NBA players balk at seven-digit salaries; no All-Star game for Orlando?
It was only the first day of the new year, but the Orlando Sentinel’s resident “Magic Insider” Brian Schmitz was already looking ahead to the next one, postulating that the Magic and the Amway Arena might miss their place in the spotlight–that is, hosting the 2012 NBA All-Star Game–due to a “looming” lockout between NBA…
“Everything Is So Great” by MRENC is Some Kind of Awesome
It’s always great when local music gets love outside our ZIP code, and the blog-smooch that the folks over at Some Kind of Awesome gave to our very own MRENC today was pretty sweet. Seems that his new tune, “Everything Is So Great” – which he’s giving away for free right now – helped the…
The Return of Vocalization
This is where I roll out some sort of “Don’t call it a comeback” line, right? Because something like that would not only celebrate the resilience of the scene that Vocalization nights represent, but it would also make it seem like classic hip-hop lines just roll off my tongue at will. (When, in fact, I’d…
Awesome Festival Announced! (and it’s in four days)
Filed under “Appropriately Short Notice”: The Two-Piece Band Mini-Fest. It’s going down at Will’s Pub on Thursday. Yes, this Thursday. And yes, it’s a bill consisting entirely of two-piece bands. (And a lonely comedian.) You always knew that Will’s was the place to catch bands consisting of two or fewer people; this pretty much just…
Yip-Yip steals “Been Caught Stealing,” makes awesome video as evidence
Hoo-boy. Happy New Year from the electro-miscreants in Yip-Yip! They went and covered Jane’s Addiction’s super-duper-overplayed-but-still-sorta-classic “Been Caught Stealing” and the results are … dizzying. The video is also appropriately appropriating. Check it out: [youtube 4zJeWWS4hWI] The track is also available as a free download from the duo’s Bandcamp page.
Studebaker Hawk releases free Christmas album on Christmas Day
Christmas albums are a weird and wonderful thing, and this year, local indie rockers Studebaker Hawk put one out that is … well, at the very least, it fits the “weird” part. The band released Studachristmas Wonderhawk Dead Sun Danceathon for free via Bandcamp on Christmas Day. You know, the very last possible minute that anyone…
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Live Music Tonight [New Year’s Eve]
So, you’ve been telling yourself tonight is Amateur Night and you’re just gonna stay home … until you realize HOLY CRAP IT’S NEW YEARS EVE I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. Well, if you’re willing to brave the bad drivers and the twice-a-year drunks, there are actually a few worthwhile things going on tonight that don’t…
Best films 2010: Honorable Mentions
Check out OW’s Top 10 Movies here. View William Goss’ Honorable Mentions here. Let me first say that this year has been an absolute pleasure at the movies. Not always, of course (*shakes fist* JOAQUIIIIIINNNN!!!!), but more often than not I found myself impressed with the state of things. Then again, I’m impressed any time…
The rest of the best
So Sir Strout and I have finally revealed our best-of lists for the year in film, and as promised, here are my picks for honorable mentions: 11) Buried — This terrifically claustrophobic thriller may have received a theatrical release equal to its title (although Orlando clung on to it for a remarkable four weeks), but…
Savage Love
I really need some help and comfort.
Cheap dates
Places to ring in the New Year for less than $25
Lust for life
The lone Mills Park holdout looks for a way out
Champagne taste, beer budget
Sparkle plenty this New Year’s Eve
Live Active Cultures
Top 10 arts and culture events of 2010
Four Lions
British farce takes a nyuk-nyuk look at Islamic extremists
Face time
The best movies of 2010
My Dog Tulip
If there must be dog movies, at least there’s New Yorker Films
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed,” said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011. From what I can tell, it will be relatively easy for you to rearrange the way things look, but trickier to transform them from the inside out. You…
The ghostwriter
Vince Neil’s literary accomplice explains himself
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu hangs out his annual Undies awards for the best and worst in local music this year
No more Mr. Nice Guy
A last hurrah for fake pot
It was the best of times
In some cases, it was also the worst of times. A look back at the year in local theater and art
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much ado about dogs How is it that the Friends of Fleet Peeples Park, which acts in the interests of dog park supporters, had an amicable and cooperative relationship with the city of Winter Park until the membership on the Winter Park Board of Commissioners changed two and a half years ago? FFPP volunteers helped support…
Happytown
Looking back in anger, looking forward to no performing arts center and looking out for trigger-happy cops!
Grayson for President!
We bet you thought you’d read the last installment of What’s Up With Alan?™, our attempt to keep you up to date on the comings and goings of Orlando’s favorite (outgoing) congressman, Alan Grayson! Wrong! Politics Daily reports that Grayson, the “master of the outrageous sound bite, and perhaps the most reviled member of the House,”…
