Glatt tidings
Cohenâ??s brings a full roster of kosher staples to the tourist sector
Canâ??t dig it
A winking blaxploitation spoof gets old quick
Savage Love
Let’s say, theoretically, I’m ; a pedophile. ; I’m not stupid or evil, so I’m not gonna DO anything. I’m not even gonna look at porn, because the production of it involves child exploitation. Hell, even porn that’s just drawn – perverts drawing smut for perverts with no kids or anyone else involved – is…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.” So said the ancient Greek historian Polybius, and now I’m conveying the message to you. I hope it will serve as a spur in the wake of your recent…
Police Beat
Jan. 19 (2010-30926) 5:45 p.m.: It was a peaceful evening with beer at the Ambassador Hotel on West Colonial Drive, until one man jumped his acquaintance and stole his .45-caliber pistol. (2010-31191) 8:30 p.m.: A woman walking through Parc Vista apartments on Pinto Lane said a man dragged her behind a pool shed, muttering his…
Live Active Cultures
Inside a building in the center of downtown Orlando sits an object so ill-fated that it’s an icon of awfulness, almost single-handedly ruining careers and bringing a billion-dollar business to its knees. This cursed artifact isn’t something sacred stolen from the Seminoles, the Hope diamond or even Uncle Walt’s frozen head. It’s one of the…
Orlandoâ??s Attack get that old feeling
The Attack Of Nostalgia and Rebellion (self-released) Orlando punks the Attack would have been hard-pressed to come up with a more perfect title for their (long-overdue) debut album than Of Nostalgia and Rebellion. Although certainly not old-timers, the members of the band hew to a catholic strain of punk rock with roots in the youth…
Big Brother comes knocking
It was a peaceful post-Christmas evening in Chris Elliott’s house, one of many beige dwellings in his Winter Springs neighborhood. He was checking e-mail while the kids were having a bath before their 7 p.m. bedtime. Someone knocked on the door. Elliott went to see who it was, as did his three spotted Bengal cats.…
Culture 2 Go
The prince remains a king of the theater ; Hamlet; Through March 13 at ; Orlando Shakespeare Theater; 812 E. Rollins St.; 407-447-1700; www.orlandoshakes.org; $20-$38 ; William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is arguably the most widely known work of Western literature (next to the Bible) and the best-known play in history. What’s the point of summarizing a…
Our dumb state
It comes on like a migraine. At first it’s the slowly paced temple syncopations separating dull waves of topical nausea — WFTV Channel 9 News anchor Barbara West arches her brow and squeezes out some pointed concern about millionaire Isleworth resident Bob Ward and his predilection for prison-visit singalongs dedicated to his wife’s murder; the…
Swan song
For two years, the Twitter account @diditleak was the secret weapon of online listeners and music critics alike. In real time, the account, which ultimately garnered more than 11,500 followers, announced whenever a digital copy of a particularly desirable record first hit the Internet. For that it became a beloved resource of torrent-hungry music fans…
This Little Underground
Several months ago, I mentioned Das Boot, the two-to-three-liter, boot-shaped mug of beer served at awesome Sanford bierhaus Hollerbach’s Willow Tree Café. Well, Redlight Redlight now features that heroic little challenge too, which could either be a good thing or a very, very bad thing. bad thing. The beat For its three-year anniversary, Parafora Music…
The Fox and the hound
Brave New Films: 5th Anniversary Activist Collection (Disinformation Co.) $59.98 Filmmaker Robert Greenwald counts among his many corporate enemies Wal-Mart, Burger King, Starbucks, Albertsons, Cigna, the Bush Administration, Halliburton and especially Fox News. Bill O’Reilly has labeled Greenwald “just to the right of Fidel Castro.” The feather-ruffling activist began throwing red meat to his fiery…
Happytown
Oh, that wacky Brian Feldman. He eats, and calls it art. He jumps, and calls it art. He reads this paper, and calls it art. (He’s dead-on about that one, BTW.) There’s so much “art” in Orlando with Feldman’s name attached to it that we’ve almost stopped paying attention. Almost. Because he’s outdone himself this…
Council Watch
For this very special episode of The City Gets to Thinkin’, Congresswoman Corrine Brown, D-Florida, was wheeled in for a fiery cameo appearance, shouting this and that about Haitian relief and stimulus dollars before landing the ultimate health-care zinger: “Anybody that tells me that they’re not for `health care reform`, they need the mental health…
Blister
If this particular wrung-out rag of a Monday night were something more than a reverse howl of sleep apnea intended to indicate the limitations of my physical being — if it were science, instead, precision of a quantifiable sort meant to be studied in a vacuum of sterility — there might be an argument available…
