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There is important information on this page. Not this. This is just from the Silly Desk, but I had to share: Avalon Park to Host Free Yoga Class to Benefit Hungry Children That’s nice and all, but don’t you think they would appreciate some food more? (2 p.m. Saturday, bring a donation of canned goods,…
Shock and Awe in O-Town
People, we’ve got controversary. Right here in the City Beautiful. With a capital “C” and that makes a sound like “K” and that rhymes with “A” and that stands for Art. (My rhythm is off, but you get the gist of it.) Tonight, and only tonight because the contents of this event are “too controversial…
BEEFY QUEEN
Get your fill of meat at this campy diner
SOLO PLUS SOME
Broken Social Scene-ster is on his own but never alone
MURDER, MAYHEM AND MUNCHIES
Seth Rogen scores again … but he’s getting winded
HAPPYTOWN
Local Republican congressman and Jack Abramoff BFF Tom Feeney would like you to know that he’s just as pissed as you are about high gasoline prices — no, more! — and it’s high time we all started blaming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for your pain at the pump, because when she took over gas was…
COMMENTS
ARFF for no meat I applaud the Weekly for running “The meat of the matter” in last week’s edition `July 31, by Deanna Morey`. I encourage your readers who found themselves disturbed by the article to consider a vegetarian diet and to get involved. Locally the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida is very active in…
WITHER WITHOUT YOU
It might have been upon hearing Axl Rose’s shot at honky-tonk on the leaked version of his mythical album-in-the-works Chinese Democracy (editor’s note: Yes, it’s exactly as bad as you imagine) when I first felt a twinge that said, “This isn’t going to end well.” Listening to the Guns N’ Roses frontman — sans Slash…
PASSIVE AGGRESSION
Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue overlaps time and words to create, as the title announces, a fugue — a polyphonic composition. Quiara Alegría Hudes has degrees in playwriting and music, which may explain how she masterfully weaves poetry and monologues (and precious little dialogue) to tell the story of three generations of a Puerto Rican family…
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING NEWSPAPER
Editor’s note: This is a corrected version of this story, updated 8/15/2008. When you picked up your copy of the Orlando Sentinel June 22, you may have noticed the splashy new graphics and truncated articles. You probably thought it was more colorful. You may have wondered why there were so many charts and graphs, or…
BLISTER
I should have known. Glaring wanly into my evening mirror face, fingers twisty-twirling directional volume into my mat of hair as if to say “anywhere but here,” sweat dripping down my (why the hell am I wearing a) suit-covered side, and then there it is: that twinge. All of the knowledge and bile, the Tic…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Do you get aroused from squeezing balloons until they explode? Do you quiver with delight as you watch popcorn pop? Have you ever been patient enough to stand in front of a ripe flower bud for hours to witness its slow explosion into full opening? If you answered yes to any…
SAVAGE LOVE
I have a cousin with whom I am very close. He recently proposed to his girlfriend. I have several issues with this, but the most important one is the fact that EVERYONE who meets this young man thinks he’s gay. (I don’t know how the girlfriend hasn’t seen it.) When I told my friends he…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Slap, slap! Wakey, wakey. Ready to roll again? Allez cuisine! DJ SPS I’ve sung the praises of Orlando’s DJ SPS high and low, specifically how his fleet- fingered sets leave my brain in little chunks dripping down the nearest wall. Well, those skills just earned the turntable killer the DMC USA Supremacy crown, a hugely…
FIRST SHOT
One of the worst things about the movie business is how little hands-on training freshman talent can get in areas that really matter. Sure, there are plenty of film schools and amateur competitions that teach students to craft their own original stories. But what’s going to prepare them to take on the only legitimate professional…
POLICE BEAT
July 25 (2008-320918) 2:13 p.m.: A guy walked into a hotel bar and tried to jack the bar’s flat-screen television. When that didn’t work, he walked into an office and removed three bottles of booze. Then he left. Even though it was the middle of the day, apparently no one was around to stop him.…
COUNCIL WATCH
Only the best city council meetings have giant plushie characters in attendance, and this week’s exercise in dumb development (hello, new downtown mixed-use hotel) was served well by National Night Out attendees McGruff the Crime Dog and some giant, wide-eyed meth-head caricature of no apparent distinction. You should have seen them praying during the invocation!…
You mean, like, Baked Alaska?
Sorry, but I just don’t think this got enough paper from us this year. Saturday is the 19th Annual Taste of the Nation… national… tasting… thing. For $100 (or $125, depending on how very important you are), you get to snack on delectable prepared by 30 chefs from Central Florida’s finest restaurants. (So that cute…
