At the risk of sounding like a lefty cliché, I love me a good boycott. I love it when progressive groups boycott a supermarket chain over the exploitation of its produce growers. I love it when women’s groups boycott businesses that advertise on misogynist hate radio. And I even love it when fundamentalist Christians...
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The George W. Bush Library opens tomorrow. And there’s actually more to the story than the chance for another joke about oxymorons. Last Saturday’s New York Times included a sneak preview of the library (full name: The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum) that offered some interesting tidbits about the place. For one thing,...
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Frost/Nixon co-director John DiDonna has just announced that a special talkback session will follow the Monday, April 22, performance of the show at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center. The guest will be Orlando Weekly’s very own me, discussing the perils and pitfalls of historical fiction. If you read my review of the play, you know I...
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You know the unemployment crisis is ongoing when we can’t even be sure there’s a job for Superman. The big guy turned 75 this week, just two days after the world saw the final trailer for his upcoming, make-or-break cinematic reboot, Man of Steel. And it isn’t only Time Warner that’s wondering if that world...
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She may not have planned it this way, but Ashley Judd has just proven that there are indeed still meaty roles for actresses. You know, roles like “The Forgotten Woman.” And “The Basket Case.” For about five minutes this week, the big news story was the smear campaign Mitch McConnell intended to wage against...
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Some fields die a little bit every time one of their avatars passes away. Rock and roll, for example, lumbers closer to extinction whenever another of its stars of the ’50s, ’60s or ’70s leaves this mortal plane (increasingly, of natural causes). For 20 or so years now, that genre has simply failed to...
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I’m sure I’m not the only one to have noticed how wickedly appropriate it is for Lincoln to come out on DVD and Blu-ray the same day the Supreme Court considers Proposition 8. The irony could be grasped quite easily at The Howard University School of Law, whose amicus brief against Prop 8 pointed out...
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You may not have heard, but a revolution might just be brewing in the way movies get made. Fans are turning to the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to bankroll feature films based on some of their favorite properties. A Veronica Mars movie passed its $2 million target after just 10 hours; no one knows how much...
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We like to consider ourselves the pro-science bunch, but we progressives sure can be quick to spurn a fact when it threatens to give us a sad. Exhibit A: Back in February, Connecticut State Representative Ernest Hewett landed in hot water after he made a supposedly off-color comment to a teenage girl who was...
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Have you heard? It’s time to get off social media. Because David Bowie says so. Okay, he hasn’t actually said that. But it’s what’s being inferred by people who make it their business to overthink his motives while underthinking his music. And would they steer us wrong? Last week, the excitement over Bowie’s unexpected...
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Food & Drink - Staff Picks BOO 2012: Best attention-grabber beverage Beet & green apple juice from Café 118 7/18/2012