Watch Shunji Iwai’s “April Story” For Free
Shunji Iwai has been one of my favorite directors for over a decade now, when I first saw All About Lily Chou-Chou and started importing his DVDs. This is the only way many of them are available, including April Story. The hour-long April Story tells the story about a young girl (Takako Matsu) from Hokkaido…
Food Truck Bazaar Brings Mobile Gourmets to Fashion Square Mall
If you’ve ever tried to find something edible inside the Fashion Square Mall’s rapidly fading food court, you know the Colonial Drive shopping center is the furthest thing from foodie central. But last night (May 1st), the mall’s parking lot (the north patch past Dillard’s, to be precise) was transformed into a mobile munchie playground,…
Selection Reminder: Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun tonight at Will’s Pub!
Saturday, April 30 – Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun Although this Atlanta fuzz-rock four-piece is still in the building stages of what promises to be a successful run at indie stardom, TTMTTS’ energetic live show and two interesting EPs have already set them up nicely as the next Ting Tings. Fronted by two ladies,…
FCC taking public complaints about sale of WMFE TV
Just a couple of days ago, we’d started hearing rumblings that the FCC could throw a wrench in the works that’d slow down the sale of local PBS affiliate WMFE TV (Channel 24) to Community Educators of Orlando, an entity owned by Dallas-based evangelical religious broadcasting company Daystar Television Network. Members of the community, we’d…
UPDATED: Launch postponed. Space Shuttle Endeavour Makes Final Launch Today
Update: Endeavour’s launch has been postponed for at least 48 hours due to “an issue with Auxiliary Power Unit 1 heaters.” NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour makes its final launch today at 3:47 p.m. Commander Mark Kelly and his crew bring with them the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, as well as spare parts needed at the International…
Selection Reminder: Take Action Tour brings a stacked lineup to Firestone Live tonight!
Friday, April 29 – Take Action Tour Look, a brigade of whining emo bands sponsored by Hot Topic is not normally our cup of tea, but if – if– we happen to have readers who might be able to be nudged toward this show, we’ll tell you why you should take the plunge: Portions of the…
Wedding crashers
Not invited to the Royal Wedding? Me either. But what makes any party, even ones you’ll never-in-hell attend, much more fun? How about a tall glass of punchy Wedding Bliss ($6) from Best of British Pub on International Drive? Sure, the world has its priorities all out of whack with this Royal Wedding brouhaha, but…
Selection Reminder: Electro-indie group CSS tonight at Firestone Live!
Thursday, April 28 – CSS, Sleigh Bells Cansei de Ser Sexy is a tough band to read. The Brazilian outfit rides an ever-evaporating line between making fun of gleefully vacant party animal hipsters and representing the real thing. Their moniker is Portuguese for “I’m tired of being sexy,” and their electro-fied indie rock/dance punk is…
Selection Reminder: Cold War Kids tonight at House of Blues!
Thursday, April 28 – Cold War Kids As much fun as it was several years back to watch Cold War Kids, a ragtag, loosely bluesy California group, get swept up out of nowhere and put through the hype machine, it’s been an equally good time watching that same machine spit them back out. Lately, the…
Restaurant Week starts TODAY! My top 10 picks, plus two bonus lunches
The most fabulous 10 days of dining in Orlando begins today — and although all the participating restaurants are offering fantastic deals and menus, I’ve picked my top 10 dinners to help you do your planning. That’s one for every night! First, the deets: Restaurant Week runs from Thursday, April 28, through Saturday, May 7.…
Peabody Orlando’s Napa gives California wine-country cooking the local treatment
Chef Jared Gross and his team take farm-to-table dining seriously
Restaurant Week guilty of price fixing
Orlando Weekly Restaurant Week April 28-May 7, 2011orlandorestaurantweek.comTwitter: @OrlRestaurantWk Break out your must-try list and get ready to do some crossing off: Orlando Weekly’s Restaurant Week is back for a fifth year. This year the “week” stretches out into 10 days, running from Thursday, April 28, until Saturday, May 7. (Thrifty sons and daughters, take…
This Little Underground
Our live music columnist takes on Blank Dogs, ANR, the Jameses, Lonesome City Travelers, the You Are Doomed Fest and more
Live Active Cultures
Seth Kubersky gets a peek behind the theme-park curtain at the Entertainment Designer Forum
Happytown
Unions get smart (and angry), gays get benefits (and ridicule), UCF hates environmentalists (and trees) and can somebody make Gary Siplin go away? Please?
Winter In Wartime
WWII coming-of-age drama stretches the bounds of reality
Savage Love
I’m a young heteroflexible guy who has been a “sugar baby” for a handful of wealthy older guys
Art: Our Small Private Stories
Twelve21 Gallery’s newest show features the work of Robert and Carla Poindexter
Theater: Leading Ladies
Theatre Downtown’s latest is a sparse farce
Big IDEAS
Student environmental group at UCF turns activism into action
Books: Land of the Painted Caves
Author Jane Auel releases final followup to 1980’s Clan of the Cave Bear
Like water for chocolate
The perfectly matched dichotomy of Sleigh Bells
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) To convey my vision of how best to proceed in the coming week, I’ll offer the following metaphorical scenario: Imagine that you are not a professional chef, but you do have a modicum of cooking skills. Your task is to create a hearty, tasty soup from scratch without the benefit of…
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Have Gun Will Travel’s Matt Burke
Orlando costumed duo Yip-Yip gets real
The local veterans look back on a decade of co-dependence
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
State website on stimulus funds “dramatically stripped down” under Gov. Scott
The group States for a Transparent and Accountable Recovery–also known as the “STAR Coalition”–just noticed something interesting: after Gov. Rick Scott took office, the official website detailing Florida’s handling of $11.1 billion in federal stimulus money has been pared to skeletal levels. (The funds were allocated to the state in 2009 as part of President…
Rep. Dan Webster shouted down by constituents over Republican budget proposal
Back home from Washington on a break, Congressman Daniel Webster held his second “Stop the Spigot of Spending” town hall meeting this afternoon at the Orange County Education Extension Center in south Orlando. The presentation–held in an auditorium filled to capacity, with people standing in the aisles–was essentially a sales pitch for House Budget Committee…
more meals on wheels: upcoming food truck events
Just a quick dispatch from the Tuesday trenches: There are two big food truck festivals happening soon (Sunday and next Tuesday), and a new weekly food truck pod in Maitland starting tonight. Food Truck Heaven, 5 p.m.-midnight Tuesday, May 3 — We have finally gotten a list of participating trucks at the Plaza Theater’s upcoming event,…
Theater Tonight: Fringe Fundraiser at Urban ReThink
Do you remember the 1990’s? The Clinton era was two long decades ago, but if you can recall the long-lost gothic glories of Barbarella (before it was Independent Bar) or the raver revolution at Firestone (before it was The Club at Firestone), then tonight’s entertainment at Urban ReThink may be up your alley. At 7pm…
Flickchart fights alleged copycat Movieweb
Last week, movie-news site MovieWeb premiered a brand-new addition to its site, in which visitors can vote on the better movie of two that are randomly generated, the result being the visitors’ own personal “best-ever” movie list. They can compare their list to a global ranking system, share their picks on social networks, etc. It’s…
