The Poem That Changed America: “Howl” Fifty Years Later
WINTER’S WOLVES
SCIENCE VS. STUPID
Intelligent Thought Publishing House: Vintage Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Intelligent Thought The worst kind of argument to have is one with someone who Just Doesn’t Get It. The debates that find your well-reasoned points countered with the tautological equivalent of ‘nuh-uhâ?� or ‘because, that’s whyâ?� may not make you feel like you lost the argument, but…
The Revolution Will Be Accessorized: BlackBook Presents Dispatches From the New Counterculture
The Revolution Will Be Accessorized: BlackBook Presents Dispatches From the New Counterculture Publishing House: Harper Perennial Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Revolution Will Be Accessorized: BlackBook Presents Dispatches From the New Counterculture, The For 10 years, BlackBook has done its highbrow best to challenge the notion of the fashion glossy by juxtaposing film focus with intellectual focus,…
Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grow
Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grow Publishing House: Harcourt Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grow When Wal-Mart’s charismatically challenged CEO starts touting his interest in organic food, you know the stuff is no longer the domain of back-to-the-land hippies. Business journalist Samuel Fromartz got interested in the subject…
IF THE SQUIB FITS…
2006 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2006-05-05 WorkNameSort: 2006 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts Our Rating: 4.00 I’d like to begin this review with a shout-out to ‘Mark,â?� the apparently mononymic movie critic for something called Pacific West Monthly, who recently wrote in to castigate me for comparing Lucky Number…
Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible III Studio: Paramount Rated: PG-13 Cast: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames Director: J.J. Abrams Screenwriter: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams WorkNameSort: Mission: Impossible III Our Rating: 4.00 J.J. Abrams’ take on the high-tech espionage franchise is not only the best of the three films, it’s the one that credits its…
Hoot
Hoot Studio: New Line Cinema Rated: PG-13 Cast: Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson Director: Wil Shriner Screenwriter: Wil Shriner, Carl Hiaasen WorkNameSort: Hoot Our Rating: 2.00 There’s certainly a call for a family movie about the need to protect Florida’s natural assets from developers ‘ and maybe someday, somebody will make…
DOIN’ THE ADIEU
One Last Thing… Studio: Magnolia Pictures Rated: R Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Michael Angarano, Gina Gershon, Wyclef Jean, Sunny Mabrey Director: Alex Steyermark Screenwriter: Barry Stringfellow WorkNameSort: One Last Thing… Our Rating: 3.50 Audiences will fail to embrace One Last Thing â?¦, I’d wager ‘ mainly because its basic premise falsely indicates that it’s a completely…
WAKING UP
Powder Burns Label: One Little Indian Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Powder Burns Who would have expected this? Greg Dulli ‘ longtime caricature of post-grunge, stained-tuxedo-shirt excess ‘ leaves his post as the twice-lit cigarette butt in the corner of a neon-bar hallucination, only to re-emerge as a competent rock hero…
Sexteen
Sexteen Label: Brah/Jagjaguar Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Sexteen A decade or so back, Tampa’s Home were part of indie-rock’s lo-fi movement and, along with groups like Bugskull, were lauded on the pages of magazines like Option and Magnet and given end-of-interview props by tastemakers like Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. While…
Daedelus Denies the Day’s Demise
Daedelus Denies the Day’s Demise Label: Mush Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Daedelus Denies the Day’s Demise Techno plays a prominent role on Denies the Day’s Demise, though all the masterful programming is deceptively ornate, with organic percussive strokes. The Los Angeles-based sampler/collage artist draws heavily on bossa nova and progressive…
Brotherman in the Fatherland
Brotherman in the Fatherland Label: Hyena Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Brotherman in the Fatherland The keeper of the Rahsaan flame, Joel Dorn, has been packaging the unreleased and hard-to-find music of his aesthetic mentor for decades. That’s the good news. The bad news isn’t that the latest Kirk live performance…
REFLECTIONS OF A VICE
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THAT’S SNOW BUSINESS
