Behold, the spectacle
Release Date: 2003-01-30 There are numerous grand gestures associated with the Bohanan’s dining experience. First is the entry procession through Houston Street’s new courtyard, carved from once-and-former retail space next to the old Frost Bros. building. (If the mutant mushroom fountain seems klutzy, concentrate instead on the exuberantly Baroque, fettuccine-on-a-fork torchieres.) The sequence continues with…
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE $1.4 MILLION?
That process has stalled since District 3 Councilwoman Toni Moorhouse, one of the project’s spearheads, tabled the proposal on January 23. She lacked support from other City Council members, and the project has caused a significant rift within her district, to the point where neighbors who oppose the project are alleging that its supporters are…
DEAR FLICKERSTICK,
I saw only two episodes of that Bands on the Run VH1 show you guys were on, and I heard the single, “Beautiful” from your Welcoming Home the Astronauts CD on the radio a few times, but I really wasn’t into your music. Then one day at the office, while fishing through all of the…
WEAPONS OF MASS CONSTRUCTION
Since 2000, most business owners on West Hildebrand have reported considerable financial losses; some have simply packed up and left. Those who have stuck it out linger in a state of zoned limbo, and some suspect the situation may soon get worse. Forget about lost wages, revenue, and inconvenience: Now business owners have to worry…
STILL PLAYING
Jack Nicholson as Warren Schmidt in About Schmidt ABOUT SCHMIDT Dir. Alexander Payne; writ. Louis Begley (novel), Payne; feat. Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates (R) Schmidt is a road movie set on the other end of life’s cycle from Nicholson’s Easy Rider, as full of metaphoric ambition and as devoid of…
DEAR FLICKERSTICK,
I saw only two episodes of that Bands on the Run VH1 show you guys were on, and I heard the single, “Beautiful” from your Welcoming Home the Astronauts CD on the radio a few times, but I really wasn’t into your music. Then one day at the office, while fishing through all of the…
DEAR FLICKERSTICK,
I saw only two episodes of that Bands on the Run VH1 show you guys were on, and I heard the single, “Beautiful” from your Welcoming Home the Astronauts CD on the radio a few times, but I really wasn’t into your music. Then one day at the office, while fishing through all of the…
YOUNG LARKS
Trained in music theory and voice, the young women of the touring choir (ages 13 to 19) attend daily, three-hour rehearsals with director Lorna Myers, an internationally lauded opera singer, composer, conductor, and vocal coach whose professional hand lends itself to the sophistication of the choir’s sound. Concerts incorporate costuming and choreography, but the Choir…
SURVIVORS’ GUILD
INTACTO Dir. Juan Carlos Fesnadillo; writ. Fresnadillo and Andrés M. Koppel; feat. Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela, Mónica López, Antonio Dechent, Max von Sydow, Guillermo Toledo, Alber Ponte (R) Too many Hollywood movies are hobbled by redundancy, superfluousness, and redundancy. Refusing to trust their audiences to discern a whisper, directors bully them with shouts. Compelled to…
Armchair Cinephile
A LITTLE BIT … OFF Happy Accidents (MGM) Lovely and Amazing (Lions Gate) Six Feet Under (HBO) I was so smitten with Brad Anderson’s Happy Accidents (MGM) the first time I saw it that I didn’t quite trust myself. It was right after the attacks on the World Trade Center, and here was a movie…
NEW REVIEWS
DARKNESS FALLS Dir. Jonathan Liebesman; writ. Joseph Harris; feat. Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield, Lee Cormie (PG-13) On the surface, Darkness Falls is an impotent failure of a movie, a 70-minute showcase of Hollywood at its most formulaic, acting and screenwriting at its most lobotomized, and the horror genre at its most crassly diluted. On another,…
CHARLES IN CHARGE
Jones had a point. For all of Charles’ legendary heft, he has never approached Presley’s status as a pop-culture icon. An entire generation remembers where they were when Presley shook up the Ed Sullivan Show, but Charles never had a comparable moment. Presley was a look, a sneer, a seismic presence. Charles was a musician,…
YOUNG LARKS
Trained in music theory and voice, the young women of the touring choir (ages 13 to 19) attend daily, three-hour rehearsals with director Lorna Myers, an internationally lauded opera singer, composer, conductor, and vocal coach whose professional hand lends itself to the sophistication of the choir’s sound. Concerts incorporate costuming and choreography, but the Choir…
ALL EARS
The new the Sea and Cake disc, One Bedroom (Thrill Jockey), was tailor-made for my recent column on “fey supergroups”: Between them, the four bandmates have been core members of such influential indie groups as Tortoise, Gastr del Sol, and the Cocktails; they have made solo records; and one of them (John McEntire) has challenged…
EVOLUCIÓN: GRANDES EXITOS
Since the early ’90s, vocalist Andrea Echeverri and bassist Héctor Buitrago have collaborated on creating pop-rock and sci-fi electronica rooted in the regional music of their native Colombia, reinventing themselves with each subsequent album. The duo layers traditional flute and synthesized sound effects over new wave, vallenato, and folklorico rhythms; they are as comfortable using…
