Patience yields an exceptional film experience
Movie: Yi Yi
Yanks again
Movie: Bridget Jones’s Diary
Patience yields an exceptional film experience
Movie: Yi Yi
Yanks again
Movie: Bridget Jones’s Diary
Sister act
There are some restaurants in Orlando that should have a revolving door installed. Or an erasable sign, at least. Take this one place in Casselberry, for example. In the past 16 years it has been Melon’s, Crickets, Spirits, Heckle ‘n Jeckle’s, and now, Holly & Dolly’s, which leads us to the one continuous factor that…
Breast defense
Michelle Harrison wasn’t naive. She knew what she was getting into when she began working for the Hooters Restaurant in Kissimmee in the summer of 1997. The restaurant’s male-dominated, sexually-charged atmosphere, inspired mainly by the Hooters waitress uniform — a tight white shirt and short orange shorts — was “the next notch down from the…
Dance hall daze
With a unanimous vote April 10, the Orange County Commission put to bed the year’s most contentious issue: the ordinance that forces all dance clubs — alcoholic or not — to close by 2 a.m. Though occasionally heated, the vote had little of the vitriol that distinguished the start of a 60-day moratorium on dance…
Mayoral doubletake
Mayor Glenda Hood made amends with the Hispanic community last week by appointing a real Hispanic to the city’s council redistricting committee. Many were offended when they discovered that Hood, after announcing with some flourish that she was expanding the committee to nine members to boost its Hispanic representation, appointed longtime Republican loyalist Jeanne Rodriguez,…
From bad to worse
On April 6, reporters from around the globe turned out for the grand opening of Walt Disney World’s newest attraction, the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — Play It!” show. Disney had hoped that the press would keep their questions confined to the new attraction. The Mouse’s marketing staff already had dozens of prefabricated…
Tax burdens
This April 15 is both Easter and Income Tax Day, the time when Jesus rose from the grave and many of us wish we were dead. Normally I don’t object to paying my taxes because I’m a happy American and have never minded kicking in money for the keg if I get to go to…
Curious curator has plates in his head
If you find yourself at Stardust Video & Coffee anytime between next week and the end of April, and you notice that your personal area is neither neat nor tidy, you have one man to blame: Patrick Greene. ; ; The host of a monthly experimental-arts night at Stardust, Greene will literally clean up this…
Maintaining the illusion of wealth
In a decision published in February, Canada’s Tax Court rejected Newfound-land magician Hans Zahn’s attempt to claim business losses on his income tax returns, ruling that Zahn’s record of losing money for the last 17 years, plus the province’s economy and the nature of its far-flung communities, urge the conclusion that no reasonable person would…
A victory full of defeat
John McCain is a saint — the patron saint of America’s lost causes. A quarter century ago, he spent seven years in a Hanoi prison, enduring torture and deprivation in the only war the United States ever lost. But he never said we didn’t belong there. Then, last year, he battled for the Republican nomination…
Money isn’t everything
“Where in the world can you sit in the hot seat?” beams the billboard outside Disney’s latest pop-culture exercise, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — Play It!” And of the four choices — a cheeky mother-in-law reference, an obvious job-interview situation, Sheboygan, Wis., and, well, MGM Studios Florida — I’m struggling to get past…
Bedtime for Gonzo
There’s a point late in Fear and Loathing in America, the second volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s collected letters, where he generally stops ending letters with “Ciao” or “Sincerely” and starts signing off with “Cazart.” Somewhere in that flourish of Gonzo-speak is the sound of Hunter S. Thompson hardening into Hunter S. Thompson. Longtime fans…
L.A. outsiders rock & roll with it
The BellRays are like a charming, hopeless lover that you want desperately to remake. The very things you first love about them turn out to be their undoing. The quartet can be simultaneously polite and stubborn; demonstrative and aloof; perceptive and oblivious. Such contradictions can be both endearing and frustrating; they certainly complicate matters when…
Actively enjoy a meal for a change
The only thing worse than a bad meal is the dreaded Conversational Lull. How many times can you say, “Nice weather, huh?” Really, any talk over dinner that involves politics, allergies or what you ate on dates with others … well, you might as well stay home with the cats. Fortunately, Central Florida doesn’t lack…
Parliament funkadelic
True to form, Mayor Hood arrived at a parliamentary training class last week smiling as if City’s Hall’s ninth floor were her own living room. She introduced the parliamentarian, Randi Sutphin, who taught Hood how to run a committee, the mayor said, more than 20 years ago. “She does such an excellent job,” Hood told…
Kitty litter
Movie: Josie and the Pussycats
Tractor pall
Movie: Joe Dirt
South of heaven
Movie: Kingdom Come
Kitty litter
Movie: Josie and the Pussycats
Tractor pall
Movie: Joe Dirt
South of heaven
Movie: Kingdom Come
