DORWORTH OUT!
Schadenfreude has a new pronunciation today, and that is DOR-WERTH (or, rather, state Rep. Chris Dorworth, R-Lake Mary). The once and future king – actually, speaker-designate – was unseated today by Mike Clelland following a long night and long morning of number crunching by the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections office. Below, the not-at-all-pleased-with-itself press…
Photo Gallery: Labyrinth Interactive Sing-Along at Brooklyn Academy of Music
You won't find my usual Live Active Cultures column in this Wednesday's issue of Orlando Weekly because I've been out of town in New York City for the past week working on a very special project. On Friday November 8th, the Brooklyn Academy of Music hosted the New York premiere of a live interactive sing-along…
Sunday Film News Roundup – November 12, 2012
While millions of people saw Bond this weekend, I had an odd little experience of being in an almost empty theater on a Saturday while finally seeing Cloud Atlas. I usually like to see movies during the day to avoid big crowds, but I had figured, being a Saturday, it would be packed and showed…
More than 75 craft beers at Baldwin Brew Fest
Saturday, Nov. 10 – Baldwin Brew Fest 4-8 p.m. Baldwin Park, at New Broad and Jake streets baldwinbrewfest.com $25-$50 As the great Benjamin Franklin once said, “In beer there is freedom.” Now fast-forward a few centuries to this weekend’s Baldwin Brew Fest, where you’ll have the chance to exercise those American freedoms – freedom to…
The Official “Unofficial” EDC Afterparty List
Insomniac Event’s world famous music festival Electric Daisy Carnival is back in town this week, and as music festivals go, there are countless reasons to love them. Unfortunately, the party has to end at Midnight. Who goes to bed at Midnight after a music festival? Well, no one I know. For people like us, there are afterparties……
VOD Review: Deadfall – Stefan Ruzowitzky (2 Stars)
From the trailer, it looked like Stefan Ruzowitzky’s wintry casino heist film Deadfall had all of the makings of a tight, gripping psychological thriller. Everything looked right, from the twisted, broken family angle to the Thanksgiving blizzard setting that eventually sets the deadly Addison (Eric Bana) against Jay Mills (Charlie Hunnam), the boxer just out of jail,…
26th Annual Festival of Trees opens at OMA
Saturday, Nov. 10 – 26th Annual Festival of Trees 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through Nov. 18 Orlando Museum of Art 2416 N. Mills Ave. 407-896-4231 omart.org $6-$10 We don’t mean to sound like the Grinch, but come November, we’re hesitant to jump into the annual holiday pastime of frenzied shopping and gluttonous bingeing. That’s why we’re…
Live art, music and more at Yellow Dog Eats’ Woofstock
Saturday, Nov. 10 – Woofstock Noon-5 p.m. Yellow Dog Eats 1236 Hempel Ave., Gotha 407-296-0609 facebook.com/ yellowdogeats free In 2011, Yellow Dog Eats in Gotha held its first Woofstock to celebrate the release of its new vegan menu. They had local artists and artisans, music, food and vendors – and it was so successful that…
Bikini Basketball Association holds tryouts for the Orlando LadyCats
Are you a female athlete? Do you know how to play basketball? Do you look good in a bikini? If so, you’re invited to try out for the new, local Bikini Basketball Association team, the Orlando LadyCats. The Bikini Basketball Association, which was founded this year and consists of eight teams – Orlando LadyCats, Miami Spice,…
Electric Daisy Carnival music fest descends on Tinker Field
Friday-Saturday, Nov. 9-10 – Electric Daisy Carnival with Armin van Buuren, Afrojack, Tiësto, Richie Hawtin, Bassnectar, Victor Calderone, DJ Icey and dozens more 1 p.m. Tinker Field 287 S. Tampa Ave. 407-649-7297 electricdaisycarnival.com $49.50-$249 Sometimes Orlando hosts successful music festivals that actually live up to the hype and leave people satisfied. For a beat-heavier taste…
Vegas employer fires 22 because Obama won election
Remember how we posted a few weeks about about the letter Westgate Resorts’ David Siegel sent to his employees filled with thinly veiled threats to fire people if Obama was re-elected? Well, this Las Vegas businessman who called into his local radio station claims to have one-upped Siegel. Like Siegel, he also told his employees…
Lust Cash Transactor demolished: Mills 50
Today we lose a landmark: Lust will no longer be transacted in cash at the corner of Mills and Virginia. ICYMI, here’s our take on the odd little business from 2010: “Lust for life: Lone Mills Park holdout looks for a way out.” Sad day, everyone, but try to look forward to the Fresh Market…
The Outlook for “Obamacare” in Two Maps
It wasn’t just President Barack Obama who won Tuesday. His signature health care plan did as well. But while the Affordable Care Act remains alive, less clear is how its various mandates will proceed and who will participate.
