Middle ground
Everyone has a favorite Thai restaurant. The town is full of them, some with bold and unique takes on the multicultural and ancient cuisine of Thailand, some sticking to basic noodle-and-chicken recipes. Like every other variety of cuisine, there are interpretations of Thai that range from great to OK to really bad. Fortunately, Thai Villa…
Insane secrets of the yo-yo sisterhood
Movie: Crush
Insane secrets of the yo-yo sisterhood
Movie: Crush
State of shock
Every once in a while you have a friend who has a partner, spouse, significant other, that you simply cannot stand. You shrink from extending invitations, preferring to stay home and scrub the mildew out of the shower grout instead. This happens because every time you see the partner, they display one or more unpleasant…
Let it bleed
It’s the old cry of the artist struggling to make a connection with his public: “What do I have to do, bleed for you people?” Well, yeah. Sometimes. Take a close look at the figural images in artist Keith Theriot’s Bloodwork exhibit when they go on display May 10 at the Statscript pharmacy in Orlando’s…
Would you like fries with that?
As protests go, this one wasn’t much: Three vegans affiliated with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) standing outside a Winter Park Burger King on April 22. Two held a crudely scripted banner reading “Go Veg!” The third passed out free Burger King sandwiches to folks in the drive-through lane at lunch –…
Democracy fades to black
With Orlando City Council meetings set to debut on government-access cable TV June 3, City Hall watchdogs were starting to wonder what might happen to those hapless folks in the audience to whom the council reluctantly turns over the microphone the end of every council meeting. Indeed, it was only a matter of time before…
Progressives’ Prerogative
Al Gore came out swinging in his ballyhooed return to politics. Cheered by 2,500 Democrats who converged April 13 on the Wyndham Palace Resort in Lake Buena Vista, he took aim at President Bush’s education and health-care policies. He declared himself “tired of the right-wing wind.” And he blamed Republicans for using Sept. 11 as…
What took so long?
Signs of a big send-up were everywhere: Protesters bearing homemade signs paced in front of City Hall. TV crews made last-minute adjustments. Council Chambers was standing room only. And not one but two rooms were set up with television monitors for the overflow crowd. The occasion last week was the first round of public hearings…
Lying low
Call me quaint, call me old-fashioned, but I’ve always had a certain preference for the truth. And though it isn’t a very admirable trait, when I’m lied to, I tend to get angry. And lately I’ve been getting angry a lot. Perhaps it’s the burgeoning number of people who tell me on the phone that…
Back to before
“Did you see that tumbleweed?” coohs the chanteuse to my left, marking our unchallenged approach to the near-empty Central Florida Fairgrounds. “Yeah,” I mouth silently. “I blew it.” Orlando’s rock & roll heyday is but a distant memory these days, with most of the throaty soul-searching and grassroots ambition of the mid ’90s going either…
It’s been a busy couple o…
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Jasmine Cousins, as the date for her “Urban Music Showcase” draws near. It’s the fourth annual event organized by Cousins and her Chocolate City Voice promotions company. But it will be the first music event in Cousins’ new work space, the Alyse Jean David School of Performance…
One night he’s scheduled …
One night he’s scheduled to open for Dave Matthews Band at Madison Square Garden, then he’s headed south for the “Mother Earth Revival” at a biker compound in New Smyrna Beach. These days life is a blur for Robert Randolph. The 24-year-old guitar wonderkind has been working the road hard, gathering praise for his pedal-steel…
A giant step backward
University of Connecticut physics professor Ronald Mallett, 57, said in April that after years of study, he hopes to begin experiments this year leading to genuine time travel, involving probably no more than a neutron or two at first but laying the groundwork for transporting larger objects. Mallett believes his theory is solid (straight from…
Art of the deal
Movie: Festival in Cannes
Hearst-case scenario
Movie: The Cat’s Meow
Art of the deal
Movie: Festival in Cannes
Hearst-case scenario
Movie: The Cat’s Meow
