“Tron: Legacy”: Are you excited yet, or at all?
Has it really been a year since Disney offered up their first taste of Tron: Legacy, this winter’s sequel to the 1982 cult property, to a dedicated geek audience? They’re back at Comic-Con in San Diego, working the crowd into a fresh lather this year with a new trailer (simultaneously made available over on Yahoo!)…
Itâ??s complicated
An organic, funny take on baby daddy drama
Breakfast of champions
The classic American diner gets a modern makeover at Kekeâ??s
Eastern promises
With the addition of the International Market and Deli near the British Shoppe and the Brit-populated Chuck’s Diner, you can make a culinary trip across Europe on one single block. But what the International Market’s got over the others is the feeling that, when stepping into their large, warm space, you’ve wound up in the…
Happytown
Remember the halcyon days of wine and roses, way back when we could simply glare at Attorney General Bill McCollum’s equine mug with a modicum of contempt and yet still get on with our regular dribs and drabs of Floridian existence? Well, it’s now become impossible to look away. The scent of desperation emanating from…
Live Active Cultures
It’s an oddly traditional Orlando truism that theater doesn’t travel below the 408. Strange as it seems, nearly every successful stage in town is situated to the north of the East-West Expressway. Sure, there are tourist-oriented gastro-tainment spectacles along Highway 192 (like Medieval Times), but no one attends those for scintillating performances. A handful of…
A guy named Seu
Seu Jorge and Almaz 8 p.m. Saturday, July 24 Firestone Live, 407-872-0066 www.firestonelive.net $20 A guy comes through town, plays guitar and then leaves. It happens. But there’s something different about a guy who comes through town that also played Knockout Ned. It’s not just because that character in the unforgettable film City of God…
Words of war against drilling
Unspoiled: Writers Speak forFlorida’s Coast Red Hills Writers Project www.unspoiledbook.com $10 Last November a network of environmental writers, outraged by the cries of “Drill, baby, drill” resonating in the state legislature as Rep. Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, proposed a bill to repeal the ban on oil drilling off the coast of Florida, donated their words…
This Little Underground
Ahhh yeah, happy days will soon be here again, sexy people. Concert calendars across the city are shaping up to be shit-hot for the fall with dope acts, current and classic, like MGMT, Yeasayer, Crystal Castles, Beach House, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, the Legendary Shack Shakers, the Mynabirds, James, the National and Public Enemy.…
Pop matters
Andy Matchett & the Minks The Apple Tree Circle (self-released) with Peter Baldwin, the Equines 8 p.m. Friday, July 23 Back Booth, 407-999-2570 www.backbooth.com $3 $3 $3 Pop rock is an artistic path as easy as it is perilous, its ground trampled by so many hacks that the chances of coming across any real essence…
Culture 2 Go
hairy issues chase Little Red The Little Red Riding Hood Show Through Aug. 8 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center 812 E. Rollins St. 407-447-1700 http://orlandoshakes.org $10 Little Red Riding Hood may be the final universally familiar fairy tale not yet co-opted by Disney. Maybe that’s why Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s production of Russell Davis’ The Little Red…
It bites
When Shanda Drawdy decided to relocate from Central Florida to Delray Beach in April, she knew finding a place to live might be a challenge. Drawdy, a grad student from Gainesville, owns two dogs, so she’d need to find a dog-friendly rental. And it couldn’t just be dog friendly – it would have to be…
Let it linger
Fifteen years ago this week, the paper formerly named The Weekly was enjoying its first year as Orlando Weekly with a crew that included exactly two staffers who are still here — arts editor Lindy Shepherd and salesman Dan Winkler. We railed against Newt Gingrich and sang the praises of local college-rock group Braille Closet…
DVD Nuts!
The Greatest ; A lost gem from the festival circuit, writer-director Shana Feste’s family portrait weaves crisis, grief and release into the fabric of a heartbreakingly tender drama textured with wit and humanity. An Education’s Carey Mulligan plays a teen girl who falls in love with the overachieving son of Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon,…
Police Beat
July 8 (2010-321896) 8:30 a.m. — A very unlucky woman learned why it’s always worth it to mend fences: If you don’t, some pervy guy might think you’re an exhibitionist. According to the police report, “an unknown suspect was watching victim `sic` through an opening in her backyard fence and masturbating. The victim was unable…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Revenge fantasies would pollute your consciousness. I advise you to repress them. Wallowing in resentment would have an equally deleterious effect. Don’t you dare give that emotion a foothold. On the other hand, fantasies of experiencing pleasure and joy, even if they’re escapist illusions, will tonify and invigorate your awareness. I…
Savage Love
I was recently told that I am being puritanical and self-righteous because I can’t get over the fact that my partner spends a good deal of time seeking out pictures of very young girls to masturbate to. Nothing illegal, he says, but still. He admits to having a 20-year-plus addiction to porn. With that particular…
