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Jun 27 - Jul 3, 2001 / Vol. 17 / No. 26

Sweet smart

Stumbling out into the blinding Winter Park Village midday sun after a matinee movie, I was stunned to see an edifice that looked like a bank, where the old Dillard’s used to be. The sign said The Cheesecake Factory, and I’d never heard of it. Why would a place that makes cheesecake need such an…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Dux

Fine dining is a series of combinations of tastes, textures, the feel of the room, and the quality of service. If any one factor is off, it affects how you react to all the others. Of course, if the food is extraordinary, it’s a lot easier to forgive an uninformed waiter or a noisy dishwasher,…

Orlando Weekly Staff

If you knew sushi

Had raw fish lately? If not, it’s because you’ve consciously avoided it. The recent explosion of sushi bars, from boutique restaurants like Roy’s to the seafood counter at Publix and other supermarkets, has made sashimi (the grade of fish; sushi refers to the rice) the new hot ticket. And not just in Orlando. Recent estimates…

Joseph Hayes

Bombs away

To Carol Mosley, the U.S. Forest Service’s one-year delay in deciding whether to let the Navy continue its bombing in the Ocala National Forest is a clear victory. And one for which the director of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice readily takes credit. “I believe we’ve created a need for this,” says Mosley.…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Trial and errors

For 20 years Wilton Dedge has claimed his innocence of a rape for which he was convicted in Brevard County `Unlocking the evidence, June 29,2000`. After pushing for DNA testing that he believed would clear him — and fighting to preserve evidence so it could eventually be tested — he finally got his wish when…

Orlando Weekly Staff

“Really” suffering for his art

“Pain is the sensation of weakness leaving the body,” Phoenix “artist” Steve Haworth told a Phoenix New Times reporter in May, while he was arranging scenes for associates of his Church of Body Modification, including a horizontal full-body suspension (hanging for five minutes by rings in body piercings); a tug of war (full-force pulling contest…

Chuck Shepherd

Fresh translation of French in Ocoee

The mixture of classic French bistro and strip mall was not the oddest thing about Le Cookin’ Book, the restaurant owned by Frances Kuchenbuch (read it out loud), but the fact that superior French cooking could be found in such an out-of-the-way place. While Kuchenbuch is no longer at the location at 1575 Maguire Road…

Joseph Hayes

By my count, Nirvana fron…

By my count, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain made just three mistakes before he died. One was that nasty little heroin habit he had, the second was when he decided that Bean was a lovely name for a daughter, and the third was when he suggested Pearl Jam wouldn’t last, calling them corporate and never part…

Todd Deery

The big experiment

In the course of their two-person protest outside of the Waterford Lakes Starbucks on a recent Monday afternoon, Jerry and Gayle Bell struck up a conversation with one of the coffee giants’ many customers, who was sipping a double latté with whipped cream. The Bells, acting as part of a two-day national drive by the…

Lisa Song

The second coming

It’s arguably one of America’s greatest urban legends, right up there with the crash at Roswell and the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. It’s Disney on ice. No, not the traveling ice show. But the real Walt Disney, who — or so the story goes — wasn’t going to let a little thing like lung cancer…

Jim Hill

Daytime nightmare

What the hell am I doing here? ; ; It’s 10 in the morning, and I’m pouring slowly — like sand through an hourglass — to the end of a Walt Disney World Dolphin resort corridor, on a strange pilgrimage to see another symbol of my own personal shame: y’know, daytime television. Just dragging nails…

Billy Manes

Breaking up is hard to do

You have enough problems. Your computer has so many breakdowns you’re considering putting it on Prozac or Remifem. Your car is making noises like an old man early in the morning. Your back is killing you, you have enough unpaid bills stacked up to wallpaper the bedroom, and on your way home to a longed-for…

Liz Langley

A pickup game with no rules

When the SoulFire Traveling Medicine Show debuted last spring with the mesmerizing Faith Healer at Zoë & Company, it was anybody’s guess as to whether or not the show would be a one-shot production by the upstart company. But the troupe has now traveled to the Lowndes Shakespeare Center for the summer, with a two-show…

Brad Haynes

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