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Hello, Dali: Maitland Art Center welcomes works by the Surrealist master
Although the artists Salvador Dalí and André Smith never encountered each other in person, thanks to a new exhibition at Maitland Art Center, their work meets this year – and it’s remarkable what similar territory the two men explored. The newly designated National Historic Landmark (anchor and heart of the Art & History Museums –…
10 spots to grab lunch for under $10 in Orlando
One of our sister papers recently proudly posted a feature on 10 places to get lunch for under $10 and I have to admit, I scoffed. Really, 10? Just 10? Orlando ABOUNDS in fantastic cheap eats. However, rather than break the internet with a list of, like, 100 great cheap meals, we’re going to offer…
Game day grub: 7 epic plates of nachos so good you won’t care who wins.
Two words: Nacho. Party. Sure sure, there’s going to be football on the TV, and some of your guests might even care about the game. But you know: The reason for the season is cheesy, melty, sizzling, overloaded nachos. Truly epic nachos take a bit more work than just nuking some bagged shredded cheese over…
VIDEO: Sabals on Off the Avenue
When Sabals performs, they’re known to cut the lights and provide their own warm glow, then the bright force of lead singer Beth Bynum’s vocals cuts through the darkness like a beam of sunshine through a storm cloud. Sabals formed in April 2014, after core husband-wife duo Beth and guitarist Dan Bynum recruited Beth’s Dandelion…
List says Florida is 10th in the nation for number of homeless
Real estate blog Movoto, which usually churns out Top 10 lists of cities that are the most vain or athletic or whatnot, has posted an interesting interactive map this week that ranks each state in terms of the number of homeless. Hawaii was No. 1 on the list, with 487 homeless individuals for ever 100,000…
Concert pic of the week: The electric connection of duo Shovels & Rope
Check Orlando Music News every Tuesday for the concert pic of the week. This week’s pic comes from Shovels & Rope’s show on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the Social. This Little Underground details the radiance of Shovels & Rope further, if you’re curious how the show was (spoiler: It was awesome), but if you want…
Republican Senator (!) files medical marijuana bill in Tallahassee, the state freaks out
So, while we were typing, something amazing happened today. Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, filed a bill in the legislature to extend the legalization of medical marijuana from just the sad drawings of Charlotte’s Web to a more comprehensive, THC-laced kind of healing for those in need of reprieve. The summary of SB 528 reads…
COUNCIL WATCH!: Watching city government spend your money so you don’t have to
Greetings and salutations, dear readers. It’s time for another dive into the municipal money pool via your friends riding the beige dais until it can’t be rode no more. Things we’ll be paying attention to this week – besides the amazing hair of Regina Hill – include A 23RD AMENDMENT TO THE DPAC CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT,…
This Little Underground: Bruiser Queen, The Palmettes, Poster at St. Matthew’s
Mills Ave. new kid St Matthew’s Tavern has really blossomed into an authentic crossroads watering hole, and the positive musical upshot has been another venue for DIY shows. A recent punk show (Jan. 22) at the beer garden’s outdoor performance shed took nice advantage of a night unseasonably mild even for us. Making their Orlando…
Letters to a Satanist: If we’re not a Judeo-Christian nation, where do our laws come from?
