Central Florida’s contemporary art galleries are humming and buzzing with new exhibits that reflect on identity, femininity, grief and our natural world. At Mills Gallery, abstract painter Kristy Lee presents a new show titled “Vulnerable and Raw: The Feminine Foundation” with an opening reception on Nov. 3. Inside the Casselberry Sculpture House, “Common Threads” incorporates the work of ...
American Idol is like a rash on the body of American pop culture that no ointment can cure.I mean, are we supposed to believe that David Cooke Cook was the best undiscovered singer in the country? No offense to the Cookies, as the devoted fans of
American Idol is giving me some serious mixed messages, PopWatchers. On the one hand, I step away from CBS Television City for three weeks, and Michael Johns and Carly Smithson both get handed the semi-regular Jennifer Hudson No Prize, events that severely shake my enthusiasm for this year’s season and force a good friend to repudiate Idol altogether. On the other, while I was gone, Kristy Lee Cook also won the Sanjaya Malakar No Prize, which coaxed our beloved Idolatry producer Jason Averett