Sneak peek: Letter to Orlando Peoples Critic
You can read Seth Kubersky’s Live Active Cultures column when the June 25 issue hits the streets Wednesday afternoon, but it is too good not to share with you right away. Naturally, I have my own opinions about declaring yourself an anonymous “critic” but read what Seth has to say and we’ll take it from…
Ends: Hey, buddy, I asked for a beer, not a song
Over at the Eden Bar at the Enzian, they’re starting a new music night: Sessions. It’s a name that calls to mind those intimate little specials featuring stripped-down legends. One pictures a tiny stage and a single spot, or maybe an old Texas recording studio with a haggard looking B.B. King or Keith Richards or…
Rico mountain high
Puerto Rican fare that’s straightforward and traditional
The last meatball
The extinction of Harold Ramis
Do you even have to ask?
A wonderful, sexy romance from France
Blister
There are buzz saws: the whirring and whacking and clicking and clacking, some unholy alliance between greased-down chains and prickly rotors in the rhythmic frenzy of destructive progress. The noises, the dust, the chugging along at a manic pace, the teetering on the edge of failure and everywhere, everything, a mess. There is a burnt…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Are you secretly afraid of feeling secure? Do you equate stability with being bored and lazy? Do you suspect that your restless pioneer spirit makes you unfit for the slow, meticulous work of building sturdy foundations? If so, there’s hope for you to change — especially if you make a big…
Savage Love
I’m going to say up front that I know I am a complete and total asshole. I have been with my current boyfriend for about three years and we are living together. About a year ago, our relationship started to go bad when I found out I was pregnant and ended up having an abortion.…
This Little Underground
This week, I rescued two huge turtles from becoming road pies, so you know some good juju was coming my way. Karma arrived in a parade of five-star local and national acts. The beat When Wisconsin’s Bon Iver first emerged last year, the debut album by Justin Vernon’s abstract folk project was a grower, not…
Live Active Cultures
It’s the end of the broadcast world as we know it, and if you feel fine then you haven’t been paying attention. On June 12, the federally mandated transition from analog television to digital was finally completed, meaning the end of traditional terrestrial TV transmission. To mark the occasion, Orlando conceptual artist Brian Feldman (Pillowlando,…
Happytown
And we’re off. On June 8, the anti-growth rabble-rousers with Florida Hometown Democracy announced that they’d collected enough petitions — 676,811, to be exact — to put their proposed constitutional amendment on the 2010 ballot. That amendment, you’ll recall, would require referenda on changes to counties’ comprehensive land use plans; in essence, whenever some developer…
Police Beat
May 26 (2009-247340) 2:25 p.m.: Brazen robbery at a downtown church! Our suspect hopped a wall, pried open a maintenance door and “stole rolls of black garbage bags.” (2009-247401) 2:59 a.m.: Attention, whoever stole a television and a DVD player from the homeless shelter: You’re an asshole. Sincerely, Police Beat. Time and case number missing:…
Comments
Not spent yet The Orlando Weekly’s May 28 paper stated that Orange County had approved money for equipment in the planned Afashee Theatre. Please be aware that no dollars have been disbursed, nor will they be until the project is at a stage as to require disbursement. There is a deadline associated with the grant.…
The band who would be king
Talk about regeneration. On May 2, at a Back Booth—hosted battle of the bands, I was told that one of Orlando’s best all-around bands, Summerbirds in the Cellar, had broken up. For years, the Summerbirds stood as one of the most complete indie-rock acts around, equally adept at studio polish and blistering live shows that…
Hotel hell
It rings out like a warning shot across the Tweetosphere: “I’m like the guy in Memento, self-tattooing the phrase “DO NOT EVER STAY IN THE CORALVILLE, IA COMFORT INN” on my arm in my busted hotel room,” writes musician John Vanderslice, who had the misfortune of booking a room at the hotel for a recent…
Summer studies
Andy Warhol: Personalities Through Jan. 3 at Cornell Fine Arts Museum 1000 Holt Ave., Rollins College, Winter Park 407-646-2526; free-$5 www.rollins.edu/cfam This small exhibition of what are essentially figure studies for Andy Warhol’s register-ringing assembly line of society portraits is slight, but nevertheless valuable as a window into the fastidious methods of a man who…
If you think this doll is creepy…
The timing couldn’t have been worse. Unless, of course, you believe the adage, “Any publicity is good publicity,” in which case the timing was just right. On the morning of Jan. 26, Jacksonville entrepreneur Jaime Salcedo distributed a press release on behalf of his company, Showbiz Promotions, announcing the launch of his newest ripped-from-the-headlines novelty:…
Off the beaten Pathway
The hot air was thick with a sense of accomplishment at the groundbreaking of the new Z.L. Riley Park in Orlando’s Parramore neighborhood June 9. Next to a pile of dirt topped with five shovels crowned with five hard hats, Mayor Buddy Dyer took to the lectern to celebrate the four-year anniversary of his Pathways…
DVDs Nuts!
; Bergman Island It’s natural, if unnecessary, that elite DVD company the Criterion Collection would take on this Swedish TV documentary that visits legendary director Ingmar Bergman at his precious home on Faro Island. Along with Akira Kurosawa, Bergman is the favored son of Criterion’s catalog, and this filmed conversation with the man, which feels…
