Nacho Libre
Nacho Libre Studio: Paramount Rated: PG Cast: Jack Black, Hector Jimenez, Troy Gentile, Moises Arias, Lauro Chartrand Director: Jared Hess WorkNameSort: Nacho Libre Our Rating: 2.50 This highly anticipated collaboration between star Jack Black, his School of Rock writer, Mike White, and Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess certainly doesn’t equal the best moments of their…
HELL BENT FOR LEATHER
Rockin’ Bones: 1950s Punk and Rockabilly Label: Rhino Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Rockin’ Bones: 1950s Punk and Rockabilly You can’t fault Rhino’s marketing department for selling this collection of 101 rockabilly tunes mostly recorded between 1954 and 1959 (a dozen between 1960 and 1964) as a ‘punkâ?� collection. In spirit and in…
MULTIPLE MUMBLES
The Cool Death of the Island Raiders / Double Death Label: Narnac Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Cool Death of the Island Raiders / Double Death, The ‘Alohaâ?� never equals ‘goodbyeâ?� for John Dwyer. No sooner has the San Francisco-based musician shut down one enterprise, he’s thrown himself into one or…
Be Your Own Pet
Be Your Own Pet Label: Ecstatic Peace / Universal Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Be Your Own Pet The many varied ways in which BYOP vocalist Jemina Pearl exclaims ‘I’m an independent motherfuckerâ?� in the minute-and-a-half blast that is ‘Bunk Trunk Skunkâ?� gives a fairly good insight into the young band’s approach. Alternating…
Requiems der Natur 2002-2004
Requiems der Natur 2002-2004 Label: Tee Pee Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Requiems der Natur 2002-2004 Cloudland Canyon’s Requiems der Natur 2002-2004 edges wearily forward, often at the pace of an imbecile on his cell phone in rush hour traffic. One-half of this overtly experimentalist duo, Kip Uhlhorn, beckons from Brooklyn rock outfit…
Plans Drawn in Pencil
Plans Drawn in Pencil Label: Morr Music Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Plans Drawn in Pencil Midway through Plans Drawn in Pencil, London duo Isan drop ‘Amber Button,â?� and it’s a delectable morsel of crossed concurrence: multiple strands of uranium-enriched video-game keys rising and falling over and over and into one another, evolving…
Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound Label: Soul Jazz Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound The claim on the outer packaging of this disc ‘ ‘The first CD to bring together all the key artists involved in the movementâ?� ‘ is technically correct, as tracks by the sorta-tropicália…
Something Comes Our Way
Something Comes Our Way Label: Brilliante Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Something Comes Our Way Puerto Rico’s indie three-piece Balún spin delicate electro-acoustic arrangements on their debut full-length, often toeing the line that divides miniature symphonies and lo-fi pop. Although things stay fairly compact on Something Comes Our Way, the album’s…
‘Bob’s Your Uncle
The kebab: a contribution to world cuisine from ancient Mesopotamia. Those Babylonian brochettes have found their way to all corners of the globe, where they’ve become the favored fare of the streets. Over in Winter Park, the skewers of succulence have taken on a decidedly Persian twist. If you catch a whiff of sizzling flesh…
A WORLD APART
Londonstani Publishing House: Penguin WorkNameSort: Londonstani ‘Every time when it’s important to use this gob a mine I hear my voice,â?� says Jas, the teenage narrator of Gautam Malkani’s debut novel, Londonstani. ‘It’s as if there’s some other voice a mine givin it, Don’t say that, it’ll make you look like a gimp.â?� So Jas…
A Sense of the World
A Sense of the World Publishing House: HaperCollins WorkNameSort: Sense of the World, A The story of a man who lost his sight from an illness gotten shipboard as a British naval officer in the Napoleonic Wars who then went on to travel ‘ alone, with no language skills other than English and often with…
The Disposable American
The Disposable American Publishing House: Knopf WorkNameSort: Disposable American, The Veteran business reporter for The New York Times Louis Uchitelle has written a quiet, thoughtful screed against the phenomenon of mass layoffs. The Disposable American is at once a narrative history of American layoffs, with profiles of workers bearing the brunt of the trend, and…
DIP AHEAD
Down in the Valley Studio: ThinkFilm Rated: R Cast: Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, Bruce Dern, Rory Culkin, David Morse Director: David Jacobson WorkNameSort: Down in the Valley Our Rating: 2.00 ‘Well, at least we know Edward Norton’s still alive,â?� a friend said after hearing my tepid response to the actor’s latest misfire, Down in…
Electric Shadows
Electric Shadows Studio: First Run Features Rated: NOT RATED Cast: Xia Yu, Qi Zhongyang, Jiang Yihong, Li Haibin, Guan Xiaotong Director: Xiao Jiang WorkNameSort: Electric Shadows Our Rating: 3.50 Chinese filmmaker Xiao Jiang makes an impressive debut with an extended flashback about two cinema-crazed kids coming of age amid the communist revolution of the early…
POLICE BEAT
June 9, 4:09 p.m.: Some people will do just about anything to get their daily dose of Internet porn. Officer Jones responded to the Eminent Domain Law Offices on the 900 block of Bradshaw Trail in reference to a commercial burglary. He met with the 44-year-old complainant, who discovered that some atypical activity had happened…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
