If you happen to see a ginormous yellow cyclops hovering overhead this weekend, don't panic: it's just the Despicablimp. To promote the June 22 release of Despicable Me 2, Universal Pictures is parading a 165-feet long, 55-feet high helium-filled Minion on a cross-country publicity tour. The blimp was sighted in the air over eastern...
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On Saturday 2/9, Universal Orlando kicked off their annual Mardi Gras celebration with an inaugural parade and concert by the rock group Lifehouse. Media were invited to check out the parade floats backstage with show director Lora Wallace, who showed of the 4 brand new floats (including my new favorite, a fire-belching Day of...
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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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In this week’s edition of Live Active Cultures, I take a magnifying glass to the darker aspects of Disney’s new MyMagic+ program, which promises the “cruisification” for the theme park experience. On the brighter side, some of Mickey’s money has been spent lately on things that actually impact WDW guests in a positive way....
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Over the weekend, Titanic: The Experience debuted a sparking new addition to their International Drive collection of artifacts from the ill-fated oceanliner. Jewels of Titanic is a temporary touring display featuring gems and fine jewelry recovered from the shipwreck site 2.5 miles beneath the Atlantic's surface. As the exhibit's creative director Mark Lach explained,...
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The long-anticipated New Fantasyland expansion at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom officially opens to the public on December 6th, but select guests have been given the opportunity to experience the new attractions through “soft openings” held over the past few weeks. All the elements of New Fantasyland should be open for business next Thursday,...
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A pinhole camera can not only give us the ethereal images we seek, but niftily demonstrates an everyday magic trick as well with just a box with a hole poked in it, a light source and a basic working knowledge of physics.
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Enjoy the great outdoors, but think it would be better with more terrified screaming? Like roller coasters, but wish you could ride the rails without those pesky cars to sit in? Want to get a different — and much higher — perspective on St. Could? If you answered “yes” to any of the above,...
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Stage sights from the lens of photographer Christopher Garcia. Iron & Wine: Kid Cudi: The Avett Brothers: The Felice Brothers: The Pixies: The Raconteurs:
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