Attention nerds (and Disney Imagineers)
I, like everyone else who grew up in the 80s and came of age in the 90s, had a Nintendo. Because my folks weren’t big on me playing video games, I was always a few generations of gaming machines behind my peers. They had Super Nintendo, and whatever the hell came after that, and I…
Arts & Culture: Big freakin’ dinosaurs rule!
SHOWS THROUGH SUNDAY AT AMWAY ARENA! The Orlando area already has more than its share of dinosaurs. They have featured roles in two of Disneyâ??s parks, one of Universalâ??s and an entire ghetto-tastic tourist trap of their own off I-4 on the way to Tampa. My girlfriend insists that the giant reptiles never went extinct…
THE BEAT OF A NEW DRUM
Tabla ushers in a new era of Indian cuisine in Orlando
OFF THE GRIDDLE
You may not have ever sampled the El Salvadoran pupusa, but if you’ve enjoyed Venezuelan arepas or Mexican gorditas, then you’re likely familiar with the Central American nation’s most popular food staple. The puffed rounds are such delicious little numbers that every Nov. 13, El Salvador celebrates National Pupusa Day. At Las Delicias Grill, the…
SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE
Writer/director Mike Leigh does a 180
COVER GIRL
Locally managed Postmarks conceptualize
BLISTER
I don’t even know who I am today. There’s this spiked ball of nerves wrapped in vein-red twine that seems to be teetering over the ledges of the Labyrinth board with every random unevening of the potholed foundation, sure, but where there’s typically a tick — a nervous winking thing, or at least a heartbeat…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “You can’t know fire unless you play with it,” says Mark Finney, who develops computer models for fighting forest fires. I offer that as a motto for you in the coming week. I’m not saying you should purposely ignite a conflagration for the sake of impulsive experimentation. I’m not saying you…
SAVAGE LOVE
I have to say I’m disappointed. Proposition 8 passed in California, as did anti-gay-marriage amendments in Florida and Arizona. Decency and compassion suffered a horrible blow, and I was hoping to hear a few words from you about it. Some inspiration before I took off from work to go and protest the Mormon Church. Maybe…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Wait, what went down last week? Oh, right … the single greatest moment of American history in our lifetime. Downtown was absolutely electric on Election Night, its ventricles pumping with a vigor never quite seen before. Out on the street, whoops rang out in concert from bars in citywide stereo each time a state went…
FIRST SHOT
A lot of you readers have probably felt some concern that this column often seems like little more than a platform for our incendiary political views, behind the flimsy guise of a movie roundup. Well, with this being the first installment we’ve penned since the Day the World Changed, you’ll be happy to hear that…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
When Disney shut down its Pleasure Island nightclub complex (as reported in Live Active Cultures, Sept. 25), I privately planned a personal protest. “Boycott,” I said silently to myself, swearing to deny the Downtown Disney district my patronage. If the Rat was going to raze the Adventurers Club without remorse, then I would spend my…
SLUG
ALL IS WON Four years ago in this space, Weekly editor Bob Whitby and I penned columns on the meaning of the 2004 election, in which progressives and Democrats took a drubbing from George W. Bush and his minions `”All is lost/No it isn’t,” Slug, Nov. 11, 2004`. I foresaw a dystopian future of Republican…
POLICE BEAT
Nov. 4 (2008-477129) 3:38 a.m.: Three hours after this incident, people were going to start voting for the next president of the United States, which means that you were still up tossing and turning and hoping that rednecks in Pennsylvania wouldn’t screw this up for the rest of us. (Good news: They didn’t.) Meanwhile, two…
HAPPYTOWN
You know how our friends at the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation are on a mission to erase sexual vice from our midst? No more rub-and-tug massages. No more $20 blow jobs on the Trail. No more blowing on a stripper’s vagina, except when done during the course of an “investigation” `see “Something’s fishy,” Nov. 9,…
COMMENTS
No scam here Regarding the article on AdSurf Daily `”Freeze frame,” Nov. 6`: Please let me say that ASD was in fact a very legitimate business enterprise that would have become one of the largest (if not the largest) online advertising companies on the Internet. It was a future Google, eBay, MySpace or Yahoo. We…
OFF THE GRIDDLE
You may not have ever sampled the El Salvadoran pupusa, but if you’ve enjoyed Venezuelan arepas or Mexican gorditas, then you’re likely familiar with the Central American nation’s most popular food staple. The puffed rounds are such delicious little numbers that every Nov. 13, El Salvador celebrates National Pupusa Day. At Las Delicias Grill, the…
BODY AND SOUL
At the Florida Music Festival in May, the CityArts Factory was prepped for a night with the ladies. Emma Wallace warmed up the intimate, coffee-sipping crowd, and Christina Wagner waited in the wings. But in place of the advertised midbill set from New York’s Amber Rubarth, who canceled at the last minute, was a tall,…
NOTHING SOFT ABOUT IT
There’s a new theater company in town, making its debut with a show for a new generation. The Pillowman, it’s called, and 30-something Irish playwright Martin McDonagh is all about the blood in his dark drama — both the kind of blood that’s beaten out of a suspected criminal by corrupt police, and the kind…
ANTI-POP
Click here for a full schedule of Anti-Pop 2008 performances. ; Au Revoir Simone: HARD AS FUCK ; Au Revoir Simone is practically tailor-made for NPR listeners: three beautiful women synthing out beautiful dream-pop with hints of new wave, hipster rock and the slightest suggestion of dance. Reviewing their latest album, 2007’s The Bird of…
SPREADING THE WEALTH
It’s one of the most eclectic commercial stretches remaining in downtown Orlando. Stretching from the picturesque, historic Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts down to the quickly growing medical community surrounding the Florida Hospital campus, the sidewalks of North Orange Avenue near Lake Ivanhoe are littered with aesthetic distractions. Once known simply as Antique Row,…
What You’re Doing This Week (Nov. 13-Nov. 19)
Anti-Pop, Rock For Hunger, and the Quarterly Noise Report (yay, Otto Von Schirach!) are sorta sucking all the air out of the live music scene this week, so let’s just keep this short and sweet. Friday, Nov. 14 I love Odin’s Den so much I’d even go see a band with a stupid-ass name like…
Insert “Scalia=Beached Whale” Joke Here
Someone needs to kick Anthony Kennedy in the nuts. The man’s supposed to be our last swinger and he keeps swinging the wrong damn way. 5-4 on gun control. 5-4 on Gitmo. 5-4 on school diversity. According to CNN, one third of cases decided in the last term were done by a 5-4 vote, compared…
