Panama! Latin, Calypso, and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75
Panama! Latin, Calypso, and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75 Label: Soundway Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Panama! Latin, Calypso, and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75 Much in the same way that hip-hop is this generation’s global soundtrack, in the late ’60s and early ’70s, funk music was omnipresent ‘ typically in…
Lagos No Shaking
Lagos No Shaking Label: Honest Jons / Astralwerks Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Lagos No Shaking The return of drummer Tony Allen to the Nigerian capital in which he and Fela Kuti essentially invented Afrobeat is not a momentous event. Ever since leaving Fela’s band, Allen has carried a parallel torch for Afrobeat,…
Mo’ Mega
Mo’ Mega Label: Definitive Jux Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Mo’ Mega Finally following up 2002’s I Phantom, Boston MC Mr. Lif deals more personal commentary on Mo’ Mega than that explored with his popular politically charged side project, the Perceptionists. Lif arguably does offer more Darfur discussion on album high…
Recordings 1994-1997
Recordings 1994-1997 Label: Eenie Meenie Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Recordings 1994-1997 Drummer Jud Ehrbar was the center of a very small universe of highly underrated indie bands in the mid-’90s. Space Needle was but one; he also did time in Varnaline with Anders Parker (who also worked in Space Needle) as well…
Timelapse
Timelapse Label: Cantaloupe Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Timelapse The method that R. Luke DuBois uses to make music ‘ something he calls ‘time-lapse phonographyâ?� ‘ will be familiar to those who have dabbled in plunderphonics or even mash-ups, as DuBois crafts his work out of parts of other works. However, rather than…
The Proposition
The Proposition Studio: First Look Pictures Rated: R Cast: Guy Pearce (II), Emily Watson, John Hurt, Ray Winstone, David Wenham Director: John Hillcoat Screenwriter: Nick Cave Music Score: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis WorkNameSort: Proposition, The Our Rating: 4.00 Based on the diminishing artistic returns of his later records, the prospect of an entire film written…
Cars
Cars Studio: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Rated: G Release Date: 2006-06-09 Cast: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Richard Petty, Cheech Marin Director: John Lasseter, Joe Ranft WorkNameSort: Cars Our Rating: 2.00 Or, as it’s about to become known in the halls of Disney, How Much Did We Pay for Pixar Again? The creative mind…
Keeping Up With the Steins
Keeping Up With the Steins Studio: Mirimax Rated: PG-13 Cast: Daryl Sabara, Jeremy Piven, Garry Marshall, Jami Gertz, Doris Roberts Director: Scott Marshall WorkNameSort: Keeping Up With the Steins Our Rating: 3.00 A cute and worthy idea that could’ve used better execution, Steins is a knowing comedy that depicts a well-to-do L.A. family attempting to…
The Omen
The Omen Studio: 20th Century Fox Rated: R Release Date: 2006-06-06 Cast: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Director: John Moore WorkNameSort: Omen, The Our Rating: 2.00 Portentous release date aside, I don’t understand the wisdom of remaking but not updating one of the landmark horror flicks of the 1970s. Those…
The Break-Up
The Break-Up Studio: Universal Pictures Distribution Rated: PG-13 Cast: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Aniston, Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Ann-Margret Director: Peyton Reed WorkNameSort: Break-Up, The Our Rating: 1.50 This date movie from hell inaugurates the new cinematic genre of the unromantic noncomedy ‘ or unromnoncom, if you will. Director Peyton Reed (Down With Love) shows…
CITIZENS’ BAND
A Prairie Home Companion Length: Single Studio: Picturehouse Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.aprairiehomecompanionmovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-06-09 Cast: Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan Director: Robert Altman Screenwriter: Garrison Keillor, Ken LaZebnik Music Score: Richard Dworsky WorkNameSort: Prairie Home Companion, A Our Rating: 4.00 First of all, I can’t say how the…
VALLEY GIRLS OF 1967
Valley of the Dolls Special Edition Studio: 20th Century Fox WorkNameSort: Valley of the Dolls Special Edition Valley of the Dolls came out in 1967, a phenomenal year at the movies. That was also the year of such landmark films as Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, In Cold Blood, and In the…
STUBBORN STRENGTH
Year of the Hustler Label: Pure Cash Entertainment Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Year of the Hustler The name is the first question in any discussion that involves Orlando rapper Fidel Cashflow. Whether you’re telling a friend about his uniquely accessible street tales, smoothed over with a cleverly straightforward A-to-B flow,…
