31:13
31:13 Label: Arclight Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: 31:13 The notion of the single-track album ‘ especially the sprawling, dense and heavy single-track album ‘ isn’t nearly as novel as the many artists who make them think it is. And though the Texas boys in Cardinale probably thought they had stumbled upon an…
HAVING A COW
When dining out, do you like to be greeted three times, by name, before you are seated? Do you like to have someone refold your napkin every time you get up to use the bathroom? Speaking of the bathroom, do you like to have someone lead you there? Do you like to have the waiter…
City of Tiny Lights
City of Tiny Lights Publishing House: Riverhead Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: City of Tiny Lights In the 21st century, a private eye does not operate in a monochromatic world, especially in London. Cutting across the city in search of a mark, he’s likely to come across Jamaican gangsters, Indian chop-shop proprietors, prostitutes from the West Indies…
Hell In A Handbasket
Hell In A Handbasket Publishing House: Tarcher Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Hell In A Handbasket In an uncannily frank moment along the road to Iraq, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card explained the war’s timing to a reporter as follows: ‘From a marketing standpoint, you don’t roll out a new product in August.â?� Say…
BLESS THE CHILD
L’Enfant Rated: NOT RATED Cast: Jeremie Renier, Deborah François, Olivier Gourmet, Fabrizio Rongione, Jeremie Segard Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne WorkNameSort: L’Enfant Our Rating: 4.50 All young Bruno thinks he needs are cigarettes, instant coffee, a cell phone, black market SIM cards and a little cash. The smokes and caffeine are to keep him in…
Over The Hedge
Over The Hedge Studio: Paramount Pictures Rated: PG Cast: Bruce Willis, Thomas Haden Church, Omid Djalili, Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling Director: Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick WorkNameSort: Over The Hedge Our Rating: 4.00 Just in case Pixar has forgotten (and all signs seem to indicate that they may have), this is how to make an animated…
Poseidon
Poseidon Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: PG-13 Cast: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum Director: Wolfgang Petersen WorkNameSort: Poseidon Our Rating: 1.50 The only way to make this wholly unnecessary remake palatable would have been to up the camp factor into the red zone, but instead of gussying up Harvey Fierstein as…
Just My Luck
Just My Luck Studio: 20th Century Fox Rated: PG-13 Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love, Bree Turner Director: Donald Petrie WorkNameSort: Just My Luck Our Rating: 1.00 If a film has two credited writers, that’s not necessarily a red flag. But three can be a little suspect, and four, well ‘ let’s…
RANGE ROVER
Don’t Come Knocking Studio: Sony Picture Classics Rated: R Cast: Fairuza Balk, Eva Marie Saint, Mike Butters, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange Director: Wim Wenders Screenwriter: Sam Shepard, Wim Wenders WorkNameSort: Don’t Come Knocking Our Rating: 2.50 After all these years, Sam Shepard finally looks like the kind of iconic cowpoke he’s always idolized, his features…
CLUB JUANA
Son Label: Domino Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Son One of the more salient aspects of Juana Molina’s Son is the lingering difficulty of making the distinction between her whimsical vocalizing and the dabs of analog synths that worm in and out of her songs. Whether it’s because she’s practically whispering at times,…
To Find Me Gone
To Find Me Gone Label: DiCristina Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: To Find Me Gone The media’s grabbed the catchy and convenient tag line ‘freak folk,â?� anointed Devendra Banhart its leader and made underground stars of Joanna Newsom, Espers and Andy Cabic’s Vetiver. If that’s what it takes to draw attention to the…
Tigarah EP
Tigarah EP Length: EP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Tigarah EP It’s impossible to listen to Tokyo musician Tigarah without thinking about two people: Tila Tequila and M.I.A. The former because Tigarah’s reputation as a MySpace phenomenon is ‘ thanks to the parasitic memorability of her ‘Girl Fight!â?� song ‘ about to eclipse…
In Bocca al Lupo
In Bocca al Lupo Label: Tent Show / East West Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: In Bocca al Lupo Damned souls tell the best stories, and Murder by Death’s In Bocca al Lupo gives its fatally flawed protagonists space to spin their yarns. It also provides them with apt backdrops: For example, mutinous…
Sereena Maneesh
Sereena Maneesh Label: Honeymilk Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Sereena Maneesh Serena Maneesh are neither Indian film stars nor a hybrid yoga position but a Norwegian six-piece obviously enthralled with both The Stooges and all things shoegazing. Their debut recording recalls the walls of slanted guitars and glimmering melodies wrought by Swervedriver and…
