This will not be the next cover of Orlando Weekly
… but one of these gorgeous models will be our cover model. From left to right: Stephanie Lister, Josh Holbrook, Joseph Grey and Refmann Ly. Photo by Aldrin Capulong.
Bay Area guitar-and-drums duo Black Cobra headline Will’s Pub
Tuesday, May 29 – Black Cobra with Gaza 8 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-5070 willspub.org $10 This Bay Area guitar-and-drums duo is one of those bands whose reputation and name recognition simply aren’t as aligned as they should be. Despite being consistently and enthusiastically cited by the smartest tastemakers in heavy-music circles,…
Sunday Film News Roundup — May 27th, 2012
A little bit of a late start this morning, as I wait for the Palme d’Or to be announced. Cannes has become a weird entity lately, as Twitter and blogging have become so prevalent. You feel like you were there, experiencing it, hearing the gossip and the stories about the rain and the green grocers. The…
Gay Days kicks off on Tuesday, May 29
Tuesday, May 29 – Gay Days through June 4 Doubletree Orlando at SeaWorld 10100 International Drive 407-896-8431 gaydays.com various prices Did you know that bears have wings? Well, at this year’s annual pink Gay Days consumerist bacchanalia blackout (all doused in redshirts and Caligula oils), host hotel, the Doubletree at SeaWorld, is offering the hilarious…
16th Annual Crawfish Festival moves to Heritage Square
Sunday, May 27 – 16th Annual Crawfish Festival 2-10 p.m. Heritage Square South Magnolia Avenue and East Central Boulevard thecrawfishparty.com $30-$100, $5 for crawfish They don’t call them Ragin’ Cajuns for nothing: Although not all of Louisiana’s natives resemble Swamp People, those born on the bayou (including this writer) are a spicy bunch, and they…
Apparitioners tonight at Will’s Pub
Saturday, May 26 – Apparitioners with Roadkill Ghost Choir, Heather Lee & Jordan Wynn (with band) 8 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-5070 willspub.org $5 We speak from experience when we say there isn’t a less rock & roll mind space than the birth of a baby girl. The daddy-daughter bond is historically…
Fringe review: Mysterious Skin
Swimming against the Fringe tide of fun-‘n’-games, Mysterious Skin is a tidily put-together production of a play about falling apart. You may hear gusts of raucous laughter drifting in from other venues, but during Skin’s 90-minute runtime, the Orange Venue is a roiling cauldron of emotional messiness. OK, it’s not all desperate — intense as…
Everybody Sighs: House, Seinfeld, Married with Children and Tony Soprano (Spoilers)
I hadn’t planned on writing anything about the finale of House that aired Monday night to mixed reviews. For one thing, I didn’t watch it until later that night because I was watching hockey. Also true is that, despite an apparently changing wind that has stirred everyone but me, I don’t really like TV. No,…
Fringe Review: Dog Powered Robot and the Subsequent Adventure
In 2010, Dog Powered Robot was but a three-minute diversion in a group show called the Creative Mind Experiment, in which multiple artists each gave brief performances inspired by the same song. Evan Miga, proprietor of downtown Orlando marketing and design firm Miga Me, created the gag act to break up the monotony of the…
Joseph Hayes’ House Theater Project to be staged this weekend
Saturday-Sunday, May 26-27 – House Theater Project: A Little Crazy 8 p.m. Saturday 2 p.m. Sunday through June 3 housetheaterproject.com free, visit website for location and details United Arts of Central Florida makes annual grants to local artists who “strengthen artistic excellence” in Central Florida. In 2012, local playwright (and former OW dining critic) Joseph…
Make some noise: Music at Orlando Mini Maker Faire Saturday, May 26
In addition to the heavy stack of great shows listed for Saturday alone in this week’s Notable Noise (John Prine! Apparitioners! uh … Kenny Loggins!), if you’re at the Central Florida Fairgrounds for Orlando Mini Maker Faire (see this week’s cover story), you can catch this 5pm show featuring Bulky Acronym, Suitcase of Sound, Doctor Moonstien,…
Fringe review: On the Nose
I’ve never understood why some people are so afraid of clowns. Why harbor a phobia of something that’s meant to convey laughter and joy? Why not dread something genuinely threatening, like intimacy or Mandy Patinkin? This is among the subjects covered in On the Nose, a delightful and fascinating hour of education in all things clown.…
Fringe review: Strange Dreamz
This past Saturday night, I missed Kevin J. Thornton’s 10:45 show, Strange Dreamz, by a scant three minutes. The gate was shut and they wouldn’t let me in. No amount of beseeching managed to move the door lady — they run a very tight ship at this year’s Fringe. OK, I thought, it’s been a…
Fringe review: Connected — An Interactive Experience
According to the group’s website, Connected — An Interactive Experience purports to be a “theatrical experience that combines drama, choreography and technology to connect with performers on stage, with one another and to the deepest parts of themselves.” It’s a lofty ambition. But while these earnest young dancers and performers have a great deal of…
Fringe review: Annie Todd, the Demon Orphan of Fleet Street
Writers David Strauss and Nicole Carson have conflated two mega-musicals from the Broadway pantheon — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Annie — and have come up with a hybrid: Annie Todd: The Demon Orphan of Fleet Street. Contrasting Sweeney’s dark negativity with Annie’s sunny optimism is a clever conceit, but the show doesn’t have quite…
