Crowded ‘House’ finds room for everyone
Movie: Two Family House
Review – Christmas 2000: A Thousand Years of Christmas Music
Artist: Michael Leasure
Crowded ‘House’ finds room for everyone
Movie: Two Family House
Review – Christmas 2000: A Thousand Years of Christmas Music
Artist: Michael Leasure
Review – Christmas 2000: A Thousand Years of Christmas Music
Artist: Michael Leasure
Put your meal on a pedestal
Nobody has ever said there aren’t enough unusual places to have dinner in Central Florida. Between the theaters and the rain forests and the ’50s diners, sometimes one longs for a simple dinner at home. What about someone else’s home? And what if that home is a museum? Dinner at the Albin Polasek Museum and…
As we head into the holid…
As we head into the holidays, there are seemingly endless opportunities to raise the red-and-green colors in a semblance of celebration. Sometimes it’s with friends, sometimes it’s with co-workers, and sometimes it’s with family, all of whom can present entertainment challenges, depending on their tolerance for, as well as deviation from, tradition. Suitable music can…
Comparative analysis
We’re deep in the season of the feel-good movie, and this is as good a reason as any to turn back the clock to Halloween. Nothing makes you feel worse than the feel-good movie or the kindly people therein. Why do you think the (original) Grinch and Ebeneezer Scrooge are the most popular of all…
Tune in tomorrow
You’d think the folks running ABC’s daytime lineup would have been thrilled by the response to last month’s Super Soap Weekend at Walt Disney World. In spite of the competing NBC Fanfest that same weekend at Universal’s Islands of Adventure, Disney still had to close Disney/MGM’s parking lot for an hour or so because of…
OD’ing on convenience
In an era of corporate homogenization, where Wal-Marts have monopolized and bankrupted small businesses across America, it’s nice to find a spot off that all-too-beaten path. In Orlando, we’ve got the 1200 block of East Colonial Drive, a quaint enclave of mostly Vietnamese-owned shops and restaurants with a real New York feel, especially on this…
When owners attack
The attorney for alleged San Francisco dog-abuser Steven Maul said in November that Maul only bit his dog in the neck as part of an unorthodox but loving method of discipline; in fact, Maul “is very oral” and “has French-kissed his dog,” the lawyer said. According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Boo,…
Fatal art attack
Even as Mayor Hood was scheduled to toast her emerging arts district with a tour of galleries downtown Tuesday night, a longstanding gallery further north in the designated arts corridor was facing eviction. The Warehouse Gallery will shut its doors within two months. That’s how long landlord Carolyn J. Roberts gave gallery owner Robin “RV”…
No recount
Lost amid the fallout of election day was a changing of the guard at the Orange County branch of the NAACP, which has been roundly criticized as a do-nothing organization (A quiet voice, Aug. 17). Gerald Bell, a branch vice president for the past six years, upset incumbent president Thomas Alston 59 votes to 18.…
All quacked up
Truth be told, academic conferences are not the stuff of high drama. If you’re on the hunt for a riveting story, a gaggle of scholars is not the best company to keep. It’s not that professors and professors-to-be lack passion — those I knew during my years in a Ph.D. program were often genuinely taken…
Torch bearer turns on the heat
It looks as if you can’t put on live theater at the Parliament House these days without infighting and character assassination rearing their ugly heads. First the extended run of the two-character spoof “Trailer Trash Tabloid” came to an abrupt end amid a flurry of finger-pointing and legalese (The Green Room, Nov. 16). Now its…
