French accent at fancy cafe
When looking for more than “a good loaf,” you’ll definitely find it at Au Bon Pain (pronounced ah-bahn-pahn). The high-end bakery-cafe chain with an outpost on every other corner in Manhattan has established its first local site in tourist territory in the Club Hotel at DoubleTree. The polished, Art Deco-styled bakery is stocked with its…
Quarter turn
It’s always twilight at Latin Quarter, thanks to fiber-optic stars in the ceiling — just one of many of the glitzy applications that makes the enterprise suitable for Universal Studio’s CityWalk. However grand, the Mayan-inspired design details come together in a way that looks more like the product of a consultant than multicultural inspiration. Somehow…
Scoring a victory on the Afro turf
At home in Nigeria, Timothy Adebule wouldn’t have been working on a rainy Saturday afternoon. But this is Orlando, and the proprietor of the Three Masks gift shop was wringing the last few hours of potential profit out of a slow day on West Church Street. And he still had a long night ahead of…
Nothing but cornballs in this silly ‘Game’
Movie: For Love of the Game
Going nowhere fast
Movie: Blue Streak
Nothing but cornballs in this silly ‘Game’
Movie: For Love of the Game
Going nowhere fast
Movie: Blue Streak
What Sublime started, the All Stars carry through
The summer of 1996 marked Sublime’s first hit song, “What I Got,” and the release of their self-titled major-label debut. Only a few months earlier, the band’s singer/guitarist/songwriter, Brad Nowell, died from a fatal heroin overdose that devastated his wife, son, friends and family, as well as bandmates Bud Gaugh (drums) and Eric Wilson (bass).…
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Artist: The Melvins
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Artist: Art of Noise
Review – J-Tull Dot Com
Artist: Jethro Tull
Review – Come Pick Me Up
Artist: Superchunk
Southern lights frame tradition
At the close of the century, it’s somewhat ironic for artists, especially in the photography-saturated ’90s, to commit themselves to old-fashioned ideas of truth and reality in their art, but photographers Jay Shoots and Tom Jimison are still exploring traditional areas of portraiture and architectural studies. Both men use large-format cameras to ensure luxurious reproduction…
Y2K complacent?
On one sunny morning in the middle of June, the residents of Van Nuys, Calif., awoke to intimations that the shit was starting to hit the fan — or in this case, the streets. Four million gallons of raw sewage had spewed forth overnight from the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation plant, spilling onto a…
Crime is not pretty
An “ugly robber” plaguing the Phoenix area was arrested in July in Peoria, Ariz. Karen Marie Tribby, 33, reportedly confessed to 12 robberies, crimes described in police bulletins as having been perpetrated by a “very ugly woman.” A police spokesman justified that description by pointing out that “every victim who has seen her” had described…
History in the taking?
Thelma Ayres was buried on the same June day that her house was torn down. For many neighbors of Boone High School, the twin events have come to symbolize what’s at stake as the Orange County School Board plows ahead with plans to condemn their homes for what residents see as a dubious school expansion.…
It takes a village
The Walt Disney Co. is continuing to finesse it PR tactics with critics. Though it never sat down with aggrieved Southern Baptists or other activist religious groups over its perceived slide into a moral morass — and really, what would have been the point? — the company will meet with a contingent alarmed over the…
Squirrelly behavior
It’s getting hard to keep track of the absolutely batty behavior of critters in this state — from the monitor lizards that crawl through DeLand to the chickens that took up residence in an Oviedo Popeye’s parking lot. Now, even the squirrels have gone loco. Some of these occasions require high-level diplomacy (“Remove the chickens!”…
Show me the money
Note to Gov. Jeb Bush: Maybe brother knows best. The New York Times reported that George W. Bush, Republican presidential front-runner, began posting on his website (www.georgewbush.com) a list of every contributor to his campaign. Too bad Jeb didn’t think of that back when running for governor. He was plagued by questions about the identity…
Blowing past the smoke screen
I’m on George W. Bush’s side. Really! I have it in a letter, dated June 20, 1999. It’s addressed to me and it opens with: “Dear Al, Thank you for letting me know your ideas and suggestions. I welcome information about important issues, and I value your perspective.” It goes on to offer some claptrap…
Toying with fame
People hoping to have an action figure made of themselves generally have to settle for a voodoo doll. If not for some disgruntled employee or freakish ex holding a little fetish, thinking “This is you” and sticking a carpet needle in its eye, a lot of us would have no effigy at all. We will…
Pizza zoo
If you’re headed to Alfonso’s Pizza & More in College Park on a Saturday night, make sure that you are (1) wearing comfy shoes, and (2) not in a hurry. Reservations? Forget it. Everyone waits in line at Alfonso’s. Now that the word is out, the College Park pizzeria practically has to call in crowd…
Open wide for big gator fete
There aren’t many theme parks where the featured attraction is also on the menu. But after 50 years in business, Gatorland (14501 S. Orange Blossom Trail, 855-5496) has come up with a new way to draw attention to the 4,000 resident gators: The “Greater Gator Cook-Off,” which offers a taste-test of old Florida-style delicacies, noon-6…
