It’s all about exposure
Seeing is believing, when it comes to hidden hometown artists, and happenings like Orlando Museum of Art’s “1st Thursdays” series do help to gather the forces — artists and art lovers. “Art of Love, Love of Art” kicks off the monthly series on Thursday, Feb. 3, in the marble-floored atrium, bringing together artists, poets, dancers,…
How sweet it was
I worry about you. I really do. Often have I defended Orlando to metropolitan types who view us as a tropical Hooterville, but I’m starting to wonder if they’re right. Shutting down a perfectly good orgy palace. Not demanding light rail. And then there was the appalling lack of support for pie. Last week the…
Feeling the heat
When Ford Motor Co. announced last month that it was withdrawing from the Global Climate Coalition, Kevin Sweeney could barely contain his joy. As chairman of the national environmental group Ozone Action, he said the auto company had placed an exclamation point on what critics have been saying for years: The coalition is a group…
A family portrait
The scene outside Elian Gonzalez’s Little Havana home was rather subdued on a recent Saturday afternoon. A few network news crews and photographers staked out the house from a neighbor’s yard, huddled around a television set atop a milk crate, watching an NFL playoff game. In the street a stream of cars drove up and…
Ticked off
For those gathered in Lake Eola Park on the recent New Year’s Eve, the digital “millennium clock” on the lake’s south side was the focal point of the midnight countdown. For others, it’s a colossal eyesore and another civic advertisement for Disney World, which helped fund the ticker’s placement and uses it to promote shows…
Admit it
Orlando-area theaters are now selling tickets for half-price — providing you’re willing to wade into the tourist pool on International Drive to pick them up. That last part’s the bad news. The good news is that the two-week-old practice sets the stage for the similar sale of half-price, same-day tickets at a downtown location. The…
The fire this time
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to consider whether Florida’s use of the electric chair is unconstitutional. The court on Jan. 24 declared the issue irrelevant because of a state law passed Jan. 14 that gives death-row inmates the option of “choosing” lethal injection. The bloody electrocution of Allen Lee Davis this past summer…
Baums away
Police in Pittsburgh said that a 31-year-old man who was too lazy to lug his Christmas tree down to the street instead tossed it out his sixth-floor window on Christmas Day. The tree hit a power line on the way down, knocking out electricity for about 400 customers and briefly deadening the community’s 911 line…
Latin painter splashes canvas with passion
There’s a blank, 4-by-6-foot canvas stage right, and a painter wearing a brown beret posed in front of it holding a large, flat brush. His T-shirt and pants are spattered with paint. His eyes are obscured by his hat, but still he betrays his grinning anticipation. He bends and dips into blue and weaves with…
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Artist: Cypress Hill
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Artist: Guns n’ Roses
Conscious aggression
The hardcore scene tends to divide itself into two distinct camps. First, there’s the ultrapolitical faction that seems more interested in preaching than playing music. Second, there’s the plethora of tough-guy, hate-edge bands that are all about “heaviness” but light on substance. Both schools have their merits, but bereft of each other’s influence, they limit…
Sass appeal
You’ll know it when Amy Steinberg takes the stage: You react. Whether she’s solo or fronting The Amy Steinberg Band, the singer-songwriter grabs audiences with smartly crafted melodies and laugh-a-minute lyrics with lines like: I light you up, I feel the heat rise, maybe take a taste or tantalize/I feel you inside, but I feel…
Predictable scenario sinks ‘Down’
Movie: Down to You
Tacky as a tourist and just as plentiful
To use the word “tacky” to describe the looks of Joe’s Crab Shack is underkill. My friend summed it up as soon as we walked through the door of this wildly popular restaurant. “It looks like they have a toy store hanging from the ceiling in here,” she said. It was true. It looked like…
Predictable scenario sinks ‘Down’
Movie: Down to You
Deep purple
What are the perils of opening a Continental restaurant in Casselberry? Just ask Bernhard Schwab, owner of the new Aubergine Bistro, in Butler Plaza. “People stick their heads in the door and say, ‘You got any burgers?'” Schwab says. It doesn’t help that there’s a pool hall next door. “I show them what I have…
