La en order
Oscar-winning Spanish crime drama satisfies
My favorite beer
Sarah Marshallâ??s lightning in a bottle runs out for the spin-off
What should never be
Genetic horror film is more twisted than tense
Police Beat
May 19 ; (2010-233979) 2:35 a.m.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. would convict you for shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater, but how about setting fire to an empty office in the 4400 block of East Colonial Drive? Yeah, that too. (2010-235096) 6:30 p.m.: Someone took four shots at the front door of a house in…
Happytown
While we would have preferred some sort of wink-wink confirmation involving Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” splattered with glitter and tears — welcome to Gay Days, stereotype fans! — last week’s announcement that former Talking Head (and current Imelda Marcos enthusiast … shoes!) David Byrne was pursuing a $1 million lawsuit against Florida’s favorite silver…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you’d like to be in supreme alignment with cosmic rhythms this week, I suggest that you completely avoid using the F-word. Likewise, you’ll maximize your chances for taking advantage of fate’s currents if you refrain from ever using the S-word, the C-word, the M-word, and the B-word. As a general…
Savage Love
I’m a straight male college student in a relationship, which had been going great. The only incongruity was that, for a religious reason, I don’t want to have penetrative vaginal sex before marriage. I’m up for anything else—I would eat her out, piss on her, whatever else—but not vaginal sex. My girlfriend started bringing up…
Live Active Cultures
It is Sunday afternoon of the final weekend of the 2010 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, and so many intoxicating elements of the 30-ish shows I’ve seen this week are swirling through my arteries, swimming their way toward being filtered through my strained liver. As I squint through the mental haze, here are some highlights…
Visual Arts: Hello From FloridaÂ
Lingering under the sun;Hello From Florida: ;Photographs of the Sunshine State;Through June 11 at Gallery ;at Avalon Island;39 S. Magnolia Ave.;407-803-6670;www.galleryatavalonisland.com;Free There are disturbing images among the more than 100 selected by guest curator Jen O’Malley for Hello From Florida: Photographs of the Sunshine State. A quizzical-looking man, lounging in bathing trunks on a car in…
Left behind
Rhymefest EL Che (dN/Be Entertainment) (dN/Be Entertainment) Like space junk mistaken for a star, Chicago MC Rhymefest has carved out his own little gravitational pull in the wake of the ascent of his hometown pal, Kanye West. For a while, the Other Other Chi-town hero appeared to be capable of burning brightly on his own,…
Disc cocky
Mouse Fire Big Emotion (Lujo) When singer Joey Bruce left Winter Haven indie rock outfit Mouse Fire in early 2008, the band’s guitarist, Shane Schuch, hit the ground running. With Bruce as frontman, they were signed to a hot indie label, Lujo Records, which had shepherded Floridians the Dark Romantics and Look Mexico to recognition,…
This Little Underground
Despair is not too strong a word to describe my feelings about the Orlando Magic’s season coming to a premature end. That’s because I love our team. However, unlike blind romantics would have you believe, love is not unconditional. It’s a big personal investment, which means it also involves some expectation. I’ve been a pretty…
Earnest pride
Come Out, Come Out … Wherever You Are!;Reception 7 p.m.-9 p.m. ;Saturday, June 12;Continues through ;June 30 at Gallery Q ;The Center, 946 N. Mills Ave.;407-228-8272;www.flquack.org;Free At the beginning of every month the artwork changes at Gallery Q at the Center, a gallery run by the Florida Queer Art Collective – aka QUACK – a nonprofit made up…
Nonprofitable ventures
When David Bennahum founded the American Independent News Network in May 2006, it was something of an experiment. More and more people, he says, were gravitating to the Internet for news, and blogs were an increasingly popular source of information for readers. Traditional newspapers were finding themselves scrambling to keep up with Internet news startups,…
Desperate but still serious
Leave it to John Waters to write what is perhaps the first loving, learned homage to outsider pornographers. In one chapter of his new memoir, Role Models (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Waters introduces Bobby Garcia, “the Almodóvar of Anuses, the Buñuel of Blow Jobs, the Jodorowsky of Jerking Off.” Garcia — who has somehow convinced…
Knave of arts
It’s saying something when Alice in Wonderland is one of your least weird onscreen roles. But Crispin Glover, who appears as the Knave of Hearts of Tim Burton’s motley fantasy out on DVD this week, consciously had to dial back the eccentric image he’s cultivated for more than 20 years as a top character actor.…
Jungle goodies
Get in line at Amazonas to enjoy one of the best deals in town
Provocative display
Say what you want about tea, there’s no denying it invites a fine dessert. Cue the alluring Chocolate Provocateur display case at Infusion Tea, brimming with sweets that’ll make your taste buds daydream. The handmade treats by pastry chef Ella Kapul-Jenkins have flavor worthy of their fine jewelry looks, without the premium price. Small and…
