BRILLIANT GREEN
I’ve always considered Irish food to be similar to British food in the sense that it’s something you eat because you’re already at the pub, have had a few pints and don’t feel like driving somewhere else to get a real meal. So it’s bangers and mash, maybe a shepherd’s pie, to soak up the…
IN GOD WE RUST
Neil Young: Heart of Gold Studio: Paramount Classics Rated: PG Website: http://www.heartofgoldmovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-03-17 Cast: Neil Young Director: Jonathan Demme WorkNameSort: Neil Young: Heart of Gold Our Rating: 3.00 The straightforward concert film is becoming a rarity these days, so the arrival of Neil Young: Heart of Gold should be an inspiration to music…
V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: R Website: http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2006-03-17 Cast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt Director: James McTeigue Screenwriter: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore Music Score: Dario Marianelli WorkNameSort: V for Vendetta Our Rating: 3.50 Their geek cred hammered by the putrid Matrix…
Frenétiko
Frenétiko Label: Man Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Frenétiko One of the highlights of the excellent 2004 Rio Baile Funk – Favela Booty Beats compilation was De Falla’s “Popozuda Rock ‘n’ Roll,” a then-four-year-old track that’s now justifiably one of the genre’s classics. A manically thumping, riff-driven homage to big Brazilian asses, “Popozuda” stood out – even…
Fishscale
Fishscale Label: Island/Def Jam Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Fishscale Method Man may have hammed it up on a sitcom, and RZA could be the Henry Mancini of hipper-than-thou cinema, but 13 years removed from the guttural debut of Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Killah has emerged as the artistic victor of the influential group’s erratic solo lives. 2004’s…
American Myth
American Myth Label: Verve Forecast Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: American Myth The name sounds like a Borscht Belt comic, but the sound is pure Americana, Dylan and The BandÐstyle. The organ pushes the harmonica, which slides into the acoustic guitars, which lie back with a lumbering beat that leaves enough swing for the lyrics to ride…
Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes
Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes Label: Stones Throw Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes In a jagged rundown of next-level beat chemistry, Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes lines up a staggering 35 vignettes from producer Madlib, built from beat CDs and, presumably, an infinite amount of hash. The Oxnard, Calif.-based…
CLASH CONSCIOUS
2006 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2006-03-16 WorkNameSort: 2006 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts Our Rating: 3.50 As their tandem theatrical release demonstrates, Oscar’s 2006 nominees for Best Documentary Short were united by themes of man’s inhumanity to man. All of the films are between 27 and 40 minutes; none emphasizes artistry…
WHAT COMES AROUND …
Welcome to rerun time at Theatre Downtown, but remember that reruns really can improve onstage. It’s still 1959 at Rydell High, a miserable school in a miserable neighborhood filled with petty crime and great singers. Rather than a parade of dispirited teens with no future, tonight we see a feel-good, feel-up-the-girls sort of show. Danny…
News of the Weird
Near-meth experience Convicted methamphetamine user Daniel Zeiszler, 22, burned his hand and arm last year in a San Francisco hotel room attempting to extract meth from his own urine in a crude recycling attempt. At his sentencing in December (at which he got five months in jail), his lawyer acknowledged that it would take “gallons”…
IN HIS DREAMS
In your dreams, have you ever imagined yourself swooping through the open legs of a line of hot babes? Or have you ever pictured rows and rows of nubile beauties disrobing in sexy silhouette? And just for a change of pace, have you ever dreamed of two lines of female swimmers interlacing their naked legs…
Letters
Fall from grace There are few times when being judgmental towards people is a good thing. For lack of a better way to say this, let’s just face it: Neo-Nazis aren’t very cool people. But what’s almost as uncool is the amount of attention they’re getting from people who don’t believe in their cause, including…
I Love Television
