APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Movie: Super Size Me
Review – Tana Tani
Artist: State of Bengal vs. Paban Das Baul
Review – Love Beach
Artist: Kill Henry Sugar
Review – Tana Tani
Artist: State of Bengal vs. Paban Das Baul
Movie: How to Draw A Bunny
Our Rating: 3.50 The late pop artist Ray Johnson is like the Charles Foster Kane of documentaries: When he died of drowning at age 67, he left behind a seeming multitude of acquaintances, each of whom held a piece to the puzzle that was his character. Though the missing pieces are even greater in number,…
Review – Love Beach
Artist: Kill Henry Sugar
Halo kiddies
Movie: Saved!
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
Movie: Super Size Me
Review – Tana Tani
Artist: State of Bengal vs. Paban Das Baul
Review – Love Beach
Artist: Kill Henry Sugar
Movie: How to Draw A Bunny
How to Draw A Bunny Length: 1 hour 30 minutes Studio: Palm Pictures Website: http://www.howtodrawabunny.com/ Release Date: 2004-06-11 Cast: Ray Johnson, Christo, Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, Judith Malina Director: John Walter Music Score: Max Roach WorkNameSort: How to Draw A Bunny Our Rating: 3.50 The late pop artist Ray Johnson is like the Charles Foster…
Halo kiddies
Movie: Saved!
BACK TO THE HUE AND CRY
Some of the Florida moviemakers whose works have been accepted into this weekend’s Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase may in fact be going places. But the event itself is staying put. Remaining at Enzian Theater didn’t always look like a given for the 13th edition of Brouhaha, an annual forum for up-and-coming cinema artists from…
THE POET GAME
I should have known it would come to this. The whole child prodigy thing wore out its overdressed expectations after high school graduation. Failure was imminent, if not obvious, all dressed up like door No. 3, with me all dressed up as a little boy lost hoping to just take the money and run. Barring…
T&A-FREE SEX IS STILL SMART EVEN IF THE VISUALS ARE MISSING
Carrie finally got Big – that Persian cat leapt from its Parisian handbag with the social zeitgeist that was the final episode of Sex and the City. But throughout the six-season bait and switch that made snooty author Candace Bushnell a household name, the world got more than Big, it got dirty. Say what you…
FRENCH CONNECTION
Jacques Brel was born in Belgium in 1929. He migrated to France in his early 20s, singing his intriguing and poetic songs in the taverns, cafés and inns of the French countryside. His fame and following grew and by the time he moved to Paris some years later, he had become the leading chansonnier, or…
‘I KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE’
For nearly 12 years, Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey was a hard-core, some say “gung-ho,” Marine. For three years he trained fellow Marines in one of the most grueling indoctrination rituals in military life – Marine boot camp. The Iraqi war changed Massey. The brutality, the sheer carnage touched his conscience and transformed him forever. He…
WE OWN WMFE
It’s lonely walking around the WMFE studios on East Colonial Drive – the spacious but antiseptic lobby is filled with emptiness, save the receptionist. (Ask for a copy of Orlando Weekly and she’ll provide one from behind the counter.) Head through the double doors and you step into a maze of quiet hallways – dubbed…
REAGAN AIN’T GOD
And so it begins. With Ronald Reagan’s body barely cold, the quest for beatification has begun, propelled not just by the usual right-wing cadre, but by a media so unwilling to speak ill of the dead that it brushes aside the fiascos and controversies of the Reagan era to paint a deceptively sunny picture of…
“Who’s watching the kids?”
A long-lived alliance between Orlando city commissioners hit the rocks recently, when Daisy Lynum was chosen over Patty Sheehan to be a delegate at this year’s Democratic National Convention. According to Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell, Sheehan vented her frustrations in an inadvertently disseminated e-mail, accusing Lynum of betraying her and questioning the latter’s loyalty…
THE PERFECT GAME
For the typical 40-year-old male, the perfect workday would likely consist of sneaking into the office an hour late without the boss noticing, looking at Internet porn all morning, taking a three-hour early lunch (with martinis), and ducking out of the office early for a round of golf. For 40-year-old Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson,…
Dessert Lady is like a seductive Martha Stewart
Dessert steals our hearts, quakes our diets and unleashes torrents of guilt, but it also brings insurmountable pleasure. We have our own dessert goddess here in town. She’s Patti Schmidt, “The Dessert Lady,” who recently opened her namesake store, after baking her way around Orlando for the last seven years. You’ve probably had one of…
No loitering in front of Mexican consulate
Apparently there’s a new crime on the books in The City Beautiful: loitering while Mexican. Signs went up recently in the alley just east of the Mexican Consulate at 100 West Washington St. in downtown Orlando, sternly advising – in English and Spanish – that anyone thinking of resting their dogs, perhaps copping a little…
GRATEFUL DREAD
Pubescent ties to music exist in an untainted, pure form as the ultimate high. Our adolescents inhale and savor their first taste of cultural-societal freedom with the touch of one iPod button – and they worship what they hear. But alas, our malleable youth are prime candidates for betrayal. While musical heroes soothe the sting…
KING OF THE PALACE
There’s a Japanese aesthetic known as wabi-sabi that values humble things that tend toward the transient or unfinished. (Animated Zen master Bobby Hill once described it as “the art of imperfection.”) And whether he knows it or not, Bonnie “Prince” Billy – aka Will Oldham, aka Palace (Brothers, Music, Songs and variations thereof) – is…
THE PASSION OF MARK E. SMITH
THE FALL 50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong … 39 Golden Greats (Beggars Banquet) What is the sound of one garbage truck compacting? Why, that would be 27 years of The Fall, of course: England’s noisiest, if not loudest, band. (That honor, of course, belongs to Spinal Tap.) Naturally, the entire “band” concept is debatable,…
