Early voting: Day one
Editor’s Note: Today, as you may have heard, is the first day of early voting here in Central Florida. And because we like to torture our interns, we dispatched Adriana Ruiz to walk down to the downtown library, stand in line forever, cast her ballot, pick us up some food and then come back and…
Another reason to go to Screamfest: Underage Girls!
Well, one underage girl. And she’s not really underage anymore. She’s 28. Okay I was blatantly using an inflammatory headline to pull you in here. Sorry. The young woman in question at this year’s Spooky Empire’s Ultimate Horror Weekend (that’s the actual name) is Rochelle Davis, one of the finest actresses ever to do only…
Esquire weighs in on Florida congressional race
Just got my brand-spankin’ (literally, it’s the issue where they select Halle Berry as the Sexiest Woman Alive)-new issue of Esquire and the crazy mofos once again embark upon endorsing someone in every single congressional race in the country. Insane! Anyway, after the jump, what they say about Florida’s and it might surprise you. <@jump>…
SOUPY SALES
Exemplary broths a-bubble at this charming Maitland eating house
CAST THE FIRST STONE
Is there Maher in heaven and Earth?
C CHANGE
New Zealand trio strips down
A LOT OF BELLY FOR YOUR BUCK
They say when you find a true calling you’ll just know. You can’t define it. You just feel it. ; A lot of us feel it in our hips. ; Why belly dancing makes so many women feel like they’ve come home – the minute they tie the hip scarf – is hard to say.…
MAD MAN
Here stands an opulent empire built on disposable novelty. Over the foyer looms a giant crystal chandelier above a wrought-iron spiral staircase; a formal dining room is set off from the entry in deep red hues; vaulted ceilings give way to a plush family room with giant lakefront windows that gaze past a two-tiered swimming…
TILTING AT WINDMILLS
I can see how Lawson Lamar has developed this God-like complex,” says Kissimmee defense attorney Mercedes Leon. “He’s almighty, powerful.” From an electoral perspective, he certainly is. For the last 20 years Lamar, the Orange-Osceola County state attorney and a former Orange County sheriff, has waltzed into office unopposed. Leon says that has made him…
FIRST SHOT
You’ve gotta love a sore loser. Last week, we reported that at least one moviegoer had passed up the right-wing satire An American Carol because he had mistaken it for an actual Michael Moore picture. We’ve since learned that the makers of Carol have pinned their flick’s underwhelming $3.7 million opening weekend on a shadier…
BLISTER
So this is what it’s all come down to. The plate tectonics of our oversized socioeconomic structure have screeched and scratched against each other one too many times, pressing hairline fractures into gaping voids and smashing the jagged slabs of our seemingly solid foundations willy-nilly across the arid landscape. Ah, the revolution! Let’s just eat…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Sometimes the fastest way to get there/Is to go slow,” sings Tina Dico in her song “Count to Ten.” “Sometimes if you want to hold on/You’ve got to let go.” That’s a ripe oracle for you to meditate on. As you explore the nuances, you may discover secrets about how life…
SAVAGE LOVE
In this very special episode of Savage Love, I answer letters from readers who made the largest donations to the campaigns to preserve marriage equality in California (www.noonprop8.com), protect same-sex couples in Florida (www.sayno2.com) and defeat Stephen Harper in Canada. I’m a 31-year-old hetero- sexual woman, and my boyfriend and I are starting to experiment…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Man, Winter Park was totally bangin’ this week. (Did he just say Winter Park???) Yes, I did. And no, I can’t believe that just came out of me either, but it’s true. Between the weeklong WPRK Marathon and the weekend-long going-away party for Redlight Redlight, the WP was jumpin’. THE BEAT The annual WPRK Marathon,…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
The stereotype of critics is that we salivate over the opportunity to skewer struggling productions, deriving pleasure from other artists’ pain (see Peter O’Toole’s character in Ratatouille). I’ll admit to enjoying penning the occasional evisceration. But on the whole I’d much rather write a good review than a bad one, due to the bitter blowback…
POLICE BEAT
Oct. 3 (2008-426695) 7:10 a.m.: Orlando criminals have evolved since our last edition, wherein I chronicled the bungled efforts of some dunderhead who couldn’t figure out how to smash a glass window. This week’s first smash-and-grabber broke a window at an under-construction McDonald’s and stole a “Bosch work radio.” I don’t know what that is,…
HAPPYTOWN
As much as we love broad strokes and low-hanging fruit around here – along with expletives in lieu of real words – even we weren’t sure what to make of the thick packet we were issued by Come Out With Pride 2008 in advance of this past weekend’s queer festivities. There among the bloated biographies…
COMMENTS
HORRIFYING I couldn’t believe what I was reading when I saw Seth Kubersky’s review of Little Shop of Horrors `“Monsters Inc.,” Oct 9`. I attended the same performance Mr. Kubersky did and found the show one of the best pieces of theater I have ever seen in Orlando. The show was not “overproduced and under-rehearsed”…
SOMETHING WILDER
There’s not much that’s unusual about Memphis, Tenn.-based pop-rock group Joan Red. Led by emotive, well-manicured singer Anthony Basurto, who bangs his ruby-dyed locks to the anthemic, extreme-sports-alternative brand of radio jams that’s resulted in the group’s MySpace success, Joan Red hits the standard marks of modern-day crossover appeal. Nothing out of the ordinary could…
PRISONERS OF LIFE
Ever hear the self-help wisdom that “the opposite of fear is faith”? Or the simple advice about “taking one day at a time”? And then there are those horribly helpless moments when the only possible suggestion to give another human being is the command to “breathe.” In Jesus Hopped the “A” Train, the 2002 drama…
