Help keep God from killing again
Rational people, some ladies need your help. This is a mite bit heavy for a Friday, I know, but there are a couple sisters in Iran who are about to get stoned to death this weekend for, well, who knows. They say adultery. February 8, 2008â??The Iranian judiciary has sentenced two sisters, Zohreh and Azar…
WRAPPER’S DELIGHT
Shakera’s isn’t much to look at, but the roti is a stroke of perfection
A SMORGASBORD IN STORE
If you don’t know your Toftbo from your Gutvik, an interminable stroll through the labyrinthine aisles of IKEA will sock your vocabulary like a Mats Sundin hip check, so that by the time you manage to find the exit (that is, if you find the exit), you’ll feel disoriented by the loony lexicon and the…
MAGIC CARPET RIDE
Persepolis pops with the power of two graphic forms
GONZO PONG
“I fully understand that table tennis activities involve risks and dangers of serious bodily injury, including permanent disability, paralysis and death.” That’s what the USA Table Tennis waiver required me to say. I signed it anyway. And mailed it, a day before the deadline, with proof of my U.S. citizenship, an application for USATT membership,…
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
On Jan. 11, Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary announced that he would not seek re-election this November to the post he first won in 1992. Throughout his tenure, Beary has been a reporter’s dream: bombastic, arrogant, antagonistic, bullying, scandal-prone … you name it, Beary embodied it. Barely a month went by in the last eight…
MASTER E
Where to begin? In the here and now, of course; so mark those social calendars with a big star for the Apartment E 15th Anniversary Party, Saturday at the Moose Lodge Family Center in Pine Castle. Moose Lodge in Pine Castle? Yup, there is such a homey place tucked away on South Orange Avenue in…
BLISTER
Like a tree that just fell in my pants and went unnoticed by anyone but that ingrown hair on my left thigh, tonight promises to be full of insignificance. Why? Well, partially because it’s the evening of the invisible teardrop known as the Democratic primary, but also because I’ve overextended outside my cobblestoned comfort zone…
SAVAGE LOVE
I hope you can help me. I am a 39-year-old divorced mother of four. I’m also a grandmother. I’ve started seeing a younger man, age– 25, who is only a few years older than my oldest kid. We hit it off great and other than the sex, everything is beautiful. The problem is that my…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Men should be barred from holding public office for 100 years,” says billionaire Ted Turner. “Men have been running the world for too long and they’ve made a mess of it.” I agree, except that Turner implied that men should be prohibited from serving. That’s totalitarian, the opposite of what a…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Pacesetting local punk label Floridas Dying has gone pink, and that could be a very good thing. The imprint’s lieutenant, Jean Smegma (Jeanie Peaden) of Jeanie and the Tits, is launching a chick-centric spinoff called Lipstick Pickup. Her vision for the label is “fun, feminine and tough.” Furthermore, with a personal, collectible touch unheard of…
A SMORGASBORD IN STORE
If you don’t know your Toftbo from your Gutvik, an interminable stroll through the labyrinthine aisles of IKEA will sock your vocabulary like a Mats Sundin hip check, so that by the time you manage to find the exit (that is, if you find the exit), you’ll feel disoriented by the loony lexicon and the…
I LOVE TELEVISION
When it comes to this week’s lineup of television options … I HAVE QUESTIONS. And not “rhetorical” questions either. These are more like “I demand ANSWERS” sort of questions. For example, why am I always finding used condoms on the sidewalk? This is not rhetorical … I really want to know! Are YOU one of…
GEEK-BOY GRAB BAG
Allow me to kick off my first regular installment of Live Active Cultures with a confession: I’m a geek. As much as I enjoy and appreciate the finer arts, my first love leans toward pulp and popcorn. One look at my living room – action figures behind glass, theme-park memorabilia on the walls, game controllers…
HAPPYTOWN
Sometimes this column is so magnificently right, years ahead of everyone else, that we have to praise ourselves. Yay us! Do the terms “Federal-Livingston-Otey Place” or “Pepperhill Park” (now known as “Callahan Square”) ring any bells? They should. Long story short: In 2003 and 2004, a company tied to Orlando city commissioner Daisy Lynum tried…
COUNCIL WATCH
It was the first day of the next four years of our lives as doughy Buddy Dyer beamed about his recent re-election over the howls of 40 percent of Orlando’s voting population. No worries, except one: Amendment 1. While the faces on the dais were decidedly long at the thought of budget cuts, Dyer said that…
FIRST FRUITS
Yip-Yip Two Kings of the Same Kingdom (SAF) Progress is a peculiar thing to measure in an act that keeps things as willfully simplistic and low-tech as eccentric electronic act Yip-Yip does. On their third proper LP, however, the local duo of Brian Esser and Jason Temple have added some organic touches like real horns,…
RIGHT AS RAIN
Lizzie Curry is almost out of hope. Her marriage prospects are dim and the knowledge that she is a “plain” woman, well on her way to a lonely spinster’s life, worries her father and two brothers almost as much as the dying cattle on their drought-stricken Midwestern ranch. Then one evening a fast-talking, charismatic con…
Doctors were Heath Ledger’s pusher
Doctors killed Heath Ledger. Or so his Medical Examiner has concluded, according to his autopsy and toxicology screens. According to TMZ, “The NYPD found five medications in Ledger’s apartment after his death, including anti-anxiety medications alprazolam (Xanax), diazepam (Valium) and Lorazepam (Ativan). The sleeping medication zopiclone (Lunesta) and the sedative temazepam (Restoril) — which is…
