Palin bombs at B.O., declares victory
So, how did the Sarah Palin doc The Undefeated do in its first weekend of limited release? Well, as with all things de la Barracuda, the answer seems to depend on who’s preaching to which choir. The Atlantic was in a rush to bury the thing, gleefully noting that no one save their own reviewer…
Shinobi Ninja Was… Umm… Nice?
All that can be said is that Shinobi Ninja was here for you to hear and you weren’t there. Maybe you were… probably not though. So anyway, below is their music video. They’re from Brooklyn. They’re NOT 311 and hey… someone’s wearing a Mr. Bungle Shirt. [youtube zZ9vM1RIGEM]
Selection Reminder: Sade tonight at Amway Center!
Sunday, July 17 – Sade Born Helen Folasade Adu, Sade is like the Terrence Malick of candlelight balladeers. The reclusive British singer went on a tear in the ’80s, dropping hit after hit of slow-jam mood music like “Smooth Operator,” “The Sweetest Taboo,” “Cherish the Day” and “No Ordinary Love.” Then she disappeared. She reemerged…
Selection Reminder: Southern Fried Sunday B-Day Benefit for the Mustard Seed!
Sunday, July 17 – Southern Fried Sunday As if the above isn’t enough ass-kicking for one day, Mills Avenue will be blowing up around the same time for the annual Southern Fried Sunday Mustard Seed benefit party featuring more than a dozen musical acts, a classic-car show, a “pin-up girl” contest, a dunk tank, food…
Sunday Film News Roundup — July 17th, 2011
For most news outlets, the big news stories of the week were Harry Potter shattering basically every screen record ever (while also being pretty damn good), who got snubbed and who was undeserving in the Emmy noms, and the News of the World hacking scandal. Boooooring. The Netflix price hike was the thing that got under my…
Selection Reminder: Sunshine State of Mind invades downtown Orlando!
Sunday, July 17 – Sunshine State of Mind Dayum, has this town been hurtin’ for a block party for a minute and a half. Just in time to cure the summer doldrums comes this mishmash of Orlando’s best and brightest, set to take over Pine Street downtown between Court and Orange Avenues. Featuring the always-down-to-party…
Guitar Exhibit at Orlando Science Center
Attention fellow long-hairs… yeah you. YOU! Guy that spends 8 hours a day playing “Stairway to Heaven” at Sam Ash Music Center, flaunting your finger-tapping skills with the Marshall all the way up to 11 so every lesson-takin’ pimple-faced kid can gawk in awe at the obsessive-compulsive, destructive lifestyle that is being a slave to…
Selection Reminder: Nerdapalooza begins tonight!
Saturday, July 16 – Sunday, July 17 – Nerdapalooza After the film Revenge of the Nerds was released in 1984, the term “nerd” gradually shed its connotation as a precursor to high school beatings and instead came to define a vast and proud American subculture. Nowadays, that culture’s vastness is no better demonstrated than in…
When Casey Anthony anti-groupies attack
The criminal trial may be over, but the insanity is not. Of course it’s not. It never is. Just this week, two (unfortunate) individuals reported that rabid Casey Anthony anti-groupies have gone on the offensive against them. A Pennsylvania man named Casey Anthony says he’s been bombarded on Facebook and over the phone by people…
Selections flashback: Fiesta del Coqui
In honor of this weekend’s El Canto del Coquí event at Central Florida Zoo this weekend, I thought we’d take a moment to look back at the most insane piece of writing I think I’ve ever slipped into print. The context: last year’s Arizona immigration flap. The event: September’s annual Fiesta del Coquí celebration. The…
The Teevee: Louie 2×04.
Welcome to the fourth edition of The Teevee, a new occasional feature in which film/music editor Justin Strout, arts & culture/food editor Jessica Bryce Young and staff writer Billy Manes gchat about their favorite shows the morning after. Also, it should go without saying, but the following is one giant SPOILER ALERT!!!!! In this episode, Strout and Young…
Selection Reminder: Hear Hums tonight at Stardust Video & Coffee!
Friday, July 15 – Hear Hums We’ve heaped the loftiest praises our vocabulary can manage onto Gainesville experimental act Hear Hums, and through hot word of mouth, their gospel is spreading in Orlando. But lest you be dissuaded by their “experimental” tag, this isn’t just some bullshit hipster esoterica that seeks validation in being willfully…
Updates from Syriana; Libyan grad student considering pizza delivery; the dictator with 112 names (Warning: graphic footage)
As you may recall, last week we ran an article about the struggles of Syrian- and Libyan-Americans here in Florida to come to terms with the revolution gripping their countries overseas. The article profiles two women in particular, Dena Atassi, a 26 year-old whose family hails from Homs, Syria’s third largest city, and 30 year-old…
RIP local Grass Roots frontman Rob Grill.
