go pho yourself.
See, if you spoke Vietnamese, you’d know that I just said something rude. (Of course, many of you assume that I’m being rude no matter what I say, which, OK, fair enough.) But see, phở is pronounced “fuh,” not “foe,” so … yeah, you get it. Since Orlando is so rich in Vietnamese restaurants, it…
Show and sell
A visual and gastronomic feast are cause for Celebration
Mother superior
Bong Joon-ho does it again with a twisty mystery
In the company of the Corsican
French prison movie presents a meaty course
Betting on the farm
It’s Thursday afternoon in the operations room of the Homegrown Organic Local Food Co-op tucked into the cluster of socially responsible businesses around Thornton Avenue, off Colonial Drive. At 2:30 p.m. the doors open as scheduled for the weekly pick-up portion of the otherwise online farmer’s market shopping experience. Soon the foot traffic kicks in…
Food fight!
Not many people saw the red-shirted crowd clumped on a berm next to the nondescript LSG Sky Chefs building on April 9, but still it was a first: the (semi-)public emergence of a contract dispute between unionized sandwich-makers at Orlando International Airport and the airline conglomerate for which they labor. Only about 30 at a…
DVDs nuts
The Missing Person Filmmaker Noah Buschel’s homage to Raymond Chandler possesses the same slacker deconstructionist spirit as its ancestor, The Long Goodbye, and transplants it to a post-9/11 world where everyone finds their truth in process and mundane procedure. The wonderfully leathery, mumbling Michael Shannon plays Philip Marlowe stand-in John Rosow, a whiskey- soaked private…
Savage Love
I’m a 27-year-old gay man. I had a really great first couple of dates with a guy, so for the third date I invited him to stay over. I cooked a nice dinner, we watched a movie, and we had a lovely time in bed together. In the morning, we had another romp. At one…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “In a recipe for salsa published recently, one of the ingredients was misstated, due to an error,” said an apology run by a local newspaper. “The correct ingredient is ‘2 tsp. of cilantro’ instead of ‘2 tsp. of cement.'” This is an example of the kind of miscue you should be…
Happytown
If you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear, but if you happen to be one of the winsome ne’er-do-wells caught up in litigious Smurf village of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, your recorded past is about to determine your uncertain future after your stats are fed through a computer algorithm. Science! Last…
Police Beat
April 6 (2010-161581) 8:21 p.m.: Police said they stopped a man on West South Street and South Terry Avenue for a “bicycle violation,” and that he dropped some pot as he tried — unsuccessfully — to get away. April 7 April 7 (2010-162245) 8 a.m.: Someone got into Froggers Grill & Bar on Conroy Road…
Live Active Cultures
Things to do in Orlando when you’re unemployed: Last week, I began my fantastic voyage into an exciting new frontier where many, many have gone before: the land of unemployment. I’ll still be writing for Orlando Weekly — I’m referring instead to my former full-time job as an IT consultant to the county we call…
Culture 2 Go
Requesting Miracles: ;Votive Offerings From Diverse Cultures;Through June 5 at the Alice ;& William Jenkins Gallery;Crealdé School of Art;600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park;407-671-1886;www.crealde.org False Idols;Through May 8 at Bold Hype;1844 E. Winter Park Road;407-629-2965;www.boldhype.com Western scientific society struggles with religion, bumping and shoving and kicking it around, yet the subject always pops up again unfazed, ready…
Hunka hunka burning cheese
Fire up the saganaki (everybody’s favorite oozy, melty, liquor-soaked flaming cheese appetizer) at Greek Fest 2010, hosted by Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Maitland Friday through Sunday. For a mere $3 at the door, you can get a slice of culture with that shot of ouzo: traditional music and Greek dance showcases by the…
Rivers of grass
Clyde Butcher: ;Big Cypress Swamp ;and the Western ;Everglades; Through July 25 at ;Orlando Museum of Art;2416 N. Mills Ave.;407-896-4231;www.omart.org;$8 If Clyde Butcher’s Florida landscapes in his one-man Orlando Museum of Art exhibit are large in scale, and often immense in size, it’s only because his subject has demanded it over the past quarter century. The Everglades, after…
House on fire
The Ettes with the Dead Weather 7 p.m. Monday, April 26 House of Blues, 407-934-2583 all ages www.hob.com $28.25-$51.25 For about a year, Lindsay “Coco” Hames and her two bandmates in the Ettes lived together in a Nashville, Tenn., house. Although the group saw the place infrequently because of their jammed tour itinerary, Hames remembers…
Rock and bull
Florida Music Festival Wednesday-Saturday, April 21-24 Various times and venues www.floridamusicfestival.com $10 pass per day $10 pass per day Labor organizer Mary Harris Jones once said, “I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people,” and in her spirit, we can acknowledge that Orlando Weekly has its own faults. Besides the obvious (a…
This Little Underground
Man, I sure hope you caught Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields last week at the Florida Film Festival. The hyper-literate oddity that is Merritt makes it a uniquely compelling rock doc. The beat It’s absolutely true that music need not be inventive to be satisfying. Atlanta chanteuse Sonia Leigh (April 14, Back…
