Review – The Red Record
Artist: Loudermilk
Director goes to war on war
Movie: Windtalkers
Who are you?
Movie: The Bourne Identity
Review – The Red Record
Artist: Loudermilk
Uneven scales
With Fish Bones down the road and the delayed-but-inevitable opening of Moonfish Grille across the street, it might get hard to tell your fish from your bones now that Bonefish Grill has moved into the neighborhood, a modestly upscale fish house with room to improve. It’s an interesting chain of events that led to this…
Director goes to war on war
Movie: Windtalkers
Who are you?
Movie: The Bourne Identity
Review – The Red Record
Artist: Loudermilk
Suited for space
Dear Russian Space Agency, Having just read about the vacant tourist seat still up for grabs on the Soyuz capsule destined for the International Space Station, I’m writing to offer all the reasons why I should get to go instead of Lance Bass from ‘N Sync or a supermodel, as jokingly requested by Cosmonaut Valery…
Art and AIDS
‘The AIDS virus is just a virus. It has no personal agenda against me. It’s just another creature in God’s creation.” So said visionary painter Frank Moore, an artist who made his illness a focal point of his life’s work, in an interview with the New York Academy of Sciences shortly before his death. When…
Running on empty
Once the federal budget is approved this fall, expect Mel Martinez, the former Orange County chairman plucked from obscurity to head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last year, to boast of what a great job his agency is doing. Rumored to want to run for Florida governor in 2006, the 55-year-old attorney…
A few strings a-taxed
Orange County School Board officials feel their backs to the wall. Some 136 of their schools desperately need renovation. At least 25 new schools will be required to keep up with growth. Altogether, the board is facing $3.3 billion in building costs over the next decade — and administrators simply don’t have the money to…
Closing in on Kermit
The next time you’re at Walt Disney World, make a point of dropping by Epcot’s recently reopened “Journey into Your Imagination” ride. Then try to guess what performer provided the new voice of Figment, the purple dragon. No, it’s not Billy Barty. Hollywood’s favorite “little person” provided the original vocals for the much beloved character…
Hospitality night
What’s that old saw about being careful what you wish for? The organizers of the Florida Film Festival have long hoped that Gov. Jeb Bush would grace their noble undertaking with his presence, and they got the next best thing this year, when First Lady Columba Bush agreed to help inaugurate their 11th annual showcase…
Blood sport
Charm is so often the lure that leads doe-eyed victims into the hands of their captors, and Herschell Gordon Lewis is indeed charming. His voice is rich and riveting like a news anchor’s; he is a spellbinding storyteller and makes me feel like I am the most brilliant interviewer he’s ever encountered. He enjoys a…
Back to basics: cooking with fire
Now that the outdoor cooking season is officially here, Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby have a perfect — and manly — suggestion. Don’t mess with ceramic briquettes or gas tanks or the giant George Forman grill: Go the caveman route and use fire. “Let the Flames Begin: Tips, Techniques and Recipes for Real Live Fire…
Benatar, done that
Now there’s no looking forward. Now there’s no turning back. Pat Benatar is, obviously, the piÂegrave;ce de r?eacute;sistance in the aging girl-rock circuit, and I really need to sit on a couch with her. It’s just that her manager, some hairpiece named John, isn’t so hip to the idea at all. A preshow call to…
‘Rah, rah’ until it’s raw, raw
James O. Riccardi III, 42, was charged with five misdemeanor counts by Higginsville, Mo., police last month in connection with bizarre phone calls to high-school athletes in which the caller at first pretended to be a University of Missouri coach offering scholarships. But, after exciting the athletes, the caller then changed the conversation, requesting that…
