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Oct 3-9, 2001

Oct 3-9, 2001 / Vol. 17 / No. 40

Winning couple

There’s a saying that everything old is new again. Or maybe, new things are really old — sorry, when you have to keep track of openings, closings, chefs moving all over the place, it gets a bit confusing. Take, for example, Louie & Maria’s over on East Colonial. I recognized the place — the one…

Orlando Weekly Staff

No pause for commercial break

A pretty young woman with high, teased hair and colorful leotards speaks to me from my TV. In the few seconds my remote pauses on her sunny features and luminescent smile, I hear her intoning America’s need to stand together and stay strong in the wake of the previous week’s tragic events. “And what better…

Al Krulick

The spooktacular must go on

Life is full of not-so-little ironies these days. Think back to Sept. 11. If that had been a typical Tuesday in Central Florida, it would have been the night Universal Orlando’s entertainment staff began rehearsals with all of the extras hired to carry out the company’s 11th edition of “Hallo-ween Horror Nights” at Universal Studios…

Jim Hill

Chopsticking to the subject

“Siu Siu” isn’t an exotic delicacy, but she might show you how to make one. Born in the Fujian Province of China, on the coast in the southeastern region of the country, Siu Siu has been in Florida since 1971 (“practically a native,” she says). On Oct. 22 (and again in January), her multiregion course…

Joseph Hayes

Wedding bell blues

Some people should just elope. Groom Howard Brown, 31, was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, after allegedly shooting a guest at his wedding reception because the guest had brought along too many friends. … Bride Kathy Naylor, 28, was arrested in Crystal River, Fla., after following home a guest from her reception and reigniting an…

Chuck Shepherd

Bad to the bone

“These women can be so mean,” toots the shopping-bagged matron two steps down an Orange County Convention Center escalator from a (once again) poorly placed me. “They push and shove like you’re not even there.” “Ooooh, that’s my favorite plant!” glazes her sidecar, switching distractable gears. There’s a bonsai coming down the other escalator. It’s…

Billy Manes

Affirmative ‘Action!’

If you’re of a certain age, hearing the phrase “blacks in film” calls up the memory of a recurring bit Eddie Murphy used to perform on “Saturday Night Live.” Murphy’s Raheem Abdul Muhammed was a terminally militant, self-styled movie critic who demanded to know why the industry didn’t open its doors wider to people of…

Steve Schneider

A wider screen

On Friday, Aug. 24, Orlandoans who prefer their movies slightly offbeat suddenly found themselves living in paradise. Four new releases that were independent, foreign or otherwise “alternative” in nature — the maternal nightmare “The Deep End,” the French suspense thriller “With a Friend Like Harry,” the moody Chinese elegy “The Road Home” and the musicological…

Steve Schneider

Sights for sore eyes

You have arrived at the office Christmas party. You drink in the atmosphere and two glasses of wine as though they were Gatorade just after you finished playing in the Super Bowl. Having located the bathroom, the bar and the front door, you move through the room giving big Hey!s and How-are-ya!s to people you…

Liz Langley

One big happy channel

Pomp and circumstance ruled as the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed into law. Staged inside the rotunda of the Library of Congress — a bill-signing first — the February ceremony featured an array of legislators from both parties praising the comprehensive package. Then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich heralded the act as a…

Eric Boehlert

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