Gobble up this holiday
For some, family tradition at Thanksgiving includes waiters and valet parking. Whether it’s the very popular Disney-character and jazz repast at the Dolphin Room (Swan & Dolphin Hotel; $39.50, $18 children; 407-934-4335) or an intimate gobble at Chef Arthur’s Nicole St. Pierre ($30; 407-647-7575), there are enough choices in town to make everyone happy. Dux…
French treat dishes out the just desserts
Movie: Amelie
Change in the air
Restaurants are organic things. Like the tide, they ebb and flow. Owners and names of places change at a dizzying rate. And, in a town where good chefs are a bankable commodity, it can be challenging to keep track of who is cooking what where. Who’s in the kitchen? It could be a chef from…
Colors of the windbag
Movie: Waking Life
Practical magick
Movie: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Leaving noir-mal
Movie: The Man Who Wasn’t There
French treat dishes out the just desserts
Movie: Amelie
Colors of the windbag
Movie: Waking Life
Practical magick
Movie: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Leaving noir-mal
Movie: The Man Who Wasn’t There
Falwell that ends well
Before he had Ellen DeGeneres to kick around, Jerry Falwell had to rely on his own, fetid creativity to grab headlines for his denunications of gay lifestyles. In a fit of cutesy righteousness, the Rev once floated this memorable sound bite: “God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” When Falwell came out with…
What Gives?
A lump of soul A few years ago, if you hated someone and still had to give them a holiday gift, you gave them one of those flowers that played awful, tinny pop music and danced. Last year, you gave them that singing mounted bass. This year, the novelty object of musical annoyance could be…
Your hair, please
Like thousands of other hospitality workers laid off after the September terrorist attacks, Jim recently found himself in line outside of the soon-to-open Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center seeking work. Over two weekend job fairs, he was joined by more than 13,000 applicants for 1,400 positions at the formerly named Opryland hotel. For two…
Talk is cheap
When the city hosted workshops this summer to study a small subdivision in the Parramore neighborhood, they went to great lengths to find people to comment on the 60-acre area. They invited churches and business people. They made sure government employees took off several Saturday mornings to attend the workshops. Joe Gray, a county employee…
Three strikes and Orlando’s out
It’s something that folks in the know have been whispering since May 1998, back when Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened and the Mouse actually saw attendance levels drop at both Epcot and Disney/ MGM. Further evidence of the phenomenon came in the spring of 2000, when the opening of Islands of Adventure significantly ate into attendance…
Horse play
I may not be stable, but surely I can hold my own in a stable … or at least in the bar-adjacent greeting room at the front of the horse-o-riffic dinner-theater extravaganza, Arabian Nights. Out here in the Irlo Bronson world of Splendid China and Shell World, nothing really makes sense. That alone explains the…
What’s good for the goose
Nolan Lett has been awarded $17,000 in a lawsuit against his former employer, Aramark Corp. of Oak Brook, Ill. Lett had fallen and broken his wrist after being chased by a goose as he arrived for work one day at Aramark’s building, which he proved in court was a “high-goose” area — and that was…
Deep Thoughts
After years of struggling to carve out a niche for their dance-floor grooves, Washington D.C.-based electronica wizards Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi are at a point in their career where they are actually turning away work. The in-demand remixers/producers/label heads already count industry heavyweights like Beth Orton, Michael Jackson, Amber, Depeche Mode and The…
How do you spell relief?
The other night on “Politically Incorrect,” I heard Wendy Mallick from “Just Shoot Me” offer an idea that she and some of the other nitwits in her drumming circle had come up with — that instead of dropping bombs on Afghanistan, wouldn’t it be great if we dropped things like medical supplies and food. And…
