Have you voted in our Best of Orlando 2015 readers poll yet?
Time is running out for you to nominate your favorite businesses, people, places and things for Best of Orlando 2015. Who’s got the best burger in town? Where can you find the best vintage clothing? What’s the best place to adopt a pet? Make your nominations now – it’s quick and painless, we promise! Click…
Happy Wednesday. Watch this video of a cat who is clearly King of the Jungle
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Hospitals tell Gov. Rick Scott: If you want financial data, look it up yourself
As Gov. Rick Scott’s newly created health-care commission prepares to meet Wednesday to begin sifting through data about hospital funding, the governor’s request for information has been met with hospitals essentially telling him to go look it up. Many of the dozens of surveys returned by hospitals have five or fewer of the roughly 100…
Fringe 2015 review: “1969: Stonewall”
I was intrigued to see 1969: Stonewall — a comedy centering around the Stonewall riots written by Orlando author John Ryan and directed by local theater personality and impresario Michael Wanzie – just to see how Wanzie and Ryan would balance their irreverent comedic sense with such a sensitive topic. It consists of various monologues…
Fringe 2015 review: “Grim and Fischer”
In 2013 I went over the moon for Loon, a pantomime live-action cartoon whose giant-headed star was more expressive with a static expression than most actors are with their real faces. This year, Portland’s Wonderheads are back with the Orlando debut of Grim and Fischer, their first and most successful show from the festival circuit.…
Florida governor’s mansion seeks chef
Wanna cook for Rick Scott? (Note we said “cook for Rick Scott,” not “cook Rick Scott.”) Gov. Voldemort and his First Lady are looking for a new chef at the big house up in Tally. The Gov seeks someone to oversee the preparation of “daily, healthy, high-quality culinary dishes … on schedule, in appropriate portions,…
Concert pic of the week: Real Friends invite tons of friends on stage at the Beacham
This week’s best concert photo shows an enthusiastic swarm on the stage at the Beacham during Real Friends’ show, snapped by OW contributor James Dechert, whose full gallery from the show can be seen here. Runner-up: A loan fist-pump for Built to Spill at the Social is captured by Jim Leatherman: More new concert photos…
The food is adorable at Rebel Hangar: A Star Wars Lounge Experience
Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios started on May 15, and this year the park offered guests a chance to dine in a Disney-themed eatery called the Rebel Hangar: A Star Wars Lounge Experience. It’s a place to hang out and (hopefully) run into some Star Wars characters, like Jawa and Wookies, while dining on…
10 claims made against Valencia College in the lawsuit over alleged transvaginal probes
Once again, Florida makes national news. This time it’s over a lawsuit against Valencia College in Orlando, claiming that students in the school’s sonography program were forced to undergo routine transvaginal ultrasounds, in which a large probe is inserted into a woman’s vagina, or be kicked out of the program and “blacklisted” from working at…
ICYMI: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is the boyfriend that never leaves
Riding on a string of perceived successes and good feelings and city-growth mountains traversed and money bags thrown into the air, everybody’s buddy Buddy Dyer is officially launching his campaign at the Abbey downtown on June 16. While it might seem like a normal time to launch a municipal campaign – hell, we did it…
Orlando ranks 3rd for easy access to GTL (Gym, Tan, Laundry)
Based on a new study performed by the apartment scientists at Apartments.com, Orlando ranks 3rd in the country for apartment buildings that offer the holy GTL trifecta—you know, gym, pool and laundry facilities. In other words, if washing your clothes, working on gains and laying by the pool all day is a priority, then Orlando…
First Halloween Horror Nights teaser for 2015: Welcome back, Jack
