98 degrees of separation
Just when you thought there wasn’t room on the charts for another Orlando-bred purveyor of cookie-cutter pop, along come 50 more sugar-coated aspirants eager to prove that they, too, Want It That Way … in the worst way. They were out in force Thursday at Underdog Productions, a new rehearsal/production facility on the west side…
Cut from the same cloth
Movie: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
The gang’s all here
Movie: Drive Me Crazy
Between Iraq and a hard place
Movie: Three Kings
Half-baked
Movie: Mystery, Alaska
Stealing from the future
Movie: Plunkett & Macleane
Cut from the same cloth
Movie: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
The gang’s all here
Movie: Drive Me Crazy
Between Iraq and a hard place
Movie: Three Kings
Half-baked
Movie: Mystery, Alaska
Stealing from the future
Movie: Plunkett & Macleane
Hurricanes in the hot seat?
Hurricane Floyd brushed Florida without living up to the worst of its reputation. Still, it was a major storm, bringing with it mighty lashings of rain and gale-force winds. Orlando has seen its like before, and there’s nothing we can do about Acts of Nature, right? Wrong, according to the latest scientific thinking. Hurricanes aren’t…
Middle men
Disney’s decision last week (see Disney caught in the Middle (East).) to strike potentially offending references in a temporary Epcot exhibit on Jerusalem turned back boycott threats from Arab nations. But reports for Middle East audiences were far more strongly worded than those in the United States that placed a happy face on the discussion…
Venom and leather
An August London Observer story alerted Britons to the impending arrival on English shores of this summer’s fashion fad from New York City: the carrying of live snakes as women’s accessories. Londoners just back from Manhattan reported that they had seen “several” or “quite a few” snakes, brandished by everyone from dance-club exhibitionists to the…
Irony in the fire
From the results trendwatchers often get when taking the national temperature, they must be using a rectal thermometer. For a while we were told we were in the grip of Gen-X’s jaded immunity to advertising. We were bombarded with so much anti-marketing marketing, so many sullen kids looking like Ignorance and Want in Calvin Kleins,…
Band alert: footage needed
The producer of the Orlando Music Awards is seeking MTV-quality videos of any and all current local bands for use during the Orlando Music Awards ceremony, Oct. 16 at The Club at Firestone. All genres of music will be considered, and a band DOES NOT have to be an OMA nominee for consideration, but it…
Quick recap: 1998 Orlando Music Awards
In keeping with its mission, the Second Annual Orlando Music Awards recognized and celebrated the Central Florida music scene at its well-attended main event Oct. 21, 1998, at The Club at Firestone, followed by a spirited afterparty at Sapphire. And the “1998 Orlando Music Awards CD,” produced as an extension of the competition, captured 17…
Why not take all of me?
Here’s something I don’t understand. Recently, commerce on the Internet took a decidedly oblique turn when someone offered a kidney for sale on the eBay auction site. Bidding hit $5.7 million before the company shut down the sale. The reason? It’s against eBay’s rules to sell body parts! It also happens to be illegal under…
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Powerful, political Cuban beat
When Ricky Martin sings about “Living’ La Vida Loca” he might as well be talking about the last few weeks for the legendary Cuban dance band Los Van Van. Currently on a 28-city U.S. tour in support of their new album, “Llego … Van Van” (Van Van Is Here), the band has been at the…
Stringing mad ideas together
Jon Rose isn’t just a violinist making wacky noises with effects processors. The European- and Australian-based musician is also an author, curator, festival organizer, television actor, and an inventor who builds his own violins and cellos. Just considering his musical output boggles the mind. With a strong mix of high- and lowbrow, Rose is recommended…
Civic Minded Five add up to much more
While rock & roll was still in diapers, jazz cats like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane were blowing minds with the loud, raw and emotional music known as free jazz. Forty years later, the damage hasn’t subsided and — amazingly — Orlando isn’t out of the loop. Almost solely responsible for the exposure…
Raiding the warehouse
Back so soon, guys? A mere two months after promising to adhere to a quarterly performance schedule at its adopted home of Zoe & Company, Discount Comedy Outlet has jumped the gun with a fresh collection of sketches that arrives hot on the heels of its “Catastrophe on Disaster Island.” Sensibly, the quartet (again with…
