Orange County “accidentally” sends out motherlode of Mayor Teresa Jacobs’ text messages, drafts bristly letter to have them returned.
Many of you may be familiar with the story that came out in the Sentinel on Saturday (late Friday night online) detailing just how much deeper the problems of influence from the big business community and the chamber of commerce are on your local government. As the newspaper reported, some kind of mistake was…
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Notable Noise: This Week’s Best Shows [Fiona Apple, PiL, Harry Nilsson tribute, lots more]
Monday, Oct. 1 Fiona Apple [Hard Rock Live] Wednesday, Oct. 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2M6kGGVrlM The Blind Shake, Golden Pelicans [Will’s] Public Image LTD [Firestone] Pretty Lights [UCF Arena] Thursday, Oct. 4 Unknown Hinson [Social] Cope [Back Booth] Friday, Oct. 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHPnnnCSSo What’s “The Point?”: A Tribute to Harry Nilsson [Will’s] – SHOW OF THE WEEK! (For real.) Bombay…
Enzian hosts Manhattan Short Film Festival
Monday, Oct. 1 – Manhattan Short Film Festival 6:30 p.m. Enzian Theater 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland 407-629-1088 enzian.org $10 With close to 300 screenings spanning six continents, the Manhattan Short Film Festival promises to bring the best in foreign cinema right into our own backyard (assuming you live in front of the Enzian that…
Sunday Film News Roundup — September 30th, 2012
So that David Denby article in The New Republic that I posted last week caused a little bit of a delayed stir as critics returned home from Austin and their Fantastic Fest duties — watching movies and smoking weed. The New Yorker’s Richard Brody wrote about it in “The Movies Aren’t Dead (They’re Not Even…
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros at the Beacham: Sold Out
Even if you don’t follow this band, you’ve probably at least heard this song: The band’s enigmatic hipster-meets-hippie-looking frontman is 34-year-old Alex Ebert, who founded this ragtag group of country/folk fusioneers after departing his former band, electronic-pop act Ima Robot. After Ima Robot, the hard-partying Ebert had to get sober – he enrolled himself…
Photo Gallery: “Peanuts…Naturally” Exhibit at Orange County Regional History Center
As a life-long reader of Charlie Brown cartoons, I was eager to take a tour this afternoon of “Peanuts…Naturally,” the latest traveling exhibit to visit downtown Orlando's Orange County Regional History Center. Presented by the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa California, the collection centers on themes of environmental conservation and science education. Reproductions…
Peanuts … Naturally exhibit opens at the History Center
Saturday, Sept. 29 – Peanuts … Naturally Through Dec. 31 Orange County Regional History Center 65 E. Central Blvd. 407-836-8500 thehistorycenter.org $9 For a half-century, Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts characters found their tiny, adorable way into satirical sketches, often providing social commentary on relevant topics, ranging from the Vietnam War to space exploration. Schulz died…
VOD Review: The Good Doctor – Lance Daly (2012) (3 Stars)
It’s been a long wait since Lance Daly’s last film, a wonderfully sharpDublincoming of age drama called Kisses, reached our shores. Small in scale and tender, bleeding with emotion, it’s almost the opposite of its follow up, The Good Doctor. It’s very much a throwback to the cold, calculating psychological dramas of the 80s, where…
Orange County Animal Services hosts Barktoberfest pet-rescue event
Saturday, Sept. 29 – Barktoberfest 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Lake Eola Park North Eola Drive and East Robinson Street 407-836-3111 ocfl.net/ barktoberfest free If you’re thinking about adding a new pet to your family, for the love of god, steer clear of the puppy store. According to a recent study released by the Humane Society of…
Two exhibitions open at Art & History Museums – Maitland
Friday, Sept. 28 – The Power of Two and Spatial Relationships exhibition opening 6-8 p.m. Art & History Museums – Maitland 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland 407-539-2181 artandhistory.org $5 Sometimes a pair is more than the sum of its parts. Sure, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy would have been stars even if they’d never hooked…
Robot & Frank
Frank Langella shines in a compelling film with far-from-artificial intelligence
“This is so bizarre. Pls help me with a written explanation of my position. This is most distressful for me,” and other musings from Mayor Jacobs’ secret texts!
