What You’re Doing This Weekend
Quite a bit, it looks like: … and a little Christmas-y, too! Saturday, Dec. 19 Marc With a Câ??s Holiday Bash [Stardust Video] Watch Me Disappear CD release, with the New Lows, Happy Valley, Liquid Limbs [Willâ??s Pub] The Legendary JCâ??s [The Social] Between the Trees [Back Booth] The Actomatics, Preacher Bill & the Prophets…
No KO
Self-contained theater drama thrills, but only with its Welles
Talking Turkey
Anatolia brings a new and notable dining experience
DVDs Nuts!
Funny People In a recent interview, Matthew Perry said of his stint on the short-lived TV show Studio 60, “I don’t think it delved highly enough into how broken people are who `put on` a comedy show.” Judd Apatow’s love letter to comedians, Funny People, was not afraid to jump headfirst into the waters of…
Blister
There are things whizzing around — misshapen puzzle pieces from old grandma Milton Bradley bridge portraits never completed, little scabs of a torrid history and fresher blushes of sexual embarrassment, empty suitcases from mental holidays — all composing a cantata of loose ends on fire and forming a Saturn-like ring around my head. It’s as…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I don’t understand why astronomers are so devoid of flair. Here’s a prime example: They found a blazar, or blazing quasi-stellar object, in a faraway galaxy, powered by a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion times larger than our sun. Why did they give this fantastic oddity the crushingly boring name…
Savage Love
I’ve been married four years and have a beautiful baby boy with my husband. I enjoy sex a lot, even a bit of BDSM. My husband, on the other hand, isn’t “driven by sex,” as he likes to put it, and will try tying me up if that’s what I “really want.” You’d think if…
Happytown
We’re getting commuter rail! Soon, you’ll be able to get there from here and back again and stuff. A pretty slight representation of the state Senate voted during their special session Dec. 8 (27 yea, 10 nay) to finally take the infrastructural leap of faith that will connect imaginary place Poinciana to imaginary place DeBary…
Police Beat
Starting this issue, beloved readers, we expand our criminal horizons to include a few reports from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) and even one from the Kissimmee Police Department (KPD). Not all deeds dastardly or wacky are confined within the limits of Orlando. Dec. 6 (OCSO) 4 a.m.: Deputies hosted 15 other police agencies…
Council Watch
The city got a toy train for Christmas and it was all anybody wanted to talk about at this week’s civic knitting circle. While most comments from the commissioners included a brown-nosing caveat of congratulations directed at Mayor Dyer’s great crevasse, the SunRail deal did elicit a couple of performances from some of the most…
This Little Underground
Let’s all just agree that a free, heartfelt high-five (or butt-slap, your call) will suffice as a gift this year, OK? There, another world problem solved. The beat I’ll always be a huge Nitzer Ebb fan. When they first emerged, their provocative, militaristic stomp completely shattered my then-conventional notions of dance music. Being in my…
Solving the â??09 problem
Historically, years ending in the number nine don’t bode well for music. In a way, it’s the screw-off year of each decade, the one in which musical tastes slacken with generic apathy, cultural exhaustion and anxiety over the turning of a new aesthetic leaf. For example, 1979 was defined by the end of disco, but…
The Lion in Winter
Putting up your dukes The Lion in Winter Through Dec. 20 at Mad Cow Theatre 105 S. Magnolia Ave. 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com $24-$26 If you think that spending time with your family over the Christmas holidays is stressful, be glad that you’re not one of the early Plantagenets, the royal family descended from Henry II. In…
Eitharong: Both sides now
Paradoxes Portrayed: Drawings and Assemblages by Ummarid Eitharong Through Feb. 28 at the Museum of Florida Art 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand 386-734-4371 www.museumoffloridaart.org $3 Even for his many patrons and fans, who for years watched Ummarid “Tony” Eitharong’s elegant large-scale works take top honors at street shows and exhibits and enter major collections, his…
The scarlet letter
‘The people around here will talk your head off,” says “Jay,” a resident of the Lake Shore Village mobile home park on North Orange Blossom Trail near Silver Star Road, as he climbs into the passenger side of my car at the neighborhood’s railroad-track-lined entrance. Jay — who would prefer not to use his real…
Railroaded
Big doings downtown today as Gov. Charlie â??Choo-Chooâ?� Crist made a stop to celebrate the wonder that is going to be commuter rail. Platitudes fell from lips, onlookers looked on politely, hands got shaken, Buddy Dyer made a reference to the â??rail renaissance,â?� photos were snapped and nothing really happened of any importance at all.…