Local performance art group DRIP opens new permanent space
Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 8-10 – DRIP’s Grand Opening 8 p.m. DRIP 8747 International Drive 347-855-3747 ilovedrip.com $29-$35 OK, for real this time. After a whole year of press releases since the announcement of their lease signing, and even more years of ramping up to that, local performance art group DRIP is finally opening their permanent venue…
Solillaquists of Sound digitally reissue their earliest works
Check it out. Solillaquists of Sound just got back from a few weeks of performances in France, and are celebrating their return to the States with a welcome-home present for you. They’ve dug up some of their earliest, self-released albums – which haven’t been available in, like, forever – and thrown them up on their Bandcamp…
Boston-based band Pile tonight at The Peacock Room
Thursday, Nov. 8 – Pile with Snotty Kids, Direct Effect, Neutron Rats, Basements of Florida, Great Deceivers 8 p.m. The Peacock Room 1321 N. Mills Ave. 407-228-0048 $5 When I first encountered Pile, it was 2010. They were down from Boston, touring on Magic Isn’t Real, their first full-length, which was so new that it…
The Abbey hosts RAWards Orlando Semifinals
Thursday, Nov. 8 – RAWawards Orlando Semifinals 8 p.m. The Abbey 100 S. Eola Drive rawartists.org $15-$20 Whip out that cocktail dress and throw those pinky fingers up, because the fourth annual RAWards showcase semifinals are this week in the O-Zone! This celebration of up-and-coming artists gives independent creatives in the fields of visual art,…
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New Orlando Concert Announcements [Soul-Fried Sunday, Bright Light Social Hour, Coheed & Cambria, Helio Sequence, more]
Nov. 18: “Soul-Fried” Sunday w/the Sh-Booms, the Legendary JC’s, Juke, Fat Night, DJ BMF (Will’s) Nov. 24: The Lee Boys (Plaza) Dec. 1: What Wouldstock Jambando (Plaza) Dec. 15: Rita Ora, Chris Cab, Chris Richardson (House of Blues) Dec. 21: Rocket 88, Eugene Snowden & JC Jumpers (Social) Dec. 29: Bright Light Social Hour (Social)…
Rick Jones art show opens at Stardust Video & Coffee
Thursday, Nov. 8 – Rick Jones: Arborescences 7 p.m. through Nov. 29 Stardust Video & Coffee 1842 E. Winter Park Road 407-623-3393 stardustie.com free Are there deep intellectual underpinnings to Rick Jones’ latest art show? Of course there are. Jones was inspired by a series of drawings made by experimental composer Iannis Xenakis in the…
On sale this week: G. Love & Special Sauce at The Plaza Live
On sale: Friday, Nov. 9 G. Love & Special Sauce 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30 The Plaza Live 425 N. Bumby Ave. plazaliveorlando.com $22-$25 Down the road: Peelander-Z, Nov. 14 at The Social Cypress Hill, Nov. 14 at The Plaza Live Regina Spektor, Nov. 14 at House of Blues J.B. Smoove, Nov. 15 at Orlando…
Orlando Mixtape concert to benefit Page 15, Urban ReThink and Burrow Press
Wednesday, Nov. 7 – Orlando Mixtape Vol 1 with Kaleigh Baker, Joseph Martens, Thomas Wynn, Eugene Snowden and others 7 p.m. The Social 54 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thesocial.org $20-$25 If you’re anything like us, most of your forays into soundtracked communication via C30, C60, C90 (GO!) plastic cassette reels rotated around thematic bursts of…
Obama wins!
Many thanks to the good folks at Bullitt Bar, which hosted our election night party this evening!