HUNG UP
A recent episode of Real Time With Bill Maher featured a bogus commercial for AT&T. The ad touted the telecom giant’s 2005 merger with SBC, and offered more good news for customers: an AT&T-SBC merger with the National Security Agency to create an alphabet-soup corporation called NSAT&TBC. “Making your calls crystal-clear,” the commercial boasted. “We…
DHARMA INITIATIVE
Water **** (PG-13) The concluding installment of crusading filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s “elements” trilogy, Water explores a subject that’s largely unknown to stateside audiences: the plight of Indian widows. In the 1930s that the film chronicles (and, to a lesser extent, today), women who are unlucky enough to lose their husbands are sent to live in…
L.A. WOMAN
Here I thought I’d stumbled upon a secret of the TV universe, when it turns out I’m just another fan. But I found her first, I’m sure, falling quickly in love with the Southern-drawling character of Chief Brenda Johnson (played by busty 40-year-old Kyra Sedgwick) when the series The Closer debuted last summer on TNT.…
SPUNK’D
Cable TV’s premium Playboy channel is about to take all those dating reality shows a step further with its new show, Foursome. `The program` will take two couples each week and follow them for 24 hours to see if they end up in the sack, Daily Variety reported. Among the more racy episodes revealed by…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES Oil shale is a rock that, when heated, releases the abundant oil hidden within it. Though expensive to access, two trillion barrels of the stuff lie untapped beneath the surface of America’s Rocky Mountains. “That’s more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world,” reports The Denver Post. This is…
SAVAGE LOVE
I decided, at 12 years old, that pregnancy was not something I wanted to worry about, and now, at the ripe age of 26, I’m still a virgin. I exchanged oral favors with my boyfriends, none of whom lasted more than three months. At 19, I figured out that it was a form of leading…
BLISTER
; ;”We are going to throw down at the club 2 nite!” blings my texted cell phone from a pocket near my genitals. ;; ;”Damn str8,” I barely know how to text back, nor does my scrotum.; ;But then, I barely know exactly what it is I’m doing. Savannah and I have made fairly absurd,…
I LOVE TELEVISION
; ;Babies these days? They got it eaaaasy. They eat adult foods (puréed, of course), wear adult clothes (like Adidas sneakers), and they even get their own “special” car seat! And if you ask me … THAT’S BULLSHIT!; ;When I was a baby, I rode in the front (usually on the floorboard) of the family…
HAPPYTOWN
;So, it takes the Florida Department of Transportation to do what the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation can’t: close down a strip club. After 43 years in business, Club Juana in Casselberry will go dark June 18. We at Happytown™ mourn its passing.; ;;Club Juana isn’t just any strip club; it has been around long enough…
POLICE BEAT
May 26, 11:03 a.m.: Orlando has various ways of welcome tourists and relieving them of heavy wallets and purses. This next case demonstrates a more abrupt method of easing our tourists’ cash burden. Officer Derwin responded to a residential burglary at the Ivanhoe Plaza Hotel (in the 60 block of South Ivanhoe Boulevard). Unknown suspect(s)…
LETTERS
The bird’s a thug I was wondering why the picture of the pigeon shows him drinking a beer in a bag and holding a gun `”Bird of paradise,” June 1`. The caption says they are “hip and cool.” I guess a person drinking a beer is cool? Jim Gregory, via the Internet Editor’s note: You…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•8 Bob Saget If the public makeover of Bob Saget isn’t complete, it isn’t for lack of trying. Having misled an entire nation into thinking him a benign family man via his “work” on Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos, Saget required only a few minutes of last year’s blue-comedy documentary The Aristocrats to…
THREE THE HARD WAY
;Ask any petulant indie rocker what the inspiration for his music is, and you’re likely to get a heartfelt answer about love, self-expression and passion. Not so with the local garage rock trio Danny Feedback. Their response is honest. According to guitarist and vocalist Danny Feedback himself, his group’s inspiration is “the money, the drugs…
I’M GOING TO JASPER
EDITOR’S NOTE: ; ; Summer’s here and it’s time to hit the road. But — what’s this? — gas is ridiculously expensive. California is out. And you’ve already had your fill of the beach, done South Florida and wouldn’t even consider a theme park. The Keys are too hot this time of year, and the…
