Tattooed and screwed
Adaptation of wildly popular novel presents arresting mystery
Newborn porn
Visual baby essay a not-so-cute overload
Turkish delight
Forgo the traditional and set your sights on the menuâ??s back page
Red hot and boom
It has to be a little intimidating to open a restaurant on South Eola Drive, knowing that every other restaurant and bar that’s opened its doors on the strip has met with an unfortunate demise. Graze, Sanctuary Diner (formerly Fifi’s Patisserie) and iMansion (formerly the Beacon) are its victims, and only time will tell if…
Integration bill
The David Wax Museum with Matt Butcher, Aaron Berg 9 p.m. Saturday, May 8 Will’s Pub, 407-898-5070 www.willspub.org $7 One of the more surprising glimmers of hope for America’s soul reared its head swiftly in the immediate aftermath of Arizona’s enactment of a harsh immigration bill that snatched the “walking while black” concept and squeezed…
From the heart
Eugene Snowden & Liberation 44 with Rubox Cube, S.K.I.P. 8 p.m. Friday, May 7 Backbooth, 407-999-2570 www.backbooth.com $8 Liberation 44, the latest project from Legendary JC’s singer Eugene Snowden, finds the charismatic frontman melding his love of soul and international music. Unlike the genesis of many bands, however, it was not birthed in the smoky…
This Little Underground
Of all the covers that local punk classicists the Attack bang out, “Bad Moon Rising” is a perennial crowd favorite. That’s why it thrills me to know that they’re going to do an entire set of CCR covers at the Lebowski Fest (May 21, House of Blues). ;; The beat ; From seemingly nowhere, local…
Tastes like chikin
What’s the difference between a cow and a tomato? Here’s the joke: Chick-fil-A can’t tell. For about three months, a small business called Eat More Produce has sold fruit and vegetables, mostly raised in its Canadian greenhouses, out of a tan building at 1111 South Orlando Ave. in Winter Park. It’s the business’ second location;…
The heart and hell of Haiti
Twenty years ago I spend a month in Haiti working on a feature I will sell to the Orlando Sentinel. While there, I contract dengue fever which nearly kills me, escape the poisoned tip of an angry hougan’s knife and fall in love with the sweet, long-suffering people of Haiti. Fifteen years later I hail…
DVDs nuts
Celestial Navigations: Short Films of Al Jarnow From raps about littering to a two-minute time-lapse shot of his son growing out of his bassinet, this majestic collection of short films by animation veteran Al Jarnow showcases the man’s devotion to presenting educational material in a simple yet brilliant, often heartbreaking, manner. Most of Jarnow’s career…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES(March 21-April 19) Hip-hop music definitely needs to include more tuba playing. I think that’s what’s missing from it. Likewise, the sport of skateboarding would benefit from having more dogs and monkeys that can master its complexities; the state of journalism could be improved by including more babies as reporters; and you Aries folks would…
Savage Love
I am a 28-year-old, post-op transsexual woman. I met a great 31-year-old guy. We have been dating for a year, and he recently told me that he didn’t think he was sure he was in love with me. He said that he didn’t know if he could give me any sort of commitment, that he…
Happytown
Not that you would have noticed through the cacophony of Floridian economic failure, but there is only one political issue that apparently matters in the Sunshine State, and that issue, rather hauntingly, is abortion. How do we know this? Because on Friday, April 30, the last day of this year’s legislative session, the Florida House…
Police Beat
April 21 (2010-186354) 7:20 a.m.: While a man was asleep at home in the 600 block of East Harding Street, someone helped the valuable contents of his car escape the garage and jump the gate. Then the benevolent stranger took the man’s bored credit cards on a shopping spree along South Orange Avenue. (2010-186801) 1:17…
Performing Arts: Xanadu
Skating silliness Xanadu Performed April 27-May 2 at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Once every great while, there comes a Broadway show that can open your mind, dazzle your eyes and fill your heart with wonder. Xanadu was not that show. In fact, Xanadu might possibly hail from the same mirror universe as the goatee-sporting…
Visual Arts: Rachel Lloyd: Well Endowed
Well-endowed ceramics Rachel Lloyd: Well Endowed Through May 31 at Stardust Video & Coffee 1842 E. Winter Park Road 407-623-3393 www.stardustrules.com Free If Rachel Lloyd’s ceramic bowls, nests and spoons appear particularly appealing at Stardust Video & Coffee, that should come as no surprise. “I don’t mind thinking of myself as a potter,” the Orlando…
Cabaret fever
Orlando Cabaret Festival; Through May 16 at Mad Cow Theatre; 105 S. Magnolia Ave.; 407-297-8788; www.orlandocabaret.com; Prices vary Orlando Cabaret Festival; Through May 16 at Mad Cow Theatre; 105 S. Magnolia Ave.; 407-297-8788; www.orlandocabaret.com; Prices vary It’s the opening night of Mad Cow Theatre’s eighth annual Orlando Cabaret Festival, and the decidedly boomerish crowd is…
