MSNBC gives Feldman a light pat
Kudos to Brian Feldman, who managed to sneak a mention of Orlando onto MSNBC this morning that didn’t involve Casey Anthony. The “Under the Wire” segment of Chris Jansing’s Jansing and Co. program made passing reference to 24 Hour Embrace, Feldman’s attempted day-long hug with his dad. Now, the segment didn’t identify Feldman by name…
Mennello Museum gets Thorspeckened
Orlando illustrator/journalist Thomas Thorspecken has a new outlet through which to share his art with Orlando. Thorspecken, who usually files his colored-pencil sketches of goings-on in the arts scene to his Analog Artist Digital World blog, was commissioned by the Mennello Museum of American Art to do a large-scale sketch mural on a 7-by-48-foot wall…
Megan Fox bikini shots! And a music festival.
You may call it burying the lede, but that headline just gave a tiny music festival a big boost. You’re welcome, guys. Shut Up & Play 2 is going down this Saturday, June 25 at 11/12 Lounge in Winter Park. It’s the conclusion of three days of local music and live art and will feature…
Selection Reminder: John Fahey tribute tonight at Urban Rethink!
Sunday, June 19 – Myth and Theft: American Music via John Fahey featuring Chris Belt A rolling, roiling, complexly resolving brew of finger-picked Delta blues, church hymns, military waltzes and murder balladry: “true American original” is a label applied all too often, but in the case of John Fahey’s music, it’s truly deserved. Fahey, a…
Sunday Film News Roundup — June 19th, 2011
Another week, another comic book movie. This time it was Green Lantern’s turn, and things did not go as for old GL as they did for Thor, which is probably why you don’t want to put all of your summer dollar eggs into one basket, which you then give to Ryan Reynolds for safe keeping.…
Selection Reminder: Lone Wolf tonight at Will’s Pub!
Sunday, June 19 – Lone Wolf Could Lone Wolf be the fastest banjo player alive? One way to find out is to mosey over to the next edition of Southern Fried Sundays at Will’s Pub to witness Florida’s up-and-coming one-man band Lone Wolf, or Bruno Esposito as he’s known to some, play his psycho blues…
Underrated: Shopgirl – Anand Tucker (2005)
Before it came out in 2005, Shopgirl was poised to be a hit. It starred three name brand actors in Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman and Steve Martin (who also wrote it), and seemed to have the right pedigree of being based on Martin’s successful novella of the same title. The trailers and stills had an…
Get All Punk’d Up At Wills Tonight
Let’s hope everyone knows that the title in this here subject line ain’t an Ashton Kutcher reference… but you know, since we went there, let’s go there with an aptly punk picture of the douche. Are we allowed to say douche on television? While we’re at it, let’s also hope that none of you consider…
Selection Reminder: 2Racks Rap Contest tonight at Club 57 West!
Saturday, June 18 – 2Racks Rap Contest We’ve seen it all before: Some enterprising huckster sets up a phony “promotional” company, charges up-and-coming rappers exorbitant amounts to “compete” for the chance to get signed to a major label (the representatives of which they assure will be present) and then either skips town or has his…
WDSC in Daytona to drop PBS programming
Hal Boedeker at the Sentinel reported yesterday afternoon that WDSC, Daytona’s PBS member station is planning to drop its PBS programming effective July 1, citing financial strain due to Gov. Rick Scott’s veto of funding for public broadcasting last month. In May things were so tight for the station that it told the Daytona Beach…
For After You See Tree of Life…
Spoilers… Don’t watch this before you see it, I implore you. So, Terrence Malick’s brilliant Tree of Life opens at the Enzian tonight. If you are lucky enough to get tickets you’ll be treated to quite a visual and aural experience that you will probably still be mulling over a week from now. But here’s…
Cakey Anthony
It was only a matter of time before somebody figured out how to bring some funny bread to the unfunny bread-and-circuses moment unfolding down at Orange County Tower of Justice, and apparently that time was last Friday (so we’re a week late!). We just got a call from somebody who we sleep with who happens…
Opening of Mad Cow’s ‘Rashomon’ postponed
The opening of Rashomon has been postponed by the Mad Cow Theatre, due to the injury of one of the cast members. The new opening night, a week later than originally scheduled, is Thursday, June 23. Ticketholders: The theater will exchange tickets to the June 17-19 performances for any other performance through July 10. From the Mad…
Feds issue 2010 report on homeless in America, family homelessness up by 20% since ’07
In a development that shook the earth under only a few pairs of feet this Tuesday, the department of Housing and Urban Development released its Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR). According to the report, Florida has 8.9 percent of the nation’s homeless population, despite having only 6.1 of the nation’s total population. The 207-page report…
Selection Reminder: Def Leppard live tonight!
