O Pioneer
I read the obituary today of what sounds like a fascinating woman. Ellen Willis, known as a rock critics’ rock critic, died Thursday, Nov. 9 in New York City. Robert Christgau said: â??Iâ??ve never met anyone in my life who generated as many ideas in a day as Ellen.â?� She became the first pop-music critic…
The Studio Albums 1967-1968
The Studio Albums 1967-1968 Label: Reprise/Rhino Media: CD Format: Reissue WorkNameSort: Studio Albums 1967-1968, The It’s no secret that the pre-disco Bee Gees were formidable purveyors of exquisite chamber-pop. Hits ‘I Started a Jokeâ?� and ‘New York Mining Disaster 1941â?� still get considerable airplay on oldies stations and stand as paragons of the late-’60s clash…
Stinking Up The Night
Stinking Up The Night Label: Relapse Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Stinking Up The Night If you needed a perfect mix of the Hellacopters’ rifftastic rockola and the grinding heaviness of Entombed, the right guy to call would be Nicke Andersson. He’s the leader of the Hellacopters, for years was the…
Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey: A Retrospective in Sound and Vision
Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey: A Retrospective in Sound and Vision Label: Mute Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey: A Retrospective in Sound and Vision As a seminal electronic/industrial artist (he was the first act signed to Mute Records and influenced artists as diverse as Erasure and Einstürzende Neubauten),…
Ys
Ys Label: Drag City Records Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Ys Even those who have accepted Joanna Newsom’s oddity will find her sophomore effort challenging. Whatever tenuous ties her debut had to indie rock are sheared here. In an elaborately orchestral turn, her freak-folk spins brocades of cryptic enchantment, conjuring a sphere that’s…
India Bambaataa
India Bambaataa Label: Flatbush Junction Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: India Bambaataa A New York rapper of an old-school, revivalist bent is nothing new, but the fact that the man behind the strong rhymes on India Bambaataa is of South Asian descent is an indicator of hip-hop’s global reach that may…
Casino Royale
Casino Royale Length: Single Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/casinoroyale/site/ Release Date: 2006-11-17 Cast: Judi Dench, Daniel Craig, Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Wright Director: Martin Campbell Screenwriter: Neal Purvis, Ian Fleming, Paul Haggis, Robert Wade Music Score: Dina Eaton WorkNameSort: Casino Royale Our Rating: 4.00 On one hand, the best way to…
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny Length: Single Studio: New Line Cinema Rated: NOT RATED Website: http://www.tenaciousdmovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-11-22 Cast: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, J. R. Reed, Fred Armisen, Ned Bellamy Director: Liam Lynch Screenwriter: Liam Lynch, Kyle Gass, Scott Aukerman, Jack Black, BJ Porter Music Score: Andrew Gross, John C. King WorkNameSort:…
Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: PG-13 Cast: Rupert Grint, Julie Walters, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell, Tamsin Egerton-Dick Director: Jeremy Brock WorkNameSort: Driving Lessons Our Rating: 1.50 Depressingly symptomatic of the kind of film that constitutes ‘art house cinemaâ?� these days, the U.K. import Driving Lessons is a piece of torturous schmaltz whose greatest…
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation Length: Single Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures Rated: R Website: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/fastfoodnation/ Release Date: 2006-11-17 Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana Claudia Talancon, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Cannavale Director: Richard Linklater Screenwriter: Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser Music Score: Nic Ratner WorkNameSort: Fast Food Nation Our Rating: 2.50 To: Mickey’s Burgers Corporate Staff Re: Fast…
Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete First Season and Melrose Place: The Complete First Season
Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete First Season and Melrose Place: The Complete First Season Studio: Paramount Home Video WorkNameSort: Beverly Hills 90210: The Complete First Season and Melrose Place: The Complete First Season The rise and fall of generations can now be measured simply: When its most shameful and ridiculous television shows bring on warm…
Norman McLaren: The Masters Edition
Norman McLaren: The Masters Edition Studio: HVE/Image WorkNameSort: Norman McLaren: The Masters Edition Compiling the complete career of Canadian pioneering experimentalist Norman McLaren ‘ spanning 50-plus years, 58 shorts, seven discs and an overwhelming 15 hours of material ‘ Homevision has outdone itself. This collection is like a film course in a box, organizing the…
Forbidden Planet: 50th Anniversary Special Edition
Forbidden Planet: 50th Anniversary Special Edition Studio: Warner Home Video WorkNameSort: Forbidden Planet: 50th Anniversary Special Edition Even in the ’50s ‘ or especially in the ’50s ‘ all a man wanted was to be left alone, and Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) was no different. Except that he wanted to be left alone to use…
The Wild Blue Yonder
The Wild Blue Yonder Studio: Subersive Cinema WorkNameSort: Wild Blue Yonder , The The idea of Werner Herzog making a self-proclaimed ‘science fiction fantasyâ?� may sound intriguing on paper, but fans of the genre ‘ which Herzog admits to knowing next to nothing about ‘ will be put off by this maddeningly pretentious docu-fiction mash-up.…
MUSIC FOR YOUR MOTHER
Here’s hoping Jeremy Enigk’s mother likes his new album. He made it with her — or people like her — in mind. Says Enigk, “What I was going for is a rock record but something more accessible than `Return of the` Frog Queen or Sunny Day `Real Estate, the seminal post-punk band he fronted`. Something…
UNBOXED? UNCOOL.
