Oct 8-14, 2003

Oct 8-14, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 41

New door for people feeding

Tucked away in the Hidden Gardens area of Park Avenue is a shiny new place for noontime snacking, appropriately called The Lunch Box. The sandwich shop is an extension of Olive This, Relish That, the quirky tapenade, jam and foodstuff place owned by the Doggie Door folks. So call this the People Door, if you…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: House of the Dead

House of the Dead Studio: Artisan Website: http://www.houseofthedeadmovie.com/ Release Date: 2003-10-10 Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Clint Howard, Ellie Cornell, Ona Grauer, Jonathan Cherry Director: Uwe Boll Screenwriter: Mark A. Altman, David Parker WorkNameSort: House of the Dead Our Rating: 0.00 Warning sign No. 1: A horror flick proudly advertises that it was inspired by a video…

Orlando Weekly Staff

New door for people feeding

Tucked away in the Hidden Gardens area of Park Avenue is a shiny new place for noontime snacking, appropriately called The Lunch Box (348 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; 407-644-7090). The sandwich shop is an extension of Olive This, Relish That, the quirky tapenade, jam and foodstuff place owned by the Doggie Door folks. So…

Joseph Hayes

Love it, hate it, whatever

Long before iPods populated studded belts of irony and Kazaa sucked the life out of the music business, songs glowed at an almost inaccessible distance, just beyond the visible horizon. They weren’t at your fingertips, you just kind of knew they were there, and you chased them with your hair, your clothes and your heart.…

Billy Manes

Kodachrome choruses

A 9-year-old drummer. The band has a 9-year-old drummer. The thought alone conjures up visions of corporate-controlled kiddie-pop sibling-band disasters like Hanson and the Jackson 5. But when was the last time a tot-toting ensemble — or any band, for that matter — pulled off an exceptionally creative performance concept? Enter the most buzzed-about band…

Linnea Brown

Lynum’s spending spree

Ah, the perks of being an Orlando public official. You get a comfy office on the second floor of City Hall, overlooking busy downtown streets. You get a nice office assistant, a $36,000 salary, a daily police companion and the use of a city-owned pager. You also get a travel budget and a $9,500 pot…

William Dean Hinton

How do they do it?

Editor’s note: The following landed in Slug’s inbox recently. While we cannot vouch for its veracity, we decided to print it anyway because we liked it. Date: 10/2/03 From: Tim Franklin, Orlando Sentinel vice president and editor To: Elaine Kramer, managing editor Re: Kudos Elaine: Kudos to you and your staff on the Pearlman piece…

Bob Whitby

Leakin’ U.S.A.

Journalists, you may have noticed, aren’t held in extremely high regard. To hear a lot of people tell it, newspaper columnists in particular are irrelevant little weasels whose petulant rantings are a failed attempt to compensate for their essential powerlessness, and possibly their crippling feelings of sexual inadequacy. Whenever I hear an argument like that,…

Steve Schneider

Spinning the bottle

What is grace? Is it the toes of a ballerina or the sunglasses of a Jackie O? The one-eyed stumble from a bar or the knowing just when to leave a party? Who can say? Regardless, “grace” and “fire” exist in some overwrought American pop-culture-wordplay metaphoria, thanks in no small part to the flaxen, spit-‘n’-smile…

Billy Manes

All together now: drop-in center

The idea has been around for three decades or longer, but it took homeless advocate and UCF doctoral student Kelly Caruso to bring it to the attention of city leaders. In a meeting with several high-level administrators in July 2002, Caruso said what homeless experts in many cities already know: The best way to bring…

William Dean Hinton

Dear Dyer

It’s good to be the mayor, until you have to read your e-mail. The following letters are as raw as the day they arrived in Buddy’s inbox. Feb. 25 (election day) Mr. Dyer: I am appalled that you and/or your supporters would use a purveyor of hate (who promotes harm and the murder of those…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Everybody’s Buddy

He’s got charm, smarts and the blessing of a city full of voters. So what’s preventing Buddy Dyer from becoming Orlando’s best mayor ever? Our look at the his first 226 days in office. Imagine what life must have been like for John Hugh Dyer, Jr., a 45-year-old attorney who, in the last calendar year,…

William Dean Hinton

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