If we are not a Judeo-Christian nation, then where do our laws come from? There is a clear lack of intellectual merit in the question that might ordinarily render it unworthy of response … however, the inquiry now carries the weight of theatrical populist outrage – falling, as it did, from the quivering lips of…
Disney ticket prices to increase again in February
According to the theme park blogosphere, Walt Disney World guests should expect to see a small increase in the price of tickets beginning in February. Nobody seems to know exactly what the new price of tickets will be, but the new pricing is expected to be in place mid-month. Disney will also be doing away…
Jerry Lee Lewis’ motorcycle sold for $350,000 at auction in Kissimmee today
Today at the Mecum auto auction in Kissimmee, a 1959 Harley Davidson that belonged to legendary rocker Jerry Lee Lewis fetched a whopping $350,000. The bike was given to him by Harley as a gift (another was gifted to Elvis Presley_, and the 79-year-old Lewis posted to his Facebook page that “This bike is like…
Swine & Sons offering Super Bowl Snack Pack to beat all snack packs
The Super Bowl (and Puppy Bowl!) return on Sunday, Feb. 1, and there are parties scheduled all over town (see our Jan. 28 issue if you don’t believe us). But what if you already have plans for the Super Bowl that involve a friend’s house, a big-screen TV and a group of friends? If you’re a…
Orlando one of four cities to receive state sales-tax dollars to pay for stadium-construction projects
Florida’s economic-development agency Friday gave support to four professional sports facilities that are seeking state sales-tax dollars to help pay for construction projects. It will now be up to members of the Joint Legislative Budget Commission to determine how the stadiums’ requests should be ranked and if any money should be awarded. The Florida Department…
BREAKING BAR NEWS: Owners of Bar-BQ-Bar and Planet Pizza join forces in Dive Bar space
The ink is still drying and the details are scant, but Hurst Marshall (co-owner of Bar-BQ-Bar) and Frank Saljanin (of Planet Pizza) are joining forces for a new bar concept to take over the Dive Bar space (63 N. Orange Ave.). So far, they’re staying mum on everything for now, even the new name. But Marshall…
This Little Underground: Banditos at Will’s Pub
As the newest signing to Bloodshot Records, Nashville-based Alabama band Banditos are about to go from relative nobody to certified somebody. With a debut album releasing sometime early this year, they’re currently on their first Florida tour to pour out a taste of what’s to come. Might wanna get in line now because, from what…
Friday afternoon time killer: Find out how far it is from Orlando to anywhere in the world
Ever wonder how far Orlando is from Havana (375 miles)? Or Helsinki, Finland (5,059 miles)? How about Singapore (10,354 miles)? We found a cool free online service that will give you the distance (in miles, kilometers or nautical miles) how far you are from practically anyplace in the world. Time and Date not only relays…
State Attorney Jeff Ashton formally clears officer in Vixen Bar shooting
Yesterday, State Attorney Jeff Ashton released a letter he sent to the Orlando Police Department clearing Officer Eduardo Sanguino of any wrongdoing in an Aug. 19, 2014 incident in which he accidentally shot a woman inside a nightclub while he was attempting to subdue a man outside the bar. After an investigation by the Florida Department of…
Central Florida Composers Forum presents free concert of contemporary sacred music
Central Florida Composers Forum, a local nexus of adventurous new classical, partners with downtown’s Cathedral Church of St. Luke Sunday to present a program of newly composed music for a variety of faith traditions called Sacred Sounds. Composer, CF2 member and host of modern classical radio show “Zero Crossing” on WPRK Charlie Griffin says, “This represents a…
Orlando City Soccer’s Chick-fil-A and gay problem
Editor’s note: Orlando Weekly is not calling for a boycott of Orlando City Soccer Club. The logo with the words “boycott” superimposed on it were from a Facebook post being passed around earlier today in response to the club’s announcement of its partnership with Chick-fil-A. To avoid creating any confusion, we have removed that image…
This Little Underground: Shovels & Rope, Caroline Rose at the Social
Swimmin’ Time, the latest album by South Carolina’s Shovels & Rope (Jan. 21, The Social), is a well-appointed indie-folk work that balances edge and grace. Still, though it tries to even things out between the considerable forces of music and life partners Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, she is the undisputed sun of this…
The Internet sends letter to city of Orlando to criticize its stance on ridesharing
The Internet frowns on Orlando. Well, the Internet Association, does at least. It’s a Washington, D.C.-based organization that says it is the “unified voice of the Internet economy.” Yesterday it sent a letter to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer to let him know that the city’s proposal to regulate ridesharing services in Orlando (Lyft, Uber, Sidecar)…
