Home alone
Movie: Cherish
Agents of misfortune
Movie: Men in Black II
Home alone
Movie: Cherish
Agents of misfortune
Movie: Men in Black II
So very close, a world away
While on our never-ending journey to find exotic foodstuffs, an old place with new management appeared on the horizon and welcomed us in. The Salam Inter-national Market (3090 E. Aloma Ave., 407-657-5560) has been tucked away in Winter Park since 1988, with Persian, Middle Eastern, Greek and Indian delights on the shelves and in the…
Chewing the fat of the lam
Louis Papakostas, 35, was sentenced to eight years in prison on drug charges in Corpus Christi, Texas, in May. He had been convicted way back in 1987 and had gone on the lam for nearly 15 years, but then he ran into his prosecutor at a restaurant in May. Apparently believing that authorities were not…
Mr. Hissom goes to Washington
Remember last spring’s historic Academy Awards ceremony? Remember when Denzel Washington told the rapt audience that accepting a Best Actor Oscar in the presence of Sidney Poitier was fun and all, but that what he really wanted out of his career was one day to appear on-screen opposite a member of the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival?…
A different patriotic dream
Sanctimonious Congressmen took to the steps of the Capitol to defy the court order. Agitated Americans telephoned their damning threats to the man who filed the suit. Others swamped switchboards of talk shows to vent their anger. But if most of the Americans who are upset that a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled…
Redevelopment gets good news, bad news
The good news at last week’s meeting of the Community Redevelopment Agency was that another developer wants to build a six-story, mixed-use complex across the street from Echelon at Cheney Place, the four-story apartments on Orange Avenue a quarter mile north of Colonial Drive. The Echelon, which is 92 percent rented, was built two years…
Pricey public office
For the past three months, Linda Stewart has hopped aboard her 10-year-old Huffy bicycle and pedaled to the four corners of the southeast Orange County district she hopes will elect her to the county commission this fall. Stewart decided on the Huffy approach because she wanted to qualify for office by collecting voter signatures rather…
Pumping irony
When I was considering setting myself up as a church in order to enjoy tax-exempt status — writers frequently are nonprofit organizations without ever intending to be — the only thing I could think of that I believed in was irony. Irony is like God or germs or voice mail: You can’t see them but…
The Right Connection
The rock musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” concerns itself with the reconciliation of polar opposites — masculinity and femininity, East and West, alienation and acceptance. The first Central Florida production of the show, which begins a six-week performance run this Friday, July 5, in the Footlights Theatre at The Parliament House, likewise represents a…
Whipped into an animal frenzy
“Ooooh, that heat is hot,” burns one of the courthouse lunch matrons pouring out into the noontime sun. Granted, the Orange County Courthouse doesn’t seem a likely place for some crazy, dominatrix-themed leather protest. But, then, at first sight, this protest doesn’t really seem like much of a dominatrix affair, either. Two skinny girls –…