;”Bush is going to need him to find the good in the administration. Tony will talk about the bad stuff, but he’ll find some good things, too.” — Dottie Snow, on her stepson Tony’s new job as White House press secretary; Orlando Sentinel, April 27; ; ;Transcript of White House press briefing, May 11, 2006:…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES “Any idiot can face a crisis,” said Russian writer Anton Chekhov. “It is the day-to-day living that wears you out.” Your main assignment in the coming weeks will be to use your ingenuity to keep from being burned out by the subtle and minor trials of the daily grind. It won’t be as dramatic…
SAVAGE LOVE
;I am a straight woman who likes getting fucked in the ass. My boyfriend enjoys fucking my ass, so it works out well. Also, we prefer sex without condoms. My problem is this: After he comes in my ass, it leaks back out for the rest of the day — along with other, less appetizing…
BLISTER
I’m crying. It would be far too embarrassing to say just why I’m crying, but suffice it to say that I am. It’s Thursday night, I’m sporting casually hip “fuck-me” drapery and there are wells of unnecessary wetness diluting my Aveda face moisturizer and dripping down onto my couch, my couch to nowhere. If I…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;It’s May! It’s May! The rubby-dubby month of May! It’s a time of flowers, rebirth and digging into dresser drawers for my extra-short cut-off jeans. And it’s also the time of May Sweeps, when all the networks reach into their bottomless bag of tricks to WOW US with ratings-grabbing stunts. For example? It’s the 650th…
¡SI SE PUEDE!
;”¡Si se puede! ¡Si se puede! ¡Si se puede!” ; ;The chant — “Yes we can!,” in English — was audible from blocks away as I walked toward the TD Waterhouse Centre May 1. May Day, of course, carries with it the legacy of workers’ movements around the world. Across the globe, millions of workers…
HAPPYTOWN
Say you wanted to check up on the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, Central Florida’s multi-agency vice squad. Not that you’d need to, of course; the MBI is an upstanding agency that would never employ questionable tactics to achieve dubious outcomes. Evidence to the contrary — that Rachel’s Gentlemen’s Club thing, and that Cleo’s thing, and…
POLICE BEAT
April 23, 2:09 p.m.: If you were dumb enough to leave your garage door open for any predator stumbling by to have his way with your belongings, would you admit that you left it open? Of course not. Officer Mercado responded in reference to a residential burglary in the 3800 block of Appleton Way after…
LETTERS
No fun I agree that EA Tiburon could/should be a great influence on Orlando `”The power worthy,” April 20`. However, I stop short of singing their praises because I see how the employees there are treated: underpaid, overworked, manipulated and verbally abused by their managers … not a good formula for keeping people in the…
PINUPS, CALIBAN, SUNNY, INKWELL, AND MORE…
;Thursday•4 ;;Pinups People keep asking us when the film The Notorious Bettie Page is going to get to Orlando (answer: May 26, at least for now), which we guess means that this community’s appetite for cheesecake kitsch is at an all-time high. While you’re waiting, there’s always the sweet relief proposed by “Pinups,” this month’s…
NOTABLE NOISE
I’ve got a lot of catching up to do — all this time wasting valuable column inches ruminating about wine and punk rock and jazz and metal … enough already. Let’s get down to doing what good newspapers are supposed to do: push product. The stacks have stacked up on my desk again, and I’ll…
MAKING SACRIFICES
Having witnessed his work firsthand, I suspect that James D. Watkins may be a genius of some shape or magnitude. Just try to forget that that endorsement comes from a guy who voted for Mondale and Dukakis, gave Death to Smoochy four stars and genuinely preferred New Coke. An old-school impresario in the mold of…
THE DOCTOR IS IN
Have you ever noticed that a comedian on a talk-show couch sounds an awful lot like a patient on an analyst’s couch? Fortunately, Jonathan Katz did. He and his collaborators turned that peculiar insight into the basis of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning animated series that ran on Comedy Central from…
PUNK ROCK MULLIGAN
;”We got a do-over,” laughs Sam Johnson. The vocalist/guitarist for local hardcore band New Mexican Disaster Squad is talking about the recording process for the group’s latest album, Don’t Believe, but he could just as easily be referring to the second chance NMDS is getting in the world of national independent labels. ; ;In 2003,…
