one door closes, another opens.
Too many restaurant closings lately! It’s nice to announce good news for once: I heard a couple of weeks ago that Funky Monkey would be opening a second location at Pointe Orlando, and now I have pictures (no interior shots yet, but there will be a separate lounge in addition to all that ou tdoor…
Hey so imagine that: All those politically convenient “terror alerts” were, in fact, politically motivated
The source on this is none other than Tom Ridge, the very same guy who raised the terror alerts as the first DHS secretary under W. Reports Politico: Tom Ridge confirms a long-held suspicion among Bush critics, writing in his new autobiography that he “was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of…
Apply directly to the scalp
WWII epic is Tarantino’s bst since ‘Pulp Fiction’
Bite your tongue
From lengua to al pastor, neighborhood joint does tacos right
Infection of body and mind
Infection of body and mind Douglas Hoffman Through Sept. 5 at Bold Hype Gallery 1844 E. Winter Park Road 407-629-2965; www.boldhype.net Free Delicious yet deadly, Brooklyn artist Douglas Hoffman’s writhing, biomechanical world reeks of post-apocalyptic cultural schisms, post-plague survival and post-invasion hybrid species. This emerging artist’s exceptionally intense depiction of the alienated self, threatened by…
Native staging
Native staging Summer Shorts 2009 Through Aug. 22 at Greater Orlando Actors Theatre 669 Cherry St., Winter Park 407-522-6284 www.playwrightsroundtable.org $15 Playwrights’ Round Table is celebrating its 12th year of writing, workshopping and producing theatrical efforts by area playwrights. The group’s Summer Shorts 2009 just premiered seven short works at the back-in-action stage on Cherry…
When in Fort Lauderdale…
When in Fort Lauderdale … Police Women of Broward County 9 p.m. Thursday, the Learning Channel Instead of reviewing the very first episode (which aired Aug. 6), here are 14 lessons viewers learned about Broward County and about law enforcement therein. Lesson 1: Broward has beautiful beaches (by day) and dank ghettos (at night). And…
Stayin’ alive
Ex-Fugees producer John Forté keeps a low profile these days. Only a couple of people in the world have his home phone number. Forté has a new day job, working with teenage children of incarcerated parents through a program called In Arms Reach, which shows kids how to use songwriting as a form of catharsis.…
Looking beyond the ‘Afghan Girl’
Snapped in 1984 at the Nasir Bagh Afghani refugee camp in Pakistan, the famous “Afghan Girl” photograph shot its subject and creator to worldwide fame when it landed on the National Geographic cover, but the green-eyed child lifted to iconic status remained anonymous. Viewers found the girl beautiful, captivating and haunting, but she hailed from…
The local lie
This new variation on corporate greenwashing — “local-washing” — is, like the Buy Local movement itself, most advanced in the context of food. Hellmann’s, the mayonnaise brand owned by the processed-food giant Unilever, is test-driving a new “Eat Real. Eat Local” initiative in Canada. The ad campaign aims to enhance the brand simply by associating…
Hosed, again
; ‘You made me a fool.” ; Steve Clelland is seething. The president of the Orlando Professional Firefighters, IAFF Local 1365, is between meetings with city commissioners and recounting his interactions with city officials over the phone to a reporter. The city’s negotiations with Clelland’s union have dragged on for four contentious months, but now,…
Blister
It starts like this, the fourth drink, the fifth drink, the minor fall and the major lift drink, and then, somehow, minus gravity or sense of place, the spinning top of too many ideas allowed too much realization at the expense of any tangible discipline takes on a horror spin all its own. Centrifugal forces…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Maybe you weren’t listened to very attentively as a child. Perhaps you were dressed in clothes you didn’t like, hugged only three times a year and fed food you were allergic to. I suppose it’s even possible that your parents were psychotic drug dealers who kept you chained to a radiator…
Savage Love
I just turned 20 and have been out of the closet for a year. A lesbian friend wants to hook me up with her gay friend (let’s call him Kyle), a cute, fit boy who runs track and does theater. The issue is, he’s just 17 and starting his senior year in high school, while…
This Little Underground
RIP, Les Paul. Where would rock music be without him? The beat The haymaker of the week came via the one-two punch of Davila 666 and Jacuzzi Boys (Aug. 9, Will’s Pub). In their headlining set, Puerto Rican troublemakers Davila 666 kicked out boozed-up, balls-out garage rock that’s as dirty and infectious as a used…
Happytown
And now it’s time for another edition of What’s Up With Alan?™, our attempt to keep you up to date on the comings and goings of Orlando’s favorite congressman, Alan Grayson! This week’s installment finds Alan getting into a pissing match with Republicans over lobbyists, and staring down a bunch of tea-baggers at his very…
Police Beat
July 30 (2009-361968) 9:31 p.m.: The world, dear friends, is ripping apart at the seams. If it’s not scared old people disrupting health-care town halls, it’s Miley Cyrus hitting the stripper pole at the Teen Choice Awards. If it’s not Sarah Palin bemoaning Orwellian “death panels,” it’s some douche in a Saab ramming another guy…
Comments
I feel bad about my dreck I’m afraid I strongly disagree with my old friend and onetime colleague John Thomason on his review of Julie & Julia `”Overcooked,” Aug. 6`. But this isn’t because the film was particularly good. In fact, it’s Thomason’s overkill one-star rating that puts me in the unenviable position of having…
