Raise the steaks
You like thick slabs of meat? You like a room full of dark wood, tuxedo-clad waiters and a wine list that looks like a small phone book? Then you will like Vito’s Chop House. From the folks who brought us Fish Bones Restaurant comes Vito’s, a re-creation of an old-fashion New York steakhouse. Over-the-top elegance…
Get a grip on bold burritos
Lunch plans are solved. After seemingly endless renovations, a lovely and spacious new Out of Hand Burrito Stand has opened in Winter Park. Located in the very purple building at 702 N. Orange Ave. — just a block from the Fairbanks Avenue intersection — Out of Hand specializes in “burritos with an attitude.” Loosely translated,…
Get a grip on bold burritos
Lunch plans are solved. After seemingly endless renovations, a lovely and spacious new Out of Hand Burrito Stand has opened in Winter Park. Located in the very purple building at 702 N. Orange Ave. — just a block from the Fairbanks Avenue intersection — Out of Hand specializes in “burritos with an attitude.” Loosely translated,…
Cottoning to candy
Movie: Disney’s the Kid
Review – Start With the Soul
Artist: Alvin Youngblood Hart
Wayans make ’em scream like old times
Movie: Scary Movie
Review – The Rising Tide
Artist: Sunny Day Real Estate
Light Danish pastry filled with charm
Movie: Mifune
Review – Karl Weigl — String Quartets No. 1 Op. 20, No. 5 Op. 31
Artist: Artis Quartett Wien
Review – Start With the Soul
Artist: Alvin Youngblood Hart
Review – The Madding Crowd
Artist: Nine Days
Review – The Rising Tide
Artist: Sunny Day Real Estate
Review – Karl Weigl — String Quartets No. 1 Op. 20, No. 5 Op. 31
Artist: Artis Quartett Wien
Review – The Madding Crowd
Artist: Nine Days
Cottoning to candy
Movie: Disney’s the Kid
Wayans make ’em scream like old times
Movie: Scary Movie
Light Danish pastry filled with charm
Movie: Mifune
Review – Start With the Soul
Artist: Alvin Youngblood Hart
Review – The Rising Tide
Artist: Sunny Day Real Estate
Review – Karl Weigl — String Quartets No. 1 Op. 20, No. 5 Op. 31
Artist: Artis Quartett Wien
Review – The Madding Crowd
Artist: Nine Days
In the early days of the …
In the early days of the Portuguese conquest of the land that would one day be Brazil, a Catholic bishop named Sardinha won a place in the nation’s history simply by being the guest of honor at an unusual dinner. In fact, he was the dinner — for a tribe of cannibals. It was a…
And to top it off…
There are a couple of bum things about living in Florida. I know that we enjoy a lovely climate, low taxes and some other pleasantries that don’t pole vault to mind just at this moment. But dammit, we don’t get to wear hats. Sure, some guys wear backwards ballcaps, a fashion statement that says, “I…
Stuffed agenda
When you grow up in an Italian family, dining out rarely means Italian food. Why go to a restaurant if Mom makes it better at home? The sole exception for us were occasional visits to a nearby family-owned joint. Besides an acceptably rich marinara, it offered more entrees than Mom’s recipe file, semiformal waiters and…
The combustible crusader
Gabe Kaimowitz thinks I am after him. He has sent an e-mail accusing me of threatening his office with a bomb because I returned a bagful of documents, unannounced. By that time in our once-friendly relationship, the attorney and self-proclaimed civil-rights soldier already had accused me of lying about the premise of this article –…
Lost on the dial
“It’s been a crazy, crazy week,” Jennifer Barczak says, running a hand through her hair. She says this as she slumps in a chair in the office of the only radio station in Orlando that has stickers of Gus Gus, the Circle Jerks, Gizzard and a million other bands plastered on desks, walls and garbage…
Grounds for divorce
The thematic evolution of Java Jabbers Coffeehouse has come to an end … sort of. Once a literarily minded hangout with ties to New Smyrna’s Atlantic Center for the Arts, but more recently the home to snarkier events like a Drunken Spelling Bee, the east Orlando strip-mall cavern closed its doors last Saturday. The business…
Union leader hangs on
Harvey Totzke can now breath easier. The head of the Services Trade Council, an umbrella group for the six largest unions at Disney World, has held onto his job at secretary-treasurer of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 737. Votes tallied on June 30 in the first contested Local 737 election in 18…
AT&T hangs up
They alerted the media. They hired a lawyer. They formed an association. And last week, the strategy worked. Audubon Park neighbors won their battle against AT&T Wireless Communications over building an 80-foot-tall cell phone “monopole” at the local elementary school `Electro-magnet school, June 1`. The June 29 announcement shocked many neighbors. “I thought we would…
Killing off the death penalty
On June 21, the state of Florida executed convicted murderer Thomas Provenzano by lethal injection. He had been on death row for more than 16 years, guilty of a grisly 1984 Orange County Court-house shooting spree that killed one man and crippled two others, one of whom has since died. An unemployed electrician with a…
Cute as a baton
Robert Richardson, 20, and Lakrisha Nash, 18, were arrested in May after allegedly walking out of a Costco store in Chula Vista, Calif., with $600 worth of unpaid-for DVDs. In their getaway, Richardson lost control of the baby carriage that contained both the DVDs and the couple’s 6-month-old girl, sending the baby tumbling. Hurrying to…
