Criterion Announces May Titles
Criterion have just released their titles for May. The final count is three new titles and four reissues, all available in both DVD and Bluray, including the already-announced Solaris. The gem amongst the new titles is Criterion’s second Charlie Chaplin feature, the oft maligned but still brilliant The Great Dictator. The disc also includes the…
So, uh, apparently Radiohead are releasing a record this week!
Either I’ve been living under a rock lately or Radiohead really did just spring an entirely wholly new unexpected album on the world five days before they planned to release it. Their eighth full length album will be titled King of Limbs, and will be available for digital download and physical pre-order from Radiohead.com starting…
Mickey Evicted! Disney’s “Toontown Fair” Closed and Awaiting Demolition
February 11th, 2011, will go down in history as the day the housing market collapse hit the Magic Kingdom. After over a year of negotiating with creditors, Orlando’s most famous rodent resident reached the end of his rope yesterday, and had to face the same sad fate as many underwater mortgage holders: Mickey Mouse has…
Orlando says no to nukes, Lockheed does too (kinda)
Yet another sign of the city’s vanity: Orlando thinks it is special enough to be nuked by a foreign power. Yesterday, Commissioner Tony Ortiz, wearing the hat of “Mayor Pro Tem,” signed a proclamation entitled “Cities Are Not Targets,” signaling Orlando’s entry into a league of more than 4500 cities worldwide supporting a campaign to rid…
Lady-skinning, dick-tucking goodness from the Band in Heaven
I’m all for the sweet bleached sounds of formerly local/now West Palm Beach shoegazers the Band in Heaven. At heart, they’re pop songsmiths, as evidenced by the couple or so covers they do. But one in particular caught my attention at the Indie Summer Fest, and that’s “Goodbye Horses” by Q Lazzarus. Yes, the infamous song…
grease is in the air
Congrats and lucky you: Orlando has been named Fast Food Capital of the United States. PROUD, PROUD MOMENT. I’m wiping away a tear. No wait, that’s ranch dressing. The Daily Beast compiled a list of the top 40 fast-food-chain-havin’ cities by comparing number of fast-food outlets to population, so rest assured: We EARNED it. This…
Holy crap! Full Sail in TIME magazine! And for good reason!
Somewhere between Egypt, Tiger Moms and Mark Zuckerberg, TIME magazine found the space to shine the spotlight on Full Sail University for, oh I dunno, BEING A GRAMMY FACTORY. From the piece: “With a 191-acre campus that features a back lot, soundstages and 110 studios packed with dazzling equipment, could it be the best-kept secret…
XOXO/Mother Night calls it quits, last show Feb. 21.
Last call for hugs & kisses: XOXO, the local indie-pop group we couldn’t stop writing about – even after they changed their name to the much less punchline-ready Mother Night – is disbanding, “or at least [going on] hiatus,” according to their bassist, Kyle Raker. Their farewell party is Feb. 21 at Will’s Pub with…
Bite-sized review site Flick250 debuts.
File this one under Things to Keep An Eye On. Flick250, a beta movie-review site apparently featuring Orlando contributors debuted last week with at least one interesting idea: In addition to “straight-to-the-point” reviews and basic credits, there’s a steady Twitter feed on the side referencing the film’s hashtagged tweets. I’ve felt for a while now…
Breaking: That wasn’t a pin dropping. That was Teresa Jacobs killing the performing arts center!
Wow!!! So, following our exploration of recent rumors that Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs might be cottoning to the Kool-Aid of DPAC and throwing the flailing development enterprise rope this week comes the news that Jacobs is actually more fond of wielding her scissors! In a scathing memo issued just over an hour ago, Jacobs…
Good news for Wallflower movie: Summit distributing.
