Midlife vices
Noah Baumbachâ??s self-loathing reaches its nadir
Snickering when wet
Hot Tub Time Machine packs all the fun its title promises
On the hook
Lake Mary joint caters to the seafood lover with a conscience
Culture 2 Go
Filling the hole Superior Donuts Through April 18 at Mad Cow Theatre 105 S. Magnolia Ave. 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com $24-$26 Arthur Przybyszewski (Sam Hazell), the pothead proprietor of the titular trans-fat trading post in Mad Cow’s new production of Superior Donuts, is too stunned by grief over his ex-wife’s recent death to open his struggling Chicago…
Keeping up appearances
This is a corrected version of the original story, edited to reflect erroneous information originally supplied by DPAC to the reporter. It isn’t exactly a night at the opera. The recent Sunday matinee of Georges Bizet’s popular gypsy romp through military mutiny, Carmen, does however, offer most of the trappings associated with more than 50…
The good fight
“We had outsold Hannah Montana,” remembers Flobots frontman Jonny 5, adding, ” … in Denver.” He remembers that week in 2008 when everything fell into place for the Mile High City’s prolific sextet. Flobots’ debut album, Fight with Tools, debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s rap and alternative rock charts by way of Los Angeles…
Memory lane
Black Tambourine Black Tambourine (Slumberland) Surfing across the indie-music blogs earlier this year, you’d think it was 1990 all over again: Stereogum, Aquarium Drunkard, Pitchfork, Some Velvet Blog, Brooklyn Vegan, Tiny Mixtapes and countless other king-making websites were salivating over the March 30 release of a new compilation by the legendarily short-lived fuzz-pop quartet Black…
Everybody needs a little DLC
If you really want to freak somebody out and make them completely suspicious of your motives, there’s no surer way than to stick the word “project” in front of whatever it is you’re fronting. Exhibit A: “Project Ten Dollar,” the brainchild of Electronic Arts’ CEO John Riccitiello. Dismayed by the fact that the cats at…
This Little Underground
R.I.P. Alex Chilton. The beat I’ve been to two of the three Bread & Circuses Music Feasts (March 20, Will’s Pub) and I still don’t fully get it. The latest edition was a sort of marathon variety show with bands, food, live visuals and freak-show entertainment. It was as weird as it sounds, and not…
DVDs nuts
The Baader Meinhof Complex Like its contemporary war, Vietnam, the German student movement of the 1960s will continue to exist as fertile ground for storytelling, probably forever. In his unflinching, non-glamorized account of one of those stories, director Uli Edel presents the true tale of a group of radical college kids who believed their country…
Savage Love
I’m a 23-year-old bi dude seeing a guy who is intelligent, sweet, attractive. We’ve been together for six weeks. After our first night together, I lost sexual interest in him. When I do get horny I prefer to beat off alone, because I can fantasize about some sort of transgression or other when I do…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) All but one of our planet’s mountain ranges have been mapped: the Gamburtsev Mountains, which are buried under 2.5 miles of ice in Antarctica. Recent efforts to get a read on this craggy landscape have revealed some initial details about it, including its role in forming the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.…
Happytown
What’s more dangerous to the 3,000 quickly aging orphans tied up in Florida’s adoption web: Bubba’s unlocked guns or same-sex couples with disposable incomes? That’s the question that had a surprise airing March 16 in Tallahassee. The National Rifle Association has been pulling out its guns to force HB 315/SB 530, a kid-friendly piece of…
Police Beat
March 8 (2010-113160) 3 p.m.: Hey, Kool-Aid! Someone took a golf cart on a joyride in Village Walk at Lake Nona and drove it through a foam-filled stucco wall. It all happened inside the gated community, with the cart abandoned in nearby woods. There’s been a rash of vandalism around the place, according to the…
Blister
I am a skin sock, a body bag, a frozen chicken breast with the tooth-cracking crisp of microwaved edges tonight, and it’s getting me nowhere. Outside the dribbled humidity spit of random progress beads on windshields waiting to be wiped with the bugs and the bird shit, while here, in here, in this gaping void…
Council Watch
It was time for a group hug at this week’s perfunctory brain trust bonanza, especially considering the news earlier in the day that supercool JetBlue would not be relocating its headquarters to Orlando and adding to our “world class city” brand collection. The city decided to fill its chasm of disappointment with awards, namely the…
Live Active Cultures
Remember that old Suzanne Pleshette-Ian McShane movie If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium? Yeah, no, me neither. Anyway, this week’s edition of Live Active Cultures is subtitled “If It’s Third Thursday, This Must Be Art.” Yes, it’s time for another review of Orlando’s visual art scene, as seen through the prism of the Downtown…
