Review – Broke
Artist: (hed) planet earth
Review – Broke
Artist: (hed) planet earth
Review – Broke
Artist: (hed) planet earth
Historical talk cheapened by too much dirt
Movie: Quills
Deep inside the tangle of family ties
Movie: You Can Count On Me
Star acts alone on island of adventure
Movie: Cast Away
Real translation
Sad to say, there’s not much of anything around lately that qualifies as genuine. Oranges are artificially colored, desserts are “naturally” sweetened, and don’t get me started with the whole genetically altered deal. So finding an authentic eating place like Garibaldi’s Mexican Restaurant is a treat. The restaurant is named after Plaza Garibaldi, both a…
Corn off the old cob
Movie: The Family Man
Tiaras of a clown
Movie: Miss Congeniality
Still on the hunt
Movie: Finding Forrester
Historical talk cheapened by too much dirt
Movie: Quills
Star acts alone on island of adventure
Movie: Cast Away
Deep inside the tangle of family ties
Movie: You Can Count On Me
Corn off the old cob
Movie: The Family Man
Tiaras of a clown
Movie: Miss Congeniality
Still on the hunt
Movie: Finding Forrester
Review – Lovers Rock
Artist: Sade
Review – Oui
Artist: The Sea and Cake
Review – Oui
Artist: The Sea and Cake
Review – You Win Again
Artist: Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis
Review – You Win Again
Artist: Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis
Review – Halfway Between the Guttar and the Stars
Artist: Fatboy Slim
Review – Halfway Between the Guttar and the Stars
Artist: Fatboy Slim
Review – Lovers Rock
Artist: Sade
Review – Lovers Rock
Artist: Sade
Review – Oui
Artist: The Sea and Cake
Review – You Win Again
Artist: Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis
Review – Halfway Between the Guttar and the Stars
Artist: Fatboy Slim
Theatrical struggles
Outwardly at least, everyone agrees that there should be more live theater in Orlando. So why isn’t there? In 2000, the usual culprits were responsible: Lack of funds. Organizational hassles. A paucity of venues. The fear of putting challenging subject matter before a basically conservative community. And let’s not forget the city’s apparent disinterest in…
Art throws a party
Looking at a painting, really looking at it, is at heart a solitary, contemplative experience. Unfortunately, a handful of quiet people thoughtfully encountering art does not add up to the attention-getting essentials: revenue, crowds, that high priest known as “buzz.” Taking a clue from other around-town “happenings” dense with hip factor, visual art came into…
After-hours expansion
When the city and state cracked down on late-night dancing just before the turn of the millennium, things looked bleak for the thousands of after-hour revelers who party in the beat of the night. It was “Footloose” all over again. Back before the bloody Club Wars, regular-hour venues simply stayed open after the 2 a.m.…
A surge in cops shooting
It was the year of living dangerously in Orange County, with the dawn of a new millennium baptized in the same gunplay characteristic of the past violent century. The year began with the wounding of two police officers during routine traffic stops, and the first funeral procession held for an Orlando cop killed by a…
Downtown uptown
Orlando gave new meaning to the phrase “boom town” in 2000, rivaling Atlanta, Las Vegas and other centers of urban sprawl in the amounts of acreage sacrificed to contractors. Nowhere was the land rush more apparent than downtown. And for the city establishment, the biggest and best news was the $7.6 million sale of the…
City Hall’s failed coup
Glenda Hood had little reason to expect a fight from within the ranks. In her eight years as mayor, she’d steered the Orlando City Council in the same collegial manner as her three-term predecessor had — and wielded the same unseen club. A parade of mostly unanimous votes hid any divisions. If one of her…
Yet another rail revival
Like a horror-flick climax, where the presumed-dead bad guy awakens to take one last stab at his unwitting victim, light rail is back. In the movies, the villain’s resurgence is typically short-lived. This beast, however, likely will stick around. It is, after all, in the state’s Constitution. On Nov. 7, Florida voters overwhelmingly ratified an…
Congressional shuffle
When 2000 began, Florida was seen as a solidly Republican state. In the last few years, the GOP had taken over the Florida Legislature, the governor’s office and most local governments. Given that the popular governor was candidate George W. Bush’s brother, it was assumed that W. would carry Florida easily. Bill McCollum hoped to…
Florida voters on a roll
In the 100 years of Jim Crow laws in America, black voters suffered all kinds of intimidation in order to cast their ballots. They were forced to recite passages from the U.S. Constitution to show they were literate, and often failed character tests because white authorities charged blacks with misdemeanors for petty infractions such as…
Spirits that’ve been crushed
What better place to ask for party wine recommendations than a shop called Vino!, the new wine store at 400 S. Park Ave. in Winter Park (407-691-0304). Proprietor Adam Chilvers says the old standby for New Year’s Eve, champagne, is alive and well and best represented by J. Lassalle from France at $36 a bottle.…
Seeing green
Just hear those sleigh bells ringaling, jing-jing-jingaling too … Oh, I’m sorry. Did you think those were actually sleigh bells sounding from Universal Orlando and the Lake Buena Vista area? Sorry to spoil your fantasy, but those were cash registers. Lots and lots of cash registers. It’s Yuletide 2000, where two huge Central Florida resorts…
The annals of pop-music h…
The annals of pop-music history are littered with awkward moonlighting endeavors — hairy Jon Bon Jovi as indie actor, bulimic Paula Abdul as fitness instructor, Barbara Mandrell’s infamous Visa fabric (it never wrinkles!), etc. — so nobody should be surprised that today’s pop princes and princesses so easily leap off of their overplayed records and…
Scaling the heights
Laura Hill has been a good friend of mine since I, 18 years old and looking like something barfed up by a mosh pit, kicked in the door of our college dorm and said, “I’m your roommate.” Poor Laura. With her L.L. Bean wardrobe and Phil Collins tapes, she had never seen anything like me…
Supreme injustice
Twas two weeks before Christmas, and all through the land;Most votes had been counted (though not all by hand!);;The election was over, with nary a winner,;For the margin of vict’ry just couldn’t be thinner. All eyes were on Florida — breathing was bated –;While waiting for votes to be retabulated;;The courts were all clogged, the…
Dude, where’s my one phone call?
When the film comedy “Dude, Where’s My Car?” opened last Friday, reviews were noticeably absent from newspapers and the TV airwaves. Once again, a skittish studio had shielded one of its artistically questionable releases from high-profile brickbats. But this time, the critics who were shut out of the preview process encountered some nasty new roadblocks…
Finger on the trigger
Luis A. Chavarria, released from prison in 1999 after serving 10 years for murder, was charged in Bonita Springs, Fla., in October with possessing a firearm. Chavarria was arrested at a hospital, where he was being treated for a gunshot to the foot which he received in bed when he accidentally engaged the family-heirloom, double-barreled…
News
Florida will never be perceived the same way again. But much more than a presidential election unfolded here this year. Check your voting rights at the door, and read on to see what you missed. Florida voters on a roll A layman’s guide to the Supreme Court decision None of the above Congressional shuffle Yet…
None of the above
Not all computer errors involve vote counts in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, Richard Lederer tells about a computer glitch that forced the publisher of an economics report to issue an apology to subscribers. “Instead of the figures on the sales of soybeans to foreign countries,” the sheepish publisher explained, the computer printed out “the…
A layman’s guide to the Supreme Court decision
Q: I’m not a lawyer and I don’t understand the recent Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore. Can you explain it to me? A: Sure. I’m a lawyer. I read it. It says Bush wins, even if Gore got the most votes. Q: But wait a second. The U.S. Supreme Court has to give…
