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Jan 28 – Feb 3, 1998

Jan 28 - Feb 3, 1998 / Vol. 14 / No. 4

An African world view

Margaret Walker Alexander, opening the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, ;WorldwideRevival Inc., 130 N. College Ave., Eatonville, January 29, 1998 On July 7, 1915, Margaret Walker Alexander was born in Birmingham, Ala. — the latitude of entrenched segregation — to a father who was a minister and an academician. Her mother…

Dee Rivers

If it only had a heart

I board a brightly colored Lymmo downtown at Central and Magnolia avenues at 4:20 p.m. on a Friday. Only a few people ride with me. The bus is clean, but louder than I expect for something called a “Lymmo.” It moves freely in its own lane, but pauses frequently at stop lights. Because the Lymmo…

Kristin Congdon

Dear Mayor Hood

Your campaign to build a performing arts center across from City Hall has spent at least $50,000 in public dollars so far, and now the City Council has pledged $100,000 for a site plan. At no point has the public endorsed the expense, and there’s no sign you intend to ask. We must trust that…

Jeff Truesdell

History no longer divisive

This week’s 9th annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities is another feather in the cap of Preserve the Eatonville Community Inc., the nonprofit group that formed 10 years ago to combat a road-widening that would have torn the heart from the historic community and has since become its most visible champion.…

Jeff Truesdell

The latest on late-night debates

Even if it had wanted to, the Orlando City Council couldn’t have granted downtown club owners permission to stay open later to compete for the business generated by more than 100,000 people expected to attend festivities spun off from Gay Day at Disney World.;;Because the city’s “anti-rave” ordinance lacked such an exemption clause, “We have…

Lawrence Budd

Cast changes, but the show goes on

For six years, the Florida Film Festival has enhanced the Enzian Theater’s status as one of the area’s true gems; set back amidst moss-draped oaks, the laid-back arthouse cinema counts a fan base that includes dues-paying film lovers who embrace the 12-year-old nonprofit organization as a loyal friend, and treasure their access. Perhaps that’s why,…

Jeff Truesdell

Suckered into cables hikes

A car-repair shop advertised: “Why go elsewhere and be cheated? Come here first.” That thought could just as well be applied to Congress, which cheated us big-time when they passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This big honker of a bill was rammed through Congress by lobbyists for the media giants, phone companies and cable…

Jim Hightower

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