Shows I Go To: Bastille and lightheartedly laughable dance moves
“How was ‘Pompeii?’” I’ve been asked that question several times since Friday. Largely recognized as their breakthrough song, “Pompeii” was actually the fourth single released off Bastille’s debut album Bad Blood. I remember the first time I showed my best friend that song – it was almost exactly a year ago today. We were driving…
Photos of cats and the amps they love … to sit on
The only thing cats love more than being on the Internet is being on amps. If you’ve ever lived with a cat and a musician (or are a musician), you’ve likely seen your kitty perched atop a speaker, luxuriating on that spongy mesh Marshall screen or perhaps more intimately making biscuits on your Peavey. When…
Orlando Fringe Review: FrankenChrist: the Musical!
Leave it to Fringe to bring together the religious right, the New-Agey spiritual left and the Westboro Baptist Church. OK, so maybe not even Fringe can fully integrate those evil nutjobs from Topeka, Kansas, but the creators of FrankenChrist: the Musical! come close, all while delivering one of the smartest and funniest shows of this…
SeaWorld and Busch Gardens to raise ticket prices
Following in the footsteps of Walt Disney World earlier this year, SeaWorld announced today that the price of tickets at both SeaWorld Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa will be increasing $3 per ticket. If you procrastinate and wait to buy your tickets at the gate, you’ll be looking at $95 for each adult and $90 for…
Car hit by SunRail train in Maitland
14 high speed shots of SunRail’s grand opening A woman was injured in Maitland today after a car she was traveling in was hit by a SunRail train. The injured party was taken to a hospital and her condition is not known at this time. Luckily, the train did not derail and was back in service in…
Orlando Fringe Review: Sarah and Oscar
One of the wonderful things about Orlando Fringe is the opportunity to experience different types of theater, from elaborately staged musicals to ribald comedies to mime, etc. Sarah and Oscar would be most at home under the heading “museum theater.” Museum theater, or educational theater, is used to take historic or other unpalatable information and…
Orlando Fringe Review: The Death of Brian: A Zombie Odyssey
The Death of Brian: A Zombie Odyssey at the 2014 Orlando Fringe (Photograph courtesy of Kasandra Kincaid) When Brian (writer-performer Ricky Coates) first shuffles onto the stage, blankly watching TV while his wife harangues him, you may think he’s undead already. But it isn’t until a car crash ends with Brian awakening naked in the…
Central Florida music gear forum has a physical showroom in Deltona
For musicians who obsess over Craigslist and crave new gear the way foodies crave new fusions, the CFL Music Gear forum has become a trusted space where more than 1,000 local artists can post gear they’re getting rid of or skim the listings posted by others. It’s one step away from the anonymity of Craigslist,…
Orlando Fringe 2014: Free concerts on the Green Lawn at Fringe
Beginning last Thursday and going through Sunday, May 25, the Green Lawn at Fringe Fest is taken over by mostly local musicians who perform free concerts to Fringe-goers between shows. On Monday, May 19, Kaleigh Baker kicks things off at 7 p.m., followed by Drivin N’ Cryin’s Aaron Lee Tasjan (playing solo stuff) at 8…
Orlando Fringe Review: Tappin’ and Yappin’!
