Swords to the wise
Movie: The Musketeer
Swords to the wise
Movie: The Musketeer
Review – Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Soundtrack
Artist: Various Artists
Review – Fan Dance
Artist: Sam Phillips
Review – The Funky Precedent Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Going to town
Never say what a restaurant is not. Writing that one restaurant would be better if it were more like another is unfair and pointless. So I won’t say that the Market Street Café in Celebration is not Dexter’s or Tu Tu Tango or even the College Park Diner because — of course — it is…
Review – Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Soundtrack
Artist: Various Artists
Review – Fan Dance
Artist: Sam Phillips
Review – The Funky Precedent Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Review – Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Soundtrack
Artist: Various Artists
Review – Fan Dance
Artist: Sam Phillips
Review – The Funky Precedent Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Up in arms for inmates
On May 8, 1997, officers at the Charlotte Correctional Institution asked inmate Lakeith Amir-Sharif to produce his “shave pass,” a medical document allowing him to have facial hair. Apparently, he didn’t respond fast enough. Several correctional officers burst through his cell door and began kicking and punching him. They dragged him downstairs, threw him against…
Return of the pirate king
“It’s funny. Several months ago I was sitting in jail looking at I-4. Now I’m sitting here looking at I-4 from a different perspective.” Rayon “Junior” Payne is resting in a spacious office with one of the most spectacular views of Orlando, 14 stories above the city he is expecting to re-conquer with his pirate…
Up-and-down attractions
It’s official. The Mouse is scared. Even as the tube is blanketed with commercials that trumpet the arrival of Disney World’s “100 Years of Magic” celebration, Disney officials are conceding that this fall and winter may be particularly brutal times for their destination resort. With bookings down for all of WDW’s on-property hotels, some even…
Upstart art breeds at home
There’s no shortage of visual art in Central Florida, only viable places to hang it. But while curators jockey for our precious gallery space, Rebecca Ellis has come forward with an intrepid — if temporary — solution: Why not just use her house? A part-time painter and a science student at Seminole Community College (“I…
Tools that cut the mustard
Professional chefs get to play with top-quality kitchen toys, knives in particular. A chef’s knife is probably the most personal cooking tool of all. Regardless of what the glossy ads in cooking magazines say, chances are it’s not a Wusthof Trident or Henckels being picked up in that million-dollar kitchen — it’s probably a Global.…
No longer at cross purposes
Although Christianity and heavy metal seem like they would mix together about as well as oil and water, such logic hasn’t stopped people from trying to marry the mindsets. During metal’s golden era in the ’80s, it was California-based bozos Stryper who broke out of the church pack with a fire-and-brimstone backhand wrapped in yellow-and-black-striped…
Back in black?
Is white the new black? In a disturbing brush of irony-free PR manipulation, a story in Vibe magazine’s August issue positioned local heroes ‘N Sync in their strangest context yet, placing them at the forefront of some grand R&B evolution and seemingly signaling to the magazine’s predominately African-American readership that, yeah, it’s OK to like…
Leagues of their own
“I’m a big believer in fair play,” my cab driver is telling me as he snakes the car around the downed railroad crossing bars and ig-nores the flashing lights; there was no train coming, anyway. After he makes this manuever, he tells me how it’s just not right, what happened with lying, cheating Danny Almonte…
Good will bleeping
Two Utah men, seeking to make Hollywood movies safe for their mostly Mormon neighbors, are creating stashes of major-film releases from which they have dubbed out the cussing and the sex. Ray Lines sells the pristine versions at three CleanFlicks video stores near Provo; David Schenk runs a Clean Cut Video club in Kaysville, where…
Like a virgin
It’s funny how these things work out. Last week, Madonna’s drowned, sexless sexuality cold-showered my newfound single-guy virginity before it could hit its private sexual revolution. Now, I’m set to cover an abstinence convention (“Respect,” at the Tupperware Center… Really!), interviewing none other than Virgin Julie from MTV’s New Orleans “Real World” fishbowl. “In the…
A Precarious Prescription
John Roberts is a 41-year-old unemployed laborer whose assorted body ailments force him to walk slowly, with his hands clutching his stomach. To visit a doctor, Roberts must have good luck. He waits in line with maybe 100 other people at a free clinic in Parramore, hoping that in a first-come, first served arrangement, he…
