Plugging in for promotion and profit
The Sentinel dumps Channel 9, the “news leader,” for TWC and a news channel all its own;;The Orlando Sentinel and Time Warner Cable announced a mini CNN this week, a joint venture between the two media giants to launch a 24-hour news cable channel in Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Brevard counties by this fall.;;The new…
Bagels and a baaaad habit
Never one to miss a bandwagon, Central Florida is jumping aboard — or being taken for a ride — on a number of fronts. First, there is what will only become known as the Great Bagel War. Bagel eateries have been popping up faster than you can say, “Would you like cream cheese and lox…
An attraction that’s a real mother
You’d think the only virgins in windows were in places like Bangkok and Amsterdam, but it’s not true. There’s one in Clearwater, off Highway 19 and right across the street from the Kash ‘n’ Karry. And this is the Big One, the Cherry Royale, the mother of all Virgins, the Virgin Mary. Her image is…
Porn agains
The hustle to make Larry Flynt a First Amendment hero A nation gets the pornography it deserves, which is why so many people are incensed by it. For pornophobes, porn is a vast mire of misogyny, victims, violence, and alienated sex. Often preoccupied with the stuff, anti-porn crusaders are too squeamish to grasp the complexity…
Main gate pass: Out!
The Christmas rush is finally over and I have packed up my family and sent them home to the cold weather. This year was unique in that I did not trek to Iowa for the holidays, but instead hosted my siblings and folks here because I could not leave my employer at a peak time.…