“No one wants to hear songs and stories from an old has-been,” Cindy Starr’s agent tells her toward the end of Tappin’ and Yappin’! While Starr may be a has-been, Joy Andersen, who plays Starr, certainly isn’t, as she shows off some decent acting chops, satisfactory singing and competent dancing during her 45-minute show. But…
UPDATED: Orange Blossom Pilsner brew pub on Virginia a no-go
via This will come as sad news to many, but the much-anticipated Orange Blossom Pilsner brew pub will not be occupying the space currently being renovated at 1010 Virginia Drive. OBP owner Tom Moench tells us he was “a little premature” in confirming his tap room/brewery would be moving into the space, as we…
Catch JJ Grey & Mofro and Ben Prestage at Florida Folk Festival
If this weekend is anything like last weekend, conditions will be ideal for indulging in the folksy lilt of Florida Folk Festival, May 23-25 at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs. It’s that time of year where old timers and old souls congregate at the campgrounds to attend everything from informal…
Alligator chooses tranquility of Bradenton couple’s pool over natural habitat
That gator is straight chillaxin’. Photo via WWSB. If you think Florida’s alligators fear our generally deforested and chemical-laden human pools, think again. Last Thursday around 4 a.m. Bradenton resident Sharon Bente heard what she thought was the might of a thunderstorm knocking around her pool deck furniture. Upon further investigation Bente discovered an eight foot…
Orlando Fringe Review: VGL 5’4″ Top
At the ripe age of 27, actor and blogger Lucas Brooks is taking a good hard look at his life so far as a young gay man, and this self-evaluation comes none too soon. Gay men will likely connect with Brooks’ coming-out story, his inevitable slide into the dating/hooking-up scene, and his love/hate experience with…
Orlando Fringe Review: A Tired Old Whore
Wearing tight unmatched leopard prints and a giant ginger wig, former prostitute Taffy Pinkerbox made her world premiere theatrical entrance at Orlando Fringe on Saturday to rousing applause. That’s not because Taffy just finished servicing an audience member (though he did seem like a satisfied customer); it’s because she is the creation of Doug Ba’aser…
Orlando Fringe Review: Tripping balls at Fringe
The Orlando Fringe Festival is trippy even when you’re sober, but after you’ve been hitting the beer tents and full-liquor bar (holler at Stonewall) all day in between shows, things start to get even weirder. But don’t fret, there are a number of things you can see that are even better in that funky-fugue state.…
Orlando Fringe Review: The Surprise, by Martin Dockery
Martin Dockery isn’t comfortable with the label “storyteller,” yet that’s what he is. Oh, not the sock-puppets-and-kiddies-type of storyteller that he’s sure you imagine when you hear the word; no, Dockery is one of those guys who can pluck one moment out of life’s sprawling randomness and with his keenly stylized delivery, find the meaning in…
Orlando Fringe Review: God Is a Scottish Drag Queen II An All New Testament
God Is a Scottish Drag Queen II at 2104 Orlando Fringe God Is a Scottish Drag Queen, the runaway comedy hit of last year’s Orlando Fringe, has returned with another All New Testament, and if it isn’t quite the Second Coming then it’s the next best thing (and that’s saying something, coming from this Jew).…
Orlando Fringe Review: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Photo by Julie St. Pierre via Who knew that our seventh president was such a rockin’ badass? Apparently only Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman, the creators of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which premiered in 2008 in Los Angeles and had a brief Broadway run a couple of years later. This alternatingly muddled, smartly satirical, over-the-top…
Orlando Fringe Review: Smooch
Pantomime is one of the most difficult theatrical skills to master. If you’re not well-versed in its delicate balance of physical comedy, tenderness and subtle storytelling, you probably shouldn’t attempt it. Unfortunately, the normally reliable PB&J Theatre Factory (Sport and Sleigh) apparently didn’t fully understand that before undertaking their latest Fringe adventure, Smooch, which, though…
Orlando Fringe Review: Something’s Weird in Weeki Wachee
The Pattershaw sisters (Elizabeth Murff and Peg O’Keef) have left the glamorous days of mermaid show business behind them and now live a secluded life full of pickled memories and fruit – they sell pickled fruit preserves to pay the bills – until one day their hermitage is invaded by their fabulously gay nephew (John…
Orlando Fringe Review: Tim and Spencer’s Yet Unnamed Magic Project
Tim + Spencer’s Yet Unnamed Magic Project at 2014 Orlando Fringe Magician Spencer Hojdila and and mentalist Tim Hoffman have been so busy in the basement cooking up new illusions that they didn’t have time to come up with a decent title for Tim + Spencer’s Yet Unnamed Magic Project. Now these best friends are…
Orlando Fringe Review: Mark Twain’s ‘Is Shakespeare Dead?’
For the second consecutive year, Montreal’s Keir Cutler is offering one of the smartest, most thought-provoking shows at Fringe. Adapting the 1909 book Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain, Cutler – using Twain’s trademark intelligence and wit – makes the strongest argument possible that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon did not write the works credited to…
Orlando Fringe Review: Paisley Tippy-Toes
Paisley Tippy-Toes at the 2014 Orlando Fringe Paisley Tippy-Toes boasts perhaps the least informative show description in this year’s a Orlando Fringe program (“All ages welcome/For some colourful nonsense/With Paisley Tippy-Toes!”), so I was utterly unprepared for the oddity of this short assemblage of clowning, puppetry, and just plain bizarreness. It begins with a black&white…
Are Pixelbots the next step in animation?
