Wired up
â??Training Dayâ?? director goes back to the streets, loses the real
Ghost in the machine
Embattled master Roman Polanski delivers arresting film
Casting long lines
The waiting is the hardest part at this superior seafood shack
Seconds city
This is what the Superfans had in mind when they ordered ‘da beefâ?�: peppery, aromatic, thinly sliced roast beef piled thick on a steamed hoagie roll, topped with soft green bell peppers and doused with roasting juices until the bread is soggy with flavor. Stud the meat with a little hot pickled giardinera and you…
Love the largeness
Burtonâ??s mighty tale couldâ??ve been great, settles for good
Mind in the gutters
From chicks in chain-mail bikinis to musclemen in tights, from the Tijuana bibles of old to the latest panty-flashing fan service in Japan, sex and comics go together like a complete lack of social skills and comics. So here’s a brief roundup of some notable comic book hotties – according to me. Your mileage, true…
This Little Underground
I don’t know what’s inducing it — a persistent creative urge, dissatisfaction with the current direction of things, or something else — but there’s been a local trend lately of marquee rock veterans rising back up and doing exactly what it is that made them gods in the Orlando music canon in the first place.…
Come back, kids
Open Windows with Great Deceivers, Bananafish 8 p.m. Saturday, March 6 Back Booth 407-999-2570 www.backbooth.com $6 $6 $6 $6 Just because the history of Asheville, N.C., groove merchants Open Windows is marked by uncertainty doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of being resolute. Once the self-described “runts” of the Orlando music scene, dogged by accusations of…
Smashing ACORN
You haven’t seen Carrie Guzman on the television shows hosted by archconservatives Bill O’Reilly or Glenn Beck. Her name hasn’t appeared on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal. And she hasn’t shown up in any surreptitiously videotaped sting operations conducted by youthful right-wing zealots. In fact, Guzman represents a face of the group…
Going, going …
Ever seen an Orlando cave crayfish? Only a few biologists, some cave divers and the occasional well driller have. That’s about it. But it’s down there, perhaps under your feet right now. How many there are, and how they’re doing, however, is tough to determine. What is known is that it’s one of 15 species…
DVDs Nuts!
Beaches of Agnès It’s to my detriment, and to the credit of this documentary about the life of the grandmother of French New Wave, that I have not seen any of Agnès Varda’s films except this one, but my Netflix queue is now full of them. It’s safe to say, whoever you are, your life…
Blister
This will end badly. When I was a little girl, the heights of a lip-glossed boredom escape via the binary rule book of “truth or dare” would send endorphins rushing to wrinkly places and shivers up backpack-weary, scoliotic spines. Nobody really wanted to engage in this kind of suggestive interplay, yet the pressure of latchkey…
Happytown
We’ve whiled away whole afternoons wondering just what it would be like to be among the brotherhood of the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation. With the flexible hours, the vice “dress-up” parties, the occasional wearing of a hood to look less conspicuous, the permanent stench of lube, the loose monitoring, it must be the life. Actually,…
Police Beat
Feb. 17 (2010-79686) 8:25 p.m.: If you go to the Elephant Bar on Conroy Road, take your car inside with you. Otherwise it might get broken into, as the cars of two women did. Feb. 18 (Orange County Sheriff’s Office): Sheriff’s deputies and two other agencies hit a house in the 400 block of Pennsylvania…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) To put yourself in alignment with planetary rhythms, work on the foundations of your life. Take extra care of the people who take care of you. Make sure you have a good supply of the resources that keep you strong and steady. Check to see if you need to rev up…
Savage Love
OK: Female, married 15 years, one young child. No sex with husband over last five years. Have tried therapy, talking, not talking, confrontation — you name it, Dan, I tried it. Lingerie, kink, porn. Seriously, everything. A year and a half ago, I got into a relationship with a married guy, a man who also…
Live Active Cultures
Welcome to this week’s edition of my column, where I’m supposed to share scintillating insights on whatever exciting Orlando cultural experience I endured in the last seven days. Sorry to disappoint, but I got nuthin’ — I haven’t seen a single scrap of art all week, unless you count Olympic ice dancing (and that’s an…
Culture 2 Go
Feeling Bach’s enlightenment ; Bach at Leipzig ; by Empty Spaces Theatre Co.; Through March 12 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; 407-328-9005; www.emptyspacestheatre.org; $20 Right from the start, Bach at Leipzig is a witty spoof – and yet not. After all, the closest the title character comes to making an appearance is through his…
