Photo Gallery: Grand Opening of Winter Garden’s “Theme Park Connection”
If you are half as big a Walt Disney fan as I am (also known as a “Disnerd”) you probably have a house full of Mouse-related posters, toys, and ephemera lying around. Or maybe you’ve always dreamed of owning an actual piece of the magic, like an authentic attraction costume or decommissioned ride vehicle. In…
Sunday Film News Roundup — December 4th, 2011
I woke up with a pretty bad sore throat this morning, so just a quick bit before I go back to bed. I must ask: HOW THE HELL DID THIS TAKE A YEAR AND HALF TO BE FOUND? Grantland came up with a link to the full original Karate Kid, shot on video tape with its original…
Photo Gallery: Book release party for Liz Langley’s “Crazy Little Thing” at SIP
I’ve had a crazy week of unexpected cross-country travel, which is why you won’t be seeing my Live Active Cultures column in the next edition of the Orlando Weekly. (Worry not, I’ll be back the following week.) But I made sure to make a brief stop home in time to celebrate the release of Liz…
Selection Reminder: Riot Grrrl Poster Art Show!
Saturday, Dec. 3 – Riot Grrrl Poster Art Show Not going to Art Basel this weekend? Don’t worry – you don’t need to drive to Miami to see what’s happening on the cutting edge of the art world. In fact, Mother Falcon is hosting an art show featuring the work of some of Orlando’s edgiest…
Selection Reminder: Florida Opera Theatre’s The Medium!
Saturday, Dec. 3-Sunday, Dec. 4 – The Medium In 2011, the centennial of his birth, American composer Gian Carlo Menotti is getting a lot of love. Morning Edition commentator Miles Hoffman even called him “one of the greatest composers of the 20th century,” but in his day he was sniffed at by the critics as…
Selection Reminder: Lure Design’s HoHoHo Down!
Saturday, Dec. 3 – HoHoHo Down Lure Design’s annual holiday sale is a relaxed affair: There’ll be drinks and snacks of some sort (possibly barbecue! Possibly booze!), there’ll be music (could be a DJ, or just the Lure crew’s studio playlist), there will probably be a free screen-pulling workshop (everyone who participates takes home a…
Selection Reminder: Cracker Christmas!
Saturday, Dec. 3-Sunday, Dec. 4 – Cracker Christmas Let’s get this out of the way: Cracker Christmas, the county’s post- Civil-War-themed festival held at Fort Christmas, is not named after a racial slur. The term “cracker,” at least from a Florida historian’s perspective, refers to the cowboys who patrolled the lawless Florida of the late…
Selection Reminder: L.A. Guns!
Saturday, Dec. 3 – L.A. Guns L.A. Guns’ greatest claim to fame exists as an answer to a trivia question – What band merged with Hollywood Rose in 1985 to form Guns N’ Roses? – but even though its players parted ways with Axl and Co. decades ago, the hard-rock act’s history has been inundated…
Universal Studios Orlando to close JAWS Jan 2nd! Blasphemy!
Apparently it is safe to go back into the water, at least at Universal Studios Theme Park. The Baltimore Sun scooped the news that Uni will close down the whole Amity area on January 2nd for a “new attraction”. Probably Sponge Bob related. I think it’s a stupid move. Most of Disney’s rides are as…
Selection Reminder: Orlando Pottery and Ceramics Festival tomorrow!
Saturday, Dec. 3 – Orlando Pottery and Ceramics Festival Ever watch the scene in 1990’s Ghost where Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze nuzzle up behind the potter’s wheel? Then you should know that sort of thing “only happens in the movies.” Because when it comes to throwing pottery, it takes a lot more skill than…
Local indie calendar for December
*All dates subject to (and likely to) change* Dec. 2 Into the Abyss (Regal Winter Park) Desi Boyz (Southchase 7) I Am Singh (Southchase 7) [youtube uWlorjdK8cI] Dec. 7 Art House Project Shorts Program (Enzian) A Face in the Crowd (Little Fish Huge Pond) John Carpenter’s The Thing (Eden Bar) Dec. 9 Tinker Tailor Soldier…
Selection Reminder: D.C. rapper Wale heads to the Beacham tonight!
Friday, Dec. 2 – Wale Watching the video for D.C. rapper Wale’s latest single, “Tats On My Arm” is a disheartening experience for his fans. Where’s the guy who made indie kids around the nation fall for him by recording an entire mixtape inspired by Seinfeld, then followed that up by signing with Mark Ronson,…
Selection Reminder: Visual Voices Presents: Experts Speak!