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This Week’s Top 25 at Park Ave CDs [May 14 – May 20]
Not much of a surprise to see Beach House’s new one at #1 (and their last one at #22), but I gotta say, Radiohead’s In Rainbows is still selling? Who in Orlando that wants this record doesn’t have it already? Apparently the answer is: A lot of people. But still … come on you guys.…
Spooky Empire’s May-Hem takes over Wyndham Orlando Resort
Friday, May 25 – Spooky Empire’s May-Hem with Linda Hamilton, John Astin, Ace Frehley, Joey Lauren Adams, Vivica A. Fox, Monica Keena and more through May 27 Wyndham Orlando Resort 8001 International Drive 888-690-4695 spookyempire.com $30-$35 (day pass); $50 (weekend pass); $199 (VIP) Is it even possible to label a horror gathering a “breath of…
Gov. Rick Scott goes to Spain, embarrasses us all
The Palm Beach Post is reporting tonight that Gov. Rick Scott is not only a big, old joke right here in his home state of Florida – he’s also killing them in Spain, where he’s become fodder for Spanish TV stations that are ridiculing him for meeting Spain’s King Juan Carlos and bringing up the…
Opening in Orlando — May 24th and 25th, 2012
Chernobyl Diaries — Oren Peli, the visionary huckster behind the Paranormal Activity franchise, turns his attention to the 1986 Russian nuclear disaster. Expect a damning critique of the international big-energy conspiracy that has all but swept the incident under the rug, plus a lot of creaky doors being opened and closed by fishing wire. (R) (opens…
Fringe review: Dirk Darrow: NCSSI (Not Completely Serious Supernatural Investigator)
Despite its title, Dirk Darrow: NCSSI (Not Completely Serious Supernatural Investigator) is not a spoof of the entire CBS primetime schedule. Instead, it’s an hour of film noir led by a good, old-fashioned private dick — one with a sharp tongue and a head full of wonders. Our man Dirk claims to be hot on the…
Southern rock revivalists Lucero head to the Beacham tonight
Thursday, May 24 – Lucero with Soul Rebels, Bartender Brian 8 p.m. The Beacham 46 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thebeacham.com $15-$30 It’s a shame that Lucero are playing the Beacham rather than an intimate venue with cheaper libations, because new album Women & Work marks the Southern rock revivalists’ evolution from genre-bending country punks to…
Spend an Evening With Wet Brain tonight at Paradise
Thursday, May 24 – Spend an Evening With Wet Brain: Austin James Opening with Sexcapades, Yogurt Smoothness, the Areolas 8 p.m. Paradise 1300 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-0090 free Paradise, the spring-green complex of gay fun and cheap drinks perched across the street from the Peacock Room, may seem an odd choice for an art opening.…
Happytown
Nothing warms our hearts quite like an outdated political scandal involving queer speculation and bribery; it’s the same sort of joy we experience when you get your chocolate in our peanut butter while we’re upside down in a time machine, and it gives us the perfect opportunity to mock both the political shame system and…
Flame Kabob
Flame Kabob 7536 Dr. Phillips Blvd.407-248-2280$$ It’s been called the “Spice Café” and the “Afghan Spice Café,” but for the first time in a decade, this corner space in the Dr. Phillips Marketplace is dropping the “Spice Café” appellation in the hopes of picking up a more loyal clientele. Flame Kabob, in case the name…
The Smoothie Room
Health-focused SoDo spot offers fresh juices and smoothies in an art-filled hangout
Savage Love
I’m a 17-year-old girl and, in most aspects, I’m confident with myself, my identity and my body
Rough Draught
Tap and Grind
Album reviews
The Cult’s Choice of Weapon, El-P’s Cancer for Cure and William Beckett’s Walk the Talk EP
The Are We Sunk? Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “My soul is a fire that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four cubic feet of new ideas every day, as a steamboat needs coal.” Your soul may not be quite as blazing…
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Ashley Dudukovich of Chasing Jonah
First Position
A fascinating ballet doc explores the sacrificial and the spiritual of all-or-nothing competition
Orlando Mini Maker Faire
Driven by curiosity and the desire to educate, Orlando’s makers show off their skills May 26
Live Active Cultures
The voice-over artist will appear at Florida Anime Experience 2012, May 25-27
Maakies
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This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Jane’s Addiction, the Duke Spirit, Heartless Bastards and more
Maps and Atlases
Charting a new course
The Bar Tab
Though they’ve been open since September of last year – and therefore aren’t exactly new – Bombshell’s Tavern (formerly the dingy biker bar Junkyard Saloon at 5405 Edgewater Drive) has recently been doing the entertainment equivalent of throwing spaghetti at the wall. Drag shows, rockabilly burlesque, metal shows, hip-hop DJs – there’s no telling what the…
Fringe Festival review: Dance for Grandma
Scott Whittemore balances wistful remembrance with up-to-the-moment snark
Semi-pro
Through thick and thin, Austin’s Coffee’s open mic nights carry a lovely tune
Fringe Festival review: Fosgate, Ferret Loan Officer
This fantastically sly and amusing play is a universal pleasure – for children of all ages
Fringe Festival review: Cannibal the Musical
Trey Parker’s turd of a cannibalism tale is brilliantly polished by Logan Donahoo and company
On Sale This Week: Carrie Underwood!
