Archive for February, 2009
Canned Corn Festival
By Kelly Monaghan at 6 February, 2009, 11:45 am
The Zellwood Sweet Corn Festival is throwing in the cob after 35 years. Big Bertha — a 6-ton, 350-gallon water-boiling behemoth that can cook 1,650 or so ears of double-sweet corn in just nine minutes — will be steamless and unemployed this year, for the same reason so many humans are Read More
Read More >>Memorial Manta Day at SeaWorld
By Kelly Monaghan at 6 February, 2009, 11:30 am
SeaWorld is now announcing Manta for Memorial Day. Actually, a few days early on May 22. The video above (aptly described by SeaWorld as a “teaser”) is long on fish and short on coaster, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. If I’m reading the iconography of the video Read More
Read More >>Rip, Ride, Rockit Update
By Kelly Monaghan at 5 February, 2009, 11:42 am
The Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit roller coaster at Universal Studios Florida is progressing apace. No official word on opening yet, but the buzz is that it will be open by late May, all the better to grab the attention of recently graduated high schoolers. I had always sorta assumed that the Read More
Read More >>Fear Factor Closes (Until Spring)
By Kelly Monaghan at 5 February, 2009, 11:36 am
Universal Orlando is closing its Fear Factor attraction until Spring and cutting hours at other, unspecified attractions in response to “the poor economic forecast for 2009.” According to WESH TV News : It will be a limited number of attractions within Islands of Adventure and Read More
Read More >>"Wittenberg" at Orlando Shakespeare Theater
By Kelly Monaghan at 4 February, 2009, 4:03 pm
Web 2.0 has come to the Orlando Shakespeare Theater. (I refuse to call it Orlando Shakes. Ugh.) But they have posted a cute little video preview of their latest play, “Wittenberg” by David Davalos. Here’s their description of the play: This sprightly and hilarious battle of wits Read More
Read More >>Bye-Bye, Dubai
By Kelly Monaghan at 4 February, 2009, 3:40 pm
Another sign of the times : Busch Entertainment Corp., owner of SeaWorld and other theme parks, has shelved plans to build four parks in Dubai, making the project the Middle Eastern state’s latest casualty amid the international credit freeze. Worlds of Discovery was announced just a year Read More
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