Florida Film Festival 2012: The Winners
Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature MAGIC VALLEY Audience Award 4 Best Narrative Feature THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS BEAT THE BEST Grand Jury Award winner for Best Documentary Feature SALAAM DUNK Grand Jury Award Winner for Best Documentary Short MAURICE I guess we had Magic Valley and Salaam Dunk pegged all wrong with our 2…
Sunday Film News Roundup — April 22nd, 2012
Happy Earth Day. We can still get a few more in before we successfully kill the Earth off I think. Unrelated, the Florida Film Festival comes to a close tonight. This edition has been deemed a success, with films like Renee, Eye of the Hurricane, Turn Me On Dammit, and Monsieur Lazhar are getting an…
Selection Reminder: Fiesta Medina today at Orlando Festival Park!
Sunday, April 22 – 25th Annual Fiesta Medina 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Orlando Festival Park 2911 E. Robinson St. renesproductions.com 407-381-5310 $10 As Orlando’s longest-running Latin festival (returning for its 25th consecutive year), each spring, Fiesta Medina draws in more than 30,000 Central Florida residents looking for a little connection to their Hispanic roots. The festival…
Selection Reminder: Winter Park Paint Out starts today!
Sunday-Saturday, April 22-28 – Winter Park Paint Out various times and events through April 28 Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park 407-647-6294 polasek.org free, $45-$60 for garden party At first, we assumed en plein air (French for “in the open air”) painting could be done anywhere – on a boat,…
Notes on bad taste: Anne Frank and George Zimmerman walk into a bar
It’s rare that somebody does an adequate job of explaining the modus operandi of “edgy” 21st-century humor, but in defending his increasingly controversial “Anne Frank” routine to The Jewish Chronicle Online, Ricky Gervais just about nails it: I can see if you took this routine at face value as my real opinion on this profound…
Hopslam Cask Tapping at Will’s This Sunday!
Bell’s Brewery out of Kalamazoo, MI is known for good products. Their Two-Hearted Pale Ale and Oberon Wheat Ale are nearly-flawless examples of their respective styles, perfectly suited for kicking back with friends and wishing the day adieu. Bell’s Hopslam Ale, on the other hand, is a flaming sword of fruity and floral hops, most…
Selection Reminder: Picturing My Florida show opens at OMA!
Through July 15 – Picturing My Florida: A Grassroots Portrait of the Sunshine State Orlando Museum of Art 2416 N. Mills Ave. 407-896-4231 omart.org $8 The 45 winners of this photo contest (chosen via “likes” on Facebook) will see their images hanging in the galleries of Orlando Museum of Art, a populist complement to Reflections: Paintings…
United Arts names Flora Maria Garcia its new president and CEO
Ever since United Arts lost its bulldog-for-the-arts president and CEO Margot Knight, who left town in November for a new gig at a San Diego arts colony, it seems like assaulting local arts organizations has become something of a sport for certain local politicians. Shortly before Knight left, Orange County commissioner Ted Edwards grilled United…
Selection Reminder: Hannibal Square Heritage Center Folk Art and Craft Festival!
Saturday, April 21 – Hannibal Square Heritage Center Folk Art and Craft Festival 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Hannibal Square Heritage Center 642 W. New England Ave., Winter Park 407-539-2680 free It’s an atypical type of ingenuity that fuels most folk artists, as once described by sculptor O.L. “Geech” Samuels: “I just start and let it turn…
Selection Reminder: Central Florida Earth Day tomorrow at Lake Eola!
Saturday, April 21 – Central Florida Earth Day 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Lake Eola Park 101 N. Rosalind Ave. 321-331-1859 cfearthday.org free So Rick Scott hates his own Mother Earth, our city’s tree of life burned to death, and our great state voted in a straw poll for a pizza magnate who considers the Environmental Protection…
Does Film Need a New Hays Code?
