Uncommon threads
Movie: Magnolia
Thriller takes a trippy road to revenge
Movie: The Limey
Drifting ‘Snow’ blurs lesson on tolerance
Movie: Snow Falling on Cedars
Thriller takes a trippy road to revenge
Movie: The Limey
Drifting ‘Snow’ blurs lesson on tolerance
Movie: Snow Falling on Cedars
Uncommon threads
Movie: Magnolia
‘Don’t tell me I’m the bad guy…’
David Siegel heads the Alexis de Tocqueville Society, an exclusive club of $10,000-plus donors to the annual Heart of Central Florida United Way fund drive, of which he is often the top individual donor. He has an honorary degree from Florida A&M University, in part the result of what he describes as a spur-of-the moment…
The Green Swamp
For 22 years Ed Fishback appraised Green Swamp land for Ron Daniel, the Southwest Florida Water Management District officer who buys land for the state. It wasn’t always a walk in the park. “I remember many experiences with Ron when we were almost trapped,” says Fishback, who never went on a survey without one of…
Outrageous fortune
Walt Disney World was eight years old in April 1979 when Fernand-Georges Philippart and his wife, Anna, boarded a plane in Brussels, Belgium, for a trip to Orlando. And while the Belgian native was happy to see the sights in this tourist wonderland, his real motive was to beat the inflation then ravaging Europe. He…
The naked truth about free speech
It’s been a long time since I visited a place where frolicking women take off their clothes to undulating music and colored lights. In fact, the only lap dancing I’m really familiar with is the type my daughters used to do before they could walk. It’s also been a long time since I’ve seen some…
Runaway inflation
The Times of London reported in December that Cheltenham, England, shopkeeper Samantha Munns had punctured her thigh two weeks earlier when she fell on the nozzle of a balloon-inflating canister. Within seconds, enough helium gas (inert, nonpoisonous) had entered the subcutaneous tissue in her leg and abdomen to cause them to swell (painfully) to twice…
The naked truth about free speech
It’s been a long time since I visited a place where frolicking women take off their clothes to undulating music and colored lights. In fact, the only lap dancing I’m really familiar with is the type my daughters used to do before they could walk. It’s also been a long time since I’ve seen some…
Review – Malcolm X Park
Artist: Unrest
Review – Handsome Boy Modeling School
Artist: Handsome Boy Modeling School
Review – The Hindu Cowboys
Artist: The Hindu Cowboys
Review – Dr. Dre — 2001
Artist: Dr. Dre
Review – Malcolm X Park
Artist: Unrest
Review – Handsome Boy Modeling School
Artist: Handsome Boy Modeling School
Review – The Hindu Cowboys
Artist: The Hindu Cowboys
Review – Dr. Dre — 2001
Artist: Dr. Dre
Review – Malcolm X Park
Artist: Unrest
Review – Handsome Boy Modeling School
Artist: Handsome Boy Modeling School
Review – The Hindu Cowboys
Artist: The Hindu Cowboys
Review – Dr. Dre — 2001
Artist: Dr. Dre
Model behavior
When septuagenarian bluesman T-Model Ford sings “I’m Insane,” he’s not playing around. Even in a musical genre defined by tough times and hard-luck stories, Ford’s life stands out for its sense of madness frequently on the verge of spinning out of control. Born James Lewis Carter Ford, T-Model knew little but chaos and violence from…
Apocalypse? Now?
This is how the world ends: Not with a bang, but a simper. 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000 — The Downtown Citrus Pub Crawl begins on Orange Avenue. Defying the doomsayers, the New Year has brought not the carnage of Armageddon but a pleasantly balmy afternoon. Only two millennial mysteries remain to be answered.…
Pick-up game
“Men and women are different.” When you hear this pearl of wisdom, the best thing to do is smile really big and in a loud, booming voice say, “Yes. Men have penises!” Then clap like a child who just found the mirror on the Busy Box. People will be delighted by you. Like they’re not…
Getting Kicky with the arts
The waiting, the wondering, the nail-biting anxiety — all of it is over. Patricia Cornwell has unmasked Jack the Ripper! In her forthcoming nonfiction book, “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed,” the best-selling crime novelist argues that the infamous murderer was actually Walter Sickert, a printmaker and a respected impressionist painter. To…
Hurston fest pulls a few strings
Like the stars themselves in “Black Puppets and Puppetry,” it’s easy to underappreciate the person pulling the strings for the new exhibit at Orlando Public Library. That powerhouse is Beverly J. Robinson, a 22-year veteran professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and the visiting curator of the offbeat showcase that serves as…
Raves for Puerto Rican outpost
I can’t count the number of times while driving that I’ve heard people shouting “mofongo” at me, and I took offense. Now I know they were merely enthusiastically recommending Mr. Mofongo, the Puerto Rican restaurant just east of State Road 436 at 5643 E. Colonial Drive (407-482-0150). “Mofongo,” for those still harboring doubts, is the…
