Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus Length: Single Studio: Picturehouse Rated: R Website: http://www.furmovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-11-10 Cast: Nalu Tripician, Rochelle Bostrom, Jennifer Kusner, Rachel Boynton Director: Steven Shainberg Screenwriter: Erin Cressida Wilson, Tamara Jenkins, Patricia Bosworth Music Score: Todd Kasow, Beth Amy Rosenblatt, Carter Burwell WorkNameSort: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus…
The Double Life of Veronique
The Double Life of Veronique Studio: The Criterion Collection WorkNameSort: Double Life of Veronique, The One of the most oblique, entrancing and endlessly watchable films in the history of the medium, The Double Life of Véronique is the last major work from Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski to find a home on DVD. If Kieslowski’s Trois…
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season Two
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season Two Studio: Paramount Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season Two Season One of this hilarious, late-1990s animated series debuted on DVD just six months ago; that must have gone over well because here comes the second. As in the first release, the good doctor is a mild-mannered shrink,…
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth Studio: Paramount WorkNameSort: Inconvenient Truth, An In the wake of the midterm elections, with the competing parties trying to appear bipartisan, along comes the DVD release of this documentary to remind us that some things ought to be above politics. ‘Ultimately, this is really not a political issue so much as a…
SACRED SOUL FOOD
There’s heart in the home cooking
Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come Label: Def Jam Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Kingdom Come The rap nation turned its lonely eyes to a retired Jay-Z when a clogged line of hopeful next big things proved fruitless over the last couple of years. Instead of triumphantly reclaiming his throne, however, the God MC has modestly and…
Pop Ambient 2007
Pop Ambient 2007 Label: Kompakt Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Pop Ambient 2007 Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2007 again spotlights ‘still lifesâ?� that glisten on ever-broadening washes of white noise and synth chords ‘ it’s the seventh such edition from the German label/powerhouse distributor. The 2007 compilation is all bliss, and although no selection…
Voyage
Voyage Label: Rhino Length: EP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Voyage Three CDs of David Crosby is a bit much when you consider there are only three Byrds cuts here (‘Eight Miles High,â?� ‘Renaissance Fairâ?� and the stellar ‘Everybody’s Been Burnedâ?�). A demo recording of ‘Almost Cut My Hairâ?� only makes the case weaker for…
The Blue Carpet Treatment
The Blue Carpet Treatment Label: Geffen Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Blue Carpet Treatment, The Snoop’s latest is billed as his first album to reach out to blacks and Latinos, Crips and Bloods, to fans of streetwise hip-hop and of commercial bilge. Joined by producers known (Dr. Dre, Pharrell, Timbaland) and unknown (1500,…
Catapult Calypso
Catapult Calypso Label: Sonic Unyon Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Catapult Calypso Proving experimental noise need not always be abrasive, Ad Astra Per Aspera builds its adventurous debut disc Catapult Calypso around gripping melodies. The Lawrence, Kan.-based band’s guitarists catalyze this unique fusion of ambition and accessibility: Mike Tuley unleashes massive fractured-funk riffs…
CON ARTISTRY
The miracle of Preston Sturges
BLISTER
The last thing on my mind right now is sex. If the lubricating fluids currently emanating from my influenza credenza are any sign, jetted willy-nilly from my nostrils, eyes, mouth and virtually every pore on my body with no more than a Floridian shiver, I won’t be getting any anyway. The spotting, if there is…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a smoker and my partner is a nonsmoker. He says his face goes numb when I give him head. His theory is that the penis is permeable and is absorbing the nicotine in my saliva. It’s a good theory, but it’s only his face that goes numb — his cheeks and lips, not his…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom,” wrote Kierkegaard. That’s vividly true for you right now. According to my reading of the omens, you’ll thrive on the whirling gaga that overwhelms you as you play in vast, open spaces. Your