“Rock of Ages”: We built this city on ADD
So Rock of Ages is a bomb. Young people don’t care about it, says The Hollywood Reporter. The idea of Tom Cruise as a rocker is too much for moviegoers to swallow, says Nikki Finke. Personally, I didn’t find the film to be quite the atrocity I had feared. But I still couldn’t get past a…
Internet-famous rapper Kitty Pryde to play free show at Back Booth
Late last week, your Internet Machine probably started frenetically blathering about how a young, super-hyped rapper was making her debut in New York City. Hell, Rolling Stone even wrote about Kitty Pryde’s 35-minute set at the Knitting Factory. [Grantland did too, but it just went up today, because Grantland is always late … because being late…
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Notable Noise: This Week’s Best Shows [Mark Wayne memorial, Stevie Wonder tribute, more]
It’s a super-slow week for shows this week. Don’t blame me; blame summer. Monday, June 18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoc31HwBmC0 Sounduo [Social] Tuesday, June 19 Ages, Setbacks, Collision, We’re Not Dead, Throat Dump [Peacock] Wednesday, June 20 The Rocket Summer, the Scene Aesthetic, States [Social] Thursday, June 21 Redbull Thre3Style National Finals Qualifer [Social] …
Tako Cheena lobbies hard for Best of Orlando
Fellow recession sufferers, there’s no surer sign of bad times than an actual sign, made of cardboard, asking for your help. Tako Cheena, sensing your pain, offers crack-level-dangerous food at addiction-enabling prices. All they ask is what we’ve been asking for weeks: Go and vote in the 2012 Best of Orlando poll. Here is their…
Big Wheel Provisions FTW!
Yep, Big Wheel Provisions is the Bacon Off Orlando 2012 grand champion. But bacon bread pudding from C&S Brisket Bus? Be still our beating hearts.
Sunday Film News Roundup — June 17th, 2012
In case you either live under a rock or on the rock, Henry Hill, the real life Brooklyn mobster who was the model for Ray Liotta’s character in the film Goodfellas, died this week. People seem to be remembering him more for the later, but let’s not forget the former. He was a mobster who…
Texas post-rockers Explosions in the Sky perform in Tampa
Tuesday, June 19 – Explosions in the Sky 5:30 p.m. The Ritz Ybor Tampa 813-247-2555 ritzybor.com $20-$35 Faces of Ecstasy, the “O” face – pop culture’s long been privy to the voyeuristic joy of someone else’s, um, joy. But never will you see a more ravenous rapture than to mention the name of these Texas post-rockers…
Come one, come all: Battle of the Beards at Wall Street Plaza!
Sunday, June 17 – Battle of the Beards 2-8 p.m. Wall Street Plaza Wall and Court streets battleofthebeards.net $10 Ever been told you’ve got a sweet ’stache’? This is your chance to show off those luscious facial locks, as Wall Street Plaza hosts a Battle of the Beards contest to find Orlando’s coolest mustaches and…
Energy & Rhythm opens at new G4 Studios
Saturday, June 16 – Energy & Rhythm 6 p.m. G4 Studios 101 S. Garland Ave. 407-353-8068 www.g4-studios.com free A new gallery opening – not just a one-night party, but an actual gallery! – is always a thing to celebrate, so say hello to G4 Studios, newly open on Church Street in the historic Exchange Building.…
John King hosts Bloomsday celebration at Urban ReThink
Saturday, June 16 – Bloomsday 6-9 p.m. Urban ReThink 625 E. Central Blvd. 407-704-6895 urbanrethink.com $5 suggested donation Sometimes dubbed “St. Patrick’s day for intellectuals,” Bloomsday is a long-standing tradition of James Joyce fans, Irish or otherwise. For more than a century now, readers in love with Joyce’s legendary, erudite, impenetrably dense and shot-glass-thick text,…
Roger Waters’ The Wall tonight at Amway Center
Saturday, June 16 – Roger Waters’ The Wall 8 p.m. Amway Center 400 W. Church St. 407-440-7000 amwaycenter.com $46.75-$200.25 Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters’ 1979 double album The Wall is, by design, beyond context. It’s a rock opera, a pretty solid set of tracks (the lyric “We don’t need no education” is practically a cultural…
Bristol’s back; is your TV butch enough?
