Cattle Call: Singing. Just do it.
Gotta love a theater company like Mad Cow. Consistently quality theater and easy to follow audition notices. Here’s one for everything requiring prettier voices than, say, mine (to know what I sound like, punch a cat). Mad Cow Theatre is holding general musical auditions by appointment only for a series of 2010 productions including My…
Dear Prudish
An open letter to a new studio
Under fire
Against-all odds documentary provides a hero for a new age
Husky hero
Film about a corn scheme loses its flavor halfway through
Mild strawberries
Norwegian retirement drama is the Anti-‘Up’
Bear necessities
Scores of dishes keep the student body satisfied at Panda Bistro
Yes, Minister
The funniest movie of the year opens unforeseeably
This Little Underground
Bring on the soft-core! The beat Tampa’s Beauvilles (Sept. 6, the Social) want very badly to be rock & roll. How do I know? Well, besides all the posturing and attitude, singer-guitarist Shawn Kyle Beauville goes out of his way to tell you. If that sounds a little canned to you, then your compass is…
Happytown
Hey Orlando city planners, your savior has arrived! The latest person to attempt to exploit our fair city’s never-ending eagerness to be Los Angeles-lite is the downright hilarious John Campbell (pictured here Photoshopped onto Air Force One; his doing, not ours). According to a press release Campbell put out last week, he’s in talks with…
Council Watch
This turned out to be the week of commissioner Tony Ortiz and his fabulous mustache. Niceties aside — the city receiving an award from a University of Central Florida “society” (one that gives placards to those who give UCF more than $1 million) in honor of the new medical school, some discussion of SunRail including…
Police Beat
Aug. 31 (2009-414284) 7:33 a.m.: It’s an odd thing to see the whole of the last decade of your life crammed into a bunch of cardboard boxes you jacked from the back of the Publix across the street and piled into not-so-neat stacks in the corner of your bedroom to await their date with the…
Chamber muzak
Emily Reo CD Release Party with Dark Sea of Awareness, Levek, Fireflies 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, Will’s Pub, 407-898-5070 $5-$10 Local singer Emily Reo is well known and liked around these parts, and deservedly so: Her passion and support for local music is admirable and her willingness to ably bang, pluck or strum damn…
The devil went down to Brighton
The Death of Bunny Munro;by Nick Cave;(Faber & Faber; $25; 288 pages) ;; ; ‘We are each our own devil,” Oscar Wilde once remarked, “and we make this world our hell.” ; Beyond sounding like a Bad Seeds lyric, this is more or less the unwritten epigraph to Nick Cave’s new book, The Death of…
Culture 2 Go
Martha Stewart doesn’t live here Home Sweet Home Through Sept. 25 at Casselberry Art House, 127 Quail Pond Circle, Casselberry 407-262-7700, ext. 1301 Free Home Sweet Home is the kind of exhibit that takes you by surprise and makes you think. And think, and think. Step into the Casselberry Art House (a modest midcentury house…
Down on Main Street
Karen Peters should have known it wouldn’t work. Even with the city’s generous incentives and the Dyer administration’s lofty talk about Parramore renovation, and even though her business would be housed just across West Church Street from the under-construction Amway Center, her idea simply wasn’t tenable. Not there, not then. “The concept I had was…
My God can beat up your God
You’ve heard the story: A young Ohio girl from a Muslim family converts to Christianity, then runs away to an Orlando evangelical couple she met over the Internet. She claims that her Muslim parents want to kill her. The couple shelters her for two weeks before telling the cops where she is. Now the mess…
Blister
In a perfect world, there would be ropes of costume pearls wrapped around flowing, trapezoidal layers of blouses; corals and pinks accented with pops of red pepper plumage in a Vaseline-lensed haze. We would dance in tumbling rose bouquets while clunky diamonds rattled on our ears like tambourines. We would crash to the floor in…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) To the thug who stole my Chevy Malibu from its parking place while I was recording an album in San Francisco back in 1991: I forgive you. To the lovely and talented Artemisia, who couldn’t bring herself to fall in love with me back in 2001: I forgive you. To the…
Savage Love
My boyfriend and I have been living together for a year. He knows I am an insecure person when it comes to my body. I’m not overweight, I’ve been told my whole life how good-looking I am, and my boyfriend tells me he loves my body. We have an active and interesting sex life. But…
