Nothing kicks off summer better than a festival packed with music, art and film. What's even better is a festival that doesn't require driving a million miles to stand in some desolate field for a concert where your seats make the performers look like ants.
Thanks in no small part to the success of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises, there seems to be a fair glut of fantasy films unspooling before audiences since the turn of the millennium. In all fairness, since the turn of the millennium, the world's turmoil begs for escapist entertainment more than ever, and so forth come the wands and wizards to wish it all away, if only for an hour or three.
Orlando artist Keith Theriot paints expressionist stream-of-consciousness art using his own HIV-positive blood to create form and perspective. He uses his personal experience and his experience as a social worker in charge of housing and case management for people with HIV and AIDS as inspiration.
Creating music is a tangible form of self expression that grants musicians the freedom to exercise their passion. For K-G and The Band, their music is the all-encompassing culmination of each member's life experiences and diverse culture is strung together by notes and words, creating powerful and poetic melodies.
Lines of black-and-denim clad metal heads wrapped around the small St. Petersburg block. There I stood, at the gates of Jannus Landing, awaiting the Legions of the Chosen Few Tour outdoor show - my fourth metal show in three days. That night, Keep of Kalessin, Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir took the stage.
My diligent readers, of which I have none, will recall that last fall I wrote a column titled "The Dryer Side" in the Central Florida Future (look for it lining your birdcage!). Unfortunately, I had to stop writing my highly-esteemed column because, artistically, it was no longer up to my standards.
Over the course of the past three decades, actor Richard Jenkins has merited a fair amount of acclaim for his work in supporting roles, from the comedic - Me, Myself & Irene, the upcoming Step Brothers - to the dramatic - North Country, The Kingdom - to the unintentionally comedic - The Core.