FINALLY FUNGAL
When I lived in Atlanta in the early 1990s, I was one broke-ass sucker. Before I began my illustrious career in alternative journalism, I was sleeping on a friend’s floor, working various jobs, avoiding responsibility and managing to drink most of my paycheck. Therefore, despite all the wonderful dining options around town, my stomach had…
BALLOT WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS
Movie: Trouble in Paradise
CAN’T GO WRONG WITH FRIED TOFU
It’s not like throwing tofu in stir-fries or over noodles is exactly ground-breaking in these parts. Asian restaurants abound in soy offerings, and one of the tastiest tofu dishes in town comes from the long-standing Anh Hong, at the crossroads of Mills Avenue and Colonial Drive. (Parking is around back, so don’t be thrown off…
Movie: The Grudge
Our Rating: 2.50 It looks as if no Halloween will ever again go by without Hollywood remaking a Japanese shocker. The Grudge has one advantage over its box-office godfather, The Ring: Director Takashi Shimizu got to mastermind the Westernization of his own original template, Ju-on. Still, the mass audience the new film needs to court…
NO LOVE LOST
Movie: I Heart Huckabees
BALLOT WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS
Movie: Trouble in Paradise
Review – Dear Heather
Artist: Leonard Cohen
Review – Rendezvous
Artist: Luna
Review – There Are Giants in the Earth
Artist: The ’89 Cubs
Review – Mother Teacher Destroyer
Artist: The Hidden Hand
Movie: The Grudge
The Grudge Length: 1 hour, 36 minutes Studio: Columbia Pictures Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thegrudge/site/flash/ Release Date: 2004-10-21 Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, Bill Pullman, Kadee Strickland Director: Takashi Shimizu Screenwriter: Stephen Susco WorkNameSort: The Grudge Our Rating: 2.50 It looks as if no Halloween will ever again go by without Hollywood remaking a Japanese…
Review – Dear Heather
Artist: Leonard Cohen
NO LOVE LOST
Movie: I Heart Huckabees
Review – Rendezvous
Artist: Luna
BALLOT WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS
Movie: Trouble in Paradise
Review – There Are Giants in the Earth
Artist: The ’89 Cubs
Movie: The Grudge
Our Rating: 2.50 It looks as if no Halloween will ever again go by without Hollywood remaking a Japanese shocker. The Grudge has one advantage over its box-office godfather, The Ring: Director Takashi Shimizu got to mastermind the Westernization of his own original template, Ju-on. Still, the mass audience the new film needs to court…
Review – Mother Teacher Destroyer
Artist: The Hidden Hand
Review – Dear Heather
Artist: Leonard Cohen
NO LOVE LOST
Movie: I Heart Huckabees
Review – Rendezvous
Artist: Luna
BALLOT WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS
Movie: Trouble in Paradise
Review – Mother Teacher Destroyer
Artist: The Hidden Hand
Movie: The Grudge
Our Rating: 2.50 It looks as if no Halloween will ever again go by without Hollywood remaking a Japanese shocker. The Grudge has one advantage over its box-office godfather, The Ring: Director Takashi Shimizu got to mastermind the Westernization of his own original template, Ju-on. Still, the mass audience the new film needs to court…
NO LOVE LOST
Movie: I Heart Huckabees
LOST IN TRADITION
The Lone SamuraiBy William Scott Wilson(Kodansha, 287 pages) The Last Shogun By Ryotaro Shiba (Kodansha, 255 pages) Pornogami By Master Sugoi (Green Candy Press, 109 pages) Kingyo By Kazuya Takaoka and Sachiko Kuru (Kodansha, 390 pages) Japan has managed to remain – despite a century and a half of “openness” – one of the most…
MOISTURE RICH
“This moisture-rich daily conditioner reconstructs and strengthens damaged hair. Detangles and eliminates static leaving hair smooth, silky and shiny. K-Pak’s Triamine Complex contains exclusive blends of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins that make up your hair’s structure. Molecular weights and sizes (MWS) ranging from 150 to 2500 protect and moisturize treated hair. pH…
FEMA LOOPHOLE
Like thousands of Orlando residents, Cassandra Zikuda and her fiance, Steve Weil, have had a rough year. Their manufactured home in Audubon Village, off Beggs Road in northwest Orlando, sustained considerable damage from all three hurricanes, leaving them with a tarpaulin-covered roof, interior leaks, water-soaked carpets and drywall damage. The estimated repair cost: more than…
DISASTER IN THE MAKING
