Pearl’s found itself
Neither old nor new, Eastern Pearl has been open for a couple of years, but its unremarkable environs — in the plaza across from Altamonte Mall — close it in. It’s a remarkable find, wondrous even, in the case of the “mango shrimp.” Mundane life is left at the door, upon entering the contemporary room…
Review – In and Out of Weeks EP
Artist: Miasis
The cruelest month
Movie: 28 Days Later
Review – Electric Tongue EP
Artist: Oil
Truth, orca, consequences
Movie: Whale Rider
Review – A Day in New York
Artist: Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto
Movie: Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation
Our Rating: 0.00 Some of this year’s puke-raking goodies have already been seen locally, but that’s no excuse for fans of cartoon scatology not to devour the entire Slamdance-approved package of desktop deviance. Once again, common sense and good taste prevail. (Not reviewed.)
The other cup of coffee: Palmano’s
There are still times when you can feel the flavor of old Park Avenue. One is in the civilized morning hours, when parking spaces are plentiful and the aroma of fresh coffee is strong enough to follow into Palmano’s Espresso Bar This “coffee roastery” owned by Richard and Teresa Palmano sits in the back of…
The cruelest month
Movie: 28 Days Later
Review – The Golden Ratio
Artist: Heroic Lane Change
Truth, orca, consequences
Movie: Whale Rider
Review – The Stix
Artist: Jaga Jazzist
Movie: Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation
Our Rating: 0.00 Some of this year’s puke-raking goodies have already been seen locally, but that’s no excuse for fans of cartoon scatology not to devour the entire Slamdance-approved package of desktop deviance. Once again, common sense and good taste prevail. (Not reviewed.)
Review – Yasunao Tone
Artist: Yasunao Tone
Review – The Golden Ratio
Artist: Heroic Lane Change
Review – Land of Giants
Artist: McCoy Tyner
Review – Halldor Laxness
Artist: Minus
Review – In and Out of Weeks EP
Artist: Miasis
Review – The Stix
Artist: Jaga Jazzist
Review – Electric Tongue EP
Artist: Oil
Review – Yasunao Tone
Artist: Yasunao Tone
Review – A Day in New York
Artist: Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto
Review – Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note
Artist: Madlib
Review – The Golden Ratio
Artist: Heroic Lane Change
Review – Land of Giants
Artist: McCoy Tyner
Review – The Stix
Artist: Jaga Jazzist
Review – In and Out of Weeks EP
Artist: Miasis
Review – Yasunao Tone
Artist: Yasunao Tone
Review – Electric Tongue EP
Artist: Oil
Review – Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note
Artist: Madlib
Review – A Day in New York
Artist: Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto
Review – Land of Giants
Artist: McCoy Tyner
Sierra Club vs. UCF
Mediation between the University of Central Florida and the local chapter of the Sierra Club concerning UCF’s master plan should have been sewn up by June 2. But it wasn’t. “We’re still in limbo,” says Sue Eberle, the Sierra conservation chair who challenged UCF’s master plan on environmental grounds. Eberle says she’s yet to reach…
Smart oranges
The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, LYNX and the city of Orlando are joining forces to test an electronic-payment system with the forced-acronym name of ORANGES (Orlando Regional Alliance for the Next Generation Electronic payment System). Beginning in July, and continuing for one year, the agencies will spend $2.3 million in federally matched funds testing a…
The hip-hop life and untimely death of Big Wil
In its brief heyday several years ago, Max-A-Million Records was a success story too good to be true. Arising out of the ambitions of an enterprising young man named Wilfredo Rivera Jr., who had no musical training whatsoever, Max-A-Million grew from a small recording studio located in a storage unit at Gore Street and Orange…
Pink eye
If this weekend’s first-ever GayOrlando Film Festival seems like an obvious idea, it took a few years to turn that no-brainer into reality. “I thought it was time for Orlando to have something like that,” says Chris Alexander-Manley, vice president of sales and marketing for event co-producer GayOrlando.com. Through his work with the Internet-based concern,…
The other cup of coffee: Palmano’s
There are still times when you can feel the flavor of old Park Avenue. One is in the civilized morning hours, when parking spaces are plentiful and the aroma of fresh coffee is strong enough to follow into Palmano’s Espresso Bar (331 S. Park Ave., Suite B, Winter Park; 407-647-7520). This “coffee roastery” owned by…
Metal health
It was April of 1990 and I was yet again making the hour-and-a-half drive to Charlotte, N.C., to see a band. I was just finishing up my freshman year in college, and the past seven months had exposed me to an array of new music that was well beyond the punk, metal and mainstream “alternative”…
Color me Dolly
Admittedly, the only way that Dolly Parton might qualify for The B List would be if she fell over to her left and was subsequently viewed from the feet up, forming a rather voluptuous silhouette of the letter “B.” Oh, to dream. Then again, Miss Parton has always been the pin-up party for white trash,…
A threat, not a promise
This weekend, the TD Waterhouse Centre will be overrun by the Promise Keepers, that battalion of Christian men who are determined to face up to their masculine responsibilities — specifically, by reclaiming their status as masters of their various households. To the PKs, reserving ultimate authority at the dinner table is the most spiritually sound…
Toddler jockies
An industry has sprung up in the last year or two in New York City: advisers who counsel parents on how to get their 3-year-olds accepted at prestigious nursery schools (which gives them a leg up in being accepted at prestigious kindergartens and then prestigious private schools). According to a May New York Times report,…
Mayor to city: Keep a lid on it
This one is tough to admit, but as of Monday, June 23, Year of Our Lord 2003, I officially miss Glenda Hood. Just a teensy, eensy, weensy viewable-under-a-microscope little bit of missing her, more of a pang than an ache, like losing a favorite pair of socks, not a lover. But there it is out…
Capacity for sale
Three years ago, activists stormed Orange County commission chambers demanding that their elected officials do something, anything, to stem the tide of unfettered growth. Then-chairman Mel Martinez, sensing the political opportunity that would make him a GOP darling, secure his appointment as U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary and cast him as a…
