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GOP ambitions between the Mitt Romney façade
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Notable Noise: This Week’s Best Shows [Built to Spill, Faun Fables, Cheap Time, Damion Suomi, Melvins tribute, and LOTS more]
So many awesome shows this week. These are the awesome-est. Let’s get right to it. Monday, Sept. 10 Built To Spill, Helvetica [Social] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcwEUuJ3Xes Cheap Time [Will’s] Sock Hop Mondaze with the Continentals [Peacock] Tuesday, Sept. 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si322-JRTRo Eureka California, Flashlights, Hot Hands [Will’s] Wednesday, Sept. 12 Maximino, Wekiwa, JSHISH, Fortune Howl [Will’s]…
Sunday Film News Roundup — September 9th, 2012
It was a pretty busy week, both in the world of film and the actual world. We finally saw a great speech from John Kerry, and a very great one from Bubba. “Mark Owens'” No Easy Day was released. The claim that the book isn’t political is kind of bullshit. The tail end of the book…
Obituary spawn death-metal sounds tonight at the Haven
Saturday, Sept. 8 – Obituary with Broken Hope, Jungle Rot, Decrepit Birth 6 p.m. The Haven 6700 Aloma Ave. Winter Park 407-673-2712 thehavenrocks.com $20-$25 Florida has a fuck-load of legitimate claims to the dawn of death metal. And seeing as how deep and wide death metal’s influence is today on heavy music in general, it’s…
New giant-screen film Space Junk premieres at OSC’s Cocktails & Cosmos
Saturday, Sept. 8 – Space Junk 8 p.m. Orlando Science Center 777 E. Princeton St. 407-514-2000 osc.org $13 The human race hasn’t managed to populate outer space yet, but we’ve certainly done a fine job of polluting it. Since we started launching rockets, shuttles and ships into orbit in the 1960s, we’ve cluttered the upper…
Wanzie stages Broadway-themed Celebrity Match Game
Saturday, Sept. 8 – Wanzie’s Celebrity Match Game 2012 7:30 p.m. Footlight Theatre The Parliament House 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail 407-425-7571 wanziepresents.com $12-$15 Sadly, we missed the first round of this game – the TV Land edition – in which contestants try to match answers with the proper fictional character or celebrity (played by…
Gene Kelly in “An American in Paris” @ Enzian, Sat 9/8
An American in Paris is truly a visual treat, one of those fabled films that would never get made today because we lack a true star like Gene Kelly or a director with with range of Vincente Minelli to get it done. Kelly stars as a down-and-out painter in Paris whose love woes come two-fold:…
Bash for Books fundraiser to support Winter Park Public Library
Saturday, Sept. 8 – Bash for Books: Celebrating The Great Gatsby 7 p.m. Rachel D. Murrah Civic Center 1050 W. Morse Blvd. Winter Park 407-599-3341 wppl.org/bash $100 Last year, in response to tech writer Farhad Manjoo’s article arguing against the continuing survival of indie bookstores (itself a response to novelist Richard Russo’s New York Times…
New Orlando Concert Announcements [Screaming Females, Of Montreal, Esperanza Spalding, Ani DiFranco, more]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6DFEOFHl0w Sept. 26: Yogurt Smoothness, The Future Now, The Passenger, Ricin House (Back Booth) Oct. 5: Frankie Beverly & Maze (House of Blues) Oct. 12: Sean Paul (House of Blues) Oct. 15: Screaming Females (Will’s) Oct. 19: Ani DiFranco (Plaza) Oct. 20: John Hiatt (Plaza) Oct. 23: Pierce the Veil (Plaza) Oct. 23: Mean Jeans…
Baritone Kenneth Stavert to be featured in Florida Opera Theatre’s Opera in the Park series
Friday, Sept. 7 – Opera in the Park 6 p.m. Winter Park Wedding Chapel 301 W. New England Ave. 407-718-4365 floperatheatre.org $20-$55 Florida Opera Theatre’s three-concert Opera in the Park series kicks off with baritone Kenneth Stavert on Friday, Sept. 7, at the Winter Park Wedding Chapel. It’s the first event of FOT’s 2012-2013 season,…
