Selection Reminder: The Tandoori Knights offer Indian garage rock tonight at Back Booth!
Sunday, Nov. 20 – The Tandoori Knights OK, we admit that we can’t look at the moniker of Canadian genius King Khan’s latest project without immediately picturing Bill Murray, scotch glass in hand, imploring that we “make it Suntory time.” (We don’t know why, either.) Like Murray, Arish Ahmad Khan, the frontman of a variety…
Sunday Film News Roundup — November 20th, 2011
I’ve been thinking a lot about film traditions lately. Maybe because of all of this talk about film being dead, maybe not. Maybe because I’d misheard and thought AMC would be showing Gone with the Wind all day on Thanksgiving instead of The Godfather and The Godfather II. I had a momentary spot of seething…
Two Part “Woody Allen: A Documentary” on PBS Sun/Mon, 9pm
Starting tomorrow night at 9pm, PBS’s American Masters will begin airing the two-part career spanning documentary on Woody Allen, aptly titled Woody Allen: A Documentary. The film runs about 3 1/2 hours, spread over Sunday and Monday nights, both beginning at 9pm. Directed by Robert Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm), it features interviews from Allen collaborators…
Selection Reminder: The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Party!
Saturday, Nov. 19 – The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Party The Legend of Zelda was the first of its kind – an action/adventure/role-playing/puzzle game all rolled into one. Link explores Overworld, that is, the big outdoor map he runs around on, as he searches for Princess Zelda, who, during the next 25 years, will…
Selection Reminder: Winter Park Harvest Festival!
Saturday, Nov. 19- Sunday, Nov. 20 Winter Park Harvest Festival As the final garnish for Slow Food Orlando’s Eat Local Week (read “Local heroes,” Oct. 6), this fest stirs the locavore pot with Saturday’s Harvest Conference with Slow Money founder Woody Tasch and a garden-side Farm to Table Dinner starring chefs from the Ravenous Pig…
Selection Reminder: Philip Glass’ Satyagraha!
Saturday, Nov. 19 – Satyagraha An opera about human dignity? It’s a bit of a departure for a genre littered with crazy women, dying women, dancing women, adulterous women and goddesses. But Philip Glass’ Satyagraha is part of his trilogy of operas about men who changed the world (the best-known one being Einstein on the…
Selection Reminder: Southern Culture on the Skids tonight at the Social!
Friday, Nov. 18 – Southern Culture on the Skids Never doubt Southern Culture on the Skids’ deep adoration for food and drink. The 26-year-old band blends rockabilly, punk, Americana, blues, surf and other genres into what lead singer-guitarist Rick Miller has called “toe-sucking geek rock.” Lyrically, the lighthearted act devotes most songs to depicting warts-and-all…
Selection Reminder: Jingle Eve at Ivanhoe Village Main Street!
Friday, Nov. 18 – Jingle Eve Picture Santa’s sleigh setting sail on a cruise around Lake Ivanhoe, as this year’s Jingle Eve in Ivanhoe Village hosts its inaugural holiday boat parade. On shore along Main Street, you’ll find costumed Christmas carolers, Nutcracker ballerinas en pointe, wine tasting, seasonal munchies, live music concerts and, of course,…
Selection Reminder: Florida Classic Battle of the Bands!
Friday, Nov. 18 – Florida Classic Battle of the Bands It’s not that we don’t love college football (despite the Jo Pa drama, mind you). And it’s not that we don’t totally respect the more than 30-year rivalry between the Classic’s two opposing teams – Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman University. It’s the way that certain…
Selection Reminder: Southern Pinball Festival in Maitland!
Friday, Nov. 18 – Southern Pinball Festival Here’s why we love pinball: You don’t have to be a pinball wizard to appreciate a decrepit, finicky old pinball machine with a dusty lightbox and a sticky flipper. There are no cheats to look up online to help you get ahead in the game. You don’t need…
Photo Gallery: ICE! featuring “Shrek the Halls” at Gaylord Palms
For transplanted Northerners like myself, it’s hard to get in the seasonal spirit with daytime highs still in the low 80’s.This weekend, the ginormous Gaylord Palms resort opens the latest edition of ICE!, a sure-fire — or sure-frozen — way to lower your core temperature in time for Christmas. Each holiday season since 2003, the…
Beth Marshall is Matt Dillon’s bestie!!
