Corrective lens
Movie: Auto Focus
Days of guns and roses
Movie: Bowling for Columbine
Corrective lens
Movie: Auto Focus
Days of guns and roses
Movie: Bowling for Columbine
It’s elementary
The Disney community of Celebration, steeped in 1950’s atmosphere and designer architecture, isn’t a place one would associate with English high tea or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Yet this is the place that two Londoners have decided to open a tearoom filled with Sherlock Holmes memorabilia and the aroma of Earl Grey. Tony David worked…
Cooking a feast fit for Romans
Italian food. Arguably the most popular cuisine in the world, it’s a great deal more than lasagna and pizza. And judging by recipes in “Saveur Cooks: Authentic Italian” from Saveur Magazine (Chronicle Books, $40), there are more styles of Italian food than even the well-versed diner can know. Divided into chapters like “Cheese and Eggs,”…
Disappointed and hurt
After reading your article [Cash for Grades, Oct. 24] and seeing the focus of it, I believe you could have supported your point using another school and principal. I am disappointed and hurt by the way you used Cheney and me in your article. Kathleen Sanborn, former principal Cheney Elementary School Judgment call Kathleen Sanborn…
Voter’s guide
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Florida voters will be bombarded with a multitude of proposed amendments to the state constitution. You may have already received printed explanations of some of these amendments, as prepared and distributed by the League of Women Voters, Libertarians for Mica or any number of other crypto-fascist organizations. But only Orlando Weekly…
Election Litmus Test
Tuesday’s gubernatorial race will be close. Polls show Democrat Bill McBride nipping at Gov. Jeb Bush’s heels, closing a gap that’s already within the margin of error. All of which doesn’t bode well for a state that’s screwed up its last two big elections. Brace yourself for another nail-biter — complete with all the recounts…
The mayor’s queer past
Moments before Orlando mayor Glenda Hood uttered the words that will surely define her as a person, if not as a politician, she grabbed her throat in what many would recognize as the universal choking sign. The issue at hand on Oct. 21 was whether commissioners should vote to add gays and lesbians to the…
Channel 9 gets their woman
Jodi James is an avid, Brevard-based advocate for the legalization of medicinal marijuana. She’s also a self-professed daily pot smoker, and a candidate for the District 31 seat in the Florida House. In 1988, James got caught up (peripherally, she says) in a drug bust involving 100 hits of LSD. She served eight months in…
Vote for Bush?
In case you missed it, an excerpt from Orlando Sentinel’s Oct. 27 endorsement of Gov. Jeb Bush: “Bush consistently has supported bills to keep public business hidden from taxpayer scrutiny. He has squandered billions of dollars on questionable tax cuts to support his affluent cronies. He has refused to even consider a wholesale review of…
Beyond basketball and diaries
The image is burned indelibly into memory. Leonardo DiCaprio manning the New York skyline from the top of an apartment building, masturbating to the moon and the stars — free, as he says, of the need for contrived sexual fantasy — and effectively rising above it all. King of the world, so to speak. But…
Puck off, Wolfgang
Anybody with more than 13 TV channels (excludes me) knows the new breed of television chefs are the supermodels of the new millennium. Beefy, brash and bawdy, folks like Jamie Oliver, Emeril Lagasse and Wolfgang Puck are wooing the bonbons off America’s steadily plumping middle class. On TV, salacious talk of sexy sweet-pepper sauce prevails,…
In udder disbelief
Madison veterinarians said in September that they now have the technology to detect the fraudulent use of three udder-enhancing schemes employed on show cows at dairy exhibits. Forty percent of a cow’s grade is based on how full, symmetrical and smooth her udders are (but unlike a woman’s breasts in human beauty contests, cow udders…
Living in the fear and now
For any horror movie to achieve true greatness, it has to conform to a phenomenon we’ll refer to as “The Part Where.” Somewhere within the film’s narrative catacombs must lurk a singular thrill, a defining moment that — thanks to creative ingenuity, technical accomplishment or just sheer audacity — takes viselike hold of the public’s…
