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Accidentally on purpose
The accidental music festival brings out the best in Orlando’s new music scene
Selection Reminder: John Vanderslice tonight at McRaney’s Tavern!
Monday, September 5 – John Vanderslice Among successful touring musicians, there’s famous and then there’s accessibly famous. John Vanderslice alternates between producing records for headlining bands (the Mountain Goats, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, to name a few) and answering customer emails at his Tiny Telephone recording studios in San Francisco. Just three months after…
Sunday Film News Roundup – September 4th, 2011
I went on a little nostalgia trip this week, as IFC was playing House Party, the Kid N’ Play epic about… well, you know… a house party. Aside from the side characters (especially the neighbor yelling out the window played by John Witherspoon), the funniest thing about the movie is how hilariously bad the framing…
Selection Reminder: MEAC/SWAC Challenge at the Citrus Bowl!
Sunday, September 4 – MEAC/SWAC Challenge First: that name. This is the annual showdown between two historically black colleges, one from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and one from the Southwestern Athletic Conference – in this case, Prairie View A&M in Texas and Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, respectively – and the whole thing is broadcast by ESPN…
In disagreement with city, OSP operator skips town, leaving free skateboarding in its wake
Alright, skateboarders, if you’d like to take advantage of what may be the only period in which admission to the Orlando Skate Park (OSP) is free for three straight days, you’d best head over now. The former park operator, Action Park Alliance (APA), officially terminated its contract with the city on August 27, taking with…
Selection Reminder: Orlando Hurling Club’s Clash of the Ash tournament!
Saturday, September 3 – Clash of the Ash Orlando’s jock itch seems to be spreading far and wide this weekend, and we can assure you that, without a doubt, tonight’s Orlando Hurling Club tourney packs the most testosterone-infused punch. Never heard of hurling (not to be confused with the scrubby sweeping of curling)? We hadn’t…
Selection Reminder: Bolshoi Ballet’s Don Quixote at Enzian!
Saturday, September 3 – Don Quixote If you’re a ballet lover, you’ve probably already caught one of the two earlier screenings in the Enzian’s Ballet on the Big Screen series, and you don’t need us to tell you not to miss this third and final installment, in which the Bolshoi Ballet performs Don Quixote. You…
Underrated: Solaris – Steven Soderbergh (2002)
With Steven Soderbergh’s imminent retirement (to be a painter) apparently back on, I thought it was time to go back and take a look at the only film of his I genuinely loved, the George Clooney-starring remake, Solaris. Yeah, yeah. A remake. Sacrilege, I know. But spare me, Salman Rushdie. Solaris is not the typical…
Will’s Pub 16th Anniversary Celebration
Friday, Sept. 2 – Will’s 16th Anniversary Celebration All weekend long, Will’s Pub is celebrating it’s 16 beautiful years of existence. Good beers, good music, and good people – no wonder they’ve stuck around for so long. Tonight, Thomas Wynn and The Believers, Six Time Losers, and Jordan Wynn and the Apparitioners will be performing.…
Selection Reminder: Central Florida Film Festival begins today!
Friday, September 2 – Central Florida Film Festival OK, so this little fest that could’s big world premiere is called Swamp Shark and it stars Kristy “Buffy” Swanson and D.B. Sweeney, and their guest speaker (Glenn Morshower, Transformers, The West Wing) is a character actor. Still, the Central Florida Film Festival, held in Ocoee at…
Selection Reminder: “Islamic Philosophy of Science” at Rollins College!
Thursday, September 1 – Islamic Philosophy of Science The ebullient Arab Spring may have staggered into a summer of strife, suppression and slaughter, but Dr. Yamina Mermer wants you to think of a different “S” word when you consider the Muslim world: science. The Rollins College Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar is presenting her…
Selection Reminder: Eclectic Knights III art party tonight at OMA!
Thursday, September 1 – Eclectic Knights III University of Central Florida’s Art Alumni Chapter repeats their popular annual art party, a homecoming game of sorts for graduates of UCF’s art programs. As you might have expected, all of the work hanging in the show was created by UCF alumni. We know that they attempted to…
Selection Reminder: NKF Pro Am Surf Festival kicks off today!
Thursday, September 1 – NKF Pro Am Surf Festival For some of you, the phrase “surf festival” may evoke unpleasant memories of fraternity-level testosterone and headache-inducing energy drink logos. Yet the NKF Pro Am Surf Festival – largely a fundraiser for the festival’s namesake, the National Kidney Foundation – is well worth the occasional sensory…
Mudbug masters
Bibs are not optional at this no-frills crustacean canteen
The Gin Rickey
The Remix: Key Lime Rickey
Point Blank
A French action-thriller that can stand with the Scotts
Suppressing the vote
Restrictive new voting laws expected to diminish turnout nationwide for 2012 elections
Project NIM
Man on Wire director James Marsh tells the sad, true story of an ape who never got to rise
Back to cool
Nathalie Chikhi’s childlike constructions awaken glee
Savage Love
I’m in a bad place. I have been in a monogamous marriage for 19 years
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Strange but true: To pave the way for your next liberation, you will have to impose some creative limitation on yourself. In other words, there’s some trivial extravagance or unproductive excess in your current rhythm that is suppressing an interesting form of freedom. As soon as you cut away the faux…
The Future
Whether you love Miranda July or hate her, her latest film will make you feel something
Happytown
This week we get all hot and bothered with Debbie Wasserman Schultz at an Obama office launch, then we get get all cold and critical in our private prison cell. We go to extremes.
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Jarad Oates Haggard of Fire in the Cave
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Fire in the Cave, Appleseed Cast, Two-Piece Mini Fest, Cassandra Wilcox and more
The Debt
Thrilling U.S. remake features Helen Mirren as a Nazi hunter tasked with finishing the job
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Live Active Cultures
Can Orlando can survive a double dose of Spring Awakening?
Culture 2 Go
It’s always been a fine line in Central Florida, the line between fine arts and arts that are just fine; inevitably, established arts groups are caught in a vicious financial cycle of producing work that may be more commercial than they’d like in hopes the public will pay to see it – and then, with…
A lotta respect
Erasure returns, legacy in place
DC’s “New 52”: Off to a drowsing start
Ordinarily, it’d take an act of Jesus to get me out and about after 11 p.m. on a Tuesday. I’d rather just stay home and catch up on all my favorite reality programs — like Who Not to Wear, Step Away from the Dress and So You Think You Can Fist? But when a publisher…
Selection Reminder: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at Enzian!
Tuesday, August 30 – Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Now that the weird Broadway musical version of this Pedro Almodóvar sexual farce from 1988 has gone the way of the gazpacho, it’s time to refocus attention on the proper, Oscar-nominated film. Starring Carmen Maura as Pepa, a wronged woman who only gets…
Selection Reminder: Fill the Grill finals tonight at Whole Foods!
Tuesday, August 30 – Fill the Grill For the everyday home cook, $20 could stretch into several months worth of ramen noodles and Uncle Ben’s. For gourmet chefs like Alec Cheak and Steve Saelg, that same amount of cash might only go as far as one, single ingredient. But that’s the challenge Whole Foods has…
