belly up.
Delicate sensibilities offended, Part 3,907: So I’m in the dairy aisle at Publix this morning when I notice a new product in among the yogurt-like stuffs called Goodbelly. I mean. When Activia yogurt first came out, I managed to blank out the purpose somehow â?? when people start talking about their “digestion,” I know what…
In the land of “Oz”: Writer Seth Kubersky takes a flying leap â?¦
It’s 6:30pm, and I’m standing outside the Bob Carr loading dock, nervously tapping my foot. The union stagehands sit outside the stage door, puffing on smokes; a bus-full of actors in matching T-shirts disgorges on the sidewalk; an animal trainer arrives with two adorable dogs in tow. Finally, stage manager Trinity Wheeler emerges to shake…
AROMA THERAPY
Memorable dishes of fragrant Indian fare invigorate in Lake Mary
GET SMART
It’s clear the moment you walk through the doors of this renovated Taco Bell that the owners of the Green Day Café don’t want you to be an American idiot, at least insofar as your diet and the environment are concerned. In an effort to capitalize on the whole green movement, the biodegradable cups and…
BEAT AROUND THE BUSH
Sir Stone’s fey grasp at the lame-duck prez
ALASKAN INDEPENDENTS
A treasure from the land of Palin
ASTRO MAN
Orlando’s adopted son goes west
POLICE BEAT
Oct. 9 ; (2008-436686) 7:55 a.m.: Your humble columnist has had a hell of a week, and to be perfectly honest pounding out this mush is just about the last thing in the world he wants to do right now. But duty calls, and like Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance (that’s the only musical…
HAPPYTOWN
So of course we traveled the spitting distance from Happytown™ headquarters to hit up Monday, Oct. 20’s Hopeypalooza ’08 outside the Amway Arena, and of course it was amazing in that “we can’t wait to tell our grandkids, except we’ll never have grandkids” kind of way. Presidents Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were in fine…
COMMENTS
How many panic attacks? I arrived at the `Oct. 20` Obama rally around 2:30 p.m. expecting a line `see Happytown™, page 8`. Somehow, the line was directed in an unusual pattern from the north entrance to the arena back to Robinson, then to the west reaching Parramore Avenue, then back east to Hughey, then down…
GET SMART
It’s clear the moment you walk through the doors of this renovated Taco Bell that the owners of the Green Day Café don’t want you to be an American idiot, at least insofar as your diet and the environment are concerned. In an effort to capitalize on the whole green movement, the biodegradable cups and…
DABBLED IN HOGS
“Just enjoying a beautiful evening,” says William Elliott Whitmore from his Iowa home. “It’s harvest season — very significant.” And he is intimately familiar with the cultivation cycle. The 30-year-old folk singer with the hard-gravel timbre grew up on a family farm down a little way from the house he’s in now. They planted row…
FOREVER YOUNG
The chaos in the room was unlike anything in rock & roll,” says Blag Dahlia (aka Paul Cafaro) as he excitedly recalls old-school punk shows. “You saw bodies being passed across the room, it was so brutal. I always tried to bring that back.” Dahlia is the frontman of the Dwarves, one of the longest-running…
WHO LOVES THE LIVING DEAD?
If you share my fondness for flesh-eaters, you would have found plenty of fellowship at Spooky Empire’s Ultimate Horror Weekend. The Wyndham Resort attracted so many lurchers last weekend that I had to park at T.G.I. Friday’s and shamble across I-Drive. Once inside, fans found makeup maestro Tom Savini, along with many recipients of his…
UNDERCOVER
“We’re your regular yellow-dog Democrats,” Sherry tells me, referring to loyal Southern Democrats. “Though we have a lot of Republicans in our family.” ; I find that last part hard to believe. Sherry is a consummate salesperson. I’ve been canvassing Central Florida neighborhoods with her for the past three hours on a pleasantly windy Tuesday…
SCAPEGOATS OR VILLAINS?
“You should see the hate mail we’re getting,” says Stephanie Porta, ACORN Orlando’s head organizer, while sitting in the group’s crowded and narrow East Colonial Drive offices. “One of them refers to ‘niggers.'” The venom conservatives have directed toward the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in the waning weeks of this presidential election…
BLISTER
I know where this is going. No, literally. It’s going around a loosely rectangular infrastructural concern surrounding a large, blue-dyed retention pond that spits up in the middle. By this time I could easily traverse the Come Out With Pride parade route with semen smeared in my eyes and still maintain that slightly parted-mouth veneer…
WHO JUDGES THE JUDGES?
Jim Turner has a top rating from Martindale-Hubbell, a peer-review group for lawyers, and volunteers with the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida. Fred Schott also has a top Martindale-Hubbell rating, and he works with Harbor House, a charity for abused women and their children. One of these men will be the next Orange-Osceola…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Our government spends an obscene fortune on its armed forces — almost as much as do all the other nations of the world combined. If our military costs were cut down to a more reasonable size — say, the same as China’s — we’d have a trillion-dollar bonus to deal with…
SAVAGE LOVE
Once again, Savage Love ; is given over to 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 (better luck next time). I neglected to ask readers to send dough to the campaign against…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
All the zeal surrounding this year’s historically weighty presidential race makes me genuinely glad and cautiously hopeful. Hell, the fever has even spread onto my own street in a comedic way — there’s a yard sign that reads “Geezer/Dingbat” in place of “McCain/Palin,” pleasantly dispelling my long-held belief in the humorlessness of my neighbors. The…
FIRST SHOT
We’re not in the habit of lauding multimedia corporations for their good sense and decency, but darned if the folks at Warner Bros. don’t keep racking up the Do-Bee points. First they responded to Heath Ledger’s death in a way that neither cheapened his memory nor shaved any rough edges off his greatest work. Now…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
Culturally speaking, October ;is often among the busiest months in Orlando. Last weekend I sampled the abundant arts buffet to bring you a tasting menu of brief bites from around town. ;; Third Thursday ; I’ve been too tied up the last couple of months to take full advantage of the most consistently creative evening…
COUNCIL WATCH
This looked like it could get good. Overhead, the flat-screen beamed images of a sweaty-backed Mayor Buddy Dyer being tackled by a gaggle of kids from the Parramore Kidz Zone, while on the council floor embattled state Sen. Gary Siplin made the rounds in a light fedora and pinstripes. Was it Personal Caricature Day? No.…
What You’re Doing This Week (Oct. 23 – Oct. 30)
Lots of stuff this week in Selections and in the Music section. And there’s a lot more, too! Like these: Thursday, Oct. 23 In case you were thinking that the “opening” of the Gibson Guitar Town thing was going to mean there was gonna be another place to see cool indie bands downtown … well,…
