Sherdes Leona’s Unfinished Business
Sherdes Leona is a powerhouse. An Orlando native, woman of color, and member of the LGBTQ+ community, this poet and photographer has a story to share. This month she’ll get a chance to speak her truth on an international stage. On March 15, Leona will Read More …
Nomads
Driving west on 98 towards 441, I did a loop through Pahokee and Belle Glade. It’s not the fastest way back from Ft. Lauderdale to Orlando, and that didn’t matter. It’s one of the most interesting ways, and that did matter. The area felt foreign Read More …
Chakra Khan
Alexandra Love Sarton and DiViNCi have long, overlapping musical histories here in Orlando. They both co-founded the hip-hop quartet Solillaquists of Sound, and more recently formed a duo working under the band name Chakra Khan. They appeared on my WPRK radio show, Zero Crossings, on Read More …
Becky Flanders: Universes as They Could Be
With an academic background in artificial life and digital arts, Becky Flanders’ approach to her artistic practice borrows the “life-as-it-might-be” paradigm of artificial life’s philosophical modeling, deciphering the most essential processes of life and implementing them in new situations—confrontational images of the human body, ambiguously Read More …
March Publisher’s Note
Though we Floridians endured a hyperbolically long and brutal winter, we can rest assured that it has come to an end. With the change in seasons comes transformation. Fiction writer A.C. Crispin once wrote, “Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the Read More …
In All the Right Places: Jim Leatherman
Jim Leatherman is a local photographer who has captured the performances of musicians for over 30 years. Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., and so many more national and local acts grace his portfolio. But he doesn’t just snap spontaneous pictures like so many of us Read More …
Florida Polytechnic University
It looks like the sunbleached exoskeleton of a giant space bug crouching by the side of I-4. USF Polytechnic’s first building is a singularity, designed by Spanish artist-architect Santiago Calatrava. Famous for his heroic, lacy bridges and public structures throughout the world, Calatrava’s signature style Read More …
The American Life of Bo Bartlett
At first glance, Bo Bartlett‘s work doesn’t look like anything new. His large canvases are filled with the crisp realism of Edward Hopper, the small-town iconography of Norman Rockwell, and the vibrancy and luminism of George Caleb Bingham. Yet, Bartlett brings it all together to Read More …
At Freehand Goods
One of the best things about Orlando is the support the community has for local businesses. There are so many places where you can find unique, handmade items right here in your hometown. One of these hidden gems is Freehand Goods. With a location now Read More …
Chris Carr: Reflections of the Surreal in the Mundane
There is a reason why terms like “corporate drone” and “cog in the machine” exist. They are the result of the mundane routine of everyday life that can sometimes be too much to bear. Add to that the hopeless feeling of working for nameless billionaires Read More …