Even though our movies and tv shows keep getting higher and higher definition as we move forward in time, there is still a cling to hold on to low def for a lot of people. Not just for nostalgia or to be contrarian, but it just doesn’t feel like we’ve gotten everything we could get…
Orlando Fringe Review: 20Nothing
20Nothing at the 2014 Orlando Fringe My 40th birthday arrives in August (no presents please, just send cash) which puts me at least 15 years outside the target demographic for 20Nothing, but that didn’t stop me from laughing out loud at the snarky satire on today’s much-disparaged generation of post-grads. Director Debra Christopher, who co-wrote…
Orlando Fringe review: House
Jon Paterson owns the audience from the moment he charges onto the stage in House. Magnetic, intense, more than a little scary, Paterson channels Victor, a frustrated group therapy patient – along with Victor’s wife, his mother, his boss, his co-workers and everyone in the group – in a bravura performance that has the audience breathing…
Orlando Fringe review: My Brooklyn Hamlet: A Meshugenah True Story
Brenda Adelman has a story to tell – and it is totally meshugenah, and it takes some serious chutzpah to tell it. In 1995, Adelman’s mother – a bohemian artist who liked to travel – was shot dead in her bedroom under mysterious circumstances. The only suspect was her auto mechanic father, a charming womanizer…
Orlando Fringe Review: Keith Brown Exchange
Keith Brown Exchange at 2014 Orlando Fringe Magician Keith Brown has spent over a dozen years of his young life practicing his prestidigitation skills, and that perseverance has paid off with lauded performances across Canada and Europe. He’s appearing at Orlando’s Fringe for the first time in Keith Brown Exchange, and has brought with him…
Orlando Fringe review: Shakespeare’s Histories
Photo by Tisse Mllon, via The subtitle of Shakespeare’s Histories is Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace, and truer words have never been spoken, or rather, rotundly orated ‘pon the boards. Clad in doublet, breeches and hose, Timothy Mooney goes HAM on the 10 history plays attributed to William Shakespeare (King John, Richard II, Henry…
Orlando Fringe Review: Which Side Are You On?
On Thursday, May 15, the air conditioning went out in Fringe’s Brown venue due to a crazy thunderstorm that blew through the neighborhood earlier in the day. Before we got our tickets for the show, we were told by someone at the venue that we’d be watching the production under the fluorescent lights because the…
Thank you, Internet: Cookie-flavored salad dressing and essays for Chipotle
It’s time to celebrate because Friday’s finally here and, even better? It’s a Fringe weekend! The day’s almost over, so we thought we’d help you kill these last few hours with some new Internet finds: via 1. California-based salad dressing company Saladshots has come up with something that sounds ridiculous, but could be totally delicious:…
Orlando Fringe Review: Marathon
Despite popular opinion, a reviewer goes into a show hoping — sometimes praying — it will be good. Walking out of stinker of a show, knowing you’re going to have to be honest with your readers, yet not wanting to crush the hearts of artists; it’s not fun. Still, a reviewer does go into it…
Location Matters: Reign of the Orlando Superchildren, Part 3 of 4
Location Matters is a series that reflects upon pieces of Orlando immortalized in popular film. Today, the third installment of a sub-series devoted to the 1980s Superboy program that was produced in our fair metropolis (view part one here and part two here). Superboy’s producers Alex and Ilya Salkind weren’t tied to much canon regarding the nascent Kryptonian they licensed…
Darden Restaurants is selling Red Lobster
via After laying off more employees at its headquarters earlier this week, Orlando-based Darden Restaurants announced today that they have sold Red Lobster to Golden Gate Capital for $2.1 billion. The seafood restaurant was Darden’s oldest segment, but, as of late, it was also the restaurant group’s worst performer. After taxes and transaction fees, Darden…
Orlando Fringe review: Punk Grandpa
“My grandpa taught me to trust my heart, despite the questions of others,” Laura Force Scruggs tells us toward the end of Punk Grandpa (don’t worry, that’s not a spoiler), her one-woman show about her beloved grandfather. Grandpa was a free-wheeling kind of guy, a joker, a prankster, the life of the party with only three…
I am Spartacus and so are you
