AltWeeklies Wire
Ten Thousand Saints
The power of "Ten Thousand Saints" may not be in its plot but in its cultural locus.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-06-2011 |
Fiction
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
Author Steve Goodman could be the Lon Chaney of underground electronic music.
Orlando Weekly |
Matt Gorney |
07-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
Scratch the surface of all that faeries-and-druids stuff that tinges '70s folk-rock, and you'll find some deeply twisted, "Wicker Man"-type weirdness.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-06-2011 |
Nonfiction
Bare Minimumnew
Do sheltered workshops teach the disabled skills for the workplace or exploit them for cheap labor?
Orlando Weekly |
Jeff Gore |
06-16-2011 |
Business & Labor
WMFE R.I.P.?new
As Orlando's sole PBS-member station prepares to sell out to a religious broadcaster, the community wonders what’s next for public television in the region.
Orlando Weekly |
Erin Sullivan |
06-01-2011 |
Media
Winter in Wartimenew
WWII coming-of-age drama stretches the bounds of reality.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
04-29-2011 |
Reviews
Yip-Yip Strippednew
Orlando's costumed electronic duo gets real.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
04-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
No Place Like Homenew
Winter Park's Hannibal Square Community Land Trust redefines what it means to own a home.
Orlando Weekly |
Megan Peck |
04-22-2011 |
Housing & Development
Tags: Land trust, Winter Park
Onward Pilgrimnew
Anamanaguchi on the possibilities and limitations of chiptune music.
Orlando Weekly |
Reyan Ali |
04-22-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Anamanaguchi, Chiptune
Upchuck and Awaynew
Failed superhero satire crosses the line into psychosis.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
04-22-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: James Gunn, Super
'Source Code': Duncan Jones' 'Moon' Follow-up Reveals His Inner Romantic Optimistnew
Jones has wisely gone in the opposite direction of Moon with Source Code -- while it is very much rooted in science fiction, is a willfully optimistic, very nearly sentimental picture.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
04-06-2011 |
Reviews
Budget Problems Have Florida Reconsidering Mandatory Minimumsnew
Despite the fact that some judges complain that mandatory minimums reduce their ability to use discretion in sentencing, making them drones serving the system, the state's mandatory minimums for drug crimes remained unchallenged for more than 30 years. Recently though, the state's budget has cast a light on Florida's prison spending, which has gone up along with its jail population.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeff Gore |
04-06-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Hurried 'Jane Eyre' Adaptation Still Shinesnew
Charlotte Bronte's 19th-century masterpiece, Jane Eyre, has already been filmed nearly 20 times for screens big and small, so what more can possibly be said about this well-worn gothic romance? Not much, apparently, but at least director Cary Fukunaga's version is superfluously good -- an elegant, classicist picture of quality with just enough sinister gloom darkening its romantic edges.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
04-06-2011 |
Reviews
Obits Keep it Simple on Sophomore Albumnew
Obits is a wonderful band precisely because they aren't trying to reinvent the wheel. The guiding motto of the band's sophomore album, Moody, Standard and Poor, seems to be: "Rock has been rolling along perfectly well for many years, thank you very much, and we don't need to muck it up with a bunch of extraneous bullshit."
Orlando Weekly |
Nicholas Hall |
04-06-2011 |
Reviews
Surf City Sit Out SXSW & Prep New Music Insteadnew
For an upcoming band, the commercial and numerical growth of SXSW isn't necessarily a beneficial one. The likelihood of catching someone's ear naturally diminishes when there's greater competition. So instead of enduring the rigmarole of a 24-hour flight from Auckland just to play Austin, Surf City is touching down in the U.S. to kick off a short tour, during which the band will hopefully scrounge together enough cash to fund an extended stay in New York City so they can record more music.
Orlando Weekly |
Phillip Mlynar |
04-06-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
