Orange County teachers union to protest at office of state senator this evening
‘Tis the season for protest, as the Florida legislature is pumping out more controversial bills this year than you can shake a stick at. Today, teachers and other members of the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association (OrangeCTA) will be staging a demonstration at 5:30pm outside the Orlando office of State Sen. Andy Gardiner. According to…
Film student dies attempting rooftop shot. Watch a short he left behind.
Normally, I wouldn’t consider a hired-gun assignment shooting a B’Nai Mitzvah a “short,” but this video, shot by Emerson College film student Justin Amorratanasuchad, who tragically fell to his death while attempting a rooftop shot over the weekend, makes the most of the project. Amorratanasuchad, 21, spins a poignant snapshot with, according to his notes,…
Selection Reminder: Blank Dogs tonight at Will’s Pub!
Monday, April 18 – Blank Dogs, Jameses, Fever, Vein Cranes A kind of Banksy figure for the arcane Brooklyn set, Mike Sniper, aka Blank Dogs, is both mysterious and prolific in a way that invites (practically begs, actually) a fanbase of what Patton Oswalt refers to as “otaku” – people obsessed with the minutiae of specific pop-culture…
Spidey crew to let go of the suck
So. Details are emerging about the three weeks’ worth of “tweaks” that are about to be performed on Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. And whaddaya know: Everything that’s coming out just happens to be the stuff that critics had almost uniformly identified as the unsightliest corn nuggets in this already legendary theatrical turd. You…
July Criterion Titles Announced, Chaplin Birthday Sale
Criterion announced their titles for July today, and there are some exciting titles in it. There is a remaster of Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (#6), as well as three new collection titles: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Leon Morin, Priest (#572), featuring Jean-Pail Belmondo; Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room (#573), which is the first Ray film…
Live music and a refreshing vibe perk up Sleeping Moon Café
Winter Park coffeehouse is the newest meeting space for moonbats young and old
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In her blog, Jane at janebok.tumblr.com answers questions from readers. A recent query went like this: “Who would win in a steel cage match, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?” Jane said, “Easter Bunny, no question; he has those big-ass teeth.” But I’m not so sure. My sources say that Santa…
Culture 2 Go
Everyone knows the “throw it at the wall and see what sticks” philosophy can be the death of an urban arts space. So Urban ReThink has named a new programming director to keep its calendar booked with good stuff for the smart set. Local artist Pat Greene, who’s been organizing the Creationist Film Series at…
Tax myths and tall tales
What supply-side economists don’t want you to know about taxes
Happytown
How to incorporate your uterus, commodify the homeless and get Rick Scott fired (if you’re Ralph Nader)
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on FMF, Lyrics Born, KEN Mode and the debut of local supergroup Mr. Pussy
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries
DJ History, the publishing house behind Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, follows up with a new release on the history of dance music
Ray of light
Atlanta rapper B.o.B. embodies and embraces hip-pop culture
Savage Love
first line of story
The Conspirator
Slavish attention to detail bogs down ambitious historical drama
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: An Introduction to Sunshine’s Chandler Strang
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Redline 4 Stars It’s Days of Thunder meets TRON in Takeshi Koike’s fast-and-furious anime adventure about (and I mean “about” in the loosest sense possible) a futuristic, otherworldly mega-race where fixes are in, drivers keep dying off and a star racer, “Sweet JP,” finds love and redemption. This being an anime film, of course, there…
Tree of life
Orlando singer-songwriter Andy Matchett at the crossroads
Live Active Cultures
Seth Kubersky attends Playfest’s keynote talk with playwright Mark Brown
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
DPAC is happening! No, it’s not!: A war of words between the county and the city, again
Down the wormhole we go! OK, when we last checked in with the questionable fate of the former Pin-Drop Palace™, everything seemed to be coming up roses. A brand new nonprofit had appeared out of thin air – or the bought-and-sold concerns of the region that actually deal in magic, the Orlando Magic and Disney…
Theatre Recap: Play-In-A-Day 2011
Do you love deadlines, thrive on pressure, and enjoy being creative under a time crunch? Then Play-in-a-Day may be for you. On Monday, April 11, members of Orlando’s theater community gathered in the Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Margeson stage to see the results of this year’s 24 hour play-creation marathon. This was the fifth consecutive year…
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 8 (ft. UCF Grad Cheryl Hines)
There are few things that bring joy to this misanthrope’s heart like the start of a new season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. HBO today released the first behind the scenes teaser (via Deadline) from the upcoming season, which features cameos from Michael J. Fox, Bill Buckner, Michael McKean, Ricky Gervais and Rosie O’Donnell (who…
Orlando police to taxi drivers: just give thieves the money
In light of the January murders of Orlando taxi drivers Nelvil Joseph and Matt Manolas, the Orlando Police Department today hosted a presentation on what taxi drivers should do in the event of being robbed. Here’s forty-five minutes in a nutshell: don’t resist. Money is just money. Or, as Lt. Rich Ring likes to say,…
