And Bill Bixby has some script notes for us
You read it here third: Edward Norton’s departure from the Hulk franchise was all about “business.” As in, he can’t keep his nose out of anyone else’s.
Update on sale of Warm Mineral Springs
A little more than a year ago, we reported on the financial upheaval at Warm Mineral Springs in North Port, Fla. (“Troubled waters,” Aug. 13, 2009), which left the historic property in the hands of the bank. At at that time, there was speculation that Warm Mineral Springs would be sold to the city or…
Fanning the flames
Greek taverna now cheek-by-jowl with Turkish neighbor
Into the wild
A menacing crime thriller from Australia
Class act
Emma Stone becomes a star in smart teen-sex comedy
Shells of a man
Ben Affleck cements behind-the-camera cred with thrilling heist flick
Eau de ew
Another pretty but passionless take on a one-of-a-kind woman
Truth to power
In July 2008, George Crossley buttonholed me in the outside smoking area at Club Firestone. I’d invited him to the annual Best of Orlando party, as I’d done every year since we’d met in 2002, and as usual he’d accepted. George didn’t miss that party. Honestly, I tried to avoid him that night because I…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When teen pop star Miley Cyrus appeared on David Letterman’s late-night TV talk show, band leader Paul Schaffer asked her if she lip-syncs to prerecorded music during her performances. Miley replied that no, she never fakes it. For evidence, she said, anyone could go watch a YouTube clip from one of…
DVDs Nuts!
Afterschool A brilliant take on modern young detachment, then-college-age director Antonio Campos (the film made the festival circuit a couple years back) brings to sobering, fascinating life the tale of prep-school loner Rob (an affecting Ezra Miller), a YouTube-era Holden Caulfield. One day, Rob captures the accidental-overdose deaths of two alpha-female sisters at the school.…
Savage Love
About six months ago, after watching my girlfriend insert a tampon, I asked if I could do it for her next time. She thought it was an odd request but agreed. After “helping” a few times, the conversation turned to what it felt like to wear one. Her response was, “Want to try one yourself?”…
Council Watch
It was as if the entire daiswas crafted of gummy bears and chocolate bars at this week’s meeting of the Candy Land commission, which was weird because the whole evening would later be spent in the sour red of annual budgetary minutiae. Still, the mayor pulled on his teenage Adderall jammies to gush about local…
Happytown
As with most of the pseudo-political convoluted relationships conjured in our Happytown™ heads, there almost inevitably comes a time when we stumble into the abyss of romantic disillusionment. We get a little moody, maybe, or our left eye gets a resentment twitch that commands our immediate attention. This week, that left eye is looking at…
Live Active Cultures
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2010 — Nine years ago today, I awoke to Howard Stern talking on my clock radio, working some tastelessly ridiculous bit about an airplane allegedly striking the Twin Towers. Annoyed, I turned on CNN and learned that the joke was on all of America, and it wasn’t very funny. Much has…
This Little Underground
Remember that stampede of concerts I was talking about? Well, time to get up and out because every single week between now and just about Thanksgiving will feature no less than three major tours coming to Orlando. That’s nine consecutive weeks of primetime action, fam, so check those concert calendars. Get into it or live…
Cultural yearnings
The Drums;with Surfer Blood, the Young Friends;8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17;The Social, 407-246-1419;www.thesocial.org;$15-$17 ;; Jonathan Pierce, the charismatic yet understated 26-year-old frontman for the Drums, doesn’t measure the success of a pop song by its commitment to classic chord changes. Instead, he goes by how quickly it can make you feel like a teenager in…
Hopelessly devoted
Go Rydell with Rust Belt Lights, Let Me Run 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19 Hoops Tavern, 407-843-5618 free free For a Florida punk band with a couple of short tours and a full-length album under its belt, you’d think that Orlando’s Go Rydell would also have at least one successful show at Gainesville’s legendary annual…
Culture 2 Go
Heavy-hitting expressions;Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns: Poetic Works as Metaphor;Through Dec. 23 at Cornell Fine ;Arts Museum;Rollins College, Winter Park;407-646-2526;www.rollins.edu/cfam;$5 The Cornell Fine Arts Museum opened its fall season Sept. 11 with several new exhibits, including a deeply engaging show of work by Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns. Poetic Works as Metaphor is far more than…
On-the-spot comedy
Orlando Improv Festival Sunday-Tuesday, Sept. 19-21 at Winter Park Playhouse 711 N. Orange Ave., Winter Park 407-310-5905 www.orlandoimprovfestival.com $5-$7 per show $5-$7 per show “Mark Baratelli is a mess.” At least, that’s what he tells me as we sit down for an interview about the Orlando Improv Festival, which he organized. Baratelli has already had…
Back to black
1989 was the number. That summer, the national conversation on race had reached a boiling point. Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing threw a garbage can through the country’s safe-distance window, demanding the tension be aired out; Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn teen Yusef Hawkins was beaten and eventually shot by an angry mob of white kids in…
Death at Lunch
With zombie hysteria at an all time high – scratch that; real unemployment numbers dipping perilously into the double-digits – you might expect that your standard downtown vegan-wrap stroll would be interrupted by rigor mortis on the sidewalks, some Thom Yorke-ian dystopia of ragged bodies rendered prostrate to the heated pull of the apathy of…
sweet dreams are made of corn
High fructose corn syrup is tired of being blamed for obesity and diabetes and mercury poisoning. Solution: Eliminate the stuff? No, silly: new name. Meet “corn sugar.” “Corn sugar,” of course, sounds wholesome and friendly, like wheat germ or bee pollen. But we all know HFCS is a lab-created Frankenfood, supported by farm subsidies, corporate…
