Timey-wimey marches on: Michael Sam and the “future” of football
“The Daleks? I hear they’re fielding a good team this year.” Last week, I started watching Doctor Who again after a hiatus of almost four decades. I was delighted to learn that, even all these years later, the good Doctor still stands for everything I had remembered: wit, imagination, an open mind and a big…
Tyler, the Creator books a date at Plaza Live
Attention, Odd Future fans and anyone who is continually boggled by Tyler, the Creator, you’re going to want to see the spectacle himself at his Plaza Live date on March 17. He’ll still be riding that SXSW high, no doubt, as he comes to town directly following the massive music gathering. He’s touring on 2013’s…
A Lynum Shame: The curious case of Orlando Commissioner Daisy Lynum’s retirement, liveblogged
image via WFTV If you were following last week’s episode of Dynasty: Orlando, then you probably caught wind that FOREVER Commissioner Daisy Lynum, she of the fifth district (basically Parramore), was in some kind of internal squabble with her own son Juan Lynum, who, for at least a minute, seemed like he was running against…
Push The Talking Trash Can canned at Disney
Push, at left, amongst his stationary brethren. Photo via Beth Green. Disney World is a most enchanted realm where even garbage receptacles come to life to entertain you – well, it used to be a most enchanted realm where even garbage receptacles came to life to entertain you. Push The Talking Trash Can, the radio controlled…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: equality, judgment and cock
via forcechange.com THAT PART WHERE WE GET FEDERALLY ACKNOWLEDGED AS BEING ACTUAL, RESPONSIBLE, (REASONABLY) EQUAL HUMAN BEINGS. ROLL ON, HISTORY: In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Attorney General Eric Holder is applying a landmark Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department, announcing Saturday that same-sex spouses cannot be compelled to testify against each other,…
POLICE BEAT: That’s low, Orlando. Senior citizen robbed; girlfriend pushed into traffic
Between a woman who savaged a senior citizen and a guy who pushed his girlfriend into traffic, some despicable crimes played out in Orlando yesterday. At around 2 p.m. on Thursday, 52-year-old Melanie Kay Chang showed up at 85-year-old Elizabeth G. Langford’s front door in South Orlando. Chang said she was interested in contacting Langford’s…
State Rep. Joe Saunders and Sen. Jeff Clemens to introduce medical marijuana bill on Monday. HAPPY FRIDAY!
As we predicted – not really, but work with us here – the political tide of medical marijuana is a strong and mighty thing. We just got notice that on Monday, two of our favorite progressive legislators, Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Palm Beach and Rep. Joe Saunders, D-Orlando, will be occupying the ROTUNDA of the state…
United Arts wants to make it rain
Okay we all know a bucket-load of people who have some amazing ideas but no money to make it happen. In fact, I’m usually one of those people. Thankfully there are ways to get that money that don’t include scraping my knees and messing up my lipstick. If you are an individual artist practicing in…
Whisk and Bowl now open at East End Market
For all your pastry bag, balloon whip and candy thermometer needs, Whisk and Bowl is now open upstairs at East End Market. Owner Karen Manfredi is a graduate of pastry school, but it wasn’t her professional experience that made her want to sell the tools of the trade, it was feeling the connection to family…
Five for Friday: #SochiProblems
Here’s the stuff that’ll get you through your Friday afternoon slump: via 1. It’s Winter Olympics time! Exciting, right? Well, it seems that $51 billion can’t keep Sochi problem-free. @SochiProblems rounds up all the issues from unfinished accommodations for the athletes to the “disposal” of stray dogs. via 2. I have a pretty big crush…
Florida represents at Sochi (now with even more injury updates!)
