2014 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival show lineup announced
Earlier this month, the lottery was held to select participants in the 2014 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, and today the final results were released to the public. Without further ado, here is the complete list direct from Fringe producer Michael Marinaccio of shows that will be presented at the festival this coming May: The…
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are not playing Orlando
Over the past few weeks, there has been some confusion among app loyalists who subscribe to BandsInTown, Songkick, [insert robot who auto-generates show notifications], etc. It seems both Songkick and BandsInTown falsely reported a cover set of Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs to be an actual Yeah Yeah Yeahs show in Orlando, which generated a fair…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: Rick Scott’s foul failures; Sea World’s Blackfish eye; Florida’s fake nurses; the Times’ great homelessness profile. YOU’VE GOT A HOME HERE!
THE HERALD PUTS THE SMACKDOWN ON GOV. SCOTT’S JOBS PLATFORM! GOV. SCOTT’S OFFICE SPENDS AN ENTIRE WEEKEND CRAFTING EMAIL REBUTTALS: “A call center job — that’s a job that pays,” Scott said. “I’m proud of every job.” Critics fault Scott for his enthusiasm for low-wage, service-sector jobs. But he brags about them. In Jacksonville, he…
Major League Baseball lands in Orlando for Winter Meetings
Major League Baseball doesn’t often come to Orlando outside of Spring training, when the Atlanta Braves take over Disney’s Wide World of Sports Resort. But in one of the busiest, craziest offseasons in recent memory, the annual Winter Meetings are set to begin today in Orlando. They run through Thursday, the 12th. While much of…
For Reels Sunday Roundup — December 8th, 2013
News, links, etc: -RIP Edouard Molinaro, director of La Cage aux Folles. (Fandor) -Maria Bello came out in the NY Times this week. (NY Times) -Spike Jonze’s Her was awarded Best Film by the National Board of Review. (Thompson on Hollywood) -Meanwhile, David O Russell’s American Hustle won the NY Film Critics Circle Best Film award…
Walk on the right side: Mandela, Lou Reed and the Gipper
Reed also refused to play Plant City, just in case. I never met Nelson Mandela, but I did meet Lou Reed. And that equivalency isn’t as flimsy as it might seem. Back in the day, Mandela and Reed were briefly united in a righteous quest – one that put them in direct opposition to another…
In Your Queue: Cutie and the Assassin
Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling (2013) Cutie loves Bullie. Bullie loves liquor. Typical. But nothing is really that easy or straight forward in this sober documentary about the artist couple, Ushio and Noriko Shinohara. In its telling, it’s about the art — Ushio’s boxing art and cardboard motorcycle sculptures, and Noriko’s Cutie graphic stories — but…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: The Times on Mandela; jobless hopes; jobless fears; Numberwang!; BP’s deeper horizons. A SMALL SPILL!
photo via guardianlv.com THE PAPER OF RECORD BRILLIANTLY RECOUNTS THE MAN OF OUR TIME. RESPECT: “The question most often asked about Mr. Mandela was how, after whites had systematically humiliated his people, tortured and murdered many of his friends, and cast him into prison for 27 years, he could be so evidently free of…
Breaking: Department of Health and Human Services continues ban on gay men donating blood
Disappointing news just landed in our email box. You may recall the efforts of Seminole State College student Blake Lynch and his Banned4Life project to reverse the discriminatory practice – in place since the uncertain AIDS days of 1983 – of forbidding gay men from donating blood. Lynch’s movement garnered national acclaim throughout this year,…
Orlando Predators to play at CFE Arena in 2014
Orlando Predators’ owner David Pearsall announced Wednesday that the local arena football team will move play from Amway Center to the CFE Arena on the University of Central Florida campus for the 2014 season. “We are thrilled to start a new chapter of the Predators organization at CFE Arena,” said Pearsall. “Our fans are going…
Bartender Bracket – Round 3
Click to enlarge. Knock ’em back, cuz this gets harder every week we knock someone out. It’s time for round 3 of our Another Round Bartender Bracket. Vote now! Round 1: Voting ends Friday, Nov. 29 Round 2: Voting ends Wednesday, Dec. 4 Round 3: Voting ends Wednesday, Dec. 11 Final round: Voting ends Wednesday,…
Taste in College Park closes, forces change of venue for shows
Just today we got word that the restaurant/bar/performance venue Taste in downtown College Park will be shutting its doors. We reached out to our contact at Taste in search of a reason for the closure, but we haven’t yet received a response. Although apparently, the sudden closure has forced show producers and promoters to arrange…
Attempt to restrict absentee ballots in Florida is voter suppression
This is the transcript of this week’s “From the Pages of Orlando Weekly” spot on WMFE 90.3 FM. You can listen to the spot on WMFE’s website. Image via itgetsworsefl.com It seems the assault on voting in the state of Florida will never end. At least not under the Gov. Rick Scott administration. Just as…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: ALEC shames the sun; Big Mac strike attack; Crist campaign woes; weed moobs! I’D RATHER BE HIGH!
