I don't know how well you know my songs," Elvis Costello says over a cell phone that occasionally cuts out as he drives toward Buxton Opera House in Devonshire, England, where he is scheduled to play at the Four Four Time festival. Such knowledge is near-impossible to acquire. Since debuting...
It takes no time at all to get into the swing of the M Ensemble's latest production, a revival of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. To one side of a small stage swathed in red velvet, a trio of jazz veterans in pork pie hats are laying down...
If you've already decided to see Ocean's Twelve, it's probably best not to read much about it. Unlike its predecessor, a remake that clung to a hoary heist formula, the sequel contains ample pleasures, most of which amuse as the result of surprises both great and small. There's no one...
Bride & Prejudice is the third major film released stateside in the past few years to fuse the epic romantic musical stylings of Indian "Bollywood" movies with more Westernized "Hollywood" elements. It's also the most successful of them, but when the only significant competition has been The Guru and Bollywood/Hollywood,...
Josephus Eggelletion knows how to keep his mouth shut. When it comes to his unethical lobbying work, the Broward County commissioner is lip-locked. Now, as allegations swirl that he had a sexual relationship with a teenaged student when he was a Dillard High School teacher and later fathered her child,...
Beat 'em, Bust 'em Or democracy dies: In reference to the University of California at Berkeley analysis of suspicious Florida voting results cited in the December 2 Tailpipe ("Paperless Trail"), two things jump out. 1. In 2000, 575,143 people in Broward County voted for either George Bush or Al Gore;...
Some people think they're a new art form; others see them as adolescent time-killers. Whatever they are, video games don't make good models for feature films (mostly because their interactive essence is lost), and their clumsy transfer to the big screen continues to invite all kinds of speculation -- not...
"24 hours. 350 miles. His girlfriend's kids. What could possibly go wrong?" In the case of Are We There Yet?, here's the short answer: a flaccid screenplay, bratty kids stripped of depth and personality, a single joke replayed in every scene, unearned attempts at sentiment, and a bizarrely whitened backdrop,...
THU 17 Donald Lee is a tight end for the Miami Dolphins. And if you think the six-foot, three-inch 24-year-old has a tight end, then bid on a date with him during the Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction benefiting the Reach for the Stars Foundation, which helps people who suffer from cystic fibrosis...
For a guy who takes the Christian Right to task on his new album and refers to Dubya as "Monkey Boy" on his website, Travis Morrison doesn't seem terribly dismayed by last month's election results. "I'm fine," he insists, speaking by phone from the bluest of states, New York. Fine?...
I have a new thing," Pee Wee Ellis, the legendary sax man and bandleader of James Brown's JBs for much of the '60s, rasps over the phone from his home in England, where he works with fellow legends like Van Morrison and Oumou Sangare. "It's called 'smunk,'" he says. "It's...
Ten of them! FRI 2/11 Playwright Ronnie Larsen certainly knows how to get our attention. He called his first play Ten Naked Men. He followed that with Making Porn. Then came All-Male Peep Show. You get the point. Is he smart? Or merely lazy? On www.bringdown.com, where people can make...
Just like the scores of rock musicians who get rich by stealing guitar riffs from their heroes (insert Rolling Stone's flavor of the month here), the visual arts are rife with those who earn their way by impersonating the masters. Some overtly pay tribute, while others try to conceal their...
Be true to your art school THU 1/13 It's been nearly 15 years since the Dreyfoos School of the Arts first opened its doors, which begs the question: Where are they now? The students, that is. The visual arts department has the answer, as it presents its First Annual Alumni...
American poet Sylvia Plath has long been a hallowed, haunted figure in American literary culture. Dead at 30 in 1963, a presumed suicide, Plath had a short career, but her intense, dense poetry and harrowing private life have made her the ultimate poster girl for feminist rage against male oppression...
With tours supporting Interpol and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, it didn't take long for the Stills to get noticed and eventually signed with much hype and fanfare to Vice magazine's record label. The Montreal, Canada-based quartet's album, Logic Will Break Your Heart, was recorded in two weeks at a Brooklyn...
What with all the recent '80s disinterment, it's good to see a young band looking beyond its older brother's generation for influence. Heralded in their native Liverpool, the Zutons ply earnest '60s hindsight and work some eerie déjà vu juju on their stateside debut. The quintet is a garage band...
Take a trenchantly independent band, throw a major-label budget and a big-name producer on top -- and the result is usually total crap. But Le Tigre has been dodging expectations since its inception, and This Island, the group's third full-length, maintains its steady arc toward dance-pop immortality. With the help...
I must confess, I have never been a big fan of Broadway tunesmith Charles Strouse. Not that he needs my approval. The prolific composer has been banging out hits since his very first musical, Bye Bye Birdie, grabbed a Tony in 1960. After that, Strouse went on a tear with...
Catch one of their live shows and you'll probably be struck by Atomic Tangerine's boundless vitality. The Orlando hardrock four-piece is all wide smiles and stage presence; the music is instantly likable and bereft of pop cliché. Watch them and you get no hint of the dark days not long...
When the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino announced it was opening two new interconnected nightclubs, Pangaea and Gryphon, we were like, "Big whoop. If we wanted to dance in a disgustingly contrived environment where we lose lots of money, we would let hundred-dollar bills hang out of our pockets...
In the fall of 2000, Republican power broker Tom Feeney attended a meeting at Yang Enterprises in Oviedo, near Orlando, a former employee of the firm says. Feeney, who would soon become Florida's speaker of the House, wasn't just a politician; he was also a lobbyist. Among his clients was...