The Pauses, Great Deceivers release a four-song split 12-inch
Friday, Sept. 7 – The Pauses, Great Deceivers with Out Go the Lights, Alexander & the Grapes 8 p.m. Will’s Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. 407-898-5070 willspub.org $5 It’s been such a dizzyingly successful year or so for local indie trio the Pauses (a stunning debut album, stellar reviews, a track on Rock Band, that…
Curator’s Choice exhibition opens at Valencia College
Friday, Sept. 7 – Curator’s Choice: Small Works by Central Florida Artists opening 6:30-8:30 p.m. through Oct. 5 Anita S. Wooten Gallery Valencia College East Campus 701 N. Econlockhatchee Trail 407-582-2298 valenciacollege.edu/arts free You’d think most artists would scoff at a curator who places specific confinements on their works. We’d argue that an artist’s creative…
Extreme watersports fest Soaked takes over Lake Eola
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 7-8 – Soaked 11 a.m. Lake Eola Park 195 N. Rosalind Ave. soakedorlando.com $10-$20 There’s a wealth of bad-ass watersport athletes living in Orlando. That’s why we’re actually surprised a large-scale event like this one has never been staged on downtown’s Lake Eola before now. Get ready for two days of extreme watersports…
Opening in Orlando — September 7th, 2012
The Cold Light of Day — Henry “The Next Failed Superman” Cavill plays a Wall Street trader whose family is kidnapped while he’s on a European vacation. Jeez, those guys just can’t catch a break. (PG-13) [youtube GZILiuEFCKk] For a Good Time, Call — Reviewed this week. (R) The Words — Bradley Cooper takes on…
Cornerstone Theatre Company presents Good People
Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 6-9 – Good People 7 p.m. through Sunday, Sept. 9 Lowndes Shakespeare Center 812 E. Rollins St. 407-722-7037 cornerstonetheatrecompany.com $20 The young Cornerstone Theatre Co. will stage a weekend-long run of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, a Southie-set exploration of class, loyalty and shame, as the first show of their ambitious first full season.…
Watch President Obama and the DNC live…hosted by Kumar
Kal Penn, aka Kumar of the infamous Harold and Kumar movies, will be at the forefront of a livestreaming event Thursday night beginning at 8 p.m. hosted by barackobama.com. When he wasn’t riding a cheetah in his movies, Penn became the associate director of public engagement for the White House, but now he has a new…
Checking in on the progress over at Plaza Live (Spoiler: the Euge Groove show has been cancelled)
The roof repairs over at Plaza Live are underway, and, if you’ve ever dealt with roofing contractors, you may not be surprised to learn that the project is going to take a little longer than predicted. The picture above was posted the other day on the Plaza’s Facebook page, and … wow. According to the…
VOD Review: Side by Side – Chris Kenneally (2012) (3 Stars)
Film. Digital. Once, locked in a bitter war and advertised as “film versus digital”, the scrap is barely a fight anymore. Though film keeps hanging on, keeps holding onto devotes, like For Ellen (VOD on 9/19) director of photography Reed Morano, the digital revolution seems cemented in victory at the moment. This “film”, in fact, was…
On sale this week: Halestorm at Hard Rock Live
On sale: Friday, Sept. 7 Halestorm 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 Hard Rock Live 6050 Universal Blvd. 407-351-5483 hardrock.com $15-$20 Down the road: Strung Out, Sept. 15 at The Social Chris Isaak, Sept. 15 at Hard Rock Live Matt Hires, Sept. 15 at Backbooth Hunter Valentine, Sept.…
Taking chances, taking action
A curator’s statement about Walk On By and the Corridor Project.
Walk On By
At exactly 8:30 a.m. today, art happened. You might have missed it.
