Some notes and photos from the People’s Convention of Florida
All photos by Rob Bartlett. On Sunday, a crowd of people gathered in the plaza outside City Hall in Orlando for Day Two of the People’s Convention of Florida, an Occupy [INSERT YOUR CITY NAME HERE]-related event at which various delegations of Occupiers from cities across Florida met to hammer out a series of proposals…
Christmas Crazy: Remember the Night – Mitchell Leisen (1940)
It’s Christmas eve in New York City and a fabulously well-dressed woman is trying on a bracelet in a 5th Avenue jewelry store. It’s beautiful and shiny, mesmerizing to the eye, but she’d like to see another one, she tells the clerk, and as soon as his back is turned, she’s gone — and so…
Selection Reminder: My Morning Jacket tonight at Hard Rock Live!
Sunday, Dec. 11 – My Morning Jacket On first listen, you may think you’ve heard this schtick before: a sort of 1970s-styled indie band with hints of that warm, fuzzy folksy sound (think Iron and Wine, Fleet Foxes). But if you give the band a little more of a listen, you’ll find they defy easy…
Selection Reminder: Kira Small and Bryan Beller at Timucua White House!
Sunday, Dec. 11 – Kira Small and Bryan Beller We hate to brag – and by “hate,” we mean “love” – but last year, CNN.com ran a wide-eyed piece on the rise of house shows throughout the U.S., keyed off a Georgia living-room performance by this easy-listening duo. Orlando wasn’t mentioned as one of their hot spots, but…
Sunday Film News Roundup — December 11th, 2011
Nothing happened this week. Seriously. There were some awful trailers for crap like What to Expect when You’re Expecting, and New Years Eve got sent through the critical buzzsaw as pretty much every who wasn’t involved in making it thought it would. Okay, the two things that happened this week were the Scott Rudin/David Denby…
Selection Reminder: Meet & Greet the Art and Design Team From Universal Orlando Resort!
Sunday, Dec. 11 – Meet & Greet the Art and Design Team From Universal Orlando Resort The History Center’s Serious Art of Make-Believe might also have been called The Serious Business of Scaring the Crap Out of You, or maybe We Make Serious Money Goofing Around With Art Supplies. (We kid; these are professionals.) The…
Selection Reminder: Sparkle Holiday Market today!
Sunday, Dec. 11 – Sparkle Around the holidays, everything tends to go glam: glistening ornaments on the tree, synchronized light displays around the neighborhood, glitzy gift-wrapped presents. You’ll even find the craftiest gift-givers who can magically turn junk into gems – a raggedy pair of jeans becomes a rhinestone-clad purse, an heirloom brooch creates the…
Selection Reminder: Orlando Gay Chorus’ There’s Something About Merry!
Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 10-11 – There’s Something About Merry Vocal music is experiencing a surge of renewed life, what with Glee and its reality-based ilk (The Sing Off, The Singing Bee, The Voice), but those solo divas and high school ensembles can’t compare to the full-on whomp of a hundred seasoned voices tsunami-ing your eardrums. This…
Selection Reminder: Just Jackson art show!
Saturday, Dec. 10 – Just Jackson Sure, we could just go with the arched brow of reverence here: That Jackson Pollock’s troubled life produced a shining – if a bit squinty and speckled – star amid the chaos of the abstract impressionism explosion of the mid-20th century; that all of this scattershot genius stood in…
Selection Reminder: Neil Patrick Harris at Epcot!
Saturday-Monday, Dec. 10-12 – Holidays Around the World – Candlelight Processional When Neil Patrick Harris isn’t starring in his own sitcom, appearing in The Muppets and Harold and Kumar flicks, filling in for Regis Philbin on that morning show, spoofing himself in Old Spice commercials, hosting the Tony and Emmy awards (and winning some while…
People’s Convention of Florida to take place outside City Hall
On Monday, we reported that Occupy Orlando planned to host delegates from Occupy groups across the state for the first People’s Convention of Florida, taking place this weekend. Today, says Brook Hines of Occupy Orlando, the delegates will start trickling in and will meet at Senator Beth Johnson Park (from which Occupy Orlando was recently…
Sweden up your holidays
IKEA Julbord 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 4092 Eastgate Drive 407-355-3155 $9.99 If Thanksgiving left you tired of turkey and jonesing for something a little more exotic, IKEA Orlando brings traditional Swedish Christmas to your plate tomorrow. The all-you-can-eat Julbord celebration features Swedish delicacies (hello, pickled herring) as well as rich, luxurious…
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
You never know what to expect at The Table’s permanent dinner party
Savage Love
I’m a happily married woman. I have a great sex life with my husband of many years.
Web therapy
Seek out these online goodies ASAP
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) What’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen in your life? To answer that question is your first assignment. It’s OK if you can’t decide between the three or four most beautiful things. What’s important is to keep visions of those amazements dancing in the back of your mind for the…
The Are We Sunk Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Young Goethe in Love
Period piece is simply an excuse to play dress-up
Happytown
The week in which we hopped into an unregulated bed with heavy firearms, lamented the state’s environmental time machine and then hoped we died before we got old. Talkin’ ’bout our (lost) generation!
The Gray Market
How prescription-drug shortages are emptying pockets and threatening your health
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Highbrow lowdown
Orlando artists and arts professionals party down south at Art Basel Miami Beach
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Localcopia, Christopher Paul Stelling, Mastodon and the Wholetones
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Band’s labyrinth
Into the woods with Cleveland duo Mr. Gnome
Shall we gather at the river?
No divine intervention but plenty of powerhouse performances in this bleak Depression-era tale
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
David Zimlinghaus of Zap Dragon and the Attack
Jingle every day
Orlando’s holiday events by the numbers
Underrated: Starz (1976)
In their time, it was both tempting and fairly easy to dismiss Starz as purveyors of generic, overhyped album rock. Even Circus Magazine, a regular booster of the most commercial of acts, castigated the group for having no obvious raison d’être beyond the fame and fortune that nonetheless managed to continually elude them. But in…
Death sentence dropped for Mumia Abu-Jamal
When was the last time you heard Mumia Abu-Jamal’s name in the mainstream media? Probably not since the mid-1990s. In 1982, the former radio journalist/activist/Black Panther was convicted of murder for the shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer, though he (and supporters) insist he is innocent. Ever since, his case has been an international…
Selection Reminder: Indie-folk duo Loves It! tonight at Will’s Pub
Wednesday, Dec. 7 – Loves It! Western-swing traditionalist trio Shotgun Party from Austin, Texas, had earned their Orlando bones the old-fashioned way with perseverance, elbow grease and talent. They began working the outlying areas and gradually picked up enough word of mouth and press to enter the city limits and get into the top indie…
Remember Pearl Harbor on TCM
Just a quick post to remind you that today is the 70th anniversary of the bombings at Pearl Harbor, and to please, please, please, not watch Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor to commemorate the day. Instead, Turner Classic has a night of programming dedicated to Pearl Harbor, starting with Fred Zinneman’s From Here to Eternity, about…
Occupy Orlando to host People’s Convention of Florida
OPD may have kicked Occupy Orlando out of Senator Beth Johnson Park on Monday, but Occupiers are a scrappy lot and they’ve still got plans to host the upcoming statewide Occupy event: The People’s Convention of Florida, taking place Dec. 9-11. Delegates from various Occupy organizations from across the state (Tampa, Key West, Miami, Sarasota,…