Today, Universal Orlando announced that the infamously psychotic Jack the Clown will be back to host Halloween Horror Nights 25, which runs from Sept. 18-Nov. 1. Jack was first introduced as a Halloween Horror Nights character in 2000, when the creative department concocted an insane clown character to play upon people’s fear of creepy clowns.…
Police in Marion County are looking for a guy named ‘Rhino,’ who may or may not have a rocket launcher
Authorities in Marion County raided a home near Umatilla, Florida, Monday after a tip that a rocket launcher might be used against local police. According to WFTV, “the Sheriff’s Office was told by a jailhouse informant that a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and missiles were being stored in a shed at a home near Umatilla. A…
Florida man breaks into home, gets sleepy and is caught napping on couch
Last Saturday, May 16th, Timothy Bontrager broke into a Sarasota home, got super sleepy from all the burglarizing and decided to take a nap on the couch. He was arrested. Tampa’s WTSP first reported this story. Sarasota Police Officers responded to the 3400 block of Tallywood Lane in Sarasota at approximately 8 a.m. on Saturday,…
Fringe 2015 review: “VarieTease: Aqueous”
Ever since 2007’s Carnivale, Blue Star’s VarieTease has been transporting Fringe audiences to strange new worlds with eclectically curated soundtracks and sensual choreography that has evolved far beyond any mere burlesque. In Aqueous, VarieTease voyages under the sea for a fishy fable with fairground flair. Blue, looking a bit like an anime geisha, stars as…
Orlando man to compete on body painting reality show, Skin Wars
Kyle Vest, Orlando local, talented body painter and former go-go dancer, aerial ice skater and stilt walker will be competing in the second season of Skin Wars, a show on GSN about body painting. The show revolves around twelve contestants who will compete in, “elaborate body painting challenges to avoid elimination and win over…
Fringe 2015 Review: “Jem Rolls Up”
Last Fringe, I raved about quirky U.K. poet Jem Rolls’ first Orlando appearance. This year, he’s back with his sophomore show Jem Rolls Up, again rocking the Brown venue despite another bronchial bug (Florida weather seems to hate Rolls’ lungs). Though obviously under the weather during the opening-night performance I attended, Rolls still succeeded in…
Aloma Early Childhood Learning Center tries to rewrite history on lesbian firings
image via wftv.com We’ve already written about the mess that the Methodists at the Aloma Early Learning Center have made in firing two instructors, Jaclyn Pfeiffer and Kelly Bardier, for being lesbians on the clock. We’ve even guessed that, hey, maybe that’s illegal, because the county has anti-discrimination laws, even if the state does not.…
Fringe 2015 Review: “The Wait List Murders”
Marking Carpenter Aunt Productions’ second Fringe outing in as many years, “The Wait List Murders” is a hilariously sardonic follow-up to last year’s surprise hit, “Escape From Baldwin Park.” With as many pointed inside jokes as honest reflections on the lengths performers go to in order to have their shows staged at Fringe, writer and…
Fringe 2015 review: “Jon Bennett: My Dad’s Deaths”
Australian comic Jon Bennett has traveled the world pretending things are his cock, done a one-man show about his incarcerated meth-addict brother, and generally done everything possible to make his conservative father embarrassed of him. Using the PowerPoint-based presentation style he perfected in his last two hit shows, Bennett has come back with another hilariously…
Fringe 2015 review: “Chase & Stacey’s Joyride to Eternity”
Buckle up tight, sketch comedy fans, because Chase Padgett and Stacey Hallal are back to take you on a “Joyride to Eternity.” If you somehow missed their last Patrons’ Pick-winning production, the pair presents a mix of improvised skits (suggested this time by audience members’ stories of birth, childhood and aging) ingeniously interwoven with pre-scripted…
Fringe 2015 review: “Japanese Samurai Don Quixote Challenging Giant English Windmills!”
