http://www.orlandoweekly.com/ Recent Orlando Weekly Content. en-us Copyright 2009 Orlando Weekly http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13604 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13603 Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny. ARIES (March 21-April 19) "A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. I hope you will have many such days in the coming weeks. In fact, I hope that you'll be blessed over and over again with the hair-raising thrill of havi... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13602 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/story.asp?id=13601 This Little Underground by Bao Le-Huu. This year's Anti-Pop Music Festival had a distinctly different tenor than any of the previous ones. The bad news for the fifth annual chapter is that it was the flattest yet in terms of national talent. However, the organizers get a bit of a recession pass on this, as do all the other local... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=13596 Live Active Cultures by Seth Kubersky. 'Tis the season again already? I confess I'm one of those schmucks standing astride the calendar shouting, "Stop!" Call me a Scrooge, a stick-in-the-mud, a stiff-necked Semite. But I miss the days when the Xmas season didn't start until after Santa's sleigh slid down Sixth Avenue on Thanksgi... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13585 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13584 Council Watch by Billy Manes. Only nine days earlier, on Nov. 6, the city – and for a moment, the nation, at least on the cable news crawls – bore witness to a cacophony of gunfire that shut down downtown, so this week's city council meeting would have to be a very special episode of Growing Pains. Well, sort of. Each co... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13582 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13581 Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny. ARIES (March 21-April 19) A whitewash happens when you use deceit to cover up the facts about a situation. A blackwash is just the opposite: It's when you invoke candor as you reveal complications that have previously been veiled. The coming weeks will be prime time to enjoy a jubilee of black... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13580 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/story.asp?id=13579 This Little Underground by Bao Le-Huu. Black alternative culture is a quintessentially American but criminally overlooked experience, a condition that the Afro-punk scene is trying to change. And the first tour of the NYC-based Afro-Punk Festival (Nov. 5, the Social) was the most significant music event of the week, and possibly t... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=13577 Live Active Cultures by Seth Kubersky. Any city can slap together a silent auction and hors d'oeuvres and call it a gala. But where else can you stand beneath a life-size dinosaur skeleton with loincloth-clad staff hovering as you sift sand for a diamond ring? Or bid on a date with the "Renowned Margot Knight of United Arts" ("Val... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13571 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13570 Police Beat by Jeffrey C. Billman. Oct. 26 (2009-508882) 12:30 p.m.: Over to you, Officer Thomas: "Victim notified 911 ref to observing an individual riding his bicycle which he reported stolen last week." (2009-509430) 7:16 p.m.: Here in my new digs, in the land of the steak hoagie (wit' Whiz!), the mere thought of enter... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13568 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13567 Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny. ARIES (March 21-April 19) There was a time when wetlands were considered dismal and unproductive. At best they were thought to be a waste of space, at worst stinky breeding grounds for insect pests. For over 200 years, marshes, bogs and swamps were filled with dirt and transformed into places... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13566 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/story.asp?id=13565 This Little Underground by Bao Le-Huu. Looking good so far, Magic, looking good. Keep beatin' that ass all day long. The beat Anyone who knows anything about entertainment in this city knows lounge act Mark & Lorna. And everyone who knows 'em, loves 'em. They're legendary, inimitable even (though it's been rumored th... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/dining/story.asp?id=13560 On The Side by Courtney Gilmartin. Farmers markets are a dime a dozen in Central Florida, with weekend markets popping up everywhere from Maitland to Waterford Lakes. The newest kid on the block is located at Knights Plaza at the UCF Arena. However, unlike most local markets that seem more like craft fairs, selling tchotchk... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=13559 Live Active Cultures by Seth Kubersky. As much as I enjoy the Halloween season (and its endless supply of column material), by the time Oct. 31 finally rolls around I've had more than my fill of fake blood and fog fluid. Even the high-end haunted houses all start to look pretty much the same after a while. That's why I'm happy I en... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13554 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13553 Police Beat by Jeffrey C. Billman. Oct. 23 (2009-503761) 7:26 a.m.: Officer Williams has some issues with verb tense: "On the above listed date and time, unknown suspect(s) gain entry into the business by knocking a hole in the north side wall of the business. The suspect(s) first gain entry through an adjacent vacant busines... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13552 Council Watch by Billy Manes. So a Catholic priest walks into a municipal meeting and has nothing to say other than some generalization about the city council being "our rock." What does he do? He reads from the agenda aloud: Thank you, Lord, for "business and financial services, for economic development, for parks and rec... Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13549 Comments . Time to wean Michelle Gienow: Good idea, but we do better ["SOLE food," Oct. 22]. No mammal should drink mammal milk after its mom weans the little one. Ms. Gienow has swallowed the dairy propaganda. Many humans are deathly allergic to cow milk, whether it costs $7 per gallon or half that.... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13548 Police Beat by Jeffrey C. Billman. Oct. 2 (2009-468202) 7:47 a.m.: The week's first criminal mastermind broke into a U-Haul center and stole a "high-speed buffer" and pads. Be on the lookout for suspiciously shiny whips. (2009-468360) 9:39 a.m.: You know what's awesome about the guy who stole a radio from a 1994 Cadillac t... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13547 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=13541 Live Active Cultures by Seth Kubersky. On Oct. 18, the Orlando arts community bade a sad farewell to a beloved member who passed away. If you've attended a local theater event in the last decade – be it the Orlando Repertory Theatre, Theatre Downtown, Sleuths, Fringe or others – you were likely touched by the amazing creative spiri... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/story.asp?id=13539 This Little Underground by Bao Le-Huu. Way to go this week, locals. This is how you do it. The beat Absolutely radioactive with potential is new local band Bananafish (Oct. 22, Back Booth). This brainchild of principal Travis Reed – also of outstanding new local act the Tenant – deals in a modern brand of cloud-riding symphon... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13538 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/columns/story.asp?id=13537 Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny. ARIES (March 21-April 19) You may be as flooded with briny emotion as a Pisces on a meandering binge. You might be as embedded in a labyrinth of your own creation as the Geminis who verge on being too clever for their own good. You may be as cagey a listener as a Scorpio who's searching for a... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST