What are we fightin’ for?
Movie: The Art of War
What are we fightin’ for?
Movie: The Art of War
A new Outlet for your TV
We haven’t seen as much of Discount Comedy Outlet lately as we were promised. In July 1999, the ribald sketch-comedy troupe settled into Maitland’s Zoë & Company for an extended residency that was to encompass four shows a year. But their output of the last eight months has been limited to a February “greatest hits”…
Slow train coming
Movie: Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Slow train coming
Movie: Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Pension of disbelief
Movie: The Crew
Vox popular
Movie: Bring It On
Waters builds a bridge to yesterday
Movie: Cecil B. Demented
Pension of disbelief
Movie: The Crew
Vox popular
Movie: Bring It On
Waters builds a bridge to yesterday
Movie: Cecil B. Demented
Building Block’s brotherhood
Three years ago, Sister Hazel went from Florida-circuit heroes to big-time national hit makers almost overnight. With the insidiously catchy single “All for You” and its host album, “Somewhere More Familiar,” the Gainesville five-piece was pressed through the same industry machine that’s made matchbox twenty’s Rob Thomas bitter and Creed’s Scott Stapp, well, Jesus. Yet…
Did theft include ‘Thief?’
As the dust settles following the All Pro Sports verdict and Disney rushes back to court to appeal that $240 million decision, some interesting questions still hang in the air. For example: Are Disney’s lawyers really that incompetent? The Walt Disney Co. has had a sports complex in its plans for its Central Florida property…
Face to facelift
Something, you may have perceived, has changed. As you click furtively through orlandoweely.com, you’ve likely noticed that there’s no fresh addition to the Afterwords page. Instead, welcome to The Green Room, a new weekly forum that will delve more deeply into the exploding arena of Central Florida arts and culture. Sound stuffy? Perish the thought.…
Turning on young voters
In an era in which more than half the voting-age population decided to stay home and channel surf in ’96 rather than pull the voting lever, getting people reinvigorated by democracy needs more than just open debates. Youth Vote 2000 wants, among other things, a debate totally devoted to the issues of America’s youngest voters.…
What can you do?
Here are some suggestions if you’re interested in opening up the process: • Tell pollsters you will vote for Nader or Buchanan, even if you won’t, so they’ll get the percentage needed to make the debates “There has to be a massive defy-the-pollsters movement,” Raskin says. • E-mail the CPD and say you’re mad: Go…
Political mismatch
Let’s face it. The dull similarities of Southerners George W. Bush and Al Gore aside, at this point in the election cycle most people would no sooner vote for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader or Reform Party presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan than they would write in the name of their dog or cat. That doesn’t…
Orlando’s poor boxes
And so the grand experiment begins. On Sept. 1, Orlando will become the first city in the nation to restrict beggars to small, demarcated areas on its downtown streets. The City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Aug. 21 that enacts a solicitation-free zone bordered by Amelia Street on the north, Anderson Street on the south,…
Sync or swim time for mayor
Nothing happens in Orlando except Disney and boy bands,” huffs some Kimberly from Channel 6, huddled with the rest of us press hacks Wednesday, Aug. 16, in the three square feet or so of shade offered by the Ronald McDonald House at 1 p.m. Disney, boy bands and sickness, maybe. Hot on the studded heels…
One step forward, two steps back
The Walt Disney Co.’s arms-length embrace of gays and lesbians reflects an ongoing schizophrenia. On one hand, Disney offers progressive employee policies and eventually came to stand with organizers of Orlando’s annual Gay Days in defiance of religious and conservative critics. On the other, whether out of fear of upsetting the workplace balance or of…
Space for rent?
In a town known for being politically agnostic, it was refreshing to learn of the planned Sept. 1 opening of The Space, Inc., in a former Oriental rug showroom at Orange Avenue and Princeton Street. Together with the leftist group Stone Soup Collective, Victor Perez wanted to open what would essentially be a clearinghouse for…
Paying on the installment plan
Inman, S.C., police arrested Donald W. Melton, 29, in July and charged him with robbing a CCB Bank. Melton was easy to track down: He had failed to ask for a bag in which to carry the money, and thus had to stuff it all into his pants and socks. Enough of the currency came…
Damned if you do
I don’t care about commercials, bad dubbing or, come to think of it, the plot or the acting. But goddammit, I want to hear every curse word the movie was meant to have. Nothing’s more offensive than seeing a flick that’s been neutered for TV and hearing the actors say things like “Flip you” or…
Home free?
When one hears the term “minority,” it is usually in reference to African Americans. On a more local level, when talking about minorities or immigrants, people are usually referring to those who trace their roots to Latin America. A group less in the spotlight, however, is Asian Americans, and that’s due to a variety of…