Even though all signs point to the non-sporting side of the Sochi Winter Olympics being a farce — or worse, a potential terrorist heaven — to anyone not there enduring the awful accommodations, packs of wild dogs and apparent government surveillance, it should be the sports we’re thinking of. The US is sending a huge delegation…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: Stand your ground, stand in line, stand on ceremony
UNNECESSARY DEATH BECOMES US, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGEST OF US: “Michael Dunn stands trial this week for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Davis after Dunn complained that Davis was playing loud music. Dunn is expected to raise the defense that gained notoriety after the death of Trayvon Martin, Stand Your Ground. (If Martin were still…
Have a more informed Oscar ballot: nominated live action and animated short films open today at Enzian
It hasn’t always been this way, but lately it’s become a yearly tradition to have a theatrical release of the Oscar nominated short films. ShortsHD may not have the best reputation with short film directors (the contract favors the company instead of the director), but it’s still a great program they put together every year…
Canada is to Russia as Rainbow is to Gulag
Art from Change.org Oh Canada. Let’s be honest y’all, we never really thought “luging” was super butch anyway right? It sounds lik e what my hair dresser does when they fluff my do. Yet, as funny as this video is, the things being done in Russia to marginalize members of the LGBT community are…
ORLANDO WEEKLY ON WMFE: Billy Manes on the politics of medical marijuana
ORIGINAL BROADCAST: FEB. 6, 2014 LISTEN HERE, OR BELOW The big Floridian election-year news coming out of the last week wasn’t really Gov. Rick Scott’s terribly named “It’s Your Money Tax Cut Budget” and its historic $74.2 billion dollars of empty promises. Nor was it the sudden glove removal of perpetually pleasant “people’s governor” Charlie…
Poet Charles Simic gives reading and free master class tonight at Rollins
As the first event of this year’s Winter With the Writers literary festival, poet Charles Simic appears tonight at Bush Auditorium on the campus of Rollins College. From 4-5:30pm, Simic conducts a master class, which is free and open to the public. At 7pm, he’ll read, be interviewed onstage, and sign books for the audience.…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: ponzi politics, lippy lobbyists, races and faces
via telegraph.uk NAMECHECKING CHARLIE CRIST, NAMECHECKING CHARLIE CRIST. WE’RE GOING TO NEED A CLEAN UP ON AISLE 11: “Wooing politicians like Gov. Charlie Crist and U.S. Sen. John McCain was a key to the success of his $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme, convicted fraudster Scott Rothstein told a jury Wednesday in federal court. Testifying for more…
**UPDATE** Full Sail’s free music festival is open to the public (full schedule added)
**UPDATE** The full schedule has been posted, bringing on more bands: Ruth King, Gringo Star, Good Graeff, Skywire and Have Gun, Will Travel. Here’s how it’s looking: Thomas Wynn & the Believers, the Pauses, Have Gun, Will Travel, Beartoe, Ruth King 3-9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19 | Full Sail University Backlot, 351 S. Semoran Blvd.,…
Orange County Animal Services says it will no longer label dogs by breed
Yesterday Orange County Animal Services announced that it will no longer be labeling the dogs that come into its facility according to breed. The decision comes after months of discussion about the shelter and its policies. Local animal advocates have been attending the shelter’s advisory board meetings to demand change and make recommendations about how…
CVS quits tobacco for good
via Vince Lombardi once said, “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” Well, if good health is the ultimate prize, then CVS may be a big winner. Starting October 1, smokers will have to get their tobacco from somewhere other than CVS. Today, CVS Caremark announced that they would be stopping all sales of cigarettes and…
Rapper DMX to fight George Zimmerman
via According to celeb gossip site TMZ, 15,000 people applied to kick George Zimmerman’s ass after he announced that he’d be willing to go mano a mano with someone in the ring in a celebrity boxing match. Zimmerman said he wanted to fight Kanye West, and rapper the Game said he’d be willing to take…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: believing in religion, sugar, gambling and death
