The horror! Yay, the horror!
Here I am, sitting in one of OIA’s lovely-ish terminals, an hour away from returning once more to Austin, TX for the genre-centric Fantastic Fest. Rapidly growing in popularity and rightfully so, it’s a film festival dedicated primarily to sci-fi, horror, action, fantasy and otherwise oddball fare. I’m back for my third consecutive year, serving…
Magic mushroom
Downtown Disney trattoria shakes off a period of mediocrity
Come hungry, leave hungrier
I don’t mind waiting 30 minutes for a sandwich. Crusty bread, fresh vegetables, top-notch spread, a symphony of salty, sweet, crunchy and creamy ‘ that’s a good sandwich. It’s really unfortunate, then, that the half-hour I spent waiting for one at Maestro World Café resulted in a soggy, half-baked ‘Mediterranean veggie wrapâ?� ($5.50), a disappointing…
Zero-sum game
Oliver Stoneâ??s sequel looks into the abyss and finds nothingness
Free Willie
False at every turn, an Australian stage musical comes to half-life on the screen
Fall Guide 2010 – Visual Arts
Fall ushers in the art-festival season — and hopefully some cool, breezy days in which to enjoy wandering around colorful scenery on the weekends. Popular gatherings are the Maitland Rotary Art Festival (Oct. 1-3), Winter Park Autumn Arts Festival (Oct. 9-10), Lake Mary-Heathrow Festival of the Arts (Nov. 6-7) and DeLand Fall Festival of Arts…
Fall Guide 2010 – Film
Fall is prestige season at the theaters, the time of year every movie studio has waited for to unleash the potential Oscar nominees they’ve held in their pockets all year. But while it might be tempting to drop your hard-earned $74 (a coming-soon modern-day ticket price) on classy, intriguing Academy fare like The Social Network…
Fall Guide 2010 – Music
Sorry, arts. Too bad, sports. Suck it, film. Fall in Orlando belongs to music, and that’s never been more accurate than this year — a jam-packed season of historical proportions that promises to leave music fans exhausted, satisfied and dangerously over-the-limit, blood-alcohol-wise. Almost every day in October offers an amazing show, provided a willingness to…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh is a person whose ideas and attitudes repel me. But in the dream I had last night, I enjoyed hanging out with him. He was affable and humorous. We had several fun adventures together. Here’s how I interpret the dream: It doesn’t necessarily mean that…
Fall Guide 2010 – Civics
As the Nov. 2 general election draws near, progressive voters should keep in mind that the election results for the August primaries leaned heavily toward conservative causes and that there was an anemic turnout of Democrats compared to Republicans. If you want to have your say in who becomes the next governor, an appointment that…
Savage Love
I’m a gay male and have been ;seeing a terrific guy for a couple of months. Two years ago, during an uncharacteristically wild few months in my life, I had a threesome with a couple, and as it turns out, my boyfriend is very good friends with them. We see them socially and have even…
Fall Guide 2010 – Performing Arts
To put it in financial parlance, the bounty of theatrical and dance productions that are going to be Facebooked and flaunted to potential ticket buyers this season makes Orlando an audience’s market. There is so much creative overflow that it’s too much to process, much less to attend. Your social calendar is going to be…
Happytown
With zombie hysteria at an alltime 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 concrete.…
Fall Guide 2010 – Events
Another year for bloody good times The Orlando Weekly hot-tub time machine has been spiked with red dye in honor of the Halloween season, so slip with me into the sangre suds and slide all the way back to 1990. In that ancient age, October wasn’t yet the moneymaking orgy that Orlando knows today. Back…
This Little Underground
R.I.P., Sunday Night Vinyl and Sunday Morning Coming Down. The classic alternative and alt-country radio shows, respectively, were the two venerable programs that were the most tragic casualties of Real Radio’s (WTKS 104.1 FM) completely regressive overhaul of their weekend music format. Now, instead of being the only major commercial station to offer halfway tasteful…
Fall Guide 2010 – Sports & Rec.
Jump in, the water’s fine When the weather outside cools down, and people’s minds begin to turn to outdoor activities, most people head to the beach. But Central Florida is also home to lots of great freshwater springs with crystal-clear (and at 72 degrees year-round, very refreshing) waters, perfect for snorkeling, scuba diving, boating and…
Concrete proof
Prote-J;Good Hip Hop Meets Radio;(self-released) ;; In any performance art, the most important and elusive quality is self-identity; the ability to create with not just any point of view, but one that’s your own. And hip-hop, for all of its studio-rat mentality, does qualify as performance art. ; Local rapper Prote-J, a standout at this…
What the world needs now
Global Peace Film Festival;Through Sunday, Sept. 26;407-224-6625 ;www.peacefilmfest.org;$8 per screening; ; Main Screening Venues; Gallery at Avalon Island; 39 S. Magnolia Ave. ; Plaza Cinema Café; 155 S. Orange Ave. ; Orlando Science Center;777 E. Princeton St. ; Rollins College;Several venues on campus, Winter Park ; Winter Park Public Library;460 E. New England Ave.,Winter Park ;;…
Hardly gentlemen
The Two Man Gentlemen Band ¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta! (Serious Business) 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29 Redlight Redlight, 745 Bennett Road www.facebook.com/twomangentlemenband $7 $7 Over the course of several years, Andy Bean (four-string guitar, vocals) and Fuller Condon (string bass, vocals) — collectively the Two Man Gentlemen Band — have gone from modest New York…
Fall Guide: The banks have eyes
Normally, I’m not the kind of person who jumps at the chance to kill something. Not even if that something tastes really good. Not even if that something would just as likely kill me first, if given half a chance. But when I heard about Central Florida’s annual gator hunt, which takes place every fall…
Fall Guide: Deadliest catch
It’s a steamy August morning, and a few bright rays of dawn light peek through the still palm trees at Canaveral National Seashore near New Smyrna Beach. Although most people make it a point to stay far away from sharks when at the beach (and I’m usually part of that majority), I’ve come here today…
Fall Guide: Shell shocked
Besides ‘Orlando’ or maybe ‘Tiger Woods, skanks,’ few Google search terms conjure local love more than ‘death, gun range.’ Poppin’ a cap in a piece of paper has long been a Florida pastime, but a recent rash of murders, suicides and combinations thereof around town have added an extra element of danger to what is…
Fall Guide: A yank in the wake
If you can’t manage to pull your scrawny ass up on those two worthless twigs on my wide board,’ says the voice on the other end of the cellular tether, ‘then you are only one thing: pathetic.’ It’s the gloating ‘ooh-rah’ braggadocio inherent to extreme sports — one that serves the dual purpose of catalyzing…
Fall Guide 2010
Remember fun? There was a time when it was a huge part of our lives. It used to make our adrenaline pump and our hearts race and our bodies feel alive. It often took place outdoors, and for some reason, it was always best when served with a mild to moderate dose of danger. That…
Your mild ED is not The Event
Well, whaddaya know? Even with The Big Bang Theory moving to Thursdays, it looks like I’m going to be staying home on Monday nights after all. And for better reasons than, you know, not having any genuine social options to speak of anyway. The Event — Currently, this show’s main function in society is to…
