Wes Pierce’s Nuts.
Seriously. Wes Pierce is nuts. Our favorite old-school letter-writer – you can find his archive of OW-related asylum-wall ramblings thoughtful responses here – is like the fly in our ointment that we welcome if only for the brief company it provides. Every so often, Mr. Pierce dials the feedback up a notch – he once…
How to cope with Scott Pilgrim’s precious little box office
Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World opened in fifth place last weekend with $10.6 million — that is to say, more people turned out to see Inception in its fifth week than Pilgrim in its first. Twice as many women went to see Eat Pray Love, and three times as many men checked out…
Das coot
Robert Duvall hams it up as yet another crotchety old man
Numbers game
Famous former football coach plays high steaks game
Tapped out
We Americans are an obstinate bunch. We don’t want to change our lifestyles, even when confronted with evidence that our creature comforts are slowly killing us. I’ll never forget when, back in college, a friend of mine saw Fast Food Nation in its opening weekend and proceeded to dine at McDonald’s right after the screening.…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the 18th century, the French Academy laid down rules about the differences between professional and amateur paintings. It was decreed that true artists must create a “licked surface,” hiding all evidence of their brushstrokes. The illusion was more convincing that way; viewers could sink their attention into the image without…
Savage Love
My boyfriend and I are straight college students, and he always wants to try new things. Recently, he asked to put a finger in my ass while we were having sex. Someone did that to me before, but it felt uncomfortable and it kinda hurt. I told my boyfriend that he could do it once,…
Council Watch
Outside, hot water pelted ;the mini-skyscraper of our mini-metropolis, while inside the hot water washed around in a more litigious manner. Specifically, the city had in recent weeks been put on the legal defensive for two of its forward-thinking gun jumps: the dubious red-light-camera-as-code-enforcement maneuver (the state changed the law to allow said cameras, but…
Happytown
Editor’s note: This column has been edited for clarification. Make it stop! The fetid stench of acrimony and its obstacle course of cardboard yard-sign vanity, the televised attack ads, the curled up mailers warping in the afternoon storms like so many dead trees, the realization that for the next three months you are literally going…
Police Beat
Aug. 6 ; (2010-368472) 2:36 p.m. – A pain-pill scofflaw who passed forged prescriptions at a Walgreens months ago was finally picked up. The report says that on May 18, a pharmacist at a Walgreens was “unable” to verify a prescription for a customer “therefore the prescription was filled and given to the arrestee.” We’re…
Comments
Executive decisions I held fundraisers for both Teresa Jacobs and Linda Stewart (“It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad mayor’s race!” Aug. 5). I’d like to see both candidates in the general election. Teresa is strong in many areas I feel has the skill set to be a strong mayor … and although I was at…
Live Active Cultures
A long time ago, in a New Jersey suburb far, far away … a pre-preschool mini-me gazed at a newspaper and pointed at the picture of the metal man and his trash-can companion. That moment, one of my earliest clear memories, marked my initiation into lifelong Star Wars fandom. From standing in line on opening…
Balls out
Under the sweltering summer sun on a playing field in south Orlando, a group of young women in workout shorts and sports bras stands in a loose huddle, focused on their coach. They’re all long legs, lean bodies and ponytails; from a distance you can catch a glimmer of nail polish or the glint of…
Going off the rails
What Moves You? 6-11 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 19 at CityArts Factory 29 S. Orange Ave. 407-648-7060 www.cityartsfactory.com Free Where does a journey begin and end? For each of the artists showing work in this week’s Third Thursday opening at City Arts Factory, that question has a different answer. The show features installations by 15 local…
This Little Underground
Brain drain tends to happen to still-developing scenes that are home to talented people like ours, but Danny and Jenny Feedback are two homegrown musicians who return this month. That may not sound like a stampede, but they’re both big presences who represent a small army of bands between them, not least of which are…
Surviving the hash tag
Collie Buddz with Slightly Stoopid, Cypress Hill 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 20 Hard Rock Live, 407-351-5483 www.hardrocklive.com $35 Ask pro-cannabis advocate Collie Buddz about the Legalize It 2010 tour and he says, “I’ve been on a high since day one.” Whether or not the Bermuda-based reggae star intended it, the inclusion of a weed reference…
Culture 2 Go
Diverse backgrounds Mechanized Underground Through Aug. 27 at Creative Spirit Art Gallery 820A Lake Baldwin Lane 407-898-8343 www.creativespiritartgallery.com free Don’t let the title of this exhibit mislead you: The work of the three artists represented here — Christopher “Tobar” Rodriguez, Nyahzul and Brian Adams — is not mechanized (or mechanical) in any way. In fact,…
DVDs Nuts!
Cemetery Junction Typically, this column offers a few choice cuts from the week’s releases, but this week’s selection goes out to one film that’s so puzzling, so rich with possibilities both fulfilled and left for dead that it merits some breathing room of its own. Cemetery Junction is the new film written and directed by…
