Selection Reminder: Orlando Ballet Uncorked at the Abbey!
Monday, Jan. 30 – Orlando Ballet Uncorked True ballet dancers of the kind that populate big-city companies spend a lifetime training their bodies to be something other than – higher than – human. To see a ballerina just “hang out” or stretch or do whatever it is they do to their toes that keeps them from…
Sunday Film News Roundup — Jan 29th, 2012
There were two really awful stories in the news this week and neither one of them had anything to do with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close getting a Best Picture nomination. 1) Bingham Ray died. 2) Theo Angelopoulos died. What the fuck? Bingham Ray’s name might not be as familiar as Angelopoulos’ name, but what…
Selection Reminder: The Barber of Seville!
Sunday, Jan. 29 – The Barber of Seville Perhaps it seems disrespectful when the overture of The Barber of Seville begins, and all you can think of is Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny into the Hollywood Bowl. Maybe it dismays you that the aria “Largo al factotum della città” always brings to mind Bugs yodeling…
What’s new in “Dark Knight Rises” spoilers
Hey, see the title of this blog? It means we’re going deep into rumor and speculation about the arcane plot points of one of this year’s most anticipated releases. So if you want to maintain your innocence and avoid disappointment, you know what to do, right? Right! Don’t enroll at Full Sail. I mean, uh,…
Selection Reminder: Monster Jam tonight at the Citrus Bowl!
Saturday, Jan. 28 – Monster Jam It takes some series balls (or boobs, for our female friends!) to maneuver a 10,000-pound jacked-up monster truck. It also takes a certain, shall we say, “charisma” to romp among the rough-and-rowdy crowds found at Monster Jam. No doubt there’ll be side-by-side racing, twisted donut-spinning and multiple-school-bus-jumping bouts, but…
Selection Reminder: El Bulli: Cooking in Progress at Enzian Theater!
Saturday, Jan. 28 – El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Like a lot of innovations, molecular gastronomy is easily parodied – and admittedly, the cuisine’s foams, airs and colloids, produced with chemicals and tools never seen in a home cook’s kitchen, can tip over into laughable rather than delicious when too much attention is paid to…
A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg steps back for Keira Knightley’s fierce performance in fascinating period piece
Selection Reminder: The Bright Light Social Hour at the Social!
Friday, Jan. 27 – The Bright Light Social Hour It’s hard to take the Bright Light Social Hour entirely seriously, if only because it’s not entirely clear whether or not they do. There’s a sort of wink-and-a-nod detachment to their music, as if they’re letting you know that, as good as they are, they’re not…
Selection Reminder: Reptar tonight at Will’s Pub!
Friday, Jan. 27 – Reptar The underground electronic music world has recently witnessed a smattering of young artists crib their aliases from ’80s kids’ TV shows, like DuckTales, Thundercats and Reading Rainbow. Perhaps Reptar are leading the way for folks to form rock acts named after ’90s cartoon characters. In a manner not unlike their…
Selection Reminder: Mr. Bing & L’Art Nouveau!
Friday, Jan. 27 – Mr. Bing & L’Art Nouveau Art History 101 might have been more fun if it had taken place outdoors and featured movies instead of droning lecturers with faded slides. Snacking encouraged? A bonus. Now that you’re out of school, you might try a little art history over lunch with the Morse…
Why No One Was Really “Robbed” in Oscar Snubs
So, one month from tonight the 84th Academy Awards will take place, and Twitter will light afire with the spurned bleating of people who didn’t like the films that won. It’s already on fire with people who don’t like the nominations. Whether it be the snubs (Albert Brooks, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, etc) or the…
Breaking: No news is good news on the Teresa Jacobs domestic partnership detente?
