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Mar 12-18, 2003

Mar 12-18, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 11

Simmer down

After driving around the massive and intensely confusing Waterford Town Center for 15 minutes (I was the one muttering “This place is insane” repeatedly), I finally found the little storefront restaurant called Thai Singha. If you’re facing the entrance to the center from the road, go as far left as you can to find it.…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Boobs, booze and blues

Make no mistake about it: Bob Log III is a breast man. Sure, many of us are. So what separates Log from others? For one, the Tucson-based one-man-band may be the first person in musical history to use human breasts as an instrument. He may also be the first musician to encourage women in the…

Omar Perez

All that you can’t leave behind

Two hundred singles after his 1993 debut, DJ Icey is again entering the dance stratosphere with “Different Day.” Five years of reflection between albums has cooled Icey, and his latest is a more mature album than his previous bass & breaks pillagings. Giving nods to electro and downtempo, “Different Day” wends its way around different…

Andrew Jones

Scrubbing the toilets of comedy

Whatever happened to Emo Phillips, Pee Wee Herman and Bobcat Goldthwait; you know, people who didn’t soullessly echo the water-cooler rants of the big-haired receptionist with coffee grounds in her teeth? Judy Tenuta should know. Once the one-trick pony of loud, feminist rants set to accordion music, Tenuta these days is scrubbing the toilets of…

Billy Manes

Fishin’ Magicians

Not only was the Chicago-bred comedy Bassprov one of the best shows to hit an Orlando stage all last year, it contained one of the most flawlessly realized lines of dialogue one could hope to encounter in any medium. It came in the midst of a leisurely exchange between Midwestern good ol’ boys Donny Weaver…

Steve Schneider

‘Hate is good’

Last week, Orlando was treated to a visit from the Missionaries to the Preborn, a Milwaukee-based group of anti-abortion activists whose claim to fame is displaying bloody photos of aborted fetuses on street corners. On March 5, the group set up shop at Colonial Drive and Maguire Boulevard, and for an hour and a half…

Bob Whitby

That was the winter that was

With one week left to go ’til spring, it’s time to renew your command of the news stories that dominated the public discourse during the last three months (and a few that hovered under the cultural radar). In this freewheeling quiz, we ask you to separate the harsh facts of winter from some deceptively plausible…

Steve Schneider

Child predators

When the principal of Brookshire Elementary in Winter Park called Dolly Boyce at work on a Monday afternoon in October, Boyce’s first thought was that her 4-year-old son must have beat up a kid at school. “She told me I needed to come down there to discuss my son,” says the 32-year-old mother, who runs…

William Dean Hinton

Face off

Giving up on sleep, I sat up in the back of Dave Thompson’s van and offered to take a turn driving. Thompson declined. “I’m in my zone,” he said. “I just put on cruise control, and I can pretty much go all night.” We were on our way from Baltimore to Orlando for the 11th…

Tom Chalk

E-coupons: Print out and pig out

Sure, the Internet is a great place to shop for books and computers and stuff, but what about when you leave the house and eat? The “Food” section of Orlando Saving (www.orlandosaving.com) offers 50 percent off an entree at Passage to India in Kissimmee and 10 percent off the bill at ChevyÃ?s in Lake Buena…

Joseph Hayes

E-coupons: Print out and pig out

Sure, the Internet is a great place to shop for books and computers and stuff, but what about when you leave the house and eat? The “Food” section of Orlando Saving (www.orlandosaving.com) offers 50 percent off an entree at Passage to India in Kissimmee and 10 percent off the bill at ChevyÃ?s in Lake Buena…

Joseph Hayes

The new way

DJ Spinna knows there’s no place like home. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., the DJ and producer has publicly declared on many occasions that he loves where he lives. And he should, the borough is the perfect place for a guy who gets booked as a hip-hop DJ one night and a house DJ…

Mike Blakely

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