Thunder from down under
Movie: Lantana
Do fries go with that Shakespeare?
Movie: Scotland, PA.
Time out of joint
Movie: The Time Machine
Side-dish safari
If you love buffets, there’s nothing better than table after table laden with massive and sometimes bizarre combinations of food. But if you dislike or distrust the concept of groaning boards, you’d probably be inclined to avoid Boma – Flavors of Africa, the buffet-style African restaurant at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge. You do so at…
Raunchy robbers
Movie: All About the Benjamins
Harangues for the memory
Movie: Lakeboat
Thunder from down under
Movie: Lantana
Do fries go with that Shakespeare?
Movie: Scotland, PA.
Time out of joint
Movie: The Time Machine
Raunchy robbers
Movie: All About the Benjamins
Harangues for the memory
Movie: Lakeboat
Long-form concerts and mu…
Long-form concerts and music-video compilations by platinum-selling artists have been a staple of the DVD home-video market since the format started showing up on store shelves in the late-1990s. But as avid digital-video enthusiasts know, the selection — compared to what’s available on the aging VHS format — has been slim to none, unless you…
J&P’s builds on solid grounds
You know what Orlando needs? More “shoppes,” particularly ones that serve bagels in the morning and sandwiches during the day, not to mention a mean cup of coffee. Look no further than Jason & Paul’s Coffee Shoppe (932 N. Mills Ave., 407-447-1577). An offshoot of the J&P’s in Port Orange, where they’re known for mixing…
Going to extreme
‘Wow, a mosh pit!” Those unlikely words, uttered by an NBC commentator moments after snowboarder Kelly Clark took the gold medal in the women’s halfpipe, heralded a new era for the Winter Olympics. The crowd of 17,000 crammed on the slopes outside Park City, Utah, erupted again a short while later, when the American men…
A vein glorious position
Zulu traditionalists in KwaZulu Natal province, South Africa, who have routinely tested females for virginity, are trying to hire men to virginity-test other males by performing any of several unconventional procedures. According to a leader of the pro-testing movement, those hired will check their fellow men for spraying urine (vs. a straight stream), the lack…
Big Mickey is watching you
M — I — C … See ya real soon! K — E — Y … Why? Because we’ve found the key to your personal entertainment preferences by tracking your every inquiry and Mouse-related purchase for years now. And we’ll soon begin using these files to make more … M – O – N -…
A tale of two candidates
She’s a 47-year-old Republican real-estate attorney living in a modest Democratic neighborhood in northwest Orlando, an administrator at heart who grew up in a struggling Michigan family with four younger brothers. She moved to Florida when she was 21, worked in sales for NCR for a couple of years, then put herself through law school…
Agents of the underground
Like atomic particles randomly bouncing around their orbit, artists Tony Garan and Morgan Steele were knocking around the Orlando art scene when they just blew up. That’s how their works ended up at Orlando City Hall in the Underground: Orlando’s Self-Taught Artists exhibit (through March 19), hanging with distinction alongside paintings by two of their…
Old stiffs
Europeans always make Americans look like total Gomers. Their sophistication, their intellectualism, their genius at slowing down children by giving them wine … we may be good at some things, but they’re better at just living life. Except for German tourists, who insist on wearing socks with their sandals and shorts, Europeans are the Fonz…
Papa loves Mumba
What if you could change the past? You know, crack the laugh lines back into the laughter and pour the liver pain back into the shot glass. Take it all back for a spirited revisit to whatever one-night stand seemed so important that you’ve held it in a grimace on your face (or a mention…
Nine lives
Like Garfield on Ecstasy, Orlando theater is the cat that just won’t stop climbing up your leg. Even as streetwise survivor Theatre Downtown slinks into its 15th year with an anniversary production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” its quasi-cousin the SoulFire Traveling Medicine Show is preparing to set out some tender vittles of…
