Family circle
Movie: Signs
Scrawny from either angle
Movie: Full Frontal
Family circle
Movie: Signs
Scrawny from either angle
Movie: Full Frontal
Review – Cookie: the anthropological mixtape
Artist: Me-shell Ndegeocello
Mass production with mass appeal
The word “Factory” doesn’t necessarily conjure up delectable images of fine cuisine, though there are exceptions, such as winners like The Cheesecake Factory in Winter Park. Here’s another: The Taboule Factory in Longwood, which cranks out tasty Lebanese-inspired items. Henry Ford didn’t have fatoosh or baba ghanoush coming off his assembly line, but Alan NeJames’…
Review – Cookie: the anthropological mixtape
Artist: Me-shell Ndegeocello
Review – Cookie: the anthropological mixtape
Artist: Me-shell Ndegeocello
Walking tall
Let’s talk about empowerment for a minute. Some people think it means monitoring the English language to prevent the denigration of any demographic group. Other say it’s the imposition of economic checks and balances that enable an individual to rise to the pinnacle of his or her ambition. To me, empowerment is the sound of…
‘Can I get some of that s…
‘Can I get some of that sauce?” grumbles a nearby patron, all greasy-spooned and loud in the Jersey chrome confines of some Denny’s diner. As if on cue, raven-haired local troubadour Amy Steinberg enters the building, a veritable ray of light shining through the smoke and coffee stench. “I’m very disappointed that we’re not in…
Mass production with mass appeal
The word “Factory” doesn’t necessarily conjure up delectable images of fine cuisine, though there are exceptions, such as winners like The Cheesecake Factory in Winter Park. Here’s another: The Taboule Factory in Longwood (830 S. County Road 427; 407-831-5781), which cranks out tasty Lebanese-inspired items. Henry Ford didn’t have fatoosh or baba ghanoush coming off…
Just one of the girls
In these post-fun days of the pop world’s rehash and rehab years, it’s hard not to greet new teen “talent” with all of the charm one might summon for a skeet shoot. It’s a fact that tight-suited PR agents are well aware of, stacking odds in favors long before the public even has a chance…
The red-carpet treatment
Despite a warning label reading “Do not use indoors because of flammability” on its carpet adhesive, the Para-Chem company was ordered by a jury in Akron, Ohio, in July to pay $8 million to two professional installers who were severely burned in an explosion when they tried to use the product indoors. One juror told…
Cops in Cocoa stamp out sin
On the morning of May 30, about 40 hooded, plainclothes police descended on two modest, pink-and-beige buildings directly across State Road 520 from the Cocoa Police Department. Their mission: To close The Boardroom, a red-carpet-and-mirrors parlor where men bathed with women, had their backs rubbed with oil and powder, and, if 69 witnesses can be…
Are beauty products killing you?
If you got out of the shower this morning, blow-dried your hair and gave your ‘do a spritz of VO5 hair spray, you’ve just poisoned yourself a little bit. If you do this every morning as your regular routine, you are accumulating poisons by the bucketful. But it’s not just VO5 that could make you…
Neither heads nor tails
“The Best American Travel Writing of 2000” features the brilliant, bizarre, funny story “Winter Rules,” by Steve Rushin of “Sports Illustrated.” It’s a side-splitting tale about ice golfing in Greenland. When talking about local cuisine, Rushin quotes some descriptive text about reindeer stomach: “It is neither delicious nor revolting, but somewhere in between.” That is…
