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Orlando’s oldest vintage shops and fresh new collectors style the city
Yellowed fabric quickens their pulses. A metal zipper sewn into the side of a modestly styled dress gets their hearts racing. A hand-sewn label from Taiwan dampens their palms. Orlando’s most active vintage collectors see estate sales the way adventurers see mountains they’re about to scale. And when they emerge from the clouds of dust…
RuPaul’s Drag Race vamps up the stage at Plaza Live
Condragulations, RuPaulBots! Whether you’re the most dedicated viewer of Logo TV’s drag queen competition or you’ve never seen it, this live show is sure to entertain. It helps if you’re familiar with drag conventions, though; we think it’ll be fun for the whole family, but Pop-pop might be startled by seeing a man who looks…
Taking Back Sunday show you what ‘Happiness Is’ at House of Blues
Last year, Taking Back Sunday released Happiness Is, seeming to permanently seal the fan-acclaimed decision to return to the band’s original lineup on 2011’s self-titled album by standing the test of time to become a genuine revival. So if you loved 2014’s follow-up, you likely flipped when Happiness Is: The Complete Recordings surfaced last month…
Pilobolus breaks the mold of modern dance at Dr. Phillips Center
Orlando regularly hosts national theater and music acts, but rarely national tours for modern dance fans, who should flock to the Dr. Phillips Center for Pilobolus’ first area appearance in 19 years. The troupe was founded when three non-dancers met during the 1970s in a Dartmouth modern dance class and found ways to share their…
Best take a nap so you ‘don’t get tired’ seeing Kevin Gates at Venue 578
We hope you “don’t get tired” this Saturday as Baton Rouge native Kevin Gates makes his way to Venue 578. Although Gates spends a lot of time in hip-hop headlines for his strong personality and outlandish social media commentary, his music is just as notable. Blending the New Orleans street sound with a melodic twist…
Chocolate Easter surprises abound at Uncomfortable Brunch’s screening of ‘Salo’
While religious nuts may pretend to get up in arms over the “War on Christmas,” we hear nary a marshmallow Peep out of them over the “Defanging of Easter.” For a holiday based on cannibalism, torture and the undead – in that order – modern Easter sure is cuddly: It’s become a day devoted to…
Learn the difference between an epididymis and an epidermis with Planned Parenthood Sex Trivia at Stardust Coffee
In what promises to be the best date night ever known to man (and, well, maybe woman), Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando is opening the awkward can of worms known as sexual education – see, they don’t really teach you that babies don’t come from pee-holes in school anymore – in a group-think team trivia…
Teenage Bottlerocket brings pop punk fireworks to Will’s Pub
Teenage Bottlerocket returns to Orlando to deliver some catchy tunes about heartache, longing and falling hopelessly in love. With poppy, energetic melodies packed with angst and romantic determination, it’ll incite a sweaty pit (likely fueled early on by local heroes the Attack). Heavily influenced by the Lillingtons and Screeching Weasel, Teenage Bottlerocket has been around…
Get your mind bent at Cloak and Dapper’s Evening of Magic, Mystery and Mayhem
Cloak and Dapper mens outfitter in Ivanhoe Village isn’t just a place to get your fancy beard sauces and luxuriously expensive plaid shirts – it’s also become something of a social club. The Parlor at Cloak and Dapper, a speakeasy that you can rent for events if you so choose (they provide the doorman, the…
Sean Cononie’s COSAC Foundation brings its “self-supported community run by poor people” to Polk County
There’s a story in yesterday’s Sen-Sentinel and Orlando Sentinel about a group of homeless people who were exiled from heir former home city of Hollywood, Florida. For years, they’d lived in a former nudist hotel that had been converted into a residence for the chronically homeless by an organization called the COSAC Foundation, which is led…
In the end: Indiana facing massive backlash for pro-discrimination law
To say that we are upset, distracted, troubled or hurt by the decision of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (a, gasp, Republican) for upsetting the apple cart (literally) by signing a bill into law last Thursday that allows businesses to refuse service to LGBT citizens, or anyone else, would be an understatement. We’ve already been a…
Concert pic of the week: Fleetwood Mac at Amway Center
We had the heart-in-stomach experience of losing most of our Fleetwood Mac photos to a technology failure this week, but it did nothing to diminish the memory of the incredible show, which – confusing and hilarious awful visual graphics aside – was as earth-shaking as we’d heard from the reports of the Tampa show earlier…
Google Maps shows you what Orlando would look like if it were a Pac-Man game
Today on Google Maps, you can turn maps of various city streets into a game of Pac-Man. Here’s what it’d look like if Mills 50 were your board (that yellow line on the far left is Mills Avenue): And here’s what it would look like if you played the game just above Lake Eola: Sadly,…
You can still vote for – and buy – limited-edition Disney March Magic T-shirts
For those of us who like theme parks more than basketball March can be a hard month. This year Disney is here to help by bringing a bit of theme park magic to March madness, with 32 new, limited-edition T-shirt designs going up against one another in a bracket-style competition called March Magic. The shirts…
This Little Underground: Mantar, Ad Nauseum and how Hourglass Brewery could change the north side live scene
Like Ashley Belanger reported last month in Feedback, the Hourglass Brewery has recently entered the area live-venue derby with some Saturday night shows and the latest was a metal takeover hosted by noted local heavy bookers Non-Prophet Organization and F.N. Hostile (Mar. 27). The main reason I made the trek was German two-piece Mantar, whose…
Appeals court weighs future of workers-compensation laws in Florida.
