Review – Electronic Home Entertainment System
Artist: Wallmen
Review – Let it Come Down
Artist: James Iha
Review – Come Clean
Artist: Curve
Review – Think Like a Girl
Artist: Diana King
Review – Electronic Home Entertainment System
Artist: Wallmen
Review – Let it Come Down
Artist: James Iha
Review – Come Clean
Artist: Curve
Review – Think Like a Girl
Artist: Diana King
Review – Electronic Home Entertainment System
Artist: Wallmen
Review – Let it Come Down
Artist: James Iha
Review – Come Clean
Artist: Curve
Review – Think Like a Girl
Artist: Diana King
Review – Electronic Home Entertainment System
Artist: Wallmen
Review – Let it Come Down
Artist: James Iha
Review – Come Clean
Artist: Curve
Review – Think Like a Girl
Artist: Diana King
Growing grass-roots businesses
Common sense has been called “genius with its work clothes on.” Finally, some economic-development specialists in America’s rural areas are beginning to apply a little common sense in their work. For decades, conventional wisdom has said that the only source of economic growth for rural communities is big business. So, area after area has gone…
A lax approach to regulation
State lawmakers are considering deep cuts to existing licensing fees and encouraging industries to privatize their regulatory structure — i.e. regulate themselves. A state study found that 18 of the 23 state professional oversight boards are running surpluses — eight over $1 million. The solution? “Let’s reduce the cost to overburdened licensees,” says Republican Rep.…
DJ Micro manages techno-pihiles
Micro, Embassy, April 3, 1998 After more than 12 years behind the turntables, Micro has gained a reputation within the dance-music industry as the übermensch of the Long Island techno scene. It’s been a long road for Micro, who spent his journeyman years spinning alongside fellow East Coast turntablists Frankie Bones and James Christian before…
Heels over head
Our happy town is infused with a maddening puritanical streak. Here in the land of the mouse, we breathe an unhealthy atmosphere of religiosity and moralism. Orlandoans are, to be blunt, prudes. Need proof? Look no further than the case of Don Howard. Howard is a septuagenarian Winter Park artist who creates Mayan-influenced wood carvings.…
NASA and HBO come in for a soft landing
As the cliché teaches, those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. A little-known corollary states that those who elect to whitewash the past are rewarded with their own HBO miniseries. That’s just what happens this Sunday, April 5, as the pay-cable network begins airing “From the Earth to the Moon,” a…
Split decision
An anti-immigration policy up for a vpte by the Sierra Club has environmental leaders running scared Joyce Tarnow, a long-time supporter of abortion rights, is taking on another controversial cause — limiting immigration. The Pompano Beach woman, who is running for the board of the national Sierra Club, plants the seeds of her argument in…
Clinton on sex: Poor can’t handle it
In the days since Kathleen Willey’s interview on “60 Minutes,” media outlets have flooded us with renewed debates over President Clinton’s sexual conduct. But news coverage still fails to consider the Clinton scandals in the context of what he has long been preaching about welfare recipients and other low-income Americans. So far, the mass media…
Food Fight
Amid the visual clutter of Aloma Avenue near Lakemont Avenue in Winter Park, the billboard may be hard to miss even if its message — both real and implied — is crystal-clear. It depicts a boy in a reversed ballcap chomping on a bright red apple; he is pictured on the big board along with…
The world according to Gates
Bil Gates promises ‘enviable jobs,’ overlooking the fact that MicroSoft leads the way in filling its positions with long-term temps Inevitably we may all wind up as pawns in MicroSoft owner Bill Gates’ game of virtual-world domination. MicroSoft Windows 95 software is preloaded on about 90 percent of personal computers. His companies, products and money…
ACLU pitches its tent in town
All James Joel was looking for was a warm place to sleep. But his March 2 arrest by Orlando police who threw him in jail after finding him asleep on a heat grate near Wall Street and Magnolia Avenue downtown has provided the ACLU with the ammunition it needed to take its first action against…
Amway sings the blues
Sometimes when the phone rings here at Happytown™ HQ there isn’t a livid right-winger in our left ear telling us how disgusting and unpatriotic we are. Sometimes we pick up to find a real person on the other end, someone who restores our faith in the mud bog of political apathy that is Central Florida.…
A lax approach to regulation
State lawmakers are considering deep cuts to existing licensing fees and encouraging industries to privatize their regulatory structure — i.e. regulate themselves. A state study found that 18 of the 23 state professional oversight boards are running surpluses — eight over $1 million. The solution? “Let’s reduce the cost to overburdened licensees,” says Republican Rep.…
