Cover Stories
Mitt Romney followed me around the Internet
How social-media tool ShareThis helps candidates cyberstalk web surfers
Snoops.com
How Microsoft and Yahoo are selling politicians access to you
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Notable Noise: This Week’s Best Shows [Florida’s Dying Rock Fight, Crocodiles, Man or Astro-Man, more]
Monday, July 16 The Dave Matthews Tribute Band [Social] – Say what you will, I think there’s something inherently awesome about the sheer ballsiness involved with straight-up jacking a currently active musician’s fanbase like this. Can’t afford $60 to see Real Dave Matthews at the Bank of Corporate Malfeasance Ballfield and Music Park? Just wait a…
Nature of the Beast opening at the Peacock Room
Monday, July 16 – Nature of the Beast opening 8-11 p.m. The Peacock Room 1321 N. Mills Ave. 407-228-0048 thepeacockroom.com free The Naysayer, aka Sip art curator Heidi Kneisl, opens a month-long show of art that’s “nature-inspired, but not exactly natural.”
Sunday Film News Roundup — July 15th, 2012
After careful consideration on Thursday evening as I talked to a few people I know who are attending Comic Con this week, I decided not to bother keeping up with it this year, and not to post any Con info here. If you’re interested in Comic Con news, you’ve already been paying attention and don’t…
Share your favorite poem at Ashley Inguanta’s Poetry Cover Night
Monday, July 16 – Ashley Inguanta’s Poetry Cover Night 7 p.m. Urban ReThink 625 E. Central Blvd. 407-704-6895 urbanrethink.com $5 “Full fathom five thy father lies/Of his bones are coral made ”; “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ”; “I have eaten/the plums/that were in/the icebox .” It’s hard enough to choose a…
Black-and-white knight rises, yawns, licks own anus
Well, now we know what America’s superhero nerds are going to do after their Dark Knight Rises buzz wears off and they have to face the prospect of a couple of years without a Batman movie: get in line for the Courageous Cat movie! Via Deadline comes the frankly bizarre news that the 1960 TV cartoon,…
Orlando Phil performs selections from the Legend of Zelda
Saturday, July 14 – The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses 8 p.m. Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre 401 W. Livingston St. 407-770-0071 orlandophil.org $35-$125 While this writer has tried to come up with something cynical and snarky to say about “The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses,” those efforts backfired, shedding light…
It’s wine, cheese and poodles at Audubon Park’s Bastille Day
Saturday, July 14 – Bastille Day 6-10 p.m. Audubon Park Garden District East Winter Park Road and Corrine Drive apgardens.com free, $25-$35 for tasting Last week’s July 4th celebrations might have centered on American staples like barbecued hot dogs and red-white-and-blue-hued cases of Budweiser, but this week, we commemorate the French Revolution with the finer…
Romney’s Bain problem may run through Central Florida in a pretty gruesome way
OK, so yesterday we were all atwitter about the Obama For America press call we were on in which Obama’s deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter dropped the “felony” bomb with regard to Mitt Romney’s now questionable involvement with outsource kings Bain Capital. That bit of campaign red meat came via an explosive piece of reporting…
One order of Southern Fried Sunday coming up this weekend
Sunday, July 15 – Southern Fried Sunday Mustard Seed Benefit with the Kidney Stones, Lone Wolf, the Bloody Jug Band, Kentucky Knife Fight, Andy Matchett & the Minks, the Applebutter Express, the Mud Flappers, River Bottom Nightmare Band, Hindu Cowboys, Lauris Vidal and more 2 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-5070 willspub.org $10-$14…
Round two of Food Truck Wars set to go down at Cranes Roost
Sunday, July 15 – Food Truck Wars II 1-7 p.m. Cranes Roost Park 274 Cranes Roost Blvd. Altamonte Springs 407-296-5882 foodtruckwars.com free admission, various menu prices It’s round two of the Battle of the Bulge: 40 gourmet food trucks dish out the goods at Cranes Roost this weekend while vying for awards like Largest Single…
Husband & wife folk act Daniel Levi Goans head to Odin’s Den
Friday, July 13 – Daniel Levi Goans 8 p.m. Odin’s Den 1335 Howell Branch Road Winter Park $6 It’s not often we get the chance to point you to dive-y Odin’s Den, but with the bar’s increased attention paid to booking, we hope to keep babbling on about the place. For now, we’re pleased to…
The Status Byte Breakdown: A Night of Controllerism at the Social
Friday, July 13 – The Status Byte Breakdown: A Night of Controllerism 8 p.m. The Social 54 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thesocial.org $10 These days, the sight of a “DJ” who’s not really a DJ so much as a manipulator of electronic keypads is far more common than it was a decade ago. Now, although…
Could Mitt Romney-bot be a felony-bot, too? (Or, Mitt Romney’s terrible day)
Just as unloveable dimwit Mitt Romney makes his millionaire estate tour across the country, allowing the fantastically rich to know that “I got you!” in robot Small Wonder-ese, he’s probably dropping his gimlet of scotch off of his double Jetski right about now. A pretty impressive story from the Boston Globe surfaced this morning alleging…
