Selection Reminder: Chanukah in the Park!
Sunday, Dec. 25 – Chanukah in the Park Not only does this holiday week see illusions of a hefty, white-bearded man in a red jumpsuit hoisting presents down a chimney, but our Jewish friends also celebrate the annual gift extravaganza known as Hanukkah. Today the folks at the Chabad of Greater Orlando host one of…
Selection Reminder: Christmas Day Carillon Concerts at Bok Tower Gardens!
Sunday, Dec. 25 – Christmas Day Carillon Concerts A writer-editor by trade, Netherlands native Edward Bok delved into a bit of everything: He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author with a handful of published books, an openhanded philanthropist, an advocate for sex education, an environmental and public-health activist, and a lover of architecture. His last project,…
Christmas Crazy: Blast of Silence – Allen Barron (1961)
It’s a few days before Christmas as Frankie Bono (Allen Barron) arrives in New York on some special business. He arrives by train, born through the darkness of Penn Station’s arrival tunnel as simply “Cleveland” to the business partners he has come to meet. They don’t need to know his name, and he doesn’t need…
Selection Reminder: Christmas Eve Open House at the Morse Museum!
Saturday, Dec. 24 – Christmas Eve Open House This event is your antidote to all the Christmas-prep madness that’s consumed your soul during the past several weeks. Step inside the dimly lit lobby of the Morse Museum on Christmas Eve and let the chamber music wash away the nightmarish memories of Black Friday, Cyber Monday…
Christmas Crazy: Nothing Like the Holidays – Alfredo De Villa (2008)
In Nothing Like the Holidays, the Puerto Rican community of Chicago’s snowy (and stunning-looking) Humboldt Park is the setting for a funny and touching Christmas dramedy. Stoic Freddy Rodriguez, with an inner goodness that earns our trust, plays a scarred soldier returning to his borough from a traumatic three years in Iraq. Greeting him is a…
Homegrown Co-op membership drive (another last-minute holiday gift idea)!
Still looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for that difficult-to-buy-for foodie in your life? Well, look no further: Orlando’s own Homegrown Co-op is looking to expand — and it needs your help. The group is in the midst of a membership drive to expand its reach and to improve “access to local food,” according to…
Selection Reminder: J.J. Grey of MOFRO tonight at the reopening of Café DaVinci!
Friday, Dec. 23 – J.J. Grey of MOFRO Here we go again, folks. Café DaVinci, DeLand’s most unique spot for live music, has closed and reopened more times than we can remember (OK, three times), and while their Facebook page warns that tweaks are ongoing, this kickoff show with J.J. Grey of Mofro is a…
Christmas Crazy: The Thin Man – W. S. Van Dyke (1934)
(The Thin Man marathon is on Turner Classic Movies tonight starting at 8pm). “The next person who says Merry Christmas to me, I’ll kill them,” says a recovering Nora Charles as the well-wisher leaves the room. I know how she feels, but I could never say it with half as much charm as the sparkling…
Opening in Orlando — December 23rd-25th
The Artist — Reviewed this week. (Opens Friday.) (PG-13) The Darkest Hour — Some pretty young folks vacationing in Moscow are Earth’s best line of defense against invisible invaders who are here to steal our energy and then wipe us all off the face of the planet. Or, as Dick Cheney calls them, “my old…
Selection Reminder: Broadway Christmas 5 at Revolution!
Thursday, Dec. 22 – Broadway Christmas 5 There’s the one story of Christmas best elucidated by a certain humble cartoon character going by the name of Linus – “And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.’” Then there’s the…
Selection Reminder: Hansel and Gretel!
Thursday, Dec. 22 – Hansel and Gretel It takes on classic fairy-tale form: The story of a lost-in-the-woods brother and sister who are lured in with (what else?) candy by an evil witch and then encounter a throng of this-would-never-happen-in-real-life circumstances while trying to escape. But Richard Jones’ version of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel…
Live Active Cultures
Former skippers of Universal Orlando’s Jaws ride embark on one last voyage
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Former Thieves, Demons, MonstrO, Moon Duo, Mr. Gnome and more
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the fictional world of the wizard Harry Potter, muggles are people who have no magical powers. Because of their deficiency, certain sights may be literally invisible to them and certain places inaccessible. I’m going to boldly predict that you will lose at least some of your muggleness in the coming…
Lift off
Local label NK Tapes introduces Titusville indie beacons Flashlights
Savage Love
My sexy GGG husband and I
Five From Florida
Sunshine State literature makes for great gift-giving
Comfort and joy
Local musicians return with another collection of gorgeous Christmas carols
The squeaky wheel gets the boot
Volunteer ombudsman says he was fired for being too outspoken
The Artist
The Artist is a delightfully speechless tribute to the golden age of film
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?.
Books for cooks
Volumes of food porn, kitchen science and gastronomic philosophy that earn their place on the shelf
Happytown
All we got for Christmas were political consequences, a shiny new Tom Feeney and some elephant arthritis via Cloris Leachman. A mixed bag, then!
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Tzarizm
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Master director David Fincher leans on music-video stylistics in this disappointing adaptation
Selection Reminder: Santa Claus at Little Fish Huge Pond!
Wednesday, Dec. 21 – Santa Claus Jolly old Saint Nick is a figurehead best examined from a distance. Not only is the modern-day concept of Santa Claus a relatively new one – most of what we know of the guy came from L. Frank Baum, defunct retail store Montgomery Ward and Coca-Cola in the last…
Selection Reminder: The Art of Enemy Live Printing Event!
Wednesday, Dec. 21 – The Art of Enemy Live Printing Event XL Gallery, sister space to the other Stardust (the one near Lake Eola), has been full of Enemy Ink’s punk-inspired prints for a couple of weeks now – and will be through Jan. 5, 2012 – but tonight is something special. Owners and local…
Video: Orlando Balloon Rides launches North America’s biggest hot-air balloon
There are few things in this world I’ll wake up before 5 a.m. for. But for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness a historic first, while simultaneously crossing an item off my bucket list? Brew the coffee and sign me up! Last Thursday (12/15/11) I found myself a guest of Orlando Balloon Rides, standing on the…
Selection Reminder: Orlando Magic vs. Miami Heat tonight!
Wednesday, Dec. 21 – Orlando Magic vs. Miami Heat You know, sometimes anticipation is a bitch. You sit and wait, anxiously imagining how perfect that particular moment will be when, most times, once it’s come and gone, it only feels like a let down. We certainly hope that’s not the case when the Orlando Magic…
Christmas Crazy: Two Short Films
Today’s Christmas Crazy requires no analysis on our part (woo hoo!), it just needs you to sit back and watch these bitingly funny Christmas short films. The first of the two shorts comes from the twisted mind of celebrity chef and writer Anthony Bourdain, who re-imagines the fate of bad little boys and girls on…
