Garbo’s Daughter covers Lou Christie
Everybody’s favorite local cutie, Mandy Mullins of Garbo’s Daughter, has recently released a new 7″ on Italy’s Surfin’ Ki Records. Throughout the three songs on “Spin & Melt,” Garbo’s Daughter brings addictive 50’s pop with cutesy punk flair. But most notably, they do a bangin’ cover of Lou Christie’s “2 Faces Have I.” Hear it…
Hard Rock memorabilia tour, the blog.
Real quick before you head out for Memorial Day barbecue and forced smiles through gritted teeth: You’ve gotta see the tour blog for this Hard Rock memorabilia tour that we told you about in a recent cover story. More musical artifact photos than you can shake a stick at. Like this one of Prince’s Lovesexy…
Selection Reminder: Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp tonight at Timucua White House!
Monday, May 30 – Matthew Shipp “Inflammatory.” “Opinionated.” “Controversial.” A lot of times, these are substitute words for “asshole,” and there are plenty of people in the jazz world who would use that last word to describe Matthew Shipp — people like venerated critic Stanley Crouch (Shipp called him an “Uncle Tom”) or jazz legends…
Sunday Film News Round Up: May 29, 2011
We’re already a few weeks into the summer movie season and we’re at the point where it is momentarily shifting away from the action blockbusters like Pirates 4 and Thor to the big, dumb comedy (I mean this in the best possible sense) this weekend, with The Hangover II and Kung Fu Panda II, on…
Selection Reminder: Afro-punk band the Memorials tonight at Back Booth!
Sunday, May 29 – the Memorials Immediately after exiting his post keeping time for the Mars Volta in late 2009, decorated drumming wunderkind Thomas Pridgen (who, at age 10, was the youngest player to be sponsored by Zildjian) turned right around and formed the Memorials. Made up entirely of former students from the Berklee College…
Orlando Fringe soapbox: How soon is early?
The more years I attend the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, the more I realize that putting on a successful show there is like being a Boy Scout, or an abstinence advocate on prom night: You gotta be prepared. I was thinking this last night during the wonderful My Monster, as I listened to Philip…
New Track from Saskatchewan
Local band Saskatchewan has recently released a new track entitled “Dreamboat” that is worthy of your ears. While they have received a lot of blog buzz over their “Nice Daze” digital 7″, their new single is a bit more promising. It showcases the groups upbeat pop sensibilities juxtaposing the slow ambience of their last release.…
Selection Reminder: Lady Lazarus tonight at Stardust Video & Coffee!
Saturday, May 28 – Lady Lazarus Equal parts chaos and reassurance, Savannah, Ga.’s Lady Lazarus lets her piano set an apocalyptic mood – all syncopated madness and shore-crashing finality – while her knowing, gentle voice calms things just enough for some simple truth to break through. I first listened to the low-key singer’s music while in the…
Mills 50 commissions local artists to paint utility boxes
Orlando’s Mills 50 District – otherwise known as the business district surrounding the intersection of Mills Avenue and Colonial Drive/Route 50 – is known for its bars, clubs and local restaurants. Now it can be noted as a street gallery of sorts for local, upcoming artists. Selected local artists have transformed the transportation utility engineering…
Summer fun: The Daily City Food Truck Bazaars at Parliament House planned for June, July, August
Details are still being worked out, but sources from the Parliament House (and their calendar!) confirm a summer series of The Daily City Food Truck Bazaars, scheduled from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday June 26, July 24 and Aug. 28. I’ll find out more about the event later today — fingers crossed — like which…
Selection Reminder: Face to Face tonight at House of Blues!
Friday, May 27 – Face to Face 1999’s Ignorance is Bliss aside, Face to Face’s bread and butter has always been, well, bread-and-butter ’90s skate punk. Pulp all those early Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph releases into one concoction and the result’s bound to sound like Trever Keith and company. This Californian band’s hooks are…
Pop-Culture Fan Convention Triple-Header This Weekend
The 20th Annual Orlando International Fringe Festival wraps up this weekend, which means I’ll be spending the next few days with the usual assortment of foul-mouthed drag queens and sex-obsessed monologians. But if you are looking for a different sort of freaks to hang out with for Memorial Day, there are three major pop-culture conventions…
Selection Reminder: Title Fight tonight at Will’s Pub!
