Alfie gets even
A revenge film as wonderfully unsteady as its title character
Stay up late
Izakaya Toshi slings sake and Japanese snacks until midnight
Hot pockets
Like the Spanish Inquisition, the chief weapon of Mima’s Cuban Café is surprise. The cozy lunchtime-only café serves up the standards in large portions with big, feisty flavor, but keeps the prices in the lightweight class. The traditional Cuban sandwich ($5.95) doesn’t possess quite the pizzazz of other menu items, though the sweet, firm bread…
I love you to death
Nothing makes sense in love and basketball
Council Watch
A dream deferred led to a council meeting 30 minutes deferred as Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts pixie Kathy Ramsberger went long on her “no, you’re great! No, you’re better!” pre-council lubricated lovefest with the dais with regards to just how much hasn’t changed on the path to whatever that performing arts center…
Police Beat
April 27 ; (2010-198959) 9 p.m.: Someone stole a .40 caliber pistol from an apartment in the 700 block of South Ohio Avenue. ; April 28 ; (2010-198303) 7:20 a.m.: A copper thief stripped appliances and the air conditioner at a vacant house in the 5200 block of Lescot Lane, and the resulting leaks flooded…
Live Active Cultures
Instead of sharing my latest cultural insights, this week I’m playing Martha Stewart. No, this isn’t my guide to getting by in jail (although soap-based shanks make a thoughtful cell-warming gift). I’m doling out do-it-yourself tips on a topic with which I happen to have substantial recent experience. Clip & save time: Here’s “Six Simple…
Underwater escape
Like millions of other Americans, Alicia and Jorge Hernandez are hanging on to their home by a thread. Six years ago they bought their brick bungalow in a working-class neighborhood on Chicago’s southwest side for $175,000, a bargain compared to homes nearby that sold for $250,000. Jorge, who earned $18 per hour as a roofer,…
This Little Underground
Summers in Central Florida suck. But this year — just maybe — it could suck much less, mainly because local label Post Records will debut the impressive-looking 4th Fest (July 4, Gaston Edwards Park). Now, don’t confuse this with the annual I-4 Fest that Post has been organizing with Austin’s Coffee for years. Austin’s has…
Playing catch-up
Cage the Elephant with Morning Teleportation 7 p.m. Sunday, May 16 Firestone Live, 407-872-0066 all ages www.firestonelive.net $16.50-$19 Matt Schultz, the charismatic 26-year-old frontman for Cage the Elephant, wanders the secular aisles of a Best Buy in his band’s hometown of Bowling Green, Ky., looking for a DVD copy of The Devil and Daniel Johnston,…
Hey Rube
OK Go with Earl Greyhound, Robert Francis 8 p.m. Saturday, May 15 Firestone Live, 407-872-0066 all ages www.firestonelive.net $15 In the classic Saturday Night Live spoof commercial for First CityWide Change Bank, whose “only business is making change,” the opening caption reads: When you do only one thing, you do it better. Judging by YouTube…
What you wonâ??t hear at the â??Star Warsâ?? concert
Star Wars: In Concert; 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15 ; Amway Arena; 800-982-2787; www.starwarsinconcert.com; $34-$74 A short time from now, in an arena not so far, far away, sci-fi fans will flock together like mynocks on a power cable to worship at the altar of John Williams. Star Wars: In Concert arrives May…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): What happens when someone “sells out”? Typically, it refers to a person who overrides her highest artistic standards or her soul’s mandates in order to make a bundle of money. But I want to enlarge the definition to encompass any behavior that seeks popular appeal at the expense of authenticity, or…
Savage Love
I’m a mostly gay male with a boyfriend who is also mostly gay. We are into BDSM — we are both tops and sometimes play with other sub men. I say we are “mostly” gay because we do like to fuck/top submissive women once in a while. We haven’t done this a lot, and never…
Happytown
This week in queer schaden-;freude, the breathing world stopped for a hot minute to point and laugh at National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality board member – and Family Research Council founder – George Rekers, and we were right there with them! An explosive – or gleefully exploitative – report from the Miami…