COMEDY OF ERAS
Depending on your perspective, the 15th annual Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival represents either a wonderful time to get onboard or the unveiling of a greatest-hits package K-tel would envy. Peruse the show information and event schedule on the following pages, and you’ll notice a lot of familiar titles among the 58-strong lineup of plays…
POP-UP VIDEO
While a documentary about a curator seems dull — we’re used to idolizing artists, not arts administrators — everyone loves a groupie story (witness the success of Almost Famous and the fact that anyone’s heard of Pamela Des Barres). In Henry Geldzahler, legendary 1960s curator and art-world gadfly, director Peter Rosen has found the ultimate…
PAYBACK IS HELL
If nothing else, credit the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation with persistence. Just three weeks after the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco rejected the MBI’s request to revoke or suspend strip club Cleo’s liquor license, the multiagency vice squad once again targeted Gerald Uranick’s bars. On March 17, following an eight-month investigation, MBI’s agents…
THIS IS A TROLL CALL
“We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans.” — President George W. Bush, May 11, 2006 PHONE TRANSCRIPT NO. 1: WOMAN’S VOICE: Hello? CALLER: Is this Judy Moskowitz? WV: Yes, it is. How can I help you? C: The Judy Moskowitz who went to high school with Steve…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES A recent study reported that more people can name The Simpsons characters than know the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. Yet an article by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker notes that Americans’ IQ scores have been steadily rising — so much so that a person whose IQ placed her in the top…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a straight guy, 17-and-a-half. I have a Catholic girlfriend and we’ve been going out for more than four months now. She is still a virgin. I’ve been patient and have been waiting for her to be OK with the idea of sex through the whole relationship, but there’s been almost no advancement or anything.…
BLISTER
;Tamiflu. It shouldn’t be hard to pronounce, just three syllables rolling off of the tongue like so much other phonetic medical doublespeak: there’s “tam,” then “I” (which can be either a short or a long “I,” or potentially a long “e”), then “flu,” stupid. Britney Spears is pissing me off. On Letterman’s Tuesday couch, she’s…
I LOVE TELEVISION
There oughta be a law! I think it’s despicable that TV shows are allowed to keep certain characters alive season after season after season. I’m certainly not allowed that luxury! In fact, I live in constant fear of getting bumped off at any moment — whether I’m being hit by a bus, murdered by a…
HAPPYTOWN
;Bob Adkins is mad as hell and he isn’t going to take it anymore. Well, actually, he’s been pretty steamed since the 2000 presidential elections in which democracy was stolen, right out from under us, and he hasn’t been taking it for awhile; he’s been out letting people know he’s pissed. ;;Adkins, 62, is a…
POLICE BEAT
May 7, 2:14 a.m.: In this case, our victim was doing nothing more than walking down the 1200 block of Cypress Street when two suspects came and grabbed his brown mink purse, valued at $15 (!?). The victim described the perps as a young black male, about 19 years old, wearing a black T-shirt and…
LETTERS
Keen, perceptive and gentle I want to compliment Justin Strout on his article about Anna Becker `”Flights of fancy,” May 11`. I know her personally and thought he truly captured her essence. His stylistic treatment was perfect and coupled with his gift of keen perception, he turned his piece into a pointed yet gentle observation…
WINE STROLL, PARTS, ROOTS, MMW, AND MORE…
Thursday•18 Say Hi to Your Mom Album titles like Ferocious Mopes, Discosadness and, in the case of the most recent, Impeccable Blahs, shouldn’t fool you; the music of Say Hi to Your Mom — though usually about things like mosquitoes, forests or, in the case of most of the tracks on Impeccable Blahs, vampires —…
NOTABLE NOISE
;Ever seen that guy at the bar more interested in the beer he’s drinking than the musician pouring out his/her soul onstage? You know, the guy who’s having a lively conversation about C.S. Lewis and Christian relativism and the varying merits of French farmhouse ales, while you’re trying to listen to the music? You know,…
FEELING FESTIVE YET?
The lamppost banners are hanging, the Miller Lite-sponsored billboards have popped up all over, fliers for bands you’ve never heard of are ubiquitous and, naturally, the complaints and recriminations have begun. Ahh, it’s time again for the Florida Music Festival. Put on by the folks at Axis (a magazine and a management/promotion company), FMF is…
