Wilde at heart
Movie: An Ideal Husband
Spike Lee’s long, botched ‘Summer’
Movie: Summer of Sam
Wilde at heart
Movie: An Ideal Husband
Spike Lee’s long, botched ‘Summer’
Movie: Summer of Sam
Writer’s aged plea for tolerance endures
Renowned for his infinitely quotable witticisms, Oscar Wilde, literary star of late-19th-century London society, is in the midst of a resurgence at the end of the 20th. Wilde’s career crashed and burned in 1895 when he was sentenced to two years of hard labor for “the crime of sodomy.” The writer who lampooned hypocrisy and…
Laughing all the way to the bank
With his multiplatinum bombshell “Devil Without A Cause” riding high on the charts and his party-boy mug plastered all over MTV, rap-metal court jester Kid Rock is sitting on top of the white-trash heap. It may have been a steep climb, but Kid has endured, and now his “fire it up” mind-set is paying off…
The write stuff
Judges have been busy the past few months bestowing awards on the Orlando Weekly and its website, www.orlandoweekly.com. This month the Florida Press Association honored Orlando Weekly with 10 awards. First place honors went to Liz Langley, for humorous column writing; design director Jessica T. Haland and staff, recognized in the special issue category for…
A matter of life and death
Old Sparky, the state’s electric chair that twice set people’s heads on fire, is no more. Built in 1923 and used to kill 238 people (the last being in March 1998, when four people went to the chair in a circuit-overloading nine days), Old Sparky’s wooden frame is now kindling. Two executions scheduled this week…
Counting on culture
The pot to build her performing arts center still contains a measly few million dollars. But while that project waits in the wings, Mayor Glenda Hood and the Orlando City Council have at least agreed to seed a cultural corridor with tax dollars in hopes that smaller theaters and art galleries will sprout downtown. Planned…
Bare facts II
Double, double, toil and … Seminole County wants no trouble. Last week county commissioners passed a law banning nudity in establishments licensed to sell alcohol. You wouldn’t think the combo of drinking booze and removing clothes would merit its own law. But the county was responding to the May 28 performance at Casselberry’s Club Juana…
Bare facts I
The fetishwear store that drew a rebuke from city of Orlando code inspectors for posting a statue of Michelangelo’s nude David in the front window has moved from its high-traffic location on Mills Avenue. But they haven’t moved far. Absolute Leather opened June 15 at its new store at 1013 W. Colonial Drive, in a…
Working wonders with wood
“Strom was a man of integrity and honor, and he helped many people.”— South Carolina State Sen. Kay Patterson, eulogizing former Senator Strom Thurmond, July 1, 2003 “If a guy’s a cocksucker in his life, when he dies he don’t become a saint.”— Morris Levy, music-business pioneer and convicted felon, date unknown Chicago Tribune, Nov.…
Prosperity for the few
To know how the nation’s economy is doing, we don’t need to consult the ethereal Dow Jones Average, but the Flo Chart. Flo’s a waitress at the Dine & Go Diner working the 6 to 9 breakfast shift, then she goes downtown to do grunt work from 10 to 4 for a bevy of insurance-company…
Working wonders with wood
Artists wielded chainsaws in March in Sam-chok, South Korea, for the traditional anglers’ Male Root Carving Competition. Celebratory penises up to 9 feet long are fashioned from pine logs along a waterfront in order to commemorate the time, 400 years ago, when a sailor died on a fishing trip and left behind a forlorn virgin…
Review – Take Your Shoes Off
Artist: Robert Cray
Review – Berio: Sequenzas
Artist: Ensemble InterContemporain
Review – Beach House on the Moon
Artist: Jimmy Buffet
Review – Guitarded
Artist: Limp
Inside the box
Movie: Wild Wild West
Movie: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Length: 1 hour, 19 minutes Studio: Paramount Pictures Website: http://www.southparkmovie.com/pages/mutimedia.html Release Date: 1999-06-30 Cast: Mary Key Bergman, George Clooney, Minnie Driver, Isaac Hayes, Eric Idle Director: Trey Parker Screenwriter: Trey Parker I & Matt Stone Music Score: Marc Shaiman WorkNameSort: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Our Rating: 0.00…
Review – Take Your Shoes Off
Artist: Robert Cray
Review – Berio: Sequenzas
Artist: Ensemble InterContemporain
Review – Beach House on the Moon
Artist: Jimmy Buffet
Review – Guitarded
Artist: Limp
Inside the box
Movie: Wild Wild West
Review – Take Your Shoes Off
Artist: Robert Cray
Movie: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Our Rating: 0.00 Is the new “South Park” over the top, or just over? Here are four views to feed the cartoon’s controvery: You had to be there, by Steve Schneider Tastelessness. Get it? by Liz Langley Bland and bourgeois, by R.A. Bell Sold out? So what? by Richard J. Grula
Review – Berio: Sequenzas
Artist: Ensemble InterContemporain
Review – Beach House on the Moon
Artist: Jimmy Buffet
Review – Guitarded
Artist: Limp
Star-spangled jammer
Marcus Machado remembers watching his dad strum the guitar. He knew that he wanted to play, too, and finally asked if he could — and he was only 2 years old. “He put a guitar inside my hands and just taught me how to play,” says Machado. And play he did. Now Machado is 15…
Sight unseen
Of the seven members of the Orlando City Commission, two of the closest in terms of ideology and personality are commissioners Patty Sheehan and Daisy Lynum. Sheehan, 42, is the city’s first openly gay commissioner. Lynum, 57, is the second black female council member. Together they form a liberal voting block, especially on issues involving…
Comedy gone ‘South’: four views
You had to be there By Steve Schneider The South Park most of America knows is not the one I fell in love with. A couple of years ago, a friend popped a copy of the widely bootlegged short “The Spirit of Christmas” into his VCR, his eyes gleaming mischievously as he urged me to…
Go Fourth and multiply
To quote Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle, “Thank God for the rain.” If not for the recent deluges that have left Central Florida reservoirs overflowing, this weekend’s Independence Day blowouts would be going the way of last year’s: burned out and dried up. But with the need to conserve our watery, blaze-busting resources momentarily reduced, Orlando…
Much better kind of school lunch
Even Julia Child had to start somewhere. The Southeastern Academy Culinary Training Center may not be as highbrow as the Cordon Bleu in Paris, but it’s a local training ground for a new generation of chefs. Test the progress at The People’s Place, staffed by student chefs. Drop in from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. weekdays to…
