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Surviving ideals
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What, Buddy worry?
There are people living in Orlando. Real people, not just the crime statistics, the jobless and the foreclosed upon. That was the theme of the video piped in to City Council chambers Feb. 18 in anticipation of Mayor Buddy Dyer’s seventh annual State of the City address to the body politic. Testimonials stitched together from…
Bask in the glo
; Toro y Moi; Causers of This;(Carpark) Glacial drift, madrigal ambience and tonal synth-based clouds that stretch for miles: This is “glo-fi.” Of late, it’s a genre tag that’s been used to group bands and artists who pursue a compositional aesthetic of billowy, loose-strung composition that threatens to lapse into a warm drowsiness. Ducktails, Neon…
Triumph of the chill
Look Mexico CD release show with Only Thieves, An Introduction to Sunshine, the Pauses 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26 Back Booth, 407-999-2570 www.backbooth.com $6-$8 During his last show at NBC, Conan O’Brien made a plea to his young audience: “Please do not be cynical … it doesn’t lead anywhere.” It was a statement that registered…
Emotional rapture
BioShock 2 2K Marin/Irrational Games Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows Rated M Simon and Garfunkel told us that the words of the prophets were written on the subway walls. In the ruined underwater dystopia of Rapture, they’re scrawled in blood on the floor. And in white paint on the walls. And on just about every…
DVDs nuts
Alexander the Last: Writer-director Joe Swanberg’s pensive, neo-realist films (I’ll refrain from using the “M” word that has come to define his work like Hannah Takes the Stairs) possess a unique ability to draw attention to themselves by doing nothing other than presenting a solid, simple story. Unlike his large-looming contemporary, Mark Duplass (Humpday), Swanberg…
Happytown
So this is the way the booby crumbles. Late last year, we told you about alleged lady-loving Winter Park undercover officer Carlos Calderon’s wild nights of reckless abandon at breast-shaped Club Harem (see “The booby trap,” Oct. 21). His mission, which he chose to accept, was sniffing out low-end drug deals between drinks and lap…
Council Watch
It’s rarely a good sign when all of the seats are taken in the city’s political theater, and Monday’s miscellany — back after a three-week hiatus — would prove the rule. The first hour was stacked with back- patting in the form of awards and presentations: a solemn acknowledgement of Black History Month, a tirelessly…
Police Beat
Feb. 10 (2010-70870) 7:30 p.m.: There’s petty crime, and then there’s low-down dirty crime. A 60-year-old blind man was standing outside his apartment in the 6100 block of Westgate Drive, waiting for a cab and holding his luggage. Sure enough, someone was low enough to jab him with what may have been a gun and…
Blister
“You know what term I miss?” Eddie’s purse of a mouth empties out onto the floor as he swoops into the screaming puppies of my living room. “‘Panty shields.'” It’s the kind of random observation that will inevitably set the tenor of the evening. Anna’s close behind with a kinder, gentler “panty liner” amendment, but…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Everything is complicated,” wrote poet Wallace Stevens. “If that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.” I hope his wisdom will serve as your guiding light in the coming weeks. It is high time for you to shed any resentment of the fact that life…
Savage Love
I’m writing to you to settle a dispute. My husband and I have been married for six years. We’re not terribly adventurous, but we’re not totally vanilla, either. However, there is one issue that is driving me insane: My husband constantly pesters me to have anal sex. We have tried it in the past, and…
Live Active Cultures
I’m going to spill a dirty little secret: I like to read the Orlando Sentinel. I know, I know; all us edgy alt-weekly employees are supposed to point and laugh at the old media as it lumbers toward its inevitable extinction. I’ve filled more than a few column inches over the years with my Nelson-esque…
Out of Africa
An Evening with Ladysmith Black Mambazo 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 2 Mahaffey Theater, 400 S. First St., St. Petersburg 727-864-8894 www.mahaffeytheater.com $25 In 1964, Joseph Shabalala had a dream. Not the figurative, "I have a dream" sort of dream, but an actual nocturnal experience. Shabalala dreamed of voices raised in perfect harmony, of the most…
This Little Underground
What truth did I glean from all those hours of watching the Winter Olympics? That if I could learn how to handle spins like a figure skater, I would absolutely destroy at dizzy bat. The beat It looks like the stars are aligning for Tallahassee’s Holiday Shores. They’re part of a small-but-mighty uprising of summery,…
Culture 2 Go
Very happy ending; All’s Well That Ends Well; Orlando Shakspeare Theater; 812 E. Rollins St.; 407-447-1700; www.orlandoshakes.org; $20-$38 ; The director’s challenge when mounting a Shakespearean comedy, especially an arcane and wordy one like All’s Well That Ends Well, is to set up the scenes from start to finish, know how and where to ask…
Fish Tales
Plastic ice chests under a canopy in the parking lot of Stardust Video & Coffee are not where you’d expect to find some of the best shrimp in Orlando. Then you learn that they came from the Atlantic Ocean, unloaded from boats on a dock at Port Canaveral, just about 60 miles due east from…
