White Stillman’s “Damsels in Distress” Trailer: Epic, or Epic Fail?
It’s kind of an asshole thing to do, to take a trailer so seriously, but this is kind of an extraordinary circumstance. Whit Stillman, he of Oscar nomination fame for the wonderful Metropolitan, has not released a film since The Last Days of Disco in 1998, despite being almost universally beloved by independent films fans.…
Where to drink on Valentine’s Day
If you have a date and need a place to take him/her, read this. If you don’t have a date, all you need really need to properly celebrate is a not-lame place to drink another uneventful Feb. 14 away. The Falcon is hosting a Single & Proud night on Feb. 14, with half-off drinks for…
More on Tier Nightclub opening in Orlando …
As we recently noted in our new Bar Tab column, a massive new nightclub is opening in Orlando. It’s called Tier, and according to this story in the Orlando Business Journal, it’s being opened by two UCF alum who want to bring some kind of blend of Miami posh and New York style to downtown…
NBA All-Star Weekend brings celebs to Orlando
All eyes will be set on Orlando once again, and this time it won’t have anything to do with a high-profile murder case. Good for us! The weekend of February 24-26, Orlando will play host to the 61st annual NBA All-Star Game. This year, Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard will headline the Eastern Conference team…
Sunday Film News Roundup — February 12th, 2012
A bit late this Sunday. I had woot canaw this week and needless to say I’ve been acting like a sick, hurt little baby all week, so I wasn’t as attentive as I usually am when it came to new hounding this week. It’s a bit of a thin link collection, and the best thing…
Selection Reminder: Names Divine tonight at Stardust Video & Coffee!
Sunday, Feb. 12 – Names Divine with Decanted Youth 9 p.m. Stardust Video & Coffee 1842 E. Winter Park Road 407-623-3393 free If ’60s model-singer Nico were to be brought back from the dead, shot full of street ketamine and given a crash course on the state of world politics since her 1988 cerebral hemorrhage,…
Sitcom stalwart and pals bring their BS to the Fringe
True confession time: Somehow, I missed the news that Orlando expat Brian Bradley has a hand in Only Fools and Horses, a stateside adaptation of a British sitcom that’s going to pilot at ABC. Since I ordinarily monitor Bradley’s comings and goings with the obsessiveness of a proud grandma or a twice-detained stalker, this was…
Selection Reminder: 2012 Orlando Winter Beerlympics!
Saturday, Feb. 11 – 2012 Orlando Winter Beerlympics 7 p.m. Wall Street Plaza Wall and Court Streets orlandopubcrawl.com $100 for team of four, $20 for spectators It’s about that time for resolutions to be broken, and what better way to break them than by getting completely wasted and earning the coveted title of Orlando’s Winter…
Party? Bar? Sleigh Bells? No way, stay in for a great night on TCM.
Seriously, tonight is one of those epics nights on TCM as they venture on their Bundy vacation to… beautiful Wyoming! Huh? Wyoming? But seriously, it’s great, starting at 6:30 with the Henry Fonda western, The Ox Bow Incident, then at 8 for Steven Speilberg’s crazy-genuis-reason-for-living, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. After that, it’s Kirk Douglas…
Coalition for the Homeless breaks ground on new homeless shelter
After two years of planning and investment, groundbreaking was held today for the Men’s Service Center, a new homeless shelter to be built in downtown Orlando. This ceremony marked the beginning of construction on the center, which should be completed and operational by 2013. Mayors Buddy Dyer and Teresa Jacobs attended the ceremony, along with…
Photo Gallery: Mardi Gras Media Preview at Universal
The 17th annual Mardi Gras celebration kicks off this weekend at Universal Studios Florida with a Saturday night concert from the B-52s. The event continues on Saturdays and select weekend nights through April 15th. This morning the media was invited to inspect the parade’s 4 brand-new floats with Universal SVP Jim Timon, and sample some…
Selection Reminder: Culture and Cocktails at Art & History Museums – Maitland!
Friday, Feb. 10 – Culture & Cocktails 6 p.m. Germaine Marvel Building Art & History Museums – Maitland 210 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland 407-539-2181 artandhistory.org $5 There’s a certain type of art-museum event at which the art is not the main event – flirting is. These monthly mingle nights, which often combine an ordinal with…
Selection Reminder: Sleigh Bells tonight at Firestone Live!
Friday, Feb. 10 – Sleigh Bells Seeing as how very few bands ever survive or capitalize – let alone build upon – their initial blogosphere hype the way Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells have, theirs is already a success story. But for Floridians, the formerly Sunshine State-based duo represent something even more hopeful – namely, that indie-rock good…
Selection Reminder: Beyond the Vessel Gallery Talk at Crealdé!
