Local Indie Calendar for July
All dates are subject to change, ya dig? 7/9 – the awkward comedy of Cyrus (Enzian), the Italian melodrama of I Am Love (Winter Park – pictured) 7/16 – the Aussie noir The Square (Winter Park), UPDATE: the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Winter Park) 7/23 – the dysfunctional family dramedy The Kids…
Vote for us in Best of Orlando
Hey, look, we’re in the running for the Daily City’s Best Best of Orlando. A few weeks ago, we saw the Daily City on Twitter trying to decide whether to do its own version of a Best of issue and if so, whether to populate it with readers picks or critics picks. Apparently, they’ve opted…
Twelve21 adds three
What We See When We Look Back 7-11 p.m. Friday, July 9 Twelve21 Gallery 1221-C N. Orange Ave., Orlando, 32804 407-982-4357 Free, beer and wine served Twelve21 Gallery, the exhibition space that acts as a roommate to the Laughing Samurai Creative Agency, opens up a new show Friday, featuring work from local artists Danielle DeGuglimo…
Oedipus the cling
Mumblecore goes mainstream with a charming comedy
Corporate taxing
Universal bullies its talent into the sound booth for a Despicable mess
MetroWest Mideast feast
Plenty of mm-mmm moments await at Habibi
Pretty persuasion
Tilda Swintonâ??s meaty performance calls attention to a lack of substance elsewhere
DVD Nuts!
Chloe Filmmaker Atom Egoyan takes a break from his typical impenetrable-trauma-obsessed films for a detour into the lost art of the erotic thriller with this sensual, subtle and captivating genre pic. When the strained marriage of a flirty professor (Liam Neeson) and his suspicious wife (Julianne Moore) nears the brink, she hires a prostitute (Amanda…
Happytown
“I’ll just die if I don’t get this recipe. I’ll just die if I don’t get this recipe. I’ll just die if I don’t get this recipe.” In a brief hot-flash of Internet virulence last week, Florida once again positioned itself as a creepy haven for Stepford Wives eugenics dinner parties. At issue was a…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Have you added some bulk and stability to your foundation any time recently, Aries? Have you grown your roots deeper and asked for more from your traditional sources and recommitted yourself to your primal vows? I hope so, because this is a perfect time, astrologically speaking, to strengthen your link to…
Savage Love
My husband of eight years confessed to wanting to watch me with another man. I asked if he meant it. He said yes. I asked if he wanted me to set it up. He said yes. I found a guy, and he agreed to a full STD screening so we wouldn’t have to use condoms.…
Police Beat
June 24 (2010-297905) 3:30 p.m. — Sometime between 7 p.m. on June 23 and 3:30 p.m. on June 24, some lucky person’s dream of becoming a construction worker finally came true when he stumbled across an unattended forklift. He swiped the piece of machinery from the Airgas South on N. John Young Parkway, and ……
Comments
Don’t hate the players ; Your article on Fourthfest [“Fourth and Goal,” Music, July 1] and your Selections item on the I-4 Fest were a passive-aggressive spew on the local music scene. Did you have a hangover the morning you wrote these? Or was it that your perspective was obscured by your nose being up…
Live Active Cultures
For this week’s column, I’m taking you with me on my latest theme-park adventure, in which I follow an internationally adored man-child on a magical virtual voyage. No, I’m not talking about that Potter punk again, I promise. This eternally arrested adolescent with an oddly overdeveloped sense of importance is actually the domain of Walt…
Hubbardâ??s vampires donâ??t suck â?¦
The Season of Risks; By Susan Hubbard; Simon & Schuster,; 320 pages “It must be age,” says Susan Hubbard over the phone about the jetlag that’s been lingering since her return several days ago from Ireland. A couple of clues into the author’s world of fiction just dropped: The enduring preternatural characters in Hubbard’s trio…
Way down in the hole
Red Mouth; Saint Red Mouth; (self-released); with Jack Watkins, Saint Sibian; 9 p.m. Friday, July 9; Will’s Pub, 407-898-5070; www.willspub.org; $7 If anyone knows how to work a minimalist setup powerfully, it’s Eric “Red Mouth” Gebhardt. The only companions the Muscle Shoals bluesman (and former Orlandoan) typically travels with are his guitar and a wooden…
To look for America
Delta Spirit with David Vandervelde, Romany Rye 8 p.m. Thursday, July 8 The Social, 407-246-1419 www.thesocial.org $12-$14 $12-$14 $12-$14 “It’s kind of a life-changer, I guess,” says Jon Jameson, co-founder and bassist for rootsy Southern California quintet Delta Spirit, on the band’s 2008 appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. “I mean, a lot of…
This Little Underground
The most active summer in years in terms of community music events keeps on rolling. Next up is Indie Summer Fest (Aug. 8, $8, www.indiesummer.net) organized by Demario Wallace (Fly South Music) and Swamburger. Happening in the arty district of Audubon Park, the all-day music festival looks to make a significant splash with 70 bands…
How to get Rich
“Frankly, I’ve been to a lot of rodeos,” says Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty, suggesting less of a predilection for competitive livestock events than a weathered sense of Southern stoicism; you’re not going to surprise this semi-controversial 10-year leader, not when he’s already ;seen it all. Crotty’s auspicious rise to power and largely unchallenged tenure…
Hollywood ending
“The USA have made it in a Hollywood-style finish!” yelled match commentator Ian Darke in the elated moments after Landon Donovan’s game-winning, group-winning strike in stoppage time against Algeria two weeks ago at the World Cup in South Africa. It’s something you hear all the time in sports: A commentator, looking to make his point…
