Sexy Savannah the Snake Handler on NBC Tomorrow Night!!!
Yay! So we were just at Dancers Royale (shut up), minding our own business and avoiding brushes with wayward nipples, when our phone vibrated with the most exciting news since Savannah shooting herself on Billy Manes’ toilet! Our favorite voice of rednecked reason — and Monsters/O-Rock infamy — the Sexy Savannah is scheduled to be…
Standards & poori
All your South Indian favorites, including comforting breads
Boomer bust
Woodstock shows its age with thumb-twiddling story
Where my love lies waiting
Doc tackles grief and loss far from home
A clumsy encounter
A decent love story overwritten into obscurity
Lines that move
Lines that move Blacks, Whites and Shades of Grey Through Sept. 4 at Comma Gallery 813 Virginia Drive 407-376-1400 Free While many venues for art are shuttered for the summer, Comma Gallery bravely brought a fine art show that’s now down to its last days. Blacks, Whites and Shades of Grey mixes the iconic work…
Blister
There is a disturbing silence and nothing is shaking anymore. The previously rattling nerves so often publicly dismissed as a hyperawareness — or the unstable cuteness of a cold Chihuahua — have been smoothed over like starched bedsheets with obsessively compulsive hospital corners. The darting eyes of electric observations now find themselves stilled, floating dead…
It’s all about the kids!
The numbers tell the story: According to the 2008 exit polls, Democrat Barack Obama claimed a decisive 66 percent of the under-30 vote. He won 95 percent of under-30 blacks and 76 percent of under-30 Latinos. The only age demographic Republican John McCain actually won was the 65-and-over bracket, folks who won’t be around for…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) What I wish for you this week is that you won’t be satisfied with mediocre truths; that you’ll be a fussy perfectionist focused on cutting out waste, fraud and delusion; that you’ll be itchy to know more about the unacknowledged games that are being played. Frustration, I hope, will be your…
An inauspicious death
At the crack of dawn on July 22, Joel Boner, 30, awoke to a terrifying scene. Outside his tent at an Ocoee homeless camp at the intersection of State Road 50 and Bluford Avenue, two 19-year-olds — John Hawthorne and Cameron Milner, who according to police reports had been “killing time” all night waiting to…
Savage Love
There was a letter in your column recently that must have been painful for you to receive. I refer to the letter signed God Hates You. I’m sure you’re no stranger to hate mail, but I hope you get fan mail too. But just in case: I wanted you to know that your column means…
This Little Underground
Just when I was thinking ;how mild we’ve had it so far in terms of the summer concert doldrums, the year’s most anemic week shows up. Quantity wasn’t to be had, but at least there was quality. Check it. ;; The beat ; Indie rapper Astronautalis is testing the elasticity of rap like few would…
DVDs Nuts!
Adventureland One of the most overlooked (and best) movies of this year, Greg Mottola’s paean to post-college dead-end jobs and the zombies who inhabit them is a tender, insightful and sympathetic film that makes the best use thus far of Twilight’s Kristen Stewart and her damaged-girl allure. ;; Duplicity When it comes to slick, designer-suited…
Live Active Cultures
As much as I hate to leave our humid little home, a family function up North forced me to put down my pen for the past fortnight. (Ever tried to write an arts column while dancing the hora with a stomach full of smoked fish? Bad idea.) So this week I’m celebrating my unrenowned return…
Happytown
It wasn’t exactly the day the music died, but the morning of Aug. 21 may well have been a rough one for those with periodic chest pains and pills dissolving under their tongues. ; To the tune of Don McLean’s seminally depressing “American Pie,” a couple hundred cardiologists and the people who love (or need)…
Council Watch
‘See me, hear me, touch me, do me,” or some such reverent plea for the holy act of civic kindness was the tone of guest minister the Rev. Shaun King’s tepid invocation, but it was an even more perfect setup for the bizarre rock moment that followed. Gibson Guitar’s Orlando GuitarTown calamity has come to…
Police Beat
Aug. 11 (2009-382027) 5:35 p.m.: For the first time in its four-year existence — really, has it been that long? — this column faces a moral dilemma. You see the Mug Shot of the Week, right smack there in the center of this page? Legally, we have every right to run it. Mug shots, like…
Chaat rooms
I spent many a childhood Sunday sitting in front of the console watching Godzilla flicks and eating bowl after bowl of chana batata — a curried mix of chickpeas and potatoes blended with black-eyed-pea bhajis, sprinkled with chevdo (a mix of spicy dried chickpeas, peanuts, rice puffs, wheat crisps and potato chips) and animated with…
The contrarians
The Melvins with Down, Weedeater 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2 House of Blues, 407-934-2583 $20.25-$36.25 The early ’90s were a great time to be alive if you played heavy rock in the Pacific Northwest. When Nirvana broke, the resulting tidal wave washed nearly anyone with a distorted guitar onto the shores of a major-label recording…
Rhyme directive
‘I feel like I’m not street enough to be street and I’m not nerd enough to be considered a hip-hop nerd,” says Orlando MC Godamus Rhyme at a Bumby Avenue bookstore, and he appears to be wrong on both counts, at least on the surface. Built like a freight train, with broad shoulders that test…
Steele of a deal
Steele of a deal Impressions Through Sept. 13 at AKA Lounge 68 E. Pine St.; 321-536-4442 www.akalounge.com Free An unpublicized, last-minute art show at AKA Lounge was a highlight of last week’s Third Thursday in downtown Orlando. A handful of locals are thrown into the mix, but paintings by Morgan Steele (colorful yet dark and…
Swirling away
Swirling away Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man’s Obsession With Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science by Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano Smithsonian, 304 pages If you fall into the ocean wearing Nike Airs, the only thing rescuers will find is your feet; they’ll likely surface somewhere, once inevitably freed from…
Africa, the true motherland
Africa, the true motherland The Human Family Tree 9 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30 National Geographic Channel Most of us can trace our respective family histories back to our great-grandparents — maybe even farther. But to track back our lineage for 60,000 years, we’re going to need scientists. That’s where The Human Family Tree comes in…
