Trade cell phones for OSC tickets
So who’s laughing now at the bag-o-cell-phones that’s been gathering dust at my house. Just a week before the garage sale to get rid of them, here comes Orlando Science Center with a recycling promotion: Free Admission to the Science Center in Exchange For Your Old Cell Phone “Thanks to Nokia, people can bring their…
Beyond the sea
Turkish drama celebrates life without spiritual borders
Overcooked
A film about French cuisine as disposable as a McDonald’s run
Blood in the water
A new documentary sheds light on the Japanese dolphin slaughter and revisits SeaWorld’s sins of the past
As their heir looms
Banal estate planning wins out over emotion in mediocre French film
If you like to watch
If you like to watch Sex Times Three Through Aug. 8 Greater Orlando Actors Theatre 669 Cherry St., Winter Park www.myspace.com/wallflowertheatre $12 (cash only) There goes the neighborhood. The Greater Orlando Actors Theatre has only been in their new space (the former Cherry Street Theater) for about a month, and they’re already inviting friends over…
Sequential summer
Herbie, Volumes 1-3 Herbie is a “big fat nothing,” according to his hothead father. All the boy wants to do is suck on lollipops and stare into space. But Herbie — as written by Richard E. Hughes with art from Ogden Whitney — has a secret life. He talks to animals and takes on odd…
Change can’t wait
Tamecka Pierce knows the trouble with health care in Florida in a way she never expected to. The 35-year-old single mother of three was diagnosed with lupus in 2007, while she was still employed in a state representative’s office and carrying a Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance card. Even then it wasn’t easy; the…
Hail seitan!
Ah, the swelter of August: how perfectly designed for the minions of the flame. Unfortunately for us vegetarians, long ago the grill was taken over by the Stubborn Men and their processed meat. The coals were put to work by hot dog and hamburger taskmasters. Driven mad by desire and urged on by endless Applebee’s…
Blister
Wow. This is better than a movie. One minute I’m sitting Monday-night solo in the quiet of the Matador, sloshing my grumbles around in a cocktail-cube symphony while overhead the absurdity of A Scanner Darkly spells its grumbles out in closed captions (“I swear to God that a toddler has a better understanding of the…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I expect that you will soon stumble upon a key secret to your next masterpiece. And I’ll be surprised if you don’t discover a healing agent that will be effective in correcting an old mistake. In fact, I prophesy that in the coming week, you will have a sense that you’re…
Savage Love
I met my girlfriend about three months ago on a social-networking website. The pictures made her look attractive and in shape. We texted each other nonstop for the first three months. This past weekend we met, and she didn’t look anything like her pictures. However, we did still have sex twice. I’m about to start…
This Little Underground
There were many quality concerts this week, but the most noteworthy of them shared one unifying quality: ardor. The beat Jason Ferguson’s blog post on BEATdown last week alluded to the frustrating performance quality that generally plagues rap shows. But as he pointed out, Atmosphere (July 30, Club Firestone), one of the cornerstones of the…
Live Active Cultures
Advance warning: I’m sure some regular readers are pleading “Enough with the puppets,” but I make no apologies for supporting these productions. Anything that can help parents get their wee ones to put down the Wii and watch some live art is worth pulling strings for. Orlando is built on fairy tales, and whether the…
Happytown
Florida’s Republicans have formed a circular firing squad and are cold poppin’ caps in each others’ asses. It’s all quite entertaining, really. And it’s happening locally and statewide. Fun for everyone! Remember a while back when we told you about Orange County Republican Executive Committee chairman Lew Oliver’s catfight with Deon Long, the Winter Park…
Police Beat
July 21 ; (2009-344605) 7:52 a.m.: You ever get back from vacation only to find a mountain of work sitting atop your desk and no desire to do any of it? Welcome to my world. I’ve got a week’s worth of e-mails to answer, a bunch of phone messages to not return and the feeling…
Lost in the Wilder
The Matchmaker Through Aug. 23 Mad Cow Theatre, 105 S. Magnolia Ave. 407-297-8788; www.madcowtheatre.com $24 I’m going to admit this bias up front: I have never understood the appeal of Thornton Wilder’s plays and cannot fathom why he is considered a major American playwright of the 20th century. In college, I appeared in a production…
Blood in the water
Private space! Private space!” These are the only English words known to the barking Japanese man keeping guard over a secret mountain cove on the Pacific Ocean in Taiji, Wakayama prefecture, on Japan’s southern coast. Taiji is a whaling community, best known for its whale museum, and the city is littered with signs, billboards and…
Far from loners
As anyone who donned a pair of white high-tops or scratched out the D.R.I. logo on a biology class notebook in the ’80s can attest, hardcore and metal have a considerable history of commingling. And while the most execrable examples of that stylistic collision have occurred in the past few years (see: metalcore), it doesn’t…
Timeless relevance
Timeless relevance The Permanent Collection Revisited Through Sept. 16 Maitland Art Center 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland 407-539-2181 www.maitlandartcenter.org $3 In the 1930s, amidst unemployment, bank failures and world financial crises, André Smith calmly set about creating an art colony in Maitland and proceeded to paint, draw and sculpt artwork that remains fresh and interesting…
