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Reality Check
Gubernatorial candidate Michael Arth thought he could play politics by his own rules. He’s learning it’s not so easy.
Women’s football served three ways
Mary “Mea” Angelini, who made the cut for the Orlando Fantasy, the new expansion team for the Lingerie Football League, refused to sign the contract, citing concerns about low pay, personal injury, liabilities and heavy fines. The experience sent her back to flag football, her first love, and here’s what she’s doing: “I am heading…
Listen: Dwight Howard sings Michael Jackson for the Kidz
Wow. Just got my spankin’-new copy of newly baptized (by a homophobic church, no less) Dwight Howard’s CD, to be released tomorrow, titled Shoot For the Stars. It’s a for-charity venture with the Kidz Bop label and it’s all for a decent cause – Orlando-based sex-negative crisis center BetaCenter – and it features a playfully…
Washed up is the new anorexic
This jus t in: Actress Rachael Leigh Cook is leading a crusade against the airbrushing of women’s images in the media, calling it an “absolute travesty” that “propagates these really terrible standards that are false.” Later this week, expect a blanket apology from the nation’s film studios, which have conspired to airbrush Cook out of…
Hellâ??s kitchen
Thereâ??s no dousing the fire at this South OBT hothouse
Itâ??s a living
A talented writer and director collect workersâ?? comp with a phoned-in prison thriller
Tanks for the memories
On-the-nose but credible, Lebanon basically works
Here he comes to wreck your day
Joaquin Phoenix is no Andy Kaufman in despicable pseudo-doc
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) ‘There’s one ultimate goal during sex,â? says Cosmopolitan magazine, a renowned source of erotic guidance for women. That is ‘to be as sensually stimulated as possible.â? I don’t quite agree with that assessment. Having emotionally pleasing fun should also be an important consideration, as well as creating a playful ambiance and…
Happytown
Dear Kendrick Meek, this isn’t easy for us, but we have something we have to tell you: We think you should take one for the team and get out of the goddamned Senate race. Yes, we’re well aware that we tend to pile onto the panic sometimes, and we admit that we’re incredibly codependent in…
Council Watch
If city council was a color, this week’s mind meld would have been a peppy pink. Several commissioners donned pink T-shirts (over their ties and under their blazers, attractively) in recognition of “Pinktober,” a celebration of the sadness that is breast cancer. Eek. Mayor Buddy Dyer made a cringe-worthy reference to the commissioners being “models,”…
DVDs Nuts!
The Electric Chair ; Here’s a change for this column: I’m recommending a film I haven’t seen. Recently “unearthed” by Wild Eye Releasing, 1985’s The Electric Chair stars Victor Argo (Taxi Driver) as a failed stand-up comic who’s now a shoe-store manager. One day, he finds himself at a mysterious club performing his routine around…
Live Active Cultures
James Brown is gone, but if they ever crown the Hardest Working Musician In Orlando Show Business, John deHaas has to be in the running. Have you been to the Treasure Tavern dinner show near I-Drive? DeHaas is the music director there five nights a week. Seen Michael Wanzie’s production of `title of show` at…
Hell’s kitchen
There’s no dousing the fire at this South OBT hothouse
This Little Underground
Sup, More-lando? Still pedal ;to the metal, I see. Keep it up. ;; The beat ; As psyched as I was to see Baltimore dream-pop diamond Beach House perform (Oct. 11, Hard Rock Live), I was concerned about how their highly impressionistic sound and presentation would translate in such a big hall. But the live…
Donâ??t look back in anger
The Pietasters with the Toasters, Royal City Riot, Hub City Stompers 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23 The Social, 407-246-1419 www.thesocial.org $15 $15 $15 Being in the center of a pop-culture phenomenon as it’s happening must be an extraordinary feeling, especially if you had little idea that said phenomenon would occur in the first place. Stephen…
Conventional wisdom
Xiu Xiu with the Growlers, Yip Yip 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21 Back Booth, 407-999-2570 www.backbooth.com $10-$12 $10-$12 $10-$12 Some of history’s most intriguing bands have devoted their careers to romancing the dynamic contraposition between sweetness and astringency. Almost none have been able, much less willing, to develop that duality’s darker half as fully as…
Multiples of one
