Smoky allure
Bubbalou’s Bodacious Bar-B-Que seduces you before you even lay eyes on it, which is just what good barbecue ought to do. The siren smell of smoky, sweet meats is in the air outside this new location, just north of Universal Studios Florida. Even from the parking lot, Bubbalou’s is alluring, with that bold, unblushing name…
As bad as you want ’em to be
The knives 11-year-old Jonathon Shaddix brought to school were ordinary enough. One was a folding pocket knife. One a key chain knife with a tiny blade. The third was rusted shut. But Shaddix had said something about killing his teacher, and the gun Shaddix’s friend, 9-year-old LaJuan Sims, brought to class was loaded. A .380-caliber…
Wild things worth watching
Black Point Wildlife Drive, Canaveral National Seashore, SR 402, East of Titusville, Year-round. Would you a birder be? You say you want to get your feet wet in this bird business without getting your feet wet? You want an outdoor adventure with all of the convenience of a drive-by shooting? I’ve got a hot tip…
As bad as you want ’em to be
The knives 11-year-old Jonathon Shaddix brought to school were ordinary enough. One was a folding pocket knife. One a key chain knife with a tiny blade. The third was rusted shut. But Shaddix had said something about killing his teacher, and the gun Shaddix’s friend, 9-year-old LaJuan Sims, brought to class was loaded. A .380-caliber…
Reports of my birth
As attorney Scott Gabrielson settles into his new City Hall job this week, consider Mayor Glenda Hood’s self-assured leadership style in bringing him on board as a part-time, $150,000 public employee. A welcome and congratulations to Gabrielson was printed in the City Hall newsletter, City Hallways, which went to press in late January – almost…
Mickey house cleaning
The first couple of folks to move out of Disney’s ballyhooed development of Celebration less than threee months after the town’s November Founder’s Day apparently were asked to sign a gag order forbidding them from criticizing the magic development in Osceola Cuonty. Neither signed and, as the Sentinel drolly noted in breaking the story, they…
Sharks attacked!
Florida’s car-title loan companies can charge 264 percent interest now, but proposed legislation in Tallahassee would ban the practive entirely – or at least reduce the interest to less than 30 percent. On Jan. 9, the Florida Vehicle Loan Task Force, a legislature-empaneled group looking into the title loan business, voted 4-3 to recommend that…
Home field advantage
Enough is enough! We’ve just got to stop doling out so much welfare, like giving people all these federal housing subsidies. I mean, let ’em pay their own way like you and I do, without Uncle Sugar’s help, right? Back off there, Budget Whacker! You’re getting dangerously close to me when you talk like that.…
