The Runners Four
The Runners Four Label: Kill Rock Stars/5RC Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Runners Four, The No wonder Deerhoof are a contemporary college-hipsters’ delight: They’re coed, they can’t commit themselves to a stylistic major and they put out, put out and then put out some more – The Runners Four is the quartet’s sixth release in four years.…
The Magdalene Laundries
The Magdalene Laundries Label: Delmore Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Magdalene Laundries, The This darkly subdued album claims as its primary influence a documentary about an infamous religious “home” in Ireland that was essentially a brutal prison for unwed mothers and other women who fell out of favor with the church and local authorities. Although Darby shies…
HALF LIGHT
Everything is Illuminated Studio: Warner Independent Pictures Rated: PG-13 Website: http://wip.warnerbros.com/everythingisilluminated/ Release Date: 2005-10-14 Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Lauret Director: Liev Schreiber Screenwriter: Liev Schreiber WorkNameSort: Everything is Illuminated Our Rating: 3.50 There are two things you can do with a memento. One is to squirrel it away inside a glass…
GARDEN PARTY
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Studio: DreamWorks Animation SKG Rated: G Website: http://www.wandg.com/ Release Date: 2005-10-07 Cast: Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham-Carter, Ralph Fiennes, John Thomson, Peter Kay Director: Steve Box, Nick Park Screenwriter: Nick Park, Steve Box, Bob Baker WorkNameSort: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Our Rating: 4.50 Let’s…
In Her Shoes
In Her Shoes Studio: 20th Century Fox Distribution Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.inhershoesmovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-10-14 Cast: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Feuerstein, Brooke Smith Director: Curtis Hanson Screenwriter: Susannah Grant Music Score: Mark Isham WorkNameSort: In Her Shoes Our Rating: 3.00 In predictably polarized fashion, Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette play motherless, yin-and-yang…
GUILT-RIDDEN PLEASURE
Domino Studio: New Line Cinema Rated: R Website: http://www.dominomovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-10-14 Cast: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Rizwan Abbasi, Ian Ziering Director: Tony Scott Screenwriter: Richard Kelly WorkNameSort: Domino Our Rating: 3.00 With Domino, Tony Scott continues in his quest to make films expressly for the hard of hearing, the visually impaired and…
GLOBALLY YOURS
The World Studio: Zeitgeist Films, Celluloid Dreams Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2005-10-13 Cast: Tao Zhao, Jue Jing, Jing Zha, Zhong-wei Jiang, Chen Taisheng Director: Zhang Ke Jia Screenwriter: Zhang Ke Jia Music Score: Lim Giong WorkNameSort: World, The Our Rating: 3.00 Sound familiar? Young singles take jobs in a theme park that simulates the…
TURKISH DELIGHT
Here’s the thing: I don’t know much about Turkish cuisine. But here’s the other thing: You don’t have to know much to know that Bosphorous, a new Turkish restaurant gracing Park Avenue, has exceptional food. After being initiated into the world of Turkish food by Bosphorous, I daydream about a culinary journey to Turkey. Aren’t…
BETWEEN THE BEATS
The Mouse and the Mask Label: Epitaph Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Mouse and the Mask, The Previously mild dinner-table chats across the hip-hop nation were abuzz last year over a ubiquitous iron-mask-clad MC called MF Doom and his four-star collaboration with Madlib. Similarly, non-underground hip-hop heads were also discussing a producer by the name of Danger…
The Black Angels EP
The Black Angels EP Label: Light in the Attic Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Black Angels EP, The It’s hard to imagine any well of inspiration that was more meaningful to these guys than the Velvet Underground song after which they’re named. Please note that I specifically said “song,” because The Black Angels dig deep into “Black…
EVERMORE
Theatre Downtown has launched into the Halloween season with an appropriately spooky and theatrically satisfying production of Poe, written by the Organic Theatre Co., directed by Frank Hilgenberg and starring John DiDonna as the ethereal, obsessed American man of letters, whose short stories and poems have chilled and titillated the reading public for generations. Edgar…
VIVA LAS JESUS
If you’ve ever seen Joel Osteen on television, you know what a megachurch is. Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston is the epitome. It seats 16,000, and based on the services I’ve seen on TV – the broadcasts reach another 18 million or so viewers – those seats are filled week in and week out. Lakewood…
NO CHILD LEFT UNRECRUITED
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is, in terms of sheer volume, huge. Average readers would need a whole week and a stiff drink to get through all 670 pages of the desert-dry legislative language. The hard copy of the law feels like a telephone book and the digital copy, available online at…
