Jul 18-24, 2001

Jul 18-24, 2001 / Vol. 17 / No. 29

Different lunch greeting at Zelló

There’s a new sandwich kid in town. The Zelló Urban Café has taken over the street level of 2 South Orange Avenue (407-540-1150), serving gourmet coffee, cinnamon rolls and funny, flat “zandwiches.” Actually, the flat sandwich part is rather good, big slabs of fresh-baked focaccia bread with assorted fillings like the “Taj Mahal express” of…

Frogs frolic in familiar territory

Les Claypool may be the closest thing to a Renaissance man that modern-rock music has seen. He wears the mantles of a producer, video director, cartoonist/animator, screenwriter, record-label owner and interactive design artist with equal aplomb — oh, and there’s that little thing he does with the bass, too. Starting in the late ’80s, Les…

Swept by religion

Good news for Christians: They are now not the only ones who look like reactionary boneheads when anyone uses their religion in a pop-culture context that doesn’t please them. Reuters news service reports that the High Priest of British White Witches is all pissed off over the upcoming “Harry Potter” movie. What’s specifically gotten up…

There’s an extra born every minute

I’ve been around enough actors in my time to know that breaking into the movie business carries a heavy cost. And as the events of the past week have reminded me, that cost is not $59.95. That’s how much entrepreneur Bruce Merwin was charging extras to appear in his feature film, “Summer in the City,”…


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