MEMOIRS OF A GAIJIN
Movie: Fear and Trembling
I LOVE THE HADES
Movie: Constantine
MEMOIRS OF A GAIJIN
Movie: Fear and Trembling
I LOVE THE HADES
Movie: Constantine
APPETITE FOR INSTRUCTION
I’ll never forget my first day in culinary school. Nervously, I passed confident chefs taking their place in the kitchen of our school restaurant and watched with awe as they julienned, filleted and sautéed. The kitchen seemed to move with the grace of a choreographed dance. Months later I started to understand the strange mix…
MEMOIRS OF A GAIJIN
Movie: Fear and Trembling
I LOVE THE HADES
Movie: Constantine
After a V-Day rally we leave drunken phone messages at SlackerTown, plus letters to Buddy
Some days in O-Town you get both the yin and the yang, the matter and anti-matter of an issue, if you will. Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, was such a day. It started out with a rally to strip gay people of certain rights, and ended with a rally to encourage tolerance toward gay people. And…
RURAL ROOT
The first time I saw celeriac at the farmers market, I thought its presence might have been an accident – maybe the farmer had mistakenly kicked a dirt clod off his truck, and that’s what I was looking at. Then an old Polish woman suddenly pushed in front of me and grabbed the last of…
After a V-Day rally we leave drunken phone messages at SlackerTown, plus letters to Buddy
Some days in O-Town you get both the yin and the yang, the matter and anti-matter of an issue, if you will. Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, was such a day. It started out with a rally to strip gay people of certain rights, and ended with a rally to encourage tolerance toward gay people. And…
ALTERED REALITY
Sometimes, it’s better to be known for nothing. When it comes to perceptions about “scenes,” when you get past hoary hot spots like New York and Chicago, it seems that the less people think they know about your town, the better. Athens, Seattle, San Diego and Omaha were respectively known for SEC football, bad weather,…
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler, actress We certainly learned a few things about helping others last year. Considering the damage left by three hurricanes, it’s not surprising that there’s been a strengthened commitment to lend a hand. The countless volunteers and donors…
BALKIN’ AFTER MIDNIGHT
Country singer Patsy Cline, who died in a plane crash at age 30, managed in the space of her short career to transcend the boundaries of her parochial upbringing to become a major crossover star. Songs like “Crazy” and “I Fall to Pieces” were No. 1 hits in urban markets as well as across the…
HOLA, OLA
Snag even a few minutes of conversation with Nelson Betancourt, and you’re bound to catch his excitement that Orlando now has a Latin American festival that’s about more than food, music and mingling. Betancourt’s enthusiasm is obvious as he reels off a list of the avenues of cultural expression to be explored in the first-ever…
SMOOTH CRIMINAL
Jeffrey “Roofman” Manchester, 33, was finally recaptured after six months of inspired police-dodging in Charlotte, N.C., after having smuggled himself out of a previously escape-proof prison nearby. According to a January profile in the San Francisco Chronicle, Manchester (a handsome, athletic, personable man who got his nickname from a multistate series of ceiling-entry burglaries) built…
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler, actress We certainly learned a few things about helping others last year. Considering the damage left by three hurricanes, it’s not surprising that there’s been a strengthened commitment to lend a hand. The countless volunteers and donors…
THE MAN IN THE MAELSTROM
It started when a group of conservative students from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., hoping to block University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill’s scheduled talk at their school, protested an essay Churchill had written on Sept. 11, 2001. In the essay, titled “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” Churchill, an American…
ONE FOR THE KIDS
Prior to Conor Oberst’s lanky leap over the fence of underground hipness and onto magazine covers and the Billboard Top 10, the only occasion that anybody paired the words “bright” and “eyes” was with their bruised leg over a speaker at a karaoke night, teasing broken ends of hair to the tune of Bonnie Tyler’s…
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Sasha, Eugene Chadbourne, Beep Beep, Stars on Ice, Kynda and more
Thursday • 17 EDWARD P. JONES The words elicited from this reticent Pulitzer Prize-winning author should make for an interesting evening when he appears for the intimate Winter With the Writers series at Rollins College. Jones isn’t known for small talk or self-aggrandizing, and he has answered way too many obvious questions already about how…