Hiroshi Shimizu wants you in his comedy boat. Settle down, it’s not a kidnap threat – it’s a metaphor for life, and an endearing one, once you get to it. Japanese Samurai Don Quixote Challenging Giant English Windmills! is a remarkably inspiring, and also often incomprehensible, lecture on the meaning of life that masquerades as a standup…
Fringe 2015 review: “Tim + Spencer’s Magicians Must Die”
Last year, mentalist Tim Hoffman and magician Spencer Hojdila battled for sorcery supremacy in their bromance-soaked first Fringe show. For 2015, Tim + Spencer’s Magicians Must Die defy an ancient anti-magic omen, prompting the Devil to challenge the duo to a duel to the death, with the loser’s soul at stake. The pair takes their…
Fringe 2015 review: “A MidAutumn Night’s Dream”
Surfscape Contemporary Dance Theatre of New Smyrna is sharing their twist on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Fringe audiences. Kristin Polizzi and Rachael Leonard have choreographed solos, duets, trios, and ensemble pieces to rock classics, showing the many sides of love: good, bad and ugly. Sarah Osterhus, a gorgeous long-limbed dancer, is brilliantly cast…
Fringe 2015 Review: “Melvin Wants To Die”
Billed as a “black comedy,” Melvin Wants to Die – authored by local playwright MR Leclair – is only as dark on its surface as its subject matter, which is, well, dark. Protagonist Melvin is winding down his last days on earth in hospice care, plucking away at the pills of other residents in hopes…
Fringe 2015 Review: “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll”
“I have no guilt, because I’m not a human being. I’m a dog,” playwright Eric Bogosian wrote in his stinging one-man takedown of lacquered late-’80s groupthink in his 1990 play Sex Drugs Rock & Roll. But in this iteration, one helmed by Kangagirl Productions and starring longtime local stage phenomenon David Lee – seriously, people…
Fringe 2015 review: “Massage a Trois”
Themes of love triangles, body issues and the crazy things people do for love abound in John Connon’s hilariously quirky trio of one-acts. “Massage a Trois,” written and directed by Connon, stars Fringe vets Brett Waldon, Angela Trapp, and Janine Klein (May 15 through May 19) with Joy Kigin (May 22 through May 24) as…
This Little Underground: Solillaquists DiVinci and Alexandra Love emerge with new joint (Lil Indies)
From the seemingly bottomless talent well of progressive hip-hop clan the Solillaquists of Sound comes yet another combination: the pairing of lead vocalist Alexandra Love (Sarton) and producer/MPC master DiVinci. It’s a brand new project not seen before and one that, on paper, holds both appeal and intrigue because it’s inspired by jazz. The appeal,…
Council Watch: Keeping a mind’s eye on city governance so you don’t have to
Yawn, stretch, grumble: It’s Monday morning! Also, because of reasons even we can’t understand, the city of Orlando is choosing to hold its City Council meeting at 10 a.m., a time usually reserved for workshopping hangovers. What that means in the larger context is that there will be no “second reads” on ordinances that have…
Miami has a serious street poop problem, so they created this street poop map
Last Thursday, Miami’s Downtown Development Authority, a sort of tax-backed marketing group for the city, released a detailed and informative feces map showing where human street poop was found within an 8 hour period. According to the Miami Herald, the map was meant as a public jab at Homeless Trust Chairman, Ron Book, who’s been…
Fringe 2015 Review: “Peter N’ Chris and the Mystery of the Hungry Heart Hotel”
Hailing from Vancouver, Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson are three-time Canadian Comedy Award winners for Best Sketch Troupe and Best Comedic Play (2013/2014). Within minutes of watching them, there is no mystery as to how they scored those awards. Is it still in vogue to say hellafun? Well, call me a retro-rebel because I’m bucking…
Fringe 2015 Review: “Dark Wood”
There is nudity in Dark Wood, let’s get that out of the way upfront. In fact, the actors are already on stage when the audience enters and they are indeed sans clothes. In her program notes, director Winnie Wenglewick makes light of the nakedness, referencing “monkey junk” and, prior to the opening night performance, had…
Fringe 2015 review: “Late With Lance!”
