Selection Reminder: More than 20 live bands today at I-4 Fest!
Monday, July 4 – I-4 Fest You had us worried for a minute there, Austins Coffee. We didn’t get the invitation to the six-years-strong Independence Day bash until about a week before this issue printed – and we were admittedly sweating. After all, last year’s competing 4th Fest was rained out of existence after bad…
Hive mind
As a side note to our cover story, “Honeycomb hideout,” I wanted to give credit to the backyard beekeeper who originally inspired our interest. Artist Kim Fox, a former Orlandoan and member of the Lure Design team, is the first person we knew who kept her own bees and processed her own honey; of course, adding…
Sunday Film News Roundup – July 3rd, 2011
Hope everyone is having a good fourth of July weekend and that you haven’t blown off any of your appendages while celebrating. Transformers 3 is making a shitload of money despite seemingly no one thinking it was good, but that’s just how Michael Bay movies work. I’m gonna go with a short preamble today since…
New Tracks from The Zax
Orlando-born Rion Harmon has been making some big strides since his move to New York City. Keeping consistent with his style even 5 years after his move, Harmon’s recording project, The Zax, delivers extreme pop-tronica perfect for drunken summer BBQ dance parties… in Japan. Hear his new single “Summer Girls” below and check out his…
The Teevee: Louie 2×02.
Welcome to the second edition of The Teevee, a new occasional feature in which film/music editor Justin Strout, arts & culture/food editor Jessica Bryce Young and staff writer Billy Manes gchat about their favorite shows the morning after. Also, it should go without saying, but the following is one giant SPOILER ALERT!!!!! In this episode, Strout and Young…
A bad week for Orlando’s libertarian activists
First things first: John Kurtz, the libertarian ringleader of the newly reformed police watchdog group Copwatch, was convicted yesterday on charges of resisting a law enforcement officer without violence for a tussle with Orlando Police Department officer Adam Gruler which occurred early in the morning on New Years Day. Kurtz was sentenced to 30 days…
Baby, you’re a firework: Fourth of July events!
80th Annual Fireworks Extravaganza Food vendors, live music and fireworks over Lake Fairview. 2 pm Sunday; VFW Post 2093, 444 Edgewater Drive; free; 407-296-2502; vfwpost2093.org. A Flashback 4th of July – Your ‘80s Prom Costume contests, a parade, live music by a Flock of Seagulls and a fireworks display. 5 pm Monday; Celebration Town Center,…
Oh no, he di’in’t. Oh yes, he did. Matthew Bartlett contempt order
By now, we’re sure you’ve heard on every major news network that young Matthew Bartlett, who was in the courtroom today to watch the Casey Anthony trial trainwreck, was sentenced to six days in jail for contempt of court for … well, showing his contempt of the court proceedings. According to the contempt order, “the…
Underrated: Immortal Beloved – Bernard Rose (1994)
Immortal Beloved is no Amadeus. Released a decade after Milos Forman’s operatic, Best Picture-winning biopic of Mozart, the comparisons of that instant classic to writer-director Bernard Rose’s speculative love story/mystery surrounding Ludwig Von Beethoven’s unknown paramour, were inevitable and brutal. Receiving mixed reviews despite a buzzed-about performance by Gary Oldman as Beethoven, the film made…
Chuck Todd slips up, tells truth
This mo rning, on MSNBC. Political analyst Charlie Cook was excitedly plugging an upcoming book about the LBJ “daisy” campaign ad. What Todd meant to effuse: “I can’t wait to read it!” What came out: “I can’t read it!” The nation has long suspected as much.
Former Winter Park commissioner investigated by state attorney over financing of mailer
The Winter Park/Maitland Observer reported yesterday that a mailer from outgoing Winter Park city commissioner Beth Dillaha sharply criticizing then-candidate Sarah Sprinkel was deemed to be in violation of state election law by the state attorney’s office. Any political expenditure which costs over $500 and is funded by two or more individuals–such as Dillaha’s mailer,…
Two more activists arrested for food sharing, including first-ever arrested under ordinance in 2007
Two more people affiliated with the group Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park for holding an unpermitted food sharing with over 25 people. Those arrested were Samantha Simpson and Eric Montanez, who are both 25 years old. The arrests were notable given that Montanez was the first and only person…
Selection Reminder: Hanni El Khatib tonight at Hard Rock Live!
Thursday, June 30 – Hanni El Khatib Hanni El Khatib has something in common with Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr. and 1930s-1940s jazz pianist Clarence Williams III: Each has sung a take on “You Rascal You,” a great old number where the vocalist makes murderous threats that waver between playing around and deadly serious. It…
Mellow yellow
Stylish digs set the scene for a standard South Indian experience
Windy City dog-ma
Bite is a hot dog lover’s go-to for great dogs.
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Into the woods
Mad Cow’s latest delves into the thorny maze of human memory
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Jason McMaster of Circus
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Khann, Ami Dang, Dish, the Mud Flappers, the Lake Eola sound system and more
Turn up the volume
Put your summer reading on shuffle with our playlist of instrumental reads
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers series has never looked better, or been so boring
Bookshelf mixtape
A soundtrack for this week’s book reviews
Savage Love
In response to a wannabe fister who hadn’t told his girlfriend about his kink
Rolling in the deep
Rock critic Ellen Willis put the pop in culture
Live Active Cultures
Sethie goes to Hollywood
Happytown
In which we playfully crash the bejeweled intentions of the Dr. Phillips Center’s tent party and then try to get all up in the face of evil Gov. Rick Scott. We will survive!
Swamp boogie
South Carolina rockers Leslie look beyond the South
Honeycomb hideout!
DIY beehives make Orlando backyards sweeter
Crank yanker
Soulja Boy laughs all the way to the bank
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) When astronaut Buzz Aldrin flew to the moon and back on the spacecraft Apollo 11 in 1969, he was paid less than $8 a day. That has to stand as one of the most flagrant cases of underpaid labor ever – far worse than what you’ve had to endure in your…
ProPublica: NRC inspections find flaws in nuclear plant diaster readiness
Earlier this month, we ran a story from ProPublica that revealed that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had waived enforcement of fire rules at many of the country’s nuclear power plants, while those plants were busy writing up their own fire-safety action plans. A story published by ProPublica today notes that recent NRC inspections of nuclear…
If this trailer’s rockin’.
Tons of interesting new trailers debuted in the last couple of days. Here they are in one convenient place! Steven Spielberg directs War Horse, based on the Tony-winning play. Coming this Christmas. [youtube 1XyqZiknaxU] Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) directs Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Stars Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner. Story by Cruise…
Attachedhands Tonight At Wills
Wednesday June, 29 – Attachedhands Tonight at Will’s you’re sure to have a heavy psychedelic trip regardless of what you ingest (which will only be beer because it’s legal, dummy). If you haven’t heard or seen any of the acts playing tonight, don’t miss it because the line-up is probably the most solid psych/drone/tronica bill…
Monsters on Mills Avenue: Art Power Boxes of Mills 50
If you’ve driven down Mills Avenue recently, you may have noticed something creative going on along the neighborhood north of downtown. As part of an urban beautification project, the Mills 50 organization invited artists to decorate the city-owned power boxes found along sidewalks in the area. The project, which C2G blogged about in May, now…
After failing to bring down City of Orlando’s website, hackers aim lower – much lower
Though Mayor Buddy Dyer has accused the group Orlando Food Not Bombs of orchestrating recent cyberattacks on the websites of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce and Universal Studios, today’s events should serve as evidence that “Commander X” and his/her cohorts are likely not residents of Orlando, or even Florida, for that matter. That’s because…
How much sex is Casey Anthony having in prison?
After we watched Central Florida News 13 prattle on about Judge Belvin Perry’s blinking habits, we were intrigued to see how many other “body language experts” were raking in cash off of Perry’s eyelids, Casey Anthony’s quivering lip, and/or Jose Baez’s outstretched arm. But when we typed in “casey anthony body language” into our Google…
