AltWeeklies Wire
Relearning to Flynew
Five years in wait, Superman returns as our coping mechanism in a cape.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-29-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
Concise and Mind-Blowingnew
What makes this compilation exceptional is a marvelously written and meticulously researched set of liner notes along with a realistic perspective on a somewhat deified music scene.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Too Much Hype?new
While the Pets bash out furious musical architecture, the question is raised: How does a group so visceral and raw, so young and sonically violent, so goddamned aggressively fun garner the sickening level of hype bestowed upon BYOP?
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Be Your Own Pet
Highly Anticipatednew
This collaboration between Jack Black, his School of Rock writer, Mike White, and Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess certainly doesn't equal the best moments of their respective oeuvres, but neither is it an outright atrocity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jared Hess, Nacho Libre
An Impressive Debutnew
Chinese filmmaker Xiao Jiang's extended flashback is about two cinema-crazed kids coming of age amid the communist revolution of the early 1970s.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Electric Shadows, Xiao Jiang
A Hyperliterate Piss-Take?new
The story that Jason Roberts (who, not surprisingly, is a contributor to McSweeney’s) tells is apparently a true one.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
Conventional Romancenew
The Romantic Times Booklovers Convention draws about 1,000 romance novel–reading women (and a few men), and proves the romance genre is a force to be reckoned with.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
06-22-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
I Heart Billnew
This is a reporter's letter to his man crush -- Bill Clinton.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
06-22-2006 |
Commentary
The Big Logoffnew
What happens to MySpace.com members when they die? They live on at MyDeathSpace.com
Orlando Weekly |
Megan Schumacher |
06-22-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
L.A. Womannew
In The Closer, Kyra Sedgewick is a little lady in the City of Angels.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
06-12-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Ease and Intensitynew
Having worked together for more than a decade, these two have established a formidable improvisational dialogue.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Prepare to Lose Your Mindnew
When an album simultaneously reminds you of the intro to Iron Maiden's "Phantom of the Opera" and one of the sonic explosions that occur inside John Coltrane's "Jupiter," you're dealing with an album that's unique indeed.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Homecomingnew
The Orlando Vet Center deals with the unique scars of the Iraq War.
Orlando Weekly |
James Carlson |
06-02-2006 |
War
Tags: Iraq war veterans, war in iraq
Lazy Classificationnew
There's little about the sound of Gold & Wax to qualify it for the "world music" tag that it will inevitably be slapped with.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gigi, Gold & Wax
iPod Overloadnew
Rather than getting attention with a single-track album, all Cardinale has done is ensure that their music never gets played on anyone's iPod.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