Last year, New York solo performer Peter Michael Marino mined his autobiographical experiences writing a West End failure for his very funny show Desperately Seeking the Exit. This Fringe, he’s returned to prove he can be just as hilarious with a fictional theatrical train wreck in Late With Lance!, a faux talk show about a…
Fringe 2015 review: “The Exclusion Zone”
In the past few years, we’ve followed monologue master Martin Dockery to a beach in Vietnam, across a Stephen King-esque dark wasteland, on an acid-fueled bicycle trip, and even to (shudder) Orlando’s Holy Land Experience. But The Exclusion Zone, which is having its world premiere at the Orlando Fringe, may be his most fraught voyage…
Foodies at the Fringe: Specialty menus on the lawn – including poutine today! – through the end of Fringe Fest
Oh, poutine! It’s Canada’s national dish, but the delectable combination of crispy steak fries, squeaky cheese curds, and rich brown gravy is hard to find in Orlando, where cheese curds are not easily available. (Though you can find versions at Smiling Bison and on the Coop’s breakfast menu.) But today you’re in luck, because thanks…
Fringe 2015 review: “6 Guitars”
There are exceedingly rare moments in the life of a reviewer when he or she feels unqualified to critique a performance, unworthy of any explanation of what has transpired, content to bask in the glow of greatness. 6 Guitars is such a moment. Chase Padgett doesn’t need these accolades thrown at him anymore. After all,…
Fringe Review: Darwin vs Rednecks
I’ve been trying out a new tactic for Fringe, which is essentially not reading anything about a performance and just showing up not knowing anything about it. It’s liberating in a way. When I arrived at Darwin vs Rednecks, I didn’t know if this was a play, a musical, a dance performance. Nothing. So, when…
B.B. King’s Blues Club says goodbye to B.B. King with local tribute events
The whole world is mourning B.B. King’s passing yesterday, and that wave of grief has definitely hit Orlando, where the legendary artist will always be remembered locally thanks in part to the venue that bears his name, B.B. King’s Blues Club (and, you know, his god-gifted, jaw-dropping guitar-playing). Local artists posted loving tributes when they…
Fringe 2015 review: “Dragness of God”
Michael Wanzie’s parody of Agnes of God manages to be even campier than the movie made from the Broadway original, and that’s saying something. He also stars in the Mother Miriam Ruth role, while Tommy Wooten munches what scenery there is as the doubting doctor and an absolutely transcendent Doug Ba’aser channels loopy sister Agnes. (If…
Fringe 2015 review: “Kiya Heartwood: Song Tales from the American Edge”
Near the beginning of “Song Tales From the American Edge,” Texan storyteller/songwriter Kiya Heartwood illustrates her tale of martyred labor leader Joe Hill by apparently drinking a glass of ashes onstage. While the moment made me reflexively recoil, it’s a perfect metaphor for Heartwood’s sincere commitment to speaking for the voiceless on society’s fringes. Most…
Fringe 2015 review: “Anne Frankenstein”
From the twisted minds of Michael Knight and Adam McCabe, Anne Frankenstein opens with a flair reminiscent of classic Tarantino. Complete with the crispy vinyl pops of a 1970s funk instrumental, the show’s lights go up on a pair of Nazi henchmen running from an unknown assailant. As the denim- and swastika-clad stooges nervously banter…
Enzian hires new programming coordinator
The Enzian Theater has hired Tim Anderson as its new programming coordinator. He will be the first full-time, year-round coordinator for both the Enzian and the Florida Film Festival. The announcement follows the departure of the well-respected Clementine Leger, who served as programming coordinator for the festival for two years. Leger has left to become…
Fringe 2015 review: “Poe”
The mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe in 1849, at age 40, has always been perfect fodder for artistic interpretation. And in Poe, the latest project from Theatre Downtown, we’re treated to a unique, largely fictional glimpse at not just his final four days but what might have gone through his fevered brain before he…
“Some hesitation”: Gov. Rick Scott signs online voter registration bill, but does so with a frown
image via Sunshine State News Pardon our surprise here, but it appears that everyone’s favorite thinking dome of governance has, hesitantly, made the effort to act in some kind of decent manor, especially when it comes to voting rights (gasp!). Scott, who has hot-tipped himself for bigger office in 2018, when no one votes (and…
Fringe 2015 review: “Janis Joplin, Little Girl Blue”
“Little Girl Blue” may be the title track of this rocking staged account of Janis Joplin’s life that revolves fittingly around what’s essentially a very disciplined Janis Joplin tribute show, but it was Big Brother & the Holding Company’s “Turtle Blues” that perhaps stole the show. When the Fringe version of Joplin, embodied by unreal…
The best thing about Disney’s Jungle Cruise are the cringeworthy Dad Jokes
To be clear, I think Disney’s Jungle Cruise is great. However, I don’t love it for its slow moving exploration of ten continents, or its clunky out-of-date animal robots. No, I love it for the dad jokes. For the unfamiliar, a dad joke is any cringeworthy joke that’s makes you slam your palm into your…
Concert pic of the week: Fidlar fan crowdsurfing in tortured elation
This week’s best concert pic comes courtesy of new contributing photographer Carlo Cavaluzzi, who couldn’t have captured the craze of Fidlar, Metz and Dryspell any better than this tortured elation on this crowdsurfing fan’s face during the middle of Fidlar’s rip. Click here to see more photos of the show, including trippy exposures from Metz’s…
Voting has begun for Orlando Weekly’s Best of Orlando 2015 readers poll!
