I wanna go! Bluegrass at Bok Tower
Anyone who’s made the trek over to Lake Wales to visit the Bok Tower Gardens there will know what I’m talking about when I sigh deeply and say, it’s just wonderful. With one of the most romantic stories – Edward Bok created it as a bird sanctuary on Lake Wales’ tallest hill and was buried…
There Will Be Madness – A Flash Fiction Blood Bath going down at Urban ReThink
J. Bradley Tuesday, March 12 – There Will Be Madness – A Flash Fiction Blood Bath 6-8 p.m. Urban ReThink 625 E. Central Blvd. 407-704-6895 urbanrethink.com free They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Well, this week writers from the Orlando area are certainly going to prove this adage to be true at…
Sunday Film News Roundup — March 10th, 2012
Ugh, day light savings time, I hate you so much. I feel completely out of sorts for the entire day every time you happen. I feel like today is a wasted day even though that’s irrational. Anyway, it’s another week and another slate of film festivals to talk about. I’m at neither one of them…
Tenacious D head to Hard Rock Live
photo by Michael Elins Monday, March 11 – Tenacious D 7 p.m. Hard Rock Live 6050 Universal Blvd. 407-351-5483 hardrock.com $45-$50 They’ve been around for 20 years, so it might shock you to know that the Greatest Band on Earth didn’t have a Grammy to their name until earlier this year. And it was for…
GORELANDO: Local Horror Filmmaker Debuts New Short
Local horror filmmaker, Carson Griffin’s new short film Sleepy Fun Time will be premiering at the RAW Artist Showcase at The Abbey! The event is April 4th from 8pm-12am! Tickets are only $10 online and may be purchased HERE. “Like” Sleepy Fun Time on facebook and stay updated! https://www.facebook.com/SleepyFunTime There will also be a huge sneak…
Dishcrawl takes diners to four downtown Orlando restaurants
Tuesday, March 12 – Dishcrawl 7 p.m. downtown Orlando dishcrawl.com/orlando visit website for details $45 This is the kind of event you have to experience in person. And we mean that in the most literal sense: The bulk of the details for this culinary tour, including which restaurants you’ll visit, are kept secret until 48…
Tasty Sundays in the Milk District!
Tasty Tuesdays, one of our favorite homegrown food-truck roundups, branches out into brunch starting this Sunday, March 10. Gather up in the parking lot behind Sandwich Bar, Spacebar and Etoile Boutique (2424 E. Robinson St.) for tasty breakfast items served from 11am-3pm by Local Yolk’l and 5 Gastronomy (menu below; also on the Tasty Tuesdays Facebook…
All Around the World: Foreign Film in 2013 (Part 2)
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer –Maxim Pozdorovkin & Mike Lerner (Russia/UK) We know Pussy Riot and their “crimes” against the state, and the two members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, still rotting away with the gulag, but how much do we really know about the Russian feminist-punk band? Directors Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin aim to change that…
GAMELANDO: Game Review: ‘Tomb Raider’
‘Girl power’ never felt so badass. Lara Croft’s had it rough over the past decade. The Tomb Raider franchise has been in an unfortunate state of identity-flux, and many fans wondered if our hallowed heroine would join the “could have been awesome, but not so much” ranks of Sonic the Hedgehog—Enter SquareEnix and Crystal Dynamics…
Murder City Photography Pinup Shoot to be held in Geneva
Sunday, March 10 – Murder City Photography Pinup Shoot 1-6 p.m. Danville Bed & Breakfast 232 N. Jungle Road, Geneva 407-349-5724 murdercityphotography.com $5-$40 Picture this: beautiful models holding powerful weapons, yet they’re the ones wanting to be shot – with a camera, that is. We’re talking about the Murder City Photography Pinup Shoot, which benefits local…
Golden Pelicans play Uncle Lou’s before heading to South by Southwest
Friday, March 8 – Golden Pelicans with Tight Genes, Gino and the Goons 9 p.m. Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall 1016 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-0009 $5 Late last year, the Golden Pelicans with the help of Rodney Dangerfield told us all to go jump in a lake. Whatever, Golden Pelicans, maybe no one cares about your…
All Around the World: Foreign Film in 2013 (Part 1)
For the third year in a row, we convene in these pages with our crystal ball and attempt to gaze into the future of the toughest, most uncertain type of film that there is to gauge: foreign films. Things have changed slightly since our last installment though. Most notably Netflix’s streaming prowess has grown by…
GORELANDO: Here Comes The FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival!
The FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival is coming to town: Mark it on your calendars! Hey boys and ghouls. It’s almost that time of year again, and the freaks are out! With cameras! Here’s the official press release: The 8th Annual FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival announces this year’s festival dates, Friday October 25 –…
Girl-group revisionist band Beach Day play Will’s Pub
photo by Christina Mendenhall Thursday, March 7 – Beach Day with Thee Wilt Chamberlain, Girls on the Beach, Wet Nurse 8 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. willspub.org $6 Girl-group revisionist band Beach Day, surf band Thee Wilt Chamberlain, garage-rock band Girls on the Beach and all-girl band Wet Nurse – hmm, we’re sensing…
Disney World could have been in Palm Beach County
Photo by NASA What would Orlando have been like without the Mouse? What would Palm Beach County have been like as the theme park capitol of the world? The Palm Beach Post reported on a story of Walt Disney on his scouting trip to find the best spot for his kingdom. Although, the story doesn’t…
Miami’s sludge metal band Holly Hunt tonight at the Peacock Room
Thursday, March 7 – Holly Hunt with Hussy, Demons 9 p.m. The Peacock Room 1321 N. Mills Ave. 407-228-0048 thepeacockroom.com $6 Holly Hunt, the experimental sludge metal band loudly hailing from Miami, made Orlando the first stop on their East Coast tour, gracing us with our first chance to hear them play their highly anticipated,…
TARDIS Soda Machine at Epic Comics gets shout out from BBC America
Photo by Epic Comics BBC America calls out Epic Comics as “clearly geniuses or magi or mageniuses or something.” They didn’t actually invent a time machine, but damn close. BBC America says that this Doctor Who spacecraft/time machine doubles as a soda vending machine. “If you want Sprite, you press the current Doctor’s face. The Tenth Doctor…
Police Beat: Dog bites swan at Lake Eola
This horrible incident happened at Lake Eola this week. Those poor swans get no respect. From the OPD’s event sheet about the incident: On 03-05-2013 at approximately 1130 hours I Officer Castro 13707 responded to 101 N. Rosalind Ave. at the city park office in reference to a swan that had been attacked by a…
Watch that, man: Reading too much into Bowie
Have you heard? It’s time to get off social media. Because David Bowie says so. Okay, he hasn’t actually said that. But it’s what’s being inferred by people who make it their business to overthink his motives while underthinking his music. And would they steer us wrong? Last week, the excitement over Bowie’s unexpected comeback…
Photo gallery: DIY pub crawl in Ivanhoe Village
In this month’s Another Round nightlife column, I took off after work for a DIY pub crawl through Ivanhoe Village with OW arts and culture editor Jessica Bryce Young and editor-in-chief Erin Sullivan. (Gotta love working for a place where you can drink with your boss!) We started at neighborhood mainstay the Imperial and then…
Horrible Florida pastor Terry Jones doesn’t just hate Muslims. Watch out, Orlando pansexual fetishists!
