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Video: Protest at Publix

If you shop at Publix, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers would like you to know that you are supporting a store that exploits immigrant workers by refusing to increase the price it pays for tomatoes by one penny per pound. According to the CIW, workers are paid the same rate today they were in 1978, between 40 cents and 50 cents per 32-pound bucket. At that rate, a worker has to pick 2.5 tons of tomatoes per 10-hour day to earn minimum wage. Think about that the next time you cruise the produce aisle.

CIW says the Nov. 1 protest in front of the Publix on East Colonial was just the start of a statewide tour. Ch ...

Breaking: Biteboy to save fountain!

This just in from hot shoe reporter Billy Manes, who is down in the halls of city council sniffing out details and dispatched this dispatch via his Bloggytown celluphonic news transfer device:

Biteboy, Orlando's favorite "gurgling pool of awful," is going to help save the Lake Eola fountain! What, you don't remember Biteboy? Neither does anyone with any musical taste. But you may recall that, besides a complete lack of talent, they have a penchant for inserting the ...

RIP, Reax

May we have a moment of silence, please, for the passing of a fine publication … thank you. No, we’re not talking about the Orlando Sentinel. We said “fine” publication. (Oh god, we kill us.) We speak of the late print edition of Reax, a statewide music mag full of piss and vinegar. We loved the attitude and the beautiful layout, and we were jealous of their full-color format. The Tampa-based publication called it quits with its 40th issue, which featured lit-geek rockers the
What a giddy joy it is to see the new GOP.com web unveiling, designed, I can only imagine, specifically to steal Obama's Health Care-victory attention today by doing something so hilariously inept that you can't help but look at them.

The new website, which crashed so hard today from neck-craning onlookers that the Obama campaign’s former online guru, Joe Rospars, told TPMDC: ‘You know your web program is in trouble when your site can’t even handle ...

"The following is a message for old people"

Growing bolder? Growing boomier? Sucking up Social Security and Medicare like there's no tomorrow? But there's something missing. Your kids are on Facebook, but they deleted their accounts when you friended them. And let's not talk about what happened on Match.com.

What's a social-networking-curious silver fox to do?

Welcome to GrowingBolder.com. It's about attitude! (or so the logo says; we'd say, judging from the looks of the site, it's about not scaring anyone away with pre-Year 2000 web design.) In fact, it reminded us a lot of this:

ACORN in Vitter's Side

With masturbatory master-scribe Jeffrey C. Billman now well and truly gone (sigh), it sure has been quiet in this little fallout shelter of textual bloviation.
Not anymore! Motherfuckin' Sen. David Vitter -- actually, hooker-fucking Sen. David Vitter -- just got called out for trying to call out an organization for almost doing exactly what he always did: engage prostitutes in unthinkable acts. The Louisiana gadabout was apparently well known on Canal Street for being, well, a politician, meaning somebody in midlife crisis mode who pays for sex. That whole D.C. Madam thing from a two years back manage ...

Remember 'Hollywood East'? So does this psycho!

Now listen, Orlando city planners, don't get your panties in a bunch over this but...

Your savior has arrived!

The latest to exploit our fair city's never-ending eagerness to dive headfirst into the cesspool of Los Angeles has produced a number of hysterically hillbilly attempts at fashioning Orlando into "Hollywood East." The term gained traction in the early '90s when second-rate TV shows like seaQuest DSV and some Hulk Hogan actioner actually filmed locally. Then again later th ...

Inauspicious Photo: Joel Boner

You may recall our recent coverage of the brutal murder of a homeless, possibly gay 30-year-old named Joel Boner. The defendant in the case, 19-year-old John Hawthorne, allegedly attacked Boner outside his tent at an Ocoee homeless camp, stabbing Boner in the back as many as seven times. Hawthorne is out on cheap bail with a GPS anklet awaiting trial (additional depositions were logged on Friday, Sept. 4); Boner is dead. You can read his uncle Lon Boner's updates in the comments section ...

"New Voices," old tricks...

Verifying the old adage that "opinions are like assholes, and everybody's got one" -- ALSO a Salt N Pepa lyric! -- the Orlando Sentinel published and asshole opinion piece this weekend called "The health-care debate deserves and honest forum" under the auspices of its "New Voices" demographic olive branch: "a forum for readers under 30." Sure, fine, this is where young upstarts are meant to bloviate for 600 words or so about current events that they typically have no control over, because, well, their hair ...

RPOF defends the crazy

So here it is, like one day after I first broke the little tidbit about the crazy-ass press release Florida GOP honcho Jim Greer sent accusing Obama of some sort of grand communist conspiracy for, you know, telling kids to stay in school. It's gotten a lot of play these last 24 hours, and here we have party flack Nicole Katie Gordon defending Greer's absolute stupidity to TPM.
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Disney acquires Marvel, replaces "vixens" with "princesses"

Editor's note: The following is by Adam Simon, an Orlando-based "geek culture" enthusiast. Enjoy.

What can you get for $4 billion in a recessed economy? How about mutant powers and radioactive spiders? Monday's announcement that Disney has signed the deal to acquire Marvel for $4 billion in cash and stock got nerds everywhere chattering their braces together. ...