It’s here, it’s here! Best of Orlando 2015 voting is now open! We’re doing things the same way we did last year: First, we open up the ballot to nominations in all of our Best of Orlando categories, then we shut down the ballot while we see which people, places, businesses and things received the…
Eminence Front, it’s a put on: Surplus military equipment for unexpected militarization of Florida in a handy chart
Today, the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting released a fairly jarring report of just how the militarization of local police departments (and other local agencies) has been accelerating in the wake of, well, a decrease in wartime boom-times for green articles of metal and death. The usual suspects are there to some degree – of…
George Zimmerman is considering moving out of Florida, sick of ‘trouble’
Apparently, George Zimmerman is tired of being harassed—more specifically, being shot at—and is ready to move out of Florida. Since being acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin back in 2013, Zimmerman has maintained a residency here in the Sunshine State. However, that may soon change. According to a DailyMail exclusive, Monday’s incident in Lake…
Fringe 2015 review: “Field Guide to the Gays 2”
In my theater career I’ve produced gay-themed plays, performed in drag, and worked with Logan Donahoo, Orlando’s self-appointed homosexual ambassador to the hetro community. But as queer-friendly as I am, I never fully earned my honorary gay card until I attended “Field Guide to the Gays 2,” the followup to Donahoo’s fabulous first multimedia extravaganza…
Happy Friday. Here is a short adventure film starring a cat driving a tank
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Orlando Eye blinks: Wheel shuts down for second time this week
The giant observation wheel on International Drive, part of the I-Drive 360 entertainment complex, has closed due to technical issues. The wheel opened to the public May 4. Thursday at 11 a.m., the attraction’s operating system “indicated an irregularity,” and the 400-foot-tall wheel was shut down. No indication was made on the wheel’s Facebook page or…
Fringe 2015 review: “Uncouth”
“UnCouth” begins with Californian physical comedienne Windy Wynazz slowly pushing a mop onstage with a white fright wig on her head, looking like an apathetic albino version of Carol Burnett’s charwoman. Ordinarily, at this point I’d start by summarize the plot, but since I honestly have no clue what this show was about, I’ll simply…
Gov. Rick Scott implies that a Florida government shutdown could be on the horizon
Gov. Rick Scott raised the possibility Thursday that state government could shut down because of a budget impasse in the Legislature and asked agencies to outline services that need to keep running regardless of whether lawmakers reach an agreement. In addition to raising the issue of a shutdown with state departments, Scott appeared to try…
Fringe 2015 review: “Technology, Breasts, and Other World Issues”
Let me get something off my chest before getting to the meat of this review. (Cue rim shot.) You get neither breasts nor technology in Dawn McFarr’s one-woman show. What you get is a reasonably entertaining and fairly well-performed, though not particularly insightful, mix of song and stand-up on a variety of sexual and non-sexual…
Fringe 2015 review: “Deviant Behaviors”
Deviant Behaviors is an odd, slightly self-indulgent, though admittedly unique, look at one person’s relationship with BDSM (bondage-discipline-sadism-masochism). Though the one-woman show will touch those involved in BDSM, it might leave those outside the lifestyle scratching their heads and looking at their watches. The show is vastly different from its description on the Fringe site,…
Fringe 2015 review: “Best Picture”
I’m sure you’ve been tempted to attend one of those cinematic smorgasbords that theaters offer around Oscar time, the ones that show all the best-picture nominees from that year in a single block. I never have, though, as I believe great films are like fine wine, meant to be sipped, not guzzled. Following that metaphor…
