Sour charity
Auteur Nicole Holofcener shows diminishing returns
Childish things
Pixar says goodbye to Andy’s room
Savage Love
I’m a woman in my 20s, and I’ve been dating the love of my life for two years now. We are incredibly happy, but we have different sex drives. When we first started dating, I initiated sex all the time, but as soon as I started on birth control, my libido evaporated. After a nightmarish…
Happytown
A loud rattling cough of protest could be heard throughout the county last week when somehow word leaked — well, actually, WFTV Channel 9 News published a false story online June 7 and then suspiciously pulled it — that Orange County might follow the lead of some of the country’s more controlled municipal environments by…
Live Active Cultures
This week’s column kicks off with a confession: I’m Caucasian. Shocking, I know. There’s more: I’m a male, middle-class, college-educated, socially liberal secularized Jew from the Northeast. That makes me a member of the most overrepresented demographic imaginable, with mainstream media visibility vastly exceeding our actual numbers. It’s almost impossible to watch TV without seeing…
This Little Underground
Who knew that all it would take was a little thing called the World Cup to snap the once-reliable Weezer out of their years-long slump and finally pen a halfway decent song? Yep, their unofficial anthem for Team USA stomps and rocks atop walls of synth so triumphant you’d think they were trying to channel…
Killing the messenger
On March 3, 2009, two agents from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Gang Enforcement Unit were staked out on a side street in a high-crime area of Orlando off Orange Blossom Trail. Aided by two federal agents from Tampa, they scoped a small white home. According to written statements, the owners of the house had…
Compatriot games
Sage Francis; with Free Moral ; Agents, B. Dolan; 8 p.m. Friday, June 18; Firestone Live, ; 407-872-0066; $15-$18; all ages; www.firestonelive.net; $15-$18 At an early age, Paul Francis decided he wanted to rap. One obstacle threatened his pursuit: finding beats that could sharpen his abilities. Growing up in the ’80s, few rap songs made…
Culture 2 Go
Bold reality;Strangers;Through July 3 at Bold Hype;547 W. 27th St., Manhattan;212-868-2322;www.boldhype.com;Free It’s old news that the Bold Hype contemporary art gallery, established in 2008, moved seemingly overnight to New York City, where it staged its June 3 debut show, Strangers. We’re sorry to report that Bold Hype won’t be coming back to Orlando. Without a…
Heeeereâ??s Harry!
At this very moment, mega-millionaire author J.K. Rowling and some of the actors made semi-famous by her fantasy franchise might be strolling down a red carpet to the applause of adoring fans. OK, so it sucks that you weren’t invited to the three-day media orgy that culminates in Universal Orlando’s Friday, June 18, grand opening…
Trash talk
At the edge of Sanford Central Park, a business park off St. Johns Parkway just a few miles from historic downtown Sanford, garbage-hauling giant Waste Pro wants to put a new “fleet maintenance facility.” The company’s proposal includes a corporate office, truck-repair shop, fuel tanks — and parking space for 70 garbage trucks and 120…
Comments
The Muggles speak I think the Harry Potter attraction `Culture2Go blog, “A first look at Universal’s Harry Potter attraction,” June 2` was green-lighted partially for the appeal to all the British tourists who were coming over and spending lavishly all over the place, thanks to the favorable exchange rate with the Euro … too bad…
Police Beat
May 30 ; (2010-253298) 8:22 a.m.: A guy ran out of Wal-Mart on South Goldenrod Road with two flat-screen TVs in his arms and actually got away. Go steroids. (2010-253808) 4:40 p.m.: In an apartment in the 5100 block of Park Central Drive, a man whacked his girlfriend with a vacuum cleaner. ;; June 1…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Istanbul is the world’s only mega-city that spans two continents. Many Turkish commuters take the 15-minute ferry ride across the Bosphorus Strait, traveling from their suburban homes in Asia to the urban sprawl in Europe. I’m seeing a comparable journey for you, Aries: a transition that happens casually and quickly, but…
The defiant one
Jerked-up Jamaican cuisine animates an urban wasteland
Tacos around the clock
All right, downtown party people, you can stop making sacrifices to the munchies gods ‘ your drunken prayers for a 24-hour downtown Mexican joint have been heard. California Burrito Express has a vast menu of deals ‘ most items struggle to break the $5 mark ‘ but the signature California burrito ($4.99) stands out. Laden…