A few weeks ago, I started to get this funny tingling feeling in my bones. And I knew right away what it meant: Either we were about to experience a rainy snap, or Bristol Palin was planning a comeback. Sure enough, as the latest season of Dancing with the Stars was winding down, I noticed the…
BREAKING: United Arts’ ArtsFest cancelled for 2013
With the departure of events manager Cory Warren earlier this year, we’d been wondering what would happen to ArtsFest. Now we have an answer (sort of). Orlando Weekly has obtained an email — it, uh, wasn’t difficult, even though we weren’t included in the (visible, not blind) CC list; we’re JUST THAT GOOD — sent…
Cuss Yeah! A Wes Anderson Homage Costume Party
Saturday, June 16 – Cuss Yeah! A Wes Anderson Homage Costume Party 8 p.m. Stardust Video & Coffee 1842 E. Winter Park Road 407-623-3393 stardustie.com free “Wes Anderson-y,” while ungrammatical, is a perfectly valid and instantly comprehensible adjective. (Synonyms include: mannered, buttoned-up, absurd, yearning, obsessive, chic, self-centered, oddball, exquisite, whimsical, hermetic.) Anderson’s world is so…
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This Week’s Top 25 at Park Ave CDs [June 4 – June 10]
Second verse, same as the first. The new record from Japandroids is #1. Japandroids – Celebration Rock Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Americana Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Big Moon Ritual Sigur Ros – Valtari Liars – Wixiw The Walkmen – Heaven John Mayer – Born & Raised The Temper Trap – The Temper Trap…
Father Figure reunion show at Stardust Video & Coffee
Friday, June 15 – Father Figure with Golden Pelicans, Basements of Florida, Some GD GD’s 9 p.m. Stardust Video & Coffee 1842 E. Winter Park Road 407-623-3393 stardustie.com $5 It was over almost as soon as it began. Back in 2010, present and former members of Summerbirds in the Cellar, Viernes, Attachedhands and For Ex-Lovers…
Black Bear Looks On, Laughs As Naked Dude Strangles Wolf
That famous barbecue-loving black bear that’s been spotted all over Winter Park made a stop at the Polasek Museum Monday night (pictured above in the sculpture garden), perhaps to catch this exhibit. (Because everyone knows bears love baguettes, along with beets and Battlestar Galactica.) He’s cheesing pretty hard in this picture, though; seems like a bit of…
The Real Live Brady Bunch opens at Breakthrough Theatre
Friday, June 15 – The Real Live Brady Bunch 8 p.m. through June 25 Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park 419 W. Fairbanks Ave. Winter Park 407-920-4034 $10 Regardless of how you feel about the classic TV show The Brady Bunch, you can’t deny the program’s impressive legacy. After five successful seasons, The Brady Bunch became…
Body Mind Spirit Expo comes to Maitland Civic Center
Saturday-Sunday, June 16-17 – Body Mind Spirit Expo: Orlando 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday Maitland Civic Center 641 S. Maitland Ave., Maitland bmse.net $10 admission, $25 for workshop With the recent burst of TLC’s Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo onto the scene, paranormal counterculture is going mainstream. Take this weekend’s Body Mind…
Mark Wayne Memorial Tribute Show Announced
I can’t believe I forgot to include this in yesterday’s concert announcements, but I did. Anyway, it deserves its own post. Some of the best bands in Orlando are getting together to raise some money to help defray some of the expenses (and the financial impact) incurred when Mark Wayne passed away earlier this year.…
Who is Dwyane Wade wearing? You too can look like an NBA finalist!
