Feb 4-10, 1998

Feb 4-10, 1998 / Vol. 14 / No. 5

Black artistry rooted on the road

“The Highwaymen” Orlando City Hall Terrace Gallery, Through March 29, 1998 In the early 1950s, A.E. “Bean” Backus, dean of Florida landscape painters, found an unlikely group of people showing up at his Fort Pierce door: young, black artists who possessed amazing talent and little else. Bean was good-natured and emotionally accessible, with a Bohemian…

Dee Rivers

Swallow the leader

In sitting down to write about the scandals coming out of the Best Little White House in Washington, I keep hearing a voice inside my head saying, “If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you?” (What else the voices say is none of your business. They don’t like you, though, I’ll tell you that.)…

Liz Langley

Killer wit

Event: “Explorations of Suburbia” by Carl Knickerbocker, Harris House, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Feb. 13-March 20, 1998 Subhead: Carl Knickerbocker knocks ’em dead with humorous expressions on a society on conflict Don’t be fooled by the cartoonish characters and splashes of bright color in Carl Knickerbocker’s paintings: There are issues of…

Lindy T. Shepherd

Environmental politics take a turn for the birds

Toni Jennings, environmental hero. This is a joke, right?;;No, explains Florida Audubon Society President Clay Henderson. Jennings, the Republican state Senate president from Orlando, actually was among those honored late last month at the environmental group’s annual Conservationist of the Year banquet.;;Jennings and state Sen. Jack Latvala, a Palm Harbor Republican, shared the Legislative Excellence…

Lawrence Budd

Enter the mayor, stage right

The mayor didn’t show. But in her absence at a meeting on Feb. 2 of theater advocates, there still was news from City Hall to cheer: A new Central Florida Theater Alliance last week was offered a home of its own in city-owned property near the Orlando Arena. That offer from Mayor Glenda Hood still…

Jeff Truesdell

Drug companies dump on Bosnia

They say you should never look a gift horse in the mouth, but take a look into this rotten deal. During the bloody war in Bosnia, various drug companies donated tons of their medicines to treat the war’s wounded and the ill. Good for them, right? Well, not so good when you realize that at…

Jim Hightower

Black artistry rooted on the road

“The Highwaymen” Orlando City Hall Terrace Gallery, Through March 29, 1998 In the early 1950s, A.E. “Bean” Backus, dean of Florida landscape painters, found an unlikely group of people showing up at his Fort Pierce door: young, black artists who possessed amazing talent and little else. Bean was good-natured and emotionally accessible, with a Bohemian…

Dee Rivers

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