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Digging in the dirt
Musical mastermind Diplo comes home. But is he a pioneer or a plunderer?
FFCC dubs TSN its MVP
This year, yours truly joined the Florida Film Critics Circle, and this week, my vote (among those from 18 colleagues from across the state) went towards declaring David Fincher’s The Social Network the very finest film of 2010. Fincher took Best Director, while Aaron Sorkin’s snappy script won Best Adapted Screenplay. With regards to the…
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Beacham Theater Rising? [UPDATED! The answer is YES!]
So, the Social is announcing some upcoming concerts today, none of which are, you know, a huge deal or anything. But one small thing did pop out at me when looking at the listings. Take, for instance, this listing on the Social’s site for a Feburary show by Haste the Day: Notice who the promoter is on the…
gingerbread crack house or bacon nativity scene: it’s not too late.
Here you’ll find a selection of disturbing gingerbread houses. (I find it disturbing how many of them are made out of graham crackers. NOT THE SAME THING.) Love the dick graffiti on this one; very seasonally appropriate. And here we have gold(en-brown sauerkraut), frankfurters, and myrhh — no, ham. Plenty of ham. Mmm, wiener Jesus.…
DREAM Act dies (again) despite ramped-up deportations to woo Republicans
As you may know already, the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act — best known as the DREAM Act — died in the Senate yesterday after failing to get the necessary 60 votes to pass. The measure would have allowed undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children an opportunity to become citizens…
Food not Bombs member arrested at Lake Eola for first time since 2007
Right when we were marveling at how long it had been since a member of Food Not Bombs was last put in handcuffs, Orlando’s senior anarchist Ben Markeson called to notify us that on Dec. 15, he had finally received the honor of leaving a food sharing at Lake Eola Park in a police squad…
French director will not knuckle under to “fascists,” coherence
It’s been a busy week, and ordinarily, I guess I’d feel compelled to weigh in about the Black List and the Golden Globe noms. But Justin Strout did a fine job of noting what a kick it is to see erstwhile OW scribe Cole Haddon on said list. And it doesn’t take a genius to…
Hopelessly DeVos-ed to you!
Take from this what you will (meaning we are collectively biting our tongues until they bleed), but today’s big arts news in the Story of O(rland0) comes with its share of conservative opportunism baggage. Still, we can’t completely discount local arts patronage of any sort, especially when it comes with the words “Kennedy” and “Center”…
First blush
Café Rouge adds color to Sanford’s dining scene
This Little Underground
Our live music columnist takes on Mr. Gnome, Wilbur, Justin Townes Earle and more.
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I vividly remember seeing singer Diamanda Galas in concert. Though classically trained, she didn’t confine herself to mellifluous melodies and elegant tones. She was a whirlwind of elemental sound, veering from animalistic bellows to otherworldly chants to operatic glossolalia. It was all very entertaining, and often enjoyable. The skill with which…
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
All Good Things
Capturing the Friedmans director returns with fiction, facts and everything in between
Black Swan
Natalie Portman strives for, and nearly achieves, perfection in creepy Swan Lake interpretation
Live Active Cultures
When you meet a stranger, thefirst thing they often ask is “What do you do for a living?” When I reply, “I write about arts and culture,” the usual response is “What do you do all day?” So, with deepest apologies to the memory of John Lennon, I present “A Day in the Life ……
How Do You Know
Rom-com master James L. Brooks does it again eventually
Savage Love
I am a 33-year-old married male
Happytown
Scarecrow Rick Scott falls on the Republican rails, hot chicks wash cars and Alan Grayson for President? Oh, no.
Roaming GOAT
Greater Orlando Actors Theatre says farewell to Cherry Street venue
Renewed romantics
Duran Duran take a bold step back into the swishy sex party they created
Everything’s gonna be alright
Realm 54 Grand Opening
Culture 2 Go
What are you doing tonight? If you’re in the mood for some mind bending, Urban ReThink is hosting a launch party for a new book, monochrom #26-24: Ye Old Self-Referentiality. You can go to the website (www.monochrom.com) to find out what that means and why you should care. But if you’re not already familiar with…
A fest of us
The Orange You Glad fest morphs mightily into a holiday pub crawl
Rick “voucher” Scott sets his devil eyes on ruining education in Florida. Surprise!
Although he may look like a substitute gym teacher harangued into a remedial U.S. History detention stint, in reality Gov.-elect Rick Scott would probably prefer that you not even mention the word “teacher” in his presence. Why? Because teachers are inefficient and fat, always griping about blackboard erasers and influenza, forever running to their union…