Hmmm, so we just got back from that promised BIG MEETING between Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs and LGBT leaders (most notably, the Orlando Anti-Discrimination Ordinance group and all the folks that implies), and we’re kind of scratching our chin about the whole affair. First of all, no media was allowed into the meeting, just…
Opening in Orlando — January 26th, 2012
Albert Nobbs — Reviewed this week. (R) A Dangerous Method — Reviewed this week. (Link pending.) (R) The Grey — Now fully into his second career as the world’s least likely action hero, Liam Neeson has to brave the punishing weather and vicious predators of the Alaskan wild. Or, as Todd Palin calls it, “a…
Rowdy soccer fans pack Orlando City supporters summit
Last night, Church Street’s Mojo Cajun Bar & Grill hosted Orlando City Soccer Club’s Supporters Summit. A horde of soccer fans, ranging from 20-somethings in red Orlando City T-shirts and scarves to men in tailored sports coats to a family of four carrying an infant, crowded Mojo’s bar and upstairs balcony areas for the 2012…
Selection Reminder: The Genghis Khan Guide to Etiquette!
Through Jan. 29 – The Genghis Khan Guide to Etiquette British slam poet, comedian and former psychiatric nurse (yes, all of the above) Rob Gee is coming to these shores for a performance of his one-man show The Genghis Khan Guide to Etiquette. Described by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as both “brilliant” and “hilarious,” Gee’s…
Kevin Tarter bites back
Next up for the noted chef: small plates with Big Easy flavorsa
Happytown
That stench of aftershave and anger in the air can only mean one thing: It’s primary week and the Republicans are about to be all up in your face with throbbing neck-vein rhetoric! In order to prepare ourselves for it, we packed a flask, a cowboy hat (anonymity!) and half a tablet of shame and…
Cookie crisp
Le Macaron 216 N. Park Ave. Winter Park 321-295-7958 lemacaron-us.com $ On my culinary intern slave wages in Paris, I couldn’t afford to frequent Ladurée (the macaron Mecca) as much as I would have liked. Its porcelain tea services and Sistine ceilings beckoned, but the only time I was able to buy was when my…
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Savage Love
Have boyfriend. Several months. Love sex.
Albert Nobbs
Glenn Close is front-and-center in this gender-bending period drama
Changing the channel
The FCC still hasn’t offered a ruling on the sale of WMFE-TV’s license to a Christian broadcasting company
Norse mythology
Local label and booking company Norse Korea Presents celebrates a landmark debut year
Sensory and sensibility
Tycho’s otherworldly phantasmagoria comes to fruition
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The coming week is likely to be abnormally free of worries and frustrations. I’m afraid that means you’re not going to have as much right to complain as you usually do. Can you handle that? Or will you feel bereft when faced with the prospect of having so little to grumble…
Live Active Cultures
Seth stage-manages a manatee and meets a mermaid at Three Sisters Springs
Further reflection
Newcomers Dee Rees and Adepero Oduye deliver heartfelt awakenings in LGBT drama
View masters
Local publisher Burrow Press shows that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts in 15 Views of Orlando anthology
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: “Shwill” of the Unit Shifters
Man on a Ledge
Sam Worthington capably anchors run-of-the-mill New York caper
The Double Feature: I Dig Music, Man.
This week’s films are Cameron Crowe’s Untitled (aka Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut) and Daryl Duke’s Payday. At first glance these films seem to have nothing much in common. One is about a 70s rock band on the fringes of popularity, hoping their one hit single makes them the next Allman Brothers Band, travelling the country…
Political Junkie Roadshow/Talk of the Nation in Orlando on Jan. 25
Crank up your radios, NPR news junkies. “Talk of the Nation” broadcasts live from the WMFE studios in Orlando tomorrow (Wed., Jan. 25) at 2 p.m. Listen in as hosts Neal Conan and Ken Rudin tackle America’s true pastime – politics – with insight and good humor live on 90.7 FM. If you miss them on…
Universal Orlando announces “Year To Be Here” Upgrades & Additions for 2012
This morning, Universal Orlando held a webcast for selected media, setting the fanboy twitterverse on fire with discussion of the resort’s plans for 2012, dubbed their “Year To Be Here.” While none of the upcoming additions announced today by Universal’s Senior V.P. Jim Timon and Universal Creative President Mark Woodbury will come as a shock…