Friday, May 27 – Title Fight Punk fans, rejoice: All of you who never saw this Kingston, Pa., band coming, and some of you who did (or claim it), can have it out in front of the actual group tonight. Ever since Title Fight, a remarkably earnest, furiously pounding punk act, released their Side One…
Busch Gardens’ Cheetah Hunt Previews to the Media (Sorta)
You ever have one of those days? You know, the kind of day where you drive all the way to Tampa (at $3.70 a gallon, not an inexpensive outing) to experience a brand-new rollercoaster, only to find out that the ride is broken down? And then you film some great interviews with the park President and…
New food truck in Orlando: Mexican BBQ Taco Box (yes, you read that right)
As I write this, I’ve just finished an excellent spicy pork taco from a yellow truck with a red-and-white banner, parked in the Citgo lot at Primrose and Colonial: the Mexican BBQ Taco Box. That’s right … the MEXICAN BBQ Taco Box. I can only guess that “taco box” is some kind of generic food…
Best OPD email of the night: Nobody’s dead, OK? UPDATE: A transplant surgeon is dead
OK, so we’re watching our email blotter tonight like we always do, and in comes this little number surrounding tonight’s shooting at Florida Hospital. At 5:10 pm 5.26.11 Orlando Police responded reference a shooting incident at the parking garage off of Rollins Ave adjacent to Florida hospital. 2 shooting victims were located and transported to…
Birdlips Tonight at Stardust
Charlotesville, VA chill-psych band Birdlips will be performing with Garbo’s Daughter and Danny Leggett tonight at Stardust Video & Coffee. Birdlips’ latest effort “One Tongue” traverses the stylistic streets of light moroccan tropicalia with the lucid mindset of Jefferson Airplane and possibly Air. The duo of Lindsay Pitts and Cliff Usher blend their voices together…
UCF board votes to take over PBS broadcasting
This afternoon, the UCF Board of Trustees voted in favor of taking on the responsibility of becoming Central Florida’s newest flagship PBS station. The school’s WUCF TV would pick up broadcasting PBS programming beginning July 1, immediately after WMFE, the current PBS station in the region, passes its license on to Christian broadcasting company Community…
HBO Reminder: How to Die in Oregon, tonight @ 8pm
Just a quick reminder that tonight on HBO is the premiere of Peter Richardson’s How to Die in Oregon, the Grand Jury Prize for Documentaries winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film is about Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act”, which allows for doctor assisted suicide for termanally ill patients in the state, and…
Food not Bombs violates city feeding ordinance (for real this time), police do nothing, city says nothing
If you’ve read Happytown this week, you know that Food Not Bombs, a politically charged group that serves vegetarian food to the homeless every Wednesday evening and Monday morning, announced on May 18 that they would purposefully risk arrest by feeding the homeless at Lake Eola Park in violation of the city’s newly reinstated group…
Terrace 390 is a spiffed-up, gimmicky sports bar
Restaurant should shed the suit and tie, embrace the jersey and flip-flops
PBS R.I.P.?
As WMFE prepares to sell out to a religious broadcaster, the community wonders what’s next for public television in Orlando
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Weaseling out of things is important to learn,” said cartoon anti-hero Homer Simpson. “It’s what separates us from the animals – except the weasel.” I normally don’t share that sentiment. My standard advice is to face up to challenging situations and take responsibility for the part you played in creating them.…
But enough about me
First-person journeys through the absurd, the tiny, the troubled and surreal
Get your old man on
Raekwon finds new success by sticking to what always worked
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry
Skits, sketches, bitches, Newfies, princesses and Abe Lincoln
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Daydream Nation
Kat Dennings does her career no favors in derivative drama
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
The Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
The Kids in the Hall subvert both comedy and narrative
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: A Brilliant Lie’s Tara Lightfoot
Freaks and geeks
Growing up is hard to do in these monologues and musicals
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on the Bright Light Social Hour, Kris Kristofferson, the Love Language, Fake Problems and more
Savage Love
I am a bi woman happily married to a straight man, and we both “participate” in hot sexy times with other women during threesomes.
Happytown
Welcome to the Great Suppression! Maybe you’ve been going about your Floridian lawn-chair life just staring at the throbbing starburst on the inside of your eyelids – you know, the one that comes from looking up at the glorious sun – comfortably bathed in apathy, with an SPF of 150, that smells of crime and…
Winter Park quietly slips $250,000 into Club Harem’s panties in secret settlement!
Well, isn’t this interesting. If you’ve followed this publication (and its fascination with breasts and city politics) for any amount of time, you’ll be well aware of the seemingly endless battle between the city of Winter Park and its one and only adult-entertainment pagoda, Club Harem – a property formerly known as “The Booby Trap”…
Geraldo Rivera’s booshy moostache arrives in Orlando
… also Geraldo Rivera. He promised last month to “raise some hell” so HOLD ON TO YOUR DEPRESSION-ERA VAULTS, people! Remember when he called Casey a “selfish, self-involved dimwit”? Pot, meet kettle!
Scenes from the Green Lawn
One week into it, Fringe’s Green Lawn of Fabulousness is actually a bit more of a trampled brown than green. But when we arrived last night to take in the scene, everyone was indulging in its Fabulousness all the same. Brian Feldman’s one-night-only Root Beer Tent was a popular hangout – well, for some of…
Blu Dude coming soon.
I wish I could count myself among you Dude-abiding Big Lebowski worshippers, but I can’t. It’s a fine movie, but that’s not enough for a lot of people and I respect that but I can’t change my feelings. Anyway, thought some of you would appreciate the just-announced specs for the Big Lebowski Limited Blu-ray edition…
BASKETCASEY! Breaking: Casey Anthony crying, shaking head…
Good morning! Well, at least it is for you. If you’re one Casey Anthony, dowdily dressed in something resembling a pajama top with just one button too many undone, you’re sitting at the Orange County Courthouse having things like, “2008: You were AT YOUR BOYFRIEND’S WHILE YOUR BABY WAS DEAD,” shouted at you by a…
