FBI investigation ties Sarasota Saudi family to 9/11 hijackers
With the passage of the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, we’re somewhat relieved: all that commemorating and journalistic jousting for a unique angle on the tragedy is over, and we can talk about other things again. But since our own 9/11-themed story (cough) is still on the cover for a couple more days, and…
Film News Roundup — September 11th, 2011
Like everyone else this week, I guess, I went into post traumatic stress mode about the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I did things I said previously that I wouldn’t do, by reading Don DeLillo novel The Falling Man, which really captured the fractured panic pretty much exactly as I remember it, and watching Paul Greengrass’s…
Shocker: Local musician Ralph Ameduri reportedly killed in robbery.
Tidbits of info are still dripping in, but according to former OW staffer Micky Michalec on Facebook, beloved local musician Ralph Ameduri (The Legendary JC’s, the Rondos) was shot and killed last night while subbing for Thomas Wynn & the Believers at Jessie’s Bar in Winter Haven, reports ABC News. Word is that there was…
Selection Reminder: Romantic classic Jules and Jim shows at Enzian!
Saturday, September 10 – Jules and Jim When you’re dealing with names like Francois Truffaut, Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner, you know you’re talking about a film classic. But in the case of Jules and Jim, Truffaut’s most romantically remembered masterpiece, you’re talking about something so much more than a late-night TCM binge. There’s a…
Selection Reminder: Rasa-Lila yoga fest today!
Saturday, September 10 – Rasa-Lila Fest There’s something to be said about people who are capable of clearing the mind of life’s many distractions. And for some, yoga is the perfect way to do just that. This weekend, Orlando yoga enthusiasts converge at lakeside recreation area the Pines at Windermere for the Rasa-Lila Fest. What’s…
Underrated: Hana and Alice – Shunji Iwai (2004)
In the normal run of things, there are very few love triangle films you would ever find me enjoying on the sly, let alone openly praising and defending, but Shunji Iwai’s Hana & Alice is one of them. A beautiful, deceptively complex film, one that is as touching as it is funny, and one that…
Loud Valley To Tour With Lighthouse Music
Local mellowheads Loud Valley have been swimming marathons lately. Well, at least metaphorically. Their debut LP was recorded by Thomas Johnson of The Futurebirds at a plantation in Athens that was built in 1879. Travis Reed, frontman of Loud Valley, explains “The whole record is a dream; The sun sets in the west and rises…
Deleted Scenes Album Release Tonight
Friday, Sept. 9th – Deleted Scenes Washington, DC art-rock band Deleted Scenes is celebrating their 2nd full length album release tonight at Will’s. Young People’s Church of the Air, their sophomore release, proves slightly more experimental than their first effort incorporating double-kick drums and washy atmospheres. Stream the whole album for a limited time at their…
Selection Reminder: Red Bull Toasted featuring Parks Bonifay!
Friday, September 9 – Red Bull Toasted featuring Parks Bonifay Product placement fascinates us. It’s for that reason we do things we should abhor, like watch NASCAR races and Sex in the City for hours on end. It’s also the reason you may see us at Red Bull’s “roast” of wakeboarding legend Parks Bonifay –…
UPDATED: Trader Joe’s coming to Florida! (soon!)
At last, at last, lord almighty, cheap rosemary-dusted Marcona almonds (and frozen wild salmon steaks, and Czech beer, and organic dog food, and and and) AT LAST. I’ve posted about it my love for Trader Joe’s a million times (here and here and here), and they’re FINALLY opening a Florida location. In Naples. Even after…
September employment report: DC adds job for Superman
I feel compelled to point out that the DC Comics relaunch started reaping greater artistic dividends this week. After all, I have a responsibility to certain talkbackers, who seem to be indignant that I don’t treat the subject of mainstream superhero comics with the stone-faced sobriety of Joe Friday reading the Magna Carta. (Good news,…
Selection Reminder: Kevin Nealon stops by Improv Comedy Club!
Friday, September 9 – Kevin Nealon Nealon may be best known now for his dopey (ha) turn on Showtime’s Weeds as Nancy Botwin’s accountant-slash-backer-slash-best customer, but he created some of his most memorable characters in the coke-fueled era of Saturday Night Live, where he was a cast member from 1986 to 1995: Subliminal Man, Hans…
Mark your calendar, cluckface: Free food at Pollo Tropical next Thursday
How hungry are you? Hungry enough to dress “head to toe in yellow” and “cluck like a chicken” at a Pollo Tropical cashier? If so, you got yourself a FREE 1/4 chicken meal — that includes rice and beans, kids! — so long as you do it between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15…
Selection Reminder: Graphic by Design opening reception tonight at Valencia!