Just in case you were about to forget he existed, Dove World Outreach Center pastor – and global joke who is likely responsible for the deaths of many brave Americans – has just upped the ante on his psycho famewhoring. According to an email obtained by Orlando Weekly, Jones is planning a protest of the…
SMP’s spring shows document international alienation
Documentary photography from Russia, Mexico, Israel and Moldova
Live Active Cultures
Madame PeeVira’s Cinema Carnage was just one surreal moment in a brain-melting theme-park Thursday
Happytown: Rick Scott visits Beefy King
Florida Governor visits Orlando, eats a sandwich, talks about education and sequestration
Savage Love
My girlfriend and I read your column religiously, and I have you to thank for being comfortable enough with my kinks to tell her about my interest in BDSM. She is very GGG and has indulged all my kinky fantasies and discovered some of her own. Our latest adventure has her locking up my dick…
In Your Queue: Banksy's Coming to Dinner, Bill Cunningham New York, Potiche
These three films worth watching are dropping off Netflix next week. Take a look while you can
Mount Moriah bring authentic Southern rock to Will's Pub
Radiantly pure country sound sets Mount Moriah apart from other contemporary roots music acts
'Jack and the Giant Slayer'
This big-production spectacle seems tailor made for an undiscriminating audience
Drinking, Nightlife and Parties
Where to drink and party in Orlando this week
Remix: A fresh take on the Salty Dog cocktail
This month’s Remix candidate is an easy-drinking, summery classic: the Salty Dog. It’s not a mixologist’s dream – no obscure ingredients to track down, no murky mythology to trace – just a good ol’ American highball. Like a lot of cocktails that are generally expected to contain vodka these days, the Salty Dog was originally…
Opening this week
56 Up, Dead Man Down, and Oz the Great and Powerful
Album Reviews: Off With Their Heads, The Men, They Might Be Giants
The Men offer a solid new release, but OWTH and TMBG disappoint
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Maybe you’re not literally in exile. You haven’t been forced to abandon your home and you haven’t been driven from your power spot against your will. But you may nevertheless be feeling banished or displaced. It could be due to one of the conditions that storyteller Michael Meade names: "We may…
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'Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State'
Tampa-born journalist T.D. Allman paints an unflattering but entertaining portrait of Florida
This Little Underground
Our live music columnist covers Kaleigh Baker and Matt Woods, then has some choice words for Eddie Huang
Another Round: An Ivanhoe Village pub crawl
Unwind with after-work drinks in this walkable Orlando neighborhood
What's in store for Florida's 2013 legislative session
Legislators prepare to duke it out over more of the same: abortion, workers’ rights, education, voting issues and campaign finance reform
Happytown: Priorities of the People Town Hall
Englewood Neighborhood Center hosts event to discuss issues that affect Florida’s working class
Tartini Pizzeria and Spaghetteria
Old world staples in newfangled digs
'Apprehending Nature / Nature Apprehending'
Eric Breitenbach’s photos christen SMP’s new gallery at Lyonia Environmental Center
Tip Jar: local food news
This week, James Beard Award nominees, “A Tale of Two Chefs,” Galopin gallops away and a slew of new restaurant openings
Experimental chamber-pop musician Kishi Bashi plays the Social
His rare kaleidoscope of skills borrows its colors from classical, jazz and ’90s grunge
‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
Disney’s prequel to ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is neither great nor powerful
Disney history goes on tour with D:23 Disney Fanniversary Celebration
source: d23.disney.go.com Even if you’re not into the whole theme park experience, it’s hard not to appreciate the history of the Disney phenomenon. After all, the old-school Disney stuff, as we pointed out in a blog post the other day, is a lot darker than the Disney we know today. For instance, Pluto the…
On sale this week: Steve Aoki at UCF Arena
On sale: Monday, March 11 Steve Aoki with Kendrick Lamar 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 UCF Arena 407-823-6006 ucfarena.com visit website for details Down the road: Whitest Kids U Know, March 13 at The Plaza Live Lady Gaga, March 13 at Tampa Bay Times Forum Jim Breuer, March 14 at Hard Rock Live Gallo,…
North Carolina’s Old Flings offer post-hardcore sounds at Orlando Nights
Tuesday, March 5 – Old Flings with Jr. Meowzer, the New Lows, You Vandal, Among Giants 8:30 p.m. Orlando Nights 1300 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-0090 orlando-nights.com $5 Remember when indie rock was soulfully unpretentious? Yeah, we miss that ethos, too. But instead of just waxing nostalgic about those good ol’ days, go live that shit…
