Local artist/innovator Doug Rhodehamel says he’s preparing 700 mushrooms for planting at this weekend’s Camelia Show at Leu Gardens. That’s a lot of brown paper bags to be twisted! How does he keep his hands so soft?
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Both the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association swear that Kate Winslet played a supporting role in The Reader. So who was the lead in that picture — Hitler?   Here are the results of the current Hollywood baldie watch. Don Cheadle: looks OK with no hair; Ralph Fiennes: eewww!;...
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Playwrights’ Round Table took off Thursday night with a stronger-than-average lineup of new scripts for their annual “Launch” showcase.  8pm tonight at Theater Downtown is your last chance to catch seven original shorts, each of which is set in or themed around “work”.  Here are my quick takes on the plays:   Al Lit...
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I’ve just watched Heath Ledger win a posthumous Critics Choice Award as Best Supporting Actor, and I guess a sane man’s reaction would be to see it as part of a groundswell. A bunch of critics’ awards, a Golden Globe nom … it all looks like a perfect storm leading to an Academy Award,...
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There’s probably nobody alive today who can light a movie like Janusz Kaminski. Long the heir apparent to the cinematography throne held for an era by Conrad L. Hall, Kaminski assumed the throne after Hall’s death in ’03. And man, does power go to your head quickly. Last year, the Polish immigrant graciously accepted...
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For three not-terribly-memorable weeks back in the day, this column was called “Get Dirty,” with the express intention of forcing you lazy cowards out of your comfort zones and into the waiting arms of muddy Central Florida events. It’s a new year. You’ve been clean long enough.   Beginning Bird Watching Tours Take a...
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Sometimes when the market speaks, it can be soooo funny. Movie distributors are learning that lesson slowly but surely recently thanks to pirate cine-terrorist and friend of the broke, Axxo. Axxo isn’t a person or a company, it’s the handle of a seriously “inside” man within the film industry who occasionally posts torrents (read:...
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Hey, remember all of that holiday-season advertising that made it sound as if not upgrading to Blu-ray made you not only a Luddite, but downright un-American? Well, with the Consumer Electronics Show about to get underway, industry consultants and rental partners like Netflix are admitting that the vaunted heir apparent to DVD is just...
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Item #1: SeaWorld raised its price to $74.95 for one-day admission. As reported in the Orlando Business Journal, that’s 5 cents lower than the No. 1 and No. 2 attractions. “Both Walt Disney World and Universal Studios raised their ticket prices in August. The new ticket price hike puts the park just under Disney’s...
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Folks, it’s one of those announcements that needs way less of an introduction than I’m going to give it. Since the reopening of Will’s Pub, there has been one question on the lips of a certain moody, self-indulgent, self-righteous population in this town: When is Speakeasy coming back? Speakeasy was voted the Best Open...
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