Pintura Project ’09: Writing’s on the wall
Mark it: Pintura Project ’09 Noon-8 p.m. Saturday, April 25 RV’s warehouse complex 630 W. Central Blvd., Orlando $10 Time for the second annual graffiti jam, organized by E.S. and the Pintura Project. It’s the same place as last year, but E.S. says there will just be more of everything — more space, more writers.…
Bohemian rhapsody
Eastern European delights at homey hideaway
A man falls in the Forest Ridge Mall
Seth Rogen’s mall cop could have been a ‘Taxi Driver’
Vanishing interest
Comedy about a has-been mentalist fails to bring the magic
This Little Underground
The latest incoming call on the red phone at the Rock & Roll Mansion announced the launch of the Gone & Records website (gonenrecords.com). More than just a one-stop shop for the forward-thinking, outlandish local label, though, it’s a window into the wildly creative sector of Orlando’s art underground, currently one of the most fertile…
Live Active Cultures
The only thing not in short supply these days is the buckets of blood-red ink saturating our state and local finances, turning legislative chambers into economic abattoirs. As always, taxpayer-supported art is first in line for the sharp shock of the budgetary butcher blade. So, while alphabet-soup atrocities like the FCAT and MBI can count…
Police Beat
March 26 (2009-141905) 8:22 a.m.: You know what’s awesome? Trying to put out a newspaper when your server keeps crashing. Welcome to my day. A woman’s Hyundai — a car company not living off the federal dole right now — was stolen out of her Delaney Avenue garage “without forced entry.” (2009-141958) 8:53 a.m.: Two…
Happytown
What’s that sound? It’s Buddy Dyer’s dream of a tourist-financed urban utopia crashing to the ground under the cold, bitter weight of — what’s that thing? — reality. On April 2, the Orange County comptroller’s office reported that in February county resort taxes had dropped off nearly 30 percent from where they were a year…
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Safe and faggoty I happened to read “The magic homo” `Feb. 26`. I really liked it. I’m glad someone else noticed this thing going on in films and TV. I was calling it the “Uncle Tomming of gays.” I’ve started seeing a lot of fluffy, safe faggoty behavior in movies and TV. It’s very reminiscent…
Celebration is also a farewell
Dish CD Release Party with Ladyfair 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15 The Social 407-246-1419 all ages $8 $8 The stellar DeLand garage-country-rock band Dish is becoming a solo project. The brotherly duo of Roberto and Nathaniel Aguilar are currently riding great early buzz on their debut album, Ma Raison de Vivre Ton Amour, including a…
Chopped and shrewd
Black Dice Repo (Paw Tracks) I.U.D. The Proper Sex (The Social Registry) Odd Nosdam T.I.M.E. Soundtrack (Anticon) Experimental music’s dirty little secret is that there’s usually an underlying sense of consistency to the genre’s byproducts, a logic that renders, say, Prurient, Jason Crumer or Yellow Tears palatable. Listen to enough Wolf Eyes — even the…
Theater:The Seminole â?? Art of the Seminole: 1820-1950
The Seminole — Art of the Seminole: 1820-1950 Through April 26 at Maitland Art Center, Maitland; $3; 407-539-2181; www.maitlandartcenter.org After talking to artist Therman Statom about his massive glass art installation at the Orlando Museum of Art (“Glass roots,” April 2), my curiosity was piqued about his African-American-Seminole heritage; his family is from the Winter…
Theater:Say When
Say When Through May 4 at BoldHype Gallery; free; 407-629-2965; www.boldhype.net Jason Limon’s diamond-shaped acrylic on custom panels, “Seclusion,” was red-tagged as sold by the time I got to the Say When opening last Saturday (April 4) at BoldHype, next to Stardust Video & Coffee. And so were a few other paintings (three to date,…
Theater:Fully Committed
Fully Committed Through April 26 at Mad Cow Theatre; $22 (except for the pay-what-you-wish performance April 22); 407-297-8788; www.madcowtheatre.com I have been a Jay Becker fan for a long time, having enjoyed this protean actor’s portrayals in the Orlando theater scene for almost two decades. He has endlessly delighted me with his ability to take…
Coup d’etat
For a guy who’s lost a string of battles lately, Deon Long has a remarkable sense of self-assurance. In August, he lost a campaign for the state Republican committee. In December, the Winter Park lawyer lost a bid to become Orange County Republican Executive Committee chairman by one vote. Claiming that incumbent OCREC chairman Lew…
All the news that’s fit to censor
It started with a frivolous teenage e-mail. A Boone High School student, fed up with what he considered a poorly conceived move by Orange County Public Schools superintendent Ron Blocker, registered a complaint from his home computer on the school board’s website. Last fall, Blocker controversially swapped the schedules of the county’s middle and high…
Blister
It’s been a long life of mixing the brights with the whites in the agitating tub of self-consciousness. For every calamity bonfire of plane crashes, broken hearts and dopamine-rushed cerebral manipulations, there exists the vacuum of silent doubt, thrice-crushed disappointment and an inability to extricate my bony ass from the potting soil of self-imposed isolation.…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your role model for the coming week is George Garratt, a British guy who legally changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined. Like him, I hope you will be extravagant as you re-imagine your self-image and playful as you take serious…
Savage Love
I recently discovered, accidentally, while moving things out of my 16-year-old son’s room prior to a renovation, a cache of my sex toys that had mysteriously disappeared over the past year. While I’ve wondered how it was possible to misplace a glow-in-the-dark crucifix-shaped dildo (complete with Jesus in relief), it never dawned on me that…
