High Lonesome: Selected Stories 1966-2006
High Lonesome: Selected Stories 1966-2006 Publishing House: Ecco Press WorkNameSort: High Lonesome: Selected Stories 1966-2006 With each passing year, Joyce Carol Oates’ literary production more resembles a seismic event ‘ a mountain range thrust up from the mysterious below. Nearly a hundred books in four decades, and she’s nowhere near stopping; the latest peak in…
The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears
The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears Publishing House: Red Hen Press Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, The Those curious about the verbal flare-ups from the intellectual wounds inflicted by the rise and fall of all things Federline will relish this. Van Cleave’s collection of poetry isn’t so much about Britney-the-person as it…
My Lives: An Autobiography
My Lives: An Autobiography Publishing House: Ecco Press WorkNameSort: My Lives: An Autobiography Memory has always been Edmund White’s muse. By the time he published his classic coming-out tale, A Boy’s Own Story (1982), White was 42 years old and gay liberation was upon us. The story’s poignancy arose not out of its immediacy, but…
THE BUENA VISTA SOCIALIST CLUB
The Lost City Length: Single Studio: Lionsgate, Magnolia Pictures Rated: R Website: http://www.thelostcitythemovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-06-09 Cast: Steven Bauer, Andy Garcia, Richard Bradford, Nestor Carbonell, Lorena Feijoo Director: Andy Garcia Screenwriter: Guillermo Cabrera Infante Music Score: Andy Garcia WorkNameSort: Lost City, The Our Rating: 2.00 Andy Garcia has a special connection to Cuba, certainly, but…
Gold & Wax
Gold & Wax Label: Palm Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Gold & Wax With its multitracked sequences, its driving, breaks-friendly percussion and its slick, Western polish, there’s little about the sound of Gold & Wax to qualify it for the ‘world musicâ?� tag that it will inevitably (and lazily) be slapped with. That…
The Exchange Session Vol. 2
The Exchange Session Vol. 2 Label: Domino Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Exchange Session Vol. 2, The This second installment of unfooled-around-with improv between the head Four Tet-er (Kieran Hebden) and the legendary session drummer (Steve Reid) bests the first by hosting the duo’s longer, more cerebral (read: less volatile) electronics-and-skins-and-cymbals journeys. ‘Hold…
Anoint
Anoint Label: I and Ear Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Anoint When an album simultaneously reminds you of the intro to Iron Maiden’s ‘Phantom of the Operaâ?� and one of the sonic explosions that occur inside John Coltrane’s ‘Jupiterâ?� ‘ and you’re not just saying that to be a smartypants ‘…
Fabricklive.27
Fabricklive.27 Label: Fabric Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Fabricklive.27 Matt Ford’s alias is only somewhat less dull than his rather common birth name. But as DJ Format, the Southampton, U.K., selector’s Fabriclive.27 boils over in rare vinyl sides that would presumably incite an eBay shitstorm. After the funky, scratch-happy breaks of his own…
Raw Materials
Raw Materials Label: Savoy Jazz Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Raw Materials Though pianist Iyer is the better-known half of this jazz duo, saxophonist Mahanthappa shines the brightest on these 13 pieces. Having worked together for more than a decade, the two have established a formidable improvisational dialogue, which shows in…
NOT YOUR EVERYDAY JAVA JOINT
With all the inherent evils associated with colonialism, defenders of the imperialist policy can boast of one positive result ‘ the fusion of global culinary traditions. In Southeast Asia, along the Indonesian archipelago stretching from Thailand to Australia, dishes are marked by Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern and Indian influences, a melting pot reflected in…
TOUGH TALK ON THE STUFF WE CALL FOOD
Author addresses America’s eating disorder, how much petroleum is in our diet, and why Whole Foods is less whole than we think
BLISTER
;Yay, me. Not only did I just survive my drunken-backyard-baby-pool-barbecue, super-sweet-16 birthday party, but I’ve also got the weeklong headache that a 34-year-old who is pretending he’s super, sweet and 16 deserves. That, a Fabergé egg, and a T-shirt that reads “Billy’s Super Sweet Sixteen” on it like a ransom note. I’m golden. So it…
I LOVE TELEVISION
You know, the really interesting thing about television is … is … GodDAMMIT! Can you please put down that video game controller and listen to me? It really hurts my feelings when I try to pretend I know something about television, and YOU’RE too busy mashing buttons on that stupid video game machine to pay…
HAPPYTOWN
;OK, maybe we were a little premature in proclaiming the death of the Orlando Performing Arts Center [Happytown™, April 13]; it appears that somebody actually has some plans for the thing after all.; ;;OPAC board members finally clued us all in May 24 with a slide show detailing what in the hell they’ve been doing…
