More Local Music Videos from Telethon and S.K.I.P.
New music from S.K.I.P. : “Liquid Force Tubes” is the first piece the recently resuscitated rapper is revealing from his long-in-the-works Until the Very End album. And, on the far-ass other end of the spectrum, some beautiful noise from Telethon, the Musical. These two cuts are from the upcoming Barter Crystals album.
The Italian job
Itâ??s not truly Tuscan, but Toscana has enough brio to pull it off
Ã?poque-alypse now
The Haneke experience satisfies and frustrates yet again
Pom wonderful
In the antiquated plaza across from UCF that’s seen more permutations than Madonna, Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria recently opened its second location. The new space is even more cozy and eclectic than the original ‘ love the chalkboard paint! ‘ but with a whole new clientele. Instead of Revolution-goers and socially conscious hipsters, the…
Savage Love
My boyfriend and I have agreed to abide by whatever decision you make. We’ve been together for nine months. We are gay. We live in a college town. We both found jobs here after we graduated, so we stayed. Since his sophomore year, my boyfriend has had an “arrangement” with an older man, a professor…
Police Beat
Feb. 3 (2010-55812) 10:36 a.m.: Don’t leave $8,000 worth of jewelry and “other items” lying around, even at home, or someone might steal them — like they did from a house in the 4800 block of Norwalk Place. (2010-56212) 7 p.m.: Look out for two air conditioners removed from a building in the 1100 block…
Live Active Culture
It is Valentine’s Day as I write this, so this week’s column is all about the love. I’ll start by giving some love, wrapped around a mea culpa liquid center, to Orlando Shakespeare Theater. Last week I insinuated (OK, outright stated) that I wasn’t invited to participate in the Feb. 12 Sonnet-a-thon, in which more…
This Little Underground
Spent all my foreplay on Valentine’s, so let’s just get straight to it … The beat The Hex Tremors were one of the most thrilling bands ever to come out of this city, and their breakup last year almost brought this grown-ass man to tears. But Saint Sibian signals the musical resurrection of Tremors mastermind…
Black history lesson
Black history lesson Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera Through May 30 at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach 386-506-4475 www.smponline.org Free The range of styles, techniques and media is overwhelming in Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera. But what…
Marital diss
Marital diss The Family Crews Premieres 9 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21 BET www.bet.com From the Louds to the Osbournes to the Lamases, there’s been a continuum of family freakshows on television. So why Terry Crews would choose to let cameras follow him for The Family Crews is a mystery. Actually, I’m aware of the reasons:…
Driving Miss Daisy
Caddy pact Driving Miss Daisy Through Feb. 28 at Garden Theatre 160 W. Plant St., Winter Garden 407-877-4736 www.gardentheatre.org $18-$22 Familiarity breeds contempt, and few shows are as familiar as Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize—winning 1987 Off-Broadway play that became the quadruple-Oscar-award—winning 1989 film. So we know where this is going from the…
Written on the mind and the body
Wrong Place, Wrong Time By John A. Rich (Johns Hopkins University Press, 232 pages; $24.95) Tayvon pulls his shirt back down after showing me the scar that extends below his waistband to his groin and up to his sternum. It’s about an inch wide, a raised, milky sheen standing out from his caramel skin with…
Big plans, no money
‘I have a cunning plan.’ Whenever Edmund Blackadder’s unwashed sidekick, Baldrick, uttered those words in the BBC historical comedy series Blackadder, they heralded a plot that was elaborate, transparent and in violation of basic physics. Nevertheless, Baldrick’s plans were often adopted in desperation. And they occasionally worked, though not as anticipated. Likewise, for just about…
Ties that bind
Warpaint with Akron/Family, Queen of Spain 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19 Back Booth www.backbooth.com $10-$12 Warpaint communicates in a language only they understand. Although guitarist Emily Kokal can reveal few specifics of her band’s artistic tongue, she’s certain the system exists. One feature they’ve established is that every song must contain a stall — “a…
When â??Aliveâ?? committed murder
It’s a pretty common assumption that rock & roll — at least rock & roll in the form codified by the classic-rock giants of the late ’60s and early ’70s — is dead. That assumption is not unfair; rock & roll has splintered into so many subgenres and micro-classifications that, today, everything from Fuck Buttons…
The pretty good seed
Teen Mom in repeats; check schedule 16 and Pregnant 10 p.m. Tuesday www.mtv.com MTV ‘I’m pregnant.” These are the two hardest words a teenage girl will ever have to say to her parents, not only because of the heartache and impending challenges the sentence implies. Uttering that phrase also means that the knocked-up girl at…
Happytown
Tired of fishing shows based on the well-worn premise of some fat Southern bubba in a bass boat tossing lures into the water and reeling in lunker after lunker? Seriously, who isn’t? ; Orlando paramedic Chris Cole sure was, which is why about three years ago he came up with a new premise for a…
Blister
There’s a palpable panic as I slip past the polyester static in the pants of my periwinkle leisure suit, a sense of poorly fashioned costume exhibitionism draped in the pathetic ruffles of nostalgia. A boutonniere pinprick of anxiety scrapes the plastic rib cage over my rubber heart, itself thumping out some 45 rpm drone replete…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I personally don’t believe we’re living in the worst of times, although I know many people who do. While there are indeed reasons to despair, our current state of affairs is actually in many ways quite glorious. And our struggles are puny compared to those of the generation that lived through…
