In This Week's Issue:
Cover Story
CAB FIGHT
By Deanna Morey
Mears has a lock on the taxi business in Orlando, and drivers are getting sick of it

COUNCIL WATCH
Council Watch
By Billy Manes
Paying attention to city governement so you don't have to

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!
By Billy Manes
Local Republicans fight the Paulistas' assault


MUSIC
WHEN SIMPLE ISN'T
Music
By Justin Strout
Orlando's newest indie rockers Baron Von Bear are serious about their fun

FAR END OF THE LONG TAIL
By Jason Ferguson
Online sites offer lost classics for next to nothing

THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
This Little Underground
By Bao Le-Huu
Too much this week for foreplay, so giddyup


more in Music...


ARTS & CULTURE
GRAFFITI JAM
By Lindy T. Shepherd
Locals and globals sprayed in the sun

LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
Live Active Cultures
By Seth Kubersky
Regular readers might have noticed I exhausted last week's column on the earth-shaking observation that Wicked was overhyped.

more in Arts & Culture...

FILM
FIRST SHOT
By Steve Schneider
When summer hits the multiplex, it’s time to separate the men from the boys. And the women from the girls ...

more in Film...

FOOD & DRINK
Orchid
By Faiyaz Kara
Colorful dishes possess a modern sensibility

more in Dining...


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The Democratic primary in one paragraph
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by: Billman on 5/8/2008
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We're under attack!!!
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A Florida Music Fest alternative
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Exclusive: Help Baron Von Bear make a song! Part II
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Tonight at the Matador: Shop for Mom
by: AveryBeckendorf on 5/7/2008
Second Anal Lewd Night - need we say more?
by: Lindy on 5/5/2008
Cows at Comma
by: Lindy on 5/5/2008
Graffiti jam in Parramore
by: Lindy on 5/1/2008
NEW ON Schwag Blog

To sodomy, it's between God and me..
by: Tabora on 4/30/2008
Mr. Potato Head, Interrupted
by: Tabora on 4/25/2008
But Daddy! I want an Oompa Loompa now!
by: Tabora on 4/25/2008

COLUMNS
LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES
By Seth Kubersky
Regular readers might have noticed I exhausted last week's column on the earth-shaking observation that Wicked was overhyped.


POLICE BEAT
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Officer Dunlap was working the downtown bar scene when a man punched him in the face.


FIRST SHOT
By Steve Schneider
When summer hits the multiplex, it’s time to separate the men from the boys. And the women from the girls ...


SAVAGE LOVE
By Dan Savage
I’m 16 and gay. I recently got into an argument with my parents over whether HIV is spread by saliva or if you can be infected during oral sex ...


COUNCIL WATCH
By Billy Manes
Paying attention to city governement so you don't have to


THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
By Bao Le-Huu
Too much this week for foreplay, so giddyup


MAIL SACK
I really enjoyed your feature this week. All too often the Weekly gets carried away with self-indulgent crusades or undeserved hipster paeans ...


FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
By Rob Brezsny


BLISTER
By Billy Manes
“You better not make me cry,” Savannah feigns the presence of actual tear ducts beneath her eyes. “I cannot cry tonight ...”


HAPPYTOWN
Oh, glory days! Skies were blue and the sun was beaming on Lake Eola May 1.




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