Local Indie Calendar for August
All dates? Subject to change. 8/6 – the Dragon Tattoo follow-up The Girl Who Played with Fire (Enzian) 8/13 – the nuclear proliferation documentary Countdown to Zero (Winter Park) 8/20 – the Depression-era dramedy Get Low (Winter Park) 8/27 – the French whimsy of Micmacs (Enzian – pictured), the acclaimed animated feature The Secret of…
What we talk about when we talk about GTL
It was sometime last winter when I realized The Situation is a genius. I was on my way to some friends’ place in Brooklyn when a couple of young hipsters passed me on the sidewalk. As they made their way up the street, I was able to catch the tail end of a story one…
We were merely at “The Freshman”
The Enzian is in the midst of its annual KidFest summer movie series, a tradition going fifteen years strong. Seeing as most screenings feature 35mm prints and every screening is free on weekdays, I decided to stop by on Monday afternoon to catch “The Freshman,” the classic 1925 comedy about an earnest nerd (Jay Baruchel…
Nobodyâ??s fool
Jay Roach delivers laughs and class despite a tricky premise
Queenâ??s quest
A campfire tale outmatched by its own hero
The meat locker
An acclaimed journalist shows, not tells, a year in Afghanistan
Boiling mad
Diners go nuts for this Cajun diveâ??s crawfish boils
Clucking around
If there were such a thing as a Garden of Eden for chickens, it would be this backyard in downtown Orlando. In a neighborhood not far from the city center, better known for its bars and dining than for its rural charms, two little red hens have it made. They scratch about in a yard…
Culture 2 Go
Dark hearts The Heiress Through Aug. 22 at Mad Cow Theatre 105 S. Magnolia Ave. 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com $24-$28 Mad Cow’s Jennifer Christa Palmer and Mark Edward Smith are at it again. Two years ago, the actors paired off as daughter and dad in N. Richard Nash’s tender romantic comedy The Rainmaker. This summer, the two…
Screw me silly
Lords of Acid with Thrill Kill Kult, BlownLoad, DJ Death Wish 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4 Firestone Live, 407-872-0066 www.firestonelive.net $18-$22 $18-$22 In the cross-cultural wasteland of YouTube comments, it’s not hard to find social-mores-bending sexual comments floating amongst the detritus of mind-numbing idiocy. However, under a clip of Lords of Acid’s “I Must Increase…
This Little Underground
It’s my job to cast a critical eye on our city’s music scene, but sometimes our music community simply swells my heart. The benefit for Michelle Widmer (July 24, Will’s Pub), who recently lost an arm in a freak accident in which she was struck by a car driving the wrong way on I-4, was…
Seasonal Work
Summer months aren’t as much fun when you’re a responsible adult and still have to pay the bills; even artistic types have to figure out a way to hang on during the slow months until the fall season picks up. While the bulk of Orlando’s creative types bang away at day jobs (if they are…
DVD Nuts!
The Living Wake The Social Network’s Jesse Eisenberg stars as the sidekick to a man planning his own funeral in this quirky indie film from a bunch of guys at Funny Or Die. Mike O’Connell co-writes and also stars as the dying man in question who, along with Eisenberg, spends a busy day prepping, settling…
Savage Love
Ever since hearing you say on your podcast that all men use porn, I have had a burning question: What about us women? If all men get a pass to have this whole other sex life, which is (mostly) external to their partnerships and is sexually satisfying, then I think all women should have a…
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The hunger How many meals could one purchase for $40,000? How many people without food could be fed with such a sum? This isn’t some arbitrary number, picked out of the sky for an academic exercise; rather, it is the amount the city of Orlando has spent in court defending its restriction on homeless feedings…
Happytown
If you’re anything like us (you aren’t), you probably spend ridiculous amounts of precious thumb-twiddling time down in your mother’s non-existent Florida basement wearing a tinfoil hat and torn pajama bottoms talking to yourself about state politics while crunching numbers and Cracker Jacks. “Am I paranoid? Am I fat?” you probably ask yourself, while switching…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Success coach Tom Ferry says our ability to pursue our dreams can be damaged by four addictions: 1) an addiction to what other people think of us; 2) an addiction to creating melodrama in a misguided quest for excitement; 3) an addiction to believing we’re imprisoned by what happened in the…
Council Watch
Outside City Hall, the scraggly stragglers of a homeless-feeding protest baked in the heat with honk-at-me placards, but inside it was a different kind of poverty – or at least its criminal symptoms – taking center stage. First, though, the SWAT team busted up the joint, hot on the heels of its “Kick Butts” campaign.…
Police Beat
July 14 (2010-330887) 8:49 a.m. Copper is the new gold — at least among the burglary set. Unknown suspects stole four spools of No. 10 copper wire from the still-under-construction Edgewater High School on Edgewater Drive. For more on the copper-theft phenomenon sweeping the nation, see this week’s Council Watch, in which Billy Manes tells…
Live Active Cultures
Last week I remarked on the scarcity of live shows in south Orlando. This weekend I encountered someone who came to the same conclusion and decided to mount an ambitious new endeavor in response. The result is FantasyLand Theatrical Productions’ newly opened home, the Pointe Performing Arts Center at Pointe Orlando on International Drive. It’s…