Happytown
No, you can’t get Air America on the air in Orlando (though you can listen to it on the Internet). But if it’s local progressive talk you desire, you’re in luck, because RadioActive is back on the air – at least for the time being. RadioActive was a pay-for-play show on WORL-AM (660) that debuted…
PICKY, PICKY
OCT. 3, 12:55 A.M.: After a lengthy day of dishing out hot eats at a restaurant in the 2460 block of South Hiawasee Road, four workers were stuck cleaning the kitchen. However, even the most mundane task can suddenly get exciting. Tedium ceased when a 5-foot-3-inch man sporting a Scream mask burst into the room…
A WILD HAIR
What would you make of someone who intentionally leaves a pubic hair on your toilet seat every time he visits your home? This guy is straight (married, even). I’m gay; my boyfriend and I have known him since college. Anyway, I initially thought the pubic hair thing was just a coincidence, but for five years…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) California’s San Joaquin Valley has the worst air in the state. The terrible pollution stems largely from burned fossil fuels trapped between the mountain ranges that surround the valley. Ironically, the smog often hides the mountains from view. Some environmentalists have made that a symbol of what they hope to accomplish…
Dolemite vs. Blowfly, Zakk Wylde, Brazilian Girls, Holopaw and more
Thursday • 13 DEW ACTION SPORTS TOUR Orlando’s the final stop for this touring showcase of the finest in skateboarding, BMX and freestyle motocross, which augments its league-inaugurating lineup of action-sports competitions with interactive exhibits that involve nonathletes in all aspects of the lifestyle. There’s even a concert by Hoobastank and All American Rejects at…
Notable Noise
Happy 10th, Orlando! I know Orlando isn’t only 10 years old (it’s 34, according to the Bible of Disney), but recently, there have been so many 10-year anniversaries you’d think nothing ever occurred in this town prior to 1995. Perhaps nothing ever did. We recently marked Will’s Pub’s 10th birthday, and over Thanksgiving weekend the…
APPLIANCE DIRECT HITS
A 28-year-old motorcyclist was hospitalized in Elkhart, Ind., in August after he was unable to avoid a refrigerator that was mysteriously lying on a well-lighted street in nearby Nappanee at 2:30 a.m. And a motorist was hospitalized in Madison, Wis., in July when he veered off the road slightly and accidentally rammed a dishwasher that…
Letters
Shock and awe and porn [Chris] Wilson’s site certainly does not mark the first time the public has had access to these gruesome images, as you state in your article [“The most depraved site on the Internet,” Oct. 6]. During the first months of this war in Iraq, and still today to some extent, Al-Jazeera…
GAY ON PARADE
“OK, what are you wearing,” beams Sexy Savannah from my Sunday-a.m. cell phone. And looking down at my canvas of ribs and razor stubble, the best I can come up with is “all white,” which may or may not be a leftover Saturday-night slur of “all right.” “Great, I’ll wear all white, too,” she single…
SAVES THE DAY
They may be from New York City, their singer may appear in The New York Times wearing trendy threads, but Ambulance LTD’s connection with the Big Apple and its better-known indie cohorts ends there. The Brit pop quintet strays from garage or skinny-black-tie rock, defies the über-hipster category and doesn’t appear to mind whether New…
BIG FAT BID
Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary has drawn criticism for accepting a variety of gifts from constituents and employees – about 24 donated items, says the Orlando Sentinel, valued at up to $1,000 each. While his conduct is not illegal, it’s atypical enough to have inspired a mini-controversy, making us wonder how the notoriously P.R.-minded Beary…
CAREFUL WITH THAT AX
Even if you don’t play music, you know it’s gotta hurt to play a 52-minute song. It doesn’t matter how stalwart or seasoned the musicians involved happen to be – it’s still gotta hurt. But if any band out there is capable of doing it, Osaka, Japan’s Acid Mothers Temple is the candidate of choice.…
GORE? OK. SEX? NO WAY
On Oct. 7, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested Chris Wilson, 27, and charged him on 301 counts of possessing and distributing obscenity. Theoretically the charges could net Wilson, a former Eagle Lake police officer, 305 years in prison. As of this writing Wilson is in a Polk County jail cell, with his bond set…
NERDS LOVE SCI-FI
Dear Nerds: Let’s get one thing straight. I BEAT YOU UP. It’s nothing personal … just something I do. In fact, I’ve been beating you up since junior high, but here’s the weird thing: Though the public school system is teeming with bullies, I’m the only adult willing to admit I was a bully. So…
FINAL EXAM
In the Jim Crow-era Louisiana of A Lesson Before Dying, standing in the wrong place at the wrong time is a capital offense. Country bumpkin Jefferson (Keston John) witnessed a botched robbery and stands accused of murder. The public defender worked his sentence down from (implied) lynching to electrocution, and even official belief in his…