Florida hearse driver fired for stopping at Dunkin’ Donuts while carrying dead veteran
The body of Lt. Col. Jesse Coleman was on its way to a service at Veterans Funeral Care in Clearwater, Florida, Tuesday morning—that is—until the hearse driver and a licensed funeral director decided to take a quick detour at a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts. According to WPTV, the hearse was spotted in the parking lot of…
Sushi Pop celebrates expansion with party in their new cocktail lounge tonight
It’s a bit of a drive from downtown, but it’s oh so worth it: Eating at chef Chau Trinh’s Sushi Pop restaurant in Oviedo is almost as fun as taking in the anime-themed decor. Now you can add drinking to that, as they’ve expanded their space to encompass a new cocktail lounge. Drinks were always…
7 reasons to participate in National Bike to Work Day, which is Friday
This Friday, May 15, is National Bike to Work Day, the one day a year dedicated to riding a bike in a suit—except for the City of Orlando’s Bike to Work Day, which was May 1. So, if you had some lame excuse for not hopping on your bicycle and peddling across town last time,…
Fringe 2015 review: “7 (x1) Samurai”
Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is the story of brave warriors with limited resources avenging brutal injustices. Armed with nothing but his body, vocal chords, two Japanese masks, a black kimono and white face paint, David Gaines accomplishes a mission no less noble and astonishing, as he single-handedly vanquishes the demons of bad theater and boring…
Fringe 2015 review: “Hurtling Towards Earth”
A few months ago while visiting New York City, I was lucky enough to experience “Wayra: Fuerza Bruta,” an enthralling environmental performance art party that involves aerial acrobatics and extreme audience participation. It’s the kind of exhilarating spectacle that makes Orlando’s shows seem sadly stale, so I can easily identify with the overwhelming emotions it…
Depressing study of the day: Orange County one of the worst places for income mobility for poor kids
Two Harvard economists, Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren, recently conducted a study on income mobility and the best and worst places for poor kids to grow up if they ever hope to break the poverty cycle. According to the study, poor kids who grow up in both Orange and Seminole counties face pretty tough odds when…
Fringe 2015 review: “Tales Too Tall For Trailers”
Welcome back to Big Fib, the world’s only cul-de-sac trailer park (even if the Guinness Book doesn’t recognize the record), and setting for singing storyteller Paul Strickland’s last two hit Fringe shows. This year he’s concluding his trilogy with “Tales Too Tall for Trailers,” and he’s brought Erika Kate MacDonald (star of last year’s “Tap…
Mad Max: Fury Road is beautiful mayhem
5 stars out of 5 It’s been 30 years since Australian filmmaker George Miller brought Max Rockatansky to the screen. Over three films from 1979-85, Miller took action cinema to glorious new heights (well, maybe not with Thunderdome but I’m not here to beat on that dead horse). The action was visceral, the danger was…
This Little Underground: FIDLAR and Metz light up the Social
The FIDLAR and Metz bill (May 12, The Social) was the undisputed boss this week. In fact, it’s been a long time since a one-two punch has been as complete a knockout as this. A fun fact about Los Angeles’ FIDLAR – besides the fact that their moniker’s an acronym for Fuck It Dog Life’s…
Borderline: ACLU map shows that the entirety of Florida is a rights-free immigration zone
Wait, what? Not to freak anyone out or anything, but it would appear that we’re all immigrants who can be stopped and be searched for no apparent reason, according to a map released by the American Civil Liberties Union that we just came across. Anyone operating within 100 miles of a a the United States…
Happy Thursday! Here’s a Bengal cat massaging a Weimaraner’s head.
