Poultry in motion
‘The Best in Chickenâ?� is the name of the restaurant; it’s also a legitimate claim. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day they have a lunch special of rotisserie-roasted or fried chicken with beans and rice, and bread or salad ($3.95). I always choose the rotisserie. It falls off the bone. Between 4 p.m.…
Special K
Amalgamation produces harmonious results for Fonzo brothers
Titans of industry
Remake of Greek adventure yarn is a middlebrow workhorse
Police Beat
March 15 (2010-123829) 8:59 p.m.: A resident in the 4000 block of Kirkland Boulevard saw a shadow creeping past his window and went out to discover that someone had stolen a lawnmower from his shed. The Shadow mows! March 16 (Kissimmee PD): A teacher at Cypress Elementary School noticed that one student had badly bruised…
Blist-ex
I always thought it would be a suicide note; some sad lipstick smudge on a cocktail napkin folded into illegibility and probably stained with histrionic nicotine sighs of discontent left in an ashtray next to a burning bed. There would be the sirens of fire trucks crowing an off-key “Sympathy for the Devil” while housewives…
Live Active Cultures
Mark this date: June 18, 2010. Input it into your iPhone, add it to your Outlook, scribble it on your desktop quote-of-the-day calendar. But whatever you do, don’t ignore it. If you are a certain flavor of fanboy, that’s the date you’ll be camping out, drooling in anticipation. And if you’re a resident of our…
The music of sound
A Place to Bury Strangers with Sleepy Sun, Mr. Gnome, Strangers Family Band 8 p.m. Sunday, April 4 Back Booth, 407-999-2570 www.backbooth.com $12 $12 By definition, all musicians are interested in sound, but few have dedicated themselves to its practice with the scientific devotion of vocalist-guitarist Oliver Ackermann. On the thrusters of his band, Brooklyn’s…
Personal finance
Floor Below & Beyond Box Set (Robotic Empire) 9 p.m. Friday, April 2 Common Grounds, Gainesville www.commongroundslive.com $10 When bands reunite after years of inactivity, the reasons given tend toward one of two narratives. The first, and most common, is that whatever acrimony led to the band’s original demise have been paved over by maturity…
PlayFest = a bunch of characters
PlayFest April 2-11 at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org Prices vary by event It’s a lonely evening on the West Bank of the Mississippi River, just across the bridge that stretches from the city of New Orleans. Standing on an adjoining porch of an aged shotgun duplex — called a “double-barrel” because the two…
This Little Underground
All right, I give in. The player haters win. I’d like to announce a big policy change up in here. From now on, pure objectivity will govern this column, a protocol that positions TLU to make history since it will pretty much be the only opinion column in human existence to ever strive for it.…
County to independent cabbies: Get lost
A long line of cars and vans from small cab companies waits in front of the West Concourse of the Orange County Convention Center, there for patrons of the Global Pet Expo to come out in search of rides to lunch. The drivers display a patient camaraderie, despite knowing that the next few fares may…
Culture 2 Go
Ballet wins ‘Battle’ Battle of the Sexes Performed March 19-21 at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre www.orlandoballet.org Performed for one weekend only, Orlando Ballet’s production of Battle of the Sexes has taken its final bow, but there was too much to like in the March 19 debut not to share. Make no mistake, artistic director…
True to the moment
The Ataris with Louis DeFabrizio & Hogjaw, Awestruck, and Shut Up & Dance 8 p.m. Thursday, April 1 Back Booth, 407-999-2570 www.backbooth.com $8-$10 $8-$10 “Why do I never seem to learn that love is wrong and girls are fucking evil?” That’s a line that Kris Roe should regret writing. Aside from the sexist overtones, it’s…
Savage Love
My boyfriend of almost two years broke up with me yesterday over the fact that I used to be an escort. We had been planning a future together, talking about moving in, getting married, having kids, etc., and then this happened. I know I either should’ve told him about my past or shouldn’t have succumbed…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m worried about your ability to sneak and fake and dissemble. These skills seem to have atrophied in you. To quote Homer Simpson, “You couldn’t fool your own mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine!” Please, Aries, jump back into the game-playing, BS-dispensing routine the…
Happytown
The region’s political climate went up in smoke last week in a manner not seen since the heyday of the Clinton ‘90s. At issue were a series of “No Name Club” gatherings of local powerbrokers of the male persuasion, and whether or not these modern times could support a literal good old boys’ network. Well,…
