Elliott Sharp coming to Orlando Oct. 26
Just in from Pat Greene: Elliott Sharp is playing at Orlando’s white house October 26th. Anyone who is interested in contemporary classical, the No Wave scene etc., or just curious should come to this. This guy is a legend. It’s free, you are encouraged to bring a bottle of wine or a dish. The venue…
Serf art
Thereâ??s suffering for your art and then thereâ??s Séraphine
Not-so-mighty Afrodita
A manic pixie dream girl, as painted by Botticelli
Philly fanatics
Cheesesteaks and a bit of brotherly love in Avalon Park
Council Watch
There was a giant hole at the center of the city’s Justice League this week, a potato-shaped void where authority should be, and for a minute it seemed like the world had ended! Fortunately, commissioner — and mayor pro tem — Robert Stuart stepped in to do the scripted “quorum” honors while the city waited…
Comments
Gone … ; My comment has more to do with the website than with the Fall Guide 2009. I am astonished how Jeffrey C. Billman must have ruled the Orlando Weekly with an iron fist. The minute he leaves, the website goes through a radical layout change. It really is sad how much control he…
Happytown
After 20 successful years, there are things that you expect from Hope and Help Center of Central Florida’s annual black-tie HIV/AIDS fundraiser, the Headdress Ball. This year’s festivities took place Oct. 3 at the brand-spankin’-new Hilton Orlando, adjacent to the Orange County Convention Center, and had a “Red Carpet, Red Ribbon, Red Lipstick” theme that…
Police Beat
Sept. 22 (2009-450746) 7:51 a.m.: Oh, what’s that? You want me to tell you all about my new hometown? Fine. I have a pimp corner office overlooking Old City. The weather is awesome, at least for now. The traffic sucks donkey nuts; seriously, hit a traffic jam on I-76 and you’ll never complain about I-4…
Blister
Time, time, time. See what’s become of me. Gone are the binary gender tumbles through fiberglass geometrics, the pop colors over-popped in deafening white noise merchandising mazes, the pleats and placid smiles of a lubricated existence precariously poised for ambitious leaps into almost immediate obsolescence. It was dry like a snake’s skin then, but it…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The poet Stephen Mallarmé wrote to a friend, “I don’t know which of my internal climates I should explore in order to find you and meet you.” I love that. It alludes to one of the central facts about the nature of reality: The quality of your consciousness is crucial in…
Savage Love
My partner and I have a dilemma. We’re a straight couple. We are already essentially living as a married couple. Now we want to hold a ceremony with family and friends to make public the commitment we’ve already made privately. That said, we are considering joining the marriage boycott (www.unmarried.org) until DOMA is repealed and…
Live Active Cultures
Each year, just after I’ve recovered from Universal’s Halloween effort to liquor me up and “boo” me till I barf, Disney comes along with their own assault. Yes, I know the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is a terrible value: $3-$6 for each appetizer-size portion. And any individual dish on offer could probably be…
Sex, lies and a manila envelope
;In early April, someone mailed envelopes to a handful of local public officials. In each was a set of five grainy pictures of two naked women kissing, fondling and having oral sex. Each envelope included a simple cover sheet consisting of the handwritten initials “M.L.” and the handwritten name “Belinda Ortiz.”; ; Though Ortiz is…
Culture 2 Go
Getting what you deserve Oleanna Through Oct. 11 at Mandell Theater, Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St. 407-328-9005 www.emptyspacestheatre.org $20 Considered one of David Mamet’s most provocative and controversial dramas, Oleanna is a work in which the inability of people to communicate effectively with one another becomes the root cause of personal and professional…
This Little Underground
As an event, the third ELLA Music Festival (Oct. 1-3) was a notable expansion for the annual local celebration of female artists. This year, it showed greater dimension through added program elements like keynote speakers, a market and daytime showcases of emerging talent (ELLA Rising). But while last year was a step up in terms…
Breaking up with Jesus
David Bazan; with Say Hi; 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13; The Social, 407-246-1419; all ages; $12-$14 ;; ‘I hear that you don’t change/And how do you expect to keep up with the trends?/You won’t survive the information age/Unless you change the truth to accommodate the brilliance of men.” – Pedro the Lion, “Letter From a…
DVDs nuts
Chinatown (Centennial Collection) Has it already been 100 years since the recently arrested Roman Polanski’s inarguably perfect L.A. noir? Of course not, but it has been almost that long since Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky formed Paramount; hence the confusing addendum to this nice repackaging. Jack Nicholson stars in the murder mystery centered on…
