What is it going to take to get Sanford to make arrest in Trayvon Martin shooting?
It’s been three weeks since a Sanford neighborhood watch captain vigilante, George Zimmerman, shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to death, apparently for looking suspicious – and, it seems, for being black and wearing a hoodie (Zimmerman’s family insists that he was not racist and object to the portrayal of Zimmerman in the media). Since then 911…
Selection Reminder: How to Start a Food Truck!
Tuesday, March 20 – How to Start a Food Truck 6 p.m. Orlando Public Library 101 E. Central Blvd. 407-835-7323 thedailycity.com free No, you can’t just hop in a mini school bus and roam around town serving up your “signature” sammies and family recipe faves. While it might appear as though Orlando’s horde of mobile…
Sunday Film News Roundup — March 18th, 2012
So, it’s the day after Amateur Night… I mean, St. Patrick’s day. It’s holiday I stopped celebrating somewhere in my early-20s because I’m not sure how I got home alive a few years in a row, catching rides home with people that were completely blitzed. Hall Road is just full of wonderful, winding blind turns…
Selection Reminder: Kasabian tonight at the Beacham!
Sunday, March 18 – Kasabian with Hacienda 7 p.m. the Beacham 46 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thebeacham.com $18-$20 To be frank, the heavy-hitting, dance-minded rock of these Brits is a bit of a conflicted indulgence. Their untethered bombast is both their undoing and their deliverance. On the one hand, the transparency, shamelessness and generally heavy…
“Dark Shadows” trailer: The anti-“Twilight”?
“Serious” horror fans can stay up for days bemoaning the devastation the Twilight phenomenon has wreaked on vampire fiction. But if you ask me, the death knell of that genre was wrung a lot earlier: When Otto the bus driver temporarily moved in with the Simpsons and inquired if their library included anything “written from…
Photo Gallery: Danny Rhodehamel’s “Horrible Portraits”
Local artist Doug Rhodehamel has been mentioned frequently in this blog for his paper mushrooms and other whimsical installation projects. But did you know that Doug’s brother Danny, who moved to Orlando in October, is an artist as well? Danny Rhodehamel debuted the first installment of his “Horrible Portrait” series at Stardust Video & Coffee…
Selection Reminder: Thomas Dolby heads to the Social!
Sunday, March 18 – Thomas Dolby with Aaron Jonah Lewis and Ben Belcher 6 p.m. the Social 54 N. Orange Ave. 407-346-1419 thesocial.org $20-$25 Ranking among the rare survivors of the electric hair that ate the ’80s – see his keyboard work for the Thompson Twins, Howard the Duck’s soundtrack and, gasp, Foreigner 4 for…
Selection Reminder: Art and Dance: A Pas de Deux!
Sunday, March 18 – Art and Dance: A Pas de Deux 1:30 p.m. Orlando Museum of Art 2416 N. Mills Ave. 407-896-4231 omart.org $8 For Topographies, the exhibit of Barbara Sorensen’s sculpture that kicked off Orlando Museum of Art’s 2012 “Made in Florida” series, the museum has chosen to invigorate the work by inviting performing…
Invisible Children founder makes himself not invisible
Goes crazy, jerks off in public, blames it on dehydration.
WMFE says it’s not selling TV station to Daystar
Hal Boedeker at the Sentinel is reporting today that WMFE has announced that its controversial plan to sell WMFE TV to Community Educators of Orlando Inc., an arm of Dallas-based Christian broadcasting company Daystar Communications, is off the table. In January, we reported that WMFE was still hoping for a “quick resolution” on the sale,…
Underrated: Bringing Out the Dead – Martin Scorsese (1999)
It’s been a while, eh? It all started out downhill for Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese’s film about an insomniac paramedic suffering through an existential crisis, starring Nicolas Cage, and written by Paul Schrader. It was Schrader’s involvement that seemed to doom it from the very get go, leaving it wide open to the…
Selection Reminder: Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival!
Friday-Sunday, March 16-18 – Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday Central Park, Winter Park 407-644-7207 wpsaf.org free Don’t let the name of this sprawling arts extravaganza fool you: More than 300,000 people, ranging from art aficionados to passive festival strollers, are expected to descend on downtown Winter Park…
Disney Cruise Line’s Fantasy Inaugurated at Port Canaveral
This morning, I was invited to Port Canaveral to witness the inauguration ceremony for the Fantasy, Disney Cruise Line’s newest and most luxurious vessel. The ceremony, featuring DCL President Karl Holz and Fantasy Captain Tom Forberg, was attended by dignitaries including U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Spacecoast-area elected officials, and (of course) Mickey Mouse. Following the…
Opening in Orlando — March 16th, 2012
21 Jump Street — With an Oscar nomination under his now-tightened belt, Jonah Hill is emboldened to position himself as the latter-day Peter DeLuise in this “next generation” outgrowth of the ’80s TV series. The idea of Channing Tatum as the 21st century Johnny Depp is even more dubious, especially with Depp himself around to…
Selection Reminder: Jim Norton at Orlando Improv!