Harry Potterites flock to Ascendio convention at Loews Portofino Bay
Thursday-Sunday, July 12-15 – Ascendio 2012 Loews Portofino Bay Hotel Universal Orlando 5601 Universal Blvd. hp2012.org $50-$250 We wish we could be all blasé about the end of the Harry Potter series in book and film form, but hard as we try, it’s just not happening. Letting go of the Boy Who Lived is even…
Kitty Pryde, Gunpowder Temple, and what it means to “make it”
[WARNING: Long ramble ahead.] After I posted that item yesterday asking whether Gunpowder Temple was “one of the best bands in Orlando,” the response that it got was what I expected, but not quite what I had hoped for. I mean, of course Gunpowder Temple isn’t “one of the best bands in Orlando.” They’re just…
Drink Events
Things to do for people who love booze
Tip Jar
A round-up of local restaurant news
Torino's Pizza
Sometimes you don’t need a gourmet meal, just a quick, cheap one
Fragment(ed)
Empty Spaces’ latest boundary-smashing performance explores life’s dualities
Savage Love
I’m a smart, professional woman in my mid-30s who dates the same. I also happen to use a wheelchair; I was diagnosed shortly after my first birthday with a motor neuron disease. I have about as much physical strength as a quadriplegic, but I have full sensation. (Boy howdy, do I!) I am careful about…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) During an author tour a few years ago, I was a guest on San Francisco radio station KFOG. For a while, the host interviewed me about my book and astrology column. Then we moved into a less formal mode, bantering about psychic powers, lucid dreams and reincarnation. Out of nowhere, the…
DVDs Nuts
Lesser-seen, critic-approved films on disc and on demand
Love and other invasions
A Spanish-language sci-fi tinged rom-com is ‘Carnage’ by way of cockblocking
Council watch
Billy Manes pays attention to city government so you don’t have to
Album Reviews
Reviews of albums by Eternal Summers, Everyday Ghosts and Twin Shadow
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu calls it like he sees it
Exile Restaurant & Lounge
Exile’s owners strive for a sophisticated sports-bar experience, with moderate success
Maakies
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The Hourglass Brewery
New time-travel themed brewery preparing to open in Longwood
California noise rockers Crocodiles trade quirk and gloom for full-on pop romance on new album
On their vivid new album, San Diego noise-pop band Crocodiles are in full bloom. It’s their first LP as a quintet, and the added personnel reflect their ever-widening sonic approach. Their melody, texture and size underwent refinement during the past few years, and now they’ve emerged with their most finely tailored sound yet. Crocodiles’ fuzzy…
Rotation
What local artists are listening to
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Soundsystem concert film reaches for grandiosity while its subject tamps it down
Happytown
The week where we went down the rabbit hole of Rick Scott’s health care ambivalence and came up to breathe the fresh air of Orange County’s domestic-partner registry. Everything is so confusing!
Music from the Big House
Prison-set concert doc ‘Music from the Big House’ and its bluesy star come to Enzian for one-night event
An early look at the Obama campaign – from a stage manager’s perspective
After last week’s focus on new offerings from Universal Studios, I had intended to discuss Disney’s recently debuted Anaheim expansion, but after recent events that subject felt frivolous. How could I dwell on such simple pleasures when the Greatest Political Show on Earth has pulled into town? OK, the 2012 presidential campaign isn’t exactly the…
An early look at the Obama campaign – from a stage manager’s perspective
After last week’s focus on new offerings from Universal Studios, I had intended to discuss Disney’s recently debuted Anaheim expansion, but after recent events that…
On Sale This Week: Owl City at the Beacham
On Sale: Friday, July 13 Owl City 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 The Beacham 46 N. Orange Ave. 407-648-8363 thebeacham.com $22-$32 Down the road: 311, July 20 at 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre Nappy Roots, July 21 at The Social Pomegranates, July 21 at Backbooth Ramshackle Glory, July 24 at Will’s Pub Stryper, July…
Gunpowder Temple: Are they “among the best bands in Orlando?”
Here is a fact that I have had to come to terms with: Orlando is kind of a weird “rock town.” Yeah, there are a whole lot of bands in our fair city who proclaim to be “rock” bands, but to me, it’s hard to hear anything that connects them to the blues-based sounds that…
New Music: Murs + Whole Wheat Bread = The Invincibles
Jacksonville punks Whole Wheat Bread (they of the constant touring) and L.A. rapper Murs (he of the amazing hair) have been circling each others’ orbits for a few years now, and even got together back in ’08 to record some tracks for Murs for President (that remain unreleased). Well, they eventually made a for-real band out…
WESH You Were Here!
So there we were, licking our morning wounds as usual, balled up in the chalkboard nails of morning television white-noise, when it quickly came to our attention that we had in fact been transported! The realization was not helped by the standard second-hour Today Show boilerplate of skincare for children and “how much caffeine is…