OK, so this afternoon saw the release of Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs’ cah-raaaazzzy text messages from the Sept. 11 shitshow at the Board of County Commissioners meeting (which we liveblogged here), and you know what? It’s worse than we thought. No, there aren’t any smoking guns hidden up in the bad syntax of texty-fingers…
Opening in Orlando — September 28th, 2012
Hotel Transylvania– Reviewed this week. (PG) Looper — Reviewed this week. (R) Pitch Perfect — It seems like only yesterday we were looking for the female Hangover. Now we’ve moved on to the perpetual search for the next Bridesmaids. Enter this ensemble comedy about a mistmatched team of college a capella singers. Wait doesn’t that…
Negative Approach tonight at The Social
Thursday, Sept. 27 – Negative Approach with Off!, Double Negatives 7 p.m. The Social 54 N. Orange Ave. 407-246-1419 thesocial.org $15-$20 That first Negative Approach 7-inch … holy shit, right? Totally legend. And, based on the power of that one record alone, vocalist John Brannon and the rest of the band have pretty much every…
Canadian act Metric perform at Hard Rock Live
Thursday, Sept. 27 – Metric 8 p.m. Hard Rock Live 6050 Universal Blvd. 407-351-5483 hardrocklive.com $29-$34 Emily Haines, lead muse of Canadian act Metric, has an all-purpose kind of voice. Whether sinking into an emotional abyss, triumphantly raising a fist or standing in for the Clash at Demonhead in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Haines’…
No Babies offer a lo-fi garage sound at Will’s Pub
Wednesday, Sept. 26 – No Babies with SSLOT, Hau Zarrest 9 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-5070 willspub.org $5 Like a five-person revolution against the oppression of hyperactivity medication, Oakland, Calif.’s No Babies opt for a lo-fi garage sound that isn’t as, well, nice as the omnipresent ’60s-apeing garage bands of our time. Theirs is a…
TheDailyCity.com showcases local vendors at Night Market
Wednesday, Sept. 26 – TheDailyCity.com Night Market 6-9 p.m. Waterford Lakes Town Center 413 N. Alafaya Trail thedailycity.com free You might have noticed from our own recent coverage of things “maker” – meaning, loosely, artisanal takes on ordinary items meant to celebrate the process as much as the product – that Central Florida is creeping…
Tip Jar
In this week’s roundup: Disney’s Food & Wine Classic, RavPig cookbook, Winter Park Sip & Stroll, Orlando’s first winery, restaurant closings and a Taste of Oktoberfest.
The Local Cool: Disco
Throughout the years Suite B has been the home of many notable events such as Argyle!, Bone, and Nite Vision. While the venue itself is rather small its size never hinders. Instead the limited floor space creates an intimate atmosphere, especially on occasions when an internationally renowned DJ is on the decks. The infamous Carnival…
Drink Events
Things to do for people who love booze
Hotel Transylvania
At Drac’s place, not all messages reach the front desk
Live Active Cultures
Fall 2012 theater preview
Fall Guide 2012: Visual Arts
It’s a relatively quiet fall season, speaking visually. The traditional gala fundraisers, Halloween-related exhibitions and fresh-air art festivals return, with their high potential for holiday gift purchases, as usual; but flashes of brilliance are there if you look. Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum offers a bust-out gamut-spanning three-gallery takeover with its group fiber-and-textile show, The…
Maakies
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Signing off
A goodbye from our departing film and music editor
Looper
Brothers Bloom director Rian Johnson delivers a sci-fi thriller with a healthy pulse
Fall Guide 2012: Events
Don’t even tell us there’s nothing to do around here – all season long, our calendars are packed with so much stuff we can hardly cram it all in. From recurring events that we adore, like TheDailyCity.com’s monthly Food Truck Bazaars or the terrifying exhilaration of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios, to fantastic one-offs…
Spirit of '81
Opportunity knocks for hardcore punk’s well-vetted throwbacks
How to Kill an Ant with a Sledgehammer
Former Congressman Alan Grayson goes on the warpath against less-than-threatening opponent, Todd Long
Fall Guide 2012: Civics
By now you’re aware that’s it’s a pretty contentious election year in Central Florida – and everywhere else, too. Chances are, all of those political mailers and television ads and debates have jammed their way so far into your nightmares that you’ve got little room left to think about getting involved in anything meaningful in…
Sam Rivers reunion show speaks to the late legend's massive impact.
