? Before you answer, you may want to take into account the narrative kink The Last Five Years has in store. In this chronology-twisting take on…
HIP-HOP ACTIVISM
The doomsday possibility of a second Bush term has awakened many who may have been asleep at the wheel, or just disconnected from politics. This is especially true of hundreds of thousands of alienated or apolitical young people who are now open to being organized. Major efforts are underway to reach out to these young…
I HAD A DREAM
I honestly thought that I had already conquered this beast, that I’d already written this column. I had accessed the desperate mania produced by eight straight hours of Sex and the City viewing, a hell imposed upon myself by myself to obtain a voice in my head that would drown out the self-defeating voices that…
WHERE MY BITCH AT?
In April, a judge in Ocala, Fla., sentenced a 27-year-old man to probation only for having sex with his then-girlfriend’s Rottweiler (the man admitted that he had a “lifelong problem”) and lamented that under state law, the man could not be forced to register as a sex offender, since the victim was a dog. USDA:…
PRETTY IS THE NEW PUNK
Times change, just as people do. Twenty years ago punk was the music of rebellion. Now it’s pitch-corrected, its edges sanded down and danger removed to the point where it’s just another pop confection manufactured to move more product out of Hot Topic. This is a fact bemoaned ad nauseam by purists, but that doesn’t…
