What You’re Doing This Week (Dec. 4- Dec. 10)
Thursday, Dec. 4 Apparently, I’m in a minority when it comes to Marc Broussard. [He plays tonight at House of Blues.] As someone who is a) under the age of 50, b) the owner of more than 10 CDs released in the past decade, and, c) someone utterly disdainful of coffee-shop soul music, I am…
MUSTY SANTA
Where have all the good Christmas movies gone?
DAMME GOOD
Action star’s heart is his strongest muscle
DAIRY QUEEN
Could Orlando follow in the footsteps of L.A. and have an all-out frozen yogurt war? Things are getting a little heated in the battle for fro-yo supremacy, with College Park’s CeFiore and Winter Park’s Gurtzberry duking it out for top honors. But the champion may not reign for very long. A fro-yo joint called Berriez…
Eden Bar at the Enzian
If it’s at the movies, as Andre Breton once observed, that the only absolutely modern mystery is celebrated, then the noted Surrealist would’ve been amused by the Enzian Theater’s appropriation of the movement he started to celebrate an ancient mystery ‘ that of Biblical creation. A fantastical Floridian garden of Eden mural, created by Oscar-nominated…
MUSTY SANTA
Where have all the good Christmas movies gone?
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Zzzz … gobble … zzzz … snort, SLURRRP … Huh? Oh, right. Music column. The Beat New Orleans eccentric Quintron rolled his production into town once again (Nov. 26, Will’s Pub). Like an underground rocker gone carny, he uncorked the cartoonish haunt of his organ-robed music, tagging punk, electronica and rock & roll. However, there’s…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
In his own time, Charles Dickens wasn’t the universally acknowledged master of English literature we think of today, but a struggling scribe pounding out serialized stories for a penny a word (not far off from today’s newspaper pay scale). In 1843 a deeply indebted Dickens scribbled out his now classic A Christmas Carol, teaching all…
POLICE BEAT
Nov. 21 (2008-504010) 9:19 a.m.: There’s a second-tier video store on Semoran Boulevard that should consider investing in an alarm system. A half-hour after the store closed up the night before, someone broke in and loaded up video games, movies and “an office safe full of cash.” If memory serves, this isn’t the first time…
DAIRY QUEEN
Could Orlando follow in the footsteps of L.A. and have an all-out frozen yogurt war? Things are getting a little heated in the battle for fro-yo supremacy, with College Park’s CeFiore and Winter Park’s Gurtzberry duking it out for top honors. But the champion may not reign for very long. A fro-yo joint called Berriez…
HAPPYTOWN
Has Orlando’s most in-your-face activist has finally gone too far for his handlers? According to a press release from the National Latino Officers Association, the Florida State ACLU is moving to disband the Central Florida Chapter because its president, George Crossley, has crossed the line. “The Florida State ACLU is attempting to silence and dismantle…
THE BUTCHER BOY GROWS UP
Everyone knows how tough it is to be a teenager. Popular wisdom reinforces the idea that, from age 13 to 16, young people turn into sullen, recalcitrant, smart-ass hellspawn, making themselves and everyone around them miserable. But as anyone who’s lived through his mid-20s can attest, puberty is a cakewalk when compared to the emotional…
MUMPSY MEETS THE MISFITS
There may be no bigger fan of punk band the Misfits in Orlando than Jeff Ilgenfritz. The creative force behind celebrated local pop band Mumpsy, he released an entire album of Misfits covers last year (Sings Those Golden Hits From the Misfits), managing to find the hidden pop gems within the Misfits’ driving brutality and…
POST-ELECTION COMPETITION
The election is over. The debates are done, the commercials silenced, the voting booths shuttered. Um, check that — the presidential election is over. In the gaming world, the election very much continues, as the annual holiday onslaught of games competing for your hearts, votes and dollars is heating up to a level that might…
TRASH TALK
Since April, Defame Orlando (defameorlando.blogspot.com) has been stirring the downtown pot with its Internet observations on coke-addled club promoters, local girls gone wild, scenesters in long jean shorts and boat shoes, fixed-gear-bike riders and fame whores. The response — as noted from the 50 or so comments each blog post gets — has been both…
DIVIDE AND BE CONQUERED
What with their decisive loss in the presidential election and the party’s distinct minority status in the House and Senate, the Republicans could be forgiven for being pessimistic. Things do indeed look bad for their Grand Old Party. Actually, it’s even worse than they think. Since the dawn of the 20th century, how many times…
HISTORY DENIED
Since its public introduction in March, the downtown Eola Capital project has been an uneasy saga for its developers, opponents and the city alike. The proposed 200-foot-tall office high-rise abutting Lake Eola touched the nerves of neighboring residents, who saw it as both an urban eyesore shadowing the natural beauty of Lake Eola Park and…
FEAST OF EDEN
If it’s at the movies, as André Breton once observed, that the only absolutely modern mystery is celebrated, then the noted Surrealist would’ve been amused by the Enzian Theater’s appropriation of the movement he started to celebrate an ancient mystery — that of Biblical creation. A fantastical Floridian garden of Eden mural, created by Oscar-nominated…
MUSTY SANTA
Of all the guilty pleasures to hide under the bed, an affinity for Christmas-themed cinema surely stands with the guiltiest. No film with a promo poster boasting an upside-down Christmas tree is going to win any awards, and Santa’s days of bankable box office gold are long behind him. But I’m still suckered in every…
BLISTER
Because every pixel on the television is a screaming molecule of financial doubt, because Orlando is a dive bar loaded with fat cats on city-funded foreclosure diets, because I can’t drink my firefly self out of this wet hangover bag, because I’m driving on a spare, because I’ve been caked in snot for three weeks,…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The European Union has had rules banning the sale of carrots with knobby protrusions, cucumbers that are grossly curved and equally unaesthetic specimens of 24 other fruits and vegetables. Recently, however, the standards were relaxed. “It makes no sense to throw perfectly good products away, just because they are the ‘wrong’…
SAVAGE LOVE
My girlfriend and I have been on-and-off for almost two years. I took her back after she cheated on me. The only thing now is that she wants to have a threesome. I am really not down with sharing her, but I am willing to do it because otherwise some other girl will do it…
Nude Nite â??09: Two sets of big ones
â??This weekâ??s theme is simply â??crap I saw last weekendâ?? â?? and the crap in particular that I want to fling at you is Nude Nite.â?� Thatâ??s how our arts writer Seth Kubersky called it in his Live Active Cultures column, after attending the 2008 valentine event. Even now, at the end of the year,…