It’s been almost a week since Lena Dunham’s Girls debuted on HBO. Girls, the story of a group of rich/upper middle class white girl post-grads living in Brooklyn who have yet to figure out their own lives, continues the deconstruction of the director’s own life that was started in her previous film, the polarizing digital…
Opening in Orlando — April 20th, 2012
Chimpanzee — Reviewed this week. (PG) The Lucky One — Zac Efron plays a Marine in pursuit of the mystery woman whose photo gave him something to live for during his service in Iraq. And in case you were still wondering which demo this picture is aimed at, it turns out she works with animals.…
Selection Reminder: Snap! Building Projection tonight!
Thursday, April 19 – Snap! Building Projection 8:30 p.m.-midnight 130 S. Orange Ave. snaporlando.com free Last year, someone involved with Snap Orlando had a brilliant idea: Use the art-deco facade of downtown’s historic Kress department store building, with its clean, vertical lines, formal windows and terra cotta flourishes, as an interactive canvas against which to…
Selection Reminder: Against the Grain: A Timber Ingrained Art Show!
Thursday, April 19 – Against the Grain: A Timber Ingrained Art Show 6-9 p.m. Redefine Gallery 29 S. Orange Ave. 407-648-7060 redefinegallery.com free A QR code isn’t a usual sight for an art gallery, but then again Tim McCloskey isn’t your usual artist. The Orlando-based sculptor (who is colorblind!) manipulates wood to form technologically based…
Selection Reminder: 2012 Florida Music Festival!
2012 Florida Music Festival through April 21 with the Dirty Heads, Filter, Candlebox, Seven Nations, Tyrone Wells and many more various venues floridamusicfestival.com $10-$25 (three-day pass) Look, we’re not going to pretend the Florida Music Festival, which features hundreds of bands playing a variety of local venues for a few days, is anything to lose…
Selection Reminder: Dr. Jane Goodall stops by Rollins College!
Thursday, April 19 – Making a Difference: An Evening With Dr. Jane Goodall 7:30-9 p.m. Alfond Sports Center Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park 407-646-1995 rollins.edu/wpi free Rarely do we have the opportunity to hear the legends of our time speak about their passions in person, but tonight’s our chance. World-renowned primatologist, activist, humanitarian…
Grabbing life by the malts
Homebrewing shops put beer production into consumers’ hands
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Live Active Cultures
Selena Moshell and Dionne Randolph, touring stars of Broadway’s Lion King, are happy to be back home in Orlando
Wall flowers
Art sale offers an antidote for your room’s blank spaces
Happytown
Assisted living facilities say state’s former ombudsman is threatening their right to free speech, U.S. Rep. Allen West says progressives are communists and Gov. Rick Scott’s Facebook page pisses off the Miami Herald.
Rights and wrongs
Six state laws pushed by the GOP that could have a long-term impact on life in the Sunshine State
Last call
Artists pay homage to local bartenders in the Falcon’s latest show
Meet the press
Flying Horse Editions creates 20 years of lasting impressions at a new Mennello Museum retrospective
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Weedeater, Drive-By Truckers, Centro-matic, Festival of Light and Sound and more
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) You had to take the test before you got a chance to study more than a couple of the lessons. Does that seem fair? Hell, no. That’s the bad news. The good news is that this test was merely a rehearsal for a more important and inclusive exam, which is still…
String samurai
Of Montreal pal Kishi Bashi’s East-West melodies simply sound otherworldly
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Palmer Reed
Chimpanzee
Shockingly off-the-cuff filmmaking leads to dull, cutesy nature doc
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Savage Love
I’m gay and a junior in high school, and I’ve had a boyfriend for a year.
Maakies
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The art of noise
Full Sail welcomes the Ames Bros., poster boys of rock & roll design
The ugly truth
NYC punishers Unsane emerge from hiding as brutal as ever
Drink Drank Drunk
Four awkward moments I’d like to avoid at the bar
On Sale This Week: Black Cobra!
On Sale: Friday, April 20 Black Cobra with Gaza 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 29 Will’s Pub 407-898-5070 willspub.org $10 Down the road: You Blew It!, April 27 at Will’s Pub Blood on the Dance Floor, April 28 at The Beacham Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, May 3 at Amway Center The Fray, May 3 at…