Friday, September 9 – Graphic by Design If you’ve ever been to a concert at venues like House of Blues and the Social, or watched a film at Enzian Theater, or bought vinyl at Park Ave CDs, you’ve most likely seen the graphic design work of the featured artists in this show. Graphic by Design…
Selection Reminder: The Cute Lepers ransack Will’s Pub tonight!
Thursday, September 8 – The Cute Lepers Hey, remember the original Will’s Pub back in the day? If you do, then you probably recall how Seattle retro-punkers the Briefs used to rock that room out every time. If you can’t remember all the way back to 2005, then trust us, that shit ruled. Well, either…
Redefining moment
Finesse revises and refines Lake Mary’s dining scene
This Little Underground
Bao Le-Huu takes on Erasure, Anderson Gang, Rudy, Oak Hill Drifters, Aficionado and Soul inSanity, and urges the music scene to chip in for NK Tapes’ Summer Single Comp
‘Sports,’ illustrated
Shoegaze band Weekend prepare a loud and fast live set
There was New York
A trickle of snapshots from the day the towers fell accumulates into a relentless flood of memory
Free Will Astrology
ARIES(March 21-April 19) “Don’t be angry with the rain,” counseled author Vladimir Nabokov. “It simply does not know how to fall upward.” In the coming week, I advise you to apply that principle to a host of phenomena. Don’t get all knotted up about any force of nature that insists on being itself, and don’t…
Live Active Cultures
It isn’t an annoying Nintendo character,and it isn’t a mountain in Peru. It’s an educational opportunity, a social networking environment and “a way for creative people to share their thoughts in public.” It’s exactly 20 slides, shown for exactly 20 seconds each, illuminating any topic you can imagine. It’s called pechakucha (pronounced “peh-CHAK-cha”), it started…
Happytown
The week when Haridopolos learned how to lie on YouTube, Republicans falsely conjured reparations and objectivity was kicked out of the Middle East. This is the week we’ll never forget?
9/11 by the numbers
A sampling of facts and figures compiled a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States
Unfinished Business
Bill Doyle is on a mission to prove that Saudi Arabia bankrolled the 9/11 attacks
DVDs Nuts!
Lesser-seen OW approved titles
Stop making cents
Spotify’s stateside launch offers 15 million tracks, but at whose expense?
Terri
Azazel Jacobs’ new film is a tale of two pities
Savage Love
first line of story
Rotation:What local artists are listening to
This week: Hear Hums
Warrior
MMA gets its Rocky with this excellent fight drama
Source materials for 9/11 by the numbers
This week in the Upfront section of Orlando Weekly, we ran a story called “9/11 by the Numbers: A sampling of facts and figures compiled a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.” It was by no means an attempt to draw any all-encompassing or definitive conclusions about 9/11 and…
Migrant farmworkers and activists pressing tomato pickers’ wages “turned away at the gates” by Publix
Yesterday, a group of ten people wearing reflective yellow vests arrived at the Lakeland headquarters of Publix Super Markets to request a meeting with company CEO Ed Crenshaw. For these activists and farmworkers, who biked 200 miles from southwest Florida to bring attention to their cause, the ideal scenario would have allowed them to present…
Bon Voyage, Margot Knight!
We’re still reeling from this news a little bit, but thought we’d be remiss if we didn’t place something up in our little corner of the internet regarding the impending exit of United Arts of Central Florida president and CEO Margot Knight from the already winded Orlando arts community. You see, Margot has been more…
The long march begins: FFF calls for entries.
Although it’s still eight months away, the 21st Annual Florida Film Festival has launched its call for entries to hungry young filmmakers with movies in the can – or at least in the editing bay. Early deadline for shorts is Oct. 21, late deadline is Nov. 18; for features, early deadline is Nov. 4 and…
Photo Gallery: Final Weekend of Sci-Fi Summer at Kennedy Space Center
Thanks to budget battles battering NASA’s bottom line, the next generation may find the idea actually of sending men to the moon more unrealistic than finding giant toy robots living there. So it’s sadly fitting that NASA declared this past season, during which the space shuttle flew for the final time, the “Summer of Sci-Fi.”…
Share Our Strength Charity Dinner (Cress Restaurant)
Two words: goat belly. If it’s the last thing you ever put in your mouth, consider yourself privileged. And the food at this gathering of local James Beard Award nominees was certainly to die for. Thirty-three paying customers dropped $275 each for the pleasure of dining on a seven-course meal prepared by Kevin Fonzo (K…
Selection Reminder: No Babies bring the noise to Substance tonight!
Tuesday, September 6 – No Babies 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 nearly anti-harmony cacophony of punk, jazz and noise delivered as fast and…
