AltWeeklies Wire
Team-Building Bowling Leads to Plastic Heels and Smoke Machinesnew
Seemingly tame bowling shenanigans involving two hours of light ribaldry, the greased-up wings of dead chickens and innumerable buckets of beer are usually a gateway to somebody sexually falling into somebody else in the bushes outside a karaoke bar, and, with any luck, some inappropriate behavior featuring nudity and very blue language. Let the games begin.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-21-2009 |
Comedy
Tags: humor
Orlando's Prince of Peculiar Nails His Sound with Help from a Friendnew
Idiosyncratic local musician and former Heathen Sean Moore's latest effort strips away every crutch from his melodic arsenal and bravely stands on its own, enveloped by gorgeous digital amplification, while the narrative builds.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
05-21-2009 |
Reviews
Bob Log III Makes the Blues a 'Guitar Party'new
When someone dedicates himself to showmanship as completely as Arizona one-man band Bob Log III, it's an act of privation not to see him play live.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
05-21-2009 |
Concerts
Ben Stiller Is a Strong Anchor for the Unstable 'Museum' Franchisenew
The first installment of Night at the Museum may have been a pithy, middle-of-the-road, grade-B comedy lark with grade-A special effects, but when it grossed a half-billion dollars worldwide, its days as an inoffensive guilty pleasure were over.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
05-21-2009 |
Reviews
'T:4' Benches John Connor During the Big Endgamenew
Taking on a new Terminator movie is like accepting an ambassadorship: Many different factions want something out of you. Often, they have conflicting desires. There's no way all of them can be satisfied.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
05-21-2009 |
Reviews
The Decline and Fall of Orlando's Arts Worldnew
United Arts of Central Florida is charged with mitigating adverse circumstances, but have the circumstances reached a crisis point? Not according to executive director Margot Knight, who tries to keep her head above the treacherous arts-world waters by "following one number and being chased by another."
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
05-21-2009 |
Performance
Bikes at Play in Orlandonew
Building monster bikes out of recycled parts is as much about fun and friendship as it is about staying true to bike culture and using less fossil fuel.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
05-21-2009 |
Recreation
Two Artists Render the Mundane Mysteriousnew
Critics have long argued the differences between poetry and painting. Both Jess and Jack R. Smith validate the Roman poet Horace’s claim: "Ut pictura poesis (As is painting, so is poetry)."
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
02-05-2009 |
Art
Post-Election Competition Heats Up the Video Game Worldnew
In the gaming world, the election very much continues, as the annual holiday onslaught of games competing for your hearts, votes and dollars is heating up to a level that might make even a CNN hologram -- and Wolf Blitzer, too -- burst into flames.
Orlando Weekly |
Aaron R. Conklin |
12-04-2008 |
Video Games
In Florida, If You Don't Own It, You Can't Save Itnew
While other states grant municipalities the right to go over the heads of private property owners in designating landmarks, Florida's law protects property owners from just that sort of thing. "Florida is a super-private property rights state," says city lawyer Karen Consalo. "We're very conservative like that."
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
12-04-2008 |
Housing & Development
Defame Orlando Shreds the Downtown Orlando Scenenew
Since April, Defame Orlando has been stirring the downtown pot with its Internet observations on coke-addled club promoters, local girls gone wild, scenesters in long jean shorts and boat shoes, fixed-gear-bike riders and fame whores.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
12-04-2008 |
Tech
Blister: The Orlando Weekly Election Results Partynew
I don't even know who I am today. There's this spiked ball of nerves wrapped in vein-red twine that seems to be teetering over the ledges of the Labyrinth board with every random unevening of the potholed foundation, sure, but where there's typically a tick -- a nervous winking thing, or at least a heartbeat -- there is nothing so measurable to depend upon today.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
11-14-2008 |
Comedy
This Little Undergroundnew
Wait, what went down last week? Oh, right … the single greatest moment of American history in our lifetime. Downtown was absolutely electric on Election Night, its ventricles pumping with a vigor never quite seen before.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
11-14-2008 |
Performance
Tags: Orlando, election night
The Orlando Police Beatnew
Nov. 4, 3:38 a.m.: Three hours after this incident, people were going to start voting for the next president of the United States, which means that you were still up tossing and turning and hoping that rednecks in Pennsylvania wouldn't screw this up for the rest of us.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
11-14-2008 |
Commentary
Happytown: Craigslist, Foreclosures, and Animal Servicesnew
Thank God the MBI has cleaned up this town.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby |
11-14-2008 |
Commentary
