The torture never stops
Movie: City by the Sea
Masala magic
Poor neglected Dr. Phillips Boulevard. With all the hoopla about restaurants on Sand Lake Road, it’s easy to forget about the dining spots just around the corner, even though the Dr. Phillips Marketplace is full of cozy Italian, Japanese and deli eateries, not to mention the popular Morton’s and Chatham’s Place locations. So we’ll train…
The torture never stops
Movie: City by the Sea
Peasant-style pizza in Village
Judging by what passes for pizza these days, it’s not as as easy at it sounds. Fortunately, the newly opened Pizzeria Valdiano in Winter Park Village has the technique down. And its next-door proximity to the Regal cinemas there, will help the word spread quickly. Casual and inexpensive, Pizzeria Valdiano (referring to the Vallo di…
Reality gallery
Breaking new ground is old territory for Regina Smith, a longtime local artist, mother, educator and organizer. Her getting-people-together attentions date back to Orlando Museum of Art’s ’90s precursor to its popular “1st Thursday’s” program, called the “Art After Dark” series. She pooled talent into one-night happenings that saw Keith “Scramble” Campbell painting to psychedelic…
Party like a Republican
This Tuesday, Florida voters will go to the polls to select the Democratic candidate for governor. When the day is over, we’ll finally have a winner in a competition that might just as well be called “Who Wants to Wear His Ass as a Hat?” Sad to say, but Jeb looks all but indomitable, which…
Peasant-style pizza in Village
Pizza is more or less just a slab of cooked dough with stuff on it, so how hard can making a good one be? Judging by what passes for pizza these days, it’s not as as easy at it sounds. Fortunately, the newly opened Pizzeria Valdiano in Winter Park Village (510 N. Orlando Ave.; 407-628-5333)…
The truth about the attacks
One year has passed since Sept. 11. Yet we, the American people, still don’t know exactly what happened. There are still no plans for a public investigation of how some 3,000 Americans lost their lives, of what could have been done to prevent the attacks or reduce their impact. Secrecy has been the watchword of…
What are we afraid of?
The smoke and dust from the ruin of the World Trade Center towers has cleared and visitors to the site — an estimated 3.6 million of them, according to The New York Times — can now breathe easier as they gaze down into the hulking crater and up at the gap in the skyline created…
Free cops for the rich
As marketing strategies go, Belle Isle administrators seemed to have a winner. They pledged last spring to reduce the tax bill of 5,000 county residents in unincorporated areas north and east of the small, affluent city if said residents agreed to be annexed into Belle Isle. The city spent $21,000 on its marketing campaign –…
That old house
Orange County Commissioner Clarence Hoenstine doesn’t like his Hansel Avenue neighbors, and his Hansel Avenue neighbors don’t like him. The mutual animosity isn’t surprising. Hoenstine is conservative, while his neighbors — Phil Windsor and Gary Ashland — are openly gay. But what really set the two sides at odds is Hoenstine’s new business, a planned…
Road to ruin
Florida’s primary election is only days away. Yet in my neighborhood of College Park, the talk of the town is hardly about the positions of those vying to be the Sunshine State’s next governor. In fact, the main debate wafting through our streets these days is about a matter that is decidedly not statewide, proving,…
Two to get ready, and four to go
The race is on. Well, not really. With The New York Times effectively ringing the Backstreet Boys death knell in last month’s extensive investigation, “The Lost Boys: How a Pop Sensation Came Undone,” and both ‘N Sync and the Boys fading into their terrible 20s of pedestrian environmental concerns, Broadway flubbing and space travel, the…