A fresh take on the classic American cocktail: the Sazerac
The oldest definition of a "cock-tail," first published in 1803, is awfully basic: "a mixture of spirits of any kind, water, sugar and bitters." Made with whiskey, this became known as an Old Fashioned, to differentiate it from more complex modern mixed drinks, but it’s still the basis for almost every cocktail. It’s also pretty…
About Last Night…No Judgement
This Week: A Thursday hair appointment
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The data that’s stored and disseminated on the Internet is unimaginably voluminous. And yet the 540 billion trillion electrons that carry all this information weigh about the same as a strawberry. I’d like to use this fun fact as a metaphor for the work you’re doing these days – and the…
"A Comic Book: Team Up"
Beloved local comics emporium gets in the game.
The New Lows hit a new high
Local band celebrates release of I Couldn’t Sleep
Cask & Larder
Seductive nouveau-Southern cuisine with an admirable commitment to nose-to-tail eating
Liberal Arts
Josh Radnor’s latest captures the emotional angst of the human experience
Now Playing
Opening this Week
Council watch
Billy Manes pays attention to city government so you don’t have to
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu checks out Sharon Van Etten, Black Moth Super Ranbow, the David Liebe Hart Band and more
Michael Wanzie presents "The Temperamentals"
Florida premiere of off-Broadway hit about queer advocacy in the years before Stonewall.
Rejection letters
Don Peteroy’s epistolary novel, “Wally,” draws a straight line between pathos and pathetic
Live Active Cultures
Red against blue is so last week – welcome to the battle of Beauty and the ‘Bots
Charting visibility
Orlando publisher Beating Windward Press seeks to promote up-and-coming writers in a flooded market.
Savage Love
DEAR READERS: I’m writing this week’s column in a drug-induced coma. Well, not quite a coma, but close. I was fighting a cold for two weeks, and the cold won: It morphed into an insanely painful sinus infection – you know it’s bad when your doctor urges you to err on the side of too much…
Culture 2 Go
Two operas to see this weekend – Orlando Phil presents “The Marriage of Figaro” live; Metroplitan Opera broadcasts “The Tempest” in HD.
Skyfall
Sam Mendes reincarnates the 007 franchise with a surprisingly fresh take on the 50-year-old Bond character
Maakies
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Danny Brown
Detroit hip-hop artist plays the Beacham this week
Drinking, Nightlife and Parties
Where to drink and party in Orlando this week
Short takes on Florida lit
Just a few of 2012’s books from or about our weird state.
Eat the state
Three cookbooks fresh from Florida: “Field to Feast,” “The Ravenous Pig” and “My Key West Kitchen”
Tip Jar
This week’s roundup: Eat Local Week, Winter Park Harvest Festival, Fleming’s Steakhouse, 100 Montaditos, Beaujolais Nouveau Day and more
Redemption song
Bob Kealing’s biography of Gram Parsons, “Calling Me Home,” refuses to let the legendary alt-country singer’s life be defined by its tragic end.
Accidental Music Festival
In its second year, local fest shortens its span, broadens its scope
Happytown: Ugly campaigning and early voting
Plakon campaign takes flak for Sandusky mailer; despite attempts to thwart early voting, people showed up in droves to cast their ballots
Films to Stick Your Head in the Sand With (After You Vote)
Nervous feeling in the pit of your stomach? Democrat or Republican, you should probably have one (unless you know something about Florida and Ohio voting machines that the rest of us don’t). Nate Silver has the President winning Florida and Ohio but I’m not as trusting as I was in 2008. If you haven’t voted yet, Billy…
Legendary Seattle drone band Earth stop by Will’s Pub
Tuesday, Nov. 6 – Earth with Stebmo 8 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-5070 willspub.org $13-$15 Although this fall tour will be Earth’s most extensive American tour since their 1990 emergence, this show will be the only Florida date for the legendary Seattle drone band. From their early doomy metal beginnings, their experimental…
The scene on Election Day in Orlando
Send your Election Day photos to esullivan@orlandoweekly.com and we’ll post them to this blog or a gallery on our site. Please identify where the photo was taken and let us know who to credit for the image. Note: Please do not try to take photos inside polling places. That’s not legal in Florida. Above is…