In the final part of their Classic Film Series, Regal will be screening Stanley Kubrick’s sword and sandal and loincloth epic, Spartacus. Though it was an uphappy production for almost everyone involved, and ended the brief working relationship between Kirk Douglass and Kubrick, the film went on to win 4 Oscars and become a classic,…
Orlando Fringe Review: And Baby Makes 4
And Baby Makes 4 at the 2014 Orlando Fringe Tony (Davide Almeida) is a Southern self-schooled life coach who teaches titty bar dancers to trust. Charissa (Marcia Schwalm) is frustrated freelance writer from Puerto Rico. Allen (Todd Allen Long) is a Bostonian actor juggling part-time roles at three theme parks. The mutually amorous trio –…
Orlando Fringe Review: BARE: A Pop Opera
BARE: A Pop Opera at 2014 Orlando Fringe BARE: A Pop Opera tells the story of Jason (Tony Flaherty), a student at a Catholic boarding school who is struggling with his sexual identity; and his BMOC boyfriend, Jason (Alexander Browne), who recklessly reveals their secret affair, despite fear of retribution from his absent father. When…
Orlando Fringe Review: The Greatest Musical Never Written by Two Nobodies
It says something about the quality of a show’s performers when they can do a staged reading – and singing – of absolutely nothing for 45 minutes and still produce better entertainment than about half the other shows in Fringe. Yet that’s exactly what Orlando stage veteran Kevin Kelly and Fringe newcomer Noel-Marie Berkofsky have…
Orlando Fringe Review: A Brief History of Beer
A Brief History of Beer at 2014 Orlando Fringe My first post-college job was as a tour guide at Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s brewery tour, where I was forced to wear a ridiculous red bow tie and came home nightly smelling of wort. After that experience I disavowed any interest in beer facts beyond its price…
This Little Underground: Matt Butcher & the Schoolyard Band @ BB, Conor Oberst @ The Beacham
This Little Underground is Orlando Weekly’s music column providing perspective, live reviews and news on the city’s music scene. Read the latest column here. (Matt Butcher & the Schoolyard Band at Backbooth / photo by James Dechert) Between the beloved, scene-making legacy of the Heathens and his accomplished solo work, Matt Butcher left…
Orlando Fringe Review: Genie and Audrey’s Dream Show
Genie and Audrey’s Dream Show at Orlando Fringe 2014 The 100-member chorus line has gone MIA, the spectacular fireworks display has fizzled, and guest star Lady Gaga filed a restraining order, leaving Genie Cartier and Audrey Spinazola all alone on stage. It’s a true actor’s nightmare, but the show that this genial pair produces in…
OTOWN TV is now available on Amazon Fire TV
via Looks like Orlando is the place for digitally-streaming television content. First there was the announcement of Hulu’s upcoming series Hotwives of Orlando. Now, Amazon Fire TV is hopping on the O-Town train by picking up OTOWN TV. Amazon Fire TV is similar to Google’s Chromecast device: a super-small box that connects to your television that…
Iconic illustrator Alexander Heir’s punk flyers gathered in limited photo book
Alexander Heir may not be a household name, but neither are the majority of underground bands whose flyers, 7-inches and physical persons are colored by the notable illustrator’s works. Perhaps best known for his clothing line Death/Traitors (worn by punks and hip-hop heads alike), Heir’s dark arts have been around for 50 years, and Sacred…
The Offspring perform ‘Smash’ in its entirety at Cape Canaveral’s Exploration Tower
The Offspring dominated alt rock radio in the mid- to late ’90s after their 1994 release Smash unleashed mega singles like “Come Out and Play” and “Self Esteem.” Unlike certain bands from that era that faded away after achieving major hits (Gin Blossoms, the Spin Doctors), the Offspring’s offering reached a different plain and has…
Orlando Fringe Review: Deranged Dating
Deranged Dating at 2014 Orlando Fringe Deranged Dating, the one-woman comedy from award-winning South African writer/performer/stuntwoman Shirley Kirchmann, reinforces the adage “wherever you go, there you are” by demonstrating that dating is equally awful no mater which side of the Earth you are on. At age 35 and perpetually single, Kirchmann recounts her humorously…
Three ninjas apprehended mid-break-in at Orlando home
Make your own Mori Tanaka joke: failed ninjas Bower Jr., Contreras and Perez. Photo via Orange County Corrections. Florida has been a hotbed of ninja activity in 2014, but Orlando sheriffs proved to be one step ahead of these mysterious warriors this week when they caught three feudal Japanese figures attempting to break into a…
What’s that creepy smell? Melvins are coming to the Fest 13
