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A sea-saw affair
Pesca makes a play to position itself as the big fish downtown
Hit like a girl
Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut rolls on steady wheels
We the sheeple
Michael Moore returns to his blue-collar roots
Layman’s Troma
A zombie B-movie for people who hate B-movies
Lovable liar?
Ricky Gervais coats the ultimate truth in a sweet facade
Delicate but potent nostalgia
Adventures of Buzz and Woody donâ??t need new technology to stand out
Culture 2 Go
Explosive comedy The Big Bang Through Oct. 11 at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, 812 E. Rollins St. 407-447-1700; www.orlandoshakes.org $20-$38 If men are from Mars and women from Venus, then Philip Nolen and T. Robert Pigott must be from another planet — if not another galaxy — given their proclivities to impersonate, at will, characters of…
Dear old D.A.D
It’s been a summer of change for the CityArts Factory, the four-story building that sits at the corner of Orange Avenue and Pine Street. And it isn’t over yet. ; Most people know CityArts Factory as the place where a glass blower can be seen hard at work through the shop’s street-front window, but that…
This Little Underground
When discussing Afro-punk many distinguished names come up, but Detroit’s Death probably isn’t one of ’em. Considering that these three brothers were bashing out proto-punk inspired by the MC5 and the Stooges back in 1973, it probably should. But somehow, time has forgotten this landmark band. That is, until dope Chicago label Drag City made…
Between brave and crazy
Wye Oak with Blitzen Trapper 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6 The Social 407-246-1419 all ages $12-$14 One doesn’t automatically expect level-headed pragmatism from the young. At the tender age of 23, Jenn Wasner already has it. The Wye Oak singer-guitarist is possessed of the sort of realist’s worldview that most don’t arrive at until staring down…
The grown-up ACLU
It’s been an awkward transition period for the Central Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, a fact evident in the demeanor of new interim board president Samir Gupte. “Before we get started, any kind of context you can give on the purpose to give us a call?” he asks, settling into the chapter’s…
In the air tonight
Vasti at ELLA Music festival 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3 Cameo Theatre 1013 E. Colonial Drive www.ellamusicfest.com all ages $10-$40 $10-$40 Out here in a planned community at the border of Orange and Osceola counties, in the shadow of Lake Nona, everything is perplexingly bipolar: Bulls and horses graze at the edge of fields that…
A spoonful of desi
15th annual beyond bollywood: the south Asian film festival; Saturday-Monday, Oct. 3-5;Enzian Theater;407-629-0054; www.enzian.org ; $10-$35 ;;; The last 12 months have seen so much Slumdog Millionaire fascination that the pseudo-Bollywood fairy tale has infiltrated culture to the point that the fate of the kid actors from the film has “Potential International Incident” written on…
Savage Love
About a month ago, I got drunk and slept with my friend’s girlfriend. (He’s not my best friend, more of a second-tier friend.) We both swore never to tell anyone and left it at that. Only problem is, we’ve been hanging out a lot lately and sending private messages to each other multiple times a…
Blister
God, I’m ugly naked. Wincing back from the reflective glass on the back of a dusty closet door, there’s this sad patchwork of cartoonish distortion: a ribcage keyboard that plays only sad notes in minor keys, knocking knuckles and ankles and knees tied together by the leathery sag of stubbly skin. There’s an odd marionette…
Happytown
The fact that the health-care issue has lingered in the political spit-o-sphere so long that it no longer even resembles itself is enough to turn even the most jaded polemicist’s stomach. Are you sick of it yet? Well, then, you may have been among the 50 or so rabble-rousers in attendance Sept. 22 for the…
Police Beat
Sept. 9 ; (2009-429225) 9:01 a.m.: Orlando has some of the greatest crimes of all time. This dude, for example, managed to climb a 12-foot electrified fence in his glorious quest to snag 34 airbags from an auto auction dealership. ; (2009-429362) 10:44 a.m.: For the second time in two days, a bad guy broke…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Is the electron a wave or a particle? Physicists had to conduct thousands of experiments to arrive at the definitive answer, which is that it’s both. In other words, the solution to one of the fundamental questions about the nature of reality is a paradox. The correct response to many other…
Live Active Cultures
Writing this column has its perks, but none better than the treatment afforded the media at the annual opening of Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights. Big props to Kristen Clark and all of Tom Schroder’s PR team for throwing a first-rate party. Thanks to them, I got to fulfill my dream of eating sushi and sliders…
The people vs. Ezra
Better Than Ezra; 5:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, and Thursday, Oct. 8; Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, 407-939-3378; all ages; free with park admission For a few years in the last half of the ‘90s, it was impossible to listen to any alt-rock or Top 40 radio station in the…
