Review – Songs From the Pink Death
Artist: Kramer
Review – Gimcracks and Gewgaws
Artist: Mose Allison
Review – Gently Down the Stream
Artist: Come
Review – The Best of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
Artist: John Mayall
Review – Songs From the Pink Death
Artist: Kramer
Review – Gimcracks and Gewgaws
Artist: Mose Allison
Review – Gently Down the Stream
Artist: Come
Review – The Best of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
Artist: John Mayall
Review – Songs From the Pink Death
Artist: Kramer
Review – Gimcracks and Gewgaws
Artist: Mose Allison
Review – Gently Down the Stream
Artist: Come
Review – The Best of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
Artist: John Mayall
Review – Songs From the Pink Death
Artist: Kramer
Review – Gimcracks and Gewgaws
Artist: Mose Allison
Review – Gently Down the Stream
Artist: Come
Review – The Best of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
Artist: John Mayall
That sinking feeling
“Titanic: The Exhibition,” is on display at the Florida International Museum in St. Petersburg through May 15, 1998. For information andreservations call 1-800-777-9882 Here’s how stupid I am. Because it involves drowning, which I consider a particularly horrible way to die, I didn’t want to see “Titanic.” Spending $7 to watch the helpless, hopeless final…
Avant-garde quartet finds sax sells
The ROVA Saxaphone Quartet, Bush Auditorium, Rollins College, February 21, 1998 There is a twilight zone between improvisation and notation. This hazy area where jazz and classical music meet — and anarchy seems to reign supreme — is the domain of folks like the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Compositions may start off in unison, only to…
Sugar Ray fights ska-punk expectations
Sugar Ray, with Goldfinger, Save Ferris, House of Blues, February 25, 1998 Sugar Ray’s “Fly” was last summer’s tastiest pop-radio morsel. Singer Mark McGrath wrapped his vocals around a great sing-along chorus that rode an infectious rhythmic thump — a musical gumbo enhanced by Jamaican-toaster Super Cat’s patois. Equally irresistible was the song’s video, in…
That sinking feeling
“Titanic: The Exhibition,” is on display at the Florida International Museum in St. Petersburg through May 15, 1998. For information andreservations call 1-800-777-9882 Here’s how stupid I am. Because it involves drowning, which I consider a particularly horrible way to die, I didn’t want to see “Titanic.” Spending $7 to watch the helpless, hopeless final…
County asks: Where’s our stuff?
When Orange County comptrollers took on their annual inventory duties two years ago, they did not expect to face any more (or less) drudgery and absurdity than they face every year. Orange County owns more than 32,000 items worth at least $500 — the threshold for being worth counting. Each one has a tag with…
Where every day is dress-up day
You know that the fates are with you when it’s the men who have to worry about their skirts blowing up, and you get to be the one who hopes they do. This is one of the delightful elements of the 21st annual Scottish Highland Games, recently held at the Seminole County dog track. With…
Springtime
Central Florida often feels itself lagging behind other places. That’s why spring is so important here. It’s the only time we get to be ahead of the curve. While the gang from New York to Nagano are still picking the snowflakes out of their eyelashes, we climb back up to 80 degrees and welcome the…
Turnaround on the Trail
Not long ago, life in Winter Garden, nine miles west and a time warp away from Orlando, still moved to old-time rhythms: Mr. Bray shuffling through the aisles of his hardware store; Joe Valdez straightening inventory in his Modern Stationery shop; leisurely biscuits-and-gravy breakfasts at the corner cafe; an old tug-and-grunt train hauling winter oranges…
Diamonds in the rough
With the help of warm sun and cold beer, three parks show off baseball at its best Extolling the virtues of baseball is the annual rite of spring for the literary set. Ah, the smell of the grass, the crack of the bat … Such hackneyed prose tends to grow verbose. How could anything be…
City guards its milion-dollar lot
Henry Lewis Coulter is a professional panhandler. To differentiate himself from other panhandlers downtown, Coulter specializes in advising people on how to cut their costs for parking in the city lot under I-4. While also ready to offer other helpful hints to tourists or other uninitiated patrons of the lot, Coulter thought he had found…
The latest spin on Nike sweatshops
Here it comes again, the “Gooberhead Award,” given periodically to prominent figures who have their mouths running at full speed but don’t seem to have their brains in gear. Today’s awardee is Maria Eitel, a first-time Goober winner, but given her position, I’ll bet it won’t be her last. Ms. Eitel has been named to…