THAT PART WHERE ALEC ACTUALLY CLIMBS UP ITS OWN ASS IN ORDER TO FIND IMPROVED WAYS TO APPEAR MORE INSIDIOUS. TAX THE CLEAN ENERGY PEOPLE!: An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels – casting them as “freeriders” – in a sweeping new offensive…
Tickets for War Horse at the Bob Carr go on sale tomorrow
Joey the War Horse We’ve had a stellar run of Broadway touring shows in Orlando recently – Wicked, the Book of Mormon and now the one we’ve been waiting to see forever: War Horse. The play tells the story of a boy whose horse is sold to a soldier during World War I – it…
Your Daily Weekly: Arabian Nights closes after 25 years, whales beached in Everglades and theater accidentally shows kids NSFW movie trailer
Down in Kissimmee, Arabian Nights, a long-time dinner theater staple closes its doors for good: “Unfortunately, we have reached a point where the marketplace demands a cheaper product than we can provide,” owner Mark Miller said. (source: Orlando Sentinel) Dozens of whales are beached and dying in the Florida Everglades. Saving them said to be…
Last call: 2014 Florida Film Festival submissions end Friday 12/6
Attention budding filmmakers. If you’ve been sitting on your hands or tinkering with some last minute edits to turn your middling low budget effort into an unqualified masterpiece, your time is almost up. The Florida Film Festival is calling for your entries. The short film submission period has already ended, but you still have a…
Our music columnist gets down to the Business, Johnny Marr and Angel Olsen
That most American of holidays, Thanksgiving, was stormed this year by a little British invasion. But, at least with regard to the Business concert (Nov. 27, Will’s Pub), we kept our own spice. The Beat How did you work up a turkey appetite? Me, I was out with the boot boys the night before, downing…
Sabrina Small’s stitchings take the sting out of aging
Small show at Alt_space documents with humor the props of ill-health
Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner seeks to restrict absentee ballots
Detzner says absentee ballots should only be mailed or dropped off at Supervisors of Elections offices
Sapphire Slows’ debut is an enthralling mix of dance and dream pop
Album review: Sapphire Slows’ ‘Allegoria’
First Words
Ad sense While we are by no means prudish and we are both “children of the ’60s,” we felt a need to comment on an ad for Nora’s that appeared in the Orlando Weekly (Holiday Guide, Nov. 20, p. 39). In a magazine that contains ads for a wide spectrum of events and advertising, we…
Hamilton’s Kitchen adds to Winter Park’s rich culinary heritage
Handsome dining room hides inside the impressive Alfond Inn
Frozen milk punch makes holiday drinking merry
Remix: a fresh take on the American cocktail
Small budget tactics result in a sensational White Fence live album
Album review: White Fence’s ‘Live in San Francisco’
‘Muscle Shoals’ is a rambling, rousing doc
Documentary sheds light on legendary Alabama town seminal to American rock music
‘Solos’ synthesizes theater and jazz
Local playwright Joseph Reed Hayes continues his ambitious arc with this play
Opening in Orlando: ‘Out of the Furnace’
Movies playing on screens around town this week
Savage Love
I’m a bi woman in my mid-20s in a great monogamish relationship with my straight boyfriend. We occasionally invite other women into our sex life, which is really enjoyable for both of us. On the occasions when we find a lady we’re both into who’s also into us, anything goes, and it’s awesome. We’ve hooked…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Sometimes I think too fast and too much. My logic gets sterile. My ideas become jagged and tangled. When this happens, I head off to Turtle Back Hill for a hike through the saltwater marsh. The trail loops around on itself, and I arrive back where I started in about 15…
‘Good Ol’ Freda’ is the last great Beatle story
Movie tells the long-awaited tale of the Fab Four’s secretary
Attorney who represented Jim Greer catches heat from Florida Bar
Attorney Damon Chase was reprimanded for swearing at a client’s sister in an email
The Thermals lose footing on ‘Desperate Ground’
Album review: The Thermals’ ‘Desperate Ground’
Defeater’s hardcore fuses the aggressive with the narrative
The music is the story; the story is the music
100 things you must do in Orlando before you die
A list of things everyone who lives in Orlando should do at least once
Drinking, Nightlife and Parties
Where to drink and party in Orlando this week
I shot Andy Warhol! (And other half-truths about tonight’s Beth Marshall Presents production of Beatnik at the Venue)
OK, I have a confession to make. When former Fringe mistress Beth Marshall initially approached me to, er, resemble Andy Warhol in her latest theatrical endeavor Beatnik (which, gulp, is happening tonight), I was clearly drunk. Not even just my standard tipsy either, but blackout at Studio 54 with a spoon in my nose and my…
New study shows just how bad the living wage conundrum is in Florida
image via matthewsburnabyblog.wordpress.com In case you didn’t get an eye- and an earful from the rather spectacular Dec. 1 CBS Sunday Morning segment on living wage issues with fast-food workers, here’s a bit of what everyone in this floundering economy is going on about right now: Twenty-seven-year-old Nancy Salgado’s sweet smile may be her most…
St. Matthew’s Tavern offers bar and church in one
Via TheDailyCity.com 1300 N. Mills Ave. has been home to the oddest collection of bars. Once it was known as Paradise, a neighborhood gay bar owned by the same people who own Ivanhoe Village gay bar the Savoy. Paradise had super-cheap drinks and free hot dogs on the patio on Sundays. Then Paradise closed, and…
On sale this week: The Black Angels at the Social!
On sale: Friday, Dec. 6 The Black Angels with Roky Erickson 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24 The Social, 54 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thesocial.org $18-$20 Down the road: The Devil Wears Prada, Dec. 11 at House of Blues Pusha T, Dec. 13 at Firestone Live Minnesota, Dec. 13 at The Social…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: Republicans on weed; Republicans on Gambling; runaway trains; runaway health costs; Walker’s Xmas gaffe. REPTILES!
PHOTO VIA HUFFINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES YOU’VE GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO HOLD ‘EM! LEGISLATIVE REPUBLICANS PLAYING DUMB ON THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA SITUATION, ARE THEY STONED?: The same legislative leaders who are now stomping their feet over the amendment’s language could have helped craft their own — presumably more restrictive — language when Clemens…