A South Florida appeals court Monday heard arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of the state’s workers-compensation insurance system —- as two other closely watched challenges also await rulings at the Florida Supreme Court. The 3rd District Court of Appeal took up a case in which a Miami-Dade County circuit judge ruled last year…
Queen of Versailles II: Jackie Siegel takes the Parliament House and a front porch
image via Instagram We’ll try to avoid too much editorializing on this one, but in addition to being politically savvy with equally politically savvy power-broker Randy Ross this weekend, he who does not like women having babies (especially Clerk of Courts Tiffany Moore Russell), on his new chat show, famous rich lady Jackie Siegel has…
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We’re all doomed: #BoycottIndiana is just the beginning of anti-gay revenge legislation [VIDEO]
Image via HRC As we verbally grimaced last week on this very blog, Indiana went for the gusto before the weekend and signed a pro-discrimination piece of shit, er, legislation that will effectively allow businesses and individuals to refuse service to serve people of a sexual orientation they don’t support. It’s just part of a…
New I-Drive Supermarket will not be a Wegman’s … it’ll be a Seabra
Today the Orlando Business Journal announced the name of the supermarket chain that will be coming to I-Drive soon, and sadly, it won’t be a Wegman’s. It’s going to be a Seabra, a New Jersey-based chain that carries various products from Brazil, Portugal, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain and other countries. Related Stories
And the winner of the 2015 Great Orlando Mixer is …
Congratulations to the winners of our Great Orlando Mixer craft cocktail competition! Last night, eight bars went head-to-head in a competition to mix the best cocktail made with St. Augustine gin as its main ingredient. Our Mixer attendees, dressed in their finest Prohibition-era garb, tasted the craft concoctions from each bar then voted for their…
This Little Underground: The King Khan & BBQ Show, Milk Lines, The Wild Tones (Will’s Pub)
It’s pretty nice to see the King Khan & BBQ Show (Mar. 23, Will’s Pub) on the comeback road with their first new album in six years (Bad News Boys). Unlike the big soul explosion of the Shrines, this two-piece project is one of the rawest but brightest dots in the sprawling King Khan galaxy.…
Snap hosts ‘Structure and Perspective’ artist talks 3 p.m. Saturday
The latest show at Snap! Space, Structure & Perspective, is a thought-provoking assemblage of work. (Read our review here.) Thirteen artists express, in various media, the anxieties and pleasures of daily life though the intersection of natural and man-made forms. Saturday, you’ll be able to meet some of the artists in the show when…
Video: An interview with U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly before he leaves for the Space Station
Today U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly will launch into space, joining Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko on a yearlong mission to the International Space Station. Kelly and Kornienko will depart the earth aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket around 3:42 p.m. About an hour ago, Kelly posted a photo of the rocket to his Instagram account (you can follow…
Dig into flavor at Flavor Farm Series dinner co-hosted by Cress and American Gymkhana
The first Flavor Farm Series Dinner is Friday, April 3, at American Gymkhana. Chefs Hari Pulapaka (Cress) and Aarthi Sampath (American Gymkhana) celebrate their Indian heritage with a five-course farm-to-table dinner, and cocktail and wine pairings come courtesy of noted mixologist Hemant Pathak and Jenneffer Pulapaka. Cost is $75 per person, or $110 with parings and a…
This Little Underground: Cobalt Cranes, Arc Pilot, Common Man (Will’s Pub)
At last night’s Orlando appearance (Mar. 25, Will’s Pub), L.A.’s Cobalt Cranes proved one of those well-built and locked-in rock bands that’s great to see and hear in action. As a robust unit with two strong singers and front presences in Tim Foley and Kate Betuel, this diamond in the Lolipop Records mine is a…
New grocery store planned for I-Drive area likely to become an attraction in and of itself
Earlier this month at the State of I-Drive event, Alejandro Pezzini of AMP Group, the parent company of Perfumeland and I-Drive’s NASCAR go-karts attraction, announced that the company is opening a grocery store on North International Drive. While it might sound like an odd location for one, the immediate area surrounding North I-Drive is technically…
Universal Studios Florida tests metal detectors at Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster
Universal Orlando sent shockwaves through theme park social media on March 25 by unexpectedly unveiling their newest experiment in guest safety. For a brief time on Wednesday morning, metal detectors were installed at the entrance of Universal Studios Florida’s Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster. Guests were screened with both walk-through scanners and wands to…
Cool video: Historical interpretations of Disney princesses
Last month, BuzzFeed did some research on the Disney princesses. Using contextual clues littered throughout the movies they starred in, BuzzFeed determined roughly what time period each princess lived in and used models to show what the princesses might have looked like if they lived in the real world rather than in animated films. BuzzFeed Motion…
UCF faculty group speaks out against guns on campus, wisely
Today, we received a message from the University of Central Florida chapter of the United Faculty of Florida regarding the move to allow concealed carriers of firearms to bring their death-makers onto campuses, because that will protect them from mass shootings, for sure. There were a couple of key points we took away from reading…
Measles case confirmed in traveler who visited Kissimmee
You can add Florida to the above map today, because this was just announced: The Florida Department of Health has confirmed measles in an adult international traveler who attended a conference in Kissimmee, Florida, at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center March 16-17, 2015. The traveler spent time in several central and south Florida…
Indiana: Not for gays anymore. Florida not far behind.
