AltWeeklies Wire
The Nels Cline Singersnew
There are still no vocalists in the Nels Cline Singers, and the third disc from the guitarist’s latest group project again proves the much-belabored point that you don’t need a microphone to get your point across
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-05-2007 |
Reviews
Howard Hello/Greenessnew
Put together as a fund-raiser for Children’s Musical Education in St. Augustine, the sonic collision of the gauzy, warm-toned digital swoon of Howard Hello and the full-frontal math-rock attack of Greenness doesn’t seem to make sense.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Howard Hello/Greeness, Split LP
Catch Him if you Can: A short dive into the bottom of Steven Spielbergnew
The Turner Classic Movies documentary Spielberg on Spielberg has two strikes against it from the very start, and they’re both right there in the title. To begin with, there’s limited value in having any artist handicap his or her own work; too often, he or she ends up displaying a blithe unawareness of failings everybody else has long since spotted. And intellectual rigor isn’t a quality one would automatically associate with Steven Spielberg, who has no serious challengers to his status as cinema history’s most monetarily successful middlebrow.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-05-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Barry and Me: Inside a $1,000-a-pop fundraisernew
“Hi, Jeff. Thank you for coming.” There, vigorously shaking my hand, is the next leader of the free world. Or the next guy we’ll get all excited about, and then be let down.
“You’re welcome, Senator.”
Maybe if Barack Hussein Obama knew I was the only person here who didn’t pay $1,000 (or more) for this company, he would have skipped me altogether. But as far as he knows, I’m just like the rest of the 100 or so people gathered in the Maitland living room of supporter Bob Mandell for this June 30 fundraiser.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
07-05-2007 |
Politics
Love Me Two (or More) Times; Monogamy not cutting it? Maybe you're a polyamoristnew
Shara Smith looks pretty normal. She’s petite with a pale complexion and long dark hair that falls well below the waist of her thin frame. Smith is 30, outgoing, childless and has a career as a lighting and video technician that allows her to make her own hours. Even her hobbies are pretty standard: photography, cross-stitching, ballroom and swing dancing, making costumes out of liquid latex. (OK, that last one is a little out there.)
The only hint a casual observer might have that she’s not wholly middle-of-the-road is the message on the black camisole she wears during a recent interview: “My boyfriend says I need to be more affectionate,” it reads, “so now I have 2 boyfriends.”
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
07-05-2007 |
Culture
Rasputina Adds a Shocking Amount of Modernitynew
Sounding less like the corseted vampires that have been invoked by their previous releases, the band emerges on their first independently released studio album sounding like a cross between Sleater-Kinney, the White Stripes and, well, corseted vampires.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Oh Perilous World, Rasputina
'Ratatouille': Skews to Jokes-for-all-agesnew
Unless your kids like to watch the Food Network or have a thing for the pudgy neighbor from The King of Queens, it's unlikely they'll connect with Bird's latest.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Bird, Ratatouille
'Evening': WASP-y Constriction and Spiritual Decaynew
When chick-flick cliches are utilized in a literary fashion by such a strong ensemble, those same elements make this a substantial and engrossing film.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lajos Koltai, Evening
Blisternew
What if a slightly less mucus-drenched take on Jabba the Hutt was never able to land his blimp-like personality square inside the Orlando consciousness to corporatize pedophilia?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-22-2007 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Flying With Scissorsnew
True confessions from the super set.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2007 |
Fiction
A Mighty Filmmakernew
Michael Winterbottom keeps it real.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
06-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sweden Knows its Pop Musicnew
Without the talents of Swedish producer Max Martin, it's quite likely that the world would have been spared most of the hits of the 90s tween-pop craze.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-21-2007 |
Reviews
A Real Tribute to Cash, Not an Insultnew
No goofy novelties, just genuine, no-nonsense performances.
Orlando Weekly |
Rob O'Connor |
06-21-2007 |
Reviews
Orlando's Mayor: Who Should Run?new
Six months from Election Day, Buddy Dyer has no challengers -- what fun is that?
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
06-21-2007 |
Politics
A True Collaborationnew
It's ironic that it took a minimal-minded musician like Christian Fennesz to wake the mighty Ryuichi Sakamoto from his creative slumber.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Cendre, Fennesz Sakamoto
