Theater: Last Chance for some delicious Soup!
Tonight and Saturday are your last chances to see “Reincarnation Soup”, which actor/writer Viet Nguyen has revived after an acclaimed run at the 2010 Fringe Festival. Here was my “short take” on this wonderful show when it appeared at Fringe: In author/actor Viet Nguyen’s one-man show Reincarnation Soup, the afterlife is an endless queue is…
All the stubborn ladies
Women’s maternal choices are scrutinized in this ho-hum drama
Knockoff at the door
J.J. Abrams, consider yourself flattered
Fair to Med-ling
Turkish cuisine comes to Sanfordâ??s shores
Crude awakening
The slow-motion tragedy of the Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that exploded six weeks ago, killing 11 workers and pumping a seemingly endless supply of black gold into the Gulf of Mexico, has been infuriating and frustrating, even from a distance. There is, of course, plenty of blame to go around: to BP, for…
Culture 2 Go
Women are the world 9 Parts of Desire Empty Spaces Theatre Co. Through June 27 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center 812 E. Rollins St. 407-328-9005 www.emptyspacestheatre.org $20 Islamic culture is a mystery to most Americans, and a lack of exposure has made it something of a social bogeyman in the Christ-centric South. How bold then for…
DVDs Nuts!
The Crazies The best suspense is all about simplicity, and to that degree, Breck Eisner succeeds with this remake of George A. Romero’s little-known 1973 horror flick. Timothy Olyphant plays a small-town sheriff suddenly faced with an outbreak of normal citizens committing left-field mayhem. Eisner continually ratchets up the stakes; the first immediate threats are…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A few years ago, a group of artists built a giant bunny out of pink wool on an Italian mountainside. The 200-foot-long effigy will remain there until 2025. There’s a disturbing aspect to this seemingly goofy artifact, however: It has a wound in its side where its guts are spilling out.…
Savage Love
My friend is a gay ident;ified FTM. He’s hot, he’s cute, and above the waist, you would never guess what he’s got down below. We love to kiss and cuddle, and from my end, his blowjobs are great. The problem is that I have no idea how to reciprocate. He isn’t into anal (why would…
Happytown
Back in the blustery days of institutionalized meteorological homophobia — say, 1998, when Pat Robertson warned Orlando that God and all of his whirling curses would spin into a hurricane formation and devour any municipality that allowed gay people to go to Disney World — the region’s pink knees buckled at the thought of such…
Council Watch
There was no time like the present at this week’s can-do can-can, unless of course the future could be discussed at length by people in suits. First, a 20-minute video presentation on high-speed rail that included President Barack Obama within mere frames of the mayor chugged its way into the communal air of prospective prosperity,…
Police Beat
June 6 (2010-265721) 4:45 a.m.: A dog lunged at police while they were looking for someone in the 10 block of Judith Lane. An officer tried to shoot the dog, but cops and canine alike escaped unscathed. (2010-266124) 11:55 a.m.: Twenty-six mattresses and box springs disappeared from Mattress Firm on South Semoran Boulevard. At 40…
Live Active Cultures
Anyone following my food-tweets from Universal’s meat-tastic Harry Potter media buffets last week knows I’m a committed carnivore. Lately I’ve been spotted snacking on soy and salad at downtown’s Dandelion CommuniTea Café, but I ain’t going vegan. Blame it on Jeremy Seghers. You may know Seghers from his hosting duties on WPRK-FM’s (91.5) Out and…
Oil and water
Michael M. Koehler first met Ricky Robin in January 2009. Koehler, a photographer, was in St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana, volunteering with an organization helping in the ongoing efforts to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. Robin is a seventh-generation shrimper. Or perhaps, was a shrimper. Now Robin works for BP. So, too, do many of his…
This Little Underground
Summer here is usually a time of desolation and surrender — this irrational heat just has a way of owning your ass like that. But this summer is shaping up to be a particularly enterprising season for area music organizers. Besides Austin’s Coffee’s perennial I-4 Fest (www.i4fest.com), this year will see some other newcomers. I…
Rhythm Nation 2814
Let’s get a few things out of the way here: First, Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid is definitely the best album of 2010, probably the best R&B album of the past decade and almost certainly the single most important piece of art that Sean Combs has touched since Ready To Die. Second, despite the heavy implications…
Gripping WAR chronicles
To a civilian reader, the word “outpost,” at least insofar as the modern American military is concerned, might connote some level of permanence or structure, or at least a little bit of brick-and-mortar security. But not if you’re talking about Afghanistan, and not if the year is 2007, and not if you’re talking about the…
Nom de plume
One of the very few things capable of conjuring humor amid the spewing disaster-headlines surrounding the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe has been the revelation of the wild, seemingly lawless frontier that exists deep beneath the ocean’s surface. A June 8 Mother Jones blog brought some of the playground culture to light when it pointed out that…