via That loud thud you heard yesterday was not an early arriving summer thunderstorm but the sound of jaws across Florida dropping when Gainesville’s The Fest 13 announced that the massively influential Melvins will be appearing at their blownout punk weekend this October. Melvins will join more than 250 bands at the Fest, including Descendents,…
Orlando Fringe Review: Spitting in the Face of the Devil
Spitting in the Face of the Devil at Orlando Fringe 2014 (photo by Daren Scott) Bob Brader begins his harrowing autobiographical show Spitting In The Face of the Devil by reciting the obituary of his father, an ex-Marine armored car guard from Allentown; then he tells you that he didn’t shed tear over his dad’s…
Orlando Fringe Review: Oyster Boy
Oyster Boy (photo courtesy Haste Theatre) Haste Theatre’s Oyster Boy, inspired by the Tim Burton stories, tells the mirthfully melancholy tale of Jim (Valena Compagnoni), a guileless gelato vendor who meets cute with a Alice (Anna Plasberg-Hill) along the seashore. Following a fishy wedding feast, she gives birth to a boy with a shellfish skull,…
Orlando Fringe Review: Return of the Skill Focus
The meaning of the word burlesque might surprise you. While it’s often associated today with simple stripping, it more accurately describes a form of comedy, parody or extravagant theatricality. The term comes from the Italian burla (a joke, lark or prank), and it wasn’t until the 20th century that striptease became a major part of…
Orlando Fringe Review: The All New Nashville Hurricane
After the preview performance of Chase Padgett’s The All New Nashville Hurricane at this year’s Orlando Fringe Festival, the artist announced that his Fringe performances are no longer a hobby – they’ve parlayed into a career for the singer/songwriter/storyteller, who blew audiences away with the 2010 premiere of 6 Guitars. The solo show, in which…
This Little Underground: Deer Tick, Langhorne Slim & the Law and Have Gun, Will Travel @ The Social
This Little Underground is Orlando Weekly’s music column providing perspective, live reviews and news on the city’s music scene. Read the latest column here. Clownin’ around: Photos from Deer Tick at the Social In both sound and following, Deer Tick (May 13, The Social) is getting bigger and bigger. Although committed to a roots aesthetic,…
Mills 50’s next street art project: beautifying Dumpsters
Submission from Chris Tobar Rodriguez for Mills 50’s Dumpster beautification project This just in from Mills 50’s email newsletter: The newest art project the main street district is embarking on is beautifying its Dumpsters and alleys. In conjunction with the city of Orlando, the new project will give 15 Dumpsters a makeover. MILLS 50 DUMPSTER…
Police Beat: Another Orlandoan shot in the ass after a drug inquiry
What appears to be another meaningless shooting in Orlando early this morning heralds a frightening echo from a month and a half back. Tracy Lumpkin Lawton, 45, said that she was standing on the sidewalk near Jernigan Avenue and West Anderson Street at around 3:30 a.m. today when a dark blue car pulled up. The…
Nighttime launches: where to watch ’em
via Tomorrow night at 8:08 p.m., you have the chance to see something breathtaking: a nighttime launch of a Delta IV rocket, which will be carrying GPS satellites for the U.S. Army. If you’ve never taken in a dark sky launch, you’re missing out on something pretty (literally) awesome. Yeah, we know the word “awesome” gets…
Minus5 Ice Bar on I-Drive is now open
30 frosty shots of Minus5 Ice Bar Earlier this year, we predicted a potential rumble on I-Drive. A new ice-bar chain, called Minus5 Ice Bar, announced that it would open a location at at Pointe Orlando and its concept was pretty much exactly the same as that of an established bar in the same area…
Orlando Fringe Review: Jem Rolls Off the Tongue
Jem Rolls Off The Tongue at 2014 Orlando Fringe Performance poet Jem Rolls has been in 93 Fringe Festivals, but Off The Tongue is his first time in Orlando…and it’s about time this gangly greying Brit graced our stage with his volcanic presence. He begins with an intriguingly spiritual verse equating the audience with an…
Orlando Fringe Review: Black Stockings
There’s no nudity in Dangerous Theatre’s production of Black Stockings, but there might as well be, as almost everything else is laid bare in this two-woman show about British prostitutes with painful pasts. Trish and the slightly older Donna work in a brothel in Manchester, England, criticizing their clients, pondering their promiscuity and, in endless…
Orlando fast-food workers plan first strike ever for tomorrow