POLICE BEAT
May 21, 3:18 a.m.: On the 900 block of South Orange Blossom Trail, officer Hinkles was flagged down by a 35-year-old pseudo-victim who reported being attacked by between three and five males who punched, kicked and shot him with a pellet gun. The victim told police the mini-gang took his tan wallet containing $100 in…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
;; ; ;Everybody poops; ;; The National Health Service office in Dundee, Scotland, has recommended toilet techniques for the estimated one-third of the population that suffers from bowel and bladder dysfunction, according to an April report in The Times of London. The pamphlet, “Good Defecation Dynamics,” lists preferred breathing habits and describes the proper, upright,…
LETTERS
Thumbs down for FMF I am a recent transplant back to the state of Florida; I was from Miami and then in Los Angeles the last five years working for Universal. I have been living here in Orlando about four months. I just wanted to let you know that I thought your column `Notable Noise,…
LLAMA, STOOPID, CHANGE YOUR MIND, 666, AND MORE
Thursday•1 A Night of Sleazy Underground Cinema The debate will probably rage eternally as to whom exploitation cinema exploits most — the audience (which has its worst impulses shamelessly massaged) or the stars (who are practically doomed to obscurity). But all that oh-so-serious navel-gazing goes out the window when you hear an actress utter a…
SONIC BREAKOUT
;Formed in 2002 as the brainchild of guitarist Carlos DeSoto and bassist Todd Elliott, the Rules have at their core two Orlando musicians who honed their chops playing in several diverse, odd-pocket musical outfits including Casiopeia, Obliterati and Good Golly Miss Molly Hatch It, among others. Being skilled, versatile and self-reliant musicians, the duo quickly…
THE WAR AT HOME
;A few weeks ago, I was hit with a sudden (and thankfully short-lived) bout of night terrors. I don’t know what was worse: the clammy dread that kept forcing a 41-year-old man to sleep with some sort of light on, or the realization that such a debilitating condition could come on at any time and…
BIRD OF PARADISE
The last time I saw Pidgey he was outside Popeyes Chicken, eating a biscuit and drinking a 40 of Hurricane. But the truth is, Pidgey had been going downhill for a long time. Before that, Pidgey liked to spend his days in my backyard, alone. Just hangin’ out. No other pigeons around, although he had…
HOMECOMING
;As the war in Iraq rages on, the number of American troop deaths continues to climb above 2,400. On top of that, more than 17,000 American troops have been wounded in the fight. Those are the numbers that are flashed on television screens and printed in newspapers. But what about those who return home with…
MONEY FOR NOTHING
Think “Hilton” and what comes to mind? Hotels? Paris getting shagged in lo-res on the Internet? Tree farms? Yes, yes and no. Hilton is certainly a household name for many reasons; however, farming trees isn’t one of them. But right here, in Orange County, that’s one of their businesses — at least that’s what they…
NEVER-NETHERLAND
Dutch actor and director Alex van Warmerdam is one odd man. He headed up a theater group through most of the 1980s before investing his energy in movies in the early 1990s — not that we would know. Modestly feted in Europe, his films receive scant, if any, distribution in American art-house cinemas, and perhaps…
YOU WILL GET WET
The ever-cooling enmity between Disney and religious conservatives dropped a few more degrees last week, when the entertainment giant allowed the First Baptist Church of Orlando to baptize more than 100 people in Walt Disney World’s North Lake. Speaking in the Orlando Sentinel, pastor David Uth called Disney’s action a “community gesture” that was not…
RUNNIN’ AND HUSTLIN’
At this point in their career, it’s safe to assume Orlando hip-hop production duo the Runners are sitting next to your favorite rapper right now. On this muggy Saturday afternoon in Miami, Dru Brett, 22, and Mayne Zayne, 21, are in the studio blaring the next hot single that no one has heard yet. Nodding…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES In all my years of evaluating your astrological omens, I have rarely seen a time so favorably disposed to the value and pleasure of variety. I’m tempted to conclude that the cosmos is conspiring for you to try all 32 flavors, 46 positions and 64 loopholes. For a limited time only, you really should…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a straight woman who hasn’t had sex in five years. Why? Because every time I get close to a guy he’s shocked by the large size of my clit. I get, “What is that down there?” “It looks like a mini-penis,” and “I wasn’t sure what to think — guy or girl.” Is there…