Warner Bros. commits to using only fair trade chocolate products in Wizarding World of Harry Potter parks
In 2010, a group of socially conscious Harry Potter fans and activists called the Harry Potter Alliance launched a campaign calling on Universal Orlando and Warner Bros. to stop contributing to human trafficking and child slavery. They called their campaign Not in Harry’s Name, and they focused their efforts on getting Warner Bros., the studio…
Cabinet may seek investigation into FDLE leader’s exit
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and state Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater said Thursday they’re open to discussing at the next Cabinet meeting the need for an investigation into the departure of Florida’s top law-enforcement official. Putnam also suggested that the Feb. 5 meeting, usually held in Tampa as part of the opening of the Florida…
Audubon Park: Pie after dark, Lovely vintage shopping, and a big sale at Whisk and Bowl
Pie After Dark: No, it isn’t some kind of unholy soft-core Cinemax flick based in a bakeshop: It’s a chance to get to know Tara Gould, the owner of P Is for Pie, Audubon Park’s source of peanut-butter cuties, Mason-jar cobblers, and stubbies of Stumptown cold-brew. Pie and cake may sound like frivolous matters, but…
New Orange County Charter Review Commission appointees announced, many with Textgate links
We caught wind yesterday that Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs and her beloved commission would be announcing their appointees for the Charter Review Commission today, and much of that wind we caught smelled distinctly of governmental flatulence. It’s no secret how contentious things have been with the charter over the past year, mostly at the…
Grin and bear it: Florida could be on the verge of allowing bear hunting again
image via bearoutfitters.com You might recall last year’s ATTACK OF THE BEARS scare in the suburban hell of Lake Mary: paranoia fed by garbage cans left out too long fed by a news cycle that just won’t stop pointing and screaming at everything out of the ordinary, basically. Well, last night the Tampa Bay Times…
Meet the Florida Little Dog Rescue puppies who’ll be going to the Puppy Bowl!
Super Bowl Sunday means there’s only one thing on TV worth watching – Animal Planet’s 11th annual Puppy Bowl, in which Team Ruff and Team Fluff romp around a tiny football stadium equipped with squeaky toys, referees and water bowl cams. Sometimes they play, sometimes they tackle one another, sometimes they fall asleep. It’s mesmerizing. …
Guns on the books: New bill allowing firearms on campuses gets preliminary approval
image via newstalkgvo.com Because nobody in Florida should have any reason to be concerned about maniacs with guns going on shooting rampages, especially in the hormone and jealousy cesspool known as college, yesterday legislators greenlighted a bill that would allow guns on campuses. We don’t have to go into the fact that guns on campuses…
Antique radios, vinyl extravaganzas and more: 6 offbeat Orlando-area music events you should put on your radar
It’s easy to track bands coming to town, for the most part, but for Orlando music fans who want to be on top of all the rad stuff in our area (like last week’s International Guitar and Music Expo), if you aren’t actively looking out for some of these unique events, it’s easy to miss…
The year in #FloridaMan: 2014
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Former FDLE commissioner comes out of the forced-to-resign-by-Rick Scott closet
Quote of the Week: I did not voluntarily do anything. If [Gov. Rick Scott] said I resigned voluntarily, that is a lie. If he said that, he’s being totally untruthful.” – Former FDLE commissioner Gerald Bailey We’re not normally the types to wear our schadenfreude T-shirts while performing cartwheels with cyanide-laced pom-poms in our hands,…
Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando leader Jenna Tosh takes a new job in California
“It’s bittersweet,” says outgoing Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando chief executive officer and president Jenna Tosh over Friday morning coffee. In the nearly three years that she has held the office, previously run by local legend Sue Idtensohn, PPGO has seen immense changes and, along with the usual scream of sidewalk protesters, a fair share…
County to request update on Tinker Field
Will Orange County get behind the effort to save Orlando’s historic Tinker Field? The fate of this baseball field, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his one and only appearance in the area in 1964, has been in question ever since it was revealed that it stood in the way of the city…
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Couchsurfing: ‘New’ 1980s Talking Heads concert footage appears on YouTube
