On-the-job braining
Just one week into preview performances of Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and the big question is not, “How quickly is this thing going to close?” but, “How many people is it going to kill?” It wasn’t until this past Friday that it became clear lead actress Natalie Mendoza hadn’t merely been stranded above…
Impromptu Album Review: Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now
Duran Duran All You Need Is Now (Tapemodern) Somewhere toward the end of Duran Duran’s 13th studio release, All You Need Is Now, a creepy familiarity comes over. “Do you know where we are?” singer Simon Le Bon sidles up next to you in an imaginary limousine for a “Chauffer” ride into metaphoric bestiality. The…
Tweetie pie
Social media-savvy pizza company carves out a niche
Subprime suspects
Michael Hudson gets inside the lives of predatory lending’s victims and perps
Masters of puppets
Crime and Puppetment
Welcome to the Rileys
Kristen Stewart proves yet again she’s most comfortable in indie world
It takes two
Newborn indie group Bad Books thrive on their effortless alliance
Savage Love
I’m a 21-year-old woman with bi-curious
Court on trial
Plan to create veterans treatment court lacks resources
Comments
Don’t fuck with Rubio It seems that you are trying to pin Marco Rubio (“Victor Victoria,” Nov. 25) for the reasons why our economy is bad and why so many people lost their jobs. Funny thing is that he’s not in Washington yet and wasn’t part of that debacle. I believe that he was elected…
Happytown
Sure, you love Jesus when you’re shopping. But what about the gays and the homeless people?
Howl
Franco is Ginsberg in this offbeat visual poem
Room for more
Blues-rock greats the Black Keys alter their duo dynamic
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Physicist Stephen Hawking believes it would be dangerous to get in touch with extraterrestrial creatures. “If aliens visit us,” he says, “the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” Those who’ve studied the teeming evidence for UFOs would say…
Our dumb state
Yet another installment of our semi-regular compendium of idiocy
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Live Active Cultures
Giving thanks for old friends and good times at the final performance of AntiBabe
Famed AIDS memorial quilt on display at the Center tonight
You probably knew that today is World AIDS Day, but perhaps you didn’t know that The Center has a couple pieces of the “AIDS Memorial Quilt,” and will be showing it until at least 10 o’clock tonight and throughout the day tomorrow. The Quilt, property of the NAMES Project Foundation, is considered the “largest piece…
Local Indie Calendar for December
All dates are subject to change (especially the Christmas stuff). 12/3 – climate change documentary Cool It (Winter Park), the Allen Ginsberg biopic Howl (Enzian), the apparently awful The Nutcracker 3D (Oviedo/Pointe*Orlando), the James Gandolfini-Kristen Stewart drama Welcome to the Rileys (Winter Park) 12/4-5 – Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase (Enzian) 12/10 – Gemma Arterton…
Merry Punk Rock Christmas … from the Attack
Things I love: 1) Local punk rock band the Attack. [youtube KiVaI37s9Dw] 2) Christmas novelty songs. [youtube 5ysfQjKKi70] So the arrival in my inbox last night of an MP3 of a new punk rock Christmas song by the Attack (covering the Kinks, no less) … well, that pretty much guaranteed that the ALMOST NEAR SORTA…