Friday, Feb. 10 – Beyond the Vessel Gallery Talk While urns usually give people the funeral-home heebie-jeebies, ceramic artist Helaine Schneider’s urn-turned-art exhibit is much less creepy than one would expect. Schneider’s first large solo exhibit, Beyond the Vessel covers some heady concepts, like the dichotomy between the tangible and the intangible. But don’t worry…
Selection Reminder: Old Florida Outdoor Festival this weekend!
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 10-12 – Old Florida Outdoor Festival So what if that furry little rascal predicted another six weeks of winter. Let’s stop pretending our Florida winters are anything short of terribly refreshing. This weekend, we suggest crawling out of the depths of your TV room and making your way to Apopka for the Old…
Selection Reminder: Paleface tomorrow at Cafe DaVinci!
Friday, Feb. 10 – Paleface They almost don’t make folk singers like Paleface anymore. In some ways, his anti-folk background has separated him enough from the tired clichés that have been institutionalized to the point of meaninglessness in folk music and somehow landed him closer in spirit to the form’s roots. But dissuade yourself of…
Selection Reminder: 10th Annual Orlando Folk Festival!
Friday-Sunday, Feb. 10-12 – 10th Annual Orlando Folk Festival In some cities, they call it visionary art. In others, it’s outsider art. Here in Orlando, we call it folk or emerging art, but a rose by any other name and all that, right? If you’ve been to the Mennello, you probably have a good idea…
Happy Hour of the Week
Where: Sloppy Taco Palace, 4892 S. Kirkman Road The Deal: $2 domestic draft pints, $5.25 double wells, When: Monday through Friday, 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. and 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. Why Here?: Starting the evening drinking shift on an empty stomach makes for a speedy – and not always pleasant – journey to…
The Bar Tab
Looks like Orlando clubgoers will get to have one last hurrah before the Mayan calendar blinks out the world, as the city’s bar scene has come down with a serious case of happy feet. Two new(ish) dance clubs are opening their doors in February. The first is Firestone Live, which is ditching its New Coke…
Date Night
Creative Valentine’s date ideas for the clueless
Shine on, you crazy diamond
The latest iteration of this eclectic neighborhood eatery is a jewel
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Sugar-coated
Orlando college students are hooking up with rich older men through sugar-daddy websites. Is it modern romance, or just an easy way to the sweet life?
Valentine’s event listings
A Tell-Tale Heart: A Very Poe Valentine Art show inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. 8 pm-2 am Sunday; The Milk Bar, 2424 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-896-4954. An Affair to Remember Valentine’s brunch, live band and a showing of the film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. 10 am Sunday; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando…
Happytown
You know that not-so-subtle feeling whenyou go out on a limb and you can hear it cracking, yet you still stand there, in a void of silence and heady breezes, waiting for the inevitable? A hitch, a rumble and then – bam! – you’re falling, only to be yanked up by an uncomfortable wedgie from…
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Jeff the Brotherhood, the Kills, Jucifer, Lydia Loveless and more
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Culture 2 Go
“It will be an odd life, but … it ought to be a good one for painting.” So wrote painter Vanessa Bell in 1916, as she and Duncan Grant set up housekeeping at a Sussex farm that would become the country seat of the Bloomsbury Group, the deeply intertwined set of writers and artists who’ve…
Radio days
Memories of characters tapping their toes at the edge of a cliff in Mad Cow’s Dancing at Lughnasa
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: K.G. Omulo
Winter songs
The Caretaker minds (and mines) Franz Schubert
Live Active Cultures
Seth gets fast and furious at Disney’s Exotic Driving Experience
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Left-out Milk
Athens, Ga., noise rockers Harvey Milk get vinyl closure
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or conquest,” said author George Eliot. I believe the same is true even about intimate bonds that have not been legally consecrated. Each tends to either be a collaboration of equals who are striving for common goals or else a power struggle in…
Savage Love
I’m a 21-year-old gay male
Tales of ordinary madness
GOAT’s Next to Normal is an emotionally potent rock opera that conveys no easy sentiments
Blame it on the alcohol
Great boozy moments in cinema
The calling wind
Tampa-area folk artists Have Gun Will Travel shoot straight on third album
A little Spider-man with your coffee?
Inexplicably, Sony and Marvel decided to release the new trailer for their summer tentpole picture at 3am east coast time on Tuesday instead of, say, the Super Bowl, or, say, noon Tuesday. Scroll down to view it, but I’ve gotta say that it was worth the wait — at least for me, but I’m usually…