best decisions will arise as your mind is boggled by liberating dramas. So let’s celebrate…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Not long ago, I attended live shows at several venues whose operational métier lies in other facets of night life. And let me tell you, going to concerts at dance clubs and ultralounges sure ain’t the same as at the professional rock clubs, in ways both good and bad. Rock or cut bait Rhythm &…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Apparently, this is the time of year I’m expected to be “charitable.” And I agree that, in theory, this is a worthwhile idea. HOWEVER. May I also ask that if I’m being charitable toward others, can they in turn start being a bit more charitable to ME?!? Prepare to grieve, as I relate what will…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
“The Broad’s Way,” an Evening of Cabaret With Becky Fisher When Bette Midler famously wrapped a towel-turban around her head and burst into bawdy song for the Continental Baths crowd in 1970, cabaret sendups found their home in seedy gay splendor. It’s fitting that the Parliament House cozy piano bar isn’t quite as seedy a…
HAPPYTOWN
The dust never settles in downtown Orlando. Even on a tryptophan-lazy news week there’s some new development blotting up the horizon. At the well-attended Municipal Planning Board meeting Nov. 22 — sort of like a city council meeting with less dynamic understudies — item No. 12 was introduced with clerical anonymity. But it’s a biggie.…
POLICE BEAT
NOV. 15, 6 A.M.: A blue jeans-clad female in a white T-shirt and hat lurked on the 2700 block of South Orange Avenue, scheme in mind. She chose a popular liquor store as her burglary destination and set to work, smashing the door’s front glass panel to shards and perhaps creeping through the pointed passageway.…
LETTERS
Down with capitalists The people who defend transnational capitalism are, by and large, the ones who have inherited its benefits and are blind to its vast shortcomings `”Second coming,” Nov. 23`. Ask the swelling masses of poorly paid laborers in India, China or any other country overrun by rapacious resource mining how they feel about…
SELECTIONS
Friday•1 World AIDS Day In the 18 years since the first observation of World AIDS Day in 1988, the thematic umbrella has traveled from that year’s “Communication” to the current (actually 2005-2010) theme, “Keep the Promise to Stop AIDS.” Leaving no stone unturned, the message covers the concerns of family, gender, community, global and youth…
OUT OF A TEMPEST
It’s not a typical start, but when a couple of teenagers got together a couple of years ago and did a cover of “This Bud’s for You,” an exceptional band was born. That original duo of Nathan Bond (vocals, guitar) and Jonathan Nee (banjo, keys, mandolin) has since blossomed into a talented five-member lineup, adding…
BROAD APPEAL
Respect: A Musical Journey of Women is a theater piece conceived by one Dorothy Marcic, a highly accomplished professor at Vanderbilt University’s graduate school of management, a former Fulbright scholar, a diplomat and author, who, over years of teaching, began exploring music as a learning tool and catalyst for studying the depiction of women in…
THINGS THAT FRIGHTEN US
If we were of sunnier disposition, or lived in a bucolic suburb, or maybe if we were just rich we wouldn’t worry the way we do. But the truth is, everybody’s scared of something. We found ourselves talking about that in regard to Halloween (and in regard to the recently concluded election), and the fears…
ONE MAN’S TRASH
The underpass beneath the I-4/ State Road 408 intersection is lifeless Monday afternoon, Nov. 20. What was just a week ago one of Orlando’s larger encampments of the poor and downtrodden is now empty, save for a couple of trash bags on top of the embankment. And that’s by design. The Friday before, Nov. 17,…
Can right wingers read? (take two)
OK, let’s try this again with the right links that actually work: Yeah, yeah, weâ??re always yakking away about what a great guy (by the standards of right-wing religious zealotry) Dr. Joel C. Hunter is. Weâ??ve written stories about him, run stories written by other that included him, and even inaugurated this here blog with…
Kid Rock and Breasty McVeigh Call it Quits
It seems celebrities are breaking up all over the place this month. First, back-up dancer (cause that’s what he really is) Kevin Federline got the boot from his blond wife, Britney Spears, on November 7. But at least the couple spent two years trying to make it work. As of yesterday, Kid Rock got dumped…
