Cover Story
Artist on the outside
How the work of one of the famed Florida Highwaymen ended up behind bars in an Orlando jail
Selection Reminder: Kay Redfield Jamison reading at Rollins College!
Monday, Jan. 23 – Kay Redfield Jamison It’s a powerful combination, a patient who is also a doctor. Does it make it harder to trust those treating you, when you have the same training and information at your disposal? Or does it make it easier to understand what’s happening to you? Kay Redfield Jamison, a…
Sunday Film News Roundup — January 22, 2012
Wikipedia (and others)’s battle against SOPA and PIPA obviously dominated the news this week, with the user-submitted encyclopedia going dark for 24 to the whiny consternation of high school and college students nationwide. I mean, holy shit. You shouldn’t be using Wikipedia for homework. Just as big a news story, I think, was the Supremes’…
Selection Reminder: Nashville’s the Features play the Social!
Saturday, Jan. 21 – the Features Pull the Features away from the stage and you have four unassuming, docile fellows. Their Twitter and Facebook pages include humdrum tour updates and congenial retweets from fans; a cursory YouTube search finds that they make for especially soft-spoken and low-key interviewees. But if you hand this Nashville gang…
Selection Reminder: Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente opens at the History Center!
Through March 18 – Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente How do you sum up the life of a legend? In the world of baseball, Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente’s greatest accomplishments came in the form of stats (more than 3,000 hits), accolades (12 Gold Glove awards, a posthumous Baseball Hall of Fame…
SOPA watch: Hollywood loses its thundershirt
My Dad once said that, if he had to pick any career other than teaching, he would have been a “futurist.” His reasoning was sound: You get to use your imagination, everybody treats you like you’re terribly smart, and by the time you’re proved wrong, you’re already dead. But that was before the advent of…
Theater Mini-Review: Beth Marshall Presents Paul Strickland’s “Add Songs, Stir” at Shakes
Last night, Beth Marshall Presents kicked off the 2012 leg of their company’s current season at Orlando Shakes with Paul Strickland’s new one-man show Add Songs, Stir. If you go expecting more of the clever observational stand-up comedy that made Paul’s Orlando Fringe shows A Brighter Shade of Blue and Any Title That Works big…
Selection Reminder: Zora Festival kicks off this weekend in Eatonville!
Through Jan. 29 – Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Whoever says Florida doesn’t have deep historic or cultural roots apparently hasn’t visited Eatonville. In addition to being the oldest African-American municipality in the nation – it was incorporated as an all black community in the 1880s, not long after the Emancipation…
Wow, conservative-loser-palooza threatens the space-time continuum at Lake Eola this weekend
We’ll have much more to say about THIS MADNESS when it actually happens on Saturday afternoon, but just for shits and giggles: gasp, if you will, at the enormity of this intellectual crater. There will be MAGICIANS. There will be JOE THE PLUMBER. There will be MOTHERFUCKIN’ HERMAN CAIN. OK, Republicans, if this is the…
Win a free copy of ‘Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad’
Whether you’re bunny-boiler/acid-tosser Lifetime movie fodder, or just a tight-assed “If you don’t know why I’m mad I’m not telling you” type, everyone has experienced the out-of-control emotional reactions that are the dark flipside of love’s sparkly endorphin rush. Liz Langley’s latest book, Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad, gives you…
Last chance! ‘Dialogue: Camilo Velasquez’ closes Sunday
Sunday, Jan. 22, is the last day of “Dialogue: Camilo Velasquez” at the Maitland Art Center. In his review of the show, “A grin behind the shiver,” our critic Richard Reep said: “If you seek introspective contemplation and are strong of heart, look no further.” Dialogue: Camilo Velasquez Through Jan. 22 at the Maitland Art Center 231…
Selection Reminder: Black Sea (Mare Nero) opens at Gallery at Avalon Island!
Through Feb. 10 – Black Sea (Mare Nero) The unstoppable leak of “bubblin’ crude” that bathed the Gulf of Mexico in poisonous black tar after 2010’s Deepwater Horizon spill is the point of outrage around which a group of Italian artists calling themselves Le Meduse (the jellyfish) coalesced. Black Sea sounds an existential howl in…
Selection Reminder: Starfucker tonight at Back Booth!
