Cattle Call: Be funny now
Despite what you may think, improv troupes are not all comprised of witty, geeky friends with a natural rapport. They are instead showcases of talent culled from the prepared-comedy herd. If you think you’re ready to be culled, here’s your chance: Current Live Improv Comedy troupe which performs 3 nights a week has an opening…
Weekend Ahead: May 29-31
Folks, youâ??re in good hands. He may have been a Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah. He may have died over a century ago. He may have been the worst poet in the English language. But he will always be â?¦ William Topaz McGonagall! Farmersâ?? Market Anniversary Celebration Is there any finer tomato Than…
Rhapsody in Bloom
Rachel Weisz bursts at the seams in this fun con game
And what a handbasket!
Sam Raimi’s return to horror pays off with giggles and gasps
None more black
The desperate lives of metal has-beens
it’s the heat
Kabob n’ Curry’s friery Indo-Pak dishes burst with flavor
Up and at ’em
An old man and a little boy get high in Pixar’s latest offering
Any given slumdog
A conventional rags-to-riches plot hobbles pedigreed drama
Blister
Is this the end? There are shrill, minor-key soundtrack descents swelling into odd question-mark crescendos just before commercial breaks; there are hair feathers and then there is hair loss; there are well-meaning friends lining up like angels — specifically Charlie’s Angels — to echo publicist-carved epitaphs into the iconic stone visage currently lying on her…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) While reading a crime report in Northern California’s Arcata Eye newspaper, I came across this entry: “A dreadlocked man attacked a lamp post on the Plaza with his mighty fists, punching it while yelling and, in the memorable description of a witness, ‘fighting amongst himself.'” I immediately thought of you. You’ve…
Savage Love
I am a high-functioning regular heroin user (not quite an addict), and I feel I’m compelled to hide my drug use. I feel there are similarities between being a drug user and having an alternate sexual orientation in the sense that both users and gays are constantly confronting judgmental opposition from an ill-informed and puritanical…
This Little Underground
Astronaut news is always topical to us Central Floridians, and here’s some that involves righteous music instead of murderous jealousy and adult diapers. On June 13, NASA astronaut Col. Timothy L. Korpa is taking his favorite album, Echo and the Bunnymen’s 1984 magnum opus Ocean Rain, into space. If you thought the perfect drama of…
Live Active Cultures
Plenty of perfectly normal people enjoy riding roller coasters. But what kind of person wants to be among the first on a newly built steel behemoth, especially when it’s named after a genus of animal best known for killing a beloved nature-show host? And what type of moron would be willing to be hurled face…
Happytown
Ever wonder what cops say to each other? Neither did we, until we heard they were talking about us. We spent an entire morning poring through a 2-inch stack of e-mails released as part of the ongoing dispute between the Winter Park Police Department and the city’s one and only titty bar, Club Harem. (For…
Police Beat
May 12 (2009-223729) 2:59 p.m.: So, hey. Thirty. Not so bad. Just got word the other day that this column is officially awesome — it’s been nominated for an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award, which is something of a big deal in this industry, though it’s perhaps a few steps shy of a Pulitzer. Oh, well.…
Just dance
A dozen years before the Pussycat Dolls slut-stomped their way through a version of “Jai Ho” and a half-decade before M.I.A. and Panjabi MC perked American ears to the notion of South Asian club music, Rekha Malhotra was keeping crowds dancing into the wee hours with her Basement Bhangra Thursdays at S.O.B.’s in New York.…
Jingle all the way
Central Florida music fans may have noticed something familiar about the voice singing the jangly bit of garage-pop called “Together” featured in a recent commercial for the Honda Insight. The band singing that song — they call themselves Rabbit — is a band from Central Florida; however, it’s not a band that emerged from the…
Tossing the drums
Tossing the drums Nintendo New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat www.donkeykong.com It’s been hard to know what to make of Nintendo’s New Play Control! experiment — you know, the series for which they’ve re-released old GameCube games with new Wii motion controls grafted onto them, sorta like a classic Rolls-Royce retrofitted with a huge…
Jumping the curb
Jumping the curb Sorry U Missed Us Through June 5 at Redefine 213 N. Magnolia Ave. 407-488-9158 www.myspace.com/redefineboutique While the poster advertises the artists as “Orlando’s most talented best kept secrets,” Decoy, Socky Chop and NeoSoe aren’t so secret anymore. These street artists have jumped the curb into the gallery; if any of their graffiti…
The perfect presecription
I was about 14 when I first went crazy. Sitting in the bedroom of my parents’ GI Bill house, a bolt of noxious energy exploded around me and the air turned grainy, like reality was suddenly an ugly 16 mm film. Terrified, I saw the universe beyond my small room as endless and black, occupied…
The grass roots are burning
On May 12, Gov. Charlie Crist announced that he was running for the U.S. Senate. Fourteen minutes later, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the GOP group charged with electing Republicans to the Great Deliberative Body, announced that it was endorsing Crist over his more conservative opponent, former Florida House Speaker and former Gov. Jeb Bush…
Ends: Fringe won’t die!
In addition to rumors (which I am in the process of confirming) that Jeff Jones’ Welcome to Hell has been extended to play at the Footlight Theatre, I now learn that patron’s pick Elegies for Punks, Angels and Raging Queens is also getting a farewell performance. WHAT: ELEGIES for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens Portion…
breaking: bummer â?? graze and sanctuary diner close.
It’s all over the internets so it must be true: We hear Graze and Sanctuary Diner have closed, high-profile victims of These Shitty Economic Times. (The Beacon, in the same building but managed by a different company, is still open.) It’s especially confounding considering that both kitchens are run by Jephanie Foster, who seems to…
