she could eat.
One of our wonderful food writers, the fabulous Holly Kapherr, has temporarily departed Orlando for an internship at Cooking Light magazine. She’s been posting on her blog, I Could Eat, about her experiences up in Birmingham, working with the editors of the largest food magazine in the world and, most important, daily tasting the creations…
GOD AND ODYSSEUS
Ice-age excursion from German visionary Werner Herzog.
GIRLIE MAN
In Flesh Tones Label: Absolutely Kosher Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: In Flesh Tones Jordon Hossack’s singing voice is an androgynous marvel: breathy, fragile and urgent all at once. Yeah, yeah: Dude chirps like a lady, but that’s nothing new. From Rod Stewart to Prince, Fine Young Cannibals to Billy Corgan,…
BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN
Sanford belles serve more than seafood.
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
Why … so … serious??? With all due deference to the late Heath Ledger’s Nicholson-jacking genius, there’s little to joke about lately. Perhaps it’s the sting of having spent 16 simoleons on a seat at the Pointe Orlando IMAX, or the stress of surviving the salida from their miserably managed parking garage. But despite the…
COUNCIL WATCH
Those hoping for a hot-summer ethical showdown in reference to the recent Daisy Lynum redneck scandal – something about racist ropes that doesn’t bear repeating – would be sorely disappointed at this dull installment of Your City at Work. A lone WKMG-Channel 6 reporter tried to corner Lynum at the dais for a sound-bite response,…
COMMENTS
Break the Chains Best of Orlando `July 17`: Olive Garden, Subway, Five Guys Burgers, the Capital Grille, Publix, Sonny’s … chains, chains, chains. The article is worthless if you just spout of chains that everyone knows. All this does is perpetuate the false notion that there are only chains in Orlando. I would rather you…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a 22-year-old woman, and the older I get, the more often I am ridiculed by straight men for being ugly. Just last night, a man asked me if I was jealous of my pretty friends and if I wished I could look like them. I know I’m unattractive, but I’ve met wonderful girls who…
HAPPYTOWN
Two weeks ago, this news paper published a report on the Orlando Police Department’s weak-kneed approach to disciplining its own (“Might makes right,” July 10). We got plenty of responses, but didn’t hear a peep from Orlando Police Chief Val Demings. Instead, Demings pressed her case to the Orlando Sentinel, which published a July 13…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Anna Renalda Hyatt, a reader from Colorado, bragged to me about her prowess. “My capacity for expressing love far surpasses that of anyone I have ever met,” she wrote. “I am a Sublime Genius of Love, a Master of Unconditional Compassion, a Virtuoso of Deep Empathy.” Your assignment in the coming…
SUBMERGED IN SUMMER READING
Because it’s been such a busy season of book releases, we grabbed a handful that had an Orlando connection and set to reading. Lo and behold, there was promise and perfection to be found among the titles. The latter especially was found in the nonfiction section of the project, in the form of artful underwater…
THE AX FALLS
This has been a tough week for us,” Orlando Sentinel editor Charlotte Hall said in a July 18 e-mail to her editorial staff. That’s something of an understatement. The disassembling of this city’s once- proud daily newspaper, as foreshadowed almost a year ago when its parent company was taken over by a multimillionaire businessman with…
GEEKS AT PLAY
Watch your back! Get back! Get back! Check the sword! There’s one below! Go back-door and set up. Do it now!” Ryan Coverstone barks out. The 20-year-old Port St. Lucie gamer, outfitted in a black hooded sweatshirt and matching fitted cap, sits crouched in a chair with his arms and hands hanging between his legs,…
CAPE, COWL AND CAMELOT
For a guy whose business card could read “Guardian of Gotham City,” Batman sure spends lot of time hanging around Camelot. Twice in the last four decades, an outpouring of Batmania has reflected the public’s desire for political renewal; the first time, as that dream collapsed, and now as its latter-day incarnation teeters on the…
WELL-WORN VENOM
Alice Cooper’s career longevity is a testament to the power of artistic detachment. Ever since he became one of the first celebs to check himself into rehab (back when it was still called “the asylum”), Vincent Furnier has realized that his livelihood and sanity depend on treating his ghoulish alter ego as a business tool…
BLISTER
What is this odd absence? A ringing echo between the ears, a puff of hot air where the heart used to be, that awful pain that magically appears in the syntactic transaction between the words “dry” and “socket.” All are here tonight, precisely where they shouldn’t be, I should think, as I gather up my…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Diversifying their artistic vision, progressive dance duo Daft Punk just released their directorial effort Electroma on DVD. And, boy, is it, ummm, arty. It’s a high-concept film that’s mostly an exercise in style. It’s completely devoid of dialogue and features abstract imagery, striking landscapes and robots. Obliquely peppered in are existential themes of loss, futility,…
FIRST SHOT
Don’t you love it when a corporate Cyclops blinks? Marvel Films has reportedly reached a deal with director Jon Favreau for Iron Man 2, after having made some threatening noises that the sequel might be going on without him. It seems Marvel had balked at the idea of paying points on the follow-up, when it…
And the Rest
Gonna cram in a bunch of stuff here, so bear with me. Remember the old chant, “No blood for oil”? (Good times.) Well now you can literally trade your blood… for oil! Now through July 31 (started on the 17th, sorry), Florida Blood Centers is giving away $10 gas cards (i.e. almost 2.5 gallons) with…
