Orlando Sentinel editor says cuts will mean more local news coverage
Orlando Sentinel editor mark Russell’s Sunday column, explaining how the paper is reducing its newshole to bolster its local coverage, got some play in Jim Romenesko’s media blog today. Russell wrote in his column: For starters, the move to cut news pages was driven by our need to reduce expenses. A newsroom’s biggest costs are…
Is November the Best Criterion Month Ever Or What?
After a few months of only occasional excitement on Announce Day, Criterion unloaded a blockbuster slate on us today. It includes the previously known titles of The Three Colors Trilogy, and the double-dips of The Rules of the Game and Rushmore. It was expected to be rounded out by Bitter Rice and Y Tu Mama…
Norse Korea Needs Your Help!
Local booking gurus and winner of OW’s 2011 “Best new concert Prometheus,” Norse Korea, are in need of your help. This stalwart group of community-oriented promoters is putting together a double-disc CD compilation of almost all of the area’s best musical acts. With already 34 artists contributing, more may still be added. Among those are…
The Big Lebowski Reunion — Live Stream
Well, Urban Achievers, tomorrow sees the release of the limited edition Bluray of the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski. To celebrate the release, there will be a live reunion of some of the cast and crew at Lebowski Fest in New York. Since most of us can’t be there, the event is being streamed live online,…
Nobel winner Krugman flunks genre TV 101
Well, the hell with this guy if he can’t tell a Twilight Zone episode from an installment of The Outer Limits. This country is screwed.
States looking to legalize and tax online gambling, NYT reports
In our Aug. 4 cover story, “Underdog Hand,” Ashley Belanger examined the fallout from a federal ban on online gambling through the fortunes of Grayson Nichols, a Windermere-based poker whiz struggling to adjust to a radically different gambling landscape. Though Nichols’ profession had essentially been eliminated with the disappearance of the web’s largest poker websites—before…
Sunday Film News Roundup — August 14th, 2011
As the crazy days of summer draw to a close, with the tentpole pictures mostly behind us, we’re starting to get a lot more choice in what to go see again. This weekend saw openings of Final Destination 5, The Help, Another Earth, The Devil’s Double, Glee 3D and 30 Minutes or Less not to mention…
Selection Reminder: Le Musée de L’Impressionnisme tonight at Timucua White House!
Sunday, August 14 – Le Musée de L’Impressionnisme The Timucua White House plays host to a genuine happening – original context wholly intended – with the second-ever 21st-century reading of Robert Callender’s 1976 pop-rock operetta about the famous May 1874 exhibition in Paris. Le Musée mates the choreography of the original Greenwich Village theater show…
Hot In The City Tonight
Saturday, August 13th – Hot In The City Tonight, Alchemy Hair Salon and TheDailyCity.com are hosting a dank-ass party. Definitely the most all-encompassing, swag event happening. The roster boasts an art installation by Doug Rhodehamel, the unveiling of Black Bean Deli’s “La Empanada” food truck, vendors, bands, and boooooooooooooooooooze. Musical acts include Heather Lee &…
Selection Reminder: So Many Ways, Carousel Kings tonight at Hoops!
Saturday, August 13 – So Many Ways, Carousel Kings Who knew Hoops Tavern had a soft side? The downtown dive bar traditionally utilized by hardcore bands and crust punks will host four pop-punk acts from up North, one of which describes itself as “Christian” and another of which advertises in its Myspace diary that “the…
Selection Reminder: Mayhem Festival rocks Tampa!
Saturday, August 13 – Mayhem Festival Their brand of polished, heavily layered and radio-friendly metal may not be de rigueur among discerning headbangers, but it’s worth noting that the three major headliners of this Tampa festival – Disturbed, Godsmack and Megadeth – still make far and away some of the most popular and necessary music in the…
Your New Favorite Color
Well shit, ya’ll. It’s been a long week. I’m sure your bones are aching for some real relaxation. Well we’ve got it for you. If you know the band Saskatchewan then you definitely know their drummer and supreme chiller Geri Layug. The guy is famed for his particularly long hair, being forever hidden under sunglasses,…
Jani Lane, 1964-2011: Heaven even closer than suspected
If you’re an Orlandoan of a certain age, and you claim that you never had a good time at Jani Lane’s Sunset Strip, you’re either lying, a dick, or both. RIP Jani. Thanks for the memories.
Scenes from a Walmart, starring Rick Scott
Today Gov. Rick Scott went shopping for school supplies at the Walmart on Princeton Street, and in our zeal to get a photo of him with an iPhone, we missed the best shot ever: Rick Scott posing with Funyuns. Damn. But we did get him trying to glad-hand some nice people. People who happened to…
Selection Reminder: Nu-Ridians, Andromeda tonight at the Social!
Thursday, August 11 – Nu-Ridians, Andromeda This week is Christmas for hip-hop nostalgists. Not only do Orlandoans get a visit from legendary duo Dead Prez, but this week also brings the release of new albums by Royce da 5’9”, the rapper who spent much of the last decade sore from his famously contentious falling out…
Gone bamboo
Siamese staples shine in a derivative Indochine backdrop at NaraDeva Thai
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Dr. Larry Dossey thinks we shouldn’t just automatically dismiss the voices that speak to us in the privacy of our own heads. Some of them may actually have wise counsel, or at least interesting evidence about the state of our inner world. Besides, says Dossey, “It is vital for our mental…
The Help
Manipulative race-relations adaptation rings false
The Devil’s Double
Dominic Cooper puts on a master class as Uday Hussein and his look-alike
Savage Love
first line of story
Happytown
While we were busy trying to shake the sprinkles out of our hair from Gov. Rick Scott’s disastrous doughnut “work day” last week, it came to our attention that there are far greater festering health concerns than those filled with gubernatorial shame custard. Beyond curious, we duly hacked our nicotine chagrin all the way over…
Another Earth
Somber sci-fi drama crackles with low-budget intensity
Aural intensity
Do you understand the words that are coming out of Yip-Yip’s mouths?
Live Active Cultures
Seth ponders the paradox “Art is endangered; art is everywhere”
Leaving on a high note
Matt Butcher heads to Nashville with his best album in tow
Fire and pain
Blues-soul lady-in-waiting Kaleigh Baker makes a strong claim to the throne
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Mise-en-scenario
Tribe Called Quest doc gives short shrift to the midnight marauders
Not forgiven, not forgotten
Thirty years after being falsely convicted of murder, and three years after being exonerated, William Dillon is still seeking justice
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Adam Goodrich of the Die Tryin’s
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Lazy Boyzzz, Wet Nurse, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster and more
30 Minutes or Less
Zombieland director’s follow-up is a reheated, cheesy mess
Missing men
Ten ways to stay busy until Mad Men returns
Selection Reminder: Shit Robot tonight at Firestone Live!
Wednesday, August 10 – Shit Robot In any business, but especially in the business of music, it helps to have powerful friends. Irish DJ Marcus Lambkin (aka Shit Robot) has been blessed with some very, very powerful friends, a lot of whom bring stellar work to his debut album, last year’s From the Cradle to…
Selection Reminder: Catch El Ten Eleven at Back Booth tonight!
Wednesday, August 10 – El Ten Eleven Instrumental post-rockers tend to be a serious lot, usually aiming for exquisite ambience or high drama. But L.A. duo El Ten Eleven is the refreshing antidote. In terms of chops, they’re total technicians. However, they have an attitude and showmanship that’s supremely accessible, dropping a crowd-wowing cover here…
