You know the drill
Macroeconomic legal procedural overtakes human drama
Into the mild
Itâ??s all about flavor, not fire, at this tucked-away chili shack
Blister
All this arrhythmic bouncing, the plips and plops of dribs and drabs as gray turns to black and wet to wetter. It’s a night of random globules acting out their unattached insignificance amidst the pull of gravity and the push of humidity, a night of racing thoughts underprocessed in the flippancy of disconnection. Try as…
Happytown
Here at Happytown™ HQ, we’ve toiled for countless hours in our efforts to turn lemons into potent alcoholic shooters that give us the blurred perception that everything is fine. To that end, we are far less admirable an institution than Orlando development company New Broad Street, the David Pace—led real estate group largely responsible for…
Savage Love
A few years before my wife and I met, she made porn with her boyfriend at the time. He intended to start a pay-per-view website but never launched it. I was a bit upset when she told me, but then I remembered that I enjoy porn, and the idea of seeing the hottest woman I’ve…
Free Will Astrology
GARIES (March 21-April 19) “Hate leaves ugly scars,” wrote author Mignon McLaughlin, but “love leaves beautiful ones.” If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you’re scheduled to receive at least one of the beautiful kind of scars in the coming months — maybe even two or three. In fact, I think they’ll be such lovely…
Police Beat
Jan. 27 (2010-46014) 7 a.m.: What happens when you put copper wire in a microwave oven? Whoever ripped off Edgewater High School on Edgewater Drive may be finding out at this moment, because they took 10 rolls of the stuff and the employees’ microwave. (2010-44370) 11:25 a.m.: Thieves took the usual from a house in…
Live Active Cultures
Maybe you’re poor. Maybe you’re forgetful. Maybe you’re a cheap, lazy, unfeeling bastard. Whatever the reason, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and you haven’t done a damn thing for your darling yet. Every restaurant better than Burger King is already booked; the only jewelry you can afford comes in a plastic egg; and…
Culture 2 Go
War of ideologies Man and the Machine Through summer Cornell Fine Arts Museum Rollins College, Winter Park 407-646-2526 www.cfam.rollins.edu $5 When the masculine symbolism and nationalist pride of rare American and Soviet Union posters, resurrected from the permanent Cornell collection, are thrust in our face, we neither rejoice nor recoil. In post-Cold War America, we…
The key to sexual happiness
Wholistic Sexuality Series by Sheri Winston Wednesday-Sunday, Feb. 10-14 Florida School of Holistic Living Educational Annex 1109 E. Concord St. 407-595-3731 www.holisticlivingschool.org $15-$95 $15-$95 Author of Women’s Anatomy of Arousal Sheri Winston begins our interview with much the same words she uses to introduce students to her adult sexuality workshops. “First, I’d like to be…
Organic nature
Bowerbirds with Julie Doiron 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11 Will’s Pub 407-898-5070 www.willspub.org $10 Raleigh, N.C.’s, Bowerbirds embody a kind of musical onomatopoeia. The old-fashioned gait, relative simplicity and raw backwoods spirit of the songs reflect the band’s back-to-nature attitude. Fueled by Beth Tacular’s accordion, Phil Moore’s ragged acoustic strum and their joint harmonies, they…
The sacred antenna
Fishbone with the English Beat 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16 Firestone Live $18-$20 all ages www.firestonelive.net $18-$20 $18-$20 $18-$20 It was 1988, and America was scared of black people again. Willie Horton’s mug shot spearheaded fear and loathing directly into homes and the polls, where voters hurriedly punched the ticket for Reagan’s veep to take…
This Little Underground
From all the torrid online commenting on last week’s column, one thing’s crystal clear: For guys who like to play rough, some of you sure are sensitive little fuckers. Heh heh, wow. Anyway, so yeah, cheers to the underdog New Orleans Saints for being big-balled gamers and all, but damned if that Puppy Bowl ain’t…
Free Love
JMGThanks for being you, buttcat! I’m smiling all the time and you’re to blame, dammit.KEDC Nolan CriderWhat did one volcano say to the other volcano? Do you lava me like I lava you? ;P That one never gets old! I’m a better person when I’m with you 🙂 You’re an amazing man and you make…
DVDs Nuts!
A Serious Man Applying Jewish mysticism, suburban ennui and plain bad luck to their usual loopy storytelling, the Coen brothers (Raising Arizona) are at their most impenetrable in this fascinating tale starring big-screen unknown Michael Stuhlbarg in a bravura performance as a man at the end of his rope. Faced with bribery, divorce, his son’s…