Craft brewer Ron Raike prepares for Cask & Larder debut
The former Shipyard brewmaster joins the staff at a new Winter Park restaurant that has talent on tap
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Life tests you all the time. Sometimes its prods and queries are hard and weird; they come at you with nonstop intensity. On other occasions the riddles and lessons are pretty fun and friendly, and provide you with lots of slack to figure them out. In all cases, life’s tests offer…
Drink Events
Things to do for people who love booze
Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club revives their country-rock sound with an eerie gospel aesthetic
Savage Love
I have been in a long-term relationship with a wonderful woman who doesn’t have a lot of people she socializes with in her daily life. She is a Burning Man person and converses online with other "burners." I confronted her when I realized she was discussing the ups and downs of our relationship in a…
Culture 2 Go
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof speaks at Rollins
Remix: A fresh take on the Dark & Stormy.
When I decided on the Dark & Stormy for this month’s Remix, it looked like Hurricane Isaac (or Kirk or Leslie or somebody) was going to be giving us a beating, so the choice seemed apt. But now it looks like we’re in for nothing more than our usual hot sunny days spiked with afternoon…
Maakies
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Happytown: The Republican National Convention edition
We went to the RNC in Tampa and all we got was this lousy story to tell; the Sentinel’s premature ejaculation over Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech
This Little Underground
Man, are you watching this Here Comes Honey Boo Boo shit? It pains me on many levels to watch, but … can’t … look … away. Anyway, on to the music. The beat Local-ish Florida artist Levek (Aug. 30, Will’s Pub) has been blipping on national radars of late and generating some impressive hype for…
Miller's Field
SoCal sports-bar fixture looks to woo fans in Dr. Phillips
Live Active Cultures
Seth rides Skyrush and prays to a brand-new god.
For a Good Time, Call
Short, sweet and smutty, phone-sex homance charms with droll precision
One-time 'Florida haters' Built to Spill have no room for nostalgia
Touring can take a toll on anyone, but gearing up for the road proves especially difficult for family man Doug Martsch. Especially now. He’s preparing to take his seminal indie rock outfit Built to Spill on yet another U.S. tour, which involves the kinds of errands many established bands would outsource, like picking up T-shirts…
Bar news roundup
BART opens its doors, Redlight Redlight helps you drink for a good cause, the Imperial opens a space in Sanford
‘A coordinated series of chance encounters with art’
There have been huge efforts in Orlando to place art in the consciousness of the larger community. I think of the painted guitars adorning downtown street corners, of Doug Rhodehamel’s paper mushrooms, and of Mills 50’s decorative power boxes. These exhibitions, though, interesting as they are, have not classically merited an outpouring of sustained community…
Summer box office wrap-up: How’d I do?
Summer is over — at least by the somewhat skewed metric of motion-picture exhibition — and that means it’s time for me to compare my box-office predictions with the way reality actually shook out. Most entertainment writers don’t do this, you’ll notice: Their end-of-season post mortems conveniently ignore the forecasts they themselves had issued just…
Jim Ireland, former head of Orlando Opera, dies at 69
Jim Ireland, the controversy-provoking former president and CEO of Orlando Opera, has died from complications of lung cancer. He was 69. We wrote a lot about Ireland during his troubled tenure in Orlando: “The fat lady sings?,” 6/19/2008; “No refunds,” 6/25/2009; and an out-the-door mea culpa from Ms. Margot Knight in 2011 (“Exit stage Knight,”…
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Notable Noise: This Week’s Best Shows [Will’s Pub’s 17th Anniversary, Pauses/Great Deceivers EP release, Ed Sheeran, Obituary, more]
Hey, everyone. Let’s take a minute and wish Will’s Pub a Happy 17th Birthday. Yeah, there were a few lost years in there, but the Pub has long been and still is the heart of Orlando’s underground music scene. The celebration started a couple days ago, but is rolling all through this week. Check out…
