Cattle Call: I wanna play Natalie Portman’s tassels
The Greater Orlando Actor’s Theatre, having not yet premiered their production of Reservoir Dogs (which, I believe is to be the first show at their new theater), are taking on the unbelievably sexy British play Closer by Patrick Marber. (Any story that can make me enjoy a Julia Roberts performance is doing something right.) I…
Weekend Ahead: July 3-5
Kaboom! This weekend, we honor our freedom by blowing holes in the sky (strictly for agricultural purposes we swear, officer). Thatâ??ll show those birds whoâ??s in charge. And Iâ??ll show you where to go through the ancient art of haiku: Red Hot and Boom Family fun day Music leads to lights in sky Ah â?¦…
Tommy boy
Michael Mann’s aim doesn’t match that of his gangsters
Deconstructing Larry
Woody Allen and Larry David are brothers in spirit, not style
Pit stop
Pan-Med trend finds a home at the Black Olive
Mutually reclusive
Sharp-eyed patrons of the 4th annual I-4 Fest this year will notice, among the beer-drenched, amplified festivities, a rare sighting: a performance by Bob on Blonde, an elusive pop-rock local band that’s periodically dropped electric-yet-soulful music for years, yet only plays to an audience when they feel like interacting with other people … and that’s…
A series of fortunate events
It all sort of comes around,” laughs Mike Levin about the circuitous and fortuitous history of his band, the New Lows. As the group releases their second album (Atlantic Pacific) after nearly a decade of existence, it seems like a miracle that the New Lows have managed to hang on as long as they have.…
The system’s messed up
The system’s messed up Lockup: Lake County Juvenile Justice 10 p.m. Saturday, beginning July 4 MSNBC Filmmaker Karen Grau has documented many heartbreaking cases in her decade-plus career reporting on the juvenile-justice system, but maybe none sadder and more surprising than the story of Kenneth. The 17-year-old is the centerpiece of Grau’s latest Lockup installment,…
A movement of might
A movement of might B-Side Artists Through July 11 at CityArts Factory 29 S. Orange Ave.; 407-648-7060 Free; www.cityartsfactory.com “‘All new work’ was the mantra, and the result speaks for itself. The artists are really stepping it up here,” says Chuck Dinkins, director of the CityArts Factory. Indeed, though the B-Side Artists are well-traveled in…
Clicking and streaming
It’s difficult to think of a better film released in the last year than Hunger. The directorial debut of video artist Steve McQueen, Hunger traces the events of the 1981 Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger strike in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison in which Bobby Sands, along with nine others, starved himself to death as the…
Iraq: Was it worth it?
By June 30, all U.S. military forces had withdrawn from Iraqi cities. Effectively, the U.S. war in Iraq is over. Was it worth it? There are two quite separate balance sheets of costs and benefits, one for Iraqis and the other for Americans. It’s too early to give a final answer for the Iraqis, but…
Dvds Nuts
; Eastbound and Down: Season One Kenny Powers is, according to Kenny Powers, “just an average guy … with exceptional hair.” A former baseball superstar with a mullet and an appetite for drugs, Powers (the riotous Danny McBride) falls from grace and ends up back in his Southern hometown as a P.E. coach. He doesn’t…
Blister
There is a blur, a dirty yellow sunshine explosion surrounded by a rainbow halo of Kodachrome focus shifting. Synthesized strings of Lido Deck lugubriousness slip in one ear and out the other as the slow, predatory disco beat sneaks in with a “toot toot” and a “beep beep” in tow. Everything is hot and nasty…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Time to diversify your energy sources. It’s as if you’ve grown too dependent on oil — metaphorically speaking — and neglected to develop relationships with wind turbines, solar panels, natural gas and other means of generating power. What if in the future — metaphorically speaking — oil becomes scarcer or wildly…
Savage Love
I’m a 25-year-old straight woman. I’ve been dating my boyfriend for only a few months, but we fell in love fast. He is a caring person, and I want to make this last. However, he doesn’t turn me on. It has nothing to do with looks — he’s gorgeous — but rather with the fact that I…
This Little Underground
A big pour on the floor for Michael Jackson. Despite the King of Pop’s dubious personal life, his work was undeniable. There is indeed a justice in him finally leaving a world that freeze-dried his soul in a state of incompleteness and made a tragic beast of him. All we’re left to do is shake…
Live Active Cultures
I’ve never been public in my patriotism. In high school, during my rebel-without-a-clue phase, I silently protested having to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and I declined to slap a flag decal on my car post-Sept. 11. But something about Disney has always been able to tap into my nascent nationalism. I get teary during…
Happytown
We’d be remiss if we didn’t take 30 seconds to reflect on the passing of our very close, hirsute friend Billy Mays. Back in September, Mays invited us over to his palatial estate just outside Tampa, probably thinking that we were the Orlando Sentinel, but he was super-nice anyway (see “Mad man,” Oct. 16). Since…
Police Beat
; June 16 ; (2009-282883) 7:13 a.m.: Let’s begin this week with a brief rumination on things that should be crimes, but aren’t. For instance, I have to write this column even though I’m theoretically on vacation, because hell if this half-page is gonna write itself. Also there’s the small matter of state-sanctioned torture, but…
First Shot: I would also like huge pectoral muscles
Hot giggity damn! Of all the things I like to get, â??what I wantâ?� is right at the top of the list. Less than a month ago, I bemoaned actor Chris Pineâ??s lamentable decision to follow up his Star Trek breakout turn by appearing in the next slab of ridiculousness scheduled to be hacked off…
