Chocolate bunnies with an attitude
Leave it to the Schakolad Chocolate Factory to improve on the Easter tradition of chocolate bunnies. This year, they’re trotting out biker bunnies on milk-chocolate motorcycles ($3) at the flagship store, relocated in the Winter Park Village. You’ll still find the same glass-case displays of melt-in-your-mouth designs. Watch for chocolate birds’ nests and bunny-shaped jewel…
Bite of Brooklyn’s beachy resort
Coney’s Swirls and Curls is small but steeped in traditional Coney Island ambience and remnants. Piped-in oldies float over the whole scene, so all that’s missing is the boardwalk and the sand. Place your order at the counter and watch as the cooks stuff crisp-edged, footlong hot dogs into thick rolls and dress them with…
On the verge of the Fringe
Though the early-evening party that took place last Saturday at the Cairo nightclub was billed as a sneak preview of this year’s Orlando International Fringe Festival, the term “pep rally” might have been more accurate. A room that was heavily populated by theater-community insiders lavished indulgent applause on 18 performing groups, all of whom have…
Censored!
Did you know that sweatshops on American soil have been sewing uniforms for the U.S. military? Or that the same companies that deliver energy to your home may be supporting brutal dictators in Third World countries? Or that the Pentagon has plans to put weapons in outer space, directly violating international law? If you did,…
She doth protest too much
When I ran for U.S. Congress against Bill McCollum in 1996 and 1998, my wife’s worst nightmare was not that I would lose, but that I would be the victim of a smear campaign that would drag me into the muck that has always oozed just above the bedrock of the American political system. I…
Ground zero
From a tower 80 feet above the Ocala National Forest, the Pinecastle Bombing Range looks like a deserted obstacle course. Below, makeshift roads cut through the brush, creating a firebreak for the more than 18,500 bombs (150 of them live) the U.S. military dropped last year on this piece of the publicly owned and maintained…
Levine gets dumped on
Tom Levine’s failed mayoral candidacy was rooted in the predicament of those living just south of Boone High School. Their houses due to be demolished for school expansion, the residents were given until April 30 to move out. Levine sees this as an infringement by government on the rights of citizens, and on March 28…
Still not Wright
Orlando attorney Ken Wright’s appointment as a lay person to an environmental regulations board has not been well received by the environmental community’s activists, who say his history as an advocate of controversial development projects should exclude him `see Wright and wrong, March 16`. At least one complaint stems from an answer Wright gave on…
The glass is always half earthy
State and federal authorities recently refused to disburse emergency water-quality funds to the town of Browning, Mont. (population 1,100), finding after extensive testing that the water is safe to drink even though it was described in a February Associated Press report as “mucky brown and silty,” “gritty black,” “filthy” and “revolting.” The water’s excessive iron…
Leave it to Beaver
“What’s in a name? A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet,” according to Juliet. But she wasn’t too bright, remember? She was a teen-age hysteric who trusted a daffy nun and an old monk with her personal business, and look where it got her. Names are words, and as such the impact…
Chocolate bunnies with an attitude
Leave it to the Schakolad Chocolate Factory to improve on the Easter tradition of chocolate bunnies. This year, they’re trotting out biker bunnies on milk-chocolate motorcycles ($3) at the flagship store, relocated in the Winter Park Village. You’ll still find the same glass-case displays of melt-in-your-mouth designs. Watch for chocolate birds’ nests and bunny-shaped jewel…
Pop opera’s faithful ‘Fidelity’
Movie: High Fidelity
All the young dukes
Movie: Price of Glory
New World ardor
Movie: The Road to El Dorado
As for director, soulful ‘Death’ becomes him
Movie: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter
Pop opera’s faithful ‘Fidelity’
Movie: High Fidelity
All the young dukes
Movie: Price of Glory
New World ardor
Movie: The Road to El Dorado
As for director, soulful ‘Death’ becomes him
Movie: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter
Review – Night Life EP
Artist: Outsidaz
Review – Night Life EP
Artist: Outsidaz
Review – Night Life EP
Artist: Outsidaz
Steel of fortune
Lately it seems as if the well has been running dry on new, exciting music. With few exceptions, much of the clarity and power of R&B, soul and rock have been watered down by the polish of today’s recording techniques. There is hope, however, to be found in the unique gospel music that has been…
Review – Spirit Song
Artist: Kenny Barron
Review – Buildings and Grounds
Artist: Papas Fritas
Review – Mirror
Artist: Flying Saucer Attack
Review – Spirit Song
Artist: Kenny Barron
Review – Buildings and Grounds
Artist: Papas Fritas
Review – Mirror
Artist: Flying Saucer Attack
Review – Spirit Song
Artist: Kenny Barron
Review – Buildings and Grounds
Artist: Papas Fritas
Review – Mirror
Artist: Flying Saucer Attack
Author mourns the passing of printed fantasy
Although he refuses to be labeled a science-fiction writer, Harlan Ellison has done as much for the form as any living scribe. The author of thousands of short stories, novels, screenplays, reviews and essays — many of which concern themselves with beings and doings that differ from us just enough to win our attention –…
When the world is not enough
Our lives would make more sense and be less of a struggle, mused the poet John Berryman, “If there were a middle ground between things and the soul/ or if the sky resembled more the sea.” This desire to have the outside world coincide with our inner life — and to get a grip on…
The funky flavors of jam
“Please don’t consider Galactic as just another ‘jam band,'” a Capricorn Records publicist requests in a letter that announces the April 4 arrival of the New Orleans sextet’s “Late For the Future” album. The disc (the group’s third) is another deeply grooving affair, with saxophones, keyboards and guitars slicing slinky riffs through the sticky, Crescent…
