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May 19-25, 2004

May 19-25, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 20

Steaks are high

Take a peek at the “Steaks” heading in Orlando Weekly’s 2004 edition of BITE, and you’ll see that this town is up to here in steakhouses. From Linda’s La Cantina, to Kres (you say steakhouse, they say chophouse, let’s call that whole argument off), to Ruth’s Chris, to Sam Seltzer’s, to Vito’s, if you can’t…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Simple sandwiches and coffee with perks

It’s bothersome when restaurants — intending to add an air of sophistication and exclusivity to whatever it is they’re hawking — use “gourmet” to describe their common, everyday fare. For example, Perk & Beans in the renovated College Park commercial district bills itself as a place for “gourmet coffee, tea and food.” And with more…

Micky Michalec

Age before beauty

Beauty eases the passage of a bitter pill, and no medicine stings like time’s slow advance. Beulah’s new disc, “Yoko” (a reference to the album track “You’re Only King Once,” not the Beatle wife), offers a bird’s-eye view of this somber spectacle, with rich strings abetting gossamer strands of sweeping guitar in a style that…

Chris Parker

I got nothing

You stumble out of bed around 10, you fall into the kitchen. You pour yourself a cup of ambition. Then you yawn and stretch and try to come to life. That’s what you do when you’re attempting the meticulous overstatement requisite to writing about nothing. Oh, folks like me not on the job, not working…

Billy Manes

Lie back and think of England

In the furor over the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, few media outlets have noted that the evidence goes beyond mere photographs. Members of the U.S. Armed Services Committee were also allowed to peruse excerpts from the diary of Private Lynndie England, which we reprint here for your reading pleasure. April 15, 2003 Dear…

Steve Schneider

I got serviced

I’m an hour into an interview with Comedy Central’s curmudgeonly commentator Lewis Black and a year into a job as a staff writer for DRILL magazine. Black has just finished a photo shoot in his favorite New York theater. He’s smoking like a chimney and ranting, and I’m catching it all on the spiffy new…

Tyler Gray

The election that won’t die

The Buddy Dyer press machine fooled the Sentinel. On May 13, Dyer gave Sentinel city reporter Beth Kassab a letter he had just received from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement declaring, “`T`here was no basis to support the allegations of election fraud concerning these absentee ballots.” Those absentee ballots, Sentinel readers will recall, were…

Jeffrey C. Billman

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