Friday, June 17 – Def Leppard One of the best running gags in Arrested Development was the Bluth family’s unanimous one-word reaction to the girl whom George Michael (Michael Cera) was infatuated with: “Her?” The poor girl was listed in her yearbook as “Not Pictured” underneath her actual photo. Def Leppard is the “her?” of…
Yogurt Smoothness Kicks Off Tour Tonight
Thursday June 16 – Yogurt Smoothness Local neo-grunge duo Yogurt Smoothness kicks off a 17 date tour tonight at Will’s Pub. The supporting cast contains a slew of great local talent. Math-party band International Auxiliary, comprised of members who run Glowmobile Recording Co. (which is quickly becoming a major player in the local record label…
New changes make Oscars fairer, except where they don’t
So, how excited are we about the latest changes to the Academy Award voting process? Pretty excited, apparently — if “we” are Deadline’s Pete Hammond, who can’t be alone in Hollywood in lauding the fresh sense of suspense the rejiggering of the Best Picture category should bring to the proceedings. In fact, the shakeup is…
Media roundup: Jellyfish explained, $0.19 an hour, and vetoes for farmworkers
In an effort to show you that we do in fact read, and also to remind you that Bloggytown has not been completely swallowed by the Food Not Bombs fracas, we want to take this opportunity to point you to a few non-Weekly articles that relate to our own published and personal interests. Training for…
Six more arrested at Food Not Bombs sharing, 21 in two weeks, media yawns
Six more activists affiliated with the group Food Not Bombs were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park for providing food more than 25 people (36, to be exact) without a Large Group Feeding permit from the city of Orlando. Some of those 36 people were members of the group themselves, as the feeding suffered a…
Growing awareness
Farm to Fork Wine Dinner 6 p.m. Thursday, June 23 Casa Feliz, 656 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; 321-277-0048 $150 Casa Feliz, the swankest farmhouse you’ve ever seen, is the setting for next week’s exclusive (just 75 seats) Farm to Fork Wine Dinner, a fundraiser for the Homegrown Local Food Cooperative. Each dish on the…
Show me your grits
Tibby’s plates Crescent City classics with a bit of Bourbon Street bustle
Slurred speech
State prosecutor fired for alleged racist remarks, but colleagues say charges are out of character
Tree of Life
Tree of Life 5 Stars(PG-13) Look, I’m no fan of artsiness for the sake of artsiness; I’m the first to admit that while I enjoy the finer points of the work of many filmmakers, from Ozu to Apatow, others tend to bring out my inner philistine. More often than not, Stanley Kubrick spells naptime for…
Astronomical rock Unwed Sailor’s lavish sounds stare skyward
Unwed Sailor with Owl City, Matt Kearney6 p.m. Thursday, June 16House of Blues,407-934-2583hob.com$28 Sometime in the early 2000s, a remarkable thing happened at an Unwed Sailor show: there was motion. Back when the band was still a recent creation, they were playing a one-off date to a decent-sized crowd somewhere in Italy, and things were…
Live Active Cultures
Seth Kubersky travels into the dark heart of nerdcore
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The film Tuck Everlasting tells the story of a family that becomes immortal after drinking from a magical spring. The two parents and their two sons hide their gift from the world, but eventually a mysterious man in a yellow suit finds out about their secret and stalks them. At one…
Letting loose
Sitarist-vocalist Ami Dang moves from head trips to hybrid pop
Where there’s smoke…
Why ProPublica’s investigation of the nuclear power industry should matter to us all
Holding pattern
Is Brian Feldman’s ’24 Hour Embrace’ serious performance art or schtick?
Happytown
The city racks up more philanthropic arrests, the mayor tends to the million-dollar fountain and the police chief shuffles away. There must be something in the water!
Savage Love
I’m a straight man married to a bisexual lady
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on local retro-soul do-woppers the Sh-Booms, Orlando newbies Saskatchewan and your friendly neighborhood aggro band, No Qualms
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Michael Fargnoli of Hadley’s Hope
The Art of Getting By
Emma Roberts teen drama vehicle is trapped in the classroom
NRC Waives Enforcement of Fire Rules at Nuclear Plants
Some say agency is playing with fire
Calm like a bomb
Orlando metal act Khann boast brains and brawn
