Spin city
Things are looking different at the downtown club Icon on this Sunday evening for the premiere of “Big Phat Beats,” which features a rotating lineup of DJs with complementary styles. Tonight, Icon!’s Saturday resident DJ Mot (Tom Barger) is spinning on the same bill as Q-Burns Abstract Message (Michael Donaldson) and Doug Richards. Donaldson boogies…
Review – The North Carolina Banjo Collection
Artist: Various artists
Review – Battle Hymns
Artist: Suicide Machines
Positively ‘Habit’-forming orgy of self destructio
Movie: Habit
Review – Private Leftfield Downtempo Fuzz
Artist: Pimp Daddy Nash
Review – Space Heater
Artist: Reverend Horton Heat
Positively ‘Habit’-forming orgy of self destructio
Movie: Habit
Review – The North Carolina Banjo Collection
Artist: Various artists
Review – Private Leftfield Downtempo Fuzz
Artist: Pimp Daddy Nash
Review – Battle Hymns
Artist: Suicide Machines
Review – Space Heater
Artist: Reverend Horton Heat
Review – The North Carolina Banjo Collection
Artist: Various artists
Positively ‘Habit’-forming orgy of self destructio
Movie: Habit
Review – Battle Hymns
Artist: Suicide Machines
Review – Private Leftfield Downtempo Fuzz
Artist: Pimp Daddy Nash
Review – Space Heater
Artist: Reverend Horton Heat
Another level of food-gathering
The new Whole Foods Market is a great stop for a quick bite, and not just because of the free samples — from chocolates to cheeses, fresh-baked sunflower loaves to black-bean hummus. It’s a different food-gathering experience altogether. With background swing music, Utne Readers at the check-out and booth-seating at the front, it’s the kind…
Review – The North Carolina Banjo Collection
Artist: Various artists
Positively ‘Habit’-forming orgy of self destructio
Movie: Habit
Review – Battle Hymns
Artist: Suicide Machines
Review – Private Leftfield Downtempo Fuzz
Artist: Pimp Daddy Nash
Review – Space Heater
Artist: Reverend Horton Heat
Trampling the Easter tradition
Lawyers! You may think they’re bottom-feeding scumbags, but we kinda like ’em. Especially this time of year when the Central Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers gives them a chance to bitch about local judges via the annual Judicial Poll. The results, which were faxed to our office last week, are both informative and humorous.…
Electronic pioneer drives into ’90s
The Club, May 26, 1998 New Wave legend Gary Numan is between a rock and a hard place. Currently touring America to hype the release of his latest album, “Exile,” he is keen to show off his new songs and new band, hoping to become a viable ’90s act in the process. On the other…
Bankrolling the Indonesia crisis
The $40 billion taxpayer bailout of Indonesia has gone from ugly to disgusting to obscene to perverse. Start with “ugly.” The economic collapse in this sprawling nation was caused by international bankers and speculators who shoved billions into high-risk, get-rich-quick schemes there. These speculators made a killing until last year, when their boom went bust.…
Belgians go global
House of Blues, May 23, 1998 Sarah and Gert Bettens, the siblings who front Belgian pop-rock contenders K’s Choice, oddly enough bring nearly antithetical listening preferences to the band’s infectious, folk-tinged mix. The Bettens, who share songwriting duties, nevertheless complement each other musically. “For me, as a teen-ager, it was basically the Smiths, the Police…
The Swing Set
Culture-hounds tap into sound that bridges the age gaps, and a scene takes off The voice of Sinatra may have been silenced. But the scene that celebrates his sound — that of sophisticated crooner with, as his obituaries last week reported, “a song for every emotional season” — could not be thriving with any greater…
Cold truth of an uphill climb
If a rejuvenating climb up a block of ice seems a tempting antidote to the sweltering summer heat, you’ll think again after viewing “Everest,” the celebrated, wide-screen IMAX feature now showing in the Dr. Phillips CineDome in the Orlando Science Center. An hour spent talking to Araceli Segarra, a major participant in the history-making expedition…
When columnists watch too much TV
If you’re one of those people who thinks a bourbon and Coke would be much better if they left out the Coke, who thinks that foreplay is that part where you look at each other, and who wonders why KFC has never thought of selling just the skin, you probably love Fox TV. They, like…
Cave fabricates fabric of existence