You’ll have to pardon our levity for utilizing this image of Indiana to accompany an update on something as monstrous as a pro-discrimination bill being signed into law in Indiana today, but we need something to laugh at (and we’re in love with the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). Not that anyone was expecting anything…
Grunge obsession: An alphabetical list of all the bands quoted in Nick Soulsby’s oral history of Nirvana
You can check out our review of the book here, but here’s the TL;DR of what Nick Soulsby took on in his book I Found My Friends: the Oral History of Nirvana. “I hunted down 210 members of 170 of the bands who played with Nirvana 1987-1994, three-quarters of the bands who ever played alongside Kurt…
SXSW 2015: The Loud, the Quiet and the Mind-Blowing (plus where to catch stand-out acts in Florida soon)
I overheard 100 different people rattling off 100 different reasons they came to SXSW last week in Austin, Texas. Drinking, networking, hooking up, landing a deal, doing drugs, making money, blowing off steam … But for me, it’s all about one thing: seeing as many bands in as many different venues in as short a…
Do you really want to… see Culture Club live? Aug. 16 show announced at Hard Rock Live
Legendary troublemakers who we (I) have studied for the entirety of our (my) life since the age of 11 Culture Club announced today that they would be making an appearance at the Hard Rock Live on Aug. 16. DID YOU HEAR THAT? CULTURE CLUB ARE COMING TO ORLANDO!!! Tickets are on sale April 2 at…
Nosh Pit: Avocolada Smoothie from Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Tropical Smoothie Cafe’s newest offering for spring: The Avocolada Smoothie ($4.99), a ridiculously creamy frozen smoothie that does, in fact, taste a lot like a pina colada. The primary ingredients are avocado, pineapple, spinach, kale, coconut and lime, which means it’s packed with nutrients (108 percent of your daily vitamin A, 127 percent of your…
Letters to a Satanist: Florida dropped charges against the woman who vandalized your holiday display. Any comment?
Florida recently dropped all charges against a woman who vandalized your holiday display. Do you have any comment? This past holiday season, Susan Hemeryck – dressed in a T-shirt printed with the words “Catholic Warrior” – was arrested in the Florida Capitol Rotunda as she attempted to dismantle a holiday display placed there by The…
Three books with music in their veins chart the damage isolation can do
In I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana (St. Martin’s Press, 347 pages), Nick Soulsby pulls off what’s clearly a passion project: “I hunted down 210 members of 170 of the bands who played with Nirvana 1987-1994, three-quarters of the bands who ever played alongside Kurt Cobain,” he tells me via email. It’s…
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Picks This Week: Mutilation Rites, the Ataris, Joseph Arthur and more
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Boca makes you open wide and say “hmmm”
It appears as though people are taking to Boca like a raton takes to cheese. The Tampa-based boîte that opened in the cursed space on North Park Avenue appears to be perpetually humming with dolled-up MILFs and men sporting untucked dress shirts with contrasting cuffs, designer jeans and leather drivers. How that look ever got…
Market on South to open in the Milk District, Outpost Neighborhood Kitchen opens in College Park, plus more
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The latest show at Snap! Space displays 13 artists’ takes on the tensions of daily life
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Looking for a lunchtime Guinness? The Harp has you covered
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This sweet dog is Coco (A269823), a friendly 3-year-old girl who was adopted from Orange Animal Services two years ago. She was recently returned to the shelter because her owner could no longer take care of her. Coco’s previous owner let us know that she gets along well with everyone, including children. Coco is also…
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Quote of the Week: “Indeed, lawmakers seem more inclined to listen to industry groups that had nothing to do with the Amendment 1 campaign, such as Associated Industries of Florida, than to its backers, who won the public’s endorsement. It’s outrageous. But, sadly, lawmakers can get away with such arrogance. Most are in safely drawn…
