Ends: Good news for stargazers
The Crosby Observatory at the Orlando Science Center will be open for viewing 5-9 p.m. on the first and third Saturdays of the month, from Oct. 3-Feb. 2. They also do the Sunwatch 3-5 p.m. on first Saturdays, Sept.-May. I saw Jupiter when I was there recently for Cocktails & Cosmos, which, I have to…
In the cough
Jane Campion returns with a chaste and boring love affair
Finger walking with the ghosts
Rock’s greatest vets bound by frets
Southern accent
Apopka’s Highland Manor blends gourmet and down-home flair
Full of Grace
Documentary makes the case that being the devil is an occupation
Fall Guide 2009 – Sports and Recreation
The other Disney Summer really isn’t the best time to take a hike at the Disney Wilderness Preserve in Kissimmee. You’ll likely have the 12,000-acre swath of restored Central Florida ecosystems pretty much to yourself, but that’s because the sun will beat mercilessly down on your head and the trails might just be underwater. But…
Blister
It’s as if this is how it was always meant to be, only with marinara on the side. There’s the clink-clank of unmatched dinner plates against the spotty forks of mass digestion, some green plastic vines on the wall collecting dust and skin detritus, jaundiced carnations browning in their dingy vases half-full of yesterday’s water,…
DVDs Nuts!
Away We Go Director Sam Mendes has tackled dysfunctional American families plenty of times before – American Beauty, Revolutionary Road – but never with the light touch he has in this look at a couple (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) on the brink of parenthood and in search of a place to call home. Written by…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Jonathan Lee Riches is renowned for filing numerous lawsuits in U.S. courts. Some of his targets are actual living people, like Martha Stewart, George W. Bush and Steve Jobs. But he has also gone after defendants like Nostradamus, Che Guevara, the Eiffel Tower, the ex-planet Pluto, the Holy Grail, the Appalachian…
Savage Love
You are known far and wide ; as an arbiter of all aspects and definitions of sex, so we are hoping that you can give your opinion on an interesting conundrum. ; My wife and I were recently regaling each other with anecdotes from our past, and she easily had the most interesting story: It…
Happytown
While you were sleeping off that downtown hangover, hoping to wake up in a city that offered more than one thoroughfare of Bright Lights, Big City distraction, somebody went ahead and put a cherry on top of stagnation and called it progress. Last week, the city of Orlando was honored with two “awards of distinction”…
Council Watch
Like most perfunctory opening acts, this week’s city council dry-hump lacked that hint of intensity required to maintain a sense of things getting done. Late September can only mean one thing in these beige chambers of echoing yeses, after all, and that one thing is the city’s dwindling budget. A 5:01 p.m. second hearing of…
Live Active Cultures
Orlando’s artistic seasons run in reverse to the usual ecology: hibernating in the summer, flowering in the fall. And if you attended Sept. 19’s Red Chair Affair (the last I stage-managed, after several years of service), you know there’s a big crop coming up this harvest time. Here’s a sampling from my personal schedule of…
This Little Underground
Too much mileage to cover this week for a cute intro, so let’s jam. The beat In another truly memorable event organized by local shakers Pat Greene and Greg Leibowitz, acclaimed American guitarist Jack Rose (Sept. 13, Stardust Video and Coffee) was brought in for an arresting performance. As a true picker, he maximizes the…
Off to the races again
The first time Earl Greyhound played Orlando, it was a somewhat inauspicious event. The Brooklyn power trio found themselves added at the last minute to a festival show dedicated to local bands and wound up slotted to play the first set of the night before a crowd that could have been counted on two hands…
Culture 2 Go
Feed hope now; Portraits of Hunger Showcase; 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 at Eden Bar; 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland ; 407-295-1066; www.feedhopenow.org; Free; bring food donations ; These three words, “Feed hope now,” are what you need to remember in order to plug into the new fundraising efforts at Second Harvest Food Bank of Central…
Fall Guide 2009
Feel that? That morning a couple of days ago that didn’t feel like a slap in the face with a wet towel when you walked out the door? Around here we call that fall, and it is the time of year when you start to remember why you live in Florida. The summer crowds are…
Fall Guide 2009 – Music
Think locally, rock globally While this summer was a sweltering petri dish of petulance over insurance corporations, their stranglehold on our health-care system and the batshit crazies who love them (and just love shouting in general), the fall season, with Obama’s planned China summit to hammer out a global warming deal, promises to bring with…
Fall Guide 2009 – Events
Finding frights Got that déjà vu feeling again? That sense that you passed the exact same ‘scare’-acter last year? You did. Hollywood and the theme parks have exhausted the formula. Fortunately, this town gets into Samhain like no other. There are plenty of places to go for the macabre if you’re not afraid to wander…
Fall Guide 2009 – Visual Arts
Photo Finish This fall brings three outstanding photography exhibits to Central Florida. At Winter Park’s Cornell Fine Arts Museum, André Kertész: On Reading, up through Jan. 3, 2010, is a massive collection of more than 100 prints by celebrated photojournalist Kertész. Depictions of book lust, from a sunbathing reader on a New York rooftop to…
Fall Guide 2009 – Performing Arts
Stimulus packages for the arts By the end of last year’s art season, there were deep discounts offered to fill the empty seats that plagued arts groups. This season, there are incentives to help arts fans fund their fix. The good news is that offering discounts really works. At Theatre Downtown, veteran owners Frank and…
Fall Guide 2009 – Civics
The mayoral horse race There are a bevy of candidates vying for Orange County mayor next year — the primary is Aug. 24, and the general election is Nov. 2 — and all of them think they’ll win, but most are deluding themselves. And a year out, we’re willing to take bets on who the…
