Sean Moore Says Yea
So Mad Decent is holding a remix contest for Yeasayer’s primetime cut “O.N.E.” And local music whiz Sean Moore (of solo and Viernes fame) has already cooked up a really tight zero-gravity mix of it (download here). To his credit, the poor guy did his best to work with the original tracks. But, not feeling…
Multiplicity
Lauren Carder & the Multiple Me CD Release Party with Wilbur, Kelly Craven 9 p.m. Thursday, April 29 The Peacock Room, 407-228-0048 www.myspace.com/thepeacockroom free free free Local singer-songwriter Lauren Carder sees a lot of herself in her mother. Back when Lauren was a child, she says the final straw in her parents’ separation came when…
Table for one
A few centuries after Benjamin Franklin first strolled down a Philadelphia street chewing on a loaf of bread, dining alone in public is still uncommon enough to carry a certain social stigma. So much so, in fact, that the resulting anxieties have become something of a cultural meme. Samantha, one of the four central characters…
If I had a Nicholl
Last March, screenwriter Mark Boal’s first produced script, The Hurt Locker, beat out eight other writers from four other films for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. It’s no stretch of the imagination to say that Boal beat the Hollywood odds by emerging from a field of legendary previous winners (Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers…
Council Watch
The City Beautiful was full of beautiful people doing city things this week; at least that’s how the mayor and his entourage would have you see it. What looked to be a hundred volunteers crowded the front of the dais for a proclamation naming April as Florida Volunteer Month in the City of Orlando, all…
Happytown
In a Whac-A-Mole week for Florida politics that saw Republican rodent Marco Rubio finding his way to the mallet’s heavy end via some unsavory American Express spending — spending that is now under preliminary investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation — while his soon-to-be-former Republican…
Savage Love
I read the letter from the woman who had cheated on her ex and now wants to patch it up. I have a similar situation, except it was my ex-girlfriend who cheated on me. We’d been living together for a few years – we were engaged – and then she suddenly moved out “temporarily” to…
Police Beat
April 15 (2010-176992) 4:29 p.m.: A man robbed Chase Bank on South Kirkman Road and fled with cash in hand. Cops saw him getting into a cab, so they Chased him down. (2010-177412) 10 p.m.: A man was stabbed at the SaveRite on West Colonial Drive and taken to the hospital, while the suspect —…
Free Will Astrology
Editor’s note: We got ahead ourselves and ran this week’s horoscopes last week, so we’re repeating them. We promise these forecasts are right on time and that we won’t mess with the stars again. ARIES (March 21-April 19): “In a recipe for salsa published recently, one of the ingredients was misstated, due to an error,”…
Live Active Cultures
Pop quiz: What do Orlando’s theme parks have in common with a metastatic malignancy? (Pipe down, anti-tourism types — this week I’m accentuating the positive.) The answer last Friday (April 23) was the Entertainment Design Forum, a rare opportunity to meet and speak with the masters of imagination who design the fantasies that fuel our…
Twisting around the world
Just when you think its safe to avoid stepping into yet another precious patch of Doug Rhodehamel’s paper-bag mushrooms, the month of May ushers in his international celebration of the spore. What has caught on so successfully on the artist’s home turf, he has now invited the world to become a part of — to…
Performing Arts: Lend Me a Tenor
Low energy ; Lend Me a Tenor; Through May 17 at Theatre Downtown; 2113 N. Orange Ave.; 407-841-0083; $18 Lend Me a Tenor, by Ken Ludwig, is one of those shows that can, and does, get produced anywhere and everywhere, and is even headed this year for its first Broadway revival since the initial 1989 run.…
The fix is in
Orlando Restaurant Week Thursday, April 29, through May 6 www.orlandorestaurantweek.com Right on the cusp of sultry summer weather, Orlando Weekly’s Orlando Restaurant Week offers hot dining for cool prices. Emerging along with the burgeoning bounty of fresh produce are new dishes (and old favorites) to tempt diners out of the house and into more than…
This Little Underground
R.I.P., Guru. Jazz up the flip side, homie. And if the last-minute cancellation of your Firestone Live show back in October 2008 had anything to do with your illness, I’m sorry for questioning it. On a much brighter note, the Orlando Magic are slapping bats in hand, beatdown-style, ready for their next playoff victim. The…
TEA, bagged
George Washington is a fetishistic image at Tea Party gatherings. Many feature someone in costume portraying the revolutionary-in-chief. Others, such as the April 12 rally in front of Orlando City Hall, make do with Washington posters and T-shirts. The symbolism is easy to understand. Washington as the archetypical, irreproachable patriot has been appropriated by many…
