Local Kid-Music Album ‘Do Fun Stuff’ Tops the iTunes Charts!
Well, Ellen DeGeneres may not have responded (yet!) to the tweet-bomb that was hurled her way in the name of Do Fun Stuff, but apparently music-buyers have noticed. As of right about now – on the album’s day of release – it’s sitting atop the iTunes charts for children’s music. Yeah, it not only beat…
The power of suggestion compels you!
Once the dust settled, it would appear that Takers took the top spot at the box office away from The Last Exorcism (as initially estimated on Sunday), but the found-footage demon-possession movie still earned a respectable $20.3 million and will prove far more profitable for its studio than the heist flick will. The thing is,…
You’re outta touch, I’m outta time
What becomes a hermit most? If you believe the entertainment press, it’s simply staying off their own myopic radar. Or that of any of the industry power-slugs they embrace as their own. Maybe the days are finally gone when the Academy Awards used to treat Woody Allen like a leper just because he chose to…
The matter of the missing “Micmacs”
When I told you at the beginning of July that Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Micmacs would be opening at the end of the month, I meant it. When I told you at the beginning of August that it’d be opening at the end of that month, I meant it then too. Alas, The Girl Who Played with…
G-spot
Barrie Freeman brings her global charm to DeBary
The devilâ??s in the details
A well-executed exorcist tale breathes new life into the genre
Celtic pride
A good story is kept within the margins in this fantastical fairy tale
The really red shoes
A love story with dance and Communism steps with soft feet
Happytown
Here comes a train wreck! Probably the strangest thing to come out of the seemingly endless battle over SunRail (and high-speed rail) clogging the political arteries of the Sunshine State has been the continued reference to its potential for killing people. After all, most of us curl up into the bumbling cabooses of our sepia-toned…
Sweet beginnings
Blue Bird Bake Shop 3122 Corrine Drive 407-228-3822 www.bluebirdbakeshop.com Pinkberry 7600 Dr. Phillips Blvd. 407-354-0890 www.pinkberry.com www.pinkberry.com Overactive appetite for dessert? If so, these two recent openings will likely pose a challenge to your self-control. First, creative cupcake baker Jeff Lambert has unveiled the retail incarnation of his Blue Bird Bake Shop. The charming Audubon…
DVDs Nuts!
Ajami ;; It’s such a shame when a marketing company does a disservice to a great film, as Ajami’s campaign has done here. Proclaiming this Oscar-nominated film by co-writers and directors Scandar Copti (an Arab) and Yaron Shani (a Jew) akin to Paul Haggis’ hack-tastic Crash, they trivialize a gritty, gripping, labyrinthine story of the…
Building the perfect beast
When Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer first uttered his ‘live, work and play’ mantra early in his tenure to describe cultural connectivity specific to the city’s downtown core, he probably didn’t have this in mind. A typical Tuesday lunchtime sampling of the Orange Avenue thoroughfare produces little evidence of a socioeconomic experiment gone right: A smattering…
This Little Underground
When I first moved to Orlando, I started going to school at Westridge Middle where the re-districting gentrification effort immersed me in the hardcore rap sounds of Public Enemy and N.W.A. Their cacophonous attack reflected the fury and paranoia of that zeitgeist and made for a dizzyingly thrilling soundtrack. And man did the recent Phat-N-Jazzy…
All smiles
Rabbit! Connect the Dots (Rock Salt) ‘Jellybean, jellybean/You’re my automatic sunshine machine.’ ‘Who’s got the magic? I do!’ ‘I’ve got a brand-new chap stick that you think tastes like grape.’ Despite bearing the heft of 17 songs over the course of 45 minutes, the debut album from Mt. Dora-based popsters Rabbit!, Connect the Dots, concludes…
Culture 2 Go
One guy, too many girls Some Girl(s) Through Aug. 29 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center 812 E. Rollins St. 407-872-8451 http://goatgroup.org $18 Maybe it’s a musty shoebox buried deep under your bed. Perhaps there’s a photo album hidden on a high shelf or a folder of old files on an unassuming USB stick. Whatever the form,…
Grandfather of ghoulishness
Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey Through Oct. 31 at Orlando Museum of Art 2416 N. Mills Ave. 407-896-4231 www.omart.org $8 Once in a while, artwork mirrors the vast gulf between our culture today and how it was even a few short decades ago. Such is the art of Edward Gorey (1925-2000), whose children’s…
Heavy meddle
Copper theft is still big business. In 2006, Orlando formed its own copper-theft task force, and in 2008 the Orlando Police Department busted a copper-theft ring run by a family that was selling stolen copper to pay the bills. The sale of stolen copper even prompted Florida to pass a law in 2008 that requires…
Live Active Cultures
Print is dead. I know that’s a pessimistic proclamation from someone trying to scratch out a living as a writer, but all around I see signs that the end of ink on pulp is nigh. I hear it in the desperation from friends throughout the paper-based publishing industry, and I see it in the surge…
Police Beat
Aug. 11 ; (2010-376765) – 2:26 p.m.: It’s hard to know what to make of this one: Police conducted a traffic stop “using all overhead lights and siren.” Apparently they were chasing a bicyclist. (What kind of traffic violation could a cyclist make that warrants that kind of display, anyway?) The cyclist found the whole…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Why should you work harder than everyone else? Why is it up to you to pick up the slack when others are suffering from outbreaks of laziness and incompetence? And why should you be the fearless leader focused on fixing the glitches and smoothing over the rough patches when no one…
Savage Love
I lost my virginity last night. I’m a straight male in my early 30s, so it was about time. It wasn’t awkward, and we had a good time. However, I didn’t climax during sex, which is a result of years of death-grip masturbation. (Thanks for the warning, Dan, I’m sorry I didn’t heed it.) She…
Sure to set back the breastfeeding movement a thousand years
Cultural difference or just plain exhibitionism? We almost hate ourselves for sharing this unsettling photo posted on the Baltimore Sun’s Unleashed blog about an Indian woman who nurses her pet calf in public and has become an “attraction” in her village.
Grayson hops into a pool of estrogen! (and still hates us)
With everybody’s post-primary-night hangovers firmly in check, U.S. Rep Alan Grayson – who now gleefully faces stodgy old woman-hater Daniel Webster in the November general election – made a strategic move toward strengthening his base: getting public endorsements from the region’s power-ladies at an 11 a.m. “Women for Grayson” event held at his downtown headquarters…
The sore thumb
Deftones with Baroness 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 27 House of Blues, 407-934-2583 www.hob.com $26.75-$28.75 $26.75-$28.75 It’s 2010. Nobody talks about Limp Bizkit, Korn or Papa Roach anymore except as a punch line. Bands like Trapt, Hed PE, Flyleaf and Mudvayne seem like hazy, shameful memories of an era when, really, you should have known better.…
Vote! Vote! Vote!
IT’S ALMOST OVER!!!!!!! Except not really. Today is primary election day, and if our downtown experience this morning is anything to go by — the relative incompetence of unpaid workers ping-ponging you back and forth from outdated computer to outdated computer before finally allowing for the fact that you are indeed a human being –…
