Selection Reminder: International Noise Conference Pre-Show tonight at Uncle Lou’s!
Monday, Feb. 6 – International Noise Conference Pre-Show If there’s one thing the age of YouTube has made perfectly clear, it’s that there’s nothing, short of meat-and-potatoes entertainment, that can’t be expressed pretty effectively in under 15 minutes, and for free. The noiseniks behind the yearly INC in Miami – aka 72 hours of punishing…
Selection Reminder: Seattle alt-rock act Big Eyes tonight at Substance!
Monday, Feb. 6 – Big Eyes It would be easy to assume too much about Seattle alt-rock act Big Eyes based on their name alone – there can be only one “Big Eyes” and right now that’s a certain adorkable pixie sitcom star. Thankfully, images of poofy skirts, tiaras and ukuleles are jettisoned the moment Big…
Sunday Films News Roundup — February 5th, 2012
So, Ben Gazzara died this week. Stop it. I hate talking about actors and directors and writers that I loved dying. He was probably generally best known for his work with John Cassavettes in films like The Killing of a Chinese Bookie or Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder with Jimmy Stewart, though people my…
Selection Reminder: Orlando Improv Festival!
Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 6-7 – Third Annual Orlando Improv Festival When it comes to improv comedy, you should always expect the unexpected. It’s part of the performance process, and most often, it’s the element that creates the most laughs. Mark Baratelli, organizer for the third annual Orlando Improv Fest, throws a few curveballs this time around…
Selection Reminder: GroundHog Gala today in Sanford!
Saturday, Feb. 4 – GroundHog Gala Forget the stuffy suits and ties and the flashy cocktail dresses – at Misfires Car Club’s GroundHog Gala, described by club vice president John Tomorowitz as a “direct reflection of our taste in cars, style and music,” you’ll strip away the fancy for the fast and furious. We’re talking…
Selection Reminder: Mount Dora Arts Festival!
Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 4-5 – Mount Dora Arts Festival This festival is for the strong of mind as well as wallet. Agoraphobics and hoarders should stay away – the thousands of patrons and the abundance of covetable art make it a danger zone for anyone who can’t deal with a crowd or can’t keep their wallet…
Selection Reminder: James McMurtry tonight at the Social!
Friday, Feb. 3 – James McMurtry Whoever wins the Florida Republican primary, mere days before Texas country-folk singer James McMurtry jingles and jangles his way into town, chances are excellent that he’ll have something to say about that person. Probably all of them. The artist (and son of Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove, Terms…
Selection Reminder: Brian Feldman’s #48hYardSale!
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 3-5 – #48hYardSale How could a yard sale be considered a work of performance art? Add Brian Feldman and make it an endurance challenge, of course. Orlando’s favorite performance artist – you may know him as the guy who brought us such ventures as “Brian Feldman Marries Anybody” and “Brian Feldman Eats Everything…
31 Days of Oscar Begins… Yesterday. Whoops.
It’s time once again for one of my favorite times of the year: 31 Days of Oscar, on Turner Classic Movies. Each year, the cable net ends their programming season with a month full of Oscar winners, from recent films to films from the 20s, Oscar winners all. From now until March 2nd, it’s an…
Selection Reminder: Carl Hiaasen at Rollins College!
Thursday, Feb. 2 – Winter With the Writers: Carl Hiaasen Kicking off Rollins’ well-established Winter With the Writers literary series is an evening with Carl Hiaasen, Florida’s homegrown maestro of outrage. Sometimes he mines a vein of restrained sarcasm, as in his columns for the Miami Herald, which simmer with a slow boil of anger…
Remix
The champagne cocktail
Happytown
a Quiet down in the back! It’s timeto gently release those doughboy Gingrich balloons and fluorescent Romney mittens, because we have ourselves a winner. Who could have possibly guessed that Tuesday night’s Florida presidential preference primary would have ended up with that guy taking home the orange juice stakes? We mean, really, it’s like they…
Garden variety
Longtime dim sum favorite offers patrons a little of everything for dinner
Micro scope
Winter Garden debuts its first micro-budget film festival
Three to tango
Tom Tykwer’s preposterous German-language return comes to DVD Feb. 7
Try before you buy
Central Florida ArtsFest offers a month of performances, exhibitions, concerts and workshops from metro Orlando’s best cultural organizations – and it’s all free
Dissolving partnership
Mayor Teresa Jacobs continues to kick the can on the domestic-partnership registry
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Live Active Cultures
Seth reunites with old friends who have been absent from Orlando’s stages
Culture 2 Go
The story of Pittsburgh Pirate baseball legend Roberto Clemente’s death on Dec. 31, 1972, is well-known, even outside sports circles. Clemente was on a humanitarian mission to help Nicaraguan earthquake victims. It was rumored that Somoza’s soldiers were stealing donations and blocking relief efforts coming in from outside the country, but Clemente was prepared to…
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Glen Runciter, Sloppy Kisses, the Nude Scene, Reptar, Joe Buck and more
Narcotics eponymous
Ex-alt-rock kingpin Mike Doughty explores the nitty-gritty of addiction in new memoir
Savage Love
My husband is a very kinky submissive man
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Sad but true: A lot of people seem to be perpetually in a state of wanting what they don’t have and not wanting what they actually do have. I’m begging you not to be like that in the coming weeks. Please? I’ll tell you why: More than I’ve seen in a…
Eagle vs. shark
Grooveshark gets hooked by a $17 billion lawsuit — and brings the national debate over copyright infringement to Central Florida
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
The Woman in Black
A horror outsider reinvigorates the genre with loving homage
Violent delights have violent ends
Credible performances save Orlando Shakes’ dissonant take on Shakespeare’s greatest hit
The Double Feature: New York, New York — It’s a Hell of a Town
This week’s film’s are Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak’s Cinemania and Bennett Miller’s The Cruise. If you’ve ever been to New York City, even if you never ventured out into the City beyond Times Sq, you met some of the wonderful weirdos and oddballs that the City has both given birth to and accepted in as…
