Movie: Be Cool
Our Rating: 3.00 It’s hard to figure out who’s jerking whose chain in this Get Shorty follow-up: Even in the opening sequence, John Travolta, reprising his role as mobster-turned-mogul Chili Palmer, wisecracks about sequel syndrome. The film then proceeds to parody the original, which was itself a parody of Hollywood-style chicanery. Yet director F. Gary…
Review – Angel of Retribution
Artist: Judas Priest
NOT SILENT, BUT DEADLY
Movie: Conspiracy of Silence
Review – Angel of Retribution
Artist: Judas Priest
IGBY GOES DOWNER
Movie: Imaginary Heroes
Review – Morning Kills the Dark
Artist: Biirdie
Movie: Be Cool
Our Rating: 3.00 It’s hard to figure out who’s jerking whose chain in this Get Shorty follow-up: Even in the opening sequence, John Travolta, reprising his role as mobster-turned-mogul Chili Palmer, wisecracks about sequel syndrome. The film then proceeds to parody the original, which was itself a parody of Hollywood-style chicanery. Yet director F. Gary…
Review – Manzanita
Artist: Mia Doi Todd
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Artist: Judas Priest
Review – You Can Be Special Too
Artist: Evil Nine
Review – Morning Kills the Dark
Artist: Biirdie
Review – Feathers
Artist: Dead Meadow
Review – Manzanita
Artist: Mia Doi Todd
FASTER, CHEAPER
Of late, there’s been much to-do made about extravagant sushi experiences in big cities for which diners shell out $350 or more – per person! Is it worth it? Many say yes, and it’s all about the quality of the ingredients. Fresh ingredients. After all, those tasty Japanese sculptures we’ve come to know and love…
Review – You Can Be Special Too
Artist: Evil Nine
NOT SILENT, BUT DEADLY
Movie: Conspiracy of Silence
Review – Feathers
Artist: Dead Meadow
IGBY GOES DOWNER
Movie: Imaginary Heroes
Review – Morning Kills the Dark
Artist: Biirdie
Movie: Be Cool
Be Cool Length: 1 hour, 54 minutes Studio: MGM Website: http://www.becoolmovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-03-11 Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Vince Vaughn, Danny DeVito Director: F. Gary Gray Screenwriter: Peter Steinfeld WorkNameSort: Be Cool Our Rating: 3.00 It’s hard to figure out who’s jerking whose chain in this Get Shorty follow-up: Even…
Review – Manzanita
Artist: Mia Doi Todd
Review – You Can Be Special Too
Artist: Evil Nine
Review – Feathers
Artist: Dead Meadow
NOT SILENT, BUT DEADLY
Movie: Conspiracy of Silence
IGBY GOES DOWNER
Movie: Imaginary Heroes
Medeski, Martin & Wood, H8, Open Hand, Steve Vai and more
Saturday • 12 MARC WITH A ‘C’ After five years of quirky acoustic odes to nerdy girls, Laura Prepon and mall sluts, among other things, Orlando’s version of Jonathan Richman, Marc Sirdoreus, is finally packing in his ‘Marc With a ‘C'” persona. “Being ‘Marc With a “C”‘ is very confining,” says Sirdoreus. “And I’m sick…
The MBI busts heads and Rich Crotty attempts to smile
The no-fun police are at it again. On March 4, officers from the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation raided five smoke shops in Orange County and confiscated $2 million worth of pipes and bongs. The stores targeted were Pipe Dreams, Pipe Dreams II, The 5th Element, Drago’s (formerly Frodo’s Treasures) and G Spot. The investigation traces…
FAULT LINES
After a miserable 2003-2004 season that saw the Orlando Magic win 21 games out of 82, something had to give. Fan support was at an all-time low, the team’s high-maintenance superstar wanted out, and other than laying claim to the No. 1 pick in the 2004 NBA draft, there was little hope in sight. General…
GOOD SQUARE MEAL
I’m a sucker for a workhorse lunch and Elty’s is one of those proletarian places where it wouldn’t be out of place to see men in overalls hunched over huge plates, forking in meat and taters. Sure, Elty’s serves wraps and salads, but ignore that part of the menu – except for the eggplant wrap…
The MBI busts heads and Rich Crotty attempts to smile
The no-fun police are at it again. On March 4, officers from the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation raided five smoke shops in Orange County and confiscated $2 million worth of pipes and bongs. The stores targeted were Pipe Dreams, Pipe Dreams II, The 5th Element, Drago’s (formerly Frodo’s Treasures) and G Spot. The investigation traces…
TOO QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
