Local musicians: You’re overdue.
Just got a request from the good folks at the Orlando Public Library who are in need of local musicians to play there. If you’re interested, and why wouldn’t you be, contact Jimi at comrel@ocls.info.
No subtlety required: Benefit concert for cancer kids at the Dungeon!
As fundraisers for highly depressing issues go, this one looks like fun! At the Dungeon next week (March 15) is a charity ball put on by a well-meaning college kid to raise funds for Kids Beating Cancer, the local, it’s-all-there-in-the-name organization that encourages people to donate bone marrow and matches it with children in need.…
New concert announcement: Primus to Hard Rock Live
The deets: Primus Hard Rock Live June 3 $35-$60 Tix on sale March 11
Migrant tomato pickers, sympathizers to protest Publix in Tampa tomorrow
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers–a South Florida-based activist group of migrant farmworkers and their allies profiled by the Weekly in December–will be holding their largest protest to date of the Publix supermarket chain tomorrow in Tampa. The CIW wants Publix, along with every other major supermarket chain, to pay an extra penny for every pound…
Official: Miami Bruise Cruise was awesome. Photographic evidence.
Here’s a guarantee: You did not have the most fun you could have last weekend if you weren’t on this motherfuckin’ boat, aka the Bruise Cruise, traveling from Miami to the Bahamas with a ton of indie bands, many from Florida, and their fans in tow. The Village Voice has the depressing proof.
Burt Reynolds & Ben Mankiewicz & For Reels: A night of tender ‘stache-stroking!
I’m proud to announce that the first-ever For Reels-sponsored event is not only happening, but is 100% certified badass. On Wednesday, March 23, join us at the Tampa Theatre for a screening of Smokey and the Bandit! Oh yeah, Burt Reynolds will fucking be there. And Turner Classic Movies’ Ben Mankiewicz. Did I not tell…
“Dark Knight Rises” story concept makes no g**d*** sense
So, Chris Nolan: You’re filming a sequel to the third-best-attended movie in history. And you’re making its storyline 100 percent dependent on another film that was seen by less than half as many people. Your mind is the scene of something.
Miami’s Jacuzzi Boys signed to Hardly Art!
And the Miami underground gold rush continues… Floridas Dying buds Jacuzzi Boys have signed on with indie boutique Hardly Art and they start recording their studio debut next week! They join fellow HA artist and currently darling La Sera, who happens to be at the Social next week! Congrats, fellas.
First Amendment attorney and ACLU challenge ban on courthouse pamphleting
Lawrence Walters, the Altamonte Springs attorney perhaps most familiar with the anti-obscenity crusade of Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd (“Church and State,” Feb. 24), has thrown his hat into the ring in yet another First Amendment battle. Yesterday Walters and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition in the Fifth District Court of Appeal…
Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3D Feb, 2012
Fox and Lucasfilm have announced (via Deadline) that on Feb 10th, 2012 we’ll see the “first” installment of the two Star Wars Trilogies in 3D. Of course, this announcement is hardly a surprise since it was announced last year, but we’ll pretend like a release date is big news anyway. I’m not a fan of…
DEA decrees “fake pot” illegal; animals to get high
Over two months after gas station clerks and head shop owners were dashing to offload their supplies of synthetic marijuana (sold as “incense” labeled “not for human consumption”), the federal Drug Enforcement Administration has finally made good on last year’s promise to make the drug illegal. On Tuesday the DEA announced that selling or possessing…
Get Cozy
The Olde Cup and Saucer 931 N. State Road 434, Altamonte Springs 407-628-8327 oldecupandsaucer.com $ Start exercising your pinkies, tea lovers, because The Olde Cup and Saucer has grown from selling loose teas to actually serving it (and yes, there are crumpets). The dynamics of the shop, located in a modest Altamonte Springs shopping plaza, can be tricky…
Numbers game
Gourmet burger joint offers diners a multitude of options
Legitimately Lennon?
