Photo Gallery: Menu Tasting for Orlando Science Center’s Neanderthal Ball
We’re less than a week away from Orlando Science Center’s Neanderthal Ball, The Loch Haven institution’s annual high-brow/low-forehead celebration of caveman couture is being presented on Nov 5, with sponsorship by Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. I’ve attended the event in past years, and the main attraction — aside from seeing Orlando’s fanciest folks in…
Selection Reminder: David Sedaris tonight at Bob Carr!
Sunday, Oct. 30 – David Sedaris Seemingly reluctant hero to the hero-less, downward gazing author David Sedaris’ meandering streams of consciousness have made him into a sort of fireside chat favorite – if that fireside is (or was) actually the crackle of a burning cigarette over the airwaves of National Public Radio accompanied by audible…
Selection Reminder: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad at Enzian!
Sunday, Oct. 30 – The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad No, this isn’t an amphibious mashup of two classic stories, but a freshly dug up treasure from 1949 by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by the famed RKO Pictures. This two-part animated classic – half a Basil Rathbone-narrated version of The Wind in the…
Sunday Film News Roundup — October 30th, 2011
So I suppose it would be a three-way tie for “story of the week” this week. Depending on your level of interest, it was either Steve McQueen’s Shame getting an NC-17 rating (what a silly rating), Joss Whedon making a secret movie of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, or, unfortunately, Lindsay Lohan agreeing to do…
Selection Reminder: Masquerade Art Event & Costume Party at the new Bombshell’s Tavern!
Saturday, Oct. 29 – Masquerade Art Event & Costume Party You’ve most likely been exposed (literally!) to Orlando’s burgeoning burlesque scene of late: A volley of sultry dance troupes shimmy and shake their way around town each week, performing fetish-themed numbers – from nerdy to gory to anime – at hot spots like Stardust Lounge…
Selection Reminder: Split Sides: The Choreography and Genius of Merce Cunningham!
Saturday, Oct. 29 – Split Sides Merce Cunningham’s death in 2009 extinguished a great light in American arts; he was truly a national treasure, though hardly a household name. As part of that world-shaking generation of post-WWII giants of the avant garde, he changed the face of dance forever by liberating it from mere pantomime…
Review: Tom Waits’ Bad As Me
by Trevor Fraser We await a new Tom Waits album with bated breath mainly because, in light of the centuries-old hard-living carny character he’s played since he hit the scene in 1973, it’s difficult to convince us he’s really a clean-and-sober gent of 61. But he’s survived his caricature once again, and so we meet…
Selection Reminder: Away Mission: Orlando starts tonight!
Friday, Oct. 28 – Away Mission: Orlando Now that Spock 2.0 Zachary Quinto has finally joined George Takei aboard Starship Enterpride, adding even more cool points to the already awesome J.J. Abrams-helmed reboot franchise, the time seems ripe to go ahead and come out with pride as a Trekkie – especially if William Shatner’s “get…
Selection Reminder: Guns N’ Roses rock Amway Center!
Friday, Oct. 28 – Guns N’ Roses He plays piano as listlessly as a hotel-lobby hired hand; he has a double chin and a handlebar moustache now; he sings as if a dying pelican is lodged in his larynx; he’s still pulling the middle-of-tomorrow start times and he’s still liable to either cancel a show…
Selection Reminder: UKnight Homecoming 2011!
Friday, Oct. 28 – UKnight Homecoming 2011 Nevermind that UCF’s weeklong homecoming celebration technically started on Oct. 22, with the King and Queen vote, a Panic! At the Disco concert and movie, comedy and skit nights. Skip ahead to our favorite college activities (and yes, they’re ones we still enjoy; this week honors alumni, after…
In lieu of new Orlando Magic games, local TV station substitutes old ones
As you probably know, negotiations between NBA players and team owners remain at an acrimonious standstill. The Orlando Magic have now lost 15 games, owing to the cancellation of seven regular season games scheduled before Nov. 15, as well as the entirety of the eight-game preseason. I can’t speak for everybody, but I can say…
Scare tactics: Planning your Halloween weekend
The time of year has come when the party punch bleeds red and gorehounds delight in all things Halloween. Per usual, the spooky soirees and fright fests extend beyond Halloween night (Oct.31 is a non-party-friendly Monday this year), spanning a whole five days of events in every corner of Orlando and its surrounding areas. We’re…
Selection Reminder: Memoryhouse tonight at Will’s Pub!