Using scraps of fabric, old shirts, bottle caps and twigs, former Art Institute of Chicago instructor Nick Cave transforms simple objects into symbolic fiber art. His introspective “spirit drawings” and fantastic wearable art — included in over 55 exhibitions since 1987 — challenges, enchants and enlightens. Cave is currently a master artist-in-residence alongside composer Stuart…
Water gardens let you float your goat
President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave.Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: I know the last thing you’ve been expecting is a fan letter from me. But I’d feel like a hypocrite if I didn’t offer a hearty “Well done!” for the great job you’ve done helping us Floridians get through the nightmare of…
If I could buy tan in a bottle …
In Florida in the summer, being “without tan” is looked at by many as an affliction — an embarrassment. Pale people are unworthy of being seen in public. Pale people should hide inside their homes until fall or, better yet, just move away, maybe to someplace like the Midwest. I am pale as a means…
On the waterfront: Secluded (and wet) wonderlands
Central Florida fairly floats. From expansive lakes to mighty rivers to the miles of beaches on both coasts, there is literally water, water everywhere. Staying dry during summers in Central Florida is not only impossible; it’s ill-advised. However, being creatures of habits, we often stick with what we know. Water-skiing on Lake Ivanhoe, beaching it…
Orlando wakes up
What makes Central Florida a wakeboarding mecca? Smooth water, warm weather and an influx of the best talent in the world Admit it: Orlando has an identity crisis. Melbourne, Cocoa and New Smyrna have their surfers. Miami has its South Beach. Us, we’ve got nothing — at least nothing to hang our collective backward baseball…
Orlando gambles on Chicago money
As city officials and principals in Orlando Partners scrambled over the past week to nail down the final details of the Naval Training Center deal, all lingering questions concerned the financial player on the Orlando Partners’ team, the Penguin Group. Those questions answered, on Monday, Mayor Glenda Hood signed the contracts with Orlando Partners removing…
Nuclear coverage shot full of holes
The Bomb — nearly forgotten by many of us — has returned to the world’s center stage in a hurry. When India set off several nuclear explosions and President Clinton quickly responded with economic sanctions, the news coverage was jolting. Condemnation of India’s nuclear tests is certainly justified. But the story we’re getting is quite…
Marketing the millenium
The clock’s ticking. It’s time to scramble. You have less than two years to get your business plan together if you’re going to take full advantage of your capitalism-given right to cash in on the biggest New Year’s in your whole life. Nowhere is this urge more obvious than at The Millennium, the Winter Park…
Science center cuts again
Congratulations to the Orlando Science Center, which in early May announced having raised pledges of about $49 million needed to pay off the new building in Loch Haven Park. Less well publicized was a second round of layoffs ordered about the same time. In December, the center laid off 18 employees, explaining it had intentionally…
Death tolls at Animal Kingdom
Three weeks after federal investigators had cleared Disney in the deaths of at least a dozen animals at its Animal Kingdom, the whole truth came out about the company’s new “environmentally oriented” theme park: 31 rare animals had perished in the seven months they had been under the care of Disney staff. The fact that…
Hoenstineâ??s constitutional sin
Friday afternoon, Aug. 13: Stop at Nick’s Discount Beverage on Crystal Lake Road and the line’s out the door. Friggin’ Charley. Why is it spelled that way anyway? Some dude with a thick accent walks in and says the line reminds him of a Boston blizzard. Came in for a 12-pack of Yuengling, but the…
Fun and games
Movie: Shooting Fish
Fun and games
Movie: Shooting Fish
Fun and games
Movie: Shooting Fish
Fun and games
Movie: Shooting Fish
Mind bandits
“I don’t make films just as films; I mean, they’re there to hopefully stir things up, to try to get people to think again and then react,” said director Terry Gilliam recently in Chicago. “You put them through an experience and they come out, and something’s changed there; or they’ve been made to think about…
