New squeeze
Quaint café introduces crepes to the Whole Foods plaza
All the worlds onstage
An excess of ideas and ego crowds Terry Gilliamâ??s latest
Fear of a blank canvas
A solid comedy spoils itself with trepidation
Tainted love story
Low stakes and a toothless villain doom this romance
Blister
It’s like a candy-coated war zone. The stuttering gridlock of westbound I-4 traffic the Monday after Christmas hiccups in tryptophan-laced fits and starts while all around, fiberglass and plastic relics of purchased escapism don’t so much glow as burn holes into astigmatic retinas focused on getting around it all. Little sideshows to sideshows abut motor…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) It’ll be a hair-on-fire kind of week for you — and yet also a heart-in-repose kind of week. You have the potential to be fierce and relaxed, vigorously ambitious and sublimely poised. In fact, this might be one of those rare times when you can be both a justice-dispensing warrior and…
Savage Love
I am a queer lady in my 20s. My boyfriend and I recently discovered that we are both into BDSM. Here’s what’s stressing me out: I tend to gravitate toward stories that include age play (underage girls with older men). I think pedophilia is wrong and disgusting, yet I get off on the stories. I…
Comments
Not a fan Please don’t take this note as, “Well, Billy `Manes` gets noticed and read.” Quite the contrary! I have enjoyed your paper for years, however it’s impossible to read anything written by him. How do you edit his pieces? Are you doing the same drugs as him so you can understand him? It’s…
Happytown
So, if you were a grumpy attorney general with terminally equine facial features and you were running for governor of this great state despite a charisma deficiency, what would you do when faced with comprehensive federal health care reform as an imminent reality? If you were Bill McCollum (and, seriously, we are glad you’re not)…
Police Beat
Welcome to Police Beat 2010. To make the new year special, we’re going back to including block numbers on unnamed crime scenes. We don’t want to tip off crooks to easy targets, but we do want our cautious readers to know which sections of miles-long roads carry the greatest risks of pistol-whipping or copper theft.…
Live Active Cultures
There you were, basking in the glow of your post-New Year’s hangover, reading last week’s paper when my best and worst of 2009 column appeared before your bloodshot eyes. Surely, you scoffed, a selection of slams and salutations to the stage can’t be the sum total of our city? To which I reply, of course…
This Little Underground
Though they have no requirements for credibility, accountability or even readability, I’m all for the open expression afforded by OW’s online comment boards. However, judging from some of the unchecked blather on them this past year, it seems some fundamental things need to be set straight. And since we’re on the threshold of a brand-new…
Déjà vu
Sarah Jaffe with Midlake 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7 The Social 407-246-1419 $12-$14 With a new album on the way, a record-label deal in hand and her first major tour afoot, it feels like 23-year-old Sarah Jaffe’s been at this point before. Back in 2008, the Denton, Texas, singer seemed to be gearing up for…
Overlapping dialogues
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff (Alfred A. Knopf) Of course Robert Altman gets an oral biography. What better way to tell the life story of a filmmaker whose trademark was overlapping dialogue that offered many levels of information and occasionally competing takes on reality? Not that there’s much substantive disagreement voiced in…
Creativity soared, sales sucked
For visual artists in Orlando it was a year for organic growth: in other words, growth that was not necessarily visible but gestated some terrific work that popped up in shows and galleries, small and large, in and around the city. While the sales environment did suck in general, finances did not inhibit creativity; artists are…
Hiding in plain sight
There’s really no way to miss the cell phone tower looming at one end of Braddock Avenue, near the corner of Curry Ford Road and Crystal Lake Drive. It’s the tallest thing around, and it’s an old one: a stout metal trunk blasting more than 100 feet into the sky, spiky antennas jabbing out from…
The gay place
The Mormons hate us. Maine won’t have us. California would like us to be more like their Mexican immigrants: just fix my hair, keep my home looking sharp and shut the hell up about this “rights” business. It’s not easy being “fabulous” in a world of sinking economies, spiteful splinter groups, religious dogmatism and some…
West Palm’s Surfer Blood hits the road
Buzzy indie band Surfer Blood, whose origins lie in Orlando, have announced an extensive U.S. tour that will eventually deliver them to the stage of SXSW in March. The guys (whom we like a lot) are staying true to their roots by playing the Back Booth on Jan. 26 (with Monotonix!) and Feb. 16, and…
