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Oct 22-28, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 43

Mile-high pleasure of the baked kind

There are people who stare at a showroom floor of cars, yearning for the latest model, or drool over displays of fine watches. Then there are the folks who can’t walk past a dessert case without being mesmerized by the mile-high cakes under the spotlights. For you, we have Annie Pie’s (anniepiesbakery.com). Annie’s delights can…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Slavic sensation

Cleveland native Rob Plummer is doing us a favor, in the form of Polonia Polish Restaurant. He’s offering us something different. Sometimes different is the best we can hope for, but Plummer, who previously owned the Petronia restaurant in Key West, manages to bring authentic dishes to the mix. The strip mall location, with two…

Orlando Weekly Staff

High hair, big lows

Blame the big-haired woman. Casino kingpin Steve Wynn claims that Montecore — the sharp-toothed beast that feasted on flamboyant illusionist Roy Horn — was set off by the oversized ‘do on a front-row spectator. As the big cat and Roy strode onto the stage at The Mirage, Montecore dropped to all fours to check out…

Steve Schneider

The pits

A few months back, Mayor Buddy Dyer promised to beef up enforcement of code enforcement fines. With the city struggling to stay in the black, the $33 million in fines the city has failed to collect over the last 14 years sure would come in handy right now. The reality is that collecting the money…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Subsidy city

When Cari Coats took the podium Sept. 25 to introduce the recommendations of the mayor’s downtown task force, she repeated the word “bold” several times. If the words weren’t original — the accompanying committee report mentions “bold” five times over a three-page introduction — they were at least accurate. The 20 goals her 25-member Downtown…

William Dean Hinton

Say no, Orlando

Make no mistake about it: John Ashcroft is the most radical politician in the Bush administration. This is the man who declared that America has “no king but Jesus.” This is the man who anoints himself with cooking oil (in the manner of King David, he says) each time he is sworn into public office.…

Roast for one hour

Hello (again) kitty?

About a year ago, I stumbled upon a show called “The Pet Psychic.” In that episode, animal communicator Sonja Fitzpatrick, former model-turned-television pet guru, was onsite at Gatorland, “chatting” with Old Joe, a gator who’d fallen into a slump to the great concern of his seasoned wrangler, Tim Williams. Fitzpatrick, of handsome middle age (63,…

Lindy T. Shepherd

Semitically active

Just how crucial are politics to the Central Florida Jewish Film Festival? It’s a loaded question to begin with, seemingly grounded in the tunnel vision that ties every aspect of the international Jewish experience to hot-button issues like the rapid collapse of the Middle East road map. But to audiences who have supported the previous…

Steve Schneider

Mile-high pleasure of the baked kind

There are people who stare at a showroom floor of cars, yearning for the latest model, or drool over displays of fine watches. Then there are the folks who can’t walk past a dessert case without being mesmerized by the mile-high cakes under the spotlights. For you, we have Annie Pie’s (150 National Place, Suite…

Joseph Hayes

Happy birthday, Hector

We’re nearly 11 months into this 200th year since the birth of French composer Hector Berlioz, and it seems that the anniversary is unlikely to be heralded in the same way Beethoven’s 200th birthday was in 1970 (or the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death was in 2000). There have been no retrospective collections of his…

Jason Ferguson

Such cute girls

Ever had the hiccups? Not your standard misgasp of alcoholic air followed by embarrassing respiratory restraint, but the whole, soul-consuming body revolt complete with unseemly contortions and, quite possibly, a dance to the bathroom? Thought so. For those of us stupid enough to care, there was a soundtrack to said humbling pounding throughout the wonder…

Billy Manes

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