Plaza Cinema goes (even more) Gutter tonight
First, let me congratulate you, dear reader, if you made it here OK. No, we won’t give you a virus (despite what some disgruntled ex-girlfriends tell us). We were hacked a couple of days ago and Google says we have to warn people for days after it’s been cleared. No worries. You’re clean. Secondly, you…
What the feh?
Jewish suburbia has never been more confusing
Tastes like teen spirit
John C. Reilly steals the freak show
Passing fancy
Small-plates joint believes it can evolve to fit dinersâ?? needs
Dream weaver
The inimitable Chris Rock stands in hysterical awe of a follicle battlefield
Happytown
“And – welcome to you, the; cast of the next great blockbuster … the story of downtown Orlando!” were but some of the words issued forth by Mayor Buddy Dyer from atop the precipice of illusion that was this year’s State of Downtown address. The annual public progress report – cough fundraiser for the Downtown…
Blister
‘I heard you found my boobs on the floor.” And so it begins: the saccharine squeaks and irreverence of giggling girls gaggled together in the name of last labia rites, pink champagne effervescence smashed against the side of life’s creeping ship for a nuptial bon voyage, a bachelorette party with a gay in it. High…
Live Active Cultures
Halloween, just a kid-focused holiday a generation ago, has grown up into a $5 billion industry, second only to Christmas in annual per capita expenditure. The explosion of Samhain spending is highly evident in Orlando; each of the area’s big-league theme park complexes conjures cash flow from the commercialized cauldron. The PG-rated offerings at Disney…
A generation of punk reborn
It’s been a long time coming, but nearly 30 years after it was released to theaters, Urgh! A Music War is again available for purchase. For music fans of a certain age — especially those who have suffered from years of squinting at grainy VHS dubs and bootleg DVDs — its purchase is mandatory; Urgh!…
Performing Arts: Orlando Puppet Festival
Puppets resurrected Orlando Puppet Festival Through Nov. 8 at multiple venues www.orlandopuppetfestival.com Just when we thought they weren’t coming out to play, the creatives of Ibex Puppetry pushed the Orlando Puppet Festival back on the fall calendar for another year. But that’s old news, almost as old as the disclaimer that Heather Henson — Jim’s…
Visual Arts: Linda Schäpper
The big family Linda Schäpper: Central Florida Folk Art Painter of Historic and Sacred Scenes Through Dec. 19 at Hannibal Square Heritage Center 642 W. New England Ave., Winter Park 407-539-2680 www.hannibalsquareheritagecenter.org Donations Storytelling through art perhaps has no better vehicle than religion, and Linda Schäpper has assumed the role of unofficial liturgical artist laureate…
Real fantasy
A casual observer could accuse the Drums of stretching the truth, if not of outright fabrication. The band’s first single, “Let’s Go Surfing,” with its buoyant, Factory Records—pilfering riff, offers a seductive invitation to get wet — just don’t bother asking Jonathan Pierce or Jacob Graham, who founded the Drums in late 2008, for any boarding…
The booby trap
There isn’t much to take away from the 20 hours of surveillance footage that the Winter Park Police Department recorded outside Club Harem on Lee Road between January and August 2008. Mostly it’s just stationary dashboard views through the windshield looking at the club’s iconic twin-domed architecture – it was once called the Booby Trap,…
This Little Underground
O, cruel Nature, how you;tease me with such fleeting farts of effervescent weather! Oh, right, music column. Hey, in case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been putting up posts on OW’s music blog, Beatdown (http://orlandoweekly.com/blog/music.asp), with more regularity, so check us out. Musicians, hit us up if you’ve got something notable going on. ;; The beat…
DVDs Nuts
Drag Me To Hell Sam Raimi went back to basics this year with this stellar horror parable about a young woman (Alison Lohman) who denies an old gypsy woman a loan extension and pays dearly. Alternately cheesy and stirring, frightening and hilarious, Drag Me feels like a sibling of the great old Tales From the…
Sole food
or the past three years, following the typical Michael Pollan–fueled, now-I’ve-seen-the-locavore-light conversion experience, I’ve been trying hard to feed my family good food. It’s more difficult than it sounds; the supermarkets are full of tempting, affordable, food-like products that ultimately owe more to industry than agriculture, once you start reading the labels. It took me…
Savage Love
I’m a straight teenage guy, but I can’t climax unless I am stimulating my anus or rectum. I use various objects like cucumbers. The reason I don’t buy a toy is that I live in a very religious household and my parents would disown me if they found a sex toy in my room. I…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “The clouds are the most fertile part of the sky,” writes Guy Murchie in his book The Seven Mysteries of Life. Microbes with short life cycles live there in abundance, “eating, breathing, excreting, floating, swimming, competing, reproducing.” Next time you look up at a puffy cumulus, see it as a large…
Council Watch
Thank heavens for the beautiful weather outside (or so said chaplain Ragan Vandegriff), because the inside of this week’s city counseling session was a whole heap of crazy. To celebrate the city’s annual “Week of the Family,” a theme was announced — “An Evening at Home: Starring the Family” — which basically means “We ain’t…