On Sale: Thursday, May 24 Carrie Underwood 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21 Amway Center 400 W. Church St. 800-745-3000 amwaycenter.com $44-$64 Down the road: Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, June 2 at Raymond James Stadium Beartrap, June 3 at Will’s Pub Two Door Cinema Club, June 4 at The Beacham Bon Iver, June 5…
Fringe Review: I’m Saving It For Paul
In Orlando playwright Nichole Carson’s genially raunchy original comedy I’m Saving It For Paul, the year is 1964 and Martha (Robyn Scrivener) is the last 19-year-old virgin left in Atlantic City. Engaged to be married in three weeks, she doesn’t want her hothead fiancee (Anthony R. Smith) to be her first. Instead, she enlists madame…
Fringe review: My Three Moms
A few days ago, I was accosted by a Fringe patron I’ve never seen before. She wanted to know what’s good this year; I mentioned (among other things) Dance for Grandma, explaining that it revolves around a young man’s memories of his dearly departed nana. She leaned in conspiratorially and chuckled. “Doesn’t it make you wonder…
Fringe Review: Sport 3rd Strike
PB&J Theater Factory’s Sport is back for a 3rd Strike in the same Fringe venue where they began in 2006, and as always (to badly bungle a sports metaphor) they are bowling .1000 with my funnybone. Once again, these five fine physical comics engage in absurd atheltics including synchronized swimming in boxer shorts, daiper dodgeball,…
Fringe review: Ride
One of the rewards of regular Fringe-going is the chance to see promising teen performers introduce themselves to the community. Watching them work, you think of all the rituals of local theater they’ve yet to experience. They’ve never written on the backstage wall at Theatre Downtown, or seen their names misspelled on Ink 19. All…
Food Network filming Big Wheel food truck tonight at Lake Lily
As if you needed another reason to visit Big Wheel tonight besides their atomic fries (et cetera), the lure of possible TV fame beckons. Food Network UK is in town filming some of our fabulous local food trucks — Fish Out Of Water, Twisted Cuban and Big Wheel — and tonight they will be shooting…
Drink Events
Beer festivals, wine tastings, pub crawls and more – find a reason to drink this week.
Florida League kicks off 2012 summer baseball season
Now in its ninth season, the Florida Collegiate Summer League, Central Florida’s wood bat college baseball league, once again invites a talented roster of players from all over the country, including several from Central Florida-based colleges – Rollins College, Seminole State College, Stetson University and University of Central Florida. The Florida League stands among seven…
Fringe review: Ménage à Prov
Just about every Fringe features an improv show by moonlighting SAKtors. This year’s Ménage à Prov gives us three of them — or actually five, since two understudies have been retained to fill in for members of the main trio at certain performances. SAK patrons have long since come to know Darren Vierday as a smart…
Fringe review: I Married a Nun
I Married a Nun is D’yan Forest’s uninhibited reminiscence of her 25-year lesbian affair with an ex-Carmelite novitiate, interspersed with a musical travelogue detailing her visits to various sex shows, group gropes and carnal exhibitions in the demimonde of past and present Paris. Some of Forest’s remembrances are touching, some are shocking and some are…
16-year-old Orlando producer XXYYXX hooks up with Giraffage, remixes now out on Kitsuné
Orlando’s own 16-year-old electro wunderkind XXYYXX has been getting quite a bit of attention for his druggy, hip-hop-inspired take on glitchy future-electronica. One of his most recent collaborations was with San Francisco’s Giraffage, and the track that made it out – “Even Though” – is on the brand-new Kitsuné America compilation. But there’s a remix EP…
Fringe review: The Sparrow and the Mouse
I’m familiar with the music of Edith Piaf, the diminutive, heart-rending French songstress who rocketed to international fame after a long apprenticeship singing in the streets of Paris. And as a former street performer myself, I have always felt a kinship with anyone who has ever endeavored to make a living by passing the hat…
