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TUCK OF THE IRISH
At the Celt, on relatively under- traversed Magnolia Avenue right next door to the Harp, the feeling is one of hopeful optimism. While not seeing the response that they had originally anticipated (due to the condo fallout), things are starting to pick up. When I asked Jimmy Mulvaney why he was returning to downtown to…
NOT ALTOGETHER OOKY
Boxed-up B-movie ‘classics’
Bella
Bella Studio: Roadside Attractions Rated: PG-13 Cast: Sophie Nyweide, Eduardo Verastegui Director: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde WorkNameSort: Bella Our Rating: 5.00 Bella is billed as a love story, but that’s a misnomer; the crux of the film isn’t love but rather those intense and unexpected events that punctuate life and change one’s course. Where a typical…
Dan In Real Life
Dan In Real Life Studio: Focus Features Rated: PG-13 Cast: Steve Carrell, Juliette Binoche Director: Peter Hedges WorkNameSort: Dan In Real Life Our Rating: 1.50 The movie is called Dan in Real Life, but it’s a stretch worthy of Reed Richards to believe that anything in this tepid plate of idiocy would actually happen in…
Deep Water
Deep Water Studio: IFC Films Rated: PG Cast: Donald Crowhurst, Simon Crowhurst Director: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell WorkNameSort: Deep Water Our Rating: 3.50 With a Nick Drake song figuring as the central musical element, it doesn’t take long to figure out that Deep Water is about more than a bunch of British guys sailing around…
Sings Those Golden Hits from the Misfits
Sings Those Golden Hits from the Misfits Label: Post*Records Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Sings Those Golden Hits from the Misfits It doesn’t take a lot of courage or ingenuity to cover the Misfits – if you’re a punk rock band, that is. But seeing how Orlando pop mainstays Mumpsy are not a…
The Flying Cup Club
The Flying Cup Club Label: Ba Da Bing! Length: EP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Flying Cup Club, The Of all the emotions and visuals that songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Zachary Condon evokes in his role as Beirut’s bandleader, enchantment is the mood that lingers after a thorough listen of The Flying Club Cup. The second LP from…
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir Label: Bloodshot Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, The For a band based in Chicago, the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir sure sounds British; perhaps it’s because mastermind Elia is Welsh-born? The band deals in the sort of smart, brisk pop that has historically come out…
Cavalier
Cavalier Label: Fatcat Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Cavalier Give or take a stray reference to the Rev. Horton Heat, Cavalier could’ve been committed to tape anytime in the last couple of decades. Armed with an acoustic guitar – and the occasional piano, keyboard or horn – North Dakota’s Tom Brosseau furnishes oddly…
Hawk Medicine
Hawk Medicine Label: Temporary Residence Ltd. Length: LP Format: Album WorkNameSort: Hawk Medicine William Trevor Montgomery has a sunnier disposition these days, but while he gained a band, his songs shed weight. In 2004, the climate that the songwriter detailed as Lazarus on his touching Like Trees We Grow Up to Be Satellites (The Backwards…
OPERATION MBI SHAME
On Oct. 19, just as affairs were winding down at the Orlando Weekly Job Fair on the second floor of the Orlando Downtown Marriott, the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation decided to act on its two-year investigation dubbed “Operation Weekly Shame.” The day had been going well, with more than 350 job-seekers visiting 17 vendors in…
TUCK OF THE IRISH
At the Celt, on relatively under- traversed Magnolia Avenue right next door to the Harp, the feeling is one of hopeful optimism. While not seeing the response that they had originally anticipated (due to the condo fallout), things are starting to pick up. When I asked Jimmy Mulvaney why he was returning to downtown to…
BLISTER
Sometimes pride takes a backseat; sometimes it’s lost up the backside. Having both reached a peak of wide-mouthed overstatement and bleach contamination, Savannah and I are teetering about the chalk marks of our former selves lately, each with a mine-was-worse-than-yours account at the ready detailing our concurrent Friday, glamour-free panic attacks. She went to a…
SAVAGE LOVE
