Russia calling …
I got a call today from Yuri Dakhnov of Russian Television. And Yuri is looking for some help for the RT correspondent headed to Cape Canaveral for the Discovery launch, which has just been approved for Wednesday, thus creating a time crunch for our comrade. Yuri is looking for insight from experienced launch watchers who…
Local Indie Calendar for November
All dates are subject to change. 11/3-7 – Orlando Film Festival (Plaza Cinema Cafe) 11/5 – Disney animation doc Waking Sleeping Beauty (Enzian) 11/7-9 – Central Florida Jewish Film Festival (Enzian) 11/12 – Dragon Tattoo and Played with Fire follow-up The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Enzian), financial meltdown documentary Inside Job (Winter Park)…
RV resurfaces in SoDo
Artist Robin Van Arsdol – RV – moved out of his Parramore warehouse last spring – the one with artful graffiti on the exterior that he encouraged – and headed back to Germany, where they can’t get enough of his chain-sawed Bart Simpson sculptures and paintings. But RV’s back and on Dec. 11, he opens…
Man bites dog
Home of the Weenie Wagon 6194 Edgewater Drive 407-802-4924 $ More info in our restaurant guide Hot dogs served outside of Chicago only need three things to be special: savory all-beef dogs, crazy-green relish, and pizzazz. The last item is admittedly nebulous, but can be quantified in the more than 10 different ways a dog is served up…
Turning a corner
Lake Mary dining takes a turn for the better with this quaint resto
Live Active Cultures
Long before the Mouse arrived, tourists flocked to Central Florida attractions that focused on the bizarre beauty of our region’s flora and fauna
This Little Underground
Orlando’s on the bubble in terms of an NBA championship quest, so this is a swing year, a nut check, a test of will.
Face off
Electro-pop princess Lights revels in her duality
Creatures from the Tea Party lagoon
Our annual tribute to the scary monsters and superfreaks that haunt our nightmares
Planning your nightmare
A List of Halloween events for 2010
Local surrealism’s finest hour
Maury Hurt and Grady Kimsey
The price of popularity
New fees at a popular dog park threaten to sink the nonprofit that founded it
Comments
More from Maitland I must make some corrections to your recent story about the Maitland Art Center (“The art of the deal,” Oct. 14). 1) The attorneys were not “hired” – all three donated their services via the Rollins College Center for Philanthropy pro bono program, and each represented well and most vigorously, the interests…
Happytown
Just like you, beleaguered television viewer with your eyes crossed at the incessant parade of political noise bom-barding your brain, we are so ready for this election cycle to be over.
Watching the wheels
Biopic shows Lennon before he was the Walrus
Savage Love
I love reading your column and never thought that I would have a reason to write to you, but to my pleasure and chagrin, I realized today that I could use your help.
Down and derby
Orlando’s new roller derby league embraces milder over wilder
DVDs Nuts!
Don’t overlook these lesser-seen OW-approved titles
You happy puppets
Phantasmagoria
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) In the Chinese province of Fujian, there used to be people who believed they could communicate directly with the dead. If they slept on the grave of the person they wished to reach, their dreams during the night might lead to a meeting with the spirit of the departed. I propose…
Trials and tribulations
Legal drama features good performances but doesn’t break new ground
Batman’s Avatar Hobbit Trek Mondo Traffic Magnet!
Let’s see what’s going on in geekery this week: -Batman 3: It’ll be called The Dark Knight Rises (shrug), it won’t be in 3D, and the Riddler will not return as the villain after all (obviously). -Avatar 2 & 3: Jim’s making ’em, set for December 2014 and 2015 respectively. They will be in 3D…
Second impressions: E-40 survives the demise of hyphy
NOTE: This show has been moved up from Thursday … to TONIGHT! E-40 with Tech N9ne, Glasses Malone, Stranger Haze 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26 Firestone Live, 407-872-0066 $25 (purchase tickets here) Charlie Hustle. Forty-Water. Forty-Fonzerelli. E-Fizzle. E-Bonics. E-Pheezy. The Ballatician. Ambassador of the Bay. Forty Belafonte. Earl Stevenson. A man of many monikers, there’s…
