WE HATE ORLANDO! Or how today’s State of Downtown speech self-helped us into personal ruin
See that blurry diorama nightmare up there? That was the centerpiece of today’s State of Downtown chamber-gnosh at the Amway Center – it’s a bit of child’s play issued by the students of the Nap Ford charter school in Parramore, fyi, so … sweet! And, oh, how we wished it coulda-woulda ended with just that.…
Friendly Reminder: Shannon & The Clams Tonight!
Monday, Oct. 24 – Shannon & The Clams Oakland’s Shannon & The Clams play at Will’s tonight with Sexcapades and Vein Cranes. Need we say more? [youtube 57KUgVsM8rw] (9 p.m. at Will’s Pub; 1042 N. Mills Ave.; 407-898-5070; $7; 18 & up)
Sunday Film News Roundup — October 23rd, 2011
There was some troubling news that came out of Marvel Comics this week, where there was a handful of key staff layoffs. ComicsBeat.com has a insider scoop piece up about the fortunes of the company since Disney’s buyout and Ike Perlmutter’s rise to the top that, if true, will have people longing for the dark…
Selection Reminder: Ralph Fest Tribute and Benefit Show
Sunday, Oct. 23 – Ralph Fest On Sept. 10, the world – especially the Orlando music scene – lost a truly friendly person in Ralph Ameduri Jr. The utility player was substituting on bass for Thomas Wynn & the Believers when a man (who is still on the loose) attempted to commit a robbery and shot…
Photo Gallery: OPF’s “Puppet, Muppet, & Marionette” show at Avalon Gallery
Between the production of Avenue Q at Theatre Downtown (extended through October 29) and the upcoming Thanksgiving release of the new Muppet movie, I’ve had puppets on the brain lately. Which led me to wonder “what’s going on with the Orlando Puppet Festival this year?” The answer, it turns out, is quite a bit. The…
Selection Reminder: Honky-punk party band Supersuckers at Firestone Live!
Saturday, Oct. 22 – Supersuckers Few bands out there have Supersuckers’ steeze. The honky-punk party band from Seattle has a raucous heart of pure rock & roll and packs one stout kick, but they’ve never wavered in their sense of fun and revelry. And although they’re winkingly over the top in theme, they’ve never castrated…
Selection Reminder: Central Florida Veg Fest today at Loch Haven Park!
Saturday, Oct. 22 – Central Florida Veg Fest The Vegetarians of Central Florida take the familiar phrase “sit and veg” steps further this weekend. The group’s annual Veg Fest celebrates all things leafy green with hundreds of arts and craft vendors, food prep demos by Raphsodic Bakery and Central Florida Raw Food Connections, guest speakers…
Selection Reminder: Make it a Book workshop!
Saturday, Oct. 22 – Make it a Book Handmade books with lush pencil drawings, calligraphy, collage, fibrous paper and cool pop-ups invite time spent fondling the pages. And that’s the reason why books will never die; people like to commune with objects. While the death knell of The Book As We Know It has anticlimactically…
Bridge School Benefit webcast this weekend
In case you have no plans or plans that don’t quite measure up to the likes of Neil Young and Arcade Fire live, you can stream the entire Bridge School Benefit concert over the weekend on YouTube. The Bridge School is a non-profit, innovative organization educating children with severe speech and physical impairments through the use…
Selection Reminder: XFC 14: Resurrection at UCF Arena!
Friday, Oct. 21 – XFC 14: Resurrection For the first time on UCF’s campus, being considered a “lightweight” won’t cause inebriated heads to hang in shame. Because in the world of mixed martial arts, and at tonight’s Xtreme Fighting Championships bout at UCF Arena, the term describes the most lean, mean ass-kicking machines of the…
Selection Reminder: Béla Fleck & the Flecktones at House of Blues!
Friday, Oct. 21 – Béla Fleck & the Flecktones This summer’s Rocket Science constituted the first new album by the original lineup of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones – bandleader Fleck, pianist Howard Levy, bassist Victor Wooten and percussionist Roy “Futureman” Wooten – in decades. It featured the four-time Grammy winners back in a cohesive groove,…
Selection Reminder: Pitbull tonight at Amway Center!
