King of pain
Judd Apatow grows leaps and bounds in a near masterpiece
Where have you gone, Ron Bass?
Youthful romance inspires inner crotchety old man
Sponge worthy
Watering hole offers apres-work libations with food to match
Blister
It all started with a tiny prick, so small you couldn’t even see it, much less sit on it. Then by some combustible happenstance, there was an explosion within a vacuum and everywhere everything was shooting out red vinyl pants, gratuitous eyeliner, powder, poppers and pleasantries; there were bright sparkling lights and Stephen Sprouse day-glo…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Are you a gelatinous pool of longing yet? Are you a perfumed garden of madly blooming purple explosions? Are you throbbing and gooey and half-nauseous with that delicious sickness some people called love? If not, I don’t know what to tell you. By all reckoning your gut should be swarming with…
Savage Love
; This question comes from a ; point of real frustration. I’m a 26-year-old straight guy. Due to my being overweight, awkward, and generally unable to attract women I’m actually interested in, I have only been sexually intimate with prostitutes and women of low caliber. ; I have never been able to sustain an erection…
This Little Underground
The area music scene is currently experiencing a changing of the guard. To see some of our foundational indie bands fold is always heartbreaking (and more than a little unsettling) to someone like me whose chief concern is the creative health of this city. But let me reassure you: There’s a fertile swell of new…
DVDs Nuts!
;; ;; Dollhouse: Season One The 12-episode season dealt with cancellation rumors before it even began, but the final show was explosive enough to get Dollhouse renewed. It was an ultra-last-minute save amid high expectations for Joss Whedon’s fourth TV series after Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, all of which rank among the…
Happytown
You know where the world’s best body painters live? Not Los Angeles or New York. Not Paris, Milan, London, Beijing or Amsterdam. They live here, in Orlando. Yes, indeedy, we are the champions — or more accurately, we are the home of the champions, twin brothers Brian and Nick Wolfe, who just won a gold…
Police Beat
July 11 (2009-327018) 6:10 a.m.: A guy broke into a business and removed a bunch of merch. Apparently, he hurt himself in the process. Shattered glass is sharp. (2009-327043) 6:37 a.m.: It’s been awhile since this column had a good old-fashioned knife fight. So here’s one, courtesy of Officer Sahs: “On the above date and…
Live Active Cultures
It’s 2 p.m. Saturday, July 25, and Brian Feldman doesn’t look well. He’s been here at the Loving Hut ingesting vegan cuisine since 11 a.m. and is starting to appreciate the enormity of his Brian Feldman Eats Everything Off the Menu at Loving Hut performance after eating only 14 out of 64 offerings. While he…
Out of “Deep Blue’
‘Cool and creepy, that’s what Deep Blue is all about. The jellyfish were fun and playful, but that’s over now. Expect some teeth to show up within the undersea lights.” Doug Rhodehamel almost whispers this as he sips his coffee at Stardust, and the intensity of his expression is reassuring; if anyone can pull off…
Other people’s money
If you had a $30,000 annual slush fund courtesy of someone else, what would you do? If you were Orlando city commissioner Daisy Lynum, you’d travel. A lot. You’d fly to places like Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, going to conferences and staying in top-flight hotels, all on the taxpayers’…
Middle passage
Solillaquists of Sound want to bring value back to the music experience. Since signing to indie powerhouse Anti- Records, Orlando’s first family of hip-hop soul has been building The Listener’s Trilogy, an ambitious three-album arc that’s a microcosm complete with its own mythos and milieu. It’s a prismatic, multimedia world where the visual art, created…
Get him to the Greek
Mumpsy mastermind Jeff Ilgenfritz has had a busy eight or nine months: He began hosting a “trivia night” at Ethos Vegan Kitchen, the restaurant where he works both front and back of the house. He served as a temporary member in both Basements of Florida and Dangerous Animals. He performed Green Day’s album Dookie in…
Eternal strength of blood and steel
Eternal strength of blood and steel Abstracted Realities: Keith Theriot & Nick Bingham Exhibit Through Aug. 14 at Gallery at Avalon Island, 37 S. Magnolia Ave. 407-421-5711; free www.galleryatavalonisland.com While the horror has receded in the 15 years or so since local artist Keith Theriot first exhibited paintings in his own HIV-positive blood in an…
