Road rage
Movie: Changing Lanes
Road rage
Movie: Changing Lanes
Backward, Christian soldiers
Movie: The Other Side of Heaven
Liberty in license
Movie: Y Tu Mama Tambien
All flings considered
Movie: The Sweetest Thing
Dumb animals
Movie: Human Nature
The book of axe
Movie: Frailty
Tucked in
So this lady from England and this guy from Florida decide to open a restaurant … It could be the setup for joke, except that Sonya Condrey, who is the Englishwoman in question, didn’t find much to laugh about when she and her husband, Darrell, opened Logan’s Bistro a couple of months ago. “We had…
Dumb animals
Movie: Human Nature
The book of axe
Movie: Frailty
Backward, Christian soldiers
Movie: The Other Side of Heaven
Liberty in license
Movie: Y Tu Mama Tambien
All flings considered
Movie: The Sweetest Thing
Sunshine in a Cannes
Here’s one to dwell on if your 2002 travel plans involve the words “Boise” or “Motel 6.” Three students from Full Sail Real World Education — Kareem Edouard, Russell Lafreniere and Ryan Gates — will spend May 11 through 28 at the Cannes Film Festival as part of a work-study program sponsored by Kodak. It’s…
Star-crossed fingers
Lucky me. On the occasion of the first birthday of the mega-hangover hotel, the Hard Rock, I’ve been invited to a Sunday morning rock & roll brunch buffet with survivors of the rock midway from the 1970s. Assorted string hairs from the likes of Loverboy, Deep Purple, Santana and the Atlanta Rhythm Section — bands…
Out of the Woods?
Use a popular search engine to scan the web for info on the band “Owls” and you find plenty of sites dedicated to big-eyed bird freaks. A home page for Atlanta-based jazz combo “The Owls” pops up, too, but that’s a different animal altogether. To find something about the Owls — the Chicago-based indie-rock group…
Throwing off the chains
OK, with 21 locations and more coming, The Loop Pizza Grill in Maitland (441 S. Orlando Ave.) is undoubtedly part of a chain. But it’s a special one. Born 20 years ago in Jacksonville, where it has consistently won “Best Of” awards for pizza and burgers, The Loop is the brainchild of Mike Schneider and…
Only in the movies?
One often imagines one’s life as a movie, maybe a romantic comedy in which the main character (you) ends up with the money and the guy or girl in a preapproved, audience-tested happy ending. Maybe you want to thrill to James Bond-level escapades or for your unrelentingly real world to be charmed by a dose…
The new Mr. Downtown
It took five months, 40 resumes, a nationwide search and much hand-wringing before Orlando city leaders found the ideal candidate to lead downtown in the direction they want it to go. That candidate, ironically, has been camped at City Hall for the past eight years in a number of upper-management positions. Frank Billingsley, who most…
Uncle Sam’s right to lie
A few weeks ago, in a story all but ignored by the mainstream press, Jennifer Harbury, an American lawyer and human- rights activist, argued her own case before the highest court in the land. Harbury petitioned the Supreme Court to allow her to sue several members of the Clinton administration who, she alleges, hid what…
Buying the ranch
To Orange County Commissioner Clarence Hoenstine, buying the Holland Ranch is a no-brainer: An expenditure of $7.5 million, split between the county and the St. Johns River Water Management District, would preserve 5,200 acres around the ecologically fragile headwaters of the Econlock-hatchee River. Orange has committed its half of the money, but the water district…
Having a cow
Cow-patty bingo games continue to be the rage at state fairs and charity fund-raisers, despite a recent protest by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals at an event at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. In the game of patty cakes, a field is divided into squares, money is bet on each square, and a…