You can always beat a good concept to death, and that’s what seems to have happened to the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s (Abridged) franchise. Its best-known productions, which have been performed by the RSC and others on stages around the world, compressed the entirety of Shakespeare’s works and all of American history into tight comedic revels.…
THE FUNNY FACES OF LOVE
One of the new theater troupes to pop up this season, the Jester Theater Company is dedicated to comedy. Its first production, A Tuna Christmas, was a seasonal success full of over-the-top Texas characters. The cast is much smaller for the Jester’s second outing, Romantic Comedy, written by Bernard Slade, whose Same Time, Next Year…
THIS DOGMA BITES
Anyone who remembers struggling to stay awake in a college humanities course is familiar with the medieval opus Everyman. Theater historians consider Everyman to be the best surviving example of the morality play, by which the church attempted to bring religious instruction to the masses via the popular form of theater. By utilizing theatrical allegory,…
“I gelt with you”
Treasury Secretary John Snow on Sunday would not rule out the idea of Irish singer Bono, an activist on debt relief and AIDS, making the short list of potential candidates to lead the World Bank, even though an American is expected to get the job. “He’s somebody I admire. He does a lot of good…
Culture
PUBLIC WORKS By Neil Hagerty (Drag City, 157 pages) What’s worse than a book by a musician who, at one time, was a legendary fuck-up in a minor indie-rock band? A second book by that guy. Hagerty was half of the trashed-psych combo Royal Trux, and Public Works is his second real book. (He also…
Culture
STRANGERS By Graham Robb (W.W. Norton, 352 pages) For the past three decades, standard wisdom has held that gays did not identify themselves as “homosexual” until 1870, when doctors diagnosed them as such. But in this provocative book, Robb argues that gay culture existed long before the medical establishment said so and, to hear Robb…
Culture
J.G. BALLARD: QUOTES Edited by V. Vale and Mike Ryan (RE/Search, 415 pages) Perhaps the best counterculture bathroom reader yet to be published, this sliced-and-diced collection offers bits of wisdom and weirdness proffered by J.G. Ballard in various interviews and in his own work. Quotes is tidily organized, with chapter divisions (such as “Psychopathology and…
IN THE THICK OF IT
The NEW NEW JOURNALISM By Robert S. Boynton (Vintage, 496 pages) You wouldn’t think that the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson and the saga of a gay male prostitute being part of the White House press corps would have much to do with each other, but in coverage of both stories, the term “new journalism”…
SINSEMILLA STREET
IT’S JUST A PLANT Written and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés (Magic Propaganda Mill) Since its very seed, this children’s book about marijuana (yes, you read correctly) was meant to spark discussion – between parents and children and between government and citizens. And it successfully accomplishes that, in spades: “An outrage,” says Entertainment Weekly. “A delightful…
PEDAL PUSHERS
It’s an ordinary Friday afternoon in the City Beautiful, and you are weaving in and out of the herd of flag-adorned SUVs along Robinson Street, racing home to start your weekend. Suddenly a few dozen bicycles, their riders clad in slick raingear, pedal across an intersection, leaving you perhaps momentarily stalled, and certainly flabbergasted. The…
THE PIZZA MAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
(photo: J.J. Marley) So this is the situation: You are famished and dead tired from your long day of widget-making. You can barely summon the energy to walk to the kitchen. The fridge is bereft of provisions except for a motley assortment of condiments. In the crisper, there is an ancient-looking Tupperware container. You detect…
I’M NOT THAT GIRL ANYMORE
As hard as it might be to believe, I used to be something of a romantic hazard. Prior to this older-by-the-minute stint as a marinated raconteur with a heart of crushed ice, I made a tragic career of searching commitment-phobic ribcages for tiny, poetic pulses of hope, scattering irony-free ashes of, “Will he call me…