I think my 5-year-old nephew is probably gay. Most of the reasons are superficial (he says that Zac Efron is really cute), but I also have a hunch. If he is gay, it’s cool by me. The problem is my brother also thinks his son might be gay and he is NOT cool with it.…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) For all we know, in your past life you were a virgin who was thrown into a volcano to appease a fire deity. Whether or not that’s a fact, we can say this with certainty: At some time in your current life, you made a great sacrifice in an effort to…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
That heavy breathing isn’t me coming on to you (is it working?), it’s because I’ve been out running all week. And by running, I mean pounding beers and watching bands. Too many, in fact, to get into it all, so let’s just stick to the four-day stretch … The beat Kindled by singer Ryan Costello’s…
I LOVE TELEVISION
When one’s sex life is as varied as mine, it takes a lot to scare you. Let me tell you: I have seen and/or done it ALL. So this Halloween, if you’re trying to frighten me by passing off a bowl of grapes as human eyeballs? Or wads of spaghetti as “brains”? That’s not gonna…
HAPPYTOWN
Hey, look who’s back! Our favorite comic-book villain, Alan Grayson, is throwing his goatee back into next year’s District 8 congressional race, wherein he’ll once again try to knock off Orlando’s Favorite Congressman, Ric Keller! Of course, he’ll have to succeed where he failed in 2006 (winning the Democratic primary) to get that chance. And…
POLICE BEAT
OCT. 13, 6:30 P.M.: Some unknown suspect or suspects broke into a cleaning service business that specializes in window polishing in the 1340 block of Long Street. Shockingly, sprucing up kitchen windows or pressure washing that grimy driveway was not on the agenda. The nosy burglar or burglars instead snooped inside a single cabinet, almost…
MAIL SACK
Don’t be fooled Your story on Cameron Kuhn hopefully raises awareness to readers about the risk of buying into a high-rise development, whereby they’re led to believe they are making an informed investment (aka “scammed”), based upon a residential building selling out quickly `“Things fall apart,” Oct. 18`. The state of Florida should require that…
BYE-BYE, ‘BIRDIES
It’s too often forgotten that when social critic Eric Hoffer quipped about leaping “from the frying pan into the fire,” he didn’t exactly mean it as a negative. “We feel free when we escape,” he wrote, before uttering his famous phrase. Hoffer wrote of hard-earned freedom, the kind that burns so good. As Orlando musicians…
FIFTEEN MINUTES OF DISSONANT HARMONY
I SEE a new Earth An Earth that is alive– glowing with the care of man, Man grownwise and free. THE influence of different civilizations flows evenly around; Races and nations and sexes understand each other, Endue each other with life. Invisible threads of sympathy cover the earth; Science and religion, art and industry, are…
FELT MELT
The world is born. Lava flows and lightning cracks across the face of the earth, as shell-like translucent shapes shift slowly around the enormous globe. Soon, a cooling breeze arrives, and with it life: a mother bird, teaching its young the dance of flight for the first time. And that’s in just the first five…
IT’S IN THE BLOOD
Mention Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory in a conversation and you’ll likely hear two typical responses: a breathless “ooh” from those caught in the cult of the infamous late-16th-century serial killer and a “huh?” from the uninitiated. Count into the camp of the enthralled John DiDonna, the writer and director of Bathory, the Blood Countess. From…
29 EMBARRASSING YEARS
Dec. 1978: The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation is formed as a multi-agency task force focusing on narcotics and vice. Member agencies include the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the Orlando Police Department, the State Attorney’s Office, the FBI and U.S. Customs. 1981: The MBI arrests 10 men on charges of running a football gambling ring, but…
THE COST OF WAR
On Oct. 23, President Bush asked Congress for an additional $46 billion in war-related funding. That’s on top of the $147 billion the Department of Defense has already asked for, and the $3.7 billion other war-related agencies want. All totaled, you’re looking at $193 billion in defense-related spending in fiscal year 2008. Of that, $154.7…
