Chimp trick
Movie: Monkeybone
Repetitious minds
Movie: 3000 Miles to Graceland
Chimp trick
Movie: Monkeybone
Repetitious minds
Movie: 3000 Miles to Graceland
Bunch of bull
Rodeos are cruel things. Beneath all of the unwashed, deep-indigo chivalry and the belt-buckle bravado masking this manhood of a tradition out of its time lies some limp premise of survival, or even triumph, in the face of planned unfair circumstance. Basically, we can cheer for the people atop the doomed castration cases (as we…
Good company
There are times when a quiet meal in quiet surroundings is all you want. No chatting from people nearby, no loud noise — you get enough of that at work — just sitting down in front of a plate of food and tucking in. Doesn’t even matter what kind of food, really … just peace.…
History lesson in Jewish cookbook
There was a time when Jewish citizens were forced to wear special marks on their clothes, and suspected Jews were taken to prison camps and tortured. This might sound like World War II Germany, but this also happened during the Spanish Inquisition, a time of persecution that lasted 200 years. The cookbook A Drizzle of…
The Joint Chiefs: soul survivors
It’s after midnight on a Tuesday at Will’s Pub, and the distilled hops aren’t the only things that are flowing freely. From the seemingly timeless fountain of the Stax/Volt soul library, or the sweat from the winced brow of a Sam Cooke or an Al Green, The Joint Chiefs are taking their musical communion and…
Join the Club
It’s as hot as one of Ricky Martin’s pelvic gyrations and as much discussed as Jennifer Lopez’s gravity-defying drape. It’s Latin music, and it seems to be everywhere in the music scene these days — from pop to rock to folk and hip-hop. So much so that last September marked the debut of the Latin…
Snow job
There was nothing but smiles and backslapping Feb. 5 as the City Council dished out $206,805 to a group of restaurateurs headed by Bob Snow, the developer who revived downtown Orlando in the 1970s when he built Church Street Station. Snow, who left hoping to duplicate his Orlando success in Las Vegas and bombed, received…
Reach for the sky!
The richer-than-you-and-me DeVos family wants somebody to build for them another downtown arena. They need it so they can make more money — in part, by renting out more skyboxes to unnamed but presumably numerous high rollers and corporate chieftains already angling for a perch high above the riffraff in the stands below. To that…
Spring flings
That irrepressible season is sprouting all over. We welcome it with a look at the root of spring fever, the revelry of spring break, the spirit of chickens, what it means to be spring loaded and more. SPRING FEVER A conversation with Dr. Joseph Ragno, with Physicians Associates of Florida Q: What is spring fever?…
This should set off some bells
Among the problems uncovered in a November Detroit News investigation of the city’s firehouses was the absence of a central system of flashing alarms or bells to notify stations when 911 calls come in. Rather, each firehouse is equipped with a dot-matrix printer with a lead weight resting on the paper feed on a table…
A black hero comes up short
When Academy Award nominations were announced last week, only two of Walt Disney Studios’ 2000 releases were singled out for praise: The Emperor’s New Groove, for original song, and 102 Dalmatians, for best costuming. This depressed a lot of people at the Mouse House. But perhaps none more so than the animators at Disney Feature…
Statues and limitations
Every year, the Academy Awards provide Orlandoans with unparalleled suspense and excitement. I’m not talking about the ceremony itself; that thing always sucks wind. I mean the televised announcement of the major nominations. How many of the citations, we wonder, will go to films that haven’t yet played here? It’s sad but it’s true: In…