The NYT has a great obit for local resident and the longtime singer for the ’60s pop act Grass Roots, Rob Grill, who died Monday at 67. “The Grass Roots weren’t the hippest band on the block,” The Boston Globe wrote in 1989. “But they were — and remain — a sure-fire guilty pleasure, a…
Arts and Entertainment – Readers’ Picks
BEST ALTERNATIVE ARTS SPACE 1st: Blank Space Art Gallery 201 E. Central Blvd. 407-481-9001 blankspaceorlando.com 2nd: Urban ReThink 625 E. Central Blvd. 407-704-6895 urbanrethink.com 3rd: CityArts Factory 29 S. Orange Ave. 407-648-7060 orlandoslice.com BEST ART GALLERY 1st: CityArts Factory 2nd: Twelve21 Gallery 1221-C N. Orange Ave. 407-982-4357 twelve21gallery.com 3rd: Blank Space Art Gallery …
Savage Love
I’m a 20-year-old straight male, but this isn’t really about me.
Happytown
Yes, we are still covering the Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) controversy with dutiful regularity – on July 6, two more people were arrested for sharing food at Lake Eola Park without a permit, blah, blah, blah, you can find the details online (Bloggytown, “Two more arrested at Lake Eola as city preemptively trespasses activists,”…
Local Color – Readers’ Picks
BEST KEPT SECRET 1st: A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan podcast tomanddan.com 2nd: Yellow Dog Eats 1236 Hempel Ave., Gotha 407-296-0609 yellowdogeats.com 3rd: Pom Pom’s Teahouse & Sandwicheria 67 N. Bumby Ave. 407-894-0865 pompomsteahouse.com BEST LOCAL CHARITABLE GROUP 1st: Orlando Food Not Bombs, orlandofoodnotbombs.org 2nd: The Mustard Seed of Central Florida, mustardseedfla.org 3rd:…
Arts and Entertainment – Staff Picks
Best sellout in the best possible way Andrew Spear crafts a mural for Real World: Las Vegas If you’re one for driving around Orlando and looking for walls of distraction – or, for that matter, if you’ve just picked up this paper over the past few years – you’re aware of the artistic ubiquity of…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the coming days you have permission from the universe to dwell less on what needs to be resisted, protested, flushed out and overcome. Instead you have license to concentrate on what deserves to be fostered, encouraged, bolstered and invited in. Sound like fun? It will be if you can do…
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
This Little Underground
Everyone’s just sooo outraged about Casey Anthony, but what about Animal Collective? These guys inspired a locust swarm of hacks who suddenly thought all it took to finish incomplete ideas was a bunch of reverb and underwater effects. OK, so A.C.’s not responsible for the primary crime; they’re better than that, right? Well, unlike their…
Music – Readers’ Picks
BEST CLUB DJ 1st: DJ Kittybat 2nd: DJ Sandy 3rd: DJ Jimmy Joslin BEST CLUB NIGHT 1st: Takeovr (Roxy) 2nd: Grits & Gravy (I-Bar) 3rd: Torque (Vixen) BEST COUNTRY ACT 1st: Lonesome City Travelers 2nd: Thomas Wynn & the Believers 3rd: Hindu Cowboys BEST ELECTRONIC ACT 1st: Yip-Yip 2nd: Attached Hands 3rd:…
Sports and Recreation – Readers’ Picks
Best Billiards 1st: Sportstown Billiards 2414 E. Robinson St. 407-894-6258 sportstownbilliards.com 2nd: Trick Shots multiple locations trickshotsbilliards.com 3rd: Backstage Billiards 5656 International Drive backstagebilliardsidrive.com 407-345-0323 Best City Park 1st: Lake Eola Park 2nd: Southport Park 3rd: Dickson Azalea Park Best Dog Park 1st: Fleet Peeples Park, Winter Park 2nd: Dr. P. Phillips Community…
Local Color – Staff Picks
Best exploitation of a ladypart Susannah Randolph’s uterus Nobody saw this coming. While the Republican legislature was pretending to ride high on its rodeo hog – chewing the beef jerky of “jobs, jobs, jobs” while quietly assuring the dulled synapses of an underpaid public that this smirking wingnut majority would not be abused in the…
Announcing: The Weezer Cruise
That’s right, folks! You wanted to see it presents …The Weezer Cruise. Four days of complete insanity setting sail from Miami to Cozumel. For just under 1,000 big ones, you will not only see Weezer twice, you will be able to get a photo with the band and be included in a Q&A session with…
As they raise prices almost 60%, is it time to dump Netflix?
