Going deep
Big Fin Seafood Kitchen aims high
Vegans take the cake
Cupcake competition is fierce these days. Even narrowing the field to the dairy-free, Orlando has a surprising surfeit of places to get your pastry rocks off; it would take a big bite out of this space to name all the challengers this new bakery/coffeehouse/music and art space faces, so I won’t. But few can boast…
Sketchy comedy
Saturday Night Live adaptation lacks even SNL-worthy humor
The lame-ing of the shrews
SATC sequel offends more than it pretends
Threeâ??s company
LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin) Third albums come with a lot of pressure. They’re typically treated as a chance for a rising band to secure its place in the halls of greatness (see: Radiohead’s OK Computer or the Clash’s London Calling). While some acts face the challenge by letting loose with experimentation, others stick…
Just a friend
Imogen Heap with Geese 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 1 House of Blues, 407-934-2583 all ages www.hob.com $23.25-$26.25 Judging by the heavily processed nature of UK native Imogen (pronounced “Emma-Gin”) Heap’s music, both on her critically acclaimed solo albums and as one half of the duo Frou Frou, which was a one-album side project with producer…
The magnetic fields
Sitting in front of the television a quarter century ago, “Jay,” a tall, athletic-looking college senior with dark hair, was hit by a bolt of anxiety so powerful that death seemed a mere screen flicker away. His pulse raced. The world went into retreat. “A heart attack,” he told himself. The emergency-room doctor, however, was…
This Little Underground
In the discourse of music, the issue of authenticity comes up an awful lot, if not expressly then almost always by implication. And there’s an age-old attitude toward it that’s practically institutionalized in rock & roll circles in particular. Although motivated by what I will assume to be the purest of intellectual intentions, a whole…
Council Watch
It was like a cotillion or a Kentucky Derby party — or a movie set approximating either — as the hip, young, creative-class types of our speculative future mingled about in large, well-dressed numbers to craft a deceptive hiss of prosperity. The smell of new development permeated the chambers, a synthetic scent that was smacked…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Mozart once challenged his friend Haydn to play a harpsichord piece he’d written. Haydn tried, but stopped partway through when the musical score called for him to play a note in the middle of the keyboard even though his right hand was fully occupied at the high end and his left…
Savage Love
Where can a straight guy find a transsexual woman who is NOT a hooker and just wants to be friends (with benefits)? I know of one club where they hang, but they are mostly hookers there. I would like to go someplace where I could meet one and see if we could hit it off…
Happytown
If it were anybody else’s slightly overbitten mug of equine complacency, we might feel bad about such a rat-tat-tat succession of bad-luck shots aimed at one man in just two weeks: political sure-thing status suddenly reduced to vague uncertainty by a bald unknown, a one-two punch of legal defeats with further political implications, public records…
Police Beat
May 11 ; (2010-220524) 7:40 a.m.: A man was arrested at Bella Casa Apartments on Conroy Road for whacking a woman with a hammer. ;; May 12 ; (2010-222468) 7 a.m.: Thieves’ efforts to get onto the rooftop parking lot at Ferguson Enterprises on Alden Road were rewarded with the copper out of six air…
Live Active Cultures
Last weekend, Orlando arts aficionados were faced with a choice of Sophie’s proportions. They could attend the 19th annual Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, arguably the biggest event on our town’s cultural calendar, next to the Florida Film Festival. Or, they could go Snap! If you get your entertainment advice from this paper, but you…
Fringe feedback
2010 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival; Through Monday, May 31; Lowndes Shakespeare Center and the Orlando Repertory Theatre; Loch Haven Park; 812 E. Rollins St.; www.orlandofringe.org; Buttons $8; ; shows free-$10 A Brighter Shade of Blue;Paul Strickland;Brown Venue;$10 ;5/26 WED 9:20 pm;5/28 FRI 8:35 pm;5/30 SUN 5:40 pm Paul Strickland’s A Brighter Shade of Blue had the…
