Cowabunga
Meat madness comes to Park Avenue
A simple kind of dog
The imposing hulk of a restaurant in the Copper Rocket’s parking lot has held onto owners about as well as the Hope Diamond, shrugging off hamburger peddlers and sandwich vendors like bad dreams. But the one-man act running Topos Hot Dogz-n-Pastrami might keep his spot, thanks to wiseacre charm and uncomplicated specialties. A hot dog…
Millerâ??s crossing
Jay Baruchel is out of his league in starring role
It blows
Dab the drool from your lips during this feel-good drama
Harvest of Hope: Rise above
Rogue Wave;with Avi Buffalo ;9 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 13 ;The Social, 407-246-1419 ;www.thesocial.org;$13-$15 The new album, Permalight, documents a period that Zach Rogue would rather not revisit. In September 2008, the leader of Oakland indie pop outfit Rogue Wave injured his neck, leaving him in debilitating pain. For a few months, slipped discs prevented him…
Harvest of Hope: Dogged by dogma
Danielson with Ben + Vesper, Ortolan 8 p.m. Saturday, March 13 Stardust Video and Coffee, 407-623-3393 www.myspace.com/stardustvideoandcoffee $10 $10 $10 In 2006, upon the release of the Danielson Famile’s art-rock opus, Ships, Daniel Smith stopped being asked to explain his obsession with Jesus. “That’s when `music writers` just took that out of the equation,” says…
Harvest of Hope: Hope floats
2nd Annual ;Harvest of Hope Fest;Friday – Sunday, March 12-14;St. Johns County Fairgrounds, ;St. Augustine;www.harvestofhopefest.com;$49.50 festival pass When one door closes, another door gets kicked off its hinges. Such is the case when, last year, South Florida’s annual outdoor music festival, Langerado, shut down for good thanks to sluggish ticket sales in a slow economy. As…
A losing card
Fifteen years ago, long before Florida’s recession-necessitated tiptoeing into legalized gambling, the state’s attorney general, Bob Butterworth, waged a war on an unlikely racketeering pastime: bingo. Specifically, the state alleged that Canadian businessman Philip Furtney had made a killing off of his “hall-for-hire” businesses across the state (including one in Orlando), skimming cash off of…
This Little Underground
So, you been diggin’ this;extended winter? Ha! Take that, vacationers! ;; The Beat ; Speaking of tourists, local country band Giddy Up Go (March 4, Will’s Pub) kind of resembles a group of them right now. If they’d get over the novelty aspect of their chosen genre and get real, these guys could ;actually be…
Happytown
With all of the recent coverage of discolored water on Hawaii’s coast portending the tsunami to end all tsunamis (or, basically, the tide going out), it’s easy to forget about the big aquatic suck going on right in our backyard. Not so for local name-giggle Dick Batchelor, the former chair of the Florida Environmental Regulation…
Battle poetry
Strat Tribute 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 17 Urban Think Bookstore 625 E. Central Blvd. 407-650-8004 www.urbanthinkorlando.com Free Free “That’s a giant open broken home hopelessly grown from overblown adjectives with addresses at poems that meet at streets where most won’t walk 2 roads from life off of writers block.” — by Dave Campbell (aka Strat),…
Savage Love
I am a girl who sabotaged my relationship. I was angry; I had complaints. But my real issue was a store of repressed childhood trauma, and I was working it out on the closest person to me, my BF. We had something magical and I destroyed it. I am now willing to give 110 percent…
DVDs Nuts!
Gigante From the mythical Orpheus to Say Anything’s Lloyd Dobler, the line between dangerous obsession and adorable pursuit has always been blurry, and it takes a confident storyteller to convince an audience to either fear or swoon over such a love-struck lead. With the intimate Uruguayan film Gigante, writer-director Adrián Biniez has a long way…
Comments
The light of reason Your article on ACORN `”Smashing ACORN,” March 4` promised a bigger scandal than the pimp tapes. You were correct, the article was scandalously insipid. ACORN and its supporters are at war with a capitalist society. That’s fine by me, but making me finance their war is a bit much. Your supporters…
Blister
This is the lesbian breaking point. Despite our collective lack of lady parts and general inability to make mountains out of our nippled molehills, Tony and I are this close to cracking the khaki-cargo ceiling as we shift uncomfortably in my Volkswagen people mover. For him, it’s a tale of pseudo-husband passive aggression involving the…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was called “the most famous actress the world has ever known.” She did a few films in the early days of the cinema, but most of her work was in the theater. At age 70, she played the role of the 13-year-old Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.…
Council Watch
It was a tale of two council meetings at this week’s civic square dance. The first half, or nice-people-consent-agenda-with-a-prayer-and-a-pledge, played out cheerfully enough, with such barely interesting effluvia as commissioner Patty Sheehan’s paranoid fake Facebook page scandal and commissioner Daisy Lynum’s pronouncement that she was the Queen of Wal-Mart. But there was always a big…
Police Beat
Feb. 23 (2010-89472) 1 p.m.: The tasteful thief chooses Gribble Interior Group on East Marks Street as the place to select an antique chair and table and other elegant fixtures. Oh, and an office computer. Feb. 24 (2010-91466) 2:39 p.m.: Burglars at an apartment in the 3000 block of South Semoran Boulevard left the scene…
Live Active Cultures
Plant City began celebrating its annual harvest back in 1930, ranking this year’s 75th Florida Strawberry Festival (they took a few seasons off during WW II) among the area’s oldest ongoing tourist attractions. So you’d think they’d have figured out how to plan for it. Unfortunately, my first-ever visit nearly became my last. After following…
Before the new millennium
Before the new millennium Auspicious Vision Through May 23 at the Mennello Museum of American Art 900 E. Princeton St. 407-246-4278 www.mennellomuseum.org $4 In the early 20th century, European artists were more highly regarded than those in America. Edward Wales Root, a New York Sun reporter, rejected this idea and befriended the often destitute and…
Two against the world
Two against the world Topdog/Underdog Through Sunday, March 14 at Mad Cow Theatre, 105 S. Magnolia Ave. 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com $22 Two African-American brothers, Lincoln and Booth, share a small, squalid apartment with no bathroom or running water. Booth, the younger sibling, is unemployed and spends his days pining for an ex-girlfriend when he is not…
Harvest of Hope: Celestial bodies
Bear In Heaven Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes) with Cymbals Eat Guitars, Freelance Whales 9 p.m. Saturday, March 13 Will’s Pub, 407-898-5070 www.willspub.org $10-$12 $10-$12 $10-$12 The single thing that most defines the latest record from Bear In Heaven is its unfaltering sense of purpose. The centering quality of its well-defined sonic architecture allows the…
Fringe and cringe
Last nightâ??s Fab Fringe Fundraiser at the Shakes’ Goldman Theater had its surprises, and we’re not complaining. The entertainment was as good as Funky Monkey’s garlic mashed potatoes. Fab Fringe moment: As promised, car-accident-injured and still quite fabulous Fringe producer Beth Marshall rolled out in her wheelchair with a sedately dressed Patrick Flick of Orlando…