The Turn of the Screw ; Through Nov. 7 at Orlando ; Shakespeare Theater ; www.orlandoshakes.org ; $15-$38 ;;; Forget about chainsaw-swinging psychos and shuffling brain-eaters. Long before foam latex and computer-generated viscera, storytellers knew how to put a good scare into an audience with nothing but a flickering candle and a spooky tale. This…
Homage to the highest office
The Art of Hope: A Regional Juried Exhibition Commemorating the First African American U.S. President, Barack Obama Through Jan. 17 at Crealdé School of Art 600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park 407-671-1886 Also at Hannibal ;Square Heritage Center 642 W. New England Ave., Winter Park 407-539-2680 Free It was a decidely pro-Obama crowd that mingled…
Reality Check
In a recent sunny afternoon in downtown Winter Park, a bespectacled man with an athletic build stands atop a plastic milk crate and treats passersby to an impromptu political speech. It’s the city’s autumn arts festival, and the brick-lined streets are abuzz with activity, but few stop to hear what the man has to say. …
Battle Stations
Just reading through the supporters lists for the organizations for and against Amendment 4 should give voters some idea who’s calling the shots in the battle for Florida’s development future. ; On the list for Florida Hometown Democracy, the political action committee in favor of the hotly debated ballot question that supporters say would fight…
Visionary interlude
Beethoven’s Symphony ; No. 9 and Lanier’s ; Symphony for Amelia ; Saturday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m., ;Sunday, Oct. 24, 3 p.m. ; Knowles Memorial Chapel ; Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave. ;Winter Park ; www.bachfestivalflorida.org ;;; In the program notes for his Symphony for Amelia, commissioned by the Bach Festival Society in collaboration with…
This Little Underground
Sup, More-lando? Still pedal to the metal, I see. Keep it up..
Happytown
Dear Kendrick Meek, this isn’t easy for us, but we have something we have to tell you: We think you should take one for the team and get out of the goddamned Senate race.
Tanks for the memories
On-the-nose but credible, Lebanon basically works
Live Active Cultures
James Brown is gone, but if they ever crown the Hardest Working Musician In Orlando Show Business, John deHaas has to be in the running.
Conventional wisdom
Experimental Brooklyn duo Xiu Xiu draws from surprising sources
Savage Love
My husband and I have had an open marriage for the last two years.
Homage to the highest office
The Art of Hope: A Regional Juried Exhibition Commemorating the First African American U.S. President, Barack Obama
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “There’s one ultimate goal during sex,” says Cosmopolitan magazine, a renowned source of erotic guidance for women. That is “to be as sensually stimulated as possible.” I don’t quite agree with that assessment. Having emotionally pleasing fun should also be an important consideration, as well as creating a playful ambiance and…
Visionary interlude
Commission by modern classical composer Jaron Lanier to premier at Bach Festival Society this weekend
Don’t look back in anger
The Pietasters reflect on a time that should have served them better
It’s a living
A talented writer and director collect workers’ comp with a phoned-in prison thriller
Multiples of one
The Turn of the Screw
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Battle Stations
The fight over Florida’s future development is about to go to the polls, as voters are asked to decide the fate of Amendment 4
Here he comes to wreck your day
Joaquin Phoenix is no Andy Kaufman in despicable pseudo-doc
Hey, the Social’s got an iPhone app
The title of the post is pretty self-explanatory, right? The Social now has a nice, well-designed app that allows you to check their concert calendar, buy tickets, remember shows you want to go to, and, uh, a “lighter” feature. (Note to the Social: all of this – except for the last bit – is very…
Don’t dream it, dread it
Somehow, I resisted tonight’s Rocky Horror-themed episode of Glee. It wasn’t easy; I had to politely beg off when a friend phoned in an 11th-hour reminder. (And this was somebody with whom I once shared a stage in an actual production of Rocky — so admitting to no interest in the episode was kind of…
Johnson’s Diner, one-time pillar of Parramore, closes doors
So much for the rising tide of the new Amway Arena lifting all boats. Construction on the arena killed traffic for months, and Sunday, the Taylor family closed the doors on the diner’s new digs. New circa 2006, that is, the last time politicians promised there was change in the air for Parramore. For 23 years…
