the hunger artist.
What’s eating Brian Feldman? He has gravitated toward food in many of his performance pieces â?? Brian Feldman Eats a Hamburger, Feldmanâ??s Infamous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, and the show that first brought him to our attention, The Feldman Dynamic (in which he simply ate dinner with his family onstage, night…
Stedmaaaaaaaannnnnn!!!
I’m actually interrupting my vacation to pass this along. It’s that weird. Stedman Graham, the motivational speaker and “spiritual partner” of Oprah – please don’t say the motherfuckin’ hubby – is joining the staff of Full Sail U as Adjunct Professor in their “Behavioral Science” program, a major I’ve never been able to figure out…
What You’re Doing This Week
There are many good shows going on this week. But I strongly recommend that you save your money for this: â??Is that even possible? It is possible, and it will fucking happen.â?� Thursday, July 23 For some weird reason, the English Beat is opening for Reel Big Fish. It’s like the ’90s ate the ’80s.…
Love the bomb
Finally, an Iraq war movie that knows what the public wants
OK Corral
East-end joint does chicken right for cheap
This Little Underground
Shit’s tough out there, man. Everyone’s having to get awfully creative just to get by. Take the Pauses, for example, who aren’t even above good old-fashioned panhandling. The Orlando indie-pop band is trying to scrape together enough cheddar to record their debut album with acclaimed producer J. Robbins — $4,500, to be precise. To that…
Live Active Cultures
My eardrums, liver and other assorted organs are still recovering from the Best of Orlando party. In the meantime, here are suggestions for what you could be doing this week. Recite some poetry It’s been a year since I attended one of Broken Speech’s frequent poetry competitions (Live Active Cultures, July 10, 2008), but the…
Happytown
The sad hobo dance of baked beans warmed over trash fires is well and truly upon us in the City Beautiful, and the Orlando Police Department — always at the ready with a press release — is urging you, dear citizen, to be on the lookout for malcontents looting booty in your neighborhood. In an…
Police Beat
July 8 (2009-321588) 9:24 a.m.: A business on Gaston Foster Road had a rough evening. First, someone tried to break in through its front door and fortunately, failed. But then the business had to suffer the indignity of an odd form of graffiti: “Suspect(s) painted a 16-inch-wide-by-7-foot-tall man with a fish on the rear of…
Gypsies passing through
The way I figure it, Gogol Bordello singer Eugene Hütz owes me about $10,000. Two years ago, I was a working stiff moving at the just-below-comfortable American pace to nowhere. Then I heard Bordello’s song “Start Wearing Purple,” I bought their album, Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, and within four months, I had quit my…
Living for the wiggly
There was music coming from Vinyl Richie’s Wiggly World of Records throughout the summer day. At the record store’s inaugural music festival last May, boys and girls came and went like cockatiels among the hollers and the beer in the parking lot. At patio tables covered with empty Miller High Life cans, people discussed the…
Mild Buzz
Mild buzz Hazel and the Bugman Through Aug. 8 at Footlight Theater, the Parliament House 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail 407-425-7571 www.wanzie.com $12 This is the first play written by David Lee, one of the most in-demand actor- writer-directors in Orlando. Originally mounted while Lee was a student at Yale, Hazel and the Bugman was…
Tranny trauma
Tranny trauma I Am My Own Wife Through Aug. 9 at Mad Cow Theatre Company 105 S. Magnolia Ave. 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com $22 I Am My Own Wife, a one-character work by Doug Wright now playing at Mad Cow Theatre under the direction of Alan Bruun, is the story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a cross-dressing, antiquarian…
Saving grace in west Winter Park
Like most things that take on a life of their own, Sacred Places, Sacred History: Black Churches of West Winter Park, Rebekah McCloud’s new exhibit at Hannibal Square Heritage Center, started small. McCloud, now settled in Longwood, realized while driving to and from her church in Hannibal Square in west Winter Park about nine years…
How to run a campaign and alienate people
Today’s the big day. Outside the recently closed Village Tavern near the Mall at Millenia on July 1, political yard signs in that signature dark-blue hue that denotes serious campaigning announce “Matthew Falconer: The Leader We’ve Been Waiting For,” while inside a small menagerie is gathering in support of Falconer’s big announcement: He’s running for…
Lies and videotape
These are the facts: On April 12, 2007, while working off-duty as a security guard at the now-defunct Club Paris nightclub, Orlando cop Fernando Trinidad pushed a woman down a flight of stairs. Trinidad lied about the incident repeatedly and filed a false police report that eventually caused Jessica Asprilla to be charged and arrested…
In the closet
Full Sail University, the recently accredited Winter Park technical school that dropped the “real world education” part of its title and now grants bachelor’s and master’s degrees, bills itself as “one of the premier media arts schools in the world.” But as Full Sail student Gabriel Haze learned in March, that label only goes so…
Blister
The world is a bitter, deep-fried cocktail onion layered in pathos and prejudice; it just spins and it stinks and it spins again while we all have sex with gravity in hopes that it will keep us around, keep us down on the pickled, pungent surface of it all just long enough to be thrown…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Storm chasers are people who love traveling around the continent in pursuit of wild weather. Nothing feeds their lust for life more than getting up close and personal with a tornado or supercell thunderstorm. Many of them are meteorologists who are curious about the way storms work; they’re not motivated solely…
Savage Love
I’m a straight guy, and my first girl was very experienced — she was proud to say she’d been with at least 30 guys before me. When all was said and done, she said that I was the most well-endowed of any man she’d seen before. In all my subsequent experiences, the women I’ve been…
Pass the hat for photons
Got any spare lights? Anyone? I’ll let Kristine Erickson of Mills 50 and Scott Donald explain: Hello! Frequency Productions is working on monthly art shows featuring nationally known artists along side Orlando’s finest art talents at the Cameo Theater. Mills 50 is a partner with them on this and we are facing a lighting challenge.…
