Selection Reminder: Power-pop trio Hot Mouth tonight at Copper Rocket Pub!
Saturday, Dec. 31 – Hot Mouth As if the Stardust throwdown and Mills 50 hoedown isn’t enough local amazingness centered around something as innocuous as a dropping ball (the sagging of balls, of course, being the international symbol for advancing years), Greg “Stainboy” Reinel’s power-pop trio Hot Mouth are wisely getting ahead of 2012’s Russian…
Selection Reminder: James Bond New Year’s Eve Party III at Enzian!
Saturday, Dec. 31 – James Bond New Year’s Eve Party III More than likely, at some point in our lives we’ve either wanted or wanted to be (or both!) James Bond. Anyone knows it takes a lot more than a tailored tux, a martini and a handgun to portray the cunningly gallant spy. Tonight, however,…
Selection Reminder: The Vignettes play at Stardust Video & Coffee!
Saturday, Dec. 31 – The Vignettes Maybe it’s our inner masochist speaking, but this year, when that clock strikes midnight and we say farewell to the last 12 months of near-miss government shutdowns, nuclear plant meltdowns and the re-emergence of Newt Gingrich from his hobbit hole in Middle Earth, we’d frankly rather get punched in…
SOPA watch: A 404 for all mankind
It isn’t every day I have much good to say about a proposal endorsed by both Google and Facebook, but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS. The prospect of a sudden blackout of some of the world’s most used — some would say “necessary” — sites makes me tingle in a whole bunch of places (some of…
Selection Reminder: Central Florida Soap Box Derby Holiday Rally this weekend in Sanford!
Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 31-Jan. 1 – Central Florida Soap Box Derby Holiday Rally Just like Adele, you too can have it all this weekend by rolling in the deep with the annual Central Florida Soap Box Derby Holiday Rally. Soap box racing, which (perhaps coincidentally) started during the Great Depression, features young drivers who race their…
Selection Reminder: Fresh From Florida Parade tomorrow!
Saturday, Dec. 31 – Fresh From Florida Parade Though not quite as aesthetically manipulative as the fragrant bouquets of the Tournament of Roses Parade, the hot-glued oranges crammed together for Orlando’s also-ran college football championship celebrations, the Champs Sports Bowl and the Capital One Bowl, can, with some effort, be eaten. So we win, right?…
Slingshot’s Hella Occupy Edition 2011
This is the second in a possibly-occasional series where we provide you with updates on Occupy movements across the country. A copy of issue #108 of a newspaper-cum-zine called Slingshot came across our desks today from Berkeley, Calif. (see above photo). It caught our eye for a couple of reasons, not least of which being…
Selection Reminder: New Year’s Eve Block Party at Will’s Pub this weekend!
Saturday, Dec. 31 – New Year’s Eve Block Party Oh, but there are so many choices within such a short driving distance this year. On a much more chill (though no less ass-kicking) note than the Stardust thing tonight, Mills 50 bars Will’s Pub and the Peacock Room are teaming up for a block party…
Scenes From the Champs Sports Bowl Kickoff Luncheon
College football bowl season is in full swing, and tonight’s Champs Sports Bowl is the first of two bowl games hosted at the Florida Citrus Bowl near downtown Orlando – the other being the Capital One Bowl on Monday, January 2. Tonight’s sellout match-up pits the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame against the Florida State…
Underrated: 2011 Edition, Part 2
Justin has the Official All-Knowing Top Ten List covered in print this week (even though any list without Hugo nestled snugly into the top spot is clearly very wrongheaded and misguided), so I thought I’d take a different look at 2011 and run with the Underrated theme. It’s kind of a useless theme in general,…
Selection Reminder: Champs Sports Bowl tonight at Florida Citrus Bowl!
Thursday, Dec. 29 – Champs Sports Bowl They are among the most storied college-football programs in the nation. Yet, again this year, both the Florida State Seminoles and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame find themselves in a less-than-desirable bowl-game position after a disappointing season. While tonight’s Champs Sports Bowl might be a letdown compared…
Deep dishes
Eat right on New Year’s Day and you’ll be lucky the rest of the year
The best movies of 2011
Apes, black birds and dinosaurs rise to the top
Savage Love
I am a 25-year-old gay man
Happytown
It may not have been the year of the rat, but 2011 sure was full of rodents. Also, expect more of the same – plus an added twist of Jesus – in 2012. Happy New Year?
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu presents the 2011 Undies awards
War Horse
Spielberg pours on extra schmaltz in sweeping equine story
Hell’s waiting room
C.S. Lewis depicts the banality of evil in The Screwtape Letters
Live Active Cultures
Where does a bad Jew go during the Christmas season? The Holy Land Experience, of course!
Hospitality for the homeless
Downtown church turns front porch into shelter for growing number of downtown homeless
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
The best music of 2011
Our top 20 releases of the year in no particular order
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In North America, a farmer who grows wheat gets only five percent of the money earned by selling a loaf of bread made from his crop. When my band recorded an album for MCA, our contract called for us to receive just seven percent of the net profits. I encourage you…
Underrated: 2011 Edition, part 1
Justin has the Official All-Knowing Top Ten List covered in print this week (even though any list without Hugo nestled snugly into the top spot is clearly very wrongheaded and misguided), so I thought I’d take a different look at 2011 and run with the Underrated theme. It’s kind of a useless theme in general,…
Selection Reminder: Feed Me heads to the Beacham!
Tuesday, Dec. 27 – Feed Me So, uh, Deadmau5 is a big deal. That much we know. Feed Me, the electro-house side project of dubstep artist Jon Gooch (aka Spor), has released three EPs on Deadmau5’s Mau5trap label, which by proxy means Feed Me is kind of a big deal. He’s produced tracks for the…
Selection Reminder: Ken Russell’s Tommy shows at Enzian!
Tuesday, Dec. 27 – Tommy Airing exactly one month after the death of its director Ken Russell, the tempestuous mind behind Altered States and Crimes of Passion, Tommy is a fitting tribute. Based on the Who’s rock-opera album of the same name, it concerns the title character (played by Roger Daltrey, lead singer of the…
