The fox and the hound
The hunted chase back with closet-cleaning documentary
Codswallop!
Jessica Biel and her director are equally uneasy with Coward
Chill, out
Relaxing open-air cafe beckons al fresco diners
Lone wolf and sub
Denzel is the only man for the job in just-above-average remake
This Little Underground
It’s the big story of the season, but the truth is that the Orlando Magic have always had it hard when it comes to legitimacy. First, there’s that stupid name. Yeah, we’re used to it now, but “Magic”? Doesn’t exactly intimidate. Then their arena gets formally tagged with the flag-waving lack of cool that is…
Live Active Cultures
It’s no secret that the whole Downtown Disney entertainment complex has devolved into a shadow of its former self. The retail-centric Marketplace district is still seeing healthy traffic, but a walk from the once-vibrant Pleasure Island through the West Side reveals shuttered nightclubs, an upcharge balloon ride that’s frequently grounded by high winds, a recently…
Happytown
We know it’s tantamount to heresy to spit water all over whatever it is that makes blue and white “ignite,” especially considering that the Orlando Magic are in the NBA finals pressing Dwight Howard’s size 18 shoes up against the merchandised ego of Kobe Bryant and his L.A. Lakers. But, just to refresh your memory…
Council Watch
“Will Christ ever return?” That was the headline we found spread across the front of the Philadelphia Trumpet in the city’s records office before this week’s council confab, and it got us to thinking. Which is good, because given the fact that the mayor was due in short order at the airport to greet the…
Best of Orlando 2009 Voting
CLICK HERE TO VOTE NOW! Time once again for you to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly about life in the City Beautiful. As with all things these days, there are a few rules you are going to have to follow if you want your vote to count: You must include your…
Coming-out comedy
Sordid Lives;Through June 20 at Theatre Downtown; 2113 N. Orange Ave.; $18; 407-841-0083;www.theatredowntown.net April is the cruelest month (according to T.S. Eliot), and May is the moistest, but June is Orlando’s gayest month. This year Theatre Downtown is participating in the rainbow parade by presenting Sordid Lives, playwright Del Shores’ cult comedy (later turned Logo…
Deep within
La Vida reception 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday, June 12 through July 3 at Creative Spirit Art Gallery 820-A Lake Baldwin Lane donations accepted; 407-898-8343 www.creativespiritartgallery.com Urban art remains the foundation of the paintings by former tattoo artist Erick D. Marquez. His tag, “Erock,” is embedded in many pieces along with the symbolic narrative suggested by…
Event licks
Sometime between the time NYC Ghosts & Flowers redefined Beat Generation—fellating uselessness and al-Qaida terrorists flew planes into the towers, Sonic Youth — or somebody on Sonic Youth’s management team — had an epiphany: Why not roll out each SY opus as though it were a summer installment in a blockbuster franchise? Put the word…
Heads or tales
Once again, Eminem proves he just doesn’t give a fuck. Perhaps he never stopped, but the results of his, shall we say, carefree attitude are vastly different on his fifth major label release. Call it a return to form with a twist, as there’s a sharp lyricist’s fervor recalling his days as a “true MC”;…
Download app … or download crap?
Nicolas Cage had a pretty good one, before he started starring in gut-busting dreck like Knowing and Next. The Orlando Magic is compiling a great one with its sudden string of gutsy playoff performances. And Lindsay Lohan? Well, hers has been horrible for years. We’re talking about the crap-to-quality ratio, that ever-shifting pop-culture equation that…
Hosed
“Hi, I’m No. 7,” Terry Gray introduces himself. Like his dozen or so cohorts gathered this sweltering May 30 morning on Edgewater Drive in College Park, Gray’s wearing a bright yellow T-shirt emblazoned with the website for the Orlando firefighters union, www.rescueofd.com. Gray and about 150 of his colleagues spent the last two hours or…
How I got hit
All too often in Florida, bicycles and automobiles don’t get along. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study released in April pegged the Sunshine State as the leader in “pedacyclist” fatalities: 119 deaths, more than California (109) and New York (51). Mighk Wilson doesn’t think those damning statistics tell the real story. Wilson, a bicycle…
Blister
Before the first fingernail snags on a fishnet stocking, before the first armpit ring forms on a red T-shirt covered in oversized ears and unappealing fonts, before the first bitch-fight, drug bust, K-hole, breakup, blow job, “I love you, but I hate you,” and “It’s a small world after all” so let’s try a threesome…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) So you’re trying to tell me that the way out is the way in. Is that right? And that the “wrong” answer just might be the right answer? And that success, if it makes an appearance, will most likely happen by accident? I don’t know. It’s tricky to get away with…
Savage Love
I am a 28-year-old straight woman who has been dating a 24-year-old straight man for two months. Recently, I gave him oral sex while he was seated naked on my couch. The next day, as I went to sit on the couch, I noticed a brown stain on the cushion that looked highly suspicious. I…