Thursday, March 15 – Jim Norton various times through March 17 Improv Comedy Club & Dinner Theatre 9101 International Drive 407-480-5233 $22 The fact that comedian Jim Norton was at the poker table, right next to Louis C.K., in the scene that made FX’s Louie a cultural phenomenon, makes Norton’s bona fides about as solid…
Selection Reminder: Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade!
Thursday, March 15 Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade with the Oak Hill Drifters 9 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-5070 willspub.org $5 The often raucous Will’s Pub will have to break out the blue and sepia light gels to set the proper mood for this blues, jazz and ragtime-inspired group whose…
Selection Reminder: Takács Quartet with Garrick Ohlsson!
Thursday, March 15 – Takács Quartet with Garrick Ohlsson 8 p.m. Tiedtke Concert Hall Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park 407-646-2812 bachfestivalflorida.org $30-$40 Reviews of Garrick Ohlsson and the Takács Quartet have a few things in common. One of them is universal praise. Critics wear out their thesauri looking for new superlatives: “stunning,” “matchless,”…
On Sale This Week: Collective Soul!
ON SALE: Friday, March 16 Collective Soul 7 p.m. May 12 House of Blues Downtown Disney West Side 407-934-2583 $34-$37 Down the Road: Alcest, Deafheaven, March 22 at Will’s Pub Joan Rivers, March 22 at Lakeland Center Katchafire, March 23 at The Social Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, March 23 at Tampa Bay…
Oh my Guinness
A random sampling of the black stuff around Orlando
SoNapa Grille
New Maitland hot spot promises to pop the cork on NoCal cuisine
Remix: St. Patrick’s Day special edition!
St. Patrick’s Day is more of a beer-drinking holiday than an occasion for mixed drinks, though there have been plenty of attempts made at Irishing up the cocktail – mostly sad, misguided things defiling good Irish whiskey with Midori, Chartreuse, crème de menthe and the like. (The less said about the Irish Car Bomb, the…
Saints and sinners
Honor the memory of St. Patrick while you’re out drinking this weekend
Hurley men
The Orlando Hurling Club celebrates a true Irish pastime
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Live Active Cultures
Cirque du Soleil and Orlando Ballet team up for A Choreographer’s Showcase; Seth find it mostly inspiring
Culture 2 Go
March 20-22, three days of events focused on the photograph at Rollins’ Winter Park Institute
Maakies
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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) This week you may learn the real reason the tortoise beat the hare, why two of the three blind mice weren’t really blind, and the shocking truth about the relationship between Cinderella’s fairy godmother and the handsome prince. Myths will be mutating. Nursery rhymes will scramble and fairy tales will fracture.…
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Local Cool
LAME: Beer/Iced Tea Chimera from Hell It’s a little-known fact that Molson Coors keeps founder Adolph Coors’ mummified brain submerged in a stasis bath of Zima, wired up to a feedback circuit so it can continue to churn out popular brewing recipes year after year. At least, that’s the only explanation we can think of…
Savage Love
Thank you for your advocacy of monoga-mishy
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Mirabeau
St. Patrick’s Day Events
Thursday, March 15-Saturday, March 17 St. Patrick’s Day Celebration Three-day event with Irish food, stilt walkers, music by the Wyndbreakers and dancing by the Raglan Road Dancers and Watters School of Irish Dancing. 6 pm Thursday-Friday, 11 am Saturday; Raglan Road Irish Pub, 1640 E. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista; free-$10; 407-938-0300; raglanroadirishpub.com. Friday,…
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Orange You Glad Fest 2012 and finds much to love
In the bedroom
Brokenhearted shut-in Trevor Powers funnels his angst into a sluggish but beautiful album
Being Flynn
Paul Weitz’s father-son drama finds its own poetry
The Bar Tab
Last weekend saw the grand opening of Stagger Inn, a self-described down-home shitkicker country bar taking over the spot at 100 E. Central Blvd. that was formerly home to the oft-changing/never-quite-successful Central Station Bar for many years. We didn’t go to the grand-opening party (couldn’t find our cowboy boots), but it was apparently hosted by…
Happytown
It was never going to matchthehanky drop of the explosive conclusion to last year’s Florida legislative session – who can forget the tears of state clown,Senate President Mike Haridopolos, as he threw a tantrum in the face of brutish House Speaker Dean Cannon? – but during the March 9 midnight madness that wrapped up this…
Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
A new book explores the way that test-tube babies, “Disney damage” and advances in genetic research are redefining human sexuality
Ladies man
Miniature Tigers explore the wide world of female antagonists
freaky fast, freaky fresh, practically free: $1 subs at Jimmy Johns tomorrow!
All Orlando Jimmy John’s are serving subs for $1 tomorrow (Thursday, March 15) 11am-3pm. Get in line now! Information below: ORLANDO-AREA JIMMY JOHN’S LOCATIONS HOST CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY Four-Hour Events Include $1.00 Sandwiches WHAT: Jimmy John’s Sandwich Shops is celebrating its Orlando presence by throwing a Customer Appreciation Day at locations across the Orlando-area. During…
