Cattle Call: In case you’ve always wanted to be an idiot
The Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park presents Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, a re-imagining of the Peanuts gang as high school students. Because the depressing efforts of a well-meaning child to gain even mild respect from his peers are so much more hilarious when played out against the horror of puberty. Anyway,…
You donâ??t call, you donâ??t write
Robert DeNiro slums it in a guilt-filled drama for seniors
Cain and A-hole
A delicately handled take on post-traumatic sibling rivalry
Hot house
Tapas bar is named after the famed tomato-tossing festival
High-pitched hummus
The UCF area is a mecca of drive-through and ‘fast casualâ?� restaurants that focus more on heft than health. Hummus House, the area’s latest pita joint, is a welcome option for both omnivores looking for fresh, unprocessed food and vegetarians craving more than just tofu or lettuce. But Hummus House isn’t all garbanzo beans and…
Happytown
Remember when Church Street Station used to be all about quick-sketched giant-head caricatures, nickel beers, copped feels, penny-crushing machines and bused-in British tourists? Remember how locals would scurry around the midway past old-style apothecaries to find refuge for a toke back behind the railroad relics? Well, that’s not happening now. In fact, for the past…
Police Beat
Editor’s note: Jeffrey C. Billman has moved away and is no longer all that interested in crime in Orlando. Therefore, we’ve turned this column over to our newest staff writer, Jim Gaines, who has a deep and abiding fascination with all things criminal. We think you’ll like him. First, however, Billman would like to say…
Comments
A scholarly critique of Bao No matter what you `Bao Le-Huu` say in your column, it is only your opinion and it sucks `This Little Underground, Nov. 26`. You don’t support all the “ass-busters” in this community. You write insulting, self-serving reviews which only support your drinking buddies, most of which suck and can’t play…
Live Active Cultures
I navigate the narrow side street off 17-92, passing an array of aging industrial buildings that barely muffle the rumble of the railroad tracks behind. I pull into the darkened parking lot, make a quick call, knock once on the warehouse’s locked blue door. “Come on in, but be careful,” says Dina Mack as she…
Eyeing the tides
Capgun Coup with Cursive, the New Lows 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 The Social 407-246-1419 $12-$14 $12-$14 One of Pulp Fiction’s finest assets remains its opening theme. In the first scene of Quentin Tarantino’s much-imitated 1994 flick, two lovey-dovey robbers inconspicuously plot their next job inside a diner. After a little conversation, they decide to…
Still searching for Philip K. Dick
While married to his third wife, Anne, author Philip K. Dick enjoyed perhaps his most fertile creative period. During the years 1958 to 1964, most of which he spent in Point Reyes, Calif., Dick penned 17 novels, including several of his most celebrated works: The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer…
Attack of the killer artwork!
What does it say about our pop culture when The Twilight Saga: New Moon (featuring a she-wolf) and Shakira’s unrelated She Wolf CD both dropped before Black Friday? It says that women, witches and wolves are hot, as has been the case for a very long time. In these parts, we’ve got another lycanthropic temptress…
Out of sight, out of mind
The call to save our wounded planet has packed millions into movie theaters, spawned political action groups and even inspired a current Tropicana orange juice marketing campaign. But a recent national survey of attitudes about global warming suggests that over the past few years a growing number of Americans have changed their minds about the…
DVDs Nuts!
AK 100: 25 Films of Akira Kurosawa When the ultra-art house Criterion DVD line debuted in 1998, the second title to get their reverent restoration treatment (after Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion) was Japanese directorial master Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Now, more than 10 years and nearly 500 releases later, Criterion celebrates what would have been…
Blister
Beyond good and evil, there is marriage: that antiquated social contract disguised as a torn page from a glossy magazine full of tampon ads, but lacking in explanations. All that preening and squeezing and upward pushing toward an amorphous ideal that is best qualified as — is indeed celebrated as — a mere moment, a…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) When Carolee Schneeman was a kid, her extravagant adoration of nature earned her the nickname “mad pantheist.” Later, during her career as a visual artist, she described her relationship with the world this way: “I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and…
Savage Love
I’m a longtime reader who thought I’d never have a reason to write since I’m universally known as the “good girl,” but I’m not sure who else I can turn to. I have a close male friend. Even though I knew he was dating someone else, we became friends-with-benefits several years ago. Because of his…
