Field of screams
Movie: Kandahar
Simple harvest
Movie: Under the Sun
War cry
Movie: Harrison’s Flowers
Instant replay
Movie: Mean Machine
Field of screams
Movie: Kandahar
Simple harvest
Movie: Under the Sun
War cry
Movie: Harrison’s Flowers
Instant replay
Movie: Mean Machine
The pickup artist
When I was young and foolish, an older and wiser person than myself posited a conundrum, which I have been considering for, lo, these many years. Actually, this person wasn’t that much older than me — he is my brother, in fact, and only predates me by two springs. But that he was wiser in…
The insider
It’s hard to miss Tico Perez. For one thing, he’s a giant of a man, standing some six feet and 300 pounds. For another, he’s ubiquitous in local political and power-brokering circles. Though he has never held public office, Perez weighs in on everything from your water bill to Orange County’s arts spending. Last year,…
Toy story
One man’s trash, as the saying goes, is another man’s treasure. Don’t worry, I’m not about to critique Monica Lewinsky’s return to TV. Rather, I’m thinking of the phenomenon of toy-camera photography, a cult pursuit the fruits of which are currently on display in two different local art exhibits: Toy Camera Visions, viewed through May…
Showdown must go on
March 7 was the long-awaited showdown between cable-television giant Time Warner Communications and residents of an Orange County neighborhood concerned that the cable provider was bullying its way into their neighborhood (The bully next door, Jan. 31). Time Warner was caught constructing a 5,000-square-foot building, retention pond and parking spaces on what should have been…
Seeking a seedy solution
It began several years ago when two U.S. servicemen were acquitted of failing drug tests. Their defense: They were bodybuilders who had consumed dietary supplements containing hemp-seed oil, which supposedly builds muscle and helps burn calories. The acquittals led to widespread speculation that the federal government’s drug-testing policy could be in jeopardy. Anyone busted for…
Carter’s little blither thrills
Caller, are you there? “Mark. Mark. What’d you tell me?” muffles pop tyke Aaron Carter, handing over the phone and scurrying to find out what to do. “You have an interview with Orlando … ” chin scratches manager Mark in the background. “Aaron, it’s me, Billy, from Orlando Weekly!” I scream into the phone. This…
Points of disorder
When Columbine went down, I was a little too cool for video games. I mean, I had played Wolfenstein and Doom, and sometimes a little Nintendo 64 at a friend’s house. But I didn’t really care enough about video games to spend money on them, much less get antsy once all kinds of politicians started…
Culinary island of adventures
Quick, where is Sri Lanka? And, if we had such a thing as a Sri Lankan restaurant, what would you eat there? I didn’t know either, until I found “The Food of Sri Lanka: Authentic Recipes from the Isle of Gems” by Douglas Bullis and Wendy Hutton (Tuttle Publishing, $18.95). Part of a beautiful series…
Getting choosy
It would be as if a group of people was given the Vienna Opera House to put on a show and all they could think to do was stand there and make fart jokes. That’s our Florida, at least sometimes. A tropical paradise, yet the insipidity of what’s played out on this stage can be…
Fiends of the earth?
The FBI charged last month that the largest U.S. domestic terrorist group is the environmentalist Earth Liberation Front, a spokesman for which took the Fifth Amendment 50 times during a recent congressional hearing. According to the feds, the ELF is responsible for some 600 attacks on private and government-owned property in the last five years.…