Wow, so this is a thing. Across the country and world in 150 cities, underpaid workers for fast food chains are planning to walk out on May 15. And, for the first time in recorded history, Orlando will be joining in on the action. So, if you happen to be the type that eats your…
Orlando Fringe Review: Desperately Seeking the Exit
Desperately Seeking The Exit at 2014 Orlando Fringe. I’ve suffered my share of humiliations during my days in the theater, but nothing like the international evisceration experienced by Peter Michael Marino, the self-proclaimed actor/writer/director/homosexual behind the manic monologue Desperately Seeking The Exit. The show’s title is derived from a particularly devastating review of his ill-fated…
Theater review: Ghost the Musical
Ghost The Musical at Orlando’s Bob Carr With the new Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center scheduled to open this fall, the Fairwinds Broadway Across America series is taking its final bow this week at the Bob Carr, and while the venue will likely go unlamented by most, it deserves a better eulogy than Ghost The…
More on murals: Readers sound off
Letters to the editor
This Little Underground: Talib Kweli shoots next video in Orlando
Psych Night II, Froth, the People’s Temple, Michael Collins, Gloomwolf, Boogarins, Of Montreal
Our top five international Fringe picks
Orlando Fringe Fest 2014
Opening in Orlando: ‘Godzilla’ and ‘Million Dollar Arm’
Movies opening in Orlando theaters this week
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock’s lyrical battle with self-doubt
The sad sappy suckers sold out the Beacham two nights in a row
‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ is alluring but draining
Mesmerizing movie about long-lived vampires is itself too long
‘Nymphomaniac: Volume I and II’ are embarrassingly excessive
Lars von Trier’s Nymphomanic films are ambitious but pretentious
Fringe 2014: Meet the locals
Orlando Fringe Fest 2014
Rick Scott’s victory tour draws Democratic ire
Hollow stumping ignores failure to expand Medicaid and other middle-class interests
More confusion in Orange County charter power-grab
Commissioner Fred Brummer tries to break up his initiatives into more plausible bits
Prong keeps the genre of thinking man’s metal alive
Album review: Prong’s ‘Ruining Lives’
Stage in a suitcase
Four Fringe favorites who got their start in Orlando describe life on the Fringe Festival circuit
Drinking, Nightlife and Parties
Where to drink and party in Orlando this week
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) When the path ahead divides in two, I am hoping you can work some magic that will allow you to take both ways at once. If you do master this riddle, if you can creatively figure out how to split yourself without doing any harm, I have a strong suspicion that…
Blueprint honors ’90s hip-hop staple, the soul sample chop
The hip-hop artist identifies his five favorite soul songs to sample
Florida’s government is ready for a Millennial takeover
Give Me Your Money
Extract Juice and Tapas Bar exudes a feel-good vibe
A laid-back Hannibal Square juice bar with juicy cuisine to match
Savage Love
I’m a 21-year-old straight male, and I’m mildly autistic. This means that I have difficulty picking up on social cues. I’ve learned to manage my disability in most areas of my life, but I’ve recently become concerned about how it pertains to hooking up. My approach to hooking up is how I imagine most other…
The ABCS of Fringe
Orlando Fringe Fest 2014
No praise for Lily Allen’s ‘Sheezus’
Album review: Lily Allen’s ‘Sheezus’
Bar Exam: Stardust Video & Coffee
Stardust is prized by anyone looking for a quality buzz
Police Beat
Arsonist calls John Gotti his pal
PR’s Taco Palace College Park pushes open date to July
Plus three new places to drink beer and a new teashop
Brody Dalle’s ‘Diploid Love’ wears ache as a badge of honor
Album review: Brody Dalle’s ‘Diploid Love’
Orlando Fringe Review: Sperm Wars
Sperm Wars at the 2014 Orlando Fringe. File this one under “only at the Fringe”: Sperm Wars stars Jeff Leard — clad in a white body stocking, goth gauntlets, and not much else — acting out all the roles in an epic space opera occurring a long time ago in a reproductive system far, far…
The ‘conscious uncoupling’ apartment is the new mother-in-law suite
Does a “conscious uncoupling” apartment sound more enticing than a house with an income unit or mother-in-law suite? A real estate agent in Orlando apparently thinks so. In a recent posting on Craigslist, Weichert Realtor/Hallmark Properties posted that it had a “conscious uncoupling estate in historic Lake Ivanhoe neighborhood” for sale. The listing describes a…
Could Winter Park soon be home to a minor league baseball team?
