The highs of Loweâ??s
Eatonville kitchen elevates soul-food standards
Letâ??s twist again
Needing an excuse to have some ice cream is like asking permission to breathe. But if you must justify it to yourself, claim scientific curiosity for all the flavor experiments to be conducted at the walk-up window of Twisted Bliss Ice Cream. Ten daily-changing flavors of homemade Italian ice (such as banana cream pie, cookie…
Infernal affairs
Buscemi as yet another loser in mildly charming indie romp
Blister
“You weren’t supposed to find out about this,” Tony cheats at me through my husband’s bedside iPhone. “Besides, if you could keep your man happy, we wouldn’t even be talking about this now, would we?” Call it arranged infidelity if you like, some aerosol Easy Cheese dispensation of relationship hubris onto somebody else’s cracker, but…
Savage Love
My husband and I have been married for one year, but we had been dating for 10 years prior to that. I thought we had a very understanding relationship. In the last couple of days, I have found out that he has a serious obsession with females wearing running shoes. He had in the past…
Live Active Cultures
For nearly a year, I’ve been anticipating the second half of the Fairwinds Broadway Across America series. And I’ve praised the presenting Florida Theatrical Association for finally granting my wish for a slate of shows — topped by the 2008 Best Musical Tony Award—winner, In the Heights, aimed at a younger and demographically diverse audience.…
Culture 2 Go
Madcap Willy The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) Through April 3 at Garden Theatre 160 W. Plant St., Winter Garden 407-877-4736 www.gardentheatre.org $18-$22 William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays: 14 comedies, 12 histories and 11 tragedies, according to the checklist in the show’s program, and watching them all would take about 150 hours. The average audience…
Monsters of anti-folk
The Bundles The Bundles (K Records) It isn’t until halfway through the Bundles’ self-titled debut that Kimya Dawson — the highest-profile member of this folk supergroup — stares down the elephant in the romper room. Against the bobbing acoustic hue and dither of “Over the Moon,” the quintet’s vocalists trade non sequiturs that fall somewhere…
Top of the pops
T.A.M.I. Show Collector’s Edition $20 (Shout Factory) (Shout Factory) (Shout Factory) One of the least compelling derisions against modern pop music concerns today’s overnight successes and the head-dizzying ascent of stars like Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Kesha; the criticism being that these newly minted babes could not possibly have the experience to lay a…
Once bitten
Mandy Hughes got married in Key West in June 2005. Film footage from that ceremony shows her thin but smiling, walking around in her wedding dress, apparently happy and healthy. But Hughes says it took a week of stocking up on fluids and sleep to have enough energy for the day. And other footage, shot…
This Little Underground
While it’s certainly no excuse not to attend the fest and support its most worthy cause of migrant farm worker aid, it is a pretty blessed thing that the annual Harvest of Hope Fest in St. Augustine has already become a big enough magnet event that it draws so many heavyweight national and international acts…
Rescued from the brink
It’s a stunning day in Fort Pierce, just about midway between Orlando and Miami on the Atlantic coast. Late February sunshine has nudged out the winter cold and there’s green grass and blue sky as far as you can see. Only the words “Careful — she’s going to spit!” interrupt the postcard moment. Just as…
Their man Clint
Twenty-some years ago, while working for the Village Voice, I was astonished to overhear a conference call that included the arts editor, the Voice’s lead film critic and none other than Clint Eastwood. He had called to not only thank them for a favorable review but to invite them to a film festival where he…
Happytown
While you may have been fidgeting with your carb, man, the part-time suits in the Florida legislature have been scheming new ways to harsh your mellow, even if they don’t quite dig your crazy lingo. Last week, HB 187 soared unanimously through the grumpy cigars of the Florida House Finance and Tax Council without so…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) From what I can tell, your excursion to Fake Paradise didn’t exact too serious a toll. The accidental detour may have seemed inopportune in the moment, but you know what? I think it slowed you down enough to keep you from doing something rash that you would have regretted later. And…
Police Beat
March 2 ; (2010-100956) 7 a.m.: Whoever stole a Ford pickup from the Holiday Inn on Major Boulevard got a bonus of handguns in the glove box. Yee-haw! (2010-102056) 8 p.m.: Cops saw a woman slipping out of a supposedly unoccupied condo in the 6400 block of South Goldenrod Road, and found her stuff inside.…
