“The Twig Snapped” or how Teresa Jacobs (seems to have) learned to love the Domestic Partnership Registry and hate the war
VICTORY! Or so it seems. Today, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs held a meeting with the Orlando Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Committee to discuss what her position on the big gay issue, a Domestic Partnership Registry, really is. We’ve covered this here and here and here, but we’ve also been spending a lot of time sitting outside…
Call for artists: Clean out that studio and make some cash!
The ladies of A/K/Art Consulting (pictured above) plan a two-day art sale 10am-4pm Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22, at the Say It Loud/Orange Studio on Mills. (And yes, Orlando, THERE WILL BE FOOD TRUCKS. We know you don’t go anywhere anymore unless there’s a taco within arm’s reach.) Says Alya Poplawsky: “During these difficult economic…
Selection Reminder: Voci Dance’s Tea & Letters!
Sunday, Feb. 19 – Tea & Letters 2:30 p.m. Mennello Museum of American Art 900 E. Princeton St. 407-432-1133 free-$20 Time to pull out your corsets and frock coats and head to the Mennello Museum of American Art for Voci Dance’s second installment of their Great Urban Spaces series: Tea & Letters. The modern dance…
Sunday Film News Roundup — February 19th, 2012
My biggest gripe of the week is that Disney hasn’t released Studio Ghibli’s latest film, The Secret World of Arrietty, with its original Japanese language track at all this time around. I know the widest roll out is always for the the English dub, which they put a lot money into, and I’m fine with…
China: Come for the 3D, stay for the brutal repression
I hate to say this, because I really think the guy gets a bad rap — but boy, did Joe Biden say something stupid yesterday. According to Deadline, the Vice President had this to say regarding a new trade pact between China and the U.S. film industry: “This agreement with China will make it easier…
Selection Reminder: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue at the Blues B-Q Festival!
Saturday, Feb. 18 – Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue with the Lee Boys, B.B. King’s All-Star Band, Cece Teneal, the Kevin Maines Band 3-10 p.m. Amway Center 400 W. Church St. free If Paul Simon can be considered the musical ambassador of 9/11, the same can be said of Trombone Shorty and the Katrina disaster.…
Selection Reminder: Orlando Wetlands Festival!
Saturday, Feb. 18 – Orlando Wetlands Festival 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Fort Christmas Historical Park 1300 N. Fort Christmas Road Christmas 407-568-1706 free Look beyond the sunny beaches and amusement parks that often represent the Florida brand, and you’ll find that 30 percent of our state is covered by wetlands – an equally representative slice of…
Midday briefs
Skip the sweet-and-sour staples and stick to Trey Yuen’s dim sum
Local heroes
After last year’s gustatory afterglow, Slow Food Orlando’s Eat Local Week has returned. During the eight-day stretch between Nov. 11-18, some of Orlando’s finest restaurants will serve menus created around Central Florida’s best ingredients, and chances to interact with our best local farmers, food producers and like-minded eaters will abound. Dishes served on Eat Local…
The Skin I Live In
Antonio Banderas reunites with Pedro Almodóvar for a twisted mad-scientist story
J. Edgar
Leonardo DiCaprio gives an award-worthy performance as the conflicted FBI honcho
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The title of this week’s movie is Uproar of Love, starring the Fantasy Kid and the Most Feeling Machine In the World. It blends romance and science fiction, with overtones of espionage and undertones of revolution for the hell of it. Comic touches will slip in at unexpected moments. When you’re…
Neutering the watchdogs
Interference in state’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program could mean less oversight of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities
Orlando Calling: A Q and A with Melvin Binn
Festival Republic’s managing director talks about his company’s first foray into the states
Happytown
Did you hear that crash, Orlando? Rick Scott was in town again! And this time he brought his buddy, Florida’s chief financial officer, Jeff Atwater, along for the well-insured ride! The couple made a pit stop at the OPD Gun Range and Training Center on Nov. 3 to talk to their constituency about the perpetual…
Roots and wings
Eustis museum explores the common heritage and diverging paths of three former Research Studio members
This Little Underground
Our local music critic takes on the 99 Percent Fest, True Widow, Emily Reo and more
Orlando Calling: Relighting the Bowl
The Citrus Bowl is no stranger to music fests, but it’s been a while
Going all in
Kerouac House resident writer Beth Raymer talks about betting, boxing and other forms of risky behavior
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Elizabeth Olsen storms the screen in a ferocious debut
Live Active Cultures
Seth renews his vows with cult pop culture
Savage Love
I’m an evangelical Christian in a country where that is not a political statement
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Video: New Blue Man Group Show Previewed at Universal Orlando
What is bald, blue, and bizarre all over? Well, in Orlando right now (or at least until Tobias Funke and the Arrested Development crew return to Netflix) the answer is “the Blue Man Group.” The renowned group of performance art percussionists has been playing the Sharp Aquos Theater at Universal Orlando’s Citywalk for over 4…
The Double Feature: They’re Totally the Same Movie
This week’s films are Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation and Fred Schepisi’s Mr. Baseball. So, if I were to say to you that we were about to watch an film about an American star stuck in Japan, a place he is too tall for and can’t get a hang of the customs, to work for…
Selection Reminder: Antiques & Collectors Extravaganza!
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 17-19 – Antiques & Collectors Extravaganza 8 a.m. Renninger’s Twin Markets 20651 U.S. 441, Mount Dora 352-383-8393 $4-$15 Three times a year, the hilly, tree-scattered pastures that surround Renninger’s Flea Market and Antique Center are populated by a wild overspill of vintage dealers from around the country. Pouring throughout the stalls and tables…
Opening in Orlando — February 17th, 2012
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — Didja notice that when Nicolas Cage was on SNL last week to hype this thing, they changed the wording of their “Get in the Cage” boilerplate just a smidge? Instead of saying that the Ghost Rider sequel has “the two key qualities of a classic Nic Cage film,” Andy…
Selection Reminder: Florida Writers’ Conference!
Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 16-18 – Florida Writers’ Conference various times through Feb. 18 University of Central Florida $15-$150 Christian Lander of snarkblog Stuff White People Like once wrote, “It’s no secret: White people want to be writers. Every single white person harbors this dream.” (Lander, who is white, gained a multi-book publishing deal off his blog.…
Selection Reminder: Paris Belongs to Us!
Thursday, Feb. 16 – Paris Belongs to Us 1:30 p.m. Southeast Museum of Photography 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd. Daytona Beach 386-506-4475 free Film series can be a tough sell these days, when one assumes every film is available on Netflix, streamed right to your TV or delivered to your mailbox. An even tougher sell…
Indian empire
Amit Kumar’s third restaurant brings familiar, fiery and focused Indian fare to Winter Park
On the side
4 Rivers Sweet Shop
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Room Full of Strangers’ Mick “Dagger” Mcluan
With teeth
Hook craftsmen Cloud Nothings show off a newly acquired sense of aggression
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
The Secret World of Arrietty
A classic children’s book gets a confident Studio Ghibli adaptation
Live Active Cultures
In which Seth bids adieu to Brian Feldman
The local pink
The Komen controversy hits home for Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando
The Bar Tab
Well, friends, it’s time to pour one out for good ol’ McRaney’s Tavern. After five years and a commendable rotation of pinball machines, the bar is calling it quits. Interestingly, the bar that is said to be replacing it will be … a tap room! See, circle of life and all that.
This Means War
A perfectly likable cast cringes through an anorexic action-comedy
Savage Love
I headed north last week to do Savage Love Live
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Zola Jesus, Paleface, Los Bastardos Magnificos and reports back on the reopening of Café Davinci
Culture 2 Go
Rumors of OLA Fest’s demise are greatly exaggerated In late 2011, the Sentinel reported that OLA Fest, the Orlando Latin American Film & Heritage Festival (though no one ever seems to call it that), had been canceled. Rather than hold the festival, which usually highlights films by and about Latin Americans, as well as films…
Rough Draught
Tap rooms for tough times
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Happy Hour of the Week
Where: Relax Grill at Lake Eola, 211 Eola Parkway (corner of North Rosalind Avenue and East Robinson Street) The Deal: $3 domestic beers, $4 imports, $3 wines, $13 domestic buckets, $16 imports buckets. $10 all you can drink during Fri.-Sat. happy hours. When: Mon.-Thurs., 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.…
Race for the PR cure
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure debacle reveals cracks in the facade of the Dallas-based charity
Into the forest
Orlando Shakes offers a refreshingly unstuffy take on Shakespeare’s genre-hopping fairy tale
When a tree falls
Remembering local environmental advocate Mike Barr
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) What do you typically do just before you fall asleep and right after you wake up? Those rituals are important for your mental health. Without exaggeration, you could say they are sacred times when you’re poised in the threshold between the two great dimensions of your life. I’ll ask you to…
Happytown
The week where halftime in Tallahassee brought a snippy House budget and the egregious (if boring) yawn of a redistricting debacle; also, Orwellian un-persons can’t run for city office! We are all invisible now.
Theater Review: Billy Elliot The Musical from Fairwinds Broadway Across America
Tony Blair and other Brits are up in arms over Meryl Streep’s “unkind” portrayal of Margaret Thatcher with Alzheimer’s. I hope those Tories haven’t seen the West End hit Billy Elliot, whose Broadway tour opened at Orlando’s Bob Carr last night. One of the best moments in the show (based on the 2000 Universal movie…
This Weekend: SYTYCD Alumn Courtney Galiano’s BEAT Dance Workshop @ Airport Hyatt
Attention addicts of competition dance and/or reality television! If your deepest fantasy is spending a sweaty weekend in an airport hotel with alumni of “So You Think You Can Dance,” your ship has come in. Courtney Galiano, a SYTYCD “All Star” who appeared on the popular program in 2008 and 2010, will bring her BEAT…
“50 Songs Of Nostalgia” Mixtape
A mixtape for all you nostalgic lovers out there; Whether you’re alone or with the one you love, this mix is like walking into a diner in the midwest in the middle of nowhere… the waiting room of the beyond, perhaps. A walk through each other’s souls. Everyone together. Valentine’s Day should be recognized as…
Video: Fairwinds Broadway Across America 2012/2013 Season Announcement
Tonight, the hit musical Billy Elliot opens at the Bob Carr as one of the centerpieces of the current 2011/2012 Fairwinds Broadway Across America season. There are still several shows left before the season ends, but that doesn’t mean it’s too soon to start looking for ward to 2012/2013. At downtown’s Abbey Theater last night,…
Video: Chad Lewis & Jason Donnelly Wed at “Prop 8 On Trial”
Last weekend, several dozen notable members of Orlando’s theater community donated their time and talents to “Prop 8 On Trial,” a staged reading of the transcript from the legal battle over California’s controversial anti-gay-marriage initiative. The production was presented by Beth Marshall, from a script by Lisa Cordes; featured actors included Michael Mormon, John DiDonna,…
Selection Reminder: There Will Be Words #10: Valentine’s Edition!
Tuesday, Feb. 14 – There Will Be Words #10: Valentine’s Edition 6 p.m. Urban ReThink 625 E. Central Blvd. 407-704-6895 free Despite the series’ somewhat combative name, this edition of There Will Be Words is for lovers, not fighters. The advent of this prose reading series last year was a welcome development on the city’s…