via At a cost of roughly $30 million, Rollin College’s Alfond Stadium may soon be home to a minor league baseball team. The approval of the stadium renovations by the city commisioners on Monday brought the city one step closer to giving the Brevard County Manatees a permanent home in Winter Park. All that stands…
Orlando City Soccer murals are going up fast
Orlando City Soccer has revealed a new logo and to celebrate they are putting up seven murals around town. For more information, check out this piece the Bungalower did earlier today. The art will only be up temporarily as they feature a logo which makes them signs according to City of Orlando Code Enforcement. Read…
Orlando Fringe Review: There’s No Place Like Home
Whereas local playwright and audacious gadabout Michael Wanzie has spent the bulk of his career somewhere over the top (or, say, the rainbow), challenging viewers into sarcasm and camp with an hilariously ironic fist, there’s something about There’s No Place Like Home that signals a change of tone for Wanzie away from the obvious and…
Orlando City Soccer unveils its new crest
via Today, the Orlando City soccer club unveiled its new, streamlined club crest. The three-headed lion and any trace of red are gone from the new logo, which was designed by season ticket-holder David Brotherton. In its place will be a golden lion (with only one head!) on a royal purple background. The lion’s mane is…
Yes, watermelon has a skateboarding mascot, and he’s coming to Volusia County
The United States celebrates National Watermelon Day August 3 every year; luckily, if you live in or near Volusia County, you don’t have to endure that interminable wait, for they hold their own tribute to the juicy fruit this month. May 21 is Watermelon Day in the big V, and this year you’ll be able…
You Blew It! pays sweet tribute to Weezer’s ‘Blue Album’
via In perhaps the most fitting band-on-band moment of admiration, Orlando emo revivalists You Blew It! posted this sweet tribute to Weezer in honor of the 20th anniversary of The Blue Album (whatever, it’s technically called Weezer but I’ve never called it that, and I’ve spun that record alllllmost as much as Pinkerton). But there’s…
On the Fringe: All of our Fringe Fest 2014 reviews
A constantly updating list to access our Fringe Fest 2014 show reviews
Universal Orlando unleashes details of Diagon Alley’s Gringotts ride
Newly released concept art of the vehicles for Universal’s new Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts ride (image courtesy Universal Orlando) We’re still a few weeks away from seeing the interior of Diagon Alley in the flesh, but early this morning Universal Orlando unleashed a blast of hot new details on the Wizarding World…
A double dose of St. Vincent at the end of this year
via Critics rushed to gush over St. Vincent’s new release, her self-titled fourth studio album released at the end of February. But here in Orlando, if you’re hoping to see the new queen of abstract pop live, you can relax, because she’s coming to town on two separate tours at the end of 2014, with…
CRAVE Restaurant has closed
via With no apparent warning, CRAVE Restaurant near the Mall at Millennia has closed. The restaurant announced their closing last night: CRAVE Orlando is permanently closed for business. Thank you to all of our loyal fans and the Orlando community for all of your support. Please visit us in Coral Gables at Village of…
YOUR DAILY WEEKLY READER: Doctors feel good, Graysonghazi, Holy Santa Maria!
via The Independent SURPRISE! ALL THAT DEATH PANEL FEARMONGERING ABOUT A DOCTOR SHORTAGE WAS A LIE: “The headlines were ominous: Good luck finding a doctor under Obamacare. Not enough doctors for newly insured. Obamacare, doctor shortage could crash health system. Despite these dire predictions, the nation’s primary care system is handling the increased number of…
