finally … we have a culprit.
It wasn’t the tomatoes after all. FDA inspectors have announced the source of that mystifying salmonella outbreak: the Feds fingered jalapeños. Sorry, tomatoes. We missed you.
CABBAGE PATCH KIDS
Good kimchi flows through this family-run eatery
BLISTER
Vacations are all about avoidance. Back at home a mold spore is forming in a half-drunk bedside cocktail, a deadline is tightening around the neck of my byline, and another fleck of 80-year-old paint is floating down from the ceiling and onto the unsuspecting carcass of a dead moth. But right here, right now, there…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) After studying your astrological omens for the upcoming weeks, I got really excited. There was so much I wanted to tell you. I popped a chunk chocolate in my mouth and sat down to type an extravagant message. Maybe it was because I was overly pumped up, but in the next…
PERSIA UNPLUGGED
L.A.-based ethno-techno group Niyaz garnered considerable acclaim for their 2005 self-titled debut. Its fusion of chilled, exploratory beats (courtesy of Grammy-nominated producer-remixer Carmen Rizzo), intricate song craft (thanks to Iranian rocker Loga Ramin Torkian) and the richly textured, polyglot vocals of Iranian-Indian singer Azam Ali made for beguiling listening that was mellow without being passive…
NO SIESTA
“My career hasn’t been one punctuated by epiphanies. It’s just been one long slow revelation,” says singer Roger Clyne as he returns with his family from Mexico. Clyne has led his Tempe, Ariz.-based band the Peacemakers for a decade, dealing in a Southwestern rock blend that draws on country-blues stretched across a rock backbeat and…
THE WATER COOLER MAN
When the debut single from rapper Lil Wayne’s newest album hit the Internet in early March, the circumstances surrounding the song couldn’t have been more foreboding. The track, “Lollipop,” featured vocal work from Static Major, a writer-producer known for his work with Jay-Z and Aaliyah. Static died of a brain aneurysm two weeks before the…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
On Monday, July 7, One Eyed Jack’s hosted a screening of The Gits, a rock doc about the Seattle punk-rock band of the same name whose rise was truncated by the murder and rape of their influential singer, Mia Zapata. The final cut (just released on DVD) chronicles the band’s trajectory, Zapata’s unsettling death, its…
GLAM-ROCK KICK
With one foot astride the world of glam rock and the other firmly entrenched in the most formulaic of musical-theater clichés (boy meets android, boy loses android, boy finds … well, you get the picture), local theater impresario Tod Kimbro has launched his most ambitious stage extravaganza yet: the science-fiction rock-musical My Illustrious Wasteland, for…
FIRST SHOT
We know it’s not our mission in this column to talk about what’s on TV, but with movie-theater attendance remaining a relative stampede, something about the idea of encouraging you to stay home instead appeals to our contrarian impulses. So we’d love to be able to recommend Fear Itself, the NBC show we mentioned in…
LASTING JAPANESE IMPRESSIONS
Don’t let the street renovations and absence of activity at Rollins College stop curious art lovers from spending quality time with the Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in the 1990s exhibit, as the days count down to its July 27 close. Multiple gallery spaces in the back of the renovated museum are sparsely populated…
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
I am prejudiced. Biased. I have subjective opinions, and my arts coverage lacks objectivity. I use this paper as an outlet to talk about things and people that I like. Well, duh. Today’s unnecessary, overdramatic declamation is brought to you by a couple of recent events that shook my ethical sensibilities (such as they are).…
BEST OF ORLANDO 2008 – FOOD & DRINK
Best tiki bar Lake Minneola Inn and Tiki Bar 508 Main Ave., Minneola 352-394-2232 www.lakeminneola.com Nestled in a grove of sprawling live oak trees on the shore of a tea-colored lake, the Lake Minneola Inn and Tiki Bar feels like your rich friend’s lakeside property from a pre-Disney era. Take a swim, play some horseshoes,…
COMMENTS
Might Makes Wrong Great story, Jeff Billman `“Might makes right,” July 10`! I have always appreciated your investigative reporting, and consider you one of the very few left in this town that does his very best to tell it like it is. What we have here in Orlando/Orange County is zero accountability, and the problem…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am a 23-year-old woman living with my 25-year-old boyfriend. We have been dating for a little over a year, and for the majority of that time we had a great sex life. Unfortunately, when we decided to move in together we also decided to stop having intercourse until we decide to get married. We…
HAPPYTOWN
Orlando Police Chief Val Demings would like you to know that, videotapes and statistics notwithstanding, there is absolutely nothing wrong with her force or the Internal Affairs Division that oversees it, so you shouldn’t worry about cops beating up civilians and getting off scot-free `see “Might makes right,” July 10`. “Do they get in their…
BEST OF ORLANDO 2008
Can you believe another year has passed? It seems like only yesterday that we were printing our fabulously popular Best of Orlando issue — which by the way is the original and best Best of Orlando, not that we’re biased or anything — and here we are doing it again. The best food. The best…
BEST OF ORLANDO 2008 – SPORTS AND RECREATION
Best aggression reliever Hard Knocks Orlando 5707 Dot Com Court 407-359-9091 www.hardknocksorlando.com Like laser tag on steroids. It’s the opportunity you always wanted to legally chase your two-timing wife around with a realistic-looking gun in an “urban-themed combat area,” where you can defuse bombs and rescue hostages. Hard Knocks is also the ideal release for…
BEST OF ORLANDO 2008 – ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Biggest star you’ve never heard of Sleazy McQueen www.sleazymcqueen.com; www.eight-tracks.com Here’s one method for re-establishing Orlando as a house music mecca: Recruit buzz-heavy NYC upstart DJ Sleazy McQueen to work for local label Eight-Tracks, then slap him with a bunch of O-town travel stamps and send him right back out. McQueen currently reps us as…
BEST OF ORLANDO 2008 – GOODS AND SERVICES
Best glasses SEE Eyewear 342 S. Park Ave., Winter Park 407-599-5455 www.seeeyewear.com Getting glasses shouldn’t mean getting geeky (unless that’s the look you’re going for); nor should it cost a packet. This “optical boutique” on Park Avenue looks expensive, but don’t pass it by in scrimp-and-save mode; SEE takes the trauma out of wearing an…
BEST OF ORLANDO 2008 – LOCAL COLOR
Best waste of tax money Downtown Ambassadors Downtown Orlando Information Center 201 S. Orange Ave., Suite 102 407-254-4636 If you ran the City Beautiful, how would you spend $893,000? There are lots of options. You could feed a bunch of homeless people. Or maybe pay for some more cops. Or, if you’re the current administration,…
goat’s-head soup: top 10 wired food photos.
Everyone’s on the best-of tip this week, not just us. So here’s Wired.com’s top ten reader photos, selected by their photo department, and the top ten reader food photos selected by the readers. Could be goat, could be yak … who knows.
