AltWeeklies Wire
Fuhrer Ballsnew
Equating feline and Nazi traits is nothing new, but every once in a while, an accident of birth produces a cat that bears an even more disturbing (and, concurrently, hilarious) physical resemblance to history's greatest monster.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-03-2006 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
A Million Little Questionsnew
Based on a nonfiction book by Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener is a tale of horrendous and perhaps fabricated personal travails.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-03-2006 |
Reviews
Slave to the Grindnew
Adult Swim veteran Brendon Smalls stakes his hopes on metal with a new project -- the bombastic music-biz parody with the odd title of Metalocalypse -- and it's everything Home Movies commercially wasn’t.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-03-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Fairtax, or Foul?new
Neal Boortz comes to the Sunshine State to preach to the choir about dumping the IRS via the FairTax plan: a proposed sales tax of 23 percent to replace the national income tax and ultimately abolish the IRS.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
08-03-2006 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
The Death Penalty at 30new
Examine the facts and analyze the statistics, and ask, "Is the ultimate punishment is falling out of favor?"
Orlando Weekly |
Megan Schumacher |
07-27-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
East Meets Westnew
Ali dovetails her expressive, if ethnically vague, voice into gorgeously arranged, future-ready soundscapes that are as much Dead Can Dance as they are Enya.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Azam Ali, Elysium for the Brave
Yet Another Lost Funk Treasurenew
I honestly have no idea if KSB was a for-real group, but listen to the music and you'll know that it doesn’t really matter if they were.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
All Eyes on Brazilnew
This two-disc compilation from DJ Gilles Peterson highlights gems from the past and present.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Back in Brazil, Gilles Peterson
Fantastic?new
A cast of losers discusses the fate of a fish-girl out of water -- said discourse entails reciting ludicrous fairy-tale names in voices better suited to MAD TV's Mrs. Swan.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Homeroom Princesses Seek Revengenew
If Mean Girls was the high-school movie for college students, then Tucker is the high-school movie for middle schoolers.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Betty Thomas, John Tucker Must Die
Hard-Edged Violencenew
Michael Mann reprises characters Crockett and Tubbs, this time with them posing as dope couriers to bring down a megacartel.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Miami Vice, Michael Mann
Flighty Aphroditenew
Is it Woody Allen's taste in women that’s his undoing, or merely the untenable positions he puts them in?
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Scoop, Woody Allen
More Than a Hootnew
A new CD brings owl sounds out of the wild.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
07-27-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
When Irony Doesn't Cut Itnew
We look at the incidental side of 80s music.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
07-20-2006 |
Reviews
Reluctant Rocker v. the Machinenew
A finally content Travis Adams speaks about newly formed band, Inkwell, the bad feelings surrounding flameout of My Hotel Year, and the many ways he got lost with music.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Inkwell
