An Evening Unveiled 10
The 10th anniversary of this annual showcase features performances from members of local belly dance troupes Suspira, Orlando Dance Theatre, Laila, The Ahlaam Dancers, Belda, Serpentina Dance Company, Gypsy Sa’har and Orlando Bellydance. If you’ve never seen a belly dance performance, rest assured there will be glitz and color aplenty, with the moves set to…
Canceled: Raven-Symone
While demographic research tells us our readers skew a bit, er, mature to be likely ticket-holders for this show, in the spirit of providing up-to-the-minute news of all things calendar-y, we want to make sure none of our readers or their offspring end up teary-eyed in front of a deserted stadium on Saturday. To the…
AMENDS
Local musician survives himself, records life
A SHORE THING
Seafood shines at charming College Park spot
LITTLE PLACE, HUGE CHARACTER
“I’m not an alcoholic, just a big personality,” says the woman behind the bar as she pours us a basket of Funyuns and Bugles. Though she looks and sounds like an off-kilter version of Paula Deen, her endless supply of conversation livens up the art-filled bar in Sanford. Little Fish Huge Pond is full of…
LITTLE PLACE, HUGE CHARACTER
“I’m not an alcoholic, just a big personality,” says the woman behind the bar as she pours us a basket of Funyuns and Bugles. Though she looks and sounds like an off-kilter version of Paula Deen, her endless supply of conversation livens up the art-filled bar in Sanford. Little Fish Huge Pond is full of…
FIRST SHOT
Just last week, we were lamenting that some small, left-of-center pictures continue to bypass Orlando. Well, former Nixon flunky and glorified game-show host Ben Stein must have heard our kvetching, because he deigned to make Altamonte Springs one of the showcase communities for his right-of-center “documentary” Expelled, a filmic show of support for science teachers…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
This week’s edition of Live Active Cultures calls for a different kind of introduction, because it’s a different kind of column. I’ve had a surreally stressful week, so take a side trip with me to the Uncomfortably Personal Zone. You see, even though I’m proud to plug my friends’ artistic achievements (always with appropriate disclaimers,…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Local TV news icon, community booster, courageous cancer survivor – there are many things you could call Wendy Chioji, but indie muse might not spring to mind. She is that, however, for local musician Ray Brazen, who wrote a catchy, tender pop song titled “Wendy Chioji Please Don’t Goji.” In it, he beseeches the WESH-2…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The U.S. government is spending over $500,000 per minute on the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil is raking in about $73,000 of profit per minute. Is there any connection? Though I have my suspicions, I don’t know for sure. I do know that the coming weeks will be an excellent…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am a young, straight man – but I have this obsession with male-on-male dino-dragon porn. I don’t get it. I’M SUPPOSED TO BE STRAIGHT! Am I psychotic or what? Dino Really Are Gonna Overtake Now You’re not psychotic, DRAGON, just pathetic. I don’t mean pathetic in the “laughable or contemptible” sense of the word,…
BLISTER
So Art walks into a bar, and before he can even order an overpriced cocktail with his paint-drizzled hand, he snatches a glimpse of Commerce over in the corner, and Commerce is totally macking on Art’s bitch. Without so much as a moment of Artist’s Way meditation, Art takes that filthy hand of his and…
COUNCIL WATCH
A deceptively weighty awards segment may have plundered the supply of raw emotions – a retiring fire chaplain, a corps of city volunteers, budding small business entrepreneurship, trees, Army reservists talking about The War – but nothing could have prepared the packed house for the soul-crush of Wyman’s Last Stand. District 2 commissioner Betty Wyman…
POLICE BEAT
??? (2008-??????) ???: Another week, another screwed-up police report. At least give me a case number or something, guys. Pretty please? Anyway, I didn’t get the memo that this is Beat Up Your Local Cop Week, but this week’s police reports seem to be all about pounding on the Man. Here’s incident No. 1, from…
HAPPYTOWN
In an effort to continue the legacy of being the meanest city in America, apparently, Orlando has now taken to the woods to chase the homeless out of the City Beautiful. Regular readers might recall the saga of Robert “Scooter” Searles and his brethren (and a few sistren), who are living in a patch of…
MAILSACK
LARGELY SUCCESSFUL We own and operate HUE, Cityfish, Kres and Citrus. On average, we serve over 1,500 guests per day among the four restaurants. That’s over half a million guests that are coming downtown `in a year`. I understand the purpose of your article `“Don’t worry,” April 17` was to cast doubt on the venue financial…
NOT FADE AWAY
It takes about four hops and six steps to clear the viscous mud between the parking lot and the entrance to the modest-sized shed known as the Dungeon. Tucked in the back of a pool bar, away from the piercing streetlights of Orange Blossom Trail, it’s in this dim, smoke-filled room with faint traces of…
SOME BADASS BARD
The Orlando Shakespeare Theater marks the end of its 19th season with a production of one of the Bard’s most popular plays, Macbeth, and this weekend is your last chance to catch this visually stunning and hauntingly beautiful production. Director Jim Helsinger delivers a work of art complete with killer special effects that help to…
SERIOUS BUSINESS
The telephone rings, and a voice on the other end says that Anonymous is in crisis mode. It’s March 13, two days before Anonymous’ second protest against the Church of Scientology, and things are starting to get serious. Rumors abound that Scientologists are flying in investigators from church headquarters in Clearwater to Washington, D.C. Reports…
GUITAR STRIKES QUIRKY KEY (AND NEEDS MORE ANDREW)
No movie would seem less suited to adaptation as a cheery musical than the kinky 1954 opus Johnny Guitar, radical director Nicholas Ray’s film-noir take on the heretofore predictable and realistically stylized Hollywood horse opera. Ray’s off-kilter psychological tale of a feisty, pants-wearing female saloonkeeper and her ex-lover, a retired gunslinger and ne’er-do-well (played respectively…
Ben Stein’s “Expelled”
Screenings of Ben Stein’s “Expelled” continue at several movie theaters. Here’s what Steve Schnieder had to say in his First Shot movie column in the 4-24 issue, hitting the streets right now: Just last week, we were lamenting that some small, left-of-center pictures continue to bypass Orlando. Well, former Nixon flunky and glorified game-show host…
While we’re at it … Seth gets downhearted
In Live Active Cultures in the 4/24 issue, arts ambassador Seth Kubersky has to ask, “Where are the ticket-buyers, and how can artists find them?” after the recent festival of Beckett plays. Read the full column when it hits the streets and website late Wednesday. In any case, if you can answer his question, write…