Friday, Oct. 21 – Pitbull Miami rapper Pitbull is in a unique zone right now: The Cuban-American pop Midas dominated this summer with his gravelly snarl. Whether providing a gruff counterbalance to otherwise edgeless Latin/R&B starlets (see: Jennifer Lopez’s “On the Floor,” Enrique Iglesias’ “I Like It,” Usher’s “DJ Got Us Falling in Love” – remarkably,…
Selection Reminder: The Last Show on Earth!
Friday, Oct. 21 – The Last Show on Earth We received word of this show with dismay. Was it a sly way of announcing the end of Twelve21 Gallery? Was Twelve21 breaking up with us? Then the work of Paul Finch, one of the featured artists, made everything clear: pfft, just the apocalypse (that old…
Lighthouse Music Drops Full Length
The long-awaited full length by St. Augustine’s Lighthouse Music is finally available. Chocked full of old-world originality, Only Human is an absolute triumph of homespun culture, sophisticated song-crafting, and musical prowess. Hints of jazz and ragtime float throughout the work and bless our eardrums. Beautiful melodies and orchestration by way of accordions, banjos, and saxophones abound.…
Cameron Crowe’s “Pearl Jam 20” on PBS American Masters, Friday 9pm
In case you missed it a few weeks ago at the Enzian, or just want to see it again, Cameron Crowe’s in-depth documentary about the legendary Seattle band Pearl Jam will air on PBS on Friday night at 9pm under the American Masters banner. It should be available in HD. You can check the local…
So what’s Spike Jonze been up to lately?
Just makin’ another short film. This time, it is an animated felt effort, To Die by Your Side, done with the help of co-director Simon Cahn and fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan. It tells the story of what the illustrated book covers are up to once the book shop closes for the night. (You can watch…
Beer country
Wine takes a back seat to Sonoma’s sudsier offerings
Members of the club
Local hip-hop producers Tha Hydrox look to capitalize on big break
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Louis DeFabrizio of Gasoline Heart
Jagged little pill
A thoroughly modern rom-com emerges from the Orlando Film Festival pack
Happytown
This week we contemplated cruel and unusual punishment. Would it be death by firing squad, electric chair or a blood-spitting whip at the Holy Land Experience with Lizz Winstead? We’d prefer the comedic Jesus option, frankly.
Highbrow horror
Phantasmagoria II offers Halloween gore for grown-ups
Big fire
A smoldering new outing proves why everyone wants Little Dragon
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Gaby Moreno, Wanda Jackson, Yuck, Smith Westerns and more
The greatest show unearthed
Mad Cow’s Drowsy Chaperone takes you to a Jazz Age Narnia
99 Percent Visibility
An interview with the activists behind Occupy Wall Street’s poignant Tumblr sensation
Savage Love
I broke up with a girl who wasn’t hot enough for me
The long haul
The occupation of Orlando begins in the backyard of the Chamber of Commerce
Other people’s problems
Orlando Shakes’ God of Carnage uncovers the raucous savagery beneath the veneer of civility
Live Active Cultures
Who will love Legoland’s new theme park, and who will loathe it?
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Council Watch
Billy Manes paying attention to local government so you don’t have to
Margin Call
A strong cast and self-contained story elevates financial crisis drama above the bluster
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) If you’ve been resisting the command to go deeper, now is the time to surrender. If you have been hoping that the pesky little voice in your head will shut up and stop bugging you to get more involved, you’d better stop hoping. If you’ve been fantasizing about how to escape…
Occupation, Day 4: Activists hunker down for storm
Though tonight’s forecast calls for 90 percent chance of rain, the activists rallying under the banner of Occupy Orlando are nowhere close to leaving Senator Beth Johnson Park–that’s not an option. Instead, they’re building a small village of structures out of donated tarps and sleeping in their cars; some are staying in personal tents erected…
The Music and Bands of Ralph Ameduri
In advance of Sunday’s block party/fundraiser/tribute RalphFest (more on that in print tomorrow!) to benefit the family and girlfriend of late Orlando musician Ralph Ameduri Jr., his friend and graphic artist Jeff Sweat has assembled a compilation, The Music and Bands of Ralph Ameduri, full of songs by bands that were graced with his presence…
