Comedy brightened by star light
Movie: Notting Hill
Winslet fights hard in another fateful encounter
Movie: Hideous Kinky
Bargain basement
Movie: The Thirteenth Floor
Comedy brightened by star light
Movie: Notting Hill
Winslet fights hard in another fateful encounter
Movie: Hideous Kinky
Bargain basement
Movie: The Thirteenth Floor
Curtains for downtown
It’s moving day for Phil Rampy, and the man who remade Thornton Park has workmen on every floor of his new Washington Street townhouse. The furniture — all new, all taupe and white — comes later in the week. But already the break from his past is clear. Sleek in its heavily designed interiors, the…
Dead dogs walking
Ruby and Angel are on death row, but they committed no crime. The two Labrador retriever mixes were sentenced to death in December by Orange County Animal Services. All that stands in the way now is an unusual appeal to the Circuit Court arguing that Orange County’s animal-control system is arbitrary. One member of the…
Road tested
Dennis McGuire’s high-pitched Long Island twang rings across the parking lot at Palm Valley, a mobile-home park fronting Alafaya Trail 300 yards north of the University of Central Florida. He gives the late-comers four minutes to make it to the bus. And he spends a minute familiarizing a visitor with Palm Valley’s key political issues.…
Seizures over searches
Alarmed by the notion that government does not yet know of everything that all citizens ingest, wear or carry, Orange County and Winter Park have launched simultaneous attacks on the Bill of Rights. Orange County Chairman Mel Martinez last week called for random drug testing of all county employees. “I want to get them help,”…
Education’s critical mass
The state’s two teachers’ unions — the Florida Education Association and the Florida Teaching Profession-National Education Association — merged last week into a super union whose combined 250,000 members now include bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria employees. Actually, it was a defensive move, and suggests that Florida’s education war is heating up. The action was…
Monkey see, monkey due
In February, a group of scientists and lawyers in New Zealand proposed legislation to give near-“human” rights to gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans because they are so genetically close to humans. Only the most mild, benign experiments could be conducted on them. Opponents feared that such rights might eventually extend to other animals and even to…
Campaign-finance tyranny
It’s time for another Hightower Hog Report! Yes, here come the banking lobbyists. There’s the HMO crowd. Oooooh — that big fat one is the military industry. And here come the Wall Street piggies. All of them are rushing to the federal trough to get billions in benefits, breaks and loopholes, because — hey! –…
Review – Paraphernalia
Artist: Enuff Z’nuff
Review – Paraphernalia
Artist: Enuff Z’nuff
Review – Millennium
Artist: Backstreet Boys
Review – Sugar Town
Artist: The Iguanas
Review – The ABCs of Anarchy
Artist: Negativland/Chumbawamba
Review – Paraphernalia
Artist: Enuff Z’nuff
Review – Millennium
Artist: Backstreet Boys
Review – Sugar Town
Artist: The Iguanas
Review – The ABCs of Anarchy
Artist: Negativland/Chumbawamba
Review – Paraphernalia
Artist: Enuff Z’nuff
Review – Millennium
Artist: Backstreet Boys
Review – Millennium
Artist: Backstreet Boys
Review – Sugar Town
Artist: The Iguanas
Review – Sugar Town
Artist: The Iguanas
Review – The ABCs of Anarchy
Artist: Negativland/Chumbawamba
Review – The ABCs of Anarchy
Artist: Negativland/Chumbawamba
Do the math
“Math rock” is a misunderstood musical exercise. Highly technical rock & roll arrangements hard-wired to shape-shifting time signatures can be perplexing, if not disorientating. But fine-tune the arrangements, simplify a few of those drums patterns, look (with fondness) into the pop horizon, and suddenly math rock becomes well-crafted music. It all adds up on No…
There oughta be a flaw
“You wanna know why the world’s a mess? Look who breeds.” I used to think this snot-filled reply satisfied the question of “Why things suck.” I saw my friends — poets, artists, big-head geniuses — not having kids while stupid people multiplied like Tribbles. Sensible persons would be the last bearers of their family name,…
Fiercely loving ‘Colored Girls’
In 1976, Broadway presented a revolutionary production that gave voice to one of society’s under-represented groups in a venue that usually spoke only to the “haves.” Titled “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (When the Rainbow is Enuf),” this “choreo-poem” by Ntozake Shange grew from poetry readings in California coffeehouses to a full-fledged New…
Waters revival rewards the nosy
Follow your nostrils to Maitland’s Enzian Theater this weekend, and you’ll be on the scent of a new development in the concept of the director’s cut. Two screenings of John Waters’ suburban nightmare “Polyester” reinstate the scratch-‘n’-sniff cards that stunk up movie houses when the film was first released to theaters in 1981. The cards’…
Techno mechanics tune up live show
It’s been almost a year since the release of Cirrus’ second album, “Back on a Mission.” During that time Long Beach, Calif., beat mechanics Aaron Carter and Stephen James Barry have experienced changes (part-time collaborator Rene Padilla is out; full-time drummer John Fimple is in) and celebrated triumphs (new single and video, worldwide distribution deal…
Above the bar
As mainstream tastes grow more adventurous, perhaps it was inevitable that a swanky sushi restaurant would arrive on east Aloma Avenue, next door to a bowling alley. Despite sounding like a play on the word “psycho”, Saikyo Sushi Bar and Grill takes its name from a combo of “Saigon” and “Tokyo,” a reflection of the…
Rise and shine at Pizza Place
Fetched out of the fridge, breakfast pizza is usually cold and a day old. But there’s actually an alternative: Hot breakfast pizzas topped with eggs, bacon and peppers, fresh out of stone brick ovens, served after 9 a.m., at the Pizza Place drive-through Located in a shopping-plaza parking lot, the Pizza Place is smaller than…