As we learned a little while ago, the DVD_by-mail-and-streaming giant Netflix, is raising their base rate for unlimited streaming+1 DVD from $9.99 to $15.98 per month. That’s a huge jump in price point for a service that is nice, but still fairly sub par. Between antagonizing Criterion into moving their streaming to Hulu+ (and the…
Barnes and Noble’s Criertion 50% Off Sale Starts Today
Just a quick post to remind you to hide your wallets. Stick those credit cards in a bag of water and throw it in the freezer so you can avoid financial ruin at the hands of those diabolical bastards at Criterion. It’s 50% off time at Barnes and Noble again, meaning most Blurays are $19.99…
Music – Staff Picks
Best rapper turned director X:144 You’ve heard of rappers turning to film for a second career, but it’s usually in front of the camera. Local hip-hop MC X:144 (aka Maged Khalil Ragab) – heretofore known best for his duo work with celebrated turntablist SPS – has once again flipped the script, turning his observational eye, which served…
Sports and Recreation – Staff Picks
Best way to pass time in a drainage ditch Winching When former Orlando resident Thomas Horrell first set foot on a wakeskate – basically, a wakeboard on which your feet are unattached – in the late ’90s, he was thrilled, but also bothered: The new sport was far less accessible than its inspiration, skateboarding. “It…
OFNB doles out food in front of city hall per mayoral invitation; group plans to “pack the room” at City Council
The group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) held its regular Monday food sharing in this morning in an irregular spot—the steps of City Hall. The group is taking Mayor Buddy Dyer up on his invitation to “let Food Not Bombs gather in front of City Hall any time they liked, saying he’d even donate some…
Sunday Film News Roundup – July 10th, 2011
So this weekend, we got a bit of a break in the summer action avalanche as the two big releases were the lukewarmly reviewed comedies, The Zookeeper and Horrible Bosses. I didn’t see either (maybe Horrible Bosses on video, but no desire whatsoever to see The Zookeeper), but did get around to seeing Larry Crowne, the affable and…
Selection Reminder: Don Zientara at Substance art gallery tonight!
Saturday, July 9 – Don Zientara Producer and owner of the legendary Inner Ear Studios, birthplace of D.C. hardcore, Zientara could just sit back for the rest of his life collecting cred points. As the architect of seminal albums including the first studio releases from Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Government Issue, Fugazi and Dag…
Selection Reminder: Tremaine National Finals Gala at Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld tonight!
Sunday, July 9 – Tremaine National Finals Gala Buried beneath the thousands of dancing feet that will have turned, tapped and stomped their way through the ballrooms of the Renaissance hotel over the first three days of this dance competition-convention-award show pandemonium breathes the only part of this frenzied weekend that we really care about:…
Nostalgic about Spaceflight Already? Watch “For All Mankind” for free
Unless you’ve been living under a rock and thought that continuous sonic boom this morning was the apocalypse, you know that the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off earlier today on the final shuttle mission NASA will ever launch. I’m personally not a big fan of the International Space Station, though I do have a lot…
The Teevee: Louie 2×03.
Welcome to the third edition of The Teevee, a new occasional feature in which film/music editor Justin Strout, arts & culture/food editor Jessica Bryce Young and staff writer Billy Manes gchat about their favorite shows the morning after. Also, it should go without saying, but the following is one giant SPOILER ALERT!!!!! In this episode, Strout and Young…
Selection Reminder: Girls on Film, Wet Nurse at Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall tonight!
Friday, July 8 – Girls on Film, Wet Nurse Tallahassee-based duo Girls on Film have not had an easy go of it; for one thing, they started off as a four-piece back in 2002. They’ve since “streamlined” their lineup – singer Rio and bassist Kazhmir form the core group, with keyboardist The Viirus providing live…
Get Drunk With American Aquarium Tonight At Wills
Friday July, 7 – American Aquarium Feelin’ low? Whiskey-dick got you down? PERFECT! Tonight at Will’s Pub, Raleigh, NC alt-country band American Aquarium is gonna help in all the ways only classic americana can. Their drunken slow-chug of organic instruments and slide guitar seem to wallow in the realness of love lost, alcoholism, and NASCAR……
Selection Reminder: Comics! A Nerdy Burlesque Show tonight!
Friday, July 8– Comics! A Nerdy Burlesque Show For some comic-book creepers, superheroines provide the ultimate geekgasm: the skin-smacking costumes, the determined yet mysteriously masked eyes, the staggeringly sketched curves. And tonight, no matter which comic series or fetish you favor – the wholesome American Dream, the flirty and fun Aquagirl, the hard-to-get Phantom Lady,…
Two more arrested at Lake Eola as city preemptively trespasses activists
Two more activists affiliated with the group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park, bringing the toll of those arrested for holding unpermitted food sharings at the park to 27 since June 1. Though the arrests have occurred with an almost tedious regularity, yesterday marked an important shift in the…
Selection Reminder: Animal Collective tonight!
