Cattle Call: Yeah, those auditions
Get your warbles ready, if ya got any warbles. It’s time for that first humiliating round of American Idol auditions. A favor, please: Don’t try to be bad enough to be on TV. Either try and suck or kick ass, but don’t aim for the bottom rung. There are plenty of terrible singers with earnest…
No cure
Todd Phillips kneels at the porcelain altar yet again
The limits of coherence
Jim Jarmusch takes on a trip to nowhere
Good chemistry
No weird science at Circa, just exquisite alchemy
Meet hip-hop’s Borat
He has 999 wives. He hails from an unnamed region of central Africa (“a thin layer of impenetrable rainforest,” he tells interviewers) known only as d’bush. His name is Prince Zimboo Abakunamabooba, and if he sounds fishy to you, he should. Outlandish back stories are common in hip-hop — a genre perched on the fault…
Larger than life
Larger than life Sticky Fingers: The Iconic Art Show Through June 13 CityArts Factory 29 S. Orange Ave. Free; 407-648-7060 www.cityartsfactory.com The earthy, sometimes raunchy Sticky Fingers is more than a tribute to popular culture. To most of today’s society, it is the culture and celebrates a shared sense of connection. The group exhibit of…
Inside humor
Insider humor Forbidden Broadway Through July 5 Mad Cow Theatre 105 S. Magnolia Ave. $28; 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com Let me sum up the delights and dangers of seeing Mad Cow Theatre’s current incarnation of select routines from many years’ versions of Forbidden Broadway: If you know with ruthless precision the music and lyrics that Gerard Alessandrini’s…
Shared thoughts, words and deeds
Shared thoughts, words and deeds RS 21 Through July 13 Maitland Art Center 231 W. Packwood Ave. $3; 407-539-2181 www.maitlandartcenter.org The story behind RS 21 the exhibit gets really deep. First, there’s the rich history of the Maitland Art Center, first established in 1930s as the Research Studio (as in “RS”) by the late visionary…
Gay Day
Hey! It’s great to be gay! There’s the contemptuous marauding of principles and rights by the idiot mass (that means you, Prop 8 and Amendment 2), the stereotyping proffered from within and without with regards to social behavior, the sucking and shopping and sucking and shopping. Better still, Orlando’s 18-year-old tradition of designating what is…
Pulling a fast one
At the end of March, President Barack Obama gave a speech intended to reassure consumers worried about buying vehicles from a U.S. automaker facing the possibility of bankruptcy. “Let me say this as plainly as I can. If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car…
DVDs Nuts!
; The Alzheimer’s Project: Take your time with this one. This recently aired HBO documentary series can be the stuff to destroy your every ounce of happiness. But that’s no reason not to watch as the cameras follow the daily heartbreak of Alzheimer’s disease. ;; The Dana Carvey Show: What’s fascinating about this quickly canceled…
Blister
‘You want to bring my shotgun?’ That was my husband’s inexplicable reaction to the friend-created poster advertising tonight’s proceedings. For my own personal vanity birthday bonfire, tall and quiet Justin took to his computer to craft a fairly suggestive image of old Scarfaced Tony Montana sitting at the receiving end of a huge pile of…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m betting that in a couple of months the fates will give you license to play with boisterous gambles and exhilarating risks. But at this particular moment I recommend that you confine yourself to tame gambles and sensible risks. I realize that may be a bit deflating to your rambunctious all-or-nothing…
Savage Love
My boyfriend and I have been together over eight months. We love each other, and I see us spending our lives together. At least I did, until a few days ago. For the last five months or so, he’s brought up marriage. Then a few days ago he informed me that he actually doesn’t want…
This Little Underground
This is primarily a music and nightlife column but it’s also a local-minded space. And with regard to local electricity, it’s all about the Orlando Magic. Every year, I track the progress of both the scene and the team, but I never thought the two worlds would ever crossover so completely. Since the playoffs began,…
Live Active Cultures
Last Thursday (May 28), the glitterati of Orlando gathered to welcome downtown’s eternally delayed Plaza Cinema Café with all the ersatz glitz and glamour that Hollywood East could muster — that is, not very much. Your sociopolitical betters braved bursts of precipitation to pass their car keys off to the valets vying for tips and…
Happytown
Remember Bill Dillon? He’s the guy who was finally released from prison in 2008 after serving 27 years for a murder he didn’t commit `”26 years,” Oct. 11, 2007`. Thank you, DNA testing. Because it’s not enough to rob a man of three decades of his life based on an incredibly shoddy prosecution — featuring…
Police Beat
May 21 (2009-238392) 8:26 a.m.: Hey, did you see that Buddy Dyer has a plan to fix crime in this city, at least for the summer? It’s a real plan, too — none of this wistful nonsense about putting more cops on the street, or targeting the poverty and homelessness that plague this city’s most…