Soothing expression of love or tenderizing the victim before eating? You be the judge. Related Stories
You’ll soon be able to drink at an Indiana Jones bar in Disney World
The Disney Parks Blog recently unveiled plans for an Indiana Jones-themed bar, called Jock Lindsey’s Hanger Bar. The new watering hole will be opening this fall in-between The Boathouse and Paradiso 37. The name Jock Lindsey might ring a bell for some of you hardcore Indiana Jones fans; he is the pilot friend of Indy…
Fringe 2015 review: “CosmoLyrical”
The science versus religion debate seems to be raging more fiercely today than in any era since Galileo’s day, and the battle only appears to be becoming more bitter. I wish the intractable opponents on either side could sit down together and see “CosmoLyrical,” poet Phil Long’s metaphysical monologue in rhyming verse. They might not…
SeaWorld employees rescued a mother manatee on Mother’s Day
SeaWorld rescuers were able to save a mother manatee and her calf off the coast of Satellite Beach, Florida, last Sunday, May 12. The manatee was believed to have a collapsed lung after being struck by a watercraft. SeaWorld staff relocated the injured mother (and its still-nursing calf) back to SeaWorld, where she was then…
Shark attacks UCF student and is immediately punched in the face
University of Central Florida student Josh Green was swimming alone at Cocoa Beach last Thursday, May 7, when a shark grabbed onto his leg and immediately received a rapid succession of swift, accurate and powerful punches to its shark face. The incident happened at around 3 p.m. According to Green, it is believed the shark…
Fringe 2015 review: “Cootie Catcher”
“Don’t you fear god? No, I fear gonorrhea,” says Lucas Brooks in his one-man play “Cootie Catcher.” The play is essentially a humorous confessional of Brooks’ sexual escapades and, of course, the STD scares that have accompanied them. It’s a light-hearted approach to an often complicated issue – getting tested – especially for a gay man…
Picketers’ arms: City considers updated protest ordinance, postpones
While we were out (get used to it; this is going to be our general intro for another few days), we caught wind that there was going to be a change in the way that the city handles public protests, especially when those protests involve private residences. Indeed, at the May 4 City Council hearing,…
Fringe 2015 review: “The Road Less Gravelled”
Thousands of snowbirds from Canada come to Orlando every year seeking sun, but Wanda Carroll is a self-described penguin, bringing down a frosty flurry of funny stories from her Newfoundland home. The writer-performer of “The Road Less Gravelled” comes from Conche, a seaside village of 300 souls on the impoverished Atlantic island that only joined…
On Congressman Alan Grayson, robot feces and possible Senate runs
Never one to keep his gambling deck too close to his chest, Congressman Alan Grayson – who every peanut gallery member already knows is going to make a run for Marco Rubio’s emptied Senate seat in 2016, but turns into peanut butter when cornered on the matter (what’s with all the political flirting these days?)…
This Little Underground: Speedy Ortiz (The Beacham)
On her impressive campaign to return to the current music dialogue, Jenny Lewis (May 10, The Beacham) has been reminding us why it’s nice to have her back in the mix. But I already talked about that when she rolled through only 10 months ago in support of Ray LaMontagne. But opener Speedy Ortiz is…
Brace yourself for Mike Busey’s Shit Show Party at Bullitt Bar Thursday
If you’re too chicken to brave the Sausage Castle or maybe curious and perplexed as to how to get invited to the crude complex, you can meet Sausage Castle kingpin Mike Busey (and his beauties) in the middle at Bullitt Bar on Thursday, May 14, for a “Shit Show Party” with minimal details available, beyond…
Fringe 2015 review: “Moonlight After Midnight”
A man (Martin Dockery) sits alone in a darkened hotel room. A woman (Vanessa Quesnelle) enters uninvited, singing a Patsy Cline classic. She initially appears surprised to see him, then insists that she is the call girl he phoned for. Despite his denials, they begin a strange circular dance of role play, alternately pretending to…
Fringe 2015 review: “Butt Kapinski”
As soon as I entered the Fringe’s Blue venue to find the audience’s chairs had been rearranged haphazardly across the stage, I knew I was in for something completely different, and “Butt Kapiniski” doesn’t disappoint in that department. Sit wherever you like, but beware: No viewer is safe from Californian comic Deanna Fleysher’s outrageous audience…
Happy Wednesday. Watch this video of a shiba inu pretending to be a submarine
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Satisfy all your fleshly desires at Swine & Sons
I channel Alvy Singer every time I make the drive to Swine & Sons. Negotiating that borderline-legal left turn in the face of unyielding, sunset-blinded drivers and into a crammed and suspension-testing parking lot is as hair-raising an entrance as I care to make. And for what? Certainly not to eat a plate of mashed…
Santiago’s Bodega to open in Altamonte Springs, Blue Martini will move into Pointe Orlando this month and more in this week’s foodie news