Friday, Dec. 2 – Visual Voices Presents: Experts Speak featuring Lure Design and Mama’s Sauce Everyone feels a bit of the DIY spirit around the holidays – even if it’s as simple as taking a batch of cookies in to the office – but this Friday Visual Voices, Valencia’s graphic design club, presents an informal…
“The Dark Knight Rises” Prologue Screening at Pointe Orlando
Warner’s announced today that select theaters around the country will get a special screening of the first 6 minutes of Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises on December 16th. And, hey, guess what? Orlando is on their list. The clip will be attached to the 70mm Imax print of Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol at the…
Remix: Eggnog is better when it’s a popsicle
There’s no more traditional holiday drink than spiked eggnog, but it can be sneaky stuff. It goes down so smooth and creamy you may not realize you’re knee-walkin’ drunk until it’s too late. My other nitpick with eggnog is that very creaminess. It’s just too thick and claggy – especially in Florida, where, let’s face…
“Hugo”, Marty, Papa Georges and 3D
Mild spoilers ahead. Being so busy last week, I didn’t get to see Martin Scorsese’s Hugo until Monday afternoon, and I didn’t finish getting my thoughts in order until today. Initially, I was cold on the whole idea of Scorsese making a kid’s film, and in 3D. 3D?! Marty? Et tu Brute? However, I stand…
Yum-Mi Sandwiches
Mills Avenue sub counter markets Vietnamese banh mi to the masses
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) This would be an excellent week to head down to Pucôn, Chile, and hire a daredevil to fly you in a helicopter into the caldera of the active Villarrica volcano, whereupon you would bungee-jump out of the copter down to within 700 feet of the molten lava. If that’s too extreme…
Live Active Cultures
Seth kicks off the season of getting with a trip to IAAPA, the world’s biggest walk-through wish book for theme-park geeks
Happytown
In which Mike Haridopolos confuses himself into a lawsuit, Rick Scott confuses state universities for idiots and the gays are about to be less confused – legally speaking – in Orlando. A ball of confusion for everyone!
Savage Love
I’m a 21-year-old woman from Canada who sleeps with other women.
Communication breakdown
Study suggests Hollywood still thinks women are better seen and not heard
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Into the Abyss
Werner Herzog’s death-penalty exploration is nothing new in a true crime-crazy culture
Philip K. Dick keeps it (un)real
Hollywood’s favorite sci-fi writer didn’t think it was all fiction
Highway 50 Revisited
Exploring one of the busiest, yet most overlooked, roadways in our region
This Little Underground
First line of story
Prince Rama
Taraka Larson’s exotic sound and dizzying cross-cultural mysticism
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The best Dicks for you
Mastodon
Atlanta metallions continue to stumble on new album
New “Munsters” sews up Singer, will suck like Hoover
First the good news: That Bryan Fuller Munsters remake is going through at NBC. Now the bad news: That Bryan Fuller Munsters remake is going through at NBC. Having not that long ago looked as dead as Grandpa’s many wives, the new series is going to pilot, and every bit of news that slips out…
Selections Reminder: La Luna shows at Little Fish Huge Pond!
Wednesday, Nov. 30 – La Luna Hey, it’s, like, officially the holidays! You know what it’s the perfect time for? Some hot movie incest. WTF, right? Precisely. Continuing their admirably fucked-up winning streak, Little Fish Huge Pond’s WTF series naturally celebrates the coming of festivities with Bernardo Bertolucci’s baffling tale of an opera singer who…
Selection Reminder: A-Trak heads to the Beacham tonight!
Tuesday, Nov. 29 – A-Trak If you enjoyed Kid Cudi at Orlando Calling this month or Kid Sister back in January at Firestone Live, you should know they have a major connection: A-Trak, whose record label, Fool’s Gold, helped introduce both artists to the mainstream. It’s a proper legacy for a figure as unlikely as…
Selection Reminder: Heyd Fontenot Gallery Talk!
Tuesday, Nov. 29 – Heyd Fontenot Gallery Talk Austin, Texas-based painter Heyd Fontenot often makes a distinction in interviews: He doesn’t paint nudes, he says, but “naked people.” That’s the line he draws between birthday suits neutralized and sanitized by art history, and his affectionate paintings of his friends just plain bare-assed. (The untreated wood…
