Pure gold
The section of South Orange Blossom Trail on the edge of Florida Mall territory has been catering to varying appetites for some time as the area continues to diversify. One of the area’s few German restaurants is here (Gain’s), Amigos caters to the Tex-Mex crowd, and Laxmi Plaza offers food and sundry shopping to a…
That’s why they call it ‘staff of life’
Part chemistry, part alchemy, combining science, art and intuition, the practice of baking bread is the closest most of us can get to playing Dr. Frankenstein. It is, in a real sense, the creation of life. The new primer of this ancient craft is “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice” by Peter Reinhart (Ten Speed Press; $35),…
Old time lovin’
Somehow, Al Green’s gotten a bit of a bad reputation. In recent years, the image of this Memphis legend has mutated from spiritually torn soul man/reformed gospel singer into that of a leg-spreading balladeer along the clich?d lines of Barry White. Al Green tunes are ubiquitous at suburban weddings; Al Green tunes are used in…
Sugar and sludge
Co-worker romance is often a no-no. Dipping the pen in the company ink often winds up with disastrous results. But how about plugging in or pounding away with your bandmate? For Jucifer husband/wife team Ed Livengood and Amber Valentine, not only do they play together, they, well … play together. “Some couples have a sexual…
Love-life leftovers
Many years ago, when I was young and stupid, I fell for a verbally abusive alcoholic, Karl, who cheated on me, spent the rent money on strippers and turned out to be on the lam from a warrant in another state for trafficking cocaine. The relationship ended badly, but I still think about him sometimes:…
Ask the psychic
Dear Madam Carlotta: Last week, I read a news story about a woman who is suing her surgeon. It seems she went in for a hysterectomy, and while she was under the knife, the doctor branded her uterus with the initials of his alma mater, the University of Kentucky. This disrespectful bit of horseplay, the…
Comedy for the Depends set
If you can believe it, I’ve just called up Jackie Mason. Pinch me. “I can’t stand performers who think they’re doing the newspaperman a favor. The newspaperman is doing you a favor by giving you free advertising,” he rambles already. “If you have half a brain, you know that you’re selling tickets because the newspaperman…
Theme thongs
There’s a classic scene in “When Harry Met Sally” during which Harry fishes for info from the sexually uptight Sally about why she broke up with her last boyfriend, Sheldon. Harry suspects that it was because you can’t possibly have great sex with someone named “Sheldon.” “‘Do it to me, SHELDON, you’re an animal SHELDON,…
Being (naughty) and nothingness
It’s been said that “Sex is everything … and nothing,” which, if nothing else, is a paradox big enough to handle the infinite bemusements waiting under the covers or in our heads. Here, we’ve exercised the ethos for a subjective but suggestive sampling of locally inspired interpretations that add up to, well, everything and nothing.…
The schlong remains the same
As his many co-stars have learned, Ron Jeremy is a hard man to get ahold of. The notoriously endowed star of hundreds of adult movies isn’t just a one-man shtupping machine. He’s also a sought-after personality who dabbles in stand-up comedy, and a crossover actor whose cameo roles in mainstream films are gradually becoming more…
Deep inside Orlando
Juli Ashton is a Playboy model, adult-film star, radio and TV personality, and entrepreneur. Ashton, 33, owns Ashton View, the company for which she produces, directs and stars in the “Essentially Juli series.” You may have seen her in such porn classics as “Devil in Miss Jones 5,” “Latex” or “Happy Ass Lesbians.” You may…
