In seasonally-appropriate restaurant name news…
Have you ever been munching on some delicious flatbreads and dips at The Social Chameleon and thought “Man, I wish this place was bigger and located closer to the Executive Airport”? Poof! Wish granted! Taking up residence at the old Sandwich King location on Primrose Drive, the Chameleon’s Bret Ashman is opening a sister restaurant,…
Happy hookahs
Medical alerts about how bad tobacco is for your lungs haven’t slowed the pleasure of sucking down smoke from hookahs – a time-honored waterpipe that dates back a thousand years to India. It’s getting competitive in Orlando, with more lounges opening that are devoted to playtime with the device and what can legally be smoked…
No, really, let me in
Was this film really necessary? Apparently not. Reading the tea leaves, that means guess who’s not directing Superman after all? (Oh, and how come the Facebook movie isn’t performing in the parts of the country where there’s nothing to do but go on Facebook?)
The good Herman?
Does NBC have a future in the post-Zucker era? If so, it’s not immediately apparent. When a genre entry/ stunt show like The Event is the cornerstone of your ballyhooed “return to drama,” a resumption of the heyday of Hill Street Blues isn’t exactly right around the corner. (And just as I feared, after two…
Reporters think new Amway Center is dreamy
After the staff of the Orlando Sentinel were given a tour of the new Amway Center on Tuesday by Mayor Buddy Dyer and Magic president Alex Martins, the new arena was promptly doused in digital drool, ranging in consistency from chest-poundingly giddy to quietly converted. (To the paper’s credit, Scott Maxwell offers the most concise…
Local Indie Calendar for October
Subject to change, these dates are. 10/1 – documentary mystery Catfish (Waterford Lakes), art-world expose Exit Through the Gift Shop (Enzian), bittersweet love story Jack Goes Boating (Winter Park) 10/8 – claustrophobic thriller Buried (Winter Park – pictured), low-key sci-fi drama/romance Never Let Me Go (Enzian) 10/15 – the origin story of John Lennon in…
East Egghead
Facebookâ??s creation myth gets its devil courtesy of David Fincher
Turnabout
A fascinating portrait of an art movement and its dizzying consequences
Smooth sailing
Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers an emotionally honest indie romance
Tweens today
American retelling of a Swedish horror tale succumbs to embedded handicaps
The emotional network
Facebook gives snarksters a life lesson in this cathartic documentary
Peel slowly and eat
This modern American diner is top banana
Greeks bearing gifts
Editor’s note: This story has been changed to clarify the fact that although Theo’s Kitchen no longer operates at this location, it did not go out of business; it relocated to Curry Ford Road. Theo’s Kitchen may be gone from this familiar location, but the space is being kept Greek by Mediterranean Blue, who also…
Oh my goddess
ELLA Fest;with Christina Wagner, Amy Steinberg, Raffa & Rainer, Sunny, Lauren Carder & the Multiple Me, the Actomatics and more;5-11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1-Sunday, Oct. 3;Orlando Brewing, 407-872-1117;www.ellamusicfest.org;$7-$20 ;; Let’s get this out of the way up front: Robert Johnson is tired. Beat up. Exhausted. The guy’s a glutton for punishment and his only respite…
The other side of normal
Telethon with Alias Punch, the Moon Is a Disco Ball, DJ Tanner, Thor Von Thunderbeats 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 Stardust Video & Coffee, 407-623-3393 free free free There’s a long and storied history of musicians who got their start in the church. From Johann Sebastian Bach to Aretha Franklin and Al Green, the confluence…
Culture 2 Go
Thrilled to death The 39 Steps Through Oct. 10 at Orlando Shakespeare Theater 812 E. Rollins St. 407-447-1700 www.orlandoshakes.org $16-$38 The 39 Steps, a 1935 British suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was loosely based on John Buchan’s 1915 adventure novel of the same name. The plot of the movie (which was shifted from pre-World…
Soaring visions
Master/Plan: Visionary Architects and Their Utopian Worlds Through Dec. 23 at Cornell Fine Arts Museum Rollins College, Winter Park 407-646-2526 www.rollins.edu/cfam $5 $5 $5 Auspiciously, on Sept. 11 the Cornell Museum debuted an exhibition of the visions of six architects, each as transformative as Minoru Yamasaki’s ill-fated World Trade Center towers, and each as bold.…
Shoot first, ask questions later
Last month, an 18-year-old man named Irving Santana was shot to death in Philadelphia. Press, police and politicians alike united in righteous anger — not at the killer but at the state of Florida. The shooter, Marquis Hill, had a valid Florida concealed-weapons license, despite having had his Pennsylvania license stripped by police in 2005.…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Nine-year-old Fatima Santos told the San Francisco Chronicle her opinions about the movie Toy Story: “If I had to make a movie like this, I would make it funnier. I would make Mr. Potato Head look funnier than he already does. I would put his hair on his legs, his shoes…
Savage Love
I’m a straight college guy, age 21, and I share a house with some buddies and a couple. Anyhow, the interesting stuff: This couple has been together for four years. They’re both quite sexual, but she’s got more libido than he does. I’ve got a big sex drive, too. Both of them have stated an…
Happytown
It was a showdown at the OC Corral last week when the Orange County commission blustered into a dustbowl at its Sept. 21 meeting of the rather large heads. Normally, county commission meetings carry with them about as much excitement as earthworms dying in the heat on the sidewalk – in no small part because…
Council Watch
Appropriately enough, it was all about watching things at this week’s civic slumber party. Lining the back walls of the council chambers were the so-called “big dogs” of local law enforcement staring blank cop stares at the gathered minions. “I think we have pretty good security at today’s meeting,” Mayor Buddy Dyer chuffed. The uniformed…
Outside the margins
; Beyond Bollywood: ; 16th Annual South Asian Film Festival ; Saturday, Oct. 2-Monday, Oct. 4 ; Enzian Theater, 407-629-0054 ; www.enzian.org ; $10-$35 ;;; It’s an election year, so it should be no surprise that immigration has been a hot topic going into the 16th year of Enzian Theater and the Asian Cultural Association’s annual…
Live Active Cultures
; After Universal’s two decades of building the tourism calendar’s unprofitable dead zone into a monstrously successful gorehound magnet, I half-expected the company to rest on its moneybags for All Hallow’s Eve. After the exhausting Harry Potter opening, it would be understandable if the creative team made the 20th edition of Halloween Horror Nights a…
DVDs Nuts!
Calvin Marshall ; Expectation is the theme at bat in this tender coming-of-age film about a less-than-stellar Juco baseball player (the charming Alex Frost) who compensates for his lack of athletic skill with a never-die attitude and heart to spare. If this sounds sickly sweet, that’s because it is, but in the most tolerable, actually…
This Little Underground
No foreplay this week. Let’s get busy. The beat The big-shot feature for the latest Southern Fried Sunday was the Dex Romweber Duo (Sept. 19, Copper Rocket). If you don’t know Dex, you can probably bet that he’s a hero to some of your own musical heroes. A huge role model to Jack White, the…
Great expectations
The National with Owen Pallett 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6 House of Blues, 407-934-2583 www.hob.com $23.25-$25.75 $23.25-$25.75 Going into the making of their new album, High Violet, the members of Brooklyn indie rock band the National talked about wanting to create a lighter and more poppy album. That idea was, in part, a response to…
DREAM Act dies, Georgia spits on its grave
It comes as no surprise that the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act died in the Senate last week. The bill, which would give minors brought into the United States illegally an opportunity to earn legal residency here via college or military service, has been introduced multiple times over the last decade…
