A secret slice of New York
New Yorkers like secrets, and (since 1936) one of the most closely kept has been the Valencia Bakery, known in Manhattan and the Bronx for a particular style of cake — rich buttercream frosting covering super-moist white cake with three layers of real pineapple filling. Well, the secret is out in Casselberry, where you’ll find…
Lookin’ for Slavs in all the wrong places
Movie: Birthday Girl
Campus heap
Movie: Slackers
Movie: The Affair of the Necklace
The Affair of the Necklace Length: 2 hours Studio: Warner Bros. Website: http://www.affairofthenecklace.com/ Release Date: 2002-02-01 Cast: Hilary Swank, Adrien Brody, Christopher Walken, Brian Cox, Paul Brooke Director: Charles Shyer Screenwriter: John Sweet WorkNameSort: The Affair of the Necklace Our Rating: 2.00 When an entire film is created to assert the historical significance of one…
A new spin
Among the litany of clubs and nightspots that have occupied downtown’s Wall Str eet Plaza, only one stood out for food. The Globe’s arrival represented a huge transformation of the former Go Lounge site back when Wall Street was walled off, and “dark and dirty” were the bywords. Now there is no wall, a rather…
Lookin’ for Slavs in all the wrong places
Movie: Birthday Girl
Campus heap
Movie: Slackers
Movie: The Affair of the Necklace
Our Rating: 2.00 When an entire film is created to assert the historical significance of one event, it had better live up to the importance placed upon it. That’s the principal flaw of “The Affair of the Necklace,” which claims that a conspiracy involving Marie Antoinette and a spectacular piece of jewelry was a key…
Take heed to the robotica…
Take heed to the robotically tweaked words that open the latest installment by the godfather of funky breaks, DJ Icey: “This should be played at high volume!” The Ice-man’s brand-new beat bonanza “Essential Elements — DJ Icey Presents the Breaks Element (Essential Elements)” is part of a new crop of releases by Orlando-area electronic artists…
Fight the power
Four songs into “Iron Flag,” the Wu-Tang Clan’s fourth album, the eight-man crew steers your ears down one of its trademark streets of beats gone wild. Against a background of party sounds laid out by production guru Robert “RZA” Diggs, “Soul Power” struts around the block like the local big man. Sporting more personalities than…
A secret slice of New York
New Yorkers like secrets, and (since 1936) one of the most closely kept has been the Valencia Bakery, known in Manhattan and the Bronx for a particular style of cake — rich buttercream frosting covering super-moist white cake with three layers of real pineapple filling. Well, the secret is out in Casselberry, where you’ll find…
Hemp, hemp hurrah!
Pot makes you paranoid. And it does so even if you don’t smoke it. Either that, or the U.S. Drug Enforce-ment Adminis-tration is stoned out of its collective mind these days, because it is seeing enemies where none exist — in the mushrooming market for hemp products. The DEA has announced it will attempt to…
Raising the bar
If a recent Saturday night on Orange Avenue offers any clue, Ashley McCammon, downtown’s newest kid on the block, has some catching up to do. Outside of Bar-BQ-Bar, a crowd spilled out onto a roped-off section of the sidewalk; nearby, folks also lined up at the twin entrances to the rooftop bar SKY60 and the…
Seeking greener pastures
Ten years ago, Beth Hollenbeck railed against what she saw as the “bullshit hype” of eco-friendly products. Specifically, she took aim at toilet paper, which corporations were labeling “recycled” and inflating costs. In fact, the T.P. wasn’t recycled — it was actually bought from saw mills and did squat for the environment. “We just got…
Beating the Bushes
Their rallying cry could well be “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” In the last presidential election, get-out-the-vote campaigns by such groups as the NAACP and the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) dramatically increased the number of African Americans at the polls. But predominantly black precincts in Florida had three times as many rejected ballots (and…
The bully next door
Seven years ago, Lakemont Heights residents looked out their windows to see workers unraveling huge spools of cable line along streets in their east Winter Park neighborhood. Those workers were connecting the buried cable to a 371-foot radio and television tower rising from the wetlands adjacent to Lakemont Heights, a quiet cul-de-sac of 72 homes…
A caste of thousands
With the world (and the India/Pakistan region in particular) in a state of turmoil, one might expect to find the South Asian Film Festival lobbing some inflammatory celluloid salvos of its own. Instead, the event’s eighth annual edition — set for Saturday, Feb. 2, through Monday, Feb. 4, at Maitland’s Enzian Theater, and again co-presented…
Smacked down
“Dude, that guy’s up there talking about wrestling … and he’s got an audience!” chuffs a pierced passerby, obviously above all of this. “Did you see that?” Me, I’m choosing not to see anything, instead smoking a cigarette and wishing it all away. Former ring announcer Gary Michael Cappetta, a sort of Howard Cosell to…
Nothing is certain but uncertainty
“Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last, but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin, 1789 Perhaps if ole Ben had managed to squeeze a bit more voltage out of that thunderstorm he was playing in with his kite — maybe if he…
A chip on his shoulder
The Alaska Court of Appeals ruled in November that a judge could not take away a man’s gun permit just because the man is suffering from a delusional disorder, causing him to believe that he has been injected with deadly chemicals and that a computer chip has been implanted in his head. State law, said…
