‘Black’ snack attack
I trust that, if you’re reading this, you’ve experienced an obnoxious moviegoer or two in your time. We all have, and we’ve all dealt with them in our own ways — hopefully, none nearly as rash as the methods of a 27-year-old Latvian man who felt a 42-year-old audience member had been chewing his popcorn…
Because you’re older than you think: Classic-rock station 96.5 now includes grunge.
From the I’ll Alert My Sirius Programmer files: Local “classic-rock” station WHTQ 96.5-FM has just announced that their library of oldies like AC/DC and Zeppelin will now include music from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP and even (shudder) the Offspring. Remember that era like it was yesterday? Welllll it wasn’t. Here’s another reminder. Sigh. Thanks, guys.…
“Join the Family” with Fairwinds newly-announced 2011-2012 Broadway Across America Series
The singing witches of Wicked return to Orlando’s Bob Carr next Wednesday (Feb 23), marking the midway point of Fairwinds 2010/2011 Broadway Across America season with an extended month-long run of Stephen Schwartz’s super-successful Wizard of Oz spin-off. We’ve still got Shrek The Musical in May and HAIR in June to look forward to, but…
What’s new(ish) in utterly mainstream comics
Batman and Robin # 20 – Despite a friend’s warnings that Peter J. Tomasi is one of the worst writers in comics, I gambled on this one anyway, mostly since it now seems that a radically transformed Middle East will precede the release of Batman Inc. #3. (Not only is DC “drawing the line at…
No Anti-Pop for the Spring. Maybe Fall?
When the time for Anti-Pop 2010 came and went last fall without, well, an Anti-Pop festival to speak of, organizer John Youngman’s optimism for a Spring 2011 date felt like more of a necessary salve than a promise. Turns out, that much was true. I asked John, “Hey, uh, it’s Spring 2011, pretty much. Can…
UCF TV welcomes Ebert Presents At the Movies! TONIGHT!
Fellow cinephiles knew our pain as we watched Roger Ebert’s post-Lyons revival of At the Movies get so warmly received virtually everywhere else in the country without getting to see for ourselves. Sure, it’s been posted online, piecemeal, but until my DVR has the words “Ebert” in its clutches, something seemed, well, wrong. That’s soon…
Local outsider-rocker Ray Brazen offers LP as free download this month only
The ever-quirky Ray Brazen, Orlando’s own Daniel Johnston of sorts, is offering his latest album (The Amazin’ Brazen) as a free download this month only. Yes, he’s the guy who wrote that interesting “local smash hit” about Wendy Chioji several years ago (“Wendy Chioji Please Don’t Goji”). Cop it here: http://raybrazen.webng.com/amazinbrazen
UPDATE: DJ Evil Dee (of Beatminerz) replacing Pete Rock at Back Booth!
Apparently, this is a firm greenlight!
Southern Fried Sundays find new home at Will’s!
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Southern Fried Sundays, the BBQ-‘n-music tradition formerly of Copper Rocket has moved to Will’s Pub! It returns March 20 with Riverbottom Nightmare Band, the Flat Mountain Band and the Silver Fleece. 5:30pm, $5. Sweet! From the press release: Southern Fried Sunday is proud to announce that on March…
Foreign Film Alert: Patiala House opens Friday
The Bollywood cricket movie Patiala House starts a one week engagement at the Touchstar Colonial Promenade 6 (map+info) tomorrow, Friday the 17th. The father-son sport drama stars Akshay Kumar as talented cricket bowler whose hardline father refuses to let him play for an English cricket team because of racist abuse he had had to deal…
South Florida farmworkers return to Orlando to campaign, protest against Publix
If you’re not doing anything around 7 o’clock tonight and want to know what’s going on in the world of agricultural activism, head over to Stardust Video & Coffee, where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their allies will be hosting a screening of the seminal 1960 documentary “Harvest of Shame.” The Edward Murrow film…
Pete Rock at Back Booth? Nah, son.
Although it’s still on the Back Booth website, I’ve learned that Pete Rock is definitely not playing our town on that date or any other. It seemed too good to be true from the moment it was announced. First of all, the venue’s booker, Chris Anderson, didn’t book it. Rather, well-known local DJ Y-Not tried…
Hot corner: Locals flock to Rincon Cubano for down-home cooking
Rincon Cubano Cafeteria 3327 N. Forsyth Road, Winter Park 407-679-5600 $ We have Che Guevara to thank. If the revolutionary icon hadn’t fought that final battle in Maria Alfonso’s home town of Santa Clara, Cuba, back in 1958, there might never have been a mass exodus of Cubans to the United States, and our palates…
Down The Road
Brad Paisley, Feb. 24 at Amway Center•Crooked Fingers, Feb. 25 at Will’s Pub•Cedric The Entertainer, Feb. 25 at Improv Comedy Club & Dinner Theatre•The Gipsy Kings, Feb. 25 at Hard Rock Live• The Expendables, Feb. 26 at The Social•David Garrett, Feb. 26 at Hard Rock Live•Marnie Stern, Feb. 27 at Back Booth•Bright Eyes, Mar. 3…
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Happytown
The week that the county squashed the city’s “arts” dream, Maitland wondered what art was, cops and firemen got angry and Full Sail became a full male
Burrow Press releases collection of short stories
Fragmentation + Other Stories features work of Florida writers
I Am Number Four
Wooden stars hurt a worthy, entertaining potential franchise
Savage Love
I am a straight man. From high school through college and after, I loved me some women.
Bills, bills, bills
Ten of the more ridiculous statutory attempts hitting the Florida legislature this session
1934: A New Deal for Artists
Mennello showcases paintings from Depression-era Public Works of Art Program
Live Active Cultures
Some people like to sleep until the afternoon on the weekends, while others wake up before dawn to do power yoga.
No end to Chinese drywall woes
Property owners have no choice but wait until lawsuits wend their way through court system
Pride and Prejudice
Orlando Shakes puts on staged performance of wildly popular Jane Austen novel
Rotation: What Local Artists are Listening to
This week: MRENC
Barney’s Version
Paul Giamatti proves too good for his crew in mismanaged showcase
Georgia metacore band the Chariot says no to studio tricks
Vocalist Josh Scogin on Norma Jean, Long Live and the importance of being live
This Little Underground
Although they’re pop in sensibility, local a cappella ensemble Yella! landed on a legit hip-hop bill featuring Rhymesayers recording artist Blueprint and the return of dope open-mic rap jam Vocalization
Free Will Astrology
Taste a rainbow of Chinese, Malay, Viet and Indian street food
Still don’t know who Arcade Fire Is? Find out, cheap.
That band that no one in the world had heard of until this weekend, Arcade Fire, have put their Grammy winning album The Suburbs on sale after their shock-shock-shock-eh Grammy win this weekend. Now you can know more than Rosie O’Donnell! Imagine. For a limited time, the weird Canuck band have decided to put the…
“Born” yesterday
So the backlash has begun: Gaga’s “Born This Way” has been met with a disappointed chorus of “Heavens to murgatroid” from her own fanbase. The most brazen swipe? It’s too gay – or, to be more precise, too condescending in its attempt at To Kill a Mockingbird-style outsider ingratiation. (This despite Gaga’s claim that she’s…
Criterion Now on Hulu (Updated)
So, yesterday we reported Criterion’s may release slate, which included their second Charlie Chaplin release, The Great Dictator. In that blog, I went ahead an openly wished for Criterion to release City Lights as well. And today, kind of shockingly, they did. On Hulu, in streaming HD. They released The Kid too. (No Brighter Summer…
