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Dec 17-23, 2003

Dec 17-23, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 51

Monster cookies for extra stuffing

The best part about the holiday season is that it’s a perfectly justifiable excuse for stuffing yourself silly — with the “New Year’s resolution” ploy as a handy fallback. So add George’s Gourmet Cookies to your personal shopping list. The shop at 947 Orange Ave. in Winter Park complements the online store, www.georgesgourmetcookies.com, but both…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Prime for attack

Orlando’s ability to create and attract “stars” goes for acclaimed cuisine celebrities just as well as sports and music figures. Chefs Paul Bocuse and Gaston Lenotre call Epcot their Florida home; Todd English is moving in to the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel; Roy Yamaguchi holds sway on Sand Lake Road; and we’ve…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Glenda Lite

Return with us briefly to yesteryear, when Queen Glenda Hood ruled Orlando from her red-leather throne. Back then, going along to get along was the order of the day for the city commission, and government in the sunshine, well, just wasn’t classy. But Glenda’s in Tallahassee now, in charge of the state’s cultural affairs and…

Bob Whitby

Merry Christmas, Cameron

To fully understand the speed with which Cameron Kuhn’s proposed Plaza on Orange Avenue was rushed through the city machine — and comprehend that nothing was going to stand in the project’s way — one need only have attended the Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board meeting on the morning of Dec. 8. The CRA uses…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Monster cookies for extra stuffing

The best part about the holiday season is that it’s a perfectly justifiable excuse for stuffing yourself silly — with the “New Year’s resolution” ploy as a handy fallback. So add George’s Gourmet Cookies to your personal shopping list. The shop at 947 Orange Ave. in Winter Park (407-628-4491) complements the online store, www.georgesgourmetcookies.com, but…

Joseph Hayes

Do what now?

There’s a brief, contemplative pause on the line before a casual “Well, yeah,” issues forth. Hasil Adkins could be talking about the weather, but — though he does like to go on about the cold — this particular conversation is about time served for shooting up a trailer home. “It’s true, I was drunk. A…

John Sekerka

Starry eyes

“Once we had taken clothes from a homeless girl, there were no taboos.” — Nikki Sixx, “The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band” For all the rank debauchery detailed in Mötley Crüe’s now legendary autobiography — and truly, it’s all too nasty to be called “decadence” — the one thing “The Dirt”…

Jason Ferguson

Macho, macho man

“Be a man.” Words to live by, maybe, but also words to cough up into the ether of self-reflection, if you happen to be a man that really isn’t one. I can remember pouring home from a suburban mall situation, circa 1985, with my freshly oranged Sun-In-blond front, all John Taylor in intent, only more,…

Billy Manes

Dick Nixon’s guide to holiday etiquette

President Nixon didn’t think much of fellow Californian and Republican icon Ronald Reagan, calling him “strange” and not “pleasant to be around,” newly released White House tapes show. Associated Press, Dec. 10, 2003 Hello, friends. It’s the Ghost of Dick Nixon here. You know, at this busy, crazy time of year, I’m constantly accosted by…

Steve Schneider

Stalking stupor

Municipal employee George Pavlovsky stalked through his shop in April, drunk, carrying a loaded, sawed-off shotgun and looking for the two supervisors who had recently passed him up for promotion. As a result, he was fired by the city of Moncton, New Brunswick and went to jail in November, but he said through his union…

Chuck Shepherd

Christmas in Christmas

Monday, Nov. 17 Excuse me. Do you know if Santa Claus is going to be here today?” It’s just before 11 a.m. at the U.S. Post Office in Christmas, Fla., and I’m inquiring into the whereabouts of the man whose jelly-bellied merriment holds the key to the entire season. Just yesterday, there was a flier…

Steve Schneider

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