NBA basketball players are no strangers when it comes to making fashion statements. Anyone remember Dennis Rodman? That wedding gown still haunts our nightmares. Anyway, we’re in the midst of the 2012 NBA finals, and with all sports eyes on them, now seems like a suitable time as any for pro basketball players to strut…
Gainesville’s Hundred Waters head to the Social
Thursday, June 14 – Hundred Waters 8 p.m. The Social 54 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thesocial.org $10 Hundred Waters are from Gainesville and have played a few shows in Orlando, including one of the most buzzed-about sets of the many buzzed-about sets at the most recent Orange You Glad fest. However, while this city can…
Race for the cure
Big Wheel Provisions and C&S Brisket Bus compete to seewho has bigger bacon swag
Happytown
Like that proverbial 98-pound weak-ling in sagging tube socks and bifocals, we were caught completely unawares by the June 6 "stadium summit" between Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer regarding a renewed interest in the (other) sports side of the 2007 venues agreement. Blame the concussion from the flying footballs directed…
Our Dumb State, Vol. 9
Shoot first, cry later
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Next to Normal
Mad Cow’s production of the popular rock musical is crazy good
Drink Events
Happy hours, pub crawls, beer school and more
This Little Underground
R.I.P., Crush. Although a little self-fellating, the long-running Monday night dance party at Backbooth leaves a legacy. The Beat Backbooth’s latest weekly night is, interestingly, a jarring departure from the dance-oriented nights that dominate the club when there isn’t live music. Juggernaut, the new Tuesday night, is a full-on metal party organized by a cabal…
Album Reviews
This week Future of the Left, Metric, and Spaceghostpurrp
Savage Love
I’m a 28-year-old guy who was broken up with via text by a girl I had been dating for two months. She is dealing with the loss of a family member and some other personal issues, and she sent me this message while out of state for a week or so. Two months is a…
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) It’s time for your right hand to find out what your left hand has been doing lately, and vice versa. They’ve been attending to their separate agendas for a while, and now it would be wise to have them work together more closely. As they get reacquainted, a bit of friction…
Glee goes glam
A highly polished, utterly false musical approximation of a rebel yell: The Musical!
DVDs Nuts
Lesser-seen, critic-approved films on disc and on demand
Chef Eddie's
Eddie James goes beyond the typical meat-and-threes to serve some of the finest comfort food in town
Hold your peace
A boring cult, two bumbling journalists and the Cranberries make for a dull, incomplete narrative exercise in ‘Sound of My Voice’
Turn and draw
Hollywood’s all a-quiver … about archery
Live Active Cultures
Evidence of the alien invasion at OMA and Mother Falcon
Rough Draught
Summer school for drinkers
Hysteria
A rom-com about the invention of the vibrator pushes all the wrong buttons
Jazz Tastings
From tapas to trumpets, Maitland jazz lounge has matters well in hand
Music streaming revenue is finally an industry reality. So where's all the money?
Standing amid the jostling throngs of South by Southwest, Quiet Company doesn’t draw much attention against the blasts of noise and marketing that swirl around them. The Austin, Tex., quintet is unassuming save for a cardboard placard that announces "Free Hugs From Quiet Company." Most of the crowd rushes by, tactfully immune to the maze…
slow your roll: slow food orlando social tonight at redlight redlight
Our local chapter of Slow Food is hosting a happy hour social/membership mixer 6-8pm tonight at the craft beer wonderland that is Redlight Redlight (745 Bennett Road). Stop by and find out more about Slow Food’s mission—”good, clean, fair food for all”—i.e., local food, sustainable growing and prep practices, preservation of heritage foodways (and other good…
NRA endorses Stand Your Ground insurance option
Seriously. From Lockton Risk, “the NRA endorsed property and casualty insurance program”: Our Self-Defense Insurance protects National Rifle Association members who need extra protection not found in most homeowners’ policies. The coverage is a rider to the Excess Personal Liability coverage, and provides civil defense and liability and criminal defense reimbursement if you are involved in an act of…
On Sale This Week: Passion Pit at House of Blues!
On Sale: Friday, June 15 Passion Pit 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22 House of Blues Downtown Disney West Side 407-934-2583 hob.com $25-$27.50 Down the road: Brian Posehn, June 21 at Improv Comedy Club & Dinner Theatre Luis Raúl, June 22 at Bob Carr Performing Arts…
George Zimmerman’s wife arrested on perjury charges
While people were up in Longwood, testifying to the Florida Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection, more Trayvon Martin-related news was quietly taking place in Seminole County. Shooter George Zimmerman’s wife was being arrested on perjury charges related to some white lies she and her husband told regarding their finances during a recent bond hearing.…
Safety task force hears public on Stand Your Ground
The Florida Task Force on Citizen Safety and Protection heard commentary this afternoon at the Northland Church from both Florida lawmakers and citizens alike at its first meeting to discuss the role of Florida’s Shoot First Law. The law, which is what Trayvon Martin’s shooter is basing his defense on, is intended to protect people…
Spidey’s “Secrets Unmasked” Truck Tour 6/13-6/17
Should you happen to have a Spidey-mad child — or if you are a Spidey-mad adult and don’t mind the embarrassment — Sony and Walmart are sponsoring a truck tour called the Secrets Unmasked Truck in the ramp up to the kinda-sorta anticipated release of The Amazing Spider-man on July 3rd. Featuring a PS3 game,…
