Roll ’em …
If location is everything, Seito Sushi has it made. Located next to the Regal Winter Park Village 20 complex, Seito enjoys a constant flow of theater patrons walking past its long, rectangular dining room. A cynical restaurant owner might use this captive audience as an excuse to serve inferior food. Lord knows the four yuppie…
Chicago dogs roam Lee Road
The secret of a great Chicago dog is the celery salt. Or it could be the radioactive-green relish. Or the peppers. Or the tomatoes or pickles or onions. Maybe it’s that all of these goodies are crammed atop a single Vienna beef hot dog, surrounded by a steamed bun and placed in my anxious hands…
Something doesn’t click
Movie: The In Crowd
Haunted in the house of the spirits … Again
Movie: What Lies Beneath
Freshman hazy
Movie: Loser
‘Coaster fans line up for a futile attraction
Movie: Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun
Something doesn’t click
Movie: The In Crowd
Haunted in the house of the spirits … Again
Movie: What Lies Beneath
Freshman hazy
Movie: Loser
‘Coaster fans line up for a futile attraction
Movie: Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun
After a decade of laying …
After a decade of laying low in Orlando, jazz is making a comeback. Sort of. For proof, one need only to venture around town at night. Celebrated multi-instrumentalist Anthony Cole has been packing in crowds every Thursday night at Dante’s for months. BMF and DJ Slack’s Phat-n-Jazzy has been a Tuesday institution for years at…
Dance-happy Caffeine Tour has its perks
Since the beginning of time (or at least the parts that are important), caffeine has been the fuel of choice for many a procrastinating student’s all-night study session. Since 1991, Caffeine has also been the juice of choice for ravers’ all-night dance workouts. The New York City-based Caffeine organization (www.caffeineculture.com) may never affect the world…
Putting her house in order
The San Francisco Chronicle profiled astrologer/psychic Eloise Helm in March, after she upgraded her profession to “international feng shui consultant,” a more lucrative calling. (Its going rate in the Bay Area: $1,000 per client.) Helm has rejected tarot cards for a “feng shui compass” that tells if harmony is breaking through in a room. And…
A space-age fairy tale
Once upon a time, a madman and an amiable dunce (who happened to be king of a large and powerful country) were trying to figure out a way to protect the kingdom from an evil empire across the sea. The madman — who was, well, mad — filled the head of the dunce with visions…
Shell shocked
Orlando Weekly last visited Ann Gilvin four years ago, a few months after bulldozers began clearing a path for a perimeter fence around a 727-acre parcel inside Oviedo’s city limits that borders the Seminole County property on which she lives. That parcel, owned by Tampa-based Richland Properties and called River Oaks, was slated for a…
Between the lines
From the start, Disney’s town of Celebration has been unique: a community founded and run by a private company, an experiment in which neotraditional architecture, near-at-hand technology and small-town values were meant to bring people together. If all that weren’t enough, recently Celebration became fascinating for yet another reason. As resident Murphie Hogan observes, “It…
Point of order
The tattoo artist at the podium at the July 10 City Council meeting had been speaking for all of two minutes when Mayor Hood felt compelled to clarify the city’s position on tattoo shops. She wanted to say she didn’t think people with tattoos were bad people. “I don’t mean to interrupt you,” she said,…
A Republican party
Flanked by several local Republican politicos, Orlando City Commissioner Betty Wyman announced Monday that she was abandoning her Democratic roots in favor of the Grand Old Party. The cheerleading came from Mayor Glenda Hood and Chairman Mel Martinez, who both praised Wyman for giving the Republicans a 4-3 advantage on the City Council — an…
Body of knowledge
Usually I catch every case of pop-culture hiccups, but I didn’t get in the Conger line. Darva Conger, Who Didn’t Want to Marry a Millionaire, posed for Playboy, earning six figures for her one. And why not? She’s got a beautiful body, and it ain’t gonna last forever. While she’s tight as a mainsail, why…
Odd Bach’s classical, quirky appeal
The works of the fictitious P.D.Q. Bach first floated to the surface of the classical-music repertoire in 1959, when the real Professor Peter Schickele first began performing the strange stuff. Ostensibly the “last but least” of the famous J.S. Bach’s more than 20 children, P.D.Q., according to Schickele’s “Definitive Biography,” penned hundreds of bizarre pieces,…
Deftones ride out of the underground
Up until a month ago, Deftones were the biggest band no one had ever heard of. Despite a lack of airplay or coverage, the band had earned the respect of its alternative-metal peers, a legion of die-hard fans and a spot on last year’s Ozzfest ahead of well-knowns Slayer and Primus. But about a month…
OMA
Below is the list of promoters, musicians, music journalists, radio programmers and general insiders in the Orlando music industry whose suggestions determined the nominees for the 2000 Orlando Music Awards. The readers of Orlando Weekly and orlandoweekly.com took it from there, picking the winners that will be announced Oct. 14 at the House of Blues.…
Stop for gas and fill up, too
The best things in life are simple and unexpected — like Marcelle Katry’s beef stew. Boasting hearty chucks of tender beef and vegetables in a rich, succulent sauce, a heaping portion of Marcelle’s stew is ladled over rice for only $4.99. What’s unexpected is that Marcelle and husband Albert serve this home-cooked goodness out of…
