Thursday Night: Thread & Circuses
We know that First Thursday is at the Orlando Museum of Art, and Third Thursday happens at the downtown art galleries. But what happens on Second Thursday? In January, the answer seems to be â??thread and circusesâ?�. Here are two options if you’re pondering what to do tomorrow night. Project Runway Premiere Party Support Orlando’s…
A gay, old time
Colin Firthâ??s subtlety saves director Tom Ford from his melodrama
French connection
New owner, new space, same classic cuisine at Paris Bistro
Death becomes her
Peter Jacksonâ??s visual effects distract him from this somber story
The full RJD2 interview
OW caught up with instrumental hip-hop luminary RJD2 a few weeks before the release of the producer’s fourth full-length solo album, The Colossus. Orlando Weekly: Conference calls, huh? Is that about the worst part of being a working musician? RJD2: I don’t totally hate it. I guess it’s a necessary component of releasing a record.…
Moved and moving
Moved and moving Rent Through Jan. 23 at Orlando Shakespeare Theater 812 E. Rollins St. 407-872-8451 www.goatgroup.com $18 The history of Jonathan Larson’s Rent is a real-life tragedy-to-triumph legend: promising young artist pens musical about promising young artists facing death; artist dies unexpectedly dies before opening; show goes on to win plaudits and Pulitzer prizes.…
Visually infectious
Visually infectious Small Wonders Through Feb. 1 at Latitude Zero Fine Art Gallery 113 N. Hyer Ave. 407-601-5518 www.latzero.com With a bang on a cold winter’s night, Latitude Zero Fine Art Gallery started off the new year quite well with a group exhibition of 40 edgy artists who somehow conformed to curator Dustin Orlando’s 10…
Follow the money
The 2010 political season received its first adrenaline shot Jan. 11, when fourth quarter 2009 campaign finance reports were released for state and local candidates (federal filings will follow on Jan. 15). What we have before us now is a taste of things to come, in abbreviated form. l Governor: Florida’s chief financial officer, Democrat…
Mr. Bicycle
Mighk Wilson is the guy who hears all the horrific local bike crash stories, whether he wants to or not. And he doesn’t. Bloody bones sticking through spokes, murderous motorists speeding away from hit-and-runs, anarchist two-wheelers crashing on top of car hoods — he’s heard it all. The gentle-natured Wilson has learned to just listen…
A colossal talent
RJD2 with the Constellations 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13 The Social, 407-246-1419 $13-$15 ‘I’m just along for the ride,” says RJD2, fresh off a decidedly un-hip-hop conference call, when asked if he still considers himself a hip-hop artist. “At no point did I have this mentality that, ‘Oh, well, I’m this kind of artist’, or,…
This Little Underground
Aw (cold) snap! Has Orlando been frozen lately or what? The weather, the Magic’s offense and, worst of all, the concert calendars have all been on ice. Thankfully, the thaw is on. The beat The high-profile Central Florida teen crisis organization To Write Love on Her Arms regularly organizes concerts to raise awareness and money.…
Hollywood shrugged
Last year around this time, I was looking forward to The Box, Taking Woodstock and a couple of films that never came — I’m looking at you, Terrence Malick. So at the risk of sounding premature, seeing as I was so wrong about those films, Robert Downey Jr. had better be working out pretty hard. Sure,…
DVDs Nuts!
Amreeka Yes, it’s distributed by the dull-sounding National Geographic Entertainment, and it does concern a Palestinian family surviving racism in a post-9/11 U.S. (the title is the Arabic word for “America”), but don’t let that fool you: Amreeka, starring the charmingly warm Nisreen Faour, is a crowd-pleasing gem. The story, overdone as it may already…
Blister
‘You guys need to have babies!’ There isn’t so much a conversation going on as a Southern-drawled swish of absurd anomalies. The dueling of Deliverance banjos delivered by way of Alan’s post-holiday arrival — steeped in the colloquialism of political moonshine acquired from just being in Georgia too long — is having its airtime in…
Happytown
You know what? Gun laws are way too restrictive in this state. After all, the right to bear arms is in the Ten Commandments, isn’t it? That’s why some local Republicans in the Florida House are lifting their tails for the tea-baggers, me-too-ing a futile-but-symbolic bill crafted to keep gun-waving neo-Confederates from bolting Republican ranks…
Savage Love
I am a 34-year-old straight, single woman. I have a fantasy I can’t find much about online, so I figured I’d ask you for advice. My fantasy is to be blindfolded, bent over a table/couch/whatever, and fucked by whoever happens to walk by. I realize this would have to take place in a safe environment,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The Earth’s north magnetic pole is not the same as the geographic North Pole. If you take out a compass to orient yourself toward due north, the compass arrow will actually point toward a spot in the frigid wilds of Canada. But what’s really odd is that the north magnetic pole…
Council Watch
If you were to gather each of the essences from this week’s civic compost heap and reduce them down — then leave them on the counter for three weeks — the delicacy you’d be left with would be both cold and poor. From the sullen invocation of Methodist Pastor Britt Gilmore on becoming more like…
Police Beat
Dec. 31 (2009-615064) Noon: Overnight, someone took DVD players, a big stereo and speaker boxes — total value $7,600 — from a Hummer in the 5700 block of Vista Linda Drive. Linda Drive. Jan. 1 (2010-12) 12:05 a.m.: Happy New Year! A number of Orlandoans greeted the event with a spasm of gunfire. Just after…
Live Active Cultures
It’s a frigid Friday night in the city. The clouds above are as dark as the asphalt below; tomorrow morning might see snow, or at least stinging sleet. But the icy temperatures don’t seem to be deterring anyone, and street parking is in short supply, as ever. After shivering and stomping several blocks, past the…
