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Friday January 25, 2008
Orchid weekend
Das weekend
- Hey everybody, the World Orchid Conference is in town. $20 admission, but if you’re even remotely interested, this is very impressive.
- Opens a special exhibition at the Metrozoo on Reptiles: more turtles, lizards, and snakes then you can shake a stick at.
- The Miami Jewish Film Festival.
- International Chocolate Festival at Fairchild.
- Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps, from someone who did.
- Homestead Rodeo. Can we go to this, mom, please??
Tonight
- Yo, the Wu-Tang Clan (at the Fillmore). Review of a recent set here.
- Emerica Demo at MIA Skatepark.
- For sad people with empty lives: Matchbox Twenty. I can’t believe tickets for this start at $60… Shouldn’t they be playing Gulfstream or something?
Saturday
- Jackie Mason at the Bank Atlantic Center.
- Peter Sellers Fest at Churchills (and no, I have no idea who Peter Sellers is or what will happen at this). Update: Oh, shit. Is this a joke? A cover for an international crime ring? What??
- Miami Bhangra Competition, something amazing from India, with 16 people dancing all at once.
- Farewell to the Orange Bowl event, fwiw. (With “free autograph sessions,” and by “free” they mean if you bought a $20 ticket.)
- It just keeps getting stupider: how about the Back Alley Turf Wars.
Sunday
- The Zen Art Faire at Wallflower.
- Sweat Records is delivering on promises of being a cultural mecca, with all sorts of things happening, including today at 7pm “Primary Party,” an actual political round-table and discussion.
- The marathon if we had Rick we would have photos of this next week.
- Basque Ball, a documentary of which I can’t tell if it’s about a sport or about terrorism, but in the Basque region of Spain.
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Dude, have you been living under a rock? Peter Sellers is an icon. One of the most respected comedic british actors of the 20th century. He was in Kubrick’s Lolita and Dr.Strangelove…
He is probably best known for his role as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. I believe the fest will be screening some of his MOVIES, comedy routines, etc…you don’t have to be an einstein to figure that out… just google it.
Alesh: Bhangra is not just from India, but from Pakistan too. Specifically, it’s from the Punjab region, which is split between both countries.
Alesh, I love coming here on Fridays, finding out the great things going on over the weekend.
But you’re kidding about not knowing who Peter Sellers is, right?
I’m not a huge fan, but have great respect for Matchbox Twenty. They are a Florida band that made it big.
Scrap whatever in this list and rent “Dr. Stragelove”.
Rodeo
Mecca
IS that bhangra thing a spectator event or am I going to have to (get to) dance?
Peter sellers was hilarious in the Pink Panther movies. A comedy genius.
I guess tomorrow is our last chance to take whatever souvenirs we can salvage from the Orange Bowl.
Actually, I rather like the idea of a giant Japanese robot in the form of a stereotypical black-clad art snob using its powerful Steel Sneer to fight Mecha-Britto’s swarms of colorful flying signed prints.
mkh, I was thinking along the same lines, but more like Robotech mecha because they’re powered by, you know, protoculture. Plus, if Sweat Records really were a cultural mecha it could have three battle modes like Fighter, Guardian, and Battloid AND a big honking gunpod. Bonus: Lolo would look pretty cool in a Veritech pilot’s flight suit and helmet.