Waiting for the Flies
Waiting for the Flies Label: Blind Prophecy Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Waiting for the Flies For more than a decade, Pain Principle has been thrashing around the Orlando metal scene, gathering up a rabid following of fans who appreciate the band’s intense, modern take on golden-era thrash metal. With their…
Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles
Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles Label: Dim Mak Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles After helming the tastemaking label for 11 years, the Dim Mak don has finally released his own debut mix album. With a DJ career that’s blowing up by the minute, Steve Aoki’s had a hand…
Underwater Dancehall
Underwater Dancehall Label: Tectonic Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Underwater Dancehall Single-tiered descriptions of dubstep are falling increasingly short, and Pinch emphasizes as much on Underwater Dancehall. The moody offspring of U.K. garage has lots to give, and Underwater Dancehall’s dubstep sounds easily exceed the standards Pinch set as producer and head of…
Latin Bitman
Latin Bitman Label: Nacional Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Latin Bitman Hailing from Chile, DJ Bitman is a mixmaster who, in 12 tracks, can deftly segue from electronica and turntablism to Latin dance beat patterns, hip-hop and the acoustic traditions of Latin American genres. On his latest eclectic foray, Bitman invites a bevy…
Neighbor Singing
Neighbor Singing Label: Hometapes Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Neighbor Singing After mastering many instruments and playing them in bands for more than 20 years, Brad Laner’s Neighbor Singing is the California native’s first official solo LP. Laner’s ’60s-soaked blueprints for Neighbor were produced with Thom Monahan’s help, whose experience with other Roger…
THANKSGIVING ON ICE
Don’t drive too fast or you’ll miss it. The tiny shack on International Drive in the shadows of Wet ‘n Wild is easy to pass by if you’re not careful. Although Muse Gelato is small, the flavors that owner Brandon Moss packs into his gelati and sorbets are anything but diminutive. After only two years,…
Netto Ice Cream
Given the scores of Brazilians visiting Orlando, it’s no surprise that businesses catering to this demographic have popped up all over the tourist sector. On the corner of I-Drive and Municipal Drive sits an eyesore of a strip mall, but it’s a sight for sore eyes for homesick Brasileiros. Anchored by a sizable Brazilian supermarket…
Pao Gostoso Bakery
Next door to Netto Ice Cream sits Pão Gostoso Bakery, a bustling cake and pastry shop where expats and visitors alike can be found downing açai, cashew or fresh cane juice while chomping on assorted “salgadinhos,” or small baked goods. Of note are the traditional condensed milk and cheese breads and the scrumptious éclairs, puddings…
HERE COMES SICKNESS
Adaptation fails to live up to García Márquez’s literary original
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Studio: ThinkFilm Rated: R Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei Director: Sidney Lumet WorkNameSort: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Our Rating: 4.50 Philip Seymour Hoffman is a real estate broker with a smack addiction and a dangerously impending IRS audit. Ethan Hawke is his…
No Country for Old Men
Our Rating: 4.00 It’s been six years and two movies since the Coen brothers directed a feature that didn’t embarrass the memory of everything else they’ve ever made, but, with No Country for Old Men, the writing-directing duo are back to old form. In many ways the movie, which stars Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem…
American Gangster
American Gangster Studio: Universal Pictures Rated: R Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe Director: Ridley Scott WorkNameSort: American Gangster Our Rating: 4.50 Everything about American Gangster screams “epic.” A swaggering, burly, overstuffed entertainment with aspirations of greatness, American Gangster wants desperately to be a new Godfather, but feels more like a pulpy mash-up of Serpico and…
Bee Movie
Bee Movie Studio: DreamWorks Animation Rated: PG Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith WorkNameSort: Bee Movie Our Rating: 2.50 For Jerry Seinfeld’s first major big- or small-screen role since Seinfeld, he has chosen the post-millennial refuge of the damned: The cartoon caricature. Barry B. Benson, the star bee,…
Om Shanti Om
Om Shanti Om Studio: Red Chilies Entertainment Rated: NOT RATED Cast: Amrita Arora, Malaika Arora, Shabna Azmi, Abhishek Bachchan Director: Farah Khan WorkNameSort: Om Shanti Om Our Rating: 4.00 From its introductory scene – an impressive homage to Shubhash Ghai’s 1980 disco bonanza Karz – Om Shanti Om defines itself as a sloppy wet kiss…
FORGOTTEN FINERY
Even the Queen of Soul’s outtakes are worth celebrating
POLICE BEAT
OCT. 30, 1:20 P.M.: How exactly does one swipe eight bathtubs from a 16-story building? Eight freaking bathtubs! Not to mention a water heater from the fifth floor? How do you do that without someone noticing? Anyway, it happened in the 20 block of Lake Avenue, at a construction site where the victimized building “cannot…
CULTURE TO GO
The color of money Green Is Universal www.greenisuniversal.com If you tuned into local station WESH-TV last week, you probably couldn’t help but notice that the Peacock Network had shed its usual Technicolor plumage for a more verdant hue. The NBC Universal multinational media conglomerate declared that “Green Is Universal,” starting with a week of eco-friendly…
MAIL SACK
Who wrote that? I just finished reading Ian Grey’s article comparing Tegan and Sara to Aly & AJ `“Tegan and Sara versus Aly & AJ,” Nov. 8`. I don’t even know where to begin. How can talented singer-songwriters already on their fifth studio album even be placed in the same category, let alone hemisphere, as…
BRAZIL NUTS
Given the scores of Brazilians visiting Orlando, it’s no surprise that businesses catering to this demographic have popped up all over the tourist sector. On the corner of I-Drive and Municipal Drive sits an eyesore of a strip mall, but it’s a sight for sore eyes for homesick Brasileiros. Anchored by a sizable Brazilian supermarket…
HOLIDAY CALENDAR 2007
