Thursday, March 28 – The Live Creation of Doug Rhodehamel’s 50,000th Paper Bag Mushroom 7 p.m. The Venue 511 Virginia Drive 407-412-6895 dougrhodehamel.com $2 Referring to one of our favorite local artists, Doug Rhodehamel, as “The Paper Mushroom Guy” is probably pigeonholing him a little bit, but looking at how influential his paper mushroom...
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Orlando's first-ever Cardboard Art Festival inspired corrugated craziness in Orange Avenue's Say It Loud studio over the weekend. As detailed in this week's issue of OW, producer Mark Baratelli of The Daily City collaborated with curators Doug Rhodehamel and Brendan O'Connor to assemble artists including Jessica Earley, Nathan Selikoff, Adriaan Mol, and Evan &...
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Many thanks to Doug Rhodehamel for bringing us a delicious plate of bacon today. It has given us the strength to soldier on and finish our Orlando Weekly inaugural Summer Guide, which is scheduled to hit the streets in the midst of Tropical Storm Debby.
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I’ve had a crazy week of unexpected cross-country travel, which is why you won’t be seeing my Live Active Cultures column in the next edition of the Orlando Weekly. (Worry not, I’ll be back the following week.) But I made sure to make a brief stop home in time to celebrate the release of...
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Saturday, Oct. 15 – Bacon! The Experience Meat candy. Fried crack. Sir Francis Awesome. Bacon has been called many things, and in the last five years, it’s become the trendy food additive, finding its way into everything from chocolate to mayonnaise to soda – but until now it hasn’t been called art. Peripatetic Orlando...
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Saturday, August 13th – Hot In The City Tonight, Alchemy Hair Salon and TheDailyCity.com are hosting a dank-ass party. Definitely the most all-encompassing, swag event happening. The roster boasts an art installation by Doug Rhodehamel, the unveiling of Black Bean Deli’s “La Empanada” food truck, vendors, bands, and boooooooooooooooooooze. Musical acts include Heather Lee...
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Artist Doug Rhodehamel (aka the paper-bag mushroom guy) usually doesn’t have to worry about attendance at his openings, many of which are one-night installations. But the Friday, Nov. 5, reception for his latest project, Sea of Green, might be a different story, because it’s going to be an hour’s drive from Orlando at the...
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Of course you know that the market is tonight, 6-9 at Stardust Video & Coffee as always. But you might not have known that #2 in a series of collectible figurines will be given away free to the first 50 market visitors. Doug Rhodehamel’s “APATHETICS” series launched last week with the Starfish of Apathy. Tonight, lucky...
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Never heard of Dustoberfest before? Break down the words to break the code. “Dust” comes from “Stardust” – as in Stardust Coffee & Video. And “oberfest” comes from the archaic Saxon term for “drink beer and eat sausage till you die.” That should tell you what’ll be going on Sunday, Oct. 9, at Stardust,...
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