Corporate tools
A terrific new film about capitalismâ??s tipping point
Snark, the conquering hero
Superhero send-up is just lazy enough to work
Coal pizza
‘Our pizza is well done,â?� state the numerous ‘warning signsâ?� at Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, an upscale chain in the Whole Foods plaza specializing in Brooklyn-style thin-crust pie. The ‘well doneâ?� here amounts to a slightly blackened undercrust with a flavor akin to charred toast. Now, I like the taste of charred toast, but when…
Working on the chain gang
Traditional Thai eatery offers alternative SoDo dining
Culture 2 Go
Journey to the center Earth Days: American Experience 9 p.m. Monday, April 19 WMFE-TV www.wmfe.org Sometimes you have to look around and wonder what’s wrong with us. Like, why do we need Earth Day? It should be self-evident that clean air and water, energy independence and food that’s as pristine and chemical-free as possible ought…
â??Hi, this is Pat Duggins
UCF Book Festival 8:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at UCF Arena University of Central Florida bookfestival.ucf.edu Free Free Free If, like me, you keep a tuner permanently parked on the local Public Radio station, the above headline should give your ears a Pavlovian perk. For 24 years, Pat Duggins was a mainstay on WMFE-FM…
This Little Underground
The good news: NBA playoff fever begins again! The bad? It won’t bump Nickelback off the arena’s calendar. But fuck it, go Magic! Let’s get it done this year and shut ’em all up, boys. The beat In a nice bit of coincidence, Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic (April 9, the Social) showed some hypnotic…
In the land of the Blind
Blind Man’s Colour Wooden Blankets EP (Kanine) (Kanine) In the heightening national spotlight on Florida’s indie rock, St. Petersburg’s Blind Man’s Colour is one of the more prominent names in the running. In fact, Brooklyn’s Kanine Records has been making a big splash by riding bright Sunshine State beams like Colour, West Palm Beach’s Surfer…
Erykah’s abyss
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh (Motown) We’ve all been there, in the post-breakup impact crater where you’ve got nothing at your disposal but selective memory and the conviction that you can’t live until the person who rejected you takes you back. Erykah Badu’s latest, New Amerykah Part 2: Return of…
High Anxiety
It’s 3:40 p.m., and Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas is letting out. The kids scatter, heading home to study or play sports or chill out. But some of the school’s brightest and most promising students make a shorter trip. They cross East Berry Street to the local head shop to pick up three…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Although obstacles and difficulties frighten ordinary people,” wrote French painter Théodore Géricault, “they are the necessary food of genius. They cause it to mature, and raise it up.… All that obstructs the path of genius inspires a state of feverish agitation, upsetting and overturning those obstacles, and producing masterpieces.” I’d like…
Savage Love
I am a mostly straight, 22-year-old woman. I am a pretty GGG kind of gal. I am generally not put off easily, even if I am told things that don’t quite do it for me. So I just started seeing this guy. I haven’t known him for long — no serious sexual activity other than…
Happytown
Political espionage just isn’t what it used to be. All that pesky breaking and entering and mumbling into reel-to-reel tapes that characterized Watergate’s Nixon-joweled shenanigans aimed at skimming secrets from the Democratic National Committee in 1972 brought with them an irreparable crack in the country’s political china. These days, Republicans with sneaky tendencies are lucky…
Slug
So now we come to the final installment of this very, very occasional news column, which hasn’t seen print since November 2008, right after the election. Not continuing this thing on a (more) regular basis is one of the regrets as I leave the Orlando Weekly to take a job editing a paper out west.…
Council Watch
“Alan Grayson for President. Palin is an idiot,” read a sign just outside the city’s glorious hall of commissioners. What did it mean? Were things about to get contentious? Would this week’s dip in the political kiddie pool mark the return of the “town maul” healthcare forehead sweat of last summer? Did everything all of…
Police Beat
March 30 (2010-148336) 4:12 a.m.: Someone broke the glass door on Las Primas Meat Market on Winter Rose Drive and snatched several packs of Newport cigarettes, but didn’t take any money. They probably would’ve just spent it on smokes anyway. (2010-149822) 10 p.m.: A guy was at the corner of Frazier Avenue and Lily Street…
Live Active Cultures
PlayFest 2010, aka Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s annual Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays, came to a climax Saturday night (April 10) with the keynote presentation, “An Evening with Philip Seymour Hoffman.” The standing-room-only audience stuffing the Shakes’ Margeson Theater (some of whom donated $1,000 per couple for their seats) gave the Oscar-winning actor standing ovations…
