Brazen appeal to your worst impulses
Movie: Bride of Chucky
Brazen appeal to your worst impulses
Movie: Bride of Chucky
Water runs through governor’s race
The governor’s race is about water pumps. While Buddy MacKay emphasizes his intimacy with government, Jeb Bush dismisses that (as solutions from “Mount Tallahassee”) and swaggers about his business acumen. However, Bush is mostly silent about the Bush-El company’s sales of farm water pumps to corrupt Nigeria (which is so corrupt that it is paying…
Hidden joys
Movie: The Impostors
Melodrama overwhelms sweetness
Movie: The Mighty
Moving and experimental evocation of slavery
Movie: Beloved
Cursed with cuteness
Movie: Practical Magic
Hidden joys
Movie: The Impostors
Melodrama overwhelms sweetness
Movie: The Mighty
Moving and experimental evocation of slavery
Movie: Beloved
Cursed with cuteness
Movie: Practical Magic
Newt did — and didnâ??t
House Speaker Newt Gingrich wasted no time in posting independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s report on President Clinton to the Internet. Unfortunately, he has not been as forthcoming with the work of Congress. Gingrich has promised to put congressional documents online since 1994. In his first major speech after that year’s Republican rout, he promised to…
CAN do — and did
Last weekend’s rally in Lake Eola Park by the Cannabis Action Network (CAN) took place, but you had to stand pretty close to hear it; moved by the city from their intended base at the Walt Disney Amphitheater, the pro-pot activists made their stand at the International Plaza at the park’s southeast corner, where they…
Inspected by No. 2
Nissan’s quality-assurance director at its plant in Sunderland, England, announced in July that the company had developed a substance based on the most destructive forms of bird poop they had found throughout the world, for the purpose of rigorously testing its automobiles’ paint jobs. Added the director, John Burke, “It looks like the real thing:…
Wal-Martâ??s marketing lie
Walk into a Wal-Mart store, and you can see banners that proclaim, “Our Nation: Supporting the American manufacturers that support American jobs.” For customers, this is a heartwarming declaration by the country’s largest retailer that it is, by God, a 100 percent, red-white-and-blue company, offering a store full of “Made in America” goods. Only it’s…
Another crackdown in clubland?
Is downtown’s identity as a vibrant club and nightlife district — the envy of many a depressed urban center — under attack yet again by the city of Orlando? Club owners seem to think so. They point to statements in recent weeks by officers of the Orlando Police Department who warned that, as soon as…
Beyond Indiaâ??s margins
In front of a garbage-strewn stoop in the red-light district of Bombay, 12-year-old Marie stands barefoot in a tattered bride’s dress; in three days she, like her mother before her, will be sold into a brothel. In Calcutta, five women in miniskirts and heels primp in front of a full-length mirror, getting ready for a…
Killer romance
Once upon a first date the conversation was barreling along like a downhill skier when I brought up Hunter S. Thompson. All of a sudden the skier was Sonny Bono. Silence. Nothing. He didn’t recognize the name. “I don’t read,” he said. You’d think one who writes for a living would get into a snit…
Halloween treats for grown-up kids
While Halloween nirvana once meant a pillowcase full of candy after a long night’s haul, there are pumpkin concoctions cropping up around town that offer more evolved ways to indulge in holiday treats. How about a pumpkin “shmear”? That’s a pumpkin bagel spread with pumpkin-pie cream cheese ($1.79) at Einstein Bros. Bagels. Or buy the…