If you missed my Jan. 6 feature detailing 11 films I can’t wait to see in 2011, here’s what I said about Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of his own excellent novel: Perks of Being a Wallflower : Talk about pressure: In 1999, author Stephen Chbosky published his only novel, Perks of Being a Wallflower, which is…
Bar necessities; Mojo Cajun Bar & Grill
It’s booze first, food second at this popular Church Street gathering spot
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s take on classic comedy is charming, if not cohesive
Savage Love
I’ve written before, but I didn’t hear back from you
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Before I loved you, nothing was my own,” wrote Pablo Neruda to his lover in one of his sonnets. “It all belonged to someone else – to no one.” Have you ever experienced a sense of being dispossessed like that? A sense of there being nowhere and having nothing in the…
Public display of affection
Yoko Ono continues to champion John Lennon’s art
The Eagle
Sword-and-sandals epic trashes history and the audience’s time
Indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene plays Orlando while the band’s ticking clock grows louder
“We were supposed to ruin it in the end,” says Kevin Drew
Live Active Cultures
Seth Kubersky tours public art in downtown Orlando
The Illusionist
Animated love letter to Jacques Tati is simply magical
We are love
Reader Valentines, tips for a hot date and places to while away your V-Day
Orlando’s ban on feeding the homeless goes to court
City, Food Not Bombs to spar over feeding ordinance in federal court
Spread the love
Where to go and what to do this Valentine’s Day weekend
Happytown
Mike Haridopolos gets sanitized, Teresa Jacobs conjures DPAC magic and rich people in apartments can feel a lot safer now
Local country-gospel duo Heather Lee & Jordan Wynn celebrate new album
Behind the restorative power of the family act
Score!
How to hit it without stepping in it
This Little Underground
Now that the NFL season is over, can we finally focus on the Magic again? And that goes especially for those tall guys who actually play for the Magic. The beat Almost nothing sends my libido rocketing like the peerlessly sexy sounds of T. Rex, so ain’t no way I was gonna miss Chicago’s Smith…
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Culture 2 Go
Want to participate in the gathering of Orlando’s up-and-coming literary avant-garde? Head to Urban ReThink Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. for a book launch party for Fragmentation + Other Stories replete with drinks, musical entertainment and heady conversation. Also, local hip-hop star Swamburger will perform his instrumental soundtrack to the book – he was inspired to…
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Rotation
What local artists are listening to
X-Men: First Class Trailer Now Live
As we move slowly out of the January Junk phase of movie going, we’re finally starting to get a good look at what action extravaganzas will be available for our senses to feast on in theaters this summer. Last weekend saw trailers for Transformers 3, Thor and Captain America debut, and tomorrow (Friday, 2/10) we’ll…
Nonprofit presses Maitland for 99-year lease of historic Art Center property
Last October, we reported on the controversy swirling around the merger of two Maitland’s oldest and most prominent cultural organizations–the Maitland Art Center (based on the lakeside colony built by artist Jules André Smith in the 1930s) and the Maitland Historical Society–into the Maitland Art and History Association (MAHA). Opponents argued that those behind the…
State investigators at Lake Nona VA hospital site
WFTV is reporting on its website today that state investigators have descended on the construction site of the new Veterans Administration hospital that’s being built as part of Lake Nona’s Medical City. According to the story, investigators from the state, in addition to customs and immigration officials, are looking into the employment practices of contractors…
This Just In: Awesome Ringling College continues to be awesome.
I’ve spoken at length before about what an awesome awesome program Ringling College is running over in Sarasota – in short, their Computer Animation kids are budding Pixar geniuses – but they’ve really stepped up the film side lately. The Ringling Digital Filmmaking program is now in its fourth year and they have some major…
Time Out’s 100 best British films: Don’t Look Now, No. 1
Time Out London just released their list of the Top 100 British films of all time, and it’s chock full of film-lover goodness. Going beyond the typical subjective, pulled-out-of-their-asses listicle blurbing that this sort of declaration usually implies, Time Out put some surprisingly serious effort into this thing. They spent months compiling selections from 150…
Video: Brian Feldman’s “Skill Crane Kid” at Stardust Video and Coffee
ArtsFest 2011, the week-long annual celebration of admission-free entertainment sponsored by United Arts of Central Florida, is currently in full swing. This year’s lineup has encompassed an enormous range of art-related activities, from Terry Olson’s Public Art Walk (which you can read about in the next issue of OW) to next weekend’s Orlando Folk…
What 40 million YouTube hits gets you.
Remember Greyson Chance? Yeah, you do. Stop lyin’. The mini-Bieber who triggered 40 million girls’ cycles with his jaw-dropping cover of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” last summer is coming to Hard Rock Live next Thursday, Feb. 17 to open for Miranda Cosgrove (iCarly). YouTube announced Chance’s recital handicam was the #3 most-viewed video of 2010 and…
