First Shot: This is for â??Dominoâ?�! (SMACK!)
So Keira Knightley is concerned about violence against women. She’s so concerned, in fact, that she’s shot a “shocking” PSA about it, in which she confronts the topic with full-on, Rihanna-remakes-Clockwork Orange honesty. Seriously, I don’t know how to feel about this. Like all right-thinking people, I abhor the idea of violence against women. But…
My meemaw’s funnier
Clueless senior-citizen comedy kicks the bucket
Slightly off-shore dining
Supper club aims to hook the Sand Lake set
Satellite of love
Greg Mottola’s summer memoir plays a lovely game
Blister
My life is passing me by. While illegally gesticulating through the wither and dither of my daily unofficial autobiography on the telephone and driving at the same time, he who is on the receiving end pops up in real time on the left turn to my right-of-way. The feeling is akin to what you would…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) There’s plain old everyday lightning, which travels about five miles, and then there are superbolts — strokes of lightning that are a hundred times stronger than a normal flash and that can travel over 100 miles. In the coming weeks, your power levels could be more like these superbolts than your…
Savage Love
I hope you address the recent rough-play-gone-bad death of New York City radio newsman George Weber. According to reports, it appears Weber met a guy on Craigslist for “violent sex,” and the guy stabbed Weber to death. It’s a reminder that if you have these kinds of fantasies — Weber wanted to be bound and…
This Little Underground
In this week’s column: not a goddamned word about Twitter! The beat Worse than anger or even hatred, ennui is the worst reaction any band can elicit. And I’m kinda sad to report that it set in with As Tall as Lions (March 25, the Social), an indie-ish pop band from Long Island, N.Y. Maybe…
Happytown
From the Weak Attempts at Sarcasm Desk comes a Republican Party of Florida press release cleverly titled “The Sex, Drugs and School of Rock Act,” because, you know, there was that Jack Black movie once. “This bill should be referred to as the ‘Sex, Drugs and School of Rock Act,’ not the ‘Florida Healthy Teens…
Police Beat
March 17 (2009-125945) 10:17 a.m.: “At about 1000 hours the victim heard loud banging on the front door. She ran to a back bedroom and noticed feet inside her apartment.” (2009-125979) 10:38 a.m.: “Unknown suspect(s) tampered with the lock of the deadbolt to the front door. … Entry was not gained and the victim was…
Live Active Cultures
After a half-dozen columns focusing on downtown, I thought it was time for another trip down I-4 to see the new American Idol Experience at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Sure, it’s an untimely exploitation franchise past its peak; you’d think they’d have learned from the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Play It! flameout. But the…
Glass roots
Therman Statom: Stories of the New World Through May 10 Orlando Museum of Art 407-896-4231 www.omart.org $8 Walking into Therman Statom’s sprawling installation at the Orlando Museum of Art brings on visual overload in a stimulating way. First impression: “Wow, a glass funhouse!” Second: “Wow, it’s wonderful and … weird.” Third: “Wait, what is it?”…
Cracking up
Republicans all over the country find themselves backed into an ideological and political corner: Their dogma has brought both the country and their party to ruin. The candidate they called an evil, terrorist-loving, foreign-born socialist is now a wildly popular president, while they’re reduced to irrelevancy. If you thought they’d take the occasion to re-assess…
Mission accomplished?
April 5, 2007, marked a victory for civil-rights activists. Gov. Charlie Crist and his cabinet voted to streamline the process that restores felons’ civil rights after they’ve paid their debt to society. No longer would nearly 1 million ex-cons — a disproportionate number of whom were black — be barred from voting, serving on juries…
Joint Commission
Juke Joint Duo 2 Man Wrecking Crew (Delta Groove) 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 The Social, 407-246-1419 $8 The blues is good right now — real good. Thanks to a young class of fiery, bold revisionists, the great American music form has gone from history book to renaissance, but even the new upstarts would bow…
Hope swings eternal
Every April, it’s held out to baseball fans, like the slick promise of a 30 percent return on investment from a mutual fund: hope, that shiny sense that this is, at last, the year your favorite sub-.500 ball club (hello, Washington, Pittsburgh and Kansas City) fixes its defense and actually competes with the big-market boys.…
Waiting for Truffaut
The Last Metro (Criterion Collection) Fifty years ago, François Truffaut brought The 400 Blows to Cannes and jump-started the French New Wave as a worldwide revolution. Almost 20 years after that, he made his last successful film, 10-time César Award-winner The Last Metro. 1980’s Metro was born out of Truffaut’s desire to make a film…
Eat for the world
Discovering Mark Bittman can be revelatory. I was so taken upon stumbling across The Minimalist, his aptly titled New York Times column, that I set about printing and binder-clipping my favorites into “books” — even sharing them. Then I realized (duh) that Bittman fans are, if not legion, sufficient to keep fat tomes like his…
