Sunday Film News Roundup — August 7th, 2011
We’re going to have a really light Roundup this week. I just flew back from Denver and between flying, unpacking, cleaning, getting Netflix to work on my PS3 again while simultaneously being outraged over the $19.58 they charged me (wasn’t that supposed to be in September?), I haven’t gotten my real life back in order…
Selection Reminder: Summer Sing today at Tiedtke Concert Hall!
Sunday, August 7 – Summer Sing As the season-opening event for Winter Park’s Bach Festival Society, Summer Sing should really be considered the choir’s annual Good Samaritan deed. It’s a day when the community is kindly invited to the grandiose Tiedtke Concert Hall for a singalong with the choir. And with such an open-ended invitation…
Wet ‘n’ Lazy 7″ Release Show Tonight
Local punkers Lazy Boyzzz and Wet Nurse have teamed up to release a split 7″. They’re in and they look and sound beautiful (with artwork by Ben Lyon). Celebrate the release with them, Vein Cranes, and the Dull Blades tonight at Hoops. (9p.m. at Hoops Tavern; 47 W. Amelia St.; 407-843-5618; $5)
Photos and Video of Clowns on Colonial!
It all started around 11am on Saturday, August 6th. As I drove up Bumby Avenue, I spotted a couple of clowns loitering at the Colonial corner. By the time I passed in the other direction an hour later, there was a dozen of them, standing on the sidewalk and waving signs. “What are you doing…
Orlando Food Not Bombs chafes at suggestion of “truce” with city
After yesterday’s article by Mark Schlueb in the Orlando Sentinel on the “truce” between the city and Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB), as well as our own coverage of the group in this week’s edition of Happytown, some of those affiliated with OFNB have taken umbrage with the media’s verbiage. Both the Sentinel and the…
Through the media doughnut hole with Rick Scott!
SO, yesterday sure started off with a sugar rush, huh? Copping former Gov. Bob Graham’s “workday” motif and morphing it into something incredibly uncomfortable and alien, Gov. Rick Scott took to a Tampa doughnut shop in an effort to make people appreciate the fact that he can do something almost as unhealthy as his 27…
Spoon-fed
Gastropub brings farm-to-table dining to the downtown core
Live Active Cultures
Seth takes a dive in Live Active Cultures
The Trip
The beautiful English countryside is a nice substitution for plot in this loose comedy
Almost famous
Janet Macoska shot the golden gods of the golden age of rock
The Change-Up
Some good players take one for the toilet in crude comedy
Second wind
Jacksonville rockers Cold reform and redefine themselves
I shot Andy Warhol
Stephen Shore exposes the dark roots of an icon
Underdog Hand
Federal crackdowns on online poker leave some pro players short stacked
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Cragmire Peace of the Bloody Jug Band
Dirty mind
A federal judge calls Florida’s draconian drug laws into question
Savage Love
first line of story
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Symbolically speaking, there is a Holy Grail hidden close to you, and you know it, but you haven’t been able to find it. The Grail is a golden chalice filled with medicine that could open what needs opening in you. Luckily, you will soon come into possession (symbolically speaking) of a…
Dark matters
Mad Cow’s latest may not be the best of all possible worlds
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu columnist takes on Lil Daggers, the Band in Heaven, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside and more
Happytown
The traveling redistricting circus reminds us what wasting time feels like, Phil Diamond throws Jesus chicken at us and WFTV Channel 9 concocts a class war via homeless paranoia.
Amnesia patient case history: “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
(The patient is a recently released romantic comedy that arrived in our office exhibiting a strong willingness to do good, but suffering from a serious identity crisis. What follows is a transcript of our initial therapy session, in which we tried to guide the movie toward a deeper self-knowledge and cure it of its recurrent…
