Captains courageous: a letter from home
(WARNING: Spoilers ahead, particularly if you don’t know anything about my family.) Both of my mother’s brothers fought in World War II. The older of the two, Artie, took part in the D-Day invasion. The younger one, Bud, was in the Pacific, hopping from island to island on incredibly dangerous missions. When they returned home,…
Gooooooal! Orlando’s soccer team fells British club in rare international match
Did you know that Orlando had a soccer team? OK, well, we don’t blame you, but as of right now, there’s no excuse: the Orlando City Soccer Club, also known as the Lions, defeated the popular British club Newcastle United at the Citrus Bowl last night, where a record 10,889 people—including this reporter—watched the team’s…
Sunday Film News Roundup — July 24th, 2011
So it looks as if Deathly Hallows pt II doesn’t quite have the legs it was expected to have after smashing so many opening day, weekend and week records. It looks to be handily beaten by Captain America once the final numbers are released Monday. Of course, Harry Potter has made almost $300m in 10…
Local Filmmaker Gets Lost… Then Found
Space-coast film maker and local music archivist, Josh Rogers of Broken Machine Films, announces mash-up DVD for electronic experimenters The Lost & Found Sound. Having existed as an integral part of Orlando’s music scene, Rogers has filmed live videos and recorded audio for local acts for at least 8 years. If you happen to be…
Legendary JC’s Still Legendary
Saturday, July 23 – The Legendary JC’s If you’re breathing the Florida air, it’s likely you know the JC’s. Their tenure in O-town has withstood the test of time and it looks like they’re not about to lose speed yet. Pumpin’ out classic soul for over 11 years, they somehow manage to keep their dank…
Mayor Dyer boasts of eliminating 400 jobs, learns that commissioners are better audience than Facebook fans
On the morning of July 11, Mayor Buddy Dyer and the City Commission attended a budget presentation given by the city’s chief financial officer, Rebecca Sutton. One of the handouts, reproduced at the bottom of this post, contained this piece of information in the introduction: “In response to the economic downturn, the City reduced its recurring…
Selection Reminder: Yob tonight at Will’s Pub!
Friday, July 22 – Yob Sludge metal may not be, by definition, uplifting, but the buzz around this killer bill might just do the trick. Oregonian headliners Yob have the headbanging world on edge in anticipation of their August album, Atma, and the band only made the suspense more unbearable with the sneak preview song…
Selection Reminder: NKOTBSB tonight at Amway Center!
Friday, July 22 – New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys Because we all had night terrors in which New Kid Donnie Wahlberg saved our 17th birthday party – it was a calamity, y’all, and he was awesome – there ought to be some cynicism buffer surrounding the recently revived New Kids on the Block…
White noise: Orlando Calling full, official lineup
A grinning Mayor Buddy Dyer and Festival Republic’s Melvin Benn convened at Gibson showroom about 15 minutes ago to announce what they’d already leaked: the first annual Orlando Calling lineup, to be played out Nov. 12-13 at the Citrus Bowl. America the Beautiful was the theme as Benn hammered home his pride in bringing his…
Positively North Orange
Dylan’s is a perfect fit on this food-focused thoroughfare
Deep impact
Meet Dale Oliver, TNA Wrestling’s architect of a thousand songs
Submarine
Quirky drama is more than a Rushmore clone
Fed up
How Orlando’s homeless-service agencies have failed to solve the problem
Hooray (abridged) for Hollywood
Winter Park Playhouse mashes up the movies
Savage Love
You probably get this question every day
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I dreamed you were in a cake store. Every delicious kind of cake you could imagine was there: carrot cake, strawberry cheesecake, gooey butter cake, rich chocolate cake with four layers of cherries and whipped cream, birthday cakes that must have been baked in paradise. Sadly, there was a problem: You…
Culture 2 Go
“How many community art classes or workshops have you been to that have a high attendance rate of individuals over 50 years of age? I am usually the youngest student in these environments, and I’m in my mid-20s.” With these words Rollins College alumna and artist Maria Petrakos succinctly sums up an unspoken issue of…
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Andrew Shepard & Roadkill Ghost Choir
This Little Underground
takes on Danny Feedback’s Crack Rock Opera, Helms Alee, Big Business and Glitch Mob
True ‘Blood’
Folk singer Jolie Holland on David Bowie, Louis C.K. and the critics who’ve got her all wrong
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Live Active Cultures
Use your camera to Picture Peace with Barry Kirsch
Happytown
The wingnuts are coming! The wingnuts are coming! Oh, wait. They’re already here. While we were busy scrubbing the vomit out of our polyester suits (a somewhat unavoidable catharsis resulting from our annual Best of Orlando shenanigans), an entirely different flavor of vomit – that of the traveling circus of peanut-fetus pictures and hyper-religious wrongheadedness…
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Courtroom artist I read your article and truly appreciated that you gave me the benefit of the doubt (“Forget Casey; what was Feldman’s motive,” For Reels, July 7). There was more interest than I ever thought at my being at the trial. After talking with close friends, I realized that I was in fact, very…
Bigger than hip-hop: Norse Korea announces Dead Prez show
Just announced from the ever-increasingly awesome local bookers Norse Korea: Legendary Floridian rap duo Dead Prez are playing the Social Aug. 17. The first 100 tickets sold are only $10; the next 100 is $12 per; after that it’s $15. Tix can be purchased starting Friday here. Get to it! [youtube 4jNyr6BJZuI]
Potter Pulverizes Pooh and Beats Bats, But Does He Still Pack Park?
This past weekend, Orlando’s most profitable underage prestidigitator apparated the biggest pile of cash in his now-concluded academic career. But now that he’s a post-grad, does Harry still have the staying power to pull guests into his park? By now you may have heard that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the eighth…