FYI: I do NOT make a conscious decision to be evil. Yes, I beat up nerds. Yes, I toy with my lovers’ hearts the way a cat slashes away at a mouse’s face. And yes, I intentionally say things to inflame the fundamentalist Christian/Islamic-Muslim/Republican/Jenny Craig-Weight Watchers community. HOWEVER! By not physically stopping me from performing…
Blister
Nothing is what it seems. Early last night, I was awash in pre-event percolation, all lubed-up and ready for what promised to be a polyurethane fantasy of vibrator races and wheels of fornication. Copy editor Jessica and I had applied enough irony pink to our cheekbones to be mistaken for common rhetoric whores, and my…
Steve and Theo Lotz, Peter Max, Amp’D Supercross, Rollins Dance XX and more
Friday • 17 STEVE AND THEO LOTZ This is the closing reception for Crealdé’s A Father and Son Painting Exhibition. The family name Lotz carries an earned cachet for artistic talent in this town. If you’re not familiar with the name, the timing of this double exhibition catches father Steve after his 1969-2003 career at…
Savage Love
I am a 26-year-old lesbian in a relationship with a 21-year-old. We’ve been together for five years. She is a brilliant student with a bright future. I love her but I want to be on my own for a while. I am worried about how she would get along financially without me. While I don’t…
Notable Noise
There was a lot of e-mail directed toward me after my Feb. 23 column proclaimed that there was no true metal in Orlando. Quite a few were exhaustive lists of bands like Nailshitter, Crotchduster, Gore Head, Infant Slaughter and other bands that sound absolutely nothing like the kind of metal I am missing. (Allow me…
FEEL FOR THE ROAD
Blind students required to pass drivers ed Disabled students not exempt from graduation prerequisite in Chicago — MSNBC.com headline, March 10, 2006 FINAL EXAM FOR VISION-IMPAIRED STUDENTS Drivers Ed 101 Cook County Public Schools Directions: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. The State of Illinois awards learners permits to blind students…
Police Beat
March 3, 6:21 p.m.: Officer Geschke responded to a call regarding “a strong arm robbery” at the intersection of Kirkman Road and Valencia Community College Drive. Upon his arrival, the officer spoke with (or rather, tried to speak with) the 65-year-old female victim, whose 31-year-old daughter arrived on the scene to translate because her mother…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES Your horoscope this week comes from the Chinese book of oracles, the I Ching, translated by Richard Wilhelm. The title is “Liberation.” Here’s the heart of it: “In times of standstill it will happen that inferior people attach themselves to you and even seem to grow indispensable. But when the time of deliverance draws…
A COLLEGE DIVIDED
Ah, the spring semester of college. After a long break of family gatherings, sleeping in late and binge drinking, most students return to campus to find it in a relatively uneventful state, perhaps even a little dusty from the lack of inhabitants over the long winter’s fortnight. Not so the beginning of spring semester 2006…
SONIC RASTAS
“A lot of people think, ‘Oh, I’m going to make dancehall rhythms,'” Dennis “Dow Jones” Shaw says from his Orlando home. “I get so many calls from people looking for advice and direction on how to do this thing. … It’s not worth it from a financial standpoint.” Shaw is de facto head of Orlando’s…
JUAN’S WORLD
Through his daily blog Informed Comment (www.juancole.com), Juan Cole has become “a must-read for those interested in the Middle East,” as the online journal Slate put it. In turn, the University of Michigan professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian history has also become a widely sought expert and commentator whose articles have appeared in…
Happytown
Protests in Orlando typically come in two forms: Sign-waving at Bumby and Colonial or candle-lighting at Lake Eola. Which is terrific, really. The world needs reminding that George W. Bush is a total jerkwad every now and again. We’re all for that, but these things tend to get monotonous. We want excitement – something that’s…
CORPSE PRIDE
The ancient Greeks must have loved dysfunctional families; their dramas featured so many of them. Perhaps the most dysfunctional was the house of Laius, personified by King Oedipus, who killed his father, married his mother and then plucked out his own eyes when his iniquity was revealed. But the story didn’t end there. Oedipus had…
