The ovens are cranked to high at New Harvest Bake Shop. The storefront bakery/lunch destination turns out hot and tasty treats from early-morning goodies to after-dinner snacks. Open for breakfast and lunch, the prize selections are layered between all-natural breads: The hot chicken-salad sandwich with melted cheese ($5.99) comes on a croissant-ish roll that’s crisp…

Orlando Weekly Staff

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Steve Schneider

Pardon Belinda’s French

In these times of impending turmoil — curdling crude, Kurds, mustachio-ed men — my thoughts turn to a happier place. Because if heaven was indeed a place on earth, it would surely be presided over by the prettiest girl ever, Belinda Carlisle. Forever burdened with a fat girl’s name, Belinda for a time lived up…

Billy Manes

Raising hell for Jesus

Since God and George W. Bush walk arm-in-arm these days, at least when it comes to selling a pre-emptive strike against Iraq to the American public, it’s probably a sin or treason (is there still a difference?) to note that Bush’s proposed war doesn’t pass Christianity’s own smell test. Religious scholars, Catholics in particular, have…

Bob Whitby

By their bootstraps

John Ellis Bush’s second inaugural address, delivered the Tuesday after New Year’s on the steps of the Old Capital Building, was the kind of folksy tribute to individualism hard-working Americans seem to love. The speech mentioned God five times, faith three times, as well as one reference each to the Bible, humility, gratitude, generosity, caring…

William Dean Hinton

Praise the Lord, drop the bombs

Shannon Burke really wants me to think his “Rally for America” is about patriotism. “It’s not pro-war,” he says repeatedly the day before the rally. “It has nothing to do with war.” But I’m skeptical. I’ve heard Burke’s radio talk show — 5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on 540-AM WFLA — often enough to know…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Crapper keeper

Retired pediatrician Alva J. Hartwright, 63, pleaded guilty in February to sexually assaulting two boys, age 11 and 14 at the time, by giving them enemas (part of a 30-year pattern of administering enemas to as many as 40 boys, prosecutors said). When police arrested Hartwright at his Morrisville, Pa., home in June, they found…

Chuck Shepherd

The fat trap

“Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World” By Greg Critser (Houghton Mifflin Co.; 232 pages) In the past year, Americans have been awakened to the fact that obesity is becoming the No. 1 health problem in the country. Surgeon General David Satcher stated in 2001 that obesity had reached epidemic proportions…

Luciano D'Orazio

More than bread at New Harvest

The ovens are cranked to high at New Harvest Bake Shop. The storefront bakery/lunch destination (6828 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; 407-671-2112) turns out hot and tasty treats from early-morning goodies to after-dinner snacks. Open for breakfast and lunch, the prize selections are layered between all-natural breads: The hot chicken-salad sandwich with melted cheese ($5.99) comes…

Joseph Hayes

Laughing out loud

There’s a fine line between bands with a sense of humor and bands that are just a joke. The 99-cent markdown bins are filled with the recorded output of the latter, while those that fit the former are faced with the often difficult task of maintaining their sunny dispositions while slogging it out club show…

Jason Ferguson

Bells, balls and concert halls

The old joke goes that the reason AC/DC has sold so many copies of “Back in Black” — it’s currently up to around 19 million — is because every day, at least one redneck discovers that his Trans Am tape deck chews up cassettes. And it’s true that many warm beers have been drunk and…

Jason Ferguson

Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2003

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