Selection Reminder: Honeyhoney tonight at the Plaza Live!
Monday, Oct. 3 – Honeyhoney Don’t let this L.A. act’s singer’s looks deceive you; having done time on the road with everyone from Australian one-man-bander Xavier Rudd to TV-enabled newcomer Christina Perri (“Jar of Hearts”), beautiful singer-instrumentalist Suzanne Santo, along with guitarist Ben Jaffe, craft accessible yet deeply rooted folk pop worthy of Honeyhoney’s storied…
Sunday Film News Roundup — October 2nd, 2011
Aside from writing duties, I spent much of the week focusing on two endevours: reading Roger Ebert’s memoir, Life Itself, and devouring the Star Wars: The Completely Saga box set. Firstly, Ebert’s book was a joy to read. Usually biographies are kind of a slog to get through unless I’m intensely interested in the subject.…
Selection Reminder: Zombietoberfest invades Audubon Park Garden District!
Saturday, Oct. 1 – Zombietoberfest Ready or not, here comes the onslaught of zombie-themed events typical of Orlando’s quasi-fall season. There must be something in the water because each year around this time the meme comes out with force at Audubon Park’s Zombietoberfest. It’s a full-fledged undead takeover with Zombie King and Queen contests, a…
Selection Reminder: Oktoberfest at the German-American Society!
Saturday, Oct. 1 – Oktoberfest At first, the German Oktoberfest poses a dilemma. It presents acres of irresistible food – jägerschnitzel (pork with creamy mushroom sauce), sauerbraten (beef pot roast), schwarzwälder kirschtorte (layered chocolate cake) – but hard as you may try, your stomach is not able to accommodate your mouth’s desires. Then, however, you’re…
Meeting on Eola Garden proposal answers few questions; add’l docs for “Seed Money” posted
Last week, we described the controversy surrounding a plan by downtown developer Craig Ustler and his girlfriend, Melissa Barron, to transform a .35 acre patch of land at the edge of Lake Eola into a vegetable garden. The plan drew ire from local organic growers, chiefly because Barron works for giant global agribusiness Syngenta, which…
Selection Reminder: PBR Art Contest Orlando Finalist Party!
Friday, Sept. 30 – PBR Art Contest Orlando Finalist Party What’s more inspiring than a can of cheap beer? OK, a lot of things, but none of those inspirations is offering artists a chance to win $1,844 in cash and a year’s supply of free beer in exchange for some paint on canvas. A couple…
Selection Reminder: Tiny-Waves.com Launch Party at Will’s Pub!
Friday, Sept. 30 – Tiny-Waves.com Launch Party Trippy psych-pop, flickery art films and the de rigueur photo booth (what, no food truck?) homegrown weirdness abounds at tonight’s party to christen online art collective Tiny-Waves.com, which hopes to “create an avenue for greater exposure and contextual understanding by highlighting artists who have a similar vision, but…
Selection Reminder: Maitland Rotary Art Fest!
Friday, Sept. 30-Sunday, Oct. 2 – Maitland Rotary Art Festival We’ll give credit where credit is due: Undoubtedly a tough feat, this annual outdoor art affair has held its widely regarded fine-art footing for the past 35 years. This year’s event poster, themed “Art Under the Stars,” highlights the paper-painting work of local creative Elizabeth…
Selection Reminder: Fifth Annual ELLA Music Fest at Orlando Brewing!
Friday, Sept. 30-Sunday, Oct. 2 – Fifth Annual ELLA Music Fest Now in its unlikely fifth year, the female-centric ELLA fest, organized as always by local musician Robert Johnson, has taken on the feel of a seasonal institution; the buzz surrounding it (finally) is centered less on whether or not the grass-roots event will happen,…
Orlando Comedy Festival starts tonight at Sleuths
Orlandoans who like to LOL (or even, heaven help us, ROTFL) have had a cargo-load of comedy to choose from this week. Hot on the heels of the 2nd Annual Orlando Improv Festival, with concluded on Tuesday, comes the brand-new 2011 Orlando Comedy Festival. This celebration of stand-up comedy is hosted by Sleuths Mystery Dinner…
The Revisionist Oscars: 1975
I chose the 1975 Academy Awards this week, not because there was a voting error, as I see it, like there was in the 1995 Oscars, but because there were just so many legitimate choices to pick from. You can truly call this the year of Francis Ford Coppola, though. He owned 1974 like very…
Selection Reminder: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music!
Thursday, Sept. 29 – Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music New York playwright Lee Blessing, possessor of a towering stack of theater awards, is known for Pinteresque political plays in which arms limitation negotiators, Central American dictators, and the like faff about the stage uttering oblique profundities. And yet there’s this play, his second,…
Selection Reminder: Lunch & Learn with Aixa Diaz!
Thursday, Sept. 29 – Lunch & Learn: Aixa Diaz Unlike most journalism professionals (cough), the vaunted task of being a lady broadcast anchor/reporter for the news division from a local affiliate of a major network brings with it that odd caveat of having to be both presentable and prying, pretty but with teeth. A shake…
Once upon a time in India
Music and outlandish tales mark South Asian FIlm Festival
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
50/50
Joseph Gordon-Levitt delivers his best performance in genre-bending weeper
Fresh air
Former bedroom artist Washed Out comes into clear view on expertly produced new album
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I’ve got a challenging assignment for you. In accordance with your current astrological omens, I am inviting you to cultivate a special kind of receptivity – a rigorously innocent openness to experience that will allow you to be penetrated by life’s beauty with sublime intensity. To understand the exact nature of…
Savage Love
I am a 23-year-old female, sexually
This Little Underground
Paul Hiebing and Trevor Fraseralready wrote an elegant and accurate tribute to her in Bloggytown, but I have my own bit to say about Kelly Fitzpatrick. Yes, as the Sentinel’s nightlife columnist, she was a defining, sui generis force in the culture of this city. But back in the Orlando CityBeatdays, she was the very…
Better not pout: Sundance is coming to town.
Fantastic news from the Enzian. In short: Sundance has an initiative in which certain films and their filmmakers, during the Sundance Film Festival, hop on a plane (Southwest, so larger-in-stature auteurs and lesbian actresses beware) and screen them in art houses and host Q&As. It’s the usual suspects: New York, L.A., Boston. And in 2012…
Miami Freaks Grace Our Scene Tonight
If you don’t know the music and accolades of Miami based electro-freak Dino Felipe, there’s a chance you haven’t been paying attention. Felipe has around 50 releases (40 are full length albums) all produced at home. Dino’s prowess has attracted the attention of lo-fi recording legends Ariel Pink and R. Stevie Moore and even prompted…
It’s a gasser
Though lacking the smell of burnt rubber and risk of decapitation, Don Garlits racing museum is a good way to hop up an afternoon
Lumet and Chayefsky’s “Network” @ the Enzian Tonight! $5!
Paddy Chayefsky’s story for Network, who plays tonight at 9:30 as part of the Enzian’s Cult Classics programming, was one that took a long time to come together, The very basics of the idea stretch back to the late 60s, but took him years longer to research and crack. Americans “American people “don’t want jolly, happy…
Selection Reminder: Whores tonight at Will’s Pub!
Tuesday, Sept. 27 – Whores Steel your balls, Orlando; a couple of Atlanta executioners are coming for us, and these fuckers mean business. Since Whores basically skinned us like easy game at the You Are Doomed Fest with their thrilling, snarled and dangerous noise rock, surging promoters Orlandooom found them fit to bring back. Of…