Thursday, Jan. 19 – Starfucker In a fire-starting New York Magazine piece late last year, pop-music critic Nitsuh Abebe, after claiming that today’s “indie” music is actually just modern adult contemporary, pointed to a promising sign for this generation’s authenticity: the increase in non-radio-friendly band names – “mission statements that tasteful professionalism and the approval of…
Selection Reminder: Rachel Louise Snyder visits UCF!
Thursday, Jan. 19 – Rachel Louise Snyder As part of its “People Power, Politics and Global Change” series, UCF’s Global Perspectives invites Rachel Louise Snyder, a professor at American University in Washington, D.C., to present one of the series’ first lectures of the spring semester. Snyder, a public radio contributor and author of Fugitive Denim:…
A Foreign Affair Part Deux: The Supplement of Doom
Another year, another spate of deserving cinema that will be hard to come by. We ran a little earlier this year than we did last year. None of this year’s festivals have started (Sundance is soon though), so it was a little trickier. Still, this round up is a pretty good slate to start from.…
McGlam-Rock
Brandon McGlamery’s Park Avenue “it spot” makes it loud and does it proud
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Coverage gap
As Citizens Insurance reduces coverage options, advocates worry that there aren’t enough private insurers to fill the void
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Johnny Knuckles, Portals, ASG, K.G. Omulo and more
San Antonio roses
Texas rockers Girl in a Coma can move you or strangle you
War is hell
So is bad theater
Live Active Cultures
Seth encounters four old-made-new cultural experiences
Culture 2 Go
A week of art and design events
Happytown
The week where all the gays in Gayville got gay hot dogs waved in their faces while Florida led the charge to make sure that, if you’re poor and sick, you stay that way. Don’t eat too many gay hot dogs!
Raw feed
Thomas Wynn and the Believers’ new album crackles with spontaneity
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The Macy’s ad I saw in the newspaper had a blaring headline: “Find Your Magic 2.0.” The items that were being touted to help us discover our upgraded and more deluxe sense of magic were luxurious diamond rings. The cheapest was $2,150. I’m going to steer you in another direction in…
Savage Love
>My 13-year-old son came out to us this morning
High stakes
Portland psych-pop band Nurses’ artful new album
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
A foreign affair
International titles to look for in 2012
Knocking on heaven’s door
Self-taught painter and sculptor Missionary Mary Proctor shows us the way
A grin behind the shiver
Works by Camilo Velasquez and Doug Rhodehamel at Maitland Art Center are somber, yet inspire change
The Double Feature: Spies are People Too
This week’s films are the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading and Ronald Neame’s Hopscotch. I’ve been thinking about this feature for a while (I went a little overboard and planned out the next six months in advance, actually), so I’m really excited to get the ball rolling on it. The basic premise is two films…
Cats 1, Loews Hotel 0
The cat is out of the bag about Loews Hotel’s war on feral cats. The hotel chain, which promotes its pet-friendly environment with the slogan “Loews Loves Pets,” has reversed its policy on how to handle a colony of cats living on the grounds of the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel and Loews Royal Pacific Resort…
Theater Review: Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Production at Bob Carr
Most Broadway musicals are comforting confirmers of conventional cultural values, aimed at a older, affluent audience. But once each decade, a show emerges that is embraced by a younger generation, because it speaks directly to the issues of being underage, under privileged, and under pressure to submit to the dominant hierarchy. In the 1950s and…
Pretty girls drinking Cheerwine
Cheerwine, the “Nectar of North Carolina” since 1917, is seeking a new Miss Cheerwine 2012 – and it could be you! Visit the Facebook page of the utterly delicious, extra-effervescent, cult-fave cherry soft drink to find out how to apply. Interestingly, the press release we received very carefully stated that Cheerwine is looking for “an…
Selection Reminder: Artful Strings – Four Centuries of Harp Making!
Through April 15 – Artful Strings – Four Centuries of Harp Making Sure, it’s easy to sit back, glass of wine in hand, and take pleasure in the pretty sounds that spring from the harp. But if you’re like us, you jump at the chance to look behind the music – sans that cheesy intro…
