Broom for improvement
Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Just a gigolo
Movie: The Man From Elysian Fields
Broom for improvement
Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Just a gigolo
Movie: The Man From Elysian Fields
Flickin’ it old school
One of the wittier moments in the new film “8 Mile” occurs when Caucasian rapper Jimmy “Rabbit” Smith (Eminem) is referred to disparagingly as “Vanilla Ice” for his intrusion on a predominantly black artistic milieu. But behind the joke lies a valid question: How does the film compare to “Cool As Ice,” the 1991 Vanilla…
Trace oddity
The cute, self-drawn squiggles that adorn the covers of Mr. Scruff’s albums are somewhat at odds with the progressive dub/disco/funk stylings contained within. Though the artwork for his latest (“Trouser Jazz”) looks like a “Sesame Street” soundtrack, the music itself reveals a broken-beat bazaar of offbeat samples coupled with serious basslines. This balancing act between…
Prodigal punks
Despite numerous lineup changes, strained relations with their current label and the fact that they’re constantly referred to as “the hardcore band that the guy from New Found Glory used to be in,” Shai Hulud nonetheless manages to stand tall in the overcrowded hardcore scene. Although there’s not a new album due out until February…
Pigging out for a worthy cause
Eating for charity is like having sex for world peace: lots of enjoyment, and you get to feel righteous too. The latest holiday eating bash chock-full of karmic goodness is “Taste of Asia,” a gathering of 60 chefs from 25 local restaurants for the benefit of the Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.…
Ain’t it funny how the time democracy slips away?
Oct. 3, 2002 — Gov. Jeb Bush is caught on tape boasting that he has “devious plans” to undermine an amendment that would limit the size of school classes. Reporters fail to play the tape backwards, thus missing Bush’s a cappella rendition of “Helter Skelter.” Oct. 26 — Florida Democratic Party Chair Bob Poe announces…
Seeing stars
A business-consulting firm teaching how to use astrology to increase profits was inaugurated this May in San Francisco by two former telecommunications executives (and ex-Marines). Bruce Cady and lawyer Tom Mitchell founded Jupiter Returns to show executives, for example, that a failed business collaboration may have been prevented simply by understanding that one’s associates “(act)…
Art for tourists
Four big names on the Orlando arts scene divided $471,482 in cultural grants last week, the first art subsidies handed out by Orange County government. The winners were the Orlando Museum of Art for a Monet exhibit to be shown only here and in Caen, France ($150,000); the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville ($150,000);…
A gay friendly mayor?
Since Orlando mayor Glenda Hood is on record saying homosexuals don’t need to be protected from discrimination in The City Beautiful, Orlando Weekly decided to ask the four people who want her job in 2004 what they have to say about the issue. The question: Would you support the so-called gay-rights amendment? The four candidates…
More bad Karma
Does Orlando really deserve a good fashion magazine? Probably not. Will Orlando ever get one? Not as long as Armand Kulpa has anything to do with it. A year ago, the local night crawler founded Karma, a bimonthly magazine “obsessed with providing readers a focused view of the everyday lifestyle, the nightlife, and the culture…
This party is a dud
For local Democrats, nothing says “we surrender” like the name Diana Vazquez-Cook. Cook, you’ll recall, was the kooky banker throttled by Rich Crotty in the ostensibly nonpartisan Orange County chairman’s race in September. Crotty, an appointee criticized for a lack of leadership, should have been vulnerable. Yet Cook was the best the Democrats could do.…
Welcome to (Ch)Eatonville
Since its incorporation in 1887, Eatonville, population 2,500, has been a haven for blacks wanting to escape the oppression of Deep-South, white-controlled governments. But the town’s government falls far short of that heritage. Town leaders have been known more for their back-stabbing, political animosity and legal maneuvers than for the benefits they’ve delivered. Eatonville’s current…
Notes from the Big Hairy Apple
I’m swaying in the depth of my insignificance. Plopped into the heart of New York City, where the deer and the antelope are gay, I don’t feel as if I’m of any real consequence at all. Just cute and lost. “Take me to the center of everything!” I grunt like Madonna wouldn’t, sending commands to…