Thursday, July 7 – Animal Collective Probably the third-coolest thing to ever come out of Baltimore, after The Wire and our Editor in Chief, there’s really no need to go into why you should be at this show tonight. If you haven’t heard of this ever-shifting group of cooler-than-you psych-rockers, well, you really have no…
Forget Casey; what was Feldman’s motive?
As viewers around the country reacted with shock and fury to the “not guilty” verdicts in the Casey Anthony trial, locals were experiencing an extra frisson of surprise: Holy crap, that’s Brian Feldman! Yes, it was indeed the gadfly performance artist seated prominently in front of the defendant’s family, his oh-so-serious countenance destined to be…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II World Premier Tonight in London
…and, if you’re feeling a little Harry Potter nuts today, you can watch a live webstream of the event as it happens. It’s still a few hours away from the arrivals, but they’re already broadcasting interviews with the craziest of crazy Potterheads and showing featurettes about the making and all that fun stuff. Still a…
Selection Reminder: Concordance tonight at OMA!
Thursday, July 7 – Hasan Elahi Just after 9/11, the FBI targeted Tampa artist Hasan Elahi for investigation. (Someone called in a “tip” that Elahi was hoarding explosives in a storage unit.) For months, the FBI hauled him in for interrogations and polygraph tests. Eventually, he was cleared of suspicion, but we all know how…
Bean counters
Downtown Credo Coffee 706 W. Smith St. 407-371-2025 downtowncredo.com There’s a whole, well, credothat goes along with the Downtown Credo coffeehouse in College Park, centered around rejecting apathy and despair and making the world a better place by engaging with the community. It’s a nonprofit coffee joint where there are no prices, the menu is…
Shell station
Sloppy Taco Palace 4892 S. Kirkman Road 407-574-6474 sloppytacopalace.com $ It may only be a few years old, but Sloppy Taco Palace’s stripped-down atmosphere and ’70s-style furnishings make it seem like the bar/taqueria has been around since the days of Chico and the Man. The vibe is very much like that at another “taco palace”:…
Dallas star
Cocina 214 brings brilliant haute-Texican cuisine to Winter Park
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) It’s my observation that women find it easier than men to tune into their natural rhythms. The menstrual cycle helps cultivate that ability. We men experience less dramatic physical shifts, and that seems to give us license to override messages from our bodies for the sake of ambition, laziness or convenience.…
Comments
Pieces of a man I would like to thank you so much for the article you published about Gil Scott Heron (“Paid in Full,” June 23). He was one of the world’s greatest poets, writers and performers. I saw him perform twice while I was serving in the armed forces, once in Baltimore and also…
Horrible Bosses
Abrasive, recession-era comedy works on its own terms
Point of no return
Florida’s Syrians and Libyans organize for change in their home countries, even if that means never going back
Happytown
Vouchers are like depression gift certificates, city elections are like moving goalposts and gas prices are too damn high for Brian Feldman.
Live Active Cultures
Ballet leaps onto the big screen at Enzian
Savage Love
Three months ago, I met a woman who I’m really into physically, emotionally and mentally.
Lush life
Ringo Deathstarr celebrates the scene that celebrates itself
Culture 2 Go
On the eve of our most martial national holiday, fewer than 20 people gathered at Urban ReThink to hear Garry W. Shores read from his New York Times-published journal entries. Shores, a trauma nurse and Navy lieutenant, left his home in Knoxville, Tenn., to serve for six months in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Shores read an excerpt…
Page One: Inside the New York Times
Filmmaker gets lost inside the heart of the Times
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
The sea inside
Mystery, fear and a chilly sense of danger fill Twelve21’s cool space
Avant guarded
Danny Feedback’s Crack Rock Opera comes to freakish fruition
This Little Underground
Our live music columnist takes on Hanni El Khatib, Florence & the Machine, Alien House, Soft Opening, Hollow Leg and more
SnoozeFest: Tonight At BackBooth
Leslie, more like Nancy Wednesday July, 6th – Leslie Okay, so maybe we’re biased but Charleston, SC band Leslie is hawkin’ up a loogie that’s just plain hard to swallow. They’ve managed to hash out some great tunes… all of which sound like they’re from 1997. Their latest release, Lord, Have Mercy, was produced by the…
The reaction to the Casey Anthony verdict from Champs Cafe (video)
Not guilty. That pair of words, uttered three times, sent dozens of onlookers into a hooting, sobbing frenzy, as the Orlando Weekly, having no official media credentials, watched the verdict of the Casey Anthony trial from a restaurant located at the ground floor of the Orange County Courthouse building. The jury ruled that Anthony, accused…
Watch “Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade” for Free
Fan of The Smiths? The Slits? The Raincoats? The Belle and Sebastian? Wait… Anyway, what do they have in common, aside from being great? They’re all released by Rough Trade Records, the London-based “indie” superlabel. Anyone who is a fan of music should be able to appreciate this documentary (except you, metalheads and hippity hoppers). Rough Trade…
