Archive for Friday, February 27, 2015
Spotlight: Scott Joseph on Ari Hibachi & Sushi
Ari, a sushi and Japanese restaurant, has opened in the Gateway Village just north of Orlando International Airport. Technically, this is a second location for a restaurant in Celebration. But this new Ari has added teppanyaki cooking to its repertoire. That’s the style of cooking where the guests sit around large griddles while the chefs make a lot of really unnecessary banging and clanging sounds with their spatulas, knives and even the salt and pepper shakers.
Published in Scott Josephs Restaurant Guide, Spotlight
Published in Scott Josephs Restaurant Guide, Spotlight
Spotlight: Trash 2 Trends Fashion Show
One person’s trash is another person’s trend. At least that’s the case for Orlando’s second annual Trash 2 Trends recycled fashion show.
Local designers have created outfits from items that would have ended up in a landfill. Instead they will end up on the runway Saturday night.
Published in Spotlight
Published in Spotlight
Veterans Affairs Secretary Addresses Reform, Controversy
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald visited Orlando Friday. He has made reforming VA bureaucracy his top goal, but message has been drowned out lately as controversy surrounds comments he made to a homeless vet that he served in special forces - even though he didn’t.
Published in Central Florida News, Health, Health WMFE
Published in Central Florida News, Health, Health WMFE
SeaWorld Launches New Marketing Campaign Amid Revenue, Attendance Declines
As attendance is rising at other theme parks it’s dropping at SeaWorld, due in part to a documentary about the park’s treatment of a whale that killed a trainer.
SeaWorld plans to launch a new marketing campaign aimed at people who are ambivalent about the theme park at the center of the documentary, “Blackfish.”
Published in Central Florida News
Published in Central Florida News
Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock On ‘Star Trek,’ Dies At 83
The cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, told The New York Times.
Published in NPR News
Published in NPR News
Heart, Themed Art Show, Slava Snowshow and Dancing With Fringe
Is it getting HEART in here or is it just me? Universal Studios Mardi Gras is schlepping Ann and Nancy Wilson on stage to perform their hits “Crazy On You”, “Magic Man”, “Barracuda” and more as part of its Mardi Gras concert series Saturday February 28th at Universal Studios.
Published in Archives
Published in Archives
Port Canaveral Car Manufacturing Partnerships
Port Canaveral isn’t out of the car manufacturing partnership game just yet, according to port officials, even though earlier this month, it lost out on 100 new jobs and millions of dollars in economic impact when Volkswagen Group of America chose to locate a vehicle import complex at the Port of Jacksonville instead of Canaveral. Port CEO John Walsh currently is trying to woo seven other car manufacturers to occupy a future $85 million auto assembly facility by this year. That facility would put out 350,000 cars a year and could create thousands of jobs.
Published in Archives
Published in Archives