Caylee Anthony’s death breathes life into HLN news network
For those of you who haven’t yet reached your 20-stories-per-month limit on the website of the New York Times, check out this recent piece on how the Casey Anthony trial has helped to save HLN — the TV network formerly known as Headline News — from the ratings gutter. An excerpt: As Court TV and…
Selection Reminder: Christopher Bell tonight at the Audubon Park Community Market!
Monday, June 13 – Christopher Bell It’s hard not to love a guy who plays the cello – it’s such an unwieldy instrument that, despite the resurgence in popularity of oddball stringed instruments (say, the ukulele, for instance), it resists really becoming the next “it” thing for the trendy set. Lots of people have decided…
Selection Reminder: The Parlotones tonight at Back Booth!
Sunday, June 12 – The Parlotones How big are the Parlotones in their native South Africa? Not only has an entire night of Idols (South Africa) (that country’s version of American Idol) been devoted to their music, but the band’s lead singer, Kahn Morbee, joined the show as a judge last year. Of course, all…
Photo Preview: “Guitar: The Instrument that Rocked the World” at OSC
If you don’t think “hard rock” and “hard science” sounds like a peanut butter-and-chocolate combo, the Orlando Science Center is ready to rock your world – educationally speaking – with their latest exhibit. “Guitar: The Instrument that Rocked the World” has its world premiere tomorrow (June 11) at OSC, and will remain as the Loch…
Katy Perry comes to Orlando, looks hot, acts dumb
Pop megastar Katy Perry, who recently embarked on the U.S. leg of her world tour, has gotten a lot of press from respectable mainstream magazines since the release last summer of her second album, Teenage Dream. One of the overriding themes of this middle-brow coverage is that Perry is an intelligent gal, unfairly pigeonholed into…
Garbo’s Daughter 7″ & Tour Dates
Garbo’s Daughter’s 7″ is finally here from Italy’s Surfin Ki Records. While it may not exactly be neapolitan, they do come in three beautiful colors. Word on the street is that the pink one tastes the best. Garbo’s have released their west coast summer tour dates and launched a Kickstarter to help them on their…
Selection Reminder: Nashville Pussy tonight at Firestone Live!
Friday, June 10 – Nashville Pussy If you idolize empowered riot grrrl-esque female role models, then you might want to skip this Selection. But if you love a hard rock guitar chick, then you have a hero in Nashville Pussy’s lead guitarist, Ruyter Suys, who’s been flaunting her bustier-and-leather- pants-clad body – and headbanging a…
Disasteroids Are Blowin’ Up
Disasteroids is one of those bands that continue to progress whether or not you’re there to see them. Their sound is reminiscent of a happy Hella. While it might be easy for Disasteroids to be lumped into that 2-piece guitar/drum category, they are doing something completely unique. Check out video from their show at Will’s Pub…
Bonnaroo, Steaming Live Fri-Sun
If you are a fan of music even slightly, you’re probably aware that the annual Tennessee festival is going to happen this weekend. Starting today, in fact. If, like me, you couldn’t make it, you can still enjoy it from the peaceful, air conditioned bliss of your own home thanks to Vevo. They are streaming…
Primetime TV: Where 7% of the pasta holds on.
For inside-TV nerds like myself, this month’s New York, featuring Amy Poehler on the cover – looking weirdly like Kristen Chenoweth, who herself looks weirdly like a panderer these days – is a gold mine. Of course, you have the Chris Colfer piece in which he comes off – unfairly, I think – as a…
Selection Reminder: Pop princess Katy Perry tonight at UCF Arena!
Thursday, June 9 – Katy Perry When Russell Brand and Nicholas Stoller came up with the character Jackie Q, an anally obsessed, over-the-top starlet with marginal talent and catchy hooks, as the ex-girlfriend to Brand’s Aldous Snow in last summer’s Get Him to the Greek, they couldn’t have known that Brand’s future wife, marginally talented…
Truck stops
TheDailyCity.com Food Truck Bazaar Summer Series Oviedo Marketplace Mall: 6-10 p.m. June 12, July 10, Aug. 14Orlando Fashion Square Mall: 5-10 p.m. June 19, July 17, Aug. 21Parliament House Bar & Resort: 6-10 p.m. June 26, July 24, Aug. 28 Summer is upon us, and TheDaily City.com is going hyper-local with a series of nine…
Slow burn
City Fire’s flame is but a flash in the pan
Culture 2 Go
Rick Jones’ latest show is Hot. In his new exhibit at Stardust, the local artist has branched out into a profusion of color, while sticking with his geometric abstractions. The layered, intersecting lines and angles familiar to fans of Jones’ work remain, but the addition of saturated chroma unlocks the geographic underpinnings of some of…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) You have a poetic license, as well as astrological permission, to be extra cute in the coming week. You have a divine mandate to exceed the usual levels of being adorable and charming and delectable. Here’s the potential problem with that, though: Trying to be cute doesn’t usually result in becoming…
Live Active Cultures
Seth wraps up Fringe fest for 2011
Book of the dead
Gonzo goriness marks Theatre Downtown staging of the iconic horror-comedy
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Wayne McCarty of Love Cunningham
Mask? Don’t ask
Superhero flicks want the milk, but won’t buy the cowl
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Funny thing
Mad Cow plays to their strengths to fit a boffo Broadway hit onto a tiny stage
Bare minimum
Do sheltered workshops teach the disabled skills for the workplace or exploit them for cheap labor?
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on the Memorials and a whole lotta local music, including Lazy Boyzzz, Big City Rockers, the Velaceras and Zap Dragon and the Attack
Savage Love
I’m a 22-year-old FTM
Chaos theories
TV Ghost’s gleefully unhinged grime explores the grimmer side of life
The Double Hour
Italian mindfuck proves impotent
Happytown
The one where Republicans try to pin the tail on Charlie Crist’s donkey, the city bluntly reaffirms that it is indeed an cruel (fat!) mistress and the county is a joke that isn’t funny anymore.
Underrated: Zelig – Woody Allen (1983)
This is the first in a weekly series intended to knock the dust of time off of some of our favorite underrated films. ========================== When you think about, or talk about, Woody Allen films, its always the same few that come up. Between whatever he has out right now (Read Justin’s Midnight in Paris review!),…
Everything Olbermann is new again
So, who’s going to be watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann when it resurfaces June 20 on Al Gore’s Current TV? Me, for one. But then again, I get paid for stuff like this. And I also once said I’d be making it a point to tune in to The Event and Hawaii Five-O every week.…
For-profit colleges to be subject of Congressional hearing today
At 10 a.m. today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions will hold a full committee hearing entitled “Drowning in Debt: Financial Outcomes of Students at For-Profit Colleges.” (Click here for a live webcast of the event.) In April, the Weekly reported on increased federal scrutiny on for-profit colleges by way of…
Selection Reminder: Singer-songwriter PJ Bond tonight at Will’s Pub!
Tuesday, June 7 – PJ Bond Any time a former member of an emo band strikes out on his own and goes acoustic is a good time for cynicism. In the case of PJ Bond, a little listener caution seemed a few years ago like a perfectly fitting reaction: His New Jersey band, Outsmarting Simon,…