via patheos.com A BIG UNITED NATIONS SMACKDOWN FOR A HISTORY OF CATHOLIC ABUSES, OR A STATEMENT OF THE OBVIOUS: A U.N. human rights committee denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on the…
Orlando’s music community finds its voice
Give Me Your Money
First Words: First comes love
First comes love What this article (“Legal challenge could overturn gay-marriage ban in Florida,” Jan. 29) didn’t mention is that Judge Sarah Zabel’s husband is not only the ex-mayor of North Miami Beach, but he’s currently standing trial on four felonies and five misdemeanors, including grand theft and campaign finance fraud. Zabel is hardly a…
Tip Jar: Dr. Phillips Trader Joe’s is a go
Plus new Eola Drive champagne lounge, 4 Rivers brisket-scented candle and more
‘That Awkward Moment’: Tom Gormican’s anti-romance is junk
That sexist moment
Fringe hit ‘Loon’ returns to Orlando for one weekend
Portland-based group Wonderheads have dropped out of Fringe 2014, so catch it now
Opening in Orlando: ‘The LEGO Movie,’ ‘The Monuments Men,’ ‘Vampire Academy’ and ‘Labor Day’
Movies opening in theaters this week
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “You know it’s Saturday when you are wiping off vodka stains from your face with a marshmallow,” testifies the woman who writes the Tumblr blog French Fries Absinthe Milkshakes. I really hope you don’t even come close to having an experience like that this week. But I’m worried that you will.…
Howler’s Theatre presents an interactive, gender-swapped ‘Tempest’
Follow Shakespearean players around the wooded grounds of the Acre Orlando
Remembering Ralph Ameduri
Friends recall a dedicated musician who helped shape the local scene; plus Lou Barlow on the role of bass guitar in music
Drinking, Nightlife and Parties
Where to drink and party in Orlando this week
Mogwai emphasizes electronics on tongue-in-cheek ‘Rave Tapes’
Album review: Mogwai’s ‘Rave Tapes’
‘Warpaint’ is an immersive album for the moment
Album review: Warpaint’s ‘Warpaint’
This Little Underground: ‘Purple Rain’ live and the attendance myth
New Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra every month, Arctic Monkeys, The Orwells, Talib Kweli, Whistle Pigs
Trial of local musician Ralph Ameduri’s killer concludes
Samuel Sweet Jr. receives six guilty verdicts after more than two years of investigation
Medical marijuana could drive voter turnout in 2014
John Morgan should be sorry-not-sorry for playing hardball democracy
Savage Love
What is the best way to sanitize a latex dildo? At least I think it’s a latex dildo. I actually don’t know. I had a yeast infection a few months ago, and before I knew what was up, I used my toy. Now I’m afraid to touch it until I know it won’t re-infect me!…
Rick Scott’s budget doesn’t make any cents
As polling numbers dwindle, the governor races to craft a new math
High standards in the kitchen make Scratch worth sniffing out
Ambitious new tapas joint is changing the face of dining in Winter Park
Remix: For Valentine’s Day, try a Monkey Gland cocktail (yuck?)
It tastes better than it sounds.
Damien Jurado’s ‘Brothers and Sisters’ is both soothing and exciting
Album review: Damien Jurado’s ‘Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son’
Winter With the Writers showcases a lively mix
Rollins’ annual literary festival aims to strike a balance between ‘excitement and disquiet’
Never forget?: New bill and petition launched to correct LGBT dishonorable discharges from the military
via ramblings-fran.blogspot.com We got a note this morning from a reader and friend (and veteran) Brian Henley asking us if we might sign his petition asking the White House to expedite the process for service people who were at any time discharged for their homosexuality, a process that, even in the wake of Don’t Ask…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: rethinking postal, loving a Fluke and learning to live
via politico ELIZABETH WARREN CONTINUES TO USE HER BRAIN TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. REPUBLICANS LIKELY TO “GO POSTAL” IN A DIFFERENT WAY: The Postal Service (USPS) could spare the most economically vulnerable Americans from dealing with predatory financial companies under a proposal endorsed over the weekend by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). ‘USPS could partner with banks…
Orlando foodie Instagrams you need to be following
Prediction: Even if you’ve just eaten, you’ll be starving by the time you finish this post. We’ve rounded up some of the best foodie Instagram feeds in Orlando. If you’re not following them already, you should be. Here’s why: Instagram: @Droolius Instagram: @droolius Self-proclaimed: Food photos that make you drool. Orlando Weekly proclaimed: With gorgeous, high-quality…