As the calendar year comes to a close, editorial in-boxes begin to fill up with record-company reminders about box sets released earlier that year. The pitch is directed toward holiday gift guides (like the one you’re holding now), because nothing says, “You’re special” better than nine CDs of Dan Fogelberg outtakes. Over the time it…
WHERE & WHEN TO FIND THE SPIRIT
Editor’s note – the following event information was accurate at the time of publication. For updated calendar information, visit our interactive event calendar. EVENTS Through Nov. 18 Season of Trees Christmas tree, wreath and craft sale benefits Hospice of Lake and Sumter; 9 am-6 pm Wednesday-Thursday, 9 am-9 pm Friday, 9 am-4 pm Saturday; Don-nelly…
SUCH A FUSS …
Growing up as a secular Jew in a heavily Hebrew New Jersey suburb, my childhood reaction to Christmas could be described as confused bemusement. Jesus seemed like a mensch, but such a fuss? Eight nights of Hanukkah was more than enough; 12 days of Christmas had to be overkill. Jewish holidays are heavy on candles,…
BIG CLASSIC
Orlando is about to get crunk. With 70,000-plus black folks expected to descend on Orlando this weekend for the Walt Disney World Florida Classic football game between the Bethune-Cookman College Wildcats and Florida A&M University’s Rattlers, terminology like “off the chain” and “crunk” might get thrown around to describe the goings-on. It’s Classic weekend, a…
BLISTER
“He’s mine!” swishes my dear old friend Colleen, splashing up to the I-Bar corner of Jefferson and Orange after a few select elixirs on Hard Rocks. “You can’t havvvve him.” “Whatever, Colleen,” I squeeze my bitchy-cheerleader-in-a-locker-room lips into the shape of an angry vagina. “I’ve already had him.” Frankly, I’m crushed, and not in a…
HOLIDAY GUIDE 2006
It’s true the world is getting smaller, but we all have our place, and our place is the City Beautiful — no matter how ugly things get globally. This year, we suggest that what happens in Orlando during the holidays stays in Orlando — particularly the cash. Spend that hard-earned money at local events and…
SAVAGE LOVE
I live in Colorado Springs, home to the right-wing conservative evangelical movement. As the nation recently learned, the founder of New Life Church, Ted Haggard, was fired after a male prostitute revealed that Haggard bought sex and drugs from him. It’s hard not to feel a bit sorry for him, even though I have always…
FOUR FILMS AND FOUR QUESTIONS
If Borat’s delicate musings on the Jewish cultural experience are not quite your bowl of matzo-ball soup, maybe the movies at the eighth annual Central Florida Jewish Film Festival will go down easier. Presented by Enzian Theater (where the films will be shown) and the Jewish Community Center, the festival will feature four movies, two…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES Recently uncovered evidence seems to confirm the argument that Christopher Columbus was a cruel, stupid tyrant who paved the way for the genocide of Native Americans. But I’d like you to meditate on the wisdom of the bumper sticker I just saw: “Columbus did not know where he was going. When he got back,…
CAN’T BUY CLASSICS
Like believers in Reaganomics, video distributors have instituted trickle-down policies when releasing classic Hollywood films to DVD. Every now and then another studio picture from the ’40s or ’50s will make its way to the format, often with negligible fanfare and supplements, creating at best a slow drizzle of output, with the occasional brief downpour…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Let’s all take a moment now to toast the long-overdue resignation of that evil shitbag Donald Rumsfeld. Let me also pat you all on the head for such a decent job at the polls; nice of you to show up this time. While we’re on the subject of sinister Middle East policy, the normally beneficent…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Hey, ABC hit show Lost! Thanks a pantload — for RUINING THE NEXT 13 WEEKS OF MY LIFE. As fans of Lost already know, the hit serialized show is taking a 13-week “hiatus” (which is Latin for sitting on their big fat baloneys, watching Oprah and smoking marijuana goofballs). And since the show won’t return…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
Blue Man Group “Would you like to come hear us announce the new face of entertainment in Orlando?” chirped the Universal PR flack on my phone. “Oh, you mean the Blue Man Group going into the old Nickelodeon building?” (Crickets.) “Well, I can’t tell you that …” When your super-secret new business venture is being…
HAPPYTOWN
Note to all you Parramore residents: Your elected officials are on the case! The Orlando Police Department hosted a neighborhood safety meeting at Hurst Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Bentley Street Nov. 9. Orlando commissioner Daisy Lynum was only at the meeting for 10 minutes, but she did talk about the need for stronger…
COUNCIL WATCH
Yet another Monday city council meeting (Nov. 13) means another chance to witness the STOP coalition imploring distracted passersby to “honk for the homeless,” because honking helps. To that end, Rev. Uylee Waugh of Mount Olive CME Church summoned the Holy Spirit over a room full of bowed heads, asking that we “receive the winds”…
POLICE BEAT
NOV. 1, 5 P.M.: The thievery began this autumn afternoon when an unknown person or persons gained entry to a warehouse in the 60 block of West Concord Street via a bathroom window. Officer Stanaland responded promptly when notified the next day, but by then it was too late, as the swag had already been…
LETTERS
Tears of joy Jonathan Cunningham: I cried when I read your article `”Free Cuc,” Oct. 26`. It’s such a wonderful job you did. I’m very grateful for letting people know more about my sister, her contribution to the city, the community and the country as a good Vietnamese-American citizen. Whenever my sister returns home, I…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•16 I ♥ my Dog Ever since the boom in popularity of Paris Hilton’s Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, companionship with a dog is no longer just about having a pet; it’s also a fashion statement. At this art happening, Charity de Meer’s fanciful photography highlights the relationship of owners and their canine companions as well as the…
