Photo Gallery: Opening of Flying Horse exhibit at Mennello
On Friday, March 30th, Orlando’s Mennello Museum of American Art held a reception to celebrate the opening of IMPRINT: 20 Years of Flying Horse Editions. The exhibit, which runs through August, celebrates the printmaking work of UCF’s nationally-renowned fine art press. During the reception, students led guests through hands-on demonstrations of a variety of printing…
Sunday Film News Roundup — April 1st, 2012
It’s April Fool’s day. Right off the bat, I’ll say that nothing in this post is fabricated. We got you in the paper already. Personally, I always forget what day it is and get suckered in by something so amazing that I don’t want to believe it’s a fake story. A few years ago, I…
Selection Reminder: Wolter Wierbos and David Manson’s “Swarm!”
Sunday, April 1 – Wolter Wierbos and David Manson’s “Swarm!” 7:30 p.m. Timucua White House, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave. timucua.com free Trombonists Wolter Wierbos and David Manson return to Central Florida (from Amsterdam and St. Pete, Fla., respectively) for the next concert in the 2011-2012 series presented by the Civic Minded 5 at the Timucua…
Selection Reminder: UCF Book Festival!
Saturday, March 31 – UCF Book Festival 9 a.m.-4 p.m. UCF Arena North Gemini Blvd., Bldg. 50 407-823-6006 bookfestival.ucf.edu free With the constant bombardment of news feeds, tumbled articles and YouTube videos, it’s easy to forget about the older (and much lengthier) form of communication: the book. Consider this weekend’s book festival at UCF a…
Selection Reminder: Orange County Master Gardener Plant Fair!
Saturday, March 31 – Orange County Master Gardener Plant Fair 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Orange County Extension Education Center 6021 S. Conway Road 407-254-9200 ocextension.ifas.ufl.edu free We won’t give you the spiel about getting outside and enjoying this delightful spring weather. Nope, not us. Even if this weekend’s plant fair offers a handful of intuitive workshops…
Selection Reminder: Downtown Food & Wine Fest this weekend!
Saturday-Sunday, March 31-April 1 – Downtown Food & Wine Fest noon-9 p.m. Saturday noon-7 p.m. Sunday Lake Eola Park, along Robinson Street downtownfoodandwinefest.com $10-$15 For the new rendition of the departed Orlando Food & Wine Fest, this year Lake Eola plays host to the Downtown Food & Wine Fest, a two-day eats-and-alky jumble with the…
Selection Reminder: NAILBITER tonight at Sip!
Friday, March 30 – NAILBITER with Recreant, Abuse, Centuries 9 p.m. Sip 724 Virginia Drive 407-894-4747 sip-orlando.com $6 Every hardcore punk show should include at least one thoroughly capitalized compound band name. How else can one discern between yet another Screeching Weasel fan-club meeting and a concert they’ll actually remember just by glancing over a…
Selection Reminder: Orlando Ballet’s Swans: Black and White!
Friday-Sunday, March 30-April 1 – Swans: Black and White 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday 2 p.m. Sunday Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre 401 W. Livingston St. 407-426-1739 orlandoballet.org $22-$30 Orlando Ballet artistic director Robert Hill has choreographed a version of Swan Lake that brings out “darker themes of imprisonment, manipulation and deception,” continuing his company’s shift away…
Opening in Orlando — March 30th, 2012
Mirror Mirror — The first of this spring’s two Snow White adaptations has Julia Roberts assuming evil-queen duties for director Tarsem Singh. The supporting cast includes Armie Hammer, Mare Winnigham and Nathan Lane. Wait a minute — somebody put Nathan Lane in a movie and didn’t let him play the evil queen? (PG) [youtube 8CHXHEIGb7A]…
Selection Reminder: Snow Patrol tonight at Hard Rock Live!
Thursday, March 29 – Snow Patrol with Ed Sheeran 7 p.m. Hard Rock Live 6050 Universal Blvd. 407-351-5483 hardrock.com $35-$65
Selection Reminder: The Flight of the Earls opens tonight at Orlando Shakes!
Through April 8 – The Flight of the Earls Lowndes Shakespeare Center 812 E. Rollins St. 407-328-9005 redchairproject.com $20 The “Troubles” of Northern Ireland are an evergreen (heh) topic of fiction. Countless plays, movies and novels are set amid Ireland’s grim struggle for self-rule, perhaps because the combination of a bloody political conflict and a…
On Sale This Week: Los Campesinos!
On Sale: Friday, March 30 Los Campesinos! 7 p.m. Friday, June 29 the Beacham 46 N. Orange Ave. 407-648-8363 thebeacham.com $15-$17 Down the road: Andrew W.K., April 6 at The Beacham New Roman Times, April 6 at Will’s Pub Pink Martini, April 6 at The Plaza Live Cursive, April 10 at The Social Go Radio,…
Nick’s Italian Kitchen – review
Local restaurant group does it again; Nick’s brings a new level of cool to old-school Italian
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit – review
Solid new smokehouse offers a budget-friendly BBQ experience
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Capital Orlando
A first look at Florida’s new capitol complex coming to downtown Orlando
Thin Ice
The Sprecher sisters have already washed their hands of their own problematic crime dramedy
Maakies
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Red – review
OST’s attempt to paint in Rothko Red misses a few hues
Sex games
An interview with Orlando’s Baby Blue Star
Happytown
It’s the inaugural Happytown Political Pop Quiz™! Want to know how much your Orlando mayoral candidates know about running the city? Look no further. Pencils down!
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Catching fire
Orlando’s Bloody Jug Band’s debut album blazes with all of the hunger and none of the games
Live Active Cultures
Chase Padgett’s theatrical triple feature is a promising sign of Fringe Festival’s imminent flowering
The Bar Tab
From the Next-Order-Of-Magnitude Department, we just heard that Ron Raike is moving from head brewer of the nanobrewery at Shipyard Brewpub to head brewer of the micro-brewery at Cask & Larder, the forthcoming brewpub/restaurant from the folks at Ravenous Pig. He just got back from touring Belgium’s brew scene and plans to bring some signature…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) A few months after America invaded Iraq in 2003, soldier Brian Wheeler wrote the following to help us imagine what it was like over there: “Go to the worst crime-infested place you can find. Go heavily armed, wearing a flak jacket and a Kevlar helmet. Set up shop in a vacant…
Savage Love
I am the father of a recently out 18-year-old gay boy. Here’s the problem, My son is in a relationship with a 31-year-old guy.
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Jr. Meowzer
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Kasabian, Hacienda, Youth Lagoon, Alcest and more
We are Trayvon Martin
Scenes from the hearings, protests and rallies in Sanford
Culture 2 Go
AUGMENTED REALITY As the inaugural artist-in-residence at Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Leigh-Ann Pahapill created Likewise, as technical experts, but not (at all) by way of culture specifically for and at the museum. Pahapill’s practice is to investigate the framework of reality – how we see what we see, and how presentation influences perception. The site-specific…
Turning it up
Scottish rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks are finally headliners, and their latest album shows us why
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt are effortlessly charming in director Lasse Hallstrom’s tidy puff piece
W.E.
An ill-advised plot device dooms an otherwise handsome tale of a woman, a prince and an empty throne
THE HAPPYTOWN POLITICAL POP QUIZ CHEAT SHEET! The mayoral edition
If you’ve already picked up today’s hilariously phallic issue of the Orlando Weekly, you may now turn to page 8 to soak in the wisdom of mayoral candidates Buddy Dyer, Phil Diamond, Ken Mulvaney and Mike Cantone. (Or you can check out Happytown™ on this here website). You may have noticed that we didn’t include…
