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Aug 25-31, 1999

Aug 25-31, 1999 / Vol. 15 / No. 34

Tea traditions of another culture

Seen through the skinny front window of the Oriental Tea House Bakery, a charming shop in the Vi-Mi district (831 N. Mills Ave.; 895-5056), the wedding-cake display doesn’t quite capture what’s inside. Push past the front door and you’ll find glass cases stuffed with 30 kinds of desserts and pastries — all baked that day…

Colleen Moore

Midshipmen on the yellow submarine

Like a lot of people my age, I had to learn to love the Beatles. Growing up in the 1970s, it was hard to separate their actual merits from the incessant moping of their fans, who were always lamenting that nothing as musically consequential had happened since the moptops called it a day — nor…

Steve Schneider

Looking from the inside out

The Celebration Chronicles By Andrew Ross (Ballantine, $25.95) Celebration, U.S.A. By Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins (Holt, $25) Given all the hype about Celebration, it was only a matter of time before someone hit on the idea of writing a book about living there. In fact, three writers did. The husband-and-wife team of Douglas Frantz…

Katherine Salant

Our town

First came the suburbs: clipped lawns, set-back houses, drawn curtains. After World War II, the suburb became the symbol of relative affluence in America. Cars got everyone everywhere, to the point that sidewalks were often empty, or never even built. In reaction came “new urbanist” developments, emphasizing town centers, on-street parking and stores snuggled side-by-side…

Michael Hoover

Of mice and men

SWM into garbage, carcasses, twitching. Nonsmoker. Genetically altered to remain faithful. No psychos. Based on the third sentence, a lot of women might answer that ad eagerly, never dreaming the acronym stands for Single White Mouse. That’s not as scary as the fact that mice really are getting fixed up on dates. While you and…

Liz Langley

A shell of their former selves

The sea turtle flips sand with a rhythmic one-two, one-two stroke, covering the clutch of eggs she has just laid. She completes the job with seemingly no nostalgia for the belle terra she is about to quit. She doesn’t so much abandon her offspring as entrust them to the more powerful mother, Earth. Four watching…

Andrea Brunais

Hood wink

God love Tom Levine. As a politician, he’s not the least bit practical. But at least he’s got passion. And he’s at it again. The barefoot mayoral candidate brings a mixed bag of policy proscriptions, some wise, some whimsical, some just wacky, to his effort to foment a “peasant revolt” and take over City Hall…

Ericson, Edward Jr.

Noggin to lose

In July, a 48-year-old woman filed a lawsuit against Gold Coast Hospital in Southport, Australia, for about $450,000 (U.S.) because the hospital apparently misplaced part of her brain after her aneurysm surgery in 1996. According to the lawsuit, doctors were to temporarily remove her right frontal lobe and replace it when swelling subsided, but couldn’t…

Chuck Shepherd

Can a big heart fit in such tight jeans?

Good country music is like a never-ending tug of war, a stalemate where both sides get declared losers, because no one wins in country music. That’s in the rule book. In good country music, two things that can’t possibly be true at the same time are true, which is why it breaks your heart and…

Theresa Everline

Pop trash phenomena

There is no pop heaven. Meaning that, there is no determined end for pop icons who at one time covered both our consciousness and our bedroom walls. Look at the insistent reminders of celebrity rises-and-falls in VH1’s “Behind the Music” and E!’s “True Hollywood Story.” (“And then there were drugs … and now they’re back!”…

Billy Manes

Calling chow hounds

There are not many restaurants on the fringes of Orlando that are worth the travel, but Yellow Dog Eats is at least one exception. Although you’d never guess it from the name, Yellow Dog Eats is a chic, charming, family-owned restaurant in the Windermere area that looks more like a Vermont country inn. A couple…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Cuban sandwich gets an upgrade

Cuban sandwich connoisseurs, take note: It’s possible to improve on near-perfection. Check out the Dominican version of the classic at Henry’s Deli and Sub Shop, a small ethnic kitchen a block east of Ivanhoe Row. This rendition ($2.35) has all the standards: roast pork, ham, provolone, pickles, a fresh baguette. But it’s juiced up with…

Colleen Moore

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