What You’re Doing This Week
I know it’s supposed to rain every afternoon around here, but this shit’s just been ridiculous lately. Stay dry out there. Thursday, July 9 There are about eight million members in the local funk-fusion outfit known as the Good Rub, and while the style in which they play is one that often gets sunk in…
Live and let die
Oscar’s best foreign film balances life and death
Make me an altar of stone
Brutal depiction of a true story sheds light on evil practice
Mr. Lonely
Sam Rockwell hands in the performance of his career
Dire straights
Borat becomes Brüno but the cringe humor remains the same
On the side
A street cart named desire
Greed isnâ??t good
Abundance manifests itself in fat wallets and fatter guts
Miami rhapsody
North Cali label Ubiquity Records has long been a next-level pacesetter in groove and rhythm genres. But Luv N’ Haight — Ubiquity’s reissue branch — is showing maximum hot- buttered style with its latest release. After seeing Betty Padgett perform at the Fort Lauderdale Elks Lodge in 1974, soul luminary Milton Wright approached the 21-year-old…
Peaceful coexistence
Peaceful coexistence Oil and Acrylic Paintings on Canvas by Dan Tashlin & Clay Stephens Through Friday, July 10, at Gallery at Avalon Island 39 S. Magnolia Ave.; 407-803-6670 Donations accepted; www.galleryatavalonisland.com The exhibit at downtown’s Gallery at Avalon Island contrasts the superrealistic style of Dan Tashlin with the classic abstract expressionism of Clay Stephens for…
Pleased as Punch
Orlando International Puppet Festival July 10, 21, 25 and 26 at Orlando Repertory Theatre and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre www.orlandorep.com $6-$12 Puppets are big in Orlando, thanks to the colorful and furry presence of Ibex Puppetry, owned by Heather Henson, daughter of the legendary Jim Henson of Muppet fame. Ibex is headquartered in Orlando, in an…
DIY health care
It’s a strange shopping experience. A customer walks into a hole-in-the-wall shop, chooses from a menu of medical tests, produces the sample required — blood, urine, feces, sperm, that strange hair found in a wrong place — and the register goes beep when the transaction’s completed. Prices vary from test to test. It costs about…
Not our problem
Tempers weren’t exactly flaring at the city’s June 30 neighborhood meeting at the Lake Highland Preparatory School Harriet Coleman Center for the Arts. There were no loud protests or screaming matches. Maybe there should have been. About 50 people showed up to discuss the planned development of a 16-acre parcel adjacent to the site, a…
Jam session
When my 23-year-old baby-sitter invited me to a jelly party, I was both flattered and flustered. I had never heard of such a social event, but the possibilities inherent in the words “jelly party” raised some interesting imagery. Absent among the visions that came to mind, however, was the actual event: a kitchen packed with…
Blister
Sometimes life really is just the sum of its parts. A pre-pagination glue stick wrestling with a penknife to cobble together anecdotal evidence of life’s imitation via politics or controversy or both, just words stuck to page punctuated by such amenities as smoke shops, laser hair removal and this clip-art buff guy or that clip-art…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Miracle of miracles: A pointless pain in the butt will soon stop bugging you. Meanwhile, an annoying itch in your heart is subsiding and may even disappear. As a result of these happy developments, you will be able to concentrate on a much more interesting and provocative torment that has been…
Savage Love
Here’s a hypothetical for you: You’ve been corresponding with a handsome young man who lives in Paris. You know him through a friend in France, and your friend has vetted him. He has offered to pay more than half of your airfare so that you can visit him in Paris. You’ve spoken to him on…
This Little Underground
Ever party so hard in the name of nationalism that it takes the entirety of your brain’s resources just to shake off the shellshock and re-establish basic functionality? Well, now you know the reason for this sad-ass intro. So, yeah … buuurp … happy birthday, America. The beat Coming to a close in Orlando, the…
Live Active Cultures
Mark Baratelli is a man of many talents. Maybe you’ve seen his one-man improvisational cabaret performances, which were a highlight of the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival for several seasons. You might have seen his show-saving star turn as King Herod alongside Ted Neeley’s geriatric Jesus in the recent national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar.…
Happytown
What are you doing Saturday? Nothing? Then why not get naked with hundreds of your friends and neighbors? No, it’s not the world’s biggest key party. It’s an attempt at the world skinny-dipping record, which, conveniently, is a brand-new category for the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records and therefore wide open. Theoretically,…
Police Beat
June 29 (2009-305571) 8:52 a.m.: I have some bad news: This column has failed. Remember a few weeks back when I told you that the Beat had been nominated for an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award? Well, the results came in June 26: Honorable Mention. Honorable. Mention. I got AAN’s version of the “you showed…
Goodbye to Chuck Dinkins
Yet another position has been axed due to shrinking budgets: Chuck Dinkins, the facilities director at the Downtown Arts District-funded CityArts Factory. Below is the e-mail he just sent out. And to use a line from “Lonesome Dove” to describe his tenure, Chuck was “cheerful in all weathers. Never shirked a task. Splendid behavior.” Best…
