Tell us about Africa, Sarah Palin
Psst … it’s a continent, not a country.
SEXED-UP SUSHI
Small spot, selected rolls, suggestive scene
BIG SUGAR
After maneuvering through the labyrinthine roadways inside the Waterford Lakes Town Center, then downing some quaggy shepherd’s pie for dinner, I was looking forward to a superlatively sugary finale at Sweet!, a colorful joint specializing in the city’s latest dessert trend ‘ cupcakes. The fact that it happened to be the eve of National Cupcake…
NERDY, SEXY, MONEY
Totally Michael Label: IHEARTCOMIX Length: EP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Totally Michael The knighting of nerds into hipsterdom has made stars of iconoclasts like MC Chris. But the dork culture’s next great white hope is more likely MC Chris’ current opening act, Indiana’s Totally Michael. Arriving on the heels of his completely ridiculous but…
BLISTER
There’s a crack in my cup, just the tiniest little thread of imperfection creeping down from the lip of the good china, and the longer I stare at it the more it consumes me. I’m having a Mad Men moment of controlled tempers seething hazily through the keeping-up of appearances, just standing here in my…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Uranus is on the opposite side of the sun from Saturn right now. To traditional astrologers, that’s a stressful aspect. It bespeaks a titanic clash between the forces of progress and the inertia of the past. But there are mitigating factors. The expansive planet Jupiter is trine to Saturn and sextile…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a 32-year-old woman engaged to a 34-year-old man. Some months ago, when we were both drunk, he “got up the nerve” to show me some bestiality porn and tell me how much the thought of me with a dog turns him on. He confessed that he was absolutely terrified that I would leave him…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
I’m over all the Radiohead hype already, but I thought you DIY musicians might find these recently released stats about the industry-rocking In Rainbow interesting: The album has sold three million copies so far, including downloads from Radiohead.com, physical CDs, a deluxe two-CD-plus-vinyl box set and sales through digital retailers. The pricey deluxe edition actually…
FIRST SHOT
Turn off your irony detector for a sec, because we gots something to say: People who write about film sure can be some serious tools. You wouldn’t think it would be that way. Given that “professional film critic” is the most rapidly disappearing vocation since “pet rock whisperer,” you’d assume anybody who was still managing…
COUNCIL WATCH
“We will be no less Americans on Wednesday than we are today,” the Rev. Raulston Nembhard dripped politics into the opening of our biweekly civic communion with God. District 2 commissioner Tony Ortiz dropped his mumble-crunch baritone to call some high-school baseball upstarts “scary” (in a good way?), and District 5 commissioner Daisy Lynum mused…
POLICE BEAT
Oct. 16 ; (2008-447872) 10:29 a.m.: Two bits of housekeeping: First, after catching a raft of shit concerning my last column’s Gilbert and Sullivan reference, I would like to state the following: I know almost nothing about musical theater. What I do know about musical theater is derived from high-school productions that either my sister…
HAPPYTOWN
The thing about publishing a weekly newspaper is that, when it comes to elections, you’re inevitably behind the curve. Consequently, any bits of election-related news we picked up in the last week are already dated. So we’d like to belatedly note that (soon to be former?) U.S. Rep. Ric Keller totally ripped us off. Two…
COMMENTS
Big ups Thank you so much for your input on this very special election `Happytown™, Oct. 30`. It’s pretty difficult to decipher who’s who these days and what they’re really about, except when you develop a website stating how surprised you are that you were allowed to run for office and be against blacks and…
BIG SUGAR
After maneuvering through the labyrinthine roadways inside the Waterford Lakes Town Center, then downing some quaggy shepherd’s pie for dinner, I was looking forward to a superlatively sugary finale at Sweet!, a colorful joint specializing in the city’s latest dessert trend — cupcakes. The fact that it happened to be the eve of National Cupcake…
THEREFORE THEY DANCE
Of the many moments in this dance rehearsal, it’s the image of the studio floor dotted with Voci dancers bouncing off each other’s personal orbits only to land in someone else’s that has remained in my mind the longest. The title of the piece by choreographer Tara Lee Burns is I think, therefore …; as…
THE NEW PUPPETRY
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph — puppeteer, Muppeteer and featured performer at the Orlando Puppet Festival — was having a rough day when we spoke on the morning after Halloween. A shipping- company snafu was forcing her to entrust her felt friends to the tender mercies of airline baggage handlers. “Don’t tell anyone this, but I’m not cutting any…
FREEZE FRAME
Editor’s note: This is a corrected version of the story. This corrected version was updated 11/6/2008 at 4:09 p.m. ;; Last summer brought both steamy weather and a newfound prosperity for Quincy-based online advertising company AdSurf Daily. The company made money by selling Internet advertising to its members, who could recoup the cost of their…
WINTER PARK’S WAR ON SIN
In March 2006, with local news cameras in tow, Winter Park cops raided Club Harem — the city’s only strip club — and arrested seven people on charges ranging from drugs to (overly) dirty dancing. As this newspaper reported `see “Run ’em out of town,” Sept. 14, 2006`, documents in the case made clear that…
FREEBIE FLICKS
Enough already with sound-alike film-festival names; the distinctions aren’t clicking with the public. In the case of the third annual Orlando Film Festival, why not add another four-letter “F” word to the end — “free” — and make the distinction of this cultural affair clear? Yes, free. OFF executive director Anna Robinson explains, “All of…
the $1-a-day diet.
Think it’s impossible? Well, no — just very, very painful. At One Dollar Diet Project, a California couple documented their 30-day experiment in extreme budget eating. Their biggest concern? Scurvy. On $1 a day, fresh produce was out of the question, so they bought a tub of Tang and nicked lemons from a neighbor’s tree.…
Seminole County voter “outraged” over Orlando Weekly!
I can’t figure out how to embed the video, but this is too damn funny. Some old bitty was bitching to Local 6 about how, when she went to vote (I’m guessing for Old Man McCain, but who knows) she was shocked – SHOCKED! – to find a copy of our paper lying about in…
