Guerrilla for sale
I’d be lying if I said I sought out Mark Taylor Michaels. In truth, I just sort of tripped over him … or at least his work. The 29-year-old Michaels is a struggling Gulfport, Fla., artist. Over the past year, he’s raised some eyebrows in the Tampa/St. Pete area by erecting temporary, unsanctioned exhibits in…
Stuck in a political prison
Movie: Cradle Will Rock
Drear diary
Movie: Angela’s Ashes
Despite flaws, it’s an ‘Affair’ to remember
Movie: The End of the Affair
Stuck in a political prison
Movie: Cradle Will Rock
Drear diary
Movie: Angela’s Ashes
Despite flaws, it’s an ‘Affair’ to remember
Movie: The End of the Affair
Korean cuisine is healthy, too
Strange but true: Orlando’s newest source for Korean food is Chamberlin’s Market & Cafe in Altamonte Springs. Several months ago a Korean husband-and-wife team set up shop in the health-food outlet to experiment with an evening menu. Their organic, mostly vegetarian dinners received such a positive response that the couple’s cookery is now a permanent…
Video vultures
The men and women of America’s alternative-comics industry deserve our respect and admiration. These hard-working artists spend lonely hours and days bent over drawing tables, poring over clip art, combing the thesaurus for synonyms for the word “poop,” with shockingly little compensation. They speak the truth to power, a concept mainstream cartoonists abandoned long ago.…
A small boy lost in a political drama
Six-year old Elian Gonzalez may be surrounded by people, but he is very much alone. And the human sharks circling around him, ready to break in and steal his soul, are more dangerous than the real ones he braved in the roiling waters off the Florida straits last November. Over the past few months, this…
Doubt at first sight
Last Feb. 27, in the gray hours of a Saturday morning on the grounds of the University of Florida in Gainesville, before even the most die-hard bookworm would be trudging toward the library or cafeteria, a terrified woman ran down Fraternity Row. She ran past the palmettos and the graceful trees dripping with Spanish moss…
Off at a gallop
“Ben-Hur: The Musical,” the chariot-driven, $9 million production that rode into the Orlando/Orange County Convention on Nov. 12 with the bold promise that it would run for years `Mane Attraction, Nov. 18` ran out of gas last week. Created by a team whose executive producer said he had a “calling” to move to Orlando and…
Good things come to he who waits
Movie-industry mammoth Artisan Entertainment continues to bank on Orlando as a source of box-office revenue. The company — which last year brought Central Florida filmmaking into the limelight via its national release of The Blair Witch Project — is reportedly finalizing its acquisition of “Waiting …” a screenplay by local writer Rob McKittrick. According to…
The bonds of matrimony
In November, Robert Horton, 52, walked into a Phoenix courthouse carrying his wife, Belinda, who was bound at the legs, arms and mouth with gray duct tape. He told a security officer that she was due in court that day on a charge of assaulting a police officer; that he had posted bail for her;…
The name of the father
David Crosby’s paternity of the kids being reared by Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher was a big fat piñata full of surprises. The first was that anyone cared. The second was that Melissa isn’t butch enough to knock up her girlfriend. The third and biggest surprise was that they chose a guy who is more…
Review – Born Again
Artist: Notorious B.I.G.
Review – Goodbye 20th Century
Artist: Sonic Youth
Review – Companion
Artist: Patricia Barber
Review – Pick Up
Artist: Solex
Review – Born Again
Artist: Notorious B.I.G.
Review – Goodbye 20th Century
Artist: Sonic Youth
Review – Companion
Artist: Patricia Barber
Review – Pick Up
Artist: Solex
Review – Born Again
Artist: Notorious B.I.G.
Review – Goodbye 20th Century
Artist: Sonic Youth
Review – Companion
Artist: Patricia Barber
Review – Pick Up
Artist: Solex
New music man
The Latin phrase conditor almo siderum translates as creator of the stars. But for Orlando-based composer George Atwell, the words “creator” and “composer” might as well be synonymous. That’s because he labored a year to create his “Mass for a New Millennium,” a piece that borrows the Latin phrase as a title for one of…
Meet the needles
My late grandfather was a heavily tattooed ex-Navy man who spent most of the time I knew him devising reasons to keep his shirt on during trips to the beach. The self-mutilation that had seemed such a good idea in his youth was the source of much shame in his later years. Through his example,…
