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Jan 17-23, 2001

Jan 17-23, 2001 / Vol. 17 / No. 3

New brew debuts in Thornton Park

If you happen to know a television producer, tell him or her that you have a great idea: a show that revolves around six 20-somethings living in Orlando who have wacky adventures and hang out at a funky local neighborhood coffee shop, where they can sit on couches and play games, watch TV and have…

Joseph Hayes

Amidst Orlando’s whir of …

Amidst Orlando’s whir of industry intentions and its consequent wait of artistic anticipation, Kayonne Riley’s career stands as a deserved anomaly. As one-half of early-’90s acoustic indie hopefuls The Implications, Riley was able to expand her creative side on her own terms and lay the foundations for her now-budding solo career. But what has really…

Billy Manes

Games without frontiers

In December, NBC News, citing Pentagon and intelligence sources, reported that thousands of Sony PlayStation 2s might have been purchased by Iraqi sources recently, to capitalize on the device’s powerful computer processor and video cards, possibly to use in connection with weapons systems. One expert told the World Net Daily news service that an integrated…

Chuck Shepherd

A real fixer-upper

How sweet it is to be Mel Martinez. Almost 40 years ago he snuck away from Fidel Castro’s dictatorship as one of 14,000 schoolchildren smuggled out of Cuba during Operation Pedro Pan, a covert, grass-roots airlift conducted in the years before the Bay of Pigs. Another 50,000 Cuban children were left behind. Last month, Martinez,…

William Dean Hinton

Hail to the thief?

On Saturday, Jan. 20, when George W. Bush is sworn in as the nation’s 43rd president, Brian Morris of Orlando will be there. But the 40-something computer-systems programmer won’t be among the throngs of Republican faithful laying eyes on their crowned prince, or among the mere tourists lined up along the Washington, D.C., streets for…

Jeffrey C. Billman

School’s still out

It looks like Mayor Glenda Hood’s tears for a Parramore charter school were a tad premature. The mayor’s crying act came Oct. 23 as the City Council voted to allow administrators of the Nap Ford Community School to hold their start-up classes next fall in a city-run community center. As part of the agreement, the…

William Dean Hinton

A matter of manatees

This past weekend, we piled the kids and a picnic lunch into the car for a trip to Volusia County’s Blue Springs State Park to see the manatees. Under a gray sky we stood on the docks and happily gawked at dozens of the lumbering underwater sea cows, who were escaping the relatively colder climes…

Al Krulick

The mouths of babes

I feel like a baby. “These are my babies!” appropriately squeaks a portly Chattanooga 20-something, in explaining what’s on the poster she’s carrying. The beyond-reason Tennessee she-fanatic looks a little childish herself shivering under the outside tent of the always-good-for-a-laugh-at-your-own-expense Planet Hollywood. Her maternal outburst is espoused in anticipation of the virtually incomprehensible ABC phenomenon…

Billy Manes

A fine whine

A few weeks ago in this column, I wrote what could be described as a piece of political satire about Florida seceding from the United States. Since our votes didn’t count in the presidential election, I argued, we should hit the road. And I suggested that under our new republic’s administration, those responsible for the…

Liz Langley

Presidential pardons

You almost have to feel sorry for the Mouse. After all, with this week’s presidential inauguration, the Walt Disney Co. already is getting questions about the Magic Kingdom’s “Hall of Presidents.” Reporters want answers to two simple queries: 1) When is the Dubya robot going to go into the show? 2) Will the Bush-bot follow…

Jim Hill

Gallery swap a fair Exchange

Do you know where your RV is parked? When the RV in question is artist/gallery maven Robin Van Arsdol, the answer holds some surprises. Though Van Arsdol’s Warehouse Gallery was a local fixture for 20 years, battles with his landlord recently forced him to vacate its Philadelphia Avenue premises. That crisis was a key development…

Steve Schneider

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