AltWeeklies Wire
The Fleet Foxes Embrace Varied Source Materialsnew
The group's sound is an intricate architecture of baroque, psychedelic rock with addition of the infectious melodies of classic pop music. They accomplish this with not only the standard weapons of rock 'n' roll, but with instruments such as tympani, mandolin, organ, dulcimer and koto.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fleet Foxes
'The Love Guru' Proves Mike Myers is Unenlightenednew
Myers' latest is a bomb -- both as a laugh generator and a revenue generator.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Marco Schnabel, The Love Guru
'Wanted' Strives for Murder-is-Kewl Vibenew
The producers of Wanted took a great comic, watered it down and turned it into a stupid movie.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Timur Bekmambetov, Wanted
For Divorcees, Modern-Day Dating is a Whole New Experiencenew
The real problem with dating sites is that people write their own profiles. There are hardly any genuinely relevant sections on the questionnaires like, "In 100 words or less, describe your personality disorder and its prognosis." Or, "The last time you got out of rehab, how long was it before you found yourself in a bar again?"
Tucson Weekly |
Catherine O'Sullivan |
06-26-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
David Berman Finds Comfort in the Twangnew
If Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is any indication, David Berman's fortunes are improving. Compared to 2005's knotty, uneven Tanglewood Numbers – which arrived on the heels of an extended period wherein the poet and Silver Jews frontman grappled with medical and substance-abuse problems – it's relatively frisky and oblique.
Orlando Weekly |
Raymond Cummings |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Orlando Indie Giants Mumpsy Sing Canary's Songnew
It's possible that no other indie band in Orlando packs as much potential as Mumpsy. Named after a cat in a children's book, they're the union of industriousness and talent, a recipe that's recently been paying off.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mumpsy, Cat & Canary
Rapper Vast Aire Relaxes, But Only Slightly, on New Albumnew
Cannibal Ox's 2001 opus, The Cold Vein, doesn't translate universally. In a climate like Central Florida – where cold means covered shins and shoulders, not bitter blasts of wind that leave exposed skin frostbitten – the translation can be even further out of reach.
Orlando Weekly |
Brandon Perkins |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Vast Aire, Dueces Wild
How Accurate is Our Voting System?new
You don’t need to be told that we need serious election reform in this country. What you might need, though, is a refresher on how badly our voting system is damaged. For that, turn to Election Day, a documentary made for the P.O.V. series on PBS.
Orlando Weekly |
Marc D. Allan |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: election day, Katy Chevigny
Live Active Culturesnew
Sometimes, words are justworthless. That’s a tough truth for a writer to admit: If it weren’t for words, I’d be out of a job, and you’d be picking up this paper just to ogle the massage ads (maybe you already are). But even the most loquacious lexis lover must concede that images can speak louder than a thousand words.
Orlando Weekly |
Seth Kubersky |
06-26-2008 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
First Shotnew
So far, even this summer’s biggest box-office hits have appealed to specific viewer demos. Iron Man got the men. Sex and the City got the women. And Kung Fu Panda got the … plushies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: first shot, Steve Schneider
Happytown Deals with Legal Weed and a Giant Ferris Wheelnew
In an online video explaining the Orlando Sentinel’s new redesign, editor Charlotte Hall insisted that they weren’t dumbing the paper down; rather, they were telling stories “more smartly.” And we totally believed her, until we saw the ludicrously vacuous “news” that filled the new Sentinel’s first few editions.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman | Billy Manes | Deanna Morey | Bob Whitby |
06-26-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Blisternew
It wasn’t always this way. A hot-ticket night out used to be just that – a whirligig of wide-eyed spontaneity laced with the pixie dust of giggle fits and carefree crescendos – and it usually ended with something said, forgotten and buried facedown in the blackout pillow next to a broken-toothed smile.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
06-26-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
The Orlando Police Beatnew
(2008-255783) 12:53 p.m.: Sucks to be this guy. Two guys walked up to him on the street, forced him into his car at gunpoint, and made him drive to the bank and withdraw a bunch of money. The police report lists him as a missing person, which may well mean his day went from shitty to FUBAR, fast.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
06-26-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
This Little Undergroundnew
In this new reality, the Middle East is in the global spotlight like never before. Although American awareness of the region is at a zenith, our view of it continues to be slanted, narrow and impersonal. All the more reason to thank whoever it is you worship for a film like Heavy Metal in Baghdad, the provocative new Vice Films documentary.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
06-26-2008 |
Music
Why is Homeland Security Watching Eugene's Activists?new
The Department of Homeland Security's monitoring of a peaceful anti-pesticide group led to the arrest and violent Tasering of a 19-year-old university student by local police.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-26-2008 |
Civil Liberties
