Retro Russia justifies costs of war
Movie: Enemy at the Gates
Retro Russia justifies costs of war
Movie: Enemy at the Gates
Review – Farstucker
Artist: Lords Of Acid
Review – No Such Place
Artist: Jim White
Review – Speaking in Tongues
Artist: The Holmes Brothers
Review – Bring on the Snakes
Artist: Crooked Fingers
Review – Farstucker
Artist: Lords Of Acid
Pacific rim shot
If someone said, “Let’s go to Roy’s for dinner,” you might think they were referring to a chicken shack. But you should hope they’re talking about Roy’s Restaurant, the latest entry in fine dining along the amazingly fertile Sand Lake and Dr. Phillips intersection. Restaurants and shops are springing up like weeds along this stretch…
Review – No Such Place
Artist: Jim White
Review – Speaking in Tongues
Artist: The Holmes Brothers
Review – Bring on the Snakes
Artist: Crooked Fingers
Review – Farstucker
Artist: Lords Of Acid
Review – No Such Place
Artist: Jim White
Review – Speaking in Tongues
Artist: The Holmes Brothers
Review – Bring on the Snakes
Artist: Crooked Fingers
Oops, he did it again
More bad news for the Sanford Housing Authority and its outgoing executive director, Timothy Hudson: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has just released a report that found the troubled agency has violated eight provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Among the findings: most of the Housing Authority’s grounds, including its Dumpsters,…
Opening up your heart to love
Excerpts from letters written by convicted murderer Christa Pike, 24, to fellow imprisoned Tennessee Satan-worshipping murderer John Fryman, who apparently believe they can communicate their love for each other telepathically (as reported in the Knoxville News-Sentinel in January): “[Blood] is quite beautiful before it turns brown.” “I love the feel of life then lack thereof…
A closer look at the Emerald Isle
Instead of spending St. Patrick’s Day with a beer and corned beef, take time this year to explore the amazing variety of Irish food that most people aren’t aware of. In traditional Irish cooking, beef, lamb and mutton are high on the list, along with root vegetables like neeps (turnips) and colcannon (simmered leeks, kale…
Cracks in the sidewalk
“Billy, could you come up here for a minute?” croon-speaks local 10-gallon Joseph Martens of the Johnny Cash-lite Hindu Cowboys. It’s early Saturday afternoon, and I’m laid up on my alleged suitor’s lap, barefoot in the Heritage park heritage grass, still crafting my Tammy Wynette battered-wife pose akimbo my current victim (feeling, you know, anonymous),…
Pilots flying higher than intended
There’s no doubt that the speedy ascent of Pilots vs. Aeroplanes has been eminently noticeable in a town full of grounded hopefuls, especially considering the emo-shimmer ambience and the distant space-rock gaze of their experimental music. These things just don’t happen. But by sticking to their ambitious sonic objectives and a near-saturation live schedule, Pilots…
Cracks in the sidewalk
“Billy, could you come up here for a minute?” croon-speaks local 10-gallon Joseph Martens of the Johnny Cash-lite Hindu Cowboys. It’s early Saturday afternoon, and I’m laid up on my alleged suitor’s lap, barefoot in the Heritage park heritage grass, still crafting my Tammy Wynette battered-wife pose akimbo my current victim (feeling, you know, anonymous),…
California screamin’
What if you built a theme park and nobody came? That’s the strange situation the Walt Disney Co. seems to be facing out west. Even though it’s only been five weeks since the Mouse threw open the gates to its $1.4 billion expansion of the Disneyland Resort, there’s real concern in Burbank over the public’s…
The recurring nightmare
But of course, we’ve seen it all before — in Paducah, Ky.; Jonesboro, Ark.; Springfield, Ore.; Littleton, Colo.; and now, Santee, Calif., and Williamsport, Pa.: the stunned teen-age girls, sobbing their muffled horror into cupped, shaking hands; the stricken boys, shoulders heaving and heads bowed amid the carnage and the chaos; the terrified parents, running…
Local filmmaking no closed set
In springtime, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of … wide-angle lenses? At least three film shoots have been conducted on local soil in the past month, all of them independently organized. At press time, writer/director Jonathan Figg was overseeing final photography on his long-awaited feature, The Brothers `The Green Room, March 8`; Todd…
All in a lather
There are some things I never thought I’d hear myself say. One is “I’m really disappointed in Ricky Martin.” (The inauguration footage of him teaching Dubya to salsa still gives me nightmares.) Another is “I’m really glad they replaced Kathie Lee.” Kathie Lee is too weird to hate, but I’m glad she’s gone, because her…
Big Bangs’ theory
In Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe’s cinematic ode to his bygone days in the early 1970s as a young writer at nasty ol’ Rolling Stone magazine, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the role of Crowe’s journalistic mentor, the notorious rock critic Lester Bangs. Hoffman brings a gentle touch to the role. He portrays Bangs as sensitive,…
Separate & unequal?
The cinder-block buildings that will house Jones High School’s science classrooms, technology center and cafeteria are halfway completed. In the field across the street, portable classrooms already await the fall term. This summer 12 of the school’s 13 old buildings will be demolished and a new campus will be constructed. There’s change in the air…
NSX shaken, not stirred
Almost halfway through an on-air listening of Snoop Dogg’s new porn movie, “Doggystyle” last Friday, a group of angry young men stormed into the DJ booth of pirate radio talk show host NSX (better known as Rayon “Junior” Payne, the closest thing Orlando has to Howard Stern). The group was led by DJ Nasty, whom…
