Breaking: Biteboy to save fountain!
This just in from hot shoe reporter Billy Manes, who is down in the halls of city council sniffing out details and dispatched this dispatch via his Bloggytown celluphonic news transfer device: Biteboy, Orlando’s favorite “gurgling pool of awful,” is going to help save the Lake Eola fountain! What, you don’t remember Biteboy? Neither does…
MUSICIANS: This is how you do DIY
If anyone knows the ins and outs of making a sustainable career in underground music, it’s Martin Atkins. Homeboy’s portfolio includes stints in bands like Public Image Limited, Pigface, Killing Joke, NIN, Ministry and Revolting Cocks, who happen to be playing Firestone Live next Wednesday (yeeeehaaawww!), the particulars of which I’ve lovingly detailed for you…
The wild rumpus startles
Spike Jonze crafts a masterpiece of mischief
Just canâ??t wait to be King
A doc about LeBronâ??s high-school team fails to fly
Meow mix
Cat Cora cooks up a magnificent Mediterranean medley
Aches the clown
Robin Williams stuns in ambitious, uneven drama
Police Beat
Sept. 28 ; (2009-461273) 11:50 a.m.: This week’s (first) copper wire theft is from a construction site on West Gore Street. ; (2009-461523) 2:51 p.m.: “Between the above dates and times, unknown suspect(s) entered the fenced yard at the above location and removed a trailer.” ; (2009-461636) 4:13 p.m.: Fail o’ the Week: “While the…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) You say you not only want to be loved, but that you also want to love? Then learn the fantasies and symbols and beliefs that hold people’s lives together. Be interested in feeling the crushing weight and deep comfort of their web of memories. Every now and then, dive in and…
Savage Love
My boyfriend identifies as ; sexually submissive. He likes to be tied up, put in women’s underwear and locked in a chastity device, and he has a strong urge to please. I hate the term, but I suppose you could call me a “feeder.” I am turned on by the idea of someone eating a…
Happytown
There’s something in the air over at public radio station WMFE (90.7-FM): We’ve heard gurglings that the station is going all talk and news at month’s end. Yay! But don’t tell anybody, because WMFE top gun José Fajardo has warned employees that the secret will be kept or else, and there aren’t many heads left…
Blister
It isn’t as easy as it seems. Those adhesive Arthur Murray footprints trod trillions of times over by varying shapes of bones and flesh didn’t just get there by themselves. They were, and remain, the color- inside-the-lines choreography set to obvious rhythms of samba or foxtrot or walk-of-shame dalliances, each intended for escapist contexts, nothing…
Live Active Cultures
The horses were my first clue that something was wrong. I thought it would be a piece of cake. It’s just a five-minute drive from my home, practically right next door. Besides, how many people were really going to show up for this? But the horses proved I’d made a major miscalculation. It isn’t every…
Theater:Comedy Review: Love Song
Love Song;Through Oct. 25 at Mad Cow Theatre;105 S. Magnolia Ave.;407-297-8788;www.madcowtheatre.com Joan and Harry love to talk, or rather argue, or maybe bicker – call it what you will. It seems to be the glue that holds their marriage together. In fact, Harry cautions his wife that if he agreed with her on anything, their…
Culture 2 Go
It’s a cold world after all; Lifestyle; Through Nov. 7 at Bold Hype; 1844 E. Winter Park Road; 407-629-2965; www.boldhype.net; Free ; Remarkable photography is on display at Bold Hype Gallery, where artists Corey Arnold, Peter Beste and Joe Conzo reveal an inspiring sense of humanity through portraits of Norwegian dark-metal musicians, hip-hop figures and…
This Little Underground
D’you realize how rare second chances are? I do, and that’s why I’m jubilant that Caffe da Vinci, a cornerstone of DeLand’s scene, has finally reopened under the shortened name daVinci. Besides management, not much has changed about the place. And that’s a good thing when you’re talking about one of the region’s most enchanting…
Escape from the museum
Os Mutantes with Deleon 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15 Firestone Live 407-872-0066 all ages $20 It’s been more than 40 years since Os Mutantes first made their mark as the catchiest and most overtly psychedelic purveyors of the tropicália sound in Brazil. The group found success in their home country, disbanded in the late ’70s…
Always a troubadour
Leonard Cohen 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19 Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center 813-229-7827 $19.50-$252.75 As sad as it was to see Bill Maher so blithely dismiss Leonard Cohen on Real Time With Bill Maher in August (“Leonard Cohen is back!” exclaimed guest Bill Moyers. “Well, Leonard Cohen was never really there for me,” replied Maher),…
Play it again, Larry
And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records by Larry Harris with Curt Gooch and Jeff Suhs (Backbeat; $24.99; 310 pages) In terms of its role within the music business, Casablanca Records was like the George W. Bush presidency a quarter- century early. It was an operation that elevated publicity and image marketing…
Censored!
Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored for 13 years, says he’s finished with reform. It’s impossible, he says in a recent interview, to try to get major news media outlets to deliver relevant news stories that serve to strengthen democracy. ; “I really think we’re beyond reforming corporate media,” says Phillips, a professor of sociology…
GOP: We gave you black folks everything
What a giddy joy it is to see the new GOP.com web unveiling, designed, I can only imagine, specifically to steal Obama’s Health Care-victory attention today by doing something so hilariously inept that you can’t help but look at them. The new website, which crashed so hard today from neck-craning onlookers that the Obama campaignâ??s…
