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Jun 27 - Jul 3, 2012 / Vol. 28 / No. 26

Mess Fest invades Mills Avenue strip on July 4

Wednesday, July 4 – Mess Fest noon various venues 407-898-5070 messfest.webs.com $11-$13 Testing the bounds of freedom is just as quintessentially American as freedom itself. That’s why it makes a kind of subversive sense that a punk music fest teeming with anarchists and other urban anti-establishment types is planned for the patriotic Fourth of July.…

Bao Le-Huu

Melinda Wagner leads composer forum at Timucua White House

Monday, July 2 – Melinda Wagner 7:30 p.m. Timucua White House 2000 S. Summerlin Ave. timucua.com free The ongoing relationship between the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Timucua Arts Foundation has been good for Central Florida. As part of their residencies at the Atlantic Center, master composers including Art Ensemble of Chicago founder…

Aimee Vitek

Sunday Film News Roundup — July 1st, 2012

Pretty good weekend all around for movegoers. Ted and Magic Mike both cleaned up at the box office with entirely different demographics, and Moonrise Kingdom kicked enough ass at the Enzian to be held over. See it before its too late, seriously, and before the summer starts. The Amazing Spider-man begins its midnight screenings Monday night as well,…

Rob Boylan

Debut solo set by Dizzle Phunk tonight at Bombshell’s Tavern

Saturday, June 30 – Dizzle Phunk: Introduction to a Cowboy 9 p.m. Bombshell’s Tavern 5405 Edgewater Drive 407-730-3999 facebook.com/dizzle.phunk $7 Approximately 99.3 percent of the time, when a DJ says he’s becoming a space cowboy for a night, we assume that DJ is on drugs or possibly having a hipster identity crisis. But when that…

Justin Strout

Patrick Fatica curates Faces art show at Extra Large Gallery

Saturday, June 30 – Faces 8 p.m. through July 28 Extra Large Gallery 431 E. Central Blvd. 407-839-0080 extralargegallery.com free If a free art event complete with a full liquor bar and a wide range of craft beers and absinthes sounds like your type of soiree, then the opening reception for curator Patrick Fatica’s Faces…

Eleanor Roy

Al Green performs live at Universal Studios’ Summer Concert Series

Saturday, June 30 – Summer Concert Series: Al Green 8 p.m. Universal Studios at Universal Orlando 1000 Universal Studios Plaza 407-363-8000 universalorlando.com $60 for concert ticket only or included with park admission He’s been honored by everyone from Justin Timberlake, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and most recently President Obama, who notoriously crooned…

Justin Strout

This Week’s Top 25 from Park Ave CDs [June 18 – June 24]

Congrats to Beth McKee for cracking this week’s top 3! Although it’s not too much of a surprise that she wasn’t able to beat out Fiona Apple (thanks to pent-up demand) and the Smashing Pumpkins (thanks to a week of Billy Corgan giving batshit interviews), it’s still a mighty impressive showing. Maybe more local bands…

Jason Ferguson

Titusville’s Flashlights head to Will’s Pub

Friday, June 29 – Flashlights with Duck, Little Brother, Duck!, Surfin Serf 9 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-5070 willspub.org $5 Man, you guys still haven’t caught on to Titusville’s Flashlights yet? Damn. What’s wrong? Don’t like bursting hearts, in-the-red fuzz and basically the sound of total freedom? Although still overlooked, they remain…

Bao Le-Huu

Krugman: Right on the economy, clueless on classic TV

While every other pundit gets busy analyzing John Roberts’ vindication of the Affordable Care Act, I feel it’s my duty to focus on another public-policy proposal that’s drowning in misinterpretation: economist Paul Krugman’s plan for a faked alien invasion. Important forums like PBS News Hour and The Daily Show have recently revisited Krugman’s suggestion that…

Steve Schneider

Opening in Orlando — June 29th, 2012

Magic Mike — Warner Bros. has elected to push Steven Soderbergh’s male-stripper saga with the tag line “You’ll wish you were single.” Right — now remind me again how it’s the homos who are undermining the institution of marriage? Anyway, star Channing Tatum was once an ecdysiast himself, but what’s really raised expectation for his…

Steve Schneider

Fresh Music Festival moves to Bob Carr

We just received word that there’s been a venue change for the Fresh Music Festival. The concert, which was set to be played at Amway Center, will now be performed at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. The date and time of the concert remain the same (show details included below), and all purchased tickets will…

Aimee Vitek

Supreme Court upholds Obama’s health care law

Despite what you may have read a few minutes ago on CNN.com, which posted a story indicating that the Supreme Court struck down the individual mandate portion of President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan, the Affordable Care Act has been upheld. Apparently a few people took CNN’s gaffe and ran with it: At 10:08 a.m., Florida…

Erin Sullivan

On Sale This Week: Circa Survive at the Beacham!

On Sale: Friday, June 29 Circa Survive with Touche Amore, Balance and Composure 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22 The Beacham 46 N. Orange Ave. 407-648-8363 thebeacham.com $20-$25 Down the road: Hellbound Glory, July 5 at Will’s Pub Andy Dick, July 6 at Improv Comedy Club & Dinner Theatre Tab Benoit, July 7 at The Plaza…

Aimee Vitek

Savage Love

My younger brother and I are close. He came out of the closet last year, although it wasn’t much of a surprise because everyone knew he was gay since forever. Everyone is happy he’s out because it kind of takes the elephant out of the room, and our immediate and extended family are all really…

Dan Savage

Happytown

The week where we were all just sayin’ NALEO, all wondering if the Citrus Bowl was going to save our lives, and all coughing at the idea of smokeless bars

Billy Manes

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19) If you play solitaire, your luck will be crazy strong in the coming weeks. If you have candid, wide-ranging talks with yourself in the mirror, the revelations are likely to be as interesting, as if you had spoken directly with the river god or the angel of the sunrise. Taking long…

Rob Brezsny

Federal judge ruling on Florida voter purge

Note: For the most detailed and accurate account of what federal court Judge Robert Hinkle’s decision means, we urge you to read the bradblog.com, which has covered the state’s voter purge in detail. Ernest Canning, a writer for the blog, contacted us after this post went live to explain that although the judge didn’t demand…

Erin Sullivan

Orlando Solar Bears coach unlocks key to local hockey fans’ hearts

Why yes, just earlier this afternoon Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer did, in fact, present Drake Berehowsky, new head coach of local pro hockey team the Orlando Solar Bears, a key to the city. And since being named the ring leader of the Solar Bears’ comeback to Orlando, not only have we been impressed by Berehowsky’s…

Aimee Vitek

An Honest Appreciation of “You’ve Got Mail”

I know the blogosphere is inundated today with remembrances and essays and photos and eulogies of Nora Ephron and there isn’t enough time to read them all, so just quickly, a few words on You’ve Got Mail — aka the film I’ve had to eat the most shit over liking ever. Since its first release in 1998, the…

Rob Boylan

Heads Up Orlando: “Safety Not Guaranteed” Opens Friday

Yes, nothing like getting word on Monday that a film is opening in Orlando on Friday, and then not screening it for local critics. Usually it’s the mark of a terrible film that the company is hoping to squeeze a few dimes out of before anyone realizes how awful it, but, damn, Safety Not Guaranteed…

Rob Boylan

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