A slight break in Florida power
What’s the worst enemy of the Florida filmmaker? Is it a shortage of funds? A lack of ambition? A dearth of talent? Nah … it’s just lousy wiring. Electrical nightmares bedeviled last weekend’s Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase, bringing the ninth annual festival of independent statewide productions to a screeching halt minutes after it began.…
History’s awkward Arc
Movie: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Obtuse angels
Movie: Dogma
Easy to place
Movie: Anywhere But Here
History’s awkward Arc
Movie: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Obtuse angels
Movie: Dogma
Easy to place
Movie: Anywhere But Here
Press-on dilemma
Police in London, England, announced in August that they were searching for a man in his mid-20s who for two years has been approaching women, grasping their hands, complimenting them on their fingers and then attempting to chew off one or more of their nails. And in May in Milwaukee, Chad J. Hammond pleaded no…
A distant war tied to one at home
The people of Colombia want peace. Last week, 10 million people across the war-torn nation took to the streets to call for an end to violence in that country’s 35-year-old civil war, the cry of “No mas!” echoing in the streets of Bogota, Medellin and Cali. The clock is running out. Leftist guerrillas control 40…
The beauty behind BS
We recently drove a slow van in morning rush hour traffic through Bridgeport, Conn., past Danbury, hooked around New York City, then down through New Jersey to hit the afternoon rush in Baltimore and Annapolis. Two days later we wallowed through morning madness in Washington, D.C., and bore on south to Richmond. We were passed…
Festival free for all?
Fabulous fall weather brought thousands of people to downtown Orlando this past weekend, further lured by two major festivals: the annual Fiesta in the Park craft fair, and the first-ever Festival Calle Orange, a street festival that played to the region’s diverse Latin cultures. As with all events in Lake Eola Park, the craft fair…
Site to be seen
Former assistant State’s Attorney Donna “Chris” Lindamood essentially won her battle with her former boss, Orange-Osceola State’s Attorney Lawson Lamar, when an appeals court ruled last spring that she be reinstated in the job from which she was fired without cause in January of 1998. At that point, reinstatement was the last thing Lindamood wanted;…
The real personal trainer
One of the greatest inventions of all time was the 1950s exercise machine with the belt that wrapped around the user’s hips and shook them like big maracas. It was utterly humiliating and thoroughly useless. But these vibrators were the last word in friendly exercise machines. The popular iron maidens of today have a domineering,…
The rise of Orlando’s music scene
Backstreet boys Current release:Released “Millennium” in May. Label:Jive (but threatening to leave the label if “pale imitators” ‘N Sync come aboard) Orlando connection:Backstreet Boys were the original Trans Con act and still remain the best. Working it:Currently wetting panties (young and old) on sold-out tour of U.S. Kevin Richardson, who dislocated his shoulder in a…
The rise and stall of musical acts signed to major labels
Pete Sison feels like he’s finally arrived. It just took a while. As a bass player he gigged for years with one Florida band after another — The Genitorturers, Raped Ape, Schnitt Acht, Massacre. Then, two years ago, he fell in with the hard-hitting crunch-metal outfit JoJo. The combined talents of the scene-pounding veterans clicked.…
Review – Scott Ritcher
Artist: Scott Ritcher
Deep pockets
Movie: Pokemon: The First Movie
Blind devotion
Movie: Light It Up
Review – Right Back
Artist: Long Beach Dub Allstars
Review – Industrial Strength Machine Music: The Framework of Industrial Rock (1978-1995)
Artist: Various artists
Deep pockets
Movie: Pokemon: The First Movie
Review – The Battle of Los Angeles
Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Blind devotion
Movie: Light It Up
Review – Scott Ritcher
Artist: Scott Ritcher
Review – Right Back
Artist: Long Beach Dub Allstars
Review – Industrial Strength Machine Music: The Framework of Industrial Rock (1978-1995)
Artist: Various artists
Review – Right Back
Artist: Long Beach Dub Allstars
Review – The Battle of Los Angeles
Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Review – Industrial Strength Machine Music: The Framework of Industrial Rock (1978-1995)
Artist: Various artists
Review – Scott Ritcher
Artist: Scott Ritcher
Review – The Battle of Los Angeles
Artist: Rage Against The Machine
Brushes with out-of-boxers
Somewhere betwixt the homogenization and packaging of the arts and the sterilization of artistic passion due to apathetic eyes and ears lies a pocket of Orlando dreamers who still believe that something new under the sun is yet to be found and are willing to prove it. These few pioneer past tradition while shunning arbitrary…
Rock in a hair place? No, says Buckcherry
Los Angeles-based five-piece Buckcherry draws many comparisons: AC/DC; Black Crowes without the boogie; KISS without the makeup. But to Keith Nelson, the guitarist who started the band four years ago with singer Joshua Todd, Buckcherry is more closely related to Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and even Nirvana. But listen hard to the group’s eponymous debut…
Superchunk’s emotional ‘Pick Me Up’
For a generation raised on punk rock that was influenced more by Sonic Youth and Minor Threat than by the Sex Pistols or the Clash, indie rock is built on this premise: There’s an article of faith called music, made by honest people full of honest emotions, which can fill up every hole the straight…
Pop progressions
With rock music in such of tizzy of testosterone-fueled throat straining, it’s easy to see why Canadian alternative rockers Sloan are sometimes dismissed as retro-pop. Their sound is big — pushed over the top by the sort of sonic confidence that characterized McCartney’s Wings or even later-era Who in their ’70s album-rock heyday. With each…
Effective PR
Mildred Perez heard the lament often: There just weren’t enough Puerto Rican restaurants in Orlando. Finally the island’s descendant decided to take her friends’ advice and do something about it. Not long ago Perez debuted Brisas del Caribe on Curry Ford Road, where she has enjoyed a steady flow of traffic ever since. Her homespun…
A bit of the grape at touch of mouse
Wine tastings on the web? It was just a matter of time. It’s a new concept from Wine Country (272 W. New England Ave., Winter Park; 629-7191), which specializes in superior labels at jack-cheap prices — never more than $19 a bottle. Minus the capital to finance a bricks-and-mortar expansion, the owners shot into cyberspace…
A bit of the grape at touch of mouse
Wine tastings on the web? It was just a matter of time. It’s a new concept from Wine Country (272 W. New England Ave., Winter Park; 629-7191), which specializes in superior labels at jack-cheap prices — never more than $19 a bottle. Minus the capital to finance a bricks-and-mortar expansion, the owners shot into cyberspace…
