Four more arrested at Lake Eola for feeding homeless
According to several reports, four members of the group Food not Bombs were arrested this morning at Lake Eola Park for violating the city’s “Large Group Feeding” ordinance by doling out free food to more than 25 people. (For more information on the ordinance and the group, click here and/or here.) The Orlando Police Department…
Sunday Film News Round Up — June 5th, 2011
Things are starting to heat up outside, but at the box office, well, not so much. X-Men: First Class was the big opener this weekend, showing on almost 7,000 screens in North America. Despite playing on the most screens of any X-Men movie (dramatically so, with Wolverine topping out at 4,100) it only made an…
Join BEATdown’s Matt Kamm for a special ed session tomorrow!
Not sure (can’t print?) what a “very special special-ed 3rd grade play extravaganza” might entail but it’s goin’ down tomorrow night (Sunday) at Backbooth (9pm) hosted by BEATdown’s own Matt Kamm and his band Telethon, along with Britt Daley, Elisa Victoria and DJ Craigjames! Admission is $5 but there are still free tix available at Park Ave…
Selection Reminder: Matt & Kim tonight at Firestone Live!
Saturday, June 4 – Matt & Kim First, there’s the wide-eyed exuberance of Brooklyn indie-poppers Matt and Kim, the former of whom actually threw out his damned back performing for us the last time they were in Orlando. And that was just an opening slot. Who knows what this dude will do to himself now…
“My Way” and the South Korean Box Office Merry-Go-Round
The South Korean box office is a strange creature. It’s one of the few countries in the world where domestic films generally outperform or play closely to foreign films in terms of market share (the only other two I can think of are Japan and India, off of the top of my head). That number…
More details on new PBS deal with WUCF-TV
You’ve probably heard by now that UCF voted on May 26 to become the region’s flagship PBS-member station, in light of WMFE’s decision to sell its TV license to Christian broadcasting company Daystar Television Networks. WUCF has wasted no time in setting up a web presence to get people acquainted with their new PBS channel.…
Yip-Yip Releases New Video
Yip-Yip is back… well kind of. After a long hiatus (at least to the public eye), Orlando’s best electronic act has finally finished their new full length album. Unfortunately though, their plans to release their latest work are up in the air. Will the album ever come out? Yeah, probably… but what the future holds…
There For Tomorrow release studio-session music vid.
Local Billboard charters There For Tomorrow have released a studio music video for their new single “The Joyride” off their third studio album, The Verge, coming out June 28. The MTVU award winners are playing the Vans Warped Tour at the Central Florida Fairgrounds July 29. [youtube K3lq5yO_UPs]
L.A.’s new darling Rachel Goodrich covers Johnny Cash.
Looks like her move from Miami to L.A. last December is doing regional fave Rachel Goodrich some good. Not only is she opening for the UK’s Band of Skulls in Los Angeles next week on the strength of her self-titled sophomore album, Teen Vogue recently debuted her new video for a song, “Wereman,” scheduled to…
Selection Reminder: Nerd-rock trio Primus tonight at Hard Rock Live!
Friday, June 3 – Primus Oh, Primus. You’re still here. Honestly, there isn’t much distance anymore between a Primus diehard and a Weird Al Yankovic diehard, is there? Both camps tout Yankovic and Primus leader Les Claypool’s musical virtuoso bona fides – Yankovic is an accordion whiz, while Claypool is arguably one of the greatest…
City finally brings hammer down on Food Not Bombs, arresting three
Orlando police finally chose to exercise the city’s recently reinstated authority to enforce its controversial public feeding ordinance yesterday evening, arresting three Food not Bombs members at Lake Eola Park. The activists include Jessica Cross, 24, Ben Markeson, 50, and Keith McHenry, 54 and still visiting from New Mexico and considered the founder of the…
Lee Anthony testifies, reporters evidently agree that Casey is a “spiteful bitch”
After Lee Anthony testified yesterday that his sister Casey–you know, Casey Anthony, the one accused of murdering her two year-old daughter and all that–had once described herself as a “spiteful bitch,” the local news sphere was abuzz with chatter, which was summed up in this clunky meta-analysis by an Orlando Sentinel blog: “Spiteful bitch” will…
Tiny burger joint serves Colombia’s finest patties
Junior’s hamburgers are a crunchy, meaty, juicy, saucy revelation
Midnight in Paris
Wish-fulfillment comedy brings out Woody Allen’s bright side
Culture 2 Go
Another year, another Fringe Festival come and gone. This was, actually, my first Fringe. Last year, I had just moved to Orlando when Fringe was in full swing – I got off the Amtrak Auto Train in Sanford, drove to check out my new digs at the Weekly and then wandered over to Loch Haven…
Architects on the beach
Atlantic Center for the Arts builds creative collaborations on 10 unspoiled acres
Apopka farmworkers say pesticide exposure caused illnesses
Former workers and activists trying to draw attention to health problems in the community
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Happytown
A budgetary Sharpie blots out the Smurfs in the Villages, UCF takes over Orlando (or at least it should), the Casey Anthony trial ties up valuable talking-head resources and, hey, Jon Huntsman, welcome to our closet!
Live Active Cultures
Out of the way! Seth Kubersky has a Starspeeder to catch
Savage Love
>My husband and I recently realized that in order for us to remain happily married, we need to fuck other people.
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Gainesville’s Primitive Boys and Pseudo Kids, Boston’s Destry, Jersey band Communipaw and brings news of an Indie Summer Fest fall sequel
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Peter Baldwin
Yellowbrickroad
Special midnight horror movie fails to deliver something special
Breasts out
Winter Park quietly slips secret $250,000 settlement into Club Harem’s panties
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The film The Men Who Stare at Goats tells the story of the U.S. Army’s efforts to harness psychic powers for military purposes. It’s not entirely a work of the imagination. In fact, there’s substantial evidence that such a program actually existed. As the movie begins, a caption on the screen…
Tickets Going Fast for Danny Feedback’s Crack Rock Opera
If you haven’t heard the news yet, you’re behind the times. But don’t fret, we gotcha covered. Danny Feedback of Franchise is gearing up for his musical debut with an hour long production put on by Bread & Circuses. Danny Feedback’s Crack Rock Opera is the story of Danny’s infamous rise and fall to star-dumb…
Week 2: Cindy Anthony to testify, man with neck brace sprints for seat
WJXT-4, a Jacksonville TV station, reports a “rush” for seats at the Orange County Courthouse this morning, evidently akin to a Black Friday stampede, due to the expected testimony of Cindy Anthony, Casey’s mother. Here’s the jewel: Among those sprinting for a chance to see Cindy Anthony testify were women in dresses and a man…
