For Reels Sunday Roundup — July 7th, 2013
The Lone Ranger has come and, as expected by everyone but Disney, left its stinking dead bird carcass on the floor of thousands of multiplex theaters instead of on Johnny Depp’s head. Dick Cook and Rich Ross are just gifts that keep giving, even a year after hiring Alan Horn as chairman of the studio. But,…
Inscrutable we: Why the hot kid flicks don’t speak to grown-ups
He knows I’m right. I guess if I were a run-of-the-mill middle-aged media critic, I’d be worrying right now about which messages the summer’s animated hits are sending to our children. But honestly, screw kids. They’re better equipped than we are to process this sort of stuff anyway – chiefly because they haven’t yet begun…
Win Meet & Greet passes to Jason Derulo and Kat Dahlia
102 JAMZ HOOK UP #4 is the fourth of a series of events that showcases today’s hottest artists. 102 JAMZ HOOK UP #4 will take place at the House of Blues on Friday, July 26. Over 2,000 fans will pack out the venue for a night of entertainment including 102 JAMZ mixers, on-air personalities, National…
Short Film Friday – Supervision Sucks
Two Cars, One Night Dir: Taika Waititi Runtime: 11m This super charming short by the director of Eagle vs. Shark is about two kids stuck waiting in their parents’ cars during a night out at the bar and their slow approach to friendship. His new film, Boy, is finally out on bluray this coming Tuesday. https://vimeo.com/2635339…
Video: Grand Opening of KSC’s Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit
With all the fireworks bursting in air over Orlando this Fourth of July holiday, it seems fitting to pay tribute to some of the most historically significant rockets ever launched from Central Florida. Last Saturday, the Kennedy Space Center inaugurated their new Space Shuttle exhibit, featuring the retirement home for Atlantis, the last shuttle to…
ALBUM REVIEW: PET SHOP BOYS – ELECTRIC
PET SHOP BOYS ELECTRIC X2/KOBALT Release Date: July 15, 2013 Readers of this publication will likely already know that there’s nothing that I, Billy Manes, like more than the Pet Shop Boys (except maybe Duran Duran). So, on the occasion of the release of their latest record Electric, I decided to forgo the standard set-up-and-contextualize…
In Your Queue — “Some Girl(s)” and “Europa Report”
Some Girl(s) – Daisy von Scherler Mayer Adapted by Neil LaBute from his stage play, Some Girl(s) travels alongside with a newly successful writer (Adam Brody) as he crisscrosses the country, tracking down a series of lovers from his past before his impending marriage so he can right some of the wrongs from he old…
The Places
The venues and club nights that propelled Orlando’s EDM culture in the ’90s
Opening in Orlando this week
What’s playing on screens around town
Drinking, Nightlife and Parties
Where to drink and party in Orlando this week
Don’t write off ‘The Lone Ranger’
Retelling of old Western makes for the least serious, most intellingent action move of the year
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In his book The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden, Robert Johnson says many of us are as much in debt with our psychic energy as we are with our financial life. We work too hard. We rarely refresh ourselves with silence and slowness and peace. We don’t get enough sleep…
Florida’s new bong bill is business as usual
Thanks to a last-minute amendment, smoke shop owners shouldn’t experience much blowback from new law
Savage Love
I’m a 24-year-old woman who just ended a five-year relationship. It sucked. I cried. It was my first breakup, so I’ve felt totally insane for the last three months. Now I’m in the dating world, and I go out with people only to find that we have no physical chemistry. My mother says, “You’re just…
Camera Obscura fine-tunes defining sound on ‘Desire Lines’
Album review: Camera Obscura’s ‘Desire Lines’
Austra’s ‘Olympia’ is defiantly weird
Album review: Austra’s ‘Olympia’
Remix
A fresh take on a classic cocktail: the mojito
Valient Thorr’s planet-hopping heavy metal hits Will’s Pub
The politically outspoken metal band peppers their principles with humor
Malick Sidibé’s portraits depict the evolution of self-definition
African photographer’s portraits document the spirit of independence that swept Mali in the 1960s
Kabooki Sushi
Gifted chef and accomplished staff drawing raves from local sushi zealots
Tip Jar: local food news
This week: Competition heats up on Orlando Avenue, a slew of special dining events, and openings/closings
Shape-shifting Primal Scream impresses on first LP in five years
Album review: Primal Scream’s ‘More Light’
Dance dance revolution
An oral history of how the Chemical Brothers, all-night raves, and a massive club scene made Orlando’s EDM scene legendary
Live Active Cultures: Space Shuttle Atlantis is now open
Kennedy Space Center’s new exhibit is unexpectedly emotional
DOMA is Done, But Gay Floridians Still Must Defeat the State’s Anti-Gay-Marriage Amendment
Though SCOTUS eviscerated DOMA, gay Floridians still have a lot of work ahead
This Little Underground
Our live music columnist champions Matt Pond’s Orlando video and reviews the Generationals, the Tunnel and more
‘Despicable Me 2’ is wicked good
Sequel is a worthy follow-up to the superbly sill original
LEGOLAND opens new expansion with World of Chima attractions
(PHOTO/Merlin Entertainments Group, LEGOLAND Florida, Chip Litherland Photography) As of Wednesday, July 3, Winter Haven’s LEGOLAND Florida will open to the public a new expansion area of the theme park named The LEGO World of Chima. Among the featured attractions in the new area of the park, which is sponsored by Cartoon Network, the Quest…
I-4 Fest for 4th of July for all-day fun independent of downtown
Sure, you could celebrate Independence Day by flocking with the masses downtown to stare up collectively while fireworks debris rains around you. But! You also have the option to do something a little more unique and just as flashy if instead you head the other way down Orange Avenue with Austin’s Coffee as your destination…
On sale this week: He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister at the Social
On sale now! He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5 The Social 54 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thesocial.org $12 Down the road: Matt Pond, July 11 at The Social The Coathangers, July 12 at Backbooth Kathy Griffin, July 12 at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre Hank Williams Jr. &…