;; ; ;Controlling partner; ;; Less than three months after one wife-as-sex-slave contract surfaced (in Iowa, for which husband Travis Frey in June was sentenced to 10 years in prison), Hudson, Wis., husband Kevin Anderson was accused of making his own sex-slave contract with his estranged wife, Kimberly O’Brien, which O’Brien filed as evidence in…
LETTERS
Visited Jasper, eh? Hi, my name is Jennifer Herring. I read your article on how you visited Jasper `”I’m going to Jasper,” June 8`. One of my Jasper friends was posting bulletins and when I read it I was like “Helllll naw!!” Yeah, so your article was a big deal to all of us Jasper…
SELECTIONS
;Thursday•22 ;;National Homebrewers Conference The drinking part aside, there’s a whole other realm to beer — that is, making it. It’s a highly scientific process, if you didn’t know, and not just any boob can do it. That’s why the intelligence quotient among the zymologists (what these chemists of fermentation are known as) at the…
NOTABLE NOISE
Having a musical revelation is an extraordinary thing. And this weekend — despite feeling that I spent most of it watching World Cup matches and drinking beer at Redlight Redlight — yielded not just one revelation, but two. The first revelation was something of a mindblower: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is an amazing…
THE SUNSCREEN ALSO RISES
I hate to go right to the symbolism part, but there’s this 6-foot vagina hovering over the set of Psycho Beach Party, Theatre Downtown’s latest entry in this sweaty-palms summer. Some people see it as just a surfboard, but we know better: This play is all about nookie — getting it, giving it and worrying…
CONVENTIONAL ROMANCE
;Her wrinkles catch my eye. Her sex jokes capture my heart. Mary Everett, a sparkplug 60-something woman measuring 5 feet in heels on a tall day, sits next to me on the edge of the beachside sand-volleyball court. ;;”So you got sent to cover this?” she asks, eyeing my notepad. ; ;”I got the short…
THE BIG LOGOFF
Thanks to a spinoff of one of the most popular sites on the web, people can live on, even after the big logoff. MyDeathSpace.com archives news articles, obituaries, blogs and links to the profiles of MySpace.com members who have died. To date, there are about 300 dead people noted on the site, with a few…
‘BOBS YOUR UNCLE
; ;The kebab: a contribution to world cuisine from ancient Mesopotamia. Those Babylonian brochettes have found their way to all corners of the globe, where they’ve become the favored fare of the streets. Over in Winter Park, the skewers of succulence have taken on a decidedly Persian twist.; ;If you catch a whiff of sizzling…
MOVIN’ ON UP
According to the Associated Press, physicist Stephen Hawking has said the human race needs to venture into outer space to ensure its survival. According to the esteemed scientist’s reasoning, the increasing possibility of a global catastrophe makes it imperative for us to seek new homes on other planets. “We won’t find anywhere as nice as…
I ♥ BILL
Dearest Bill, I’m sure you don’t remember me. How could you, with the thousands of faces you see and hands you shake each week? But I’ve seen you twice lately — June 12 in Orlando and June 18 in Little Rock — and, well, I just wanted to tell you that you are, in a…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES During America’s Civil War, John Bell Hood was a top general for the Confederacy. Though initially impressive, he grew increasingly ineffectual as his ferocious courage devolved into maniacal force devoid of strategy. His superior officer Robert E. Lee said that Hood was “all lion and no fox.” I mention this in the hope that…
INSTALLMENT PLAN
Way back in the dark days of Britain’s Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens used to hawk individual chapters of his jumbo-sized novels-in-progress on street corners for a few pence each. Charlie wisely understood what comic strips, classic Saturday-matinee flicks and TV have since exploited to the hilt: Keeping people nailed to the edge of their chairs…
SAVAGE LOVE
My problem may not be as kinky as most you get, but it’s currently terrorizing my thoughts. While in high school and early college, I was fairly sexually repressed (right-wing, Bible-belt upbringing and all that), so I used online chat rooms to explore my sexual curiosity. I would find random pictures of people on the…
BLISTER
;”We don’t need people tonight,” I swing open the Sushi Hatsu door with some divine sense of chopstick authority, one probably not appropriate for my own personal Ultimate Yellowtail. “We need bathrooms.” ;; And it’s a good thing. Our just-completed cruise down Orange Avenue with our shirts up and non-tits flying out the window, accompanied…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;Omigod, I love to eat. And frankly, I’ll pretty much eat anything — if the food has chocolate- or nacho-flavored dust on it, you can bet your sweet ass I’ll be cramming it down my gullet. ON THE OTHER HAND, I’m no blithering idiot when it comes to fancy-pantsy haute cuisine. Why, I even have…
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 layers of bureaucratese from the…
HAPPYTOWN
;For the last year and a half, Orlando Food Not Bombs has fed homeless people vegetarian food in Lake Eola Park on Wednesday afternoons. No more. At least not legally. ;;At the June 19 Orlando City Council meeting, the board approved a new ordinance that would effectively shut Food Not Bombs down. Even though the…
