Breaking: Hillary Clinton has lost her mind
It’s been kind of sad to watch someone you once kinda admired sink so low so fast, to watch someone succumb so completely to the desperation of losing a campaign that you thought was yours by divine right or something. And now, having lost the vote, the delegates, and everything but racist idiot rednecks in…
Virgin Olive Market
Virgin Olive Market is situated in the heart of an industrial and auto-park wasteland. It can get a bit warm inside, and the quarters, cluttered with pantry shelves, practically necessitate sharing tables (not altogether a bad thing), but what do you expect from a space that was previously a convenience store? Besides, the staff is…
Edenâ??s Fresh Co.
A garden of leafy delights awaits at Eden’s, a clean, spacious green house on North Orange sandwiched between Winnie’s Oriental Garden and the Ravenous Pig. The focus here is on the body (healthy food), spirit (a place for quiet reflection and artistic expression) and mind (free Wi-Fi), though their wraps and salads really take center…
BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS
Miami wunderkind unleash with new album
HAPPYTOWN
From the Queer Updates Desk comes news that gay kids can wear rainbows, even though a homo-hating Panama City high school principal forbade it because it would make the students picture gay sex or something. He has a point. Doesn’t a rainbow make you long for the warm, tender embrace of a burly, balding, mustached…
COUNCIL WATCH
Perhaps there was something in the water. Unexpectedly and totally off-agenda, this week’s slush of boozy boosterism melted down into a perfectly boring discussion of water politics, led ably by the inexplicably enviro-excitable public works director, Alan Oyler. This Oyler mixed well with the clear stuff, allowing his anecdotal intensity to drip on for the…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Now that this year’s Florida Music Festival has wrapped, it’s time to bang the gavel. First, the justified criticism that modern rock clichés are disproportionately represented at FMF persists (Von Ray? Seriously???). Also, headliners notwithstanding, the overall talent pool was lean this year. The thing I missed most was the lack of surprise potential. For…
FIRST SHOT
We recently realized that this column expends an inordinate amount of ink on big-budget, major-studio releases, at the possible expense of good old-fashioned indies. So here’s a promise: We’re going to start concentrating more on independent cinema. As soon as somebody can prove to us it still exists. A decade ago, the big story was…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) After working for years in various jobs at a San Francisco TV station, Frank Sommerville was promoted to the top of the heap – lead anchorman of the 10 p.m. news program. He promised that his new power wouldn’t make him complacent. “Nobody will out-curious me,” he bragged. I hope you…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m writing on behalf of a 19-year-old guy with cerebral palsy. As you may know, CP is a brain affliction resulting from insufficient oxygen at birth, and it causes the part of the brain responsible for motor function to work incorrectly. Troubles for people with CP include muscle spasticity, weakness and/or painful contraction, and in…
POLICE BEAT
May 9 (2008-202493) 9:48 p.m.: If you try to steal someone’s car at a gas station and fail, running away with his keys won’t do you a lot of good. May 10 (2008-202737) 12:41 a.m.: Officer McNichols was staking out an auto glass store – why, I don’t know – when he noticed some nonsense…
BLISTER
There’s a black fly in my chardonnay. The incessant drip drip drip of existence has rendered this sad sack of pickled bones a right mess indeed lately, trickling loss upon loss to the point of caricatured humility. Why do I look like my dog just died? Because my dog just died. Thanks. Meanwhile, Tony’s on…
MAIL SACK
All gays know Billy I’m sitting at the Winter Park diner having lunch by myself because my boyfriend prefers to have lunch with his boy “friend” – I think he’s gay! Or maybe I’m boring. I entertained myself with your column and that was the second time this week. You are so damn funny! And…
THE SPAZ SINGER
“Doing other things doesn’t make you less true to yourself. So this time, we were trying to mix it up, have more variety.” If that doesn’t sound like the words of a punk-rock princess choking on her own progress, then you haven’t been paying enough attention to bands trying to justify their inevitably disappointing second…
MAGIC CITY MAYHEM
The music of Torche comes at you with overwhelming forcefulness. The blistering guitar work, the sludge-thick riffs, the hulkingly muscular rhythm section, even the hooks that eschew anthemic power for melodic effectiveness, make a listener feel like a meerkat in the middle of a mammoth stampede: It’s coming, it’s fast, and it will crush you.…
DOHA CALLING
The sky is as gray as the sidewalk and the clouds are spitting cold drizzle on the Rev. Frank Reid’s pinstripe suit. It’s Palm Sunday morning and he stands outside his church, Bethel AME in Baltimore, surrounded by a semicircle of tall men clad in dark suits who watch over him as he talks to…
MEAN GREENS
Winter Park locals hungering for a grease-free nosh now have two additional eateries in which to satisfy their pangs for edible botanicals. Virgin Olive Market and Eden’s Fresh Co. may not be in the most conspicuous of locations, but they’re well worth seeking out. Virgin Olive Market is situated in the heart of an industrial…
A MUDDY FUTURE
Like school districts across the state, Seminole County’s has something of a fiscal crisis. Earlier this month, the school board slashed 343 teaching and support positions. It closed Quest Academy, a school for struggling students. It warned that sports and other extracurricular activities could be next on the chopping block. Put simply, because of state…
MAPS OF MISREADING
A number of writers have begun to exult in print about the uncanny realms where the influences of pulp and pop (comic books, science fiction and fantasy, mysteries, rock & roll) meld with those “higher” and more established echelons of literature. Michael Chabon, the author of Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay…
Fringe 08: Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe: All Washed Up Fergus Rougier (England/Germany) A man emerges from under an enormous blue blanket into a howling void to tell a tale of isolation, self-reliance, and the anthropological ethics of cannibalism. Yeah, we are definitely at the Fringe. Ferfus Rougierâ??s one-man musicalization of Daniel Defoeâ??s classic adventure story (donâ??t worry if youâ??ve…