Artist insists that Artwork of John Lennon is a cheap imitation of late Beatle’s sketches
The other fair districts
Orlando’s coming reapportionment process promises some local political theater
FOUL
Our dumb state’s dumb governor
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Hear Hums, Ty Segall, Paleface, Quintron and more
The Adjustment Bureau
Matt Damon duels the fates in surprisingly romantic sci-fi film
Savage Love
I’m a 41-year-old, very attractive, happily married woman.
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Rotation: What Local Artists are listening to
“The award for reviving an era of music in a refreshing new way goes to Yuck. The recently signed Fat Possum group’s self-titled debut isn’t anything you haven’t heard before, but their brand of fuzzy yet melodic, guitar-driven indie is done well and happened to emerge at the perfect time. This exciting, self-produced album showcases…
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Happytown
The week that the county and the city made (fake) nice, rail made more racket and justice took a markdown.
Marwencol
Outsider-art documentary finds big emotion within tiny world
Walk, don’t run
Jazz guitar virtuoso Joshua Breakstone and what he learned from surf rock in Japan
Cedar Rapids
A kind-hearted indie comedy that hardly knows what ‘indie’ means
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. So for instance, if you’re the United States government and you invade and occupy Afghanistan in order to wipe out al-Qaida, it’s not too bright to continue fighting and…
Wicked
Confident touring company makes this Broadway musical soar
Live Active Cultures
Seth Kubersky visits Pennsylvania’s Roadside Attraction
Local Indie Calendar for March
Dates = subject to change. 3/4 – the Ed Helms comedy Cedar Rapids (Winter Park/Disney), the oddball documentary Marwencol (Enzian – pictured) 3/11 – the South American drama Even the Rain (Enzian) 3/18 – the ultraviolent Korean revenge flick I Saw the Devil (Enzian), the quirky comedy Tiny Furniture (also Enzian) 3/25 – the latest adaptation…
Review: Self Destructive Ego at Redefine Gallery
In Redefine’s tiny front gallery at the City Arts Factory, the work of Austin artist Eduardo Flores (aka “Bayo”) reflects an intense, masculine world – one that, as the title of the show indicates, is full of self-destructive egos. The imperfect humans in his portraits stare sullenly and defiantly at the viewer, as if they…
Get Ready for Round 2: WGA, Studios Begin CBA Talks
We’re just finally beginning to get past the massive and systemic negative effects on the output of Hollywood from the Writers’ Strike of 2007-08 and now the WGA and AMPTP have released a statement through Deadline that it’s time for both sides to renegotiate the CBA again. Nothing was really solved in the last CBA,…
Alert: Charlie Sheen on Twitter
I’m sure most of you know this by now since he has over 600,000 followers, but the Charlie Sheen funstravaganza train wreck has pulled out (no pun) of Talkshowville and pulled into Twitterville. Verified. This is sure to be a cultural event and you shouldn’t miss out on it. It’s sure to be a long…
Contractor accused of defrauding feds found by feds to be defrauding employees
When it rains, it pours. The Department of Labor announced today that Quinco Electrical–a Winter Park-based contractor recently ordered to pay restitution to the federal government after violating the Buy American Act–was also found to have been cheating its electricians out of higher wages by classifying them as “pipe layers.” The company will be required…
Oscar’s Best Short Film, “God of Love”, Reviewed
God of Love Dir: Luke Matheny Stars: **** Runtime: 18m By now you’ve all seen the goofy-haired kid who won Best Short Film at the Oscars last night for his 18 minute black and white thesis film, God of Love. His name is Luke Matheny, an NYU student from Brooklyn (via Wilmington, Delaware). But most…
Felice Brothers name new album after Orlando’s creepy Pleasantville
SXSW & Coachella-bound folksters the Felice Brothers out of Brooklyn, N.Y., must’ve made a detour on their November Orlando tour stop into the terrifyingly happy, Disney-owned planned community of Celebration while they were here, because they’ve just named their new album, to be released May 10 on Fat Possum, Celebration, Florida. A look at the…
