http://www.orlandoweekly.com/ Recent Orlando Weekly Content. en-us Copyright 2008 Orlando Weekly http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12779 Blister by Billy Manes. "I've been thinking," Jessica pipes in a sniffle through an affected cough. "I've been thinking about considering the possibility of not going." This is a clever play, see. A couple of years ago, Jessica and I ruminated over the olive slosh of some dirty martinis about the invaluable trai... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12778 Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Fifty-five percent of Americans not only believe in guardian angels, but testify that they have been actively aided by their intervention. The 55 percent figure may rise even higher in the coming weeks. A majority of Aries all over the planet, regardless of their r... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12777 Savage Love by Dan Savage. I have a bigot in the family. My brother's mother-in-law is scared this country is "on its way" to legalizing same-sex marriage, which is "against what her Bible tells [her]." Debating the issue with her is no use, because it always comes back to her religious beliefs. She doesn't dislike g... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/story.asp?id=12776 This Little Underground by Bao Le-Huu. Having just finished its fourth year of claim-staking the local music scene, the Anti-Pop Music Festival is rapidly gaining on the McRib as the most anticipated happening around here. This year's fest, however, had a very different tenor than last year's stellar edition, which still stands as... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=12773 Live Active Cultures by Seth Kubersky. Last week the New York Times reported on one of the few products to see a recent upswing in sales: Spam. If the economic outlook is so bleak that canned pork pudding is making a comeback, then you can count on disposable-dollar-dependent artists to be among the first in the ramen-soup lin... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12771 Council Watch by Billy Manes. Divine intervention rained down on our biweekly civic kaffee klatsch in the form of a sonic aberration this week, or at least so it would seem. As the mayor went to deliver his scripted opening, the microphones backfired with the voice of God (or a Peanuts principal), leading sharp-dressed Rev... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12770 Police Beat by Jeffrey C. Billman. Nov. 9 (2008-485235) 1:54 a.m.: So here we are again. Another week come and gone, another few hours of my life devoted to giving you, dear reader, the cop-laced humor you so desperately desire. But I have a confession to make: I'm not sure how much funny I'll be bringing this week. The p... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12769 Happytown by Jeffrey C. Billman and Bob Whitby. Remember Bill Dillon, the convicted killer who has spent the last 27 years (and counting) in prison for a crime he probably didn't commit [see "Free Bill Dillon!," July 31]? On Nov. 14, a circuit court judge vacated Dillon's murder conviction, making him the third Brevard County person the... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12768 Comments . Anthony away Jeffrey C. Billman: You took the words right out of my trashcan, because that's where I threw all this nonsense when I finally pulled myself away from this sci-fi spectacle of wasted time [Casey Anthony coverage]. I have been reading [Bloggytown] here, with my wife listening... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/dining/story.asp?id=12755 On The Side by Faiyaz Kara. You may not have ever sampled the El Salvadoran pupusa, but if you've enjoyed Venezuelan arepas or Mexican gorditas, then you're likely familiar with the Central American nation's most popular food staple. The puffed rounds are such delicious little numbers that every Nov. 13, El Salvador cele... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12754 Blister by Billy Manes. I don't even know who I am today. There's this spiked ball of nerves wrapped in vein-red twine that seems to be teetering over the ledges of the Labyrinth board with every random unevening of the potholed foundation, sure, but where there's typically a tick – a nervous winking thing, or at le... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12753 Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny. ARIES (March 21-April 19) "You can't know fire unless you play with it," says Mark Finney, who develops computer models for fighting forest fires. I offer that as a motto for you in the coming week. I'm not saying you should purposely ignite a conflagration for the sake of impulsive experiment... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12752 Savage Love by Dan Savage. I have to say I'm disappointed. Proposition 8 passed in California, as did anti-gay-marriage amendments in Florida and Arizona. Decency and compassion suffered a horrible blow, and I was hoping to hear a few words from you about it. Some inspiration before I took off from work to go and prot... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/story.asp?id=12751 This Little Underground by Bao Le-Huu. Wait, what went down last week? Oh, right ... the single greatest moment of American history in our lifetime. Downtown was absolutely electric on Election Night, its ventricles pumping with a vigor never quite seen before. Out on the street, whoops rang out in concert from bars in citywide stere... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/film/story.asp?id=12749 First Shot by Steve Schneider. A lot of you readers have probably felt some concern that this column often seems like little more than a platform for our incendiary political views, behind the flimsy guise of a movie roundup. Well, with this being the first installment we've penned since the Day the World Changed, you'll be... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/artsculture/story.asp?id=12748 Live Active Cultures by Seth Kubersky. When Disney shut down its Pleasure Island nightclub complex (as reported in Live Active Cultures, Sept. 25), I privately planned a personal protest. "Boycott," I said silently to myself, swearing to deny the Downtown Disney district my patronage. If the Rat was going to raze the Adventurers C... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/features/story.asp?id=12745 Slug by Jeffrey C. Billman and Bob Whitby. ALL IS WON Four years ago in this space, Weekly editor Bob Whitby and I penned columns on the meaning of the 2004 election, in which progressives and Democrats took a drubbing from George W. Bush and his minions ["All is lost/No it isn't," Slug, Nov. 11, 2004]. I foresaw a dystopian future of... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12744 Police Beat by Jeffrey C. Billman. Nov. 4 (2008-477129) 3:38 a.m.: Three hours after this incident, people were going to start voting for the next president of the United States, which means that you were still up tossing and turning and hoping that rednecks in Pennsylvania wouldn't screw this up for the rest of us. (Good new... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12743 Happytown by Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby. You know how our friends at the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation are on a mission to erase sexual vice from our midst? No more rub-and-tug massages. No more $20 blow jobs on the Trail. No more blowing on a stripper's vagina, except when done during the course of an "investigation" [see "S... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12742 Comments . No scam here Regarding the article on AdSurf Daily ["Freeze frame," Nov. 6]: Please let me say that ASD was in fact a very legitimate business enterprise that would have become one of the largest (if not the largest) online advertising companies on the Internet. It was a future Google, eBay,... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/dining/story.asp?id=12740 On The Side by Faiyaz Kara. After maneuvering through the labyrinthine roadways inside the Waterford Lakes Town Center, then downing some quaggy shepherd's pie for dinner, I was looking forward to a superlatively sugary finale at Sweet!, a colorful joint specializing in the city's latest dessert trend – cupcakes. The fac... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12739 Blister by Billy Manes. There's a crack in my cup, just the tiniest little thread of imperfection creeping down from the lip of the good china, and the longer I stare at it the more it consumes me. I'm having a Mad Men moment of controlled tempers seething hazily through the keeping-up of appearances, just stand... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12738 Free Will Astrology by Rob Brezsny. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Uranus is on the opposite side of the sun from Saturn right now. To traditional astrologers, that's a stressful aspect. It bespeaks a titanic clash between the forces of progress and the inertia of the past. But there are mitigating factors. The expansive planet Jupit... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12737 Savage Love by Dan Savage. I'm a 32-year-old woman engaged to a 34-year-old man. Some months ago, when we were both drunk, he "got up the nerve" to show me some bestiality porn and tell me how much the thought of me with a dog turns him on. He confessed that he was absolutely terrified that I would leave him over t... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/story.asp?id=12736 This Little Underground by Bao Le-Huu. I'm over all the Radiohead hype already, but I thought you DIY musicians might find these recently released stats about the industry-rocking In Rainbow interesting: The album has sold three million copies so far, including downloads from Radiohead.com, physical CDs, a deluxe two-CD-plus... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/film/story.asp?id=12733 First Shot by Steve Schneider. Turn off your irony detector for a sec, because we gots something to say: People who write about film sure can be some serious tools. You wouldn't think it would be that way. Given that "professional film critic" is the most rapidly disappearing vocation since "pet rock whisperer," you'd ass... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com/features/story.asp?id=12728 Council Watch by Billy Manes. "We will be no less Americans on Wednesday than we are today," the Rev. Raulston Nembhard dripped politics into the opening of our biweekly civic communion with God. District 2 commissioner Tony Ortiz dropped his mumble-crunch baritone to call some high-school baseball upstarts "scary" (in a g... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12727 Police Beat by Jeffrey C. Billman. Oct. 16 (2008-447872) 10:29 a.m.: Two bits of housekeeping: First, after catching a raft of shit concerning my last column's Gilbert and Sullivan reference, I would like to state the following: I know almost nothing about musical theater. What I do know about musical theater is derived from... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12726 Happytown by Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes and Deanna Morey. The thing about publishing a weekly newspaper is that, when it comes to elections, you're inevitably behind the curve. Consequently, any bits of election-related news we picked up in the last week are already dated. So we'd like to belatedly note that (soon to be former?) U.S. Rep. Ric... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.orlandoweekly.com//story.asp?id=12725 Comments . Big ups Thank you so much for your input on this very special election [Happytown™, Oct. 30]. It's pretty difficult to decipher who's who these days and what they're really about, except when you develop a website stating how surprised you are that you were allowed to run for office and be... Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST