No mysteries unwrapped in sequel
Movie: The Mummy Returns
Urban drama reminds us of life’s complexities
Movie: Bobby G. Can’t Swim
No mysteries unwrapped in sequel
Movie: The Mummy Returns
Urban drama reminds us of life’s complexities
Movie: Bobby G. Can’t Swim
Roll with it
With the staggering number of Japanese restaurants that have opened recently, it’s getting really hard to review sushi bars. I mean, how many times can you say “fresh” to describe raw fish? Of course the sushi is fresh; the place wouldn’t be in business very long if it wasn’t. If there were two or three…
Euro-paean
I have a secret to tell you, one that might shake up everything you think you know. We did not invent good food. The concept of interesting flavors and combinations of ingredients did not appear full blown with our generation, or the one before us. We have become so accustomed to “the next great thing”,…
Stone Age Politics-David vs. Goliath
Let me ask a serious question. If a black student were beaten because he is black, then suspended for investigating the fight because he was “too openly black”, wouldn’t we assume that there was something seriously wrong with the laws? I would hope that everyone in their right mind would have a problem with this…
Winter Park gets Russian outpost
Everyone talks about the plethora of Vietnamese cuisine in Orlando, the wide variety of Hispanic restaurants or the strong Indian presence. Now add to our multicultural mix the words “vareniki” and “piroshki,” foods from Russia. The Lacomka Bakery & Deli in Winter Park is serving up potato dumplings and borscht worthy of a stay at…
Review – Concerts for a Landmine Free World
Artist: Various Artists
Review – A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
Artist: Matmos
Review – Doin’ Something
Artist: Soulive
Review – Mississippi Delta Bluesman
Artist: Honeyboy Edwards
Review – Concerts for a Landmine Free World
Artist: Various Artists
Review – A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
Artist: Matmos
Review – Doin’ Something
Artist: Soulive
Review – Mississippi Delta Bluesman
Artist: Honeyboy Edwards
Review – Concerts for a Landmine Free World
Artist: Various Artists
Review – A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
Artist: Matmos
Review – Doin’ Something
Artist: Soulive
Review – Mississippi Delta Bluesman
Artist: Honeyboy Edwards
Time for a ‘toon up
Animation is the heart and soul of the Walt Disney Co. — or so say a thousand or more Mouse House press releases. Well, if that’s really the case, Mickey may have to learn to get by with a much smaller heart and a lot less soul. Disney reportedly is considering severe staff cuts at…
The price of preservation
To find the old German settlement of Gotha, you must drive through the maze of burgeoning development in west Orange County. You exit the 408 onto Good Homes Road, an aptly named thoroughfare for the suburbia sprouting over old citrus groves. Then it’s down Old Winter Garden Road, past more of the same: signs promoting…
No passport for Hood
The job market is tight for cushy overseas ambassadorships. The White House received nearly 1,700 recommendations for a mere 162 ambassador positions — most of which the Bush administration will fill in the next few weeks. Among those not likely to be selected is Mayor Glenda Hood, who was rumored to be seeking an ambassadorship…
A PETA retreat
Protests at last June’s Southern Baptist convention in Orlando made headlines, not least of which followed the arrest of an activist with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who was picked up wearing a chicken suit. The stunt promoted a meat-free lifestyle as part of PETA’s “Jesus was a vegetarian” campaign. Along with several…
Dead in the water
With public pressure mounting and the legislative session winding down, the Florida Senate shelved the controversial Aquifer Storage and Retrieval bill, which would have allowed utility companies to pump contaminated water into underground storage “bubbles,” then pull it up, treat it and use it for drinking water `Watered Down, April 25`. The move was a…
Enticing expressions of approval
Artist Lorraine Lax seems intent on trying to tie things together. Take, for example, her series of mixed-media works that will be on display at Dexter’s of Winter Park beginning May 6. “I’m trying to combine painting, drawing, poetry and found objects,” she explains while sitting in her Maitland studio contemplating the not-quite-finished paintings. The…
Get on with it
“I don’t know if your editor told you, but we have one of your articles hanging on the wall in our office,” smiles the accomodating publicist at arm’s length. “The potato-salad princess?” She’s on to me. Just a potato salad-free catering tray away, the teen-sheen pop machine is in full throttle again at Universal’s Islands…
‘Swim’ coach at ease in Florida waters
By all appearances, Gill Holland may be on his way to becoming one of the key players in Central Florida film. Now think how much he could accomplish if he actually lived here. The founder and chief executive officer of the New York-based cinéBLAST! — a multimedia production house and talent-scouting concern — Holland arrived…
The height of fashion
If you want to be trendy, here’s what to do: Wash all that product out of your hair, return that Atari T-shirt to Gadzooks or wherever it came from, and get that ring outta your nipple. I’m already amazed you haven’t snagged that thing in a sweater and pulled off your whole chest. Nope, the…
Winter Park gets Russian outpost
Everyone talks about the plethora of Vietnamese cuisine in Orlando, the wide variety of Hispanic restaurants or the strong Indian presence. Now add to our multicultural mix the words “vareniki” and “piroshki,” foods from Russia. The Lacomka Bakery & Deli in Winter Park (2050 Semoran Blvd., 407-677-1101) is serving up potato dumplings and borscht worthy…
Crawling from the wreckage
Over a six-day period in April, careless people in Los Angeles, Trenton, N.J., and San Diego blew out windows and caused other damage to their homes when aerosol cockroach foggers accidentally ignited. In the first two incidents, the residents were also severely burned, but in San Diego, despite $50,000 worth of damage to the home,…
The Beats go on, thanks to vital elder
Jazz composer and musician David Amram does more at age 70 than most people have ever done. Talking by phone (from his car), he says he had just been in Denver; performed with Pete Seeger in upper New York and Patti Smith in the Bowery; been on a panel in Worcester, Mass., and performed in…
The Beats go on, thanks to vital elder
Jazz composer and musician David Amram does more at age 70 than most people have ever done. Talking by phone (from his car), he says he had just been in Denver; performed with Pete Seeger in upper New York and Patti Smith in the Bowery; been on a panel in Worcester, Mass., and performed in…
The road to Puff Daddyâ??s …
The road to Puff Daddy’s house is littered with human debris, unbridled ambition and empty magnums of Cristal. The Lost Highway paved in platinum. ;; Sometime between his stunning March 16 acquittal on bribery and gun-possession charges related to a 1999 shooting inside a New York nightclub and his April 14 arrest for driving with…
Principal pulls plug on gay-teen editorial
Rep. Allen Trovillion’s disparaging remarks last month to gay teens lobbying for equal-rights protections reignited a debate, and Edgewater High School was no exception. One of the teens, Chris Vasquez, is editor of that school’s newspaper, the Eagle Eye. His classmate, Jesse Zito, 15, wanted to weigh in. At school, he says, most students (the…
Cough it up, Rich!
Ever since last fall, when the Orlando Magic began stepping up their campaign for a new basketball arena, one question has been on the minds of Orlando’s taxpayers and beleaguered hoops fans: If the Magic want a new building so damn much, why can’t they just build one themselves? It’s a reasonable enough question. “The…
