Protest time: Chris Brown heading to Orlando
The big loser of the week? Chris Brown by a headlock. Despite the most laughable lead-in I think I’ve ever heard on a newsmagazine â?? “We’ve done SO many stories on domestic abuse on this program … tonight, one more” â?? Rihanna’s sit-down with Diane Sawyer was revelatory. The “Umbrella” singer revealed herself, in slightly…
What You’re Doing This Weekend
Saturday, Nov. 7 Lots of great stuff tonight. Biggest thing in my book, though, is this: Rich Evans â?? of Florida’s Dying and Vinyl Richie’s Wiggly World of Records â?? has been busting his ass to get new records by the Jacuzzi Boys and Electric Bunnies ready for the world, and now they’re done. Celebrations…
Hardly Art label sampler…FREE!
Hoo, boy, have I got some shit to share with you… Besides being the little sister to cornerstone Seattle record label Sub Pop, HARDLY ART is also just about the hottest young indie label going right now with a stocked stable of ahead-of-the-curve bands. THE GOOD NEWS: They just released a 15-song sampler to catch…
Bowl games
Soupâ??s on at this slurp-worthy kitchen
Herd the rumor
Tale of secret military psychics could be stranger
The educated lady
Carey Mulligan delivers a star-making performance
This Little Underground
Looking good so far, Magic, looking good. Keep beatin’ that ass all day long. day long. The beat Anyone who knows anything about entertainment in this city knows lounge act Mark & Lorna. And everyone who knows ’em, loves ’em. They’re legendary, inimitable even (though it’s been rumored that they were the inspiration behind the…
Punk like me
Afro-Punk Presents with Saul Williams, Krak Attack, Earl Greyhound 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 The Social, 407-246-1419 $15-$17 We would all like to believe that music is universal. While that can be true, the audience and culture of genres often becomes exclusive, and that’s what filmmaker James Spooner discovered when it comes to African-Americans and…
Old dog
At the beginning of October, local podcaster Lee Douglas hit a milestone. It was his third year running the Old Time Rock & Roll podcast (available at www.talkshoe.com or via subscription from iTunes), a donation-dependent lesson in music, mostly from the ’50s, that began as a weekly hourlong show and currently stands as a twice-weekly,…
On The Side: Green Party
Farmers markets are a dime a dozen in Central Florida, with weekend markets popping up everywhere from Maitland to Waterford Lakes. The newest kid on the block is located at Knights Plaza at the UCF Arena. However, unlike most local markets that seem more like craft fairs, selling tchotchkes and carnival snacks, UCF’s market actually…
Theater: Frozen by the Empty Spaces Theatre Co.
Searing and chilling Frozen by the Empty Spaces Theatre Co. Through Nov. 8 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St. 407-328-9005 www.emptyspacestheatre.org $20 Whatever emotions the Empty Spaces Theatre Co. sparks with its new production, the last would be its title: Frozen, the 2004 Tony-nominated drama by Bryony Lavery. The powerful play, directed by…
Visual Art: The Japan Craze and Western Art 1880-1920
Two (cultures) for tea The Japan Craze and Western Art 1880-1920, through Aug. 8, 2010, at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park 407-645-5311 www.morsemuseum.org $3 (free 4-8 p.m. Fridays through April) A century ago, American artists and designers were reveling in the newfound aesthetics of world cultures,…
New downtown habitat
Blank Space Art Lounge Grand Opening 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday 201 E. Central Blvd. 407-481-9010 www.blankspaceart.net Free Free Free There’s a new “art lounge” at the corner of Rosalind Avenue and Central Boulevard, on the Lake Eola side. Not only is it the newest art lounge, but it’s also the…
Freedom isnâ??t free
When Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law the use of global positioning satellite devices to monitor the whereabouts of habitual sex offenders in 2005, it seemed like a sign of the times. It was a technological development that could help alleviate prison overcrowding in states teetering on financial ruin while adding a layer of security…
Getting it together
Orlando Film Festival Wednesday-Sunday, Nov. 4-8 Plaza Cinema Café www.orlandofilmfest.com Free We could talk all day about the problems that have plagued the Orlando Film Festival in its past three years: embarrassing media “events,” tiny venues, a cattle mentality, publicity weight put behind a dumb comedy like Courting Condi while Dear Zachary quietly plays and…
Blister
There’s a special place in the dog-eared American socioeconomic TripTik where men are men and women are whores or barrels to be leapt by motorcycles or brittle pink spittoons blocking stumbling paths in virility saloons. Oily scents of burnt skin and leather penetrate cigar-smoke formations bending light around the dead whistles of a Morricone theme.…
DVDs Nuts!
Food, Inc. For this documentary exploration of America’s food culture and its efficient method of possibly poisoning generations by devolving human sustenance into Frankenstein junk, PBS vet Robert Kenner went to two of the scariest people to talk to: Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and Omnivore’s Dilemma writer Michael Pollan. As if reading either…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) There was a time when wetlands were considered dismal and unproductive. At best they were thought to be a waste of space, at worst stinky breeding grounds for insect pests. For over 200 years, marshes, bogs and swamps were filled with dirt and transformed into places suitable for farms, houses and…
Savage Love
I’m a 20-year-old girl, and I’ve been dating my boyfriend, who is 23, for two years. From the get-go, he has known that I am bi, and like most straight guys, he’s happy to be with a girl who likes girls. The thing is, I am too shy to go out and hit on a…
Happytown
While it might have been more hilarious had it included a tiny black tuft of lip hair, last week’s half-assed Hitler-as-Charlie-Crist YouTube parody did succeed in drawing some national attention to the desperation of the Sunshine State’s Republican schism in the race for the U.S. Senate. Former state House speaker Marco “Polo!” Rubio has been…
Police Beat
Oct. 23 (2009-503761) 7:26 a.m.: Officer Williams has some issues with verb tense: “On the above listed date and time, unknown suspect(s) gain entry into the business by knocking a hole in the north side wall of the business. The suspect(s) first gain entry through an adjacent vacant business utilizing a unlocked rear door. Once…
Council Watch
So a Catholic priest walks into a municipal meeting and has nothing to say other than some generalization about the city council being “our rock.” What does he do? He reads from the agenda aloud: Thank you, Lord, for “business and financial services, for economic development, for parks and recreation, for fire, for Orlando venues,…
Live Active Cultures
As much as I enjoy the Halloween season (and its endless supply of column material), by the time Oct. 31 finally rolls around I’ve had more than my fill of fake blood and fog fluid. Even the high-end haunted houses all start to look pretty much the same after a while. That’s why I’m happy…
Lakeland band Copeland calls it quits
Although I could’ve sworn they’ve danced this dance before, Lakeland “Don’t call us Christian” band Copeland are kaputz. They’re still playing Anti-Pop next week so see them while you can. Here’s the MySpace announcement and, below that, my favorite track of theirs, “No One Really Wins.” Dear friends, We have come to an extremely difficult…
