Soups are us
In many ways, Pu Yi is like dozens of other Chinese restaurants around town. Located in a plain shopping plaza down the street from UCF, it offers good food, modest prices and fast service. It’s a typical neighborhood eatery, with one exception: Pu Yi does excellent soups. At similar establishments, I’ve often been disappointed by…
Button, Button, Who’s got the Button?
Like all the best good fortune, it just fell out of the sky. Just in case you usually do the same thing I do, see the words “U.S. Military” and flip straight from the front page to the Weird News section, I’ll fill you in. During a training mission from Arizona to Colorado on April…
Designing Woman
Terri Binion’s weave of country and folk is well-suited for the rise in roots music;;Making it in the music business is as much about contacts and karma as it is about hard work and talent. Terri Binion is used to the work, has the talent and is picking up a few major-league contacts. The karma…
Death penalty
Serving 15 days for failure to pay fines, a man, age 73, dies. Why did it happen in jail? Bruce C. Hartman began the last hour of his 73- year life by eating a baloney sandwich and putting his head down down on one of eight cots in an austere unit of the Orange County…
Time to give artists their due
Arts in April Extravaganza, Artists’ District, April 26, 1997 Organization will not be the hallmark of Saturday’s Arts in April Extravaganza, a late entry in the month set aside by the city to celebrate the arts. That’s because this special event has been organized by local artists themselves, and while the talent pool runneth over…
Button, Button, Who’s got the Button?
Like all the best good fortune, it just fell out of the sky. Just in case you usually do the same thing I do, see the words “U.S. Military” and flip straight from the front page to the Weird News section, I’ll fill you in. During a training mission from Arizona to Colorado on April…
A tale of a Tiger who is caught
There is a character in Thomas Klise’s 1974 novel “The Last Western” whose name is Willie. Born in New Mexico, he became a baseball pitcher with a supernatural pitch, and was of multi-racial origin. As he developed his athletic skills he quickly achieved perfection, which vaulted him into the limelight and superstardom. He was cynically…
Judges turn camera-shy
Orange County judges have a secret: they don’t want you to know how they conduct business in their courtrooms. And the decision they recently made to keep cameras in their new courtrooms turned off — that seems to be a secret, too. “The rumbling is that there is going to be a major issue about…
You’re not a loan, sharks II
Florida consumers ripped off by predatory car title lenders are about to be ripped off again — by their own legislature.;;On April 15, at a meeting of the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee, Sen. Charles Williams (D-Live Oak) offered a bill that would have brought some sanity to the usurious car title loan industry, which…
Everybody dance now
Get set for the funkiest, hippest, trippiest cats ever to hit late-night Orlando: the mayor’s Rave Review Task Force is out on the town! Look for its members about 4 a.m. Sunday at The Club, when city staffer Joe Robinson has volunteered to escort members of a group whose average age in dog years is…
Merchants of greed
The merchants of greed have hit once again. As usual the Magic men are leading the pack, but now they are joined by the owners of the new baseball team in town, the Orlando Rays.;;The Magic, always adept at making the fans’ money disappear from their pockets, finally seem to have overstepped the limits of…
Clinton gives us the business
If you think the Chinese are inscrutable … try the Clinton Administration’s China policy. It’s based on ignoring the brutal human-rights crimes of that country’s rulers in favor of a policy of “economic engagement.” The claim is that our national interest is best served if we just “do business,” taking advantage of the economic boom…