Sam Rivers Reunion: Live in New York ★★★★★ (Pi Recordings) It would be easy to let admiration of this album be rooted solely in hometown boosterism or belated mourning. So, let’s not do that. Let’s talk about why this album – the first Sam Rivers recordings to be released since his death in December 2011…
Fall Guide 2012: Music
Imagine seeing Eddie Vedder, M83, Metric, Gotye, GZA, Andrew Bird, Rascal Flatts, Fiona Apple, the Who, Band of Horses, Weezer, Deerhoof and more without leaving town. While that lineup may sound like what some hoped for from last year’s Orlando Calling (which is not returning this year), it’s actually a mere sampling of the fall…
Happytown: Orange County man cited for not hooking up to OUC; scientists create bullet-detection technology.
Orange County doesn’t want you going off the grid and Weapon Detect doesn’t want you bringing loaded guns into public spaces.
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Here’s the curious message I derived from the current astrological configurations: It’s one of those rare times when a wall may actually help bring people together. How? Why? The omens don’t reveal that specific information. They only tell me that what seems like a barrier might end up serving as a…
Apna Cafe
Azhar Baig has been through a lot, including keeping his humble eatery alive and kicking.
Fall Guide 2012: Performing Arts
So far as arts previews go, the calendar is inverted: In nature fall betokens a mellow decline into hibernation, but for arts organizations, fall is when they wake up and the excitement begins. The third quarter of 2012 offers superb concerts from the Orlando Philharmonic (celebrating their 20th anniversary), the Bach Festival Society and several…
Fall Guide 2012: Film
This year’s calendar of cinematic Central Florida offerings is heavy on the heaviness but cut through with some Halloween fun and seriously legitimate tricks and treats for the restless cinephile. From Ingmar Bergman in Daytona to film festivals celebrating indies, shorts, women, ethnicities, agriculture, locals and world cinema, from big screen romance to celestial garbage,…
Album Reviews
Reviews of albums by Efterklang, Michael Jackson, and Murder by Death
DVDs Nuts
Lesser-seen, critic-approved films on disc and on demandby Justin Strout and John Thomason
Fall Guide 2012: Sports & Recreation
It’s not that we aren’t rooting for Orlando’s iggest sports teams. In fact, we’re itching to see how the Orlando Magic survive (and thrive, hopefully!) without Dwight Howard as they start another NBA championship run at Amway Center (Oct. 11). We’re also eager to see how the newest East Coast Hockey League team, Orlando’s very…
On sale this week: SOJA at House of Blues
On sale: Friday, Sept. 28 SOJA 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31 House of Blues Downtown Disney 407-934-2583 hob.com $37-$40 Down the road: Public Image LTD, Oct. 3 at Firestone Live Pretty Lights, Oct. 3 at UCF Arena Florida Metal Showcase with Abdomen Canvas, Oct. 5 at Backbooth The Riverboat Gamblers, Oct. 6 at The Social…
Video Interview with Laura Tyler from SyFy’s “Face Off”
Out of the flood of reality competition shows deluging our airwaves in recent years, one of most artistic and least obnoxious has been Face Off on the SyFy Network. Like a latex-laden spin on Project Runway, Face Off tasks its makeup artist contestants with designing and constructing a menagerie of colorful creatures, which are judged…