Two chefs we featured in BITE 2015 – Capa’s Tim Dacey and Marc Kusche of Hamilton’s Kitchen – team up at 6:30 p.m. today (Wednesday, May 13) for a four-course dinner with wine pairings at the Alfond Inn. Cost is $75. Dacey will be at it again Monday, May 18, with sommelier, vineyard proprietor and James Beard Award…
Somehow Gov. Rick Scott wants federal money for health care … but also doesn’t want federal money for health care
“There seems to be some acknowledgment that we have an uninsured problem in Florida. The question is, how do you address that? Do you use state dollars, or do you use the existing program that the federal government has put out there?” – Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Florida In the ever-blurring Tilt-a-Whirl that is Tallahassee…
This Modern World (5/13/15)
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From Doc Watson discovering the band to Bob Dylan co-writing songs, Old Crow Medicine Show gets boosts by following their roots
A decade and a half ago, Old Crow Medicine Show got its first big break from one of the band’s biggest musical heroes, Doc Watson. Watson’s daughter happened upon the group playing on a street corner in Boone, North Carolina, one day in 2000. She thought her father would like Old Crow’s rollicking brand of…
Picks This Week: Young Buck, Night Demon, Built to Spill and more
Night Demon Rock and heavy metal purists, don’t miss this ripping Ventura three-piece that kicks and thrashes in exaggerated fist-pumping fashion. 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, at Backbooth, $8-$10 Old Crow Medicine Show “When we were discovered by Doc Watson on the street corner, we were playing in the same spot where Doc Watson played…
Some Orlando parents are encouraging their kids to opt out of taking Florida Standards Assessment tests
Opt out: That’s what a group of Orlando parents decided to do rather than have their kids take the new Florida Standards Assessment tests that debuted in schools this year. Parents say the state’s new standardized tests (which originated in Utah, where student scores plummeted when they were introduced in that state) are riddled with…
Savage Love (5/13/15)
My wife is one of those women who needs manual stimulation of her clit during sex to climax. Before meeting her, I had several long-term girlfriends, and not one needed to do this in order to climax. Before we got married, I explained that I wanted to explore and push the boundaries, and she promised…
This Little Underground: Neutral Milk Hotel’s farewell tour
The blockbuster this week, of course, was the big Neutral Milk Hotel show (May 5, the Beacham). The quickly sold-out event was really more of a historical event than a concert. Despite a lean oeuvre, Neutral Milk Hotel has cemented its place as one of the best, most defining acts of the legendary Elephant 6…
Opening in Orlando: Echoes of War, Mad Max: Fury Road, Pitch Perfect 2
Echoes of War In this period drama, two Texas families that have been dealt a tragic hand by the Civil War respond by waging a war of their own. Against each other, we mean – not against that evil Yankee government that’s just going to wait 140 years to steal their land and lock them…
Gimme Shelter (5/13/15)
Meet the lovely Lady (Animal ID A318580). She’s a friendly 6-year-old dog who was recently found as a stray. Lady walks well on a leash and knows how to sit on command. Thanks to the shelter’s Seniors for Seniors promotion, Lady can be adopted by anyone 55 and older for free. But don’t let Lady’s…
Year after year, Orlando’s Fringe Festival keeps it fresh
After two dozen years, it’s difficult finding fresh ways of saying that the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival is the coolest cultural carnival on our annual calendar. Thankfully, the Fringe is always finding fresh ways to expand and improve, and this year’s 24th edition (running Wednesday, May 13, through Monday, May 25) is no exception.…
The ABCs of Fringe: Tips, tricks and wisdom gained through the ages
We’ve updated our annual A-to-Z (all right, B-to-W) guide to getting the most out of Fringe, which has finally spread to all four corners of Loch Haven Park. Check out show details, festival policies and venue maps at orlandofringe.org, where you can also buy tickets. Bars and restaurants Food stalls on the Fringe Lawn include…
Ten shows to look for at this year’s Fringe Festival
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‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ is far from a blockbuster
Thomas Hardy wrote Far From the Madding Crowd in 1874, 14 years before Louis Le Prince shot the world’s first motion picture. So he would certainly be perplexed by the current debate surrounding his first great novel, which has little to do with his writing and all to do with which film is better: the…
The Artisan Table’s all-day happy hour is a godsend for downtown
Artisan’s Table Address/phone/web: 22 E. Pine St., 407-730-7499; artisanstableorlando.com After work or after hours? work Beer/wine or liquor too? Both Check all that apply: ☒ fancy cocktails ☐ make ’em strong and keep ’em coming ☒ wine list (5 choices or more) ☒ craft beer ☒ beer: the usual suspects ☒ wide selection of bottles…
Lulu Eightball (5/13/15)
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