Like beer?
Who doesn’t (besides weirdos, of course)? Well, according to a new study, drinkers are more likely than teetotalers to have a higher salary. (Note: This strategy for career advancement hasn’t really worked for me thus far; maybe I should get the boss loaded and hit him up for a raise.) The study makes a kind…
The Protector
The Protector Studio: The Weinstein Company Rated: R Cast: Tony Jaa, Petchthai Wongkamlao, Bongkot Kongmalai, Jin Xing, Johnny Nguyen Director: Prachya Pinkaew WorkNameSort: Protector, The Our Rating: 4.00 With The Protector, 30-year-old martial-arts mastermind Tony Jaa bests his own sensational Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, the 2003 film that brought the fearless fighter Western recognition. He’s…
The Last Kiss
The Last Kiss Studio: Paramount Pictures, Lakeshore International Rated: R Cast: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson, Tom Wilkinson, Blythe Danner Director: Tony Goldwyn WorkNameSort: Last Kiss, The Our Rating: 2.50 Putatively a romance in which the protagonist (the goggle-eyed blank slate that is Zach Braff) wrestles with the ‘crisisâ?� of committing to his longtime…
NUMB AND NUMBER
Half Nelson Studio: ThinkFilm Rated: R Cast: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Anthony Mackie, Monique Curnen, Karen Chilton Director: Ryan Fleck WorkNameSort: Half Nelson Our Rating: 4.00 Even in a country that once attempted to ban alcohol, a stiff drink after a hard day is a widely accepted refuge. It’s rare, however, to find a movie…
ECHO OF THE TIMES
Quinceañera Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Cast: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, David W. Ross, Araceli Guzman-Rico, Jesus Castanos-Chima Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland WorkNameSort: Quinceañera Our Rating: 3.00 The story of two young cousins coping with crisis and change in their Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles, Quinceañera is most remarkable as the portrait of…
And I Feel Fine … The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-87 / When the Light Is Mine … The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-87 Video Collection DVD
And I Feel Fine … The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-87 / When the Light Is Mine … The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-87 Video Collection DVD Label: Capitol / I.R.S. Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: And I Feel Fine … The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-87 / When the Light Is Mine ……
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass Label: Matador Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass Yo La Tengo have a great record collection. I’d love to sit down and listen to it sometime. I’m less…
Foundation Sounds
Foundation Sounds Label: Empyrean Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Foundation Sounds From ’90s albums like The Lateness of the Hour to last year’s EP, Six Kinds of Passion Looking for an Exit, arranger/multi-instrumentalist Eric Matthews has cultivated a posh body of work that wouldn’t be out of place in a very…
Into the Blue Again
Into the Blue Again Label: Sub Pop Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Into the Blue Again Aside from some guests, the duties on the largely compelling Into the Blue Again are shouldered by James LaValle, the man behind the Album Leaf pen name since 1999. Into the Blue Again, with its…
WELL DUNG
There was a time in the cultural history of Western man when audiences would display their displeasure over a particular piece of art by committing mayhem. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, for example, actual riots broke out when theater crowds became incensed over some visionary’s attempt to break the rules governing what was…
ATHEISTS AMONG US
On any given Sunday (or Tuesday for that matter), Clint Brown howls testimony to the megachurch masses at FaithWorld on Forest City Road, so musical and towering, so transcendent of mere denomination that it cannot be denied. A car zooms down I-4 at a divine clip, blaring the feel-good music “safe for little ears” promised…
RUN ‘EM OUT OF TOWN
Club Harem on Lee Road just east of Interstate 4 is the only strip club in Winter Park, a fact that apparently displeases someone at the Winter Park Police Department. Winter Park cops made it a priority — in writing — to close the place down, even before finishing an investigation into allegations of drug…
PIECES OF HUMANITY
; It’s taken us awhile to get our our heads around the Global Peace Film Festival. What started o ut four years ago as a few films shown out at the Universal Cineplex has grown into a multivenue, crosstown affair, with attendant events increasing its profile. Still organized by founder Nina Streich (who has also…
GLITTER AND SHADOWS
Show business and film noir have always gone hand in corrupt, bullet-strewn hand. While I have a great affinity for classic, low-budget B-noirs like Detour, there’s no denying the appeal of glossy studio pictures like Sunset Boulevard and The Bad and the Beautiful, classic noirs that set out to expose the dirty dealings disguised under…
BLISTER
Here comes that indie sinking feeling. Not content to wallow in the late-afternoon vodka marinade so generously splashed all over my holiday-weekend Sunday-afternoon recipe card (two parts depressants for every one-half smile), I’ve opted to try my potluck at what’s promised, with a sunken hairdresser frown, to be an event. All I really know is…
SAVAGE LOVE
;I’m a divorced man and have been dating a married woman in an open/poly relationship for six months. Her husband has been occupied with his new girlfriend. She’s feeling abandoned by her husband, and I’m picking up that slack. While I find her general GGG-ness incredibly refreshing, the truth is that I find her boring.…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES According to the theory known as Ducharme’s Precept, “Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.” I bet you’ll soon be living proof of that. An offer or invitation will come your way in a maddeningly inconvenient way. You’ll be tempted to invoke excuses about why you cannot possibly take advantage of it right…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;LOOK. I have exactly ZERO time to be jerking around with you today … OK?!? You know how all those lazy people at the post office are endlessly complaining about how the holidays are their busiest seasons? Well, it’s time again for the new fall season of shows — and for a professional TV watcher…
COUNCIL WATCH
P> Mayor Buddy Dyer and company kept grand gestures of reflective doom to a comfortable minimum at the city council meeting Sept. 11, despite the unfortunate date. But for the Fire Department’s chaplain issuing a “bless you” to the dramatic tragedies of the towers, the mood was a bit rowdier than usual. Why? Because it…
HAPPYTOWN
;So, how screwed up was Edgewood’s police force under former chief of police Clarence Bass? Very. ;;For years some Edgewood City Council members and activists in this small community claimed Bass was an ineffective bully whose police force sucked up most of the city’s budget with little to show for it (see “The Teflon chief,”…
POLICE BEAT
Sept. 1, 9:55 A.M.: Officer Yuhas was dispatched to the 2300 block of Upper Park Road and met with the 24-year-old complainant regarding a commercial burglary. It appears some time between when the place closed 8 p.m., Aug. 31 and it reopened 9 a.m. Sept. 1, suspect(s) unknown gained entry to a storage room and…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
;Charity begins at sea Just before the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, John M. Lyons Jr. filed a lawsuit in New Orleans against Mark Morice, who admits to commandeering Lyons’ 18-foot pleasure boat during the chaos after Katrina hit in order to rescue more than 200 people (according to his count), including a 93-year-old dialysis patient…
LETTERS
Derby girl beatdown Wow! It certainly was fantastic to read about the Florida Rollergirls in the Weekly `”Fast and dirty,” Sept. 7`. Or was it the No Coast Derby Girls? How wonderful that Cass Traitor had an example of such a successful league to which we could be compared. That is exactly what we so…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•14 Innovation and Team Creativity With Brian Collins One of those people who love to tell you how much fun their job is, Brian Collins is the executive creative director at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, one of the country’s largest international marketing and advertising agencies, with clients such as Hershey, Yahoo! and Mattel. He leads…
HEAVY TRAUMA
Several years ago, when he was fronting the South Florida-based band Floor, guitarist/singer Steve Brooks offered this response to the webzine Feast of Hate and Fear’s interview inquiry “What does music mean to you?”: “Everything! I’ve spent most of my life buying music, supporting it, playing it, crying over it, laughing and going apeshit over…
Morning Roundup
I told you so. Well, not you, but some other people. I swear. Point is, I called it: The city would rather eat shit than have an arena that’s not downtown. By the way, the Magic’s sale pitch to the county is this morning, wherein I imagine we’ll hear just how much old fundie DeVos…
