SHE’S QUADRUPLE WOW!
Kylie’s opus is freewheeling fabulosity
GARDEN OF EATIN’
All-vegan restaurant is a paradise for meat-eaters as well
MATTY AND ZOOEY
Volume 1 Label: Merge Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Volume 1 “Hey, M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel made a record!” is not the kind of statement you expect to wake up to, but there it is, twee band name and all. She & Him’s debut, Volume 1, is ostensibly an alterna-take on the…
PROLIFIC PORTIONS
Joseph Arthur broods at a quick pace
CHOWING DOWN FOR A CAUSE
If you’re unable to think of anything better than eating stellar food and drinking luscious wines from some of Orlando’s most acclaimed restaurants for under $200, how about this: eating and drinking creations from those restaurants for under $200 to benefit the United Way. At the 2008 Chef’s Gala on April 5, hosted by Epcot…
BLISTER
Between the clink-and-twinkle crystal chandelier of Orlando’s fictitious art-istocracy and the fluid-stained, rope-lined mat that catches the painful crushes of America’s most obnoxious and fictitious pastime, there exists a reasonable gulf that ought never be breached. Or so you would think. Tonight, WrestleMania and art have collided in an unlikely and unlikable bit of syntax…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am a 28-year-old straight girl two years into my first marriage. New job, new home and new city 1,200 miles from my closest friends. It was really lonely at first, not knowing anyone nearby. Plus, Hubby is far less social than I am, and has not gone out of his way to help us…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the film Fight Club, the character played by Brad Pitt storms into a convenience store with a gun, then herds the clerk out back and threatens to execute him. While the poor man quivers in terror, Pitt asks him questions about himself, extracting the confession that he had once wanted…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Seeing the inimitable Anthony Bourdain speak this past weekend at the Florida Film Festival evoked two themes that apply particularly well to music: passion and context. If we want our scene to be something meaningful then we have to burn with the former and value the latter. OK, now it’s your turn. GO MUMPSY! Damn, is Mumpsy…
FIRST SHOT
You know an election year is heating up when opinion-makers start clucking their tongues about movies emboldening the worst elements of our society. But this time, the ne’er-do-wells in question are actually living up to the theory that a life of crime imitates art. We’re thinking of a crew of thieves who recently liberated $400,000…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
It was supposed to be so easy: Just head over to the Dead Bob, pick up the tickets at will call, grab a nearby bite for dinner and settle in for some Spamalot. What could go wrong? Of course, nothing is ever simple when the Centroplex (now called “Orlando Venues”) is involved. The scores of…
HAPPYTOWN
Do you know what this week is? According to Gov. Charlie Crist, March 30 through April 6 is Home Education Week, a time to celebrate the fact that home-schooled kids are way smarter than your dumbass public school kids. Tell ’em, Charlie: “`O`ver two decades of studies indicate most children who are home educated exhibit…
MAILSACK
IT’S NOT A CONSPIRACY I take issue with the supposed surprise noted by Seth Kubersky at “the confounding choice most people made to stay away” from downtown Orlando’s most recent Third Thursday Visual Art Walk `Live Active Cultures, March 27`. True, it was poorly attended, but who could wonder? Over the last year we’ve read…
TOKYO, WHEN IT SIZZLES
Until their new record, Elephant Shell, is released later this month, the introduction that most will get to Tokyo Police Club is singer Dave Monks softly vocalizing “ba ba ba” in the opening seconds of last year’s Smith EP. Not long after the warm-up, the rest of this four-piece from Newmarket, Ontario, lay into the…
SMACKDOWN!
Kneeling down in the ring, covered with droplets of sweat, I feel sure this is going to hurt. AJ Gallant’s hulking frame looms behind me. He’s smiling – laughing almost – as his beefy arm locks around my throat. “Where’s your expression?” Gallant chides. “This is supposed to hurt.” “Then make it hurt,” I say.…
WHEN DOVES CRY
The peace activists who protested the Bush administration’s march to war five years ago take no satisfaction in knowing that they were right in opposing this ill-fated Iraq war from the outset. All they want is for people to listen to them now. And what they have to say is this: If we are ever…