Thursday, Oct. 27 – Memoryhouse As the group’s primary musician, Evan Abeele is fond of painting synthesizer sounds in hazy, hypnotic brushstrokes, creating instrumentation that’s the aural personification of a warm but wistful nap. It’s dream-pop at its most apropos, even if it didn’t start that way. Originally, Abeele (a musician) and Denise Nouvion (a…
Tako Cheena
Latin-Asian taqueria adds to the diverse flavor of Mills 50 district
Culture 2 Go
Rollins hosts a weekend of good old-fashioned consciousness-raising featuring Gloria Steinem, Patricia Schroeder and the Guerrilla Girls
Southern living
From Michael Jackson’s origin story to Katrina shelters to ‘One Tree Hill,’ excavating America from the bottom up
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates,” poet Gary Snyder reminds us in his book The Practice of the Wild. “It is also nocturnal, anaerobic, microscopic, digestive, fermentative: cooking away in the warm dark.” I call this to your attention because you’d be wise to honor all…
Acts of worship
Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante on the legends’ latest comeback
Business-friendly legislation
A new state law dismantles a hurdle for startup food vendors
Halloween events guide
Our guide to the best Halloween events in and around Orlando
Savage Love
My boyfriend and I are in college and doing the long-distance thing until June 2013
The return of the son of the bride of Halloween Masks II
Our annual Halloween mask tribute to the scary monsters and super creeps that color our dreams. Now with more shady trial lawyers, angry old conservatives and frustrated young liberals!
Double fantasy
French electronic act M83 releases his magnum opus
Rotation: What local artists are listening to
This week: Beth McKee
Live Active Cultures
Seth concludes his whirlwind tour of haunted attractions with a visit to Busch Gardens’ Howl-O-Scream
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
No stairway
Jacksonville’s lo-fi project Gospel Music enjoys simpler pleasures
Happytown
The week that Gadhafi got killed, the occupiers got arrested and the chamber got off scot-free. Is there no justice? Well, sometimes.
Anonymous
The director of Independence Day is a natural fit for Elizabethan intrigue
The Rum Diary
Johnny Depp finally bestows an origin story upon a gonzo legend
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on American Aquarium, Kevin Devine, An Horse, Mux Mool and Shigeto
Occupation, Day 12: Tensions rise between occupiers and Orlando police
? During the first week of the Orlando occupation, one of the most common sentiments expressed by its participants was that our city’s police officers, unlike those in other cities with active Occupy movements, were not only reasonable, but even “wonderful.” On the morning of Oct. 15, for instance, when the occupation was kicked off…
Underrated: The Legend of Hell House — John Hough (1973)
The Legend of Hell House is probably doomed forever to play second fiddle to Robert Wise’s The Haunting. And on paper, it’s easy to see why. Arriving a full decade after Wise’s immortal classic, Legend has a remarkably similar premise: A team of sensitives agrees to hunker down in an allegedly haunted abode, for purposes…
John Carpenter’s “Halloween” Tonight @ Enzian 8:30, Free
We’re in the homestretch now, with only 5 days left until Halloween, so you might as well get into the spirit. What better way to do it than sitting out on the Enzian’s lawn, watching Jamie Lee Curtis screech at the top of her lungs? John Carpenter’s Halloween is largely responsible for the resurgence of…
Exclusive: First Interview with new Orlando Fringe Festival Producer Michael Marinaccio
Each May, our city’s cultural calendar is dominated by the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, or as I like to semi-seriously refer to it, “the week-and-a-half when Orlando doesn’t suck.” The end of the 2011 festival was marked by the surprise announcement that 7-year festival producer Beth Marshall was stepping down from the position, and…
Selection Reminder: TV on the Radio tonight at House of Blues!
Wednesday, Oct. 26 – TV on the Radio Do you really need us to actually write something to convince you to go see TV on the Radio? Something, perhaps, that explains the band’s genre-defying sound, expounds on the raw energy of the music, complains about how much more we liked them way back when, before…