Back in November of last year (thanks to the Music Vault YouTube channel), concert footage from 1980 emerged of the Talking Heads performing 14 songs at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey, but it took website Dangerous Minds highlighting the reel last week for it to reach the masses. Rabid, obsessive fans lunged to…
Opening in Orlando: ‘Black Sea,’ ‘Mortdecai’ and more
Black Sea: It’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre under water as a coalition of English and Russian profiteers searches for sunken treasure they may not be able to trust one another with. Trivia note: One of two wide releases this week that concern the hunt for Nazi gold. (R) The Boy Next Door: Remember…
New ‘live music joint’ Tin Roof looks to local musicians to jump-start International Drive location
Bright Broadway bulbs spell out “Tin Roof” to the left of the stage and to the right, more lights dance out the rest: “A Live Music Joint.” The venue’s stage, with its 48-star American flag mural, is front and center before a modest dance floor between it and a row of high tops and wooden…
Picks This Week: Banditos, Bruiser Queen, Machine Head and more
Shovels & Rope It really is rock, country, punk and folk, but instead of some manufactured attempt to appeal to a mass audience, this husband-wife pair digs into each genre deeply and extracts an original sound that, as on “Coping Mechanism” on their new release, Swimmin’ Time, (which they performed earlier this month on Late…
This Little Underground: The In-Between Series bridges indie and avant-garde
There’s a new downtown music series now in play that everyone who cares about forward music should take note of. The In-Between Series, which just debuted (Jan. 12), is a monthly event at the Gallery at Avalon Island. Instead of the upstairs auditorium that used to be DMAC, the performances will take over the main…
Bar Exam: The Treehouse
Address/phone: 68 E. Pine St., 407-205-2062 After work or after hours? After hours Beer/wine or liquor too? Beer, wine and liquor available Check all that apply: (X) fancy cocktails ( ) make ’em strong and keep ’em coming (X) wine list (5 choices or more) (X) craft beer ( ) beer: the usual suspects (…
Greg Richie’s urban boîte, Soco, revels in Southern charm
Soco, Greg Richie’s paean to refined Dixie dining, made our list of “2014’s top tables” with good reason. His imaginative, sometimes fanciful, takes on classic Southern staples are of the sort one would see on East Bay Street in Charleston, South Carolina, not East Central Boulevard in Orlando. And while Richie’s track record is impressive…
Just stop it: Obama likely to veto new GOP abortion bill
image via socialist worker.com Tonight is the State of the Union address, tomorrow we will have our interview with departing Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando CEO and president Jenna Tosh published, right now we are in the middle of figuring out how it is that a rejuvenated GOP is attempting to clamp down on women’s…
Video: The totally phony baby from ‘American Sniper’ that everyone’s talking about
Clint Eastwood’s latest movie, American Sniper, is in theaters now and getting lots of attention: Some think the sad (true) story of Chris Kyle, America’s deadliest sniper, is a total Oscar lock; others think it’s jingoistic flag-waving. America! We all have opinions! Big tent, melting pot, etc. etc. One thing everyone can agree on, however?…
Kissimmee men arrested after cocaine they threw out car sunroof lands on police car
Here’s one for the #floridaman archives: The Smoking Gun reports that two Kissimmee men were arrested after a bag of cocaine they tossed out of the sunroof of the vehicle they were driving landed on the hood of a police car following them. Kissimmee police department officer Christopher Breuer says that a gold Acura almost…
Taking art from passive to active, community-engaged social practice art takes off in Orlando
The question of what “art” is has been eternally debated from aesthetic and intellectual angles, but in terms of form and format the arguments (and their adherents) fall into two competing camps. On one hand, you have the traditional idea of art as painting, sculpture or other visual imagery on display inside a traditional gallery.…
J.C. Chandor spins strong story in ‘A Most Violent Year’
J.C. Chandor’s films exude a quiet confidence, and that self-assuredness is reflected in their characters. Though they deal in financial corruption, the men portrayed by Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany and Jeremy Irons in Margin Call always maintain impeccable professionalism. And despite his almost certain doom, Robert Redford’s mariner in All Is Lost never loses his…
Tip Jar: Updates on Broken Strings Brewery, American Gymkhana and more
Broken Strings Brewery won’t be opening in Ivanhoe Village after all. According to a post on Broken Strings’ Facebook page, the landlord of the former ROH Construction space on Virginia Drive didn’t make the necessary building improvements on time, and so they had to pull out. They still hope to find a location in the…
