The biggest little mistake of Michael Cera’s career
“Nah, I don’t see it as a TV show. Maybe a movie?” Those were the last words spoken (by show narrator/executive producer Ron Howard) on the acclaimed but canceled series Arrested Development, and for the last couple of years, fans have rabidly chomped at the bit for the Bluths on the big screen. Nearly everyone…
DOUBTFUL
Streep dominates but can’t save rigid drama
FROG IN YOUR THROAT
Little green building holds colorful fare, colorful characters
THE REVERSE BE MY LOT
Despite major problems, Button holds
DO THE REICH THING
Tom Cruise isn’t WWII film’s biggest mistake
DEAD ON ARRIVAL
Miller’s de-spiriting take does mentor no favors
HAPPYTOWN
When we heard Jesus was in town working on a production of Godspell at the GOAT (Greater Orlando Actors Theatre) space and celebrating his birthday, we decided that there’s no time like the present to speak with the Lord. (Not that we don’t speak with him all the time, mind you; it’s just that this…
BLISTER
Like a diseased fly rolled up into the cheese log or a healthy squirt of cyanide shot into the nearest fruitcake, I’m suffocating my way through the pathetic cycle of Christmas cheer and waiting until my mere presence kills somebody dead. Somewhere along the tattered line — like when I actually had to start buying…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Most people spend their entire lives immersed in three modes of awareness: waking, sleeping and dreaming. But there are many other modes. Some of them aren’t interesting to me — like those sought by cocaine or methamphetamine users — while others are states I aspire to, like lucid dreaming and deep…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a 34-year-old straight woman living with a 32-year-old straight man. His daughter is 2, and I am the only mother she has ever known. (Her real mother is a crack whore somewhere.) I pay the rent and am the only person in our household with a full-time job. When I get home, I want…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Before we shelve it, here’s a last look at the year — in convenient pill size just for you! My picks for the best albums, along with those of Justin Strout and Jason Ferguson, can be found elsewhere in this issue, but the following superlatives are Underground’s other official year-end awards. I hereby present the…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
By the time you read this, the wrapping will have been ripped off your gifts, and you’ll probably be deep into yet another post-turkey coma. But here are a few last- minute arts stocking stuffers that I couldn’t cram in last week’s column. When Will’s Pub, the beloved watering hole and important independent music venue…
POLICE BEAT
Dec. 12 (2008-536321) 7:20 a.m.: So this is the final Police Beat of 2008; this is also the issue that falls between Christmas and the New Year, which means no one is reading this column. What’s a columnist to do? I could try some cheeky reminiscence on the year in crime, but I figure I’ll…
COMMENTS
A damn good mom I’m absolutely outraged by this story `”Florida’s case against gay adoption,” Dec. 18`. I’m a 20-year-old lesbian wanting to adopt and start a family of my own one day, and these ignorant people destroy our happiness and the beautiful life my partner and I could give to needy children looking for…
END OF THE ROAD
While pop music languished in a sea of lackluster import stars and an unspoken competition to determine the most indistinctively distinctive robo-singer, and Axl Rose tried to convince the world he had been up to something in the last couple of decades, there was more than enough left-of-mainstream musical bounty to go around. To prove…
THE SILVER LINING
The Year of Our Lord 2008 was anything but puppies and rainbows. Economically, this was the worst year America has seen in decades: The stock market crashed. The auto industry flopped. Media companies can’t declare bankruptcy fast enough. The federal government bailed out bankers to the tune of $700 billion while the rest of us…
CLIP AND SAVE YOUR ASS
; And so this is Christmas. And what have you done? ; Not much shopping, that’s for sure. Everyone’s budget has had a botched lipo job – the fat has been removed and the muscle with it. We are all down to the bone. ; We get it. You can’t spend like you want to…
Weekend Ahead: Dec. 26-28
For the end of the year, Iâ??d like to hand out the one present I have to give: exposure. This column can serve as the little drummer boy for someoneâ??s unheard tune. And so, at random, I have selected a band that has gone unnoticed by our editorial plutocracy over this townâ??s trendsetters. Ladies and…