Michael McDonald to the Messiah, Marc With a C to Makulu, whatever you’re in the mood for this holiday season you’ll find in the next few pages. With so much to see and do, one thing is clear: This is no time to shop. Jump to: Music Theater Comedy Dance Film Art Holiday Events Family…
BLISTER
I will not be moved. There’s a writer’s strike going on out there, people, and regardless of the fact that if I saw a scab anywhere on my rotting person I would probably pick it carefully to add to my shadowbox of personal ailments, I don’t think that my fingers should be anywhere but tied…
METALOCALYPSE NOW
Could a death metal band ever be the 12th largest economy in the world (just above Belgium)? If so, is it conceivable that a secretive think tank known as the Tribunal, made up of high-ranking military and religious leaders, would seek to destroy such a band? And could that band, the one that’s pulling in…
SAVAGE LOVE
You neglect generic guy/girl/girl threesomes. My friends talk about these threesomes all the time, ’cause they’re the “Holy Grail” of sex for us straight guys. Here are some of our questions: What is up with threesomes? How do I arrange a threesome? How do I get my girl to agree to a threesome, ’cause she…
WHAT WE WANT
‘Tis the season to lay your hands on as much booty as you possibly can (and you are free to interpret that any way you wish). We work hard to entertain and inform you all year, so how about putting a little something-something in our stockings, eh? Here’s what we want. Get shopping. MY BOOZY…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I love it when you forget all your troubles and get lost in thoughts about your friends’ problems. I love it when you place your entire focus on the heat steaming from your cup of coffee or on the sun reflecting on a puddle or on the mysterious expression gracing the…
EDIBLE CHRISTMAS WREATHS
Writer and satirist Calvin Trillin once opined, perhaps not altogether facetiously, that the turkey was a poor choice for Thanksgiving dinner despite its native-bird status and (likely erroneous) association with the pilgrims’ first feast. He suggested instead that since everyone knows Columbus first “discovered” America, a more appropriate choice would be something Italian. I’d like…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Now that the third annual Anti-Pop Music Festival has done popped, let’s weigh it. Because the event is philosophically and aesthetically in line with my personal ethos, I’ve always had high hopes for the indie-music festival. Ultimately, Anti-Pop should be judged by what it accomplished. Though growing pains could be overlooked in the past (after…
THANKSGIVING ON ICE
Don’t drive too fast or you’ll miss it. The tiny shack on International Drive in the shadows of Wet ’n Wild is easy to pass by if you’re not careful. Although Muse Gelato is small, the flavors that owner Brandon Moss packs into his gelati and sorbets are anything but diminutive. After only two years,…
SLICK FICTION
Assuming that this holiday season is finally time to give up the threadbare ghost that the yuletide requires pesky charity and goodwill to man – and that gratuitous bleats of “Me! Me! Me!” are actually endearing and not annoying at all – it may well be time to stroke your indulgences and remember that you…
WANTING THAT GREEN GLOW
For the environmentally friendly and anti-consumerism folks, the holidays present quite the dilemma. Sure, I’d like some newly minted items, but at what cost to the environment? What does Wal-Mart have that I can’t live without anyway? And even if you couldn’t care less about leaving a light footprint, I’m sure everyone is with me…
THE REWARD OF SUFFERING … (AESCHYLUS)
So it’s been a year of drama – personally, globally – and blood will be spilled if the holidays somehow leave me endowed with yet another self-help book or – the devil save you – a Navy SEALS workout guide to a guaranteed Big Round Butt. You’ll wish you hadn’t, mister. This is the year…
CHAINS OF LOVE
My Christmas wish has already been answered. My favoritest thing of all has landed in Orlando, and it’s big, good-looking, Scandinavian and cheap. No, not a Swedish exchange student – IKEA! One thing I’ve missed since moving here is the ability to buy, say, a stylish, inexpensive laundry hamper. (Why spend $25 on a Rubbermaid…
SCREW CHINA!
I’m going China-free this Christmas. You should too. I’m not boycotting the world’s most populous country because they probably killed thousands of cats and dogs with their tainted food, could have poisoned thousands of people with their tainted toothpaste and lead-heavy toys, or could have injured thousands more with their shoddy tires. Nor am I…
A FEW GOOD SPECIMENS
Without hobbies, one goes insane. To stave off the inevitable madness for another year, in early 2007 I took up the idea of building a cabinet of curiosities, a hobby with a long and glorious tradition stretching from Athanasius Kircher in the 17th century to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. So this…
MY BOOZY CHRISTMAS
While my colleagues embrace their white liberal guilt – a green Christmas? A China-free Christmas? Seriously, lighten up, guys – I’ll be seeking the shit that, deep down, we all really want: booze. The sauce. Whatever you want to call it, and in whatever form of it you’d like to give to me, my hands…
HAPPYTOWN
From the updates desk comes this item about Bill Dillon, the guy who has spent the last 26 years in prison for a gory 1981 murder despite a very shaky case against him (see “26 Years,” Oct. 11): Four months ago, a judge granted Dillon a DNA test on some of the evidence used to…
COUNCIL WATCH
It looked like a bomb dropped in front of the commissioners’ lengthening faces as Rabbi E. Arnold Siegel brought the controversy with an unscripted preamble to his invocation. “In the country where my father was born, they were forced to say these prayers over their government officials,” he said before calling that (and this) particular…
Andrew Sullivan hearts Barack Obama, misunderstands American politics
Don’t get me wrong. I’m on Team Obama too, for the most part (see last item). Andrew Sullivan’s 400,000 word (apprx.) love letter to Barack centers around the idea that he can diffuse the ticking time bomb that is a deeply divided American public. Indeed, Obama has been pushing his conciliatory nature as a central…
