if you’re baking this weekend…
… you don’t need any suggestions from me (there’s this thing called the internecks, which is chock-full of recipes and pictures of cats?), but. I ran across this blog, Apple Pie, Patis, & Pâté, earlier this week, and more specifically, a recipe for “chocolate brownie cookies.” Now, this name does not come near to conveying…
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
Great views and capable continental fare at 310 Lakeside
WEIGH IT FORWARD
Will Smith’s performance misplaced in drama
NIXONLAND
A journalist trades hammer blows with Tricky
ARSEQUAKE DETECTION
Forgotten sludge pioneers Gore scooped and cleaned
HAPPYTOWN
Bill Dillon’s about to become a rich man at taxpayer expense, and we don’t begrudge him a penny. If you spent 27 years in prison for a murder you didn’t commit, you’d want some coin, too (see “Free Bill Dillon!,” July 31). On Nov. 14 Dillon got out on bail. On Dec. 10, the prosecutors…
MIGHTY LIKE A HOST
Inasmuch as its host seems assured of escaping its 13-episode run with his dignity intact, Spectacle: Elvis Costello With … (9 p.m. Wednesdays, Sundance Channel) is a rousing success. To hear that a favorite artist will settle in for a stint as a chat-show impresario is to fret that he’s heading out to pasture to…
NOT A MOVING PICTURE
It’s only fitting that the Orlando Theatre Project should have chosen to stage its live radio play version of It’s a Wonderful Life at the quaint Garden Theatre in downtown Winter Garden. A walk along the city’s revivified main thoroughfare, Plant Street, reminds me of nothing less than the original 1946 film version’s depiction of…
WHAT’S NEW WITH SHAMU?
There’s no question that the attractions are crucial pistons in Orlando’s sputtering economic engine. The two biggest, Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando, are squeaky and loud and tend to get more coverage than SeaWorld, the third power in our theme-park triumvirate. Now, with parent company Anheuser-Busch’s recent absorption by European brewing conglomerate InBev and…
FLORIDA’S CASE AGAINST GAY ADOPTION
On Dec. 11, 2004, John and James (as they’re called in court papers) escaped hell. Their parents had all but abandoned them. The boys — one 4 years old, the other 4 months old — suffered from scalp ringworm. The baby had an ear infection. Medicine sat in their house, unopened and expired. When Florida…
THE KIDS AREN’T ALL RIGHT
The big news at the Dec. 9 Orange County School Board meeting may have been the time-swap imbroglio, its effect on parents’ schedules and its inevitable reversal by the board, but the reported $700,000 saved by the convoluted scheme of trading middle-school hours with high-school hours was only a drop in the bucket. Florida’s schools…
BLISTER
Here in the gaping void between fame and infamy, talent and talk, notability and notoriety, tic and tock, is the spin of my own pink emotional funnel cloud pushing everything swiftly down. Not sure if it was the flu or divine morning sickness, but the prophetic crack-of-dawn nausea that splattered my morning vanity has left…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) What I foresee for you in 2009 is an upgrade in your approach to creating and maintaining your alliances. I envision you having dramatically enhanced intuition about how to connect with people in satisfying and interesting ways. I picture you being able to push beyond your habit-bound ways of conducting your…
SAVAGE LOVE
OK, I need a kick in the face or something. My boyfriend of two years and I broke up a little more than a week ago. He cheated. But there’s a bit more to the story: He was a raging alcoholic, and I’ve broken up with him a few times. One of those times —…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
For how many years now have your demented kin unraveled your sanity with lame holiday music? If you want to get ’em back — and you know you do — then slip on The Singing Saw at Christmastime (Merge Records), a collection of holiday standards played by Julian Koster (the Music Tapes, Neutral Milk Hotel)…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURE
I didn’t wanna go to Godspell, and that’s the god’s honest truth. To be frank(incense), I’d had my fill of that Jesus fella, and his birthday was still a couple of weeks away. That’s what happens when they start putting Xmas merchandise on the store shelves before Halloween even hits; it’s enough to give a…
COUNCIL WATCH
“Would you like me to share with you some good news from the Lord?” rattled a wandering, Bible-toting, red-eyed zealot outside City Hall near the Depression-era Christmas tree. Ha! Of course there would be no good news inside the semisecular council chamber, where District 3 commissioner Robert Stuart opined that “in times like these, crime…
POLICE BEAT
Dec. 7 (2008-529132) 8:34 p.m.: Aww, you missed me. You really missed me. Sniffle. I take one week off from this column and my voice mail is stuffed with a ton of messages — OK, one — wondering where I’ve gone and when I’m coming back and something to the effect of wanting someone’s misdeeds…
What You’re Doing This Week (Dec. 18 – Dec. 24)
Friday, Dec. 19 Junkie Rush are at the Social. They’re playing on Saturday night too. Saturday, Dec. 20 The Future on Films in Space give me a psychedelic headache. I love them for that. They play tonight at Peacock Room. The Supervillains host “A Very Villains Christmas Party” at Firestone. Santa Claus will be there,…
