OW @ Fringe: The Cody Rivers Show Presents â?? Right Back Where We Finished
The Cody Rivers Show Presents â?? Right Back Where We Finished Orange Venue $10 5/20 THU 8:10PM 5/22 SAT 11:00AM 5/23 SUN 2:50PM 5/25 TUE 7:40PM 5/27 THU 10:30PM 5/28 FRI 6:40PM 5/29 SAT 6:55PM A recession-strapped football coach tries to explain the labyrinthian rules of rugby to his team with the rapid-fire patter of…
OW @ Fringe: Gimpel the Fool
Gimpel the Fool Nephesh Theatre Yellow Venue $10 5/22 SAT 11:40PM 5/23 SUN 9:40PM 5/25 TUE 5:25PM 5/27 THU 8:25PM 5/29 SAT 5:00PM 5/30 SUN 5:00PM As a member of the Tribe and an admirer of Yiddish zydeco, the phrase â??Klezmer musicalâ?� is all you’ve got to say to get me on board.And, on paper…
FRINGE SCUTTLEBUTT: Peg O’Keef’s mistaken identity
We have been humbled. In our Fringe Exposed cover story this week, we identified this photo as being Peg O’Keef. If you know her, this photo sure as heck looks like her. But she sweetly corrected us: “The stunning photo of ‘O’Keef’ in the paper is none other than my scrumptious mother, who departed this…
Two big openings tonight: Fringe and Snap!
According to the Weather Underground forecast, itâ??s going to be hot and swampy when the magical hour of 6 oâ??clock strikes and both the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival and Snap! begin. Dress appropriately and push the liquids if you plan to scramble to both. And both events continue on, through the weekend and beyond…
NAS-kart
Youth racing doc makes for compelling drama
Crave on
Diners long for the sushi at this modern Millenia Mall-area boîte
Philly it up
Take one look at the decor in LaSpada’s cafeteria-style eatery, and you’d probably guess they sell cheese steak and hoagies even if you didn’t read the full name. Posters of the Rocky films, Phillies memorabilia, New York Yankees hate speech ‘ the kitschy charm doesn’t make a great sandwich, but it helps while you wait…
The way we were
Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek) Revolutions Per Minute (Warner Bros.) At the turn of the millennium, rapper Talib Kweli and producer DJ Hi-Tek joined forces as Reflection Eternal. Together, they birthed 2000’s Train of Thought, an inspirational conscious-rap touchstone as seminal in its own right as Midnight Marauders or 3 Feet High and Rising…
Falling again
Swell Season 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 25 Hard Rock Live, 407-351-5483 www.hardrocklive.com $25-$45 In May 2007, Czech singer-instrumentalist Markéta Irglová was being interviewed, along with Glen Hansard, the other half of her band the Swell Season. Irglová remained almost completely silent during the interview, ceding answers to Hansard and tenderly bringing him coffee. When asked…
The roads Wes traveled
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Spiegel & Grau, 256 pages) An African-American in his early 30s writes a book about growing up and succeeding in a white world. A father figure disappears from his life in early childhood. Thanks to the support of a strong mother and middle-class grandparents, he overcomes distractions…
FRINGE EXPOSED!?
2010 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival May 20-May 31 Lowndes Shakespeare Center and the Orlando Repertory Theatre Loch Haven Park, 812 E. Rollins St. www.orlandofringe.org Buttons $8; show tickets free-$10 Corral hundreds of divas and prima donnas, scene-stealers and show-stoppers into a park, then turn loose the rabid devotees, anxious familial units, overstimulated groupies and…
Greener than green
Inside the elevator at the Orlando Science Center, a small sign argues in favor of taking the stairs instead of riding. It’s a great way to burn calories, the sign says; the curving flights of carpeted stairs are clearly visible through the elevator’s glass rear wall. But the suit-clad men packing an elevator, on their…
DVDs Nuts!
9 To 5: Days in Porn: Expectedly skeevy, documentarian Jens Hoffmann’s adult-film exposé follows a week or so in the lives of porn stars in the Valley as they deal with mundane activities like scheduling and lighting issues, and not-so-mundane problems, from lube-drip to on-the-side prostitution. Hoffmann’s subjects cover the taste spectrum, from the predictably…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) All of us have gaps in our ;education. You and I and everyone else alive have dank pockets of ignorance that diminish our humanity and musty pits of naivete that prevent us from seeing truths that are obvious to others. We all lack certain skills that hold us back from being…
Savage Love
One of my best friends at college is gay. I’m a straight female and I’m in a committed relationship with my own boyfriend. We’re going to be sophomores in the fall, and I feel like this is about the age where coming out to one’s parents is in order. However, my friend’s parents are incredibly…
Comments
The Fox machine I really enjoyed reading your feature on the Tea Party movement in the Orlando Weekly [“Tea, bagged,” April 29]. It’s amazing to see how this ostensibly “grass roots” movement was pretty much manufactured by Fox News and the right-wing media and huge corporations. We need more people like you countering paranoia…
Happytown
As Florida’s frightfully conservative battleground gets bloodier and bloodier — see last week’s announcement that Tampa will be hosting the pasty-white belly bump known as the Republican National Convention in 2012, and then sigh audibly — the limbo/fallout produced by the last Hail Mary of this year’s state legislative session requiring first-trimester ultrasounds for those…
Police Beat
May 4 ; (2010-208933) 2 p.m.: Someone turned off the power, and thus the alarm, in a house on the 9500 block of Violet Drive. Since the residents’ electronics were now useless, the burglars considerately hauled those items away. (2010-209058) 4 p.m.: Adjacent apartments at The Pines on South Kirkman Road got burglarized, saving a…
Live Active Cultures
Dear Orlando, What the heck is wrong with you? I’ll begin by backtracking — by “you,” I don’t mean all of the City Beautiful. There are plenty of people and places around here that don’t puzzle and perplex. Case in point: In payment for providing décor for my recent wedding (Live Active Cultures, May 13),…
This Little Underground
Shit! This column only took about three times as long to write, all because I kept checking on the game’s score. But it’s your time, Orlando Magic. Go get it. Oh, and R.I.P., Lena Horne. ;; The beat ; Featuring members of notable acts like the Locust and Some Girls, California band All Leather (May…