Fridays don’t get much busier than this. It’s the morning of Sept. 3, and Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C., is running at a full clip, having mobilized a cadre of disaster-response specialists in its National Emergency Operations Center the day before. “This is our ‘war room,'” a FEMA employee explains. “Right now…
KERRY BY 94
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a weekly series of polling updates on the Nov. 2 presidential election. John Kerry just had a big week, retaking narrow leads in the two crucial states of Florida and Ohio – for an overall electoral vote lead of 94. If the election were held today, Kerry would…
SWAP THE VOTE
A few days before the 2000 Election, before the terms “butterfly ballot,” “hanging chad” and “Katherine Harris” would send chills up Democratic spines, a University of Florida grad student was surprised by how easily his telephone call was patched through to Florida’s soon-to-be famous Secretary of State. Marc John Randazza was working on his master’s…
POLITICAL BUT NOT RADICAL
The government preaches morality and a return to tradition, while heads of state give in to lust and scandal. Sounds like hypocrisy made in America rather than the work of a bard over four centuries ago. Once again, Shakespeare proves timeless in his lesser-known work Measure for Measure about a Duke who grants power to…
DUDE, THERE’S A ‘B’ ON YOUR HAT
The ‘B’ on my hat is for Boston. More precisely, Boston Red Sox. I moved to a suburb of Boston from Queens, N.Y., when I was 2. I thank God every baseball season that I moved before I could catch Yankee fever. As soon as I was introduced to baseball by my father, I loved…
Overflow
VISIONS GALLERY The one-eyed visions of psychedelic artist Keith “Scramble” Campbell have always fit the mold of the annual MagnoliaFest (www.magmusic.com/magnolia.htm) held in the swamplands of the Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park in Live Oak. For this year’s music/camping jamboree, Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 21-24, Campbell and crew are creating the Cosmic Folk Art Show, a…
CAN’T GO WRONG WITH FRIED TOFU
It’s not like throwing tofu in stir-fries or over noodles is exactly ground-breaking in these parts. Asian restaurants abound in soy offerings, and one of the tastiest tofu dishes in town comes from the long-standing Anh Hong, at the crossroads of Mills Avenue and Colonial Drive. (Parking is around back, so don’t be thrown off…
John Kerry comes to Orlando
Time and place: 6 p.m. Oct. 18, Barnett Park, next to the Central Florida Fairgrounds. There was dust in the air from the dirt roads kicked up by the heavy traffic and the brilliant lamps in the Kerry camp made the phototropic bugs go nuts. The presidential hopeful had a similar appeal to his constituency…
A FIELD OF THEIR OWN
If idle hands are indeed the devil’s plaything, then The Faint may well be sipping magma with the worst of them before all of this is over. Born of Omaha’s Saddle Creek scene – which inexplicably produces some of the most dynamic melodic shock this side of the ’80s – The Faint’s over-the-top kineticism is…
“The load-in”
A dear old friend of ours used to call them “loads” – people who serve no discernible purpose in life yet manage to achieve an astounding level of renown anyway. Loads everywhere marked a major milestone last week, when it was announced that the internationally feted Bitch-Queen of Irrelevance, Paris Hilton, will be opening the…
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Radio 4, Hybrid, Haiku D’Etat and more
Thursday • 21 SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM From their immaculate 2001 debut Grand Opening and Closing, San Francisco’s SGM seemed destined for a limited appeal. The album dumbfounded audiences with its strong-armed riffs, fractured lullabies and claims of inspiration from occult “‘black math’-emetician” John Kane. Principal songwriter Nils Frykdahl’s spattered song-splicing interposed a myriad of avant-rock…
Culture
Hip: The History By John Leland (Ecco, 405 pages) If I’m talking about “the principled rebellion of Emerson and Thoreau in a landscape of outrageous violence, shaped by a theology of humor and payback,” who do you think I’m talking about? If I’m John Leland, I’m talking about Bugs Bunny, one of the few non-African-American…
Culture
Lads: A Memoir of Manhood By Dave Itzkoff (Villard, 277 pages) A few questions raised by Dave Itzkoff’s account of his years in the bowels of lite porn, starlet puffery and gadget advice that is Maxim magazine: Why are so many Ivy Leaguers required to produce a magazine so fiercely moronic? Why must the author…