…in an upcoming film, Sunlight Jr. Marshall plays Molly, “a middle-aged, scraggy-haired woman with missing teeth and a surprisingly chipper attitude; she’s either drunk or retarded.” (Way to go, I guess? JK!) IMDb synopsizes Sunlight Jr. thusly: “A Florida couple deals with an unexpected pregnancy while holding minimum wage jobs” and also as “a love…
Selection Reminder: D.L. Hughley at the 102 Jamz Comedy Jam 3!
Thursday, Nov. 17 – D.L. Hughley Some still know this smart, irreverent comic from his late-’90s UPN sitcom, The Hughleys, but we’ll forever associate D.L. Hughley, happily, with Simon Styles, his character on the short-lived Aaron Sorkin series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. As Simon, the classy, stabilizing leg of the Big Three trio…
The Franco-file
Echoes of Paris can be found in Orlando, if you know where to look
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe’s great oil paintings, you’ll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. Why? To me, the enclosure is distracting and unnecessary. Why can’t I just enjoy the arresting composition on the naked canvas,…
Happytown
The week we weathered Gov. Rick Scott’s terrible foray into teaching Immokalee kids about owl pellets and farming … before getting lost in the gay crossfire of a mayoral bitchfest over a benefits ordinance. Floridian pride overload!
Live Active Cultures
Seth wends his way through the Orlando’s weird side
Occupying Democracy
We the People, not We the Corporations
Preoccupied with nothing
Occupy Orlando needs to adopt goals, or else it will self-destruct
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Orlando Calling
Euclidean space
Bitch Magnet get the reissue treatment, shining a light on Chapel Hill as an early college-rock hub
The We’re Sunk Index
How quickly is Florida sinking into the ocean this week?
Forgoing the distance
Buzz-heavy indie romance doesn’t just miss the mark; it swerves to avoid it
Culture 2 Go
Twelve21 Gallery hosts auction to benefit Japanese tsunami and earthquake survivors
Newborn reflexes
Brooklyn rock duo Boom Chick may be young but they channel some distinguished Delta sounds
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
The family circus
Two shows at Cornell posit new theories of relativity
Savage Love
I’m 21 years old and in a monogamous relationship.
O’Keefe crony is no Saint — or is he?
In case you haven’t noticed, yet another controversy has begun to swirl around James O’Keefe, the insufferably smug little video terrorist and protégé of Andrew Breitbart whose fraudulent acts of “citizen journalism” delivered the death blow to ACORN. This time, it’s some of his accomplices who are giving O’Keefe the public stink eye: Two co-conspirators…
Orlando Calling in Brief, in Pictures.
Stage sights from the lens of photographer Christopher Garcia. Iron & Wine: Kid Cudi: The Avett Brothers: The Felice Brothers: The Pixies: The Raconteurs:
Underrated: The World of Henry Orient – George Roy Hill (1964)
I’m an absolute sucker for a good stalker comedy. Whether it be Amelie, Punch Drunk Love or Hana and Alice, there is just something so wonderfully off about them that it makes me happy. Just knowing that the stalkers are harmless and generally good-natured takes entirely all of the creepiness out of what, in reality,…
Video and Photo Flashback: Veterans Day Parade at Universal Studios Florida
When you are inside the hermetically-sealed entertainment bubbles that are Orlando’s theme parks, it’s easy forget that there’s a real world outside, where American troops are still at war. Universal Orlando did it’s part to pierce that reality distortion field late last week, at least for a few minutes, with a brief but touching Veterans…
Selection Reminder: Minneapolis band Peter Wolf Crier tonight at the Social!
Tuesday, Nov. 15 – Peter Wolf Crier Yes, Norwegian indie darling Sondre Lerche is indeed headlining, and that’s cool. But we seriously think you’re going to kick yourself if you don’t show up early enough to catch Minneapolis band Peter Wolf Crier. And we don’t want you to do that. For one thing, their finespun…
