Must the curtains match the Drapers?
Hey, are you loving those ads that are running during this season of Mad Men? You know the ones I mean: They’re 1960s period pieces set in the offices of an ad agency very much like the show’s own Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, and they depict similarly hot young execs brainstorming new campaigns for the…
Girl, interrupted
Fire goes cold in flat, cheesy sequel
Tongue Thaiâ??d
Much-touted Siamese spot brings everyday Thai to Winter Garden
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad mayor’s race!
; Someone on this stage is going to be the future leader of Orange County government,” says Gina Duncan, vice president of local gay business collective the Metropolitan Business Association (MBA), from a ballroom podium. For the past half hour, the second floor of the downtown Sheraton has been abuzz with local political notables and…
DVD Nuts!
The Ghost Writer ; Roman Polanski’s nimble and winking political thriller finds its magic through simplicity. From the easy-to-follow storyline – a ghostwriter takes on an assignment fraught with danger – to the willfully incomplex politics seen through the eyes of the relatively uninformed writer (Ewan McGregor) and the pretty-boy puppet of a prime minister…
Comments
Clucked up I think we should just throw zoning right out the window — make homeowners associations illegal too (“Clucking around,” July 28). Farm animals should be allowed in all subdivisions. Porn shops next to churches, strip clubs next to schools. There are real victims here — victims whose rights are being violated by not…
Police Beat
July 23 (2010-345851) 11:37 a.m. — Officer Ross and “members of the Echo/Alpha dayshift squad” (which sounds more important than it probably is) responded to an incident, wherein the victim “stated he was assaulted by ‘police,’ by the ‘FBI’ or by the ‘US Marshalls.'” The case is being investigated. (2010-346487) 7:36 p.m. — A house…
Happytown
It seems like only yesterday – well, actually it was just over a month ago – that we were firing exclamation points from our polemics perch in the general direction of the Florida legislature and its clumsy attempt to write hate on its arms (or onto the November ballot and later into the state’s constitution)…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The ancient Greek god Dionysus did not encourage people to get sloppy drunk, lose control and do stupid things. His preference was that they free themselves from their inhibitions by imbibing moderate amounts of alcohol. With this medicinal spur, they might get unstuck from their worn-out old behavior patterns and invite…
Savage Love
My boyfriend and I have “history.” We dated casually and weren’t ready to stop seeing other people, so we had an open relationship. This phase was awful: lots of fights, a couple minor breakups, and eventually I called it quits for good, cutting off all contact. A month later, we started talking again and decided…
Live Active Cultures
Lately I’ve been exploring entertainment options in the I-Drive area south of the city. But this week I’m back in Orlando proper, because there are certain things you can only get downtown. For example, the $2 dirty-water hot dog I had for dinner Friday. Sure, the second-rate sausage was mostly snout scraps, and my no-name…
This Little Underground
While you’re out at the Indie Summer Fest (Aug. 8) in Audubon Park this Sunday, come check out my handpicked showcase inside Big Daddy’s, especially if: A) you wanna see a sampling of Orlando’s best, or B) the sky opens up like a faucet, a la 4th Fest. It’ll feature Telethon, Great Deceivers, Dr. Moonstien,…
Dungeon masters
Six Dead Horses; Horn Tusk Antler; (self-released) Although Orlando’s Six Dead Horses formed four years ago, it wasn’t until the last couple of years that the sludge metal band has truly taken flight. After crystallizing into the steady lineup of guitarist-vocalists Scott White and John Bonser, drummer John Duvoisin and bassist Joel Stanley, they have…
Scenes from a parking lot
Indie Summer Fest with Solillaquists of Sound, Astronautalis, Bleubird, Sunbears, Viernes, Yip-Yip, Telethon, Great Deceivers, Band in Heaven, SSLOT, 1991, Dr. Moonstien, Silver Fleece, Not Them, D.P., Rabbit Rabbit, Madd Illz, Christina Wagner, Andy Matchett & the Minks, the Haps, Crash the Satellites, S.K.I.P. and more noon, Sunday, Aug. 8 at the Audubon Park Garden…
Culture 2 Go
Maitland color William Vincent Kirkpatrick: American Impressionist Through Sept. 5 at Maitland Art Center 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland 407-539-2181 www.maitlandartcenter.com $3 The American West’s beauty, mountainous landscapes, purple deserts and rugged seacoasts inspired much of American impressionism. One of the best in the genre, William Vincent Kirkpatrick, studied in 1950 at Maitland Art Center…
Whose Madden is it, anyway?
Madden NFL 11 EA Sports Releases Aug. 10 In the NFL, there are two types of quarterbacks: The ones who are allowed to call and improvise their own plays (think Drew Brees, Brett Favre and Peyton Manning) and the ones who are essentially meat puppets for their offensive coordinators (think Matthew Stafford, Tim Tebow and,…
