The “Worst” is known
Movie: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Post-post-post modern musical is lavish failure
Movie: Moulin Rouge
The “Worst” is known
Movie: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Post-post-post modern musical is lavish failure
Movie: Moulin Rouge
Review – Lateralus
Artist: Tool
Review – Scorpion
Artist: Eve
Review – Jamaica
Artist: Various Artists
Review – groypsounds
Artist: Rocket From the Crypt
Giovanni’s triples its Italian flavor
Seems like everywhere you look, there’s another Giovanni. I’m talking, of course, about Giovanni’s Italian Restaurant, which is now a triplet with the addition of their newest location. I had to look up the location myself; drive all the way east on Curry Ford Road, then hang a left. Echoing the decor and menu of…
Review – Lateralus
Artist: Tool
Review – Scorpion
Artist: Eve
Review – Jamaica
Artist: Various Artists
Review – groypsounds
Artist: Rocket From the Crypt
Review – Lateralus
Artist: Tool
Review – Scorpion
Artist: Eve
Review – Jamaica
Artist: Various Artists
Review – groypsounds
Artist: Rocket From the Crypt
Giovanni’s triples its Italian flavors
Seems like everywhere you look, there’s another Giovanni. I’m talking, of course, about Giovanni’s Italian Restaurant, which is now a triplet with the addition of their newest location at 2140 S. Chickasaw Trail (312-235-9600). I had to look up the location myself; drive all the way east on Curry Ford Road, then hang a left.…
Scaring up some attention
There’s something endearing about Jim O’Rourke’s unbending, undeterred musical conviction. He’s spent more than 20 years as an avant-garde sound experimentalist, utilizing various media — bands, open mikes, warehouse parties — to transcendent sonic effect. His latest endeavor is hosting “FRIGHT NIGHT,” an installment of multimedia madness every Monday at Bodhisattva Social Club. You would…
A commissioner’s flip-flop on closure
So far, closing streets within the city of Orlando has boiled down to one thing: if your City Council representative endorsed it, you got it. So a closure in Rock Lake, the neighborhood southwest of the intersection of West Colonial Drive and Orange Blossom Trail, seemed a shoo-in, since its city commissioner had not only…
Block party
Like many new homeowners, Beverly Norberg was hoping for the best when she and her husband bought their South College Park home in 1994. It didn’t take her long to realize that the best her neighborhood offered wasn’t very good. Vagrants wandered into her backyard asking for spare change. Bicycles were stolen from her neighbors’…
The spoils of war
This past weekend’s $75 million opening of Pearl Harbor is good news to the Walt Disney Co., which could use it. Rarely have the Orlando parks had such a run of bad press. Here’s what you may have missed: ; ; * On May 17, a tourist tooling around Lake Buena Vista noticed something odd…
Getting the scoop on the Olympics
As the time nears for the International Olympic Committee to select its 2008 site, China dogged Paris’ bid, primarily because of the city’s notorious canine poop problem. An April Boston Globe dispatch reported on the city’s casual approach to cleaning the 16 daily tons of droppings (and average of two hospitalization injuries a day from…
Out, but not down
As gay men and lesbians elsewhere gear up for June’s celebration of Pride Month — a time to stand up and “come out” — many among Orlando’s gay population are ready to lie down, wiped out by the expansive calendar of events surrounding Gay Days. This week’s 11th annual Gay Days festivities at the theme…
News briefs
March 23, 1999, was Mel Martinez’s first big stand against developers, the day he overruled the Development Review Committee and quashed a proposed addition to Knight’s Krossing, the 2,700-student apartment complex across from the University of Central Florida. After hearing from the complex’s angry neighbors, Martinez declared that a 700-student addition would be a public-safety…
CRA keeps on giving it away
The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency awarded two more subsidies last week even as the agency’s advisory board considers a change to its incentive policy so that more retail businesses receive the handouts. The CRA board voted 5-0 to give a $79,500 subsidy to Shanghai Tom’s Chinese Restaurant, which is expected to take over a spot…
Hitting a few books — ones that hit back
“running after antelope” By Scott Carrier Counterpoint Press, 130 pages, $22 Scott Carrier could have stepped right out of a Beat-generation novel. His public-radio accounts of hitchhiking across the nation, challenging authority figures and communing with the wilderness have the feel of a true-life Kerouac classic. Running After Antelope, a wonderful collection of Carrier’s best…
Film festival finds its Pants
Bada bing! Red-hot character actor Joe “Joey Pants” Pantoliano will appear June 10 at Maitland’s Enzian Theater as part of this year’s Florida Film Festival. Known to pistols-and-pasta fans as Ralphie Cifaretto on HBO’s The Sopranos, Pantoliano is currently on screens nationwide as the mysterious sidekick in the fall-down-fabulous memory-loss thriller Memento. (What do you…
A cause with no name
The mutation of your common, third-album boy-band pundit into furrow-browed philanthropist seems inevitable. After all, every action deserves its opposing recourse, and lyrics like “you are my fi-re, my one desi-re” simply beg for big-budget dedication ceremonies in rehab clinics, if only to make them mean something. So that’s why we’re all (OK, so far…
Join the glee club
We Democrats haven’t had a lot of chances to be gracious winners lately. We have instead been that most boring of creatures, the gracious loser. We were gracious when the presidency was stolen. We were gracious when the first act of aggression was on abortion. We’ve been gracious about the fact that the minute Jethro…
Bringing out the dead
There’s one sure way to test the tensile strength of a city’s historical roots: Look for the ghost tour. Any metropolis worth its salt has at least one walking trip to allegedly haunted buildings and public areas. Some of the nation’s oldest, most storied communities — like New Orleans and Savannah, Ga. — have